# Words or phrases that were that were coined by a TV show or movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081 "2020-11-20T23:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/261 "2020-12-09T18:59:45Z")
> [@eburacum\_45](#): > > Sure, like HHGTTG and _The Deadly Assassin_ , both pre-Borg. In HHGTTG, the phrase was “resistance is useless”. Same basic meaning,but a different word. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/262 "2020-12-09T19:43:26Z")
“I have _hand!_” _Seinfeld_ of course didn’t coin the word “hand”, but I think they _were_ the first to use it in the sense of “moral superiority”. IIRC, George described an argument with his girlfriend: "I have the upper hand! I have _HAND!_ Don’t know how many people use it in that way, but I do. On those rare occasions that I possess it over my wife. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/263 "2020-12-09T23:09:22Z")
From _ **Married … with Children** _: “Bundy-fying” [scoring] with a girl. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/264 "2020-12-10T02:01:09Z")
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat” **Jaws** “Shaken, not stirred” numerous **Bond** movies “D’Oh !” **The Simpsons** ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/265 "2020-12-11T16:28:20Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I heard it an hour ago! Guys on zoom were talking about the next scheduled monthly meeting… when is it? Same bat time, same bat channel! > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@BrickBat](#): > > > > “Same bat time, same bat channel” > > That’s a great example! And I never saw that show in the original, just in afternoon reruns in the late 1970s, but I get it. I know some very young people who have never seen the show, but understand what it means. @Cheesesteak: Ref @RivkahChaya’s comments a bit above, how old was the person who first said it? ISTM there’s the kids of the 1960s who learned it first hand (like me), the 1970s & 80s kids who got it from syndication, and the 90s or later kids who got it from parents, or the culture at large. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/266 "2020-12-11T17:24:50Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > “Same bat time, same bat channel” The really cool thing about that is that Batman aired two nights in a row. Wonder why so many shows were two-parters? The first night’s show always ended with a cliff-hanger… "IS it darkest just before the dawn? Tune in tomorrow, _same bat time, same bat channel!"_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/267 "2020-12-11T19:14:14Z")
And why was _Batman_ on two consecutive nights? The producers envisioned _Batman_ as a one-hour TV series. However, the network, ABC, moved the premiere from its original fall 1966 airdate to January, 1966. They didn’t have a one hour slot available on their schedule, so they cleared a half hour on Wednesday and Thursday nights instead. The movie was supposed to serve as an introduction to the series, but due to the change in schedule, was produced at the end of the first season. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/268 "2020-12-20T00:18:18Z")
I’m sure someone has already mentioned “Friends” and “the friend zone,” right? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/269 "2020-12-20T02:39:30Z")
Several times.😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/270 "2020-12-20T03:28:56Z")
> [@eburacum\_45](#): > > > [@Colibri](#): > > > > No, as I said it’s a scientific in-joke, in keeping with other terms in physics, > > I agree with this. The ‘unobtainium’ on Pandora would have been discovered by the first explorers, some time before the events of this movie: I would hazard a guess that these explorers would have had a scientific sense of humour, and named the material as a joke. I would argue it’s only a good name, though, if the original meaning is no longer in use. Otherwise they’d run into the problem where, if someone talks about needing unobtanium for their project, you can’t be sure if they mean the Pandoran material or just something that’s perfect or hard to be obtain. It would be like naming your new your new product “Stuff.” ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/271 "2021-01-08T03:05:50Z")
Shagalicious! ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/272 "2021-01-15T22:52:45Z")
Not dynamite…dynomite. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b5rKZs6HnB4/hqdefault.jpg "Jimmie Walker as J. J. on GOOD TIMES") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5rKZs6HnB4) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/274 "2021-01-16T00:49:30Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > And that is why you should read a post before you respond. The OP asks: What we have here is a failure to communicate. (Cool Hand Luke) > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > The OP later came back to clarify: Dave? Dave’s not here. (Cheech and Chong) Expanding the topic: Fedora, Trilby (hats named after characters who wore them), and, from the same source, Svengali (a person who exercises a controlling influence) ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/275 "2021-01-16T07:29:23Z")
“6th Sense” from “The Barefoot Contessa” (Bogart - Gardner) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/276 "2021-01-16T10:01:40Z")
The first use of the phrase “sixth sense” was in 1761. > **[Sixth Sense | Phrase Definition, Origin & Examples](https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/phrases/sixth-sense)** > > Find out the definition of the phrase 'Sixth Sense', its origin and how to use it in a sentence. > [@](#): > > The first use of the phrase ‘sixth sense’ occurred in 1712, in William Whitson’s Primitive Christianity Reviv’d, Volume V: ”Then said Peter, That is false; for there is a sixth Sense, that of Prescience: for the other five Senses are capable only of Knowledg; but the Sixth of Foreknowledg; which Sense the Prophets had.” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/277 "2021-01-16T13:08:33Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > What we have here is a failure to communicate. (Cool Hand Luke) Close. The actual quote is: > What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-that-were-that-were-coined-by-a-tv-show-or-movie/926081/278 "2021-01-16T16:34:08Z")
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