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Entertainment > Humor > TV Catchphrases Through the Decades
 

TV Catchphrases Through the Decades

These will take you back:

1. "Heeeere's...Johnny!"
Ed McMahon hailed the arrival of Johnny Carson from behind the Tonight Show curtain for 30 years and it never got old. Just ask Jack Nicholson.

2. "D'oh!"
A forehead-smacking Homer Simpson popularized it, other residents of Springfield have said it at one time or another and the Oxford English Dictionary even deemed it worthy of an entry.

3. "Yada, yada, yada."
The ultimate show about nothing gave us more than its fair share of catchphrases, but this Seinfeld signature uttered by Elaine to gloss over a bad date and favored by George's felonious girlfriend is still really something.

4. "How you doin'?"
We can't imagine how many times Joey Tribbiani's best pick-up line was tried out by Friends fans during the show's heyday, but it's safe to say no one said it better than Matt LeBlanc.

5. "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
Gary Coleman's unforgettable delivery of Arnold Jackson's trademark line on Diff'rent Strokes made it the go-to phrase when you just had to tell a pal he was speaking nonsense.

6. "The tribe has spoken."
Reality TV has spawned countless elimination catchphrases, but Jeff Probst's final words to the ousted Survivor competitors are the perfect blend of camp and cool.

7. "And that's the way it is."
Long before the advent of cable news, revered newsman Walter Cronkite closed his nightly broadcast with these iconic words. And we understood we'd just seen and heard everything we needed to know.

8. "Who are you wearing?"
When Joan Rivers first took to the Golden Globes red carpet to ask stars about their designers, the E! host spawned an infotainment genre and turned celebrities into walking billboards.

9. "Come on down!"
The Price Is Right contestants have been rushing the stage for more than 40 years upon hearing this command, most famously uttered by Johnny Olson.

10. "It's gonna be legen — wait for it — dary."
He's a one-man one-liner machine, but our favorite Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) quote on How I Met Your Mother brilliantly captures his bro-vado.

The Other 50 (by Decade)

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" — Adventures of Superman

"Baby, you're the greatest." — Ralph, The Honeymooners

"Yabba dabba doo!" — Fred, The Flintstones

"The thrill of victory and the agony of ­defeat." — Jim McKay, Wide World of Sports

"Ruh-roh!" — Astro, The Jetsons

"Danger, Will Robinson!" — Robot, Lost in Space

"To the Batmobile!" — Batman, Batman

"This tape will self-destruct in five seconds." — Mission: Impossible

"Live long and prosper." — Spock, Star Trek

"Sock it to me!" — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

"Book 'em, Danno." — McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0

"Just one more thing..." — Columbo, Columbo

"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" — Jan, The Brady Bunch

"Stifle!" — Archie, All in the Family

"You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join you, honey." — Fred, Sanford and Son

"God will get you for that." — Maude, Maude

"Jane, you ignorant slut." — Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin, Saturday Night Live

"Who loves ya, baby?" — Kojak, Kojak

"Dy-no-mite!" — J.J., Good Times

"Kiss my grits!" — Flo, Alice

"Good night, John Boy." — The Walton family, The Waltons

"Aaay!" — Fonzie, Happy Days

"De plane, de plane!" — Tattoo, Fantasy Island

"Nanu-nanu." — Mork, Mork & Mindy

"Tenk you veddy much." — Latka, Taxi

"Let's be careful out there." — Esterhaus, Hill Street Blues

"You look mahvelous." — Fernando, SNL

"Well, isn't that special?" — The Church Lady, SNL

"Make it so." — Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Resistance is futile." — The Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Cut it out." — Joey, Full House

"Eat my shorts." — Bart, The Simpsons

"Did I do that?" — Urkel, Family Matters

"No soup for you!" — The Soup Nazi, Seinfeld

"I'm listening." — Frasier, Frasier

"It's a good thing." — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living

"Holy crap!" — Frank, Everybody Loves Raymond

"Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!" — Stan and Kyle, South Park

"Bam!" — Emeril Lagasse, Emeril Live

"Is that your final answer?" — Regis Philbin, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

"I'm Rick James, bitch!" — "Rick James," Chappelle's Show

"Will you accept this rose?" — The Bachelor/The Bachelorette

"Dude." — Hurley, Lost

"You're fired!" — Donald Trump, The Apprentice

"Make it work." — Tim Gunn, Project Runway

"Everybody lies." — House, House

"Who's your daddy?" — Keith, Veronica Mars

"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose." — Friday Night Lights

"Bazinga!" — Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory

"We've got a situation." — Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino, Jersey Shore

posted on Sept 10, 2013 6:26 PM ()

Comments:

I hope that you got out safely and are now in Las Vegas.
comment by boots586 on Sept 15, 2013 8:56 AM ()
I am, but going tomorrow or Sunday to try to get into the house and winterize it. I was rescued and had to leave in such a hurry there is a loaf of bread on the table going bad as well as some other things to do. My biggest fear is that the road is deteriorating and I will not be able to get to my house.
reply by traveltales on Sept 20, 2013 12:04 AM ()
It was a kinder, gentler time.
comment by elderjane on Sept 13, 2013 10:17 AM ()
I guess it was because TV was all we had for entertainment, now there's phones and the Internet.
reply by traveltales on Sept 20, 2013 12:05 AM ()
know some these but not all--cant think of the song but was one where Marcia and john kept repeating the name of each other---think it was the spoof spike jones sang of ---dear john
comment by kevinshere on Sept 11, 2013 12:43 AM ()
nope was wrong it was Stan Freberg singing the spoof and it was john and marsha, geez me brain had to work that out AND the internet
reply by kevinshere on Sept 11, 2013 12:53 AM ()

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