# Your go-to catchphrase(s) and its/their origin(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793 "2014-07-10T20:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/1 "2014-07-10T20:53:48Z")
Just to start the thread while I try to think of others, one I enjoy finding an occasion to use is one I heard on the old Johnny Carson show courtesy of Jimmy Dean (the sausage king). “I don’t understand it, I just don’t understand it: every time I get out of jail, it rains.” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/2 "2014-07-11T05:15:22Z")
Another one from Johnny Carson: “Do you like show-tunes, Hardy?” (Doing a bit on “Misquoted famous quotes” – Nelson’s real dying words.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/3 "2014-07-11T05:46:47Z")
“Oh, Hell. This ain’t gonna be worth a damn!” -_Squidbillies_ “Once again, Baldrick, the Devil farts in my face.” -_Blackadder_ “Hey look! Hotcakes! No tip for you, Shit-hook!” -_Gatopescado_ ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/4 "2014-07-11T16:59:29Z")
“Well there’s what’s right, and there’s what’s right. And never the twain shall meet.” Raising Arizona ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/5 "2014-07-11T19:33:48Z")
“Oooo-kayfine.” Herb Tarlek, all the time “Works for me.” Fred dryer as _Hunter_, even used in the credits. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/6 "2014-07-11T19:33:55Z")
“hey HEY hey!” from the late '70’s TV show “What’s Happening”. I’ve used it as a greeting so often and for so long many of my friends now associate it with me (or me with it, or something). ---
**Author:** ![storyguide3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@storyguide3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyguide3)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/7 "2014-07-11T21:53:36Z")
“Is this the fun part? Are we having fun yet?” - Carol Burnette, The Four Seasons “I am shocked! Shocked…” - Claude Rains, Casablanca ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/8 "2014-07-11T22:40:59Z")
“No biscuit! No biscuit!” Said to myself or coworkers when someone effs up. It comes from that Far Side cartoon with the man saying to his dog “You call that mowing the lawn? Bad dog! No biscuit! No biscuit!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/9 "2014-07-11T23:20:06Z")
Perhaps to stir your memory soup a little, or perhaps just for the kicks, you might wish to see if your favorite catchphrase might be in: [Top 10 Movie Catchphrases](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETaDDh2QpVw) or [Top 10 Sitcom Catchphrases](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjODAFKBiow) or [TV’s Greatest Catchphrases (Part 1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQvOk7bxnGg) or any of those clips/collections in the sidebars… ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/10 "2014-07-11T23:39:15Z")
“Some days the magic works. Some days it doesn’t.” – Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George) in _Little Big Man_. Working in IT, I use this line daily. ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/11 "2014-07-12T05:52:33Z")
The link to 10 movie catchphrases includes “there’s no place like home,” from the Wizard of Oz. Actually the phrase comes from a song of the same name TNPLH, written in 1822. Most people when the movie was released would have recognized it. You missed “the devil made me do it”, “whatch you talkin’ about Willis” “goodnight Mrs. Calabash, where-ever you are”“Hi Ho Silver, away!” ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-go-to-catchphrase-s-and-its-their-origin-s/692793/12 "2014-07-12T21:37:45Z")
To express dissatisfaction, I’ll usually say… … “Well, cock”, which comes from [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRS1cMRprAY) hilarious video. … “[Penilefarts.gov](http://Penilefarts.gov)” which is my own invention. Any phrase becomes ludicrous when you add “.gov” or “.edu” to the end of it. … “I will shit in you,” which comes from _Welcome to Collinwood_, or the more extreme “I will shit inside of your balls,” which is my own variation.