Catchphrase
Appearance
A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. They are especially common among cartoon characters.
Well-known catch phrases
- "All your base are belong to us" - Zero Wing
- "And away we go!" - Jackie Gleason
- "And it's goodnight from me" - "And it's goodnight from him!" - Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker respectively in The Two Ronnies
- "And now for something completely different." - John Cleese in Monty Python's Flying Circus
- "Ay Carumba!" Bart Simpson
- "Backbackbackbackback..." - Chris Berman
- "Beam me up Scotty" - attributed to Captain Kirk in Star Trek - actually never used
- "Book 'em, Dan-o." - Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O
- "Come up and see me some time." - Mae West
- "D'oh!" - Homer Simpson
- "Did I do that?" - Steve Urkel
- "Drat and double drat!" - Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races
- "Dy-no-mite!" - Jimmie Walker
- "Eat my shorts!" Bart Simpson
- "Fascinating" - Mr. Spock in Star Trek
- "Go ahead. Make my day." - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact
- "Good Grief!" - Charlie Brown
- "Good night, Mrs. Calibash, wherever you are." - Jimmy Durante
- "h'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection)
- "He could go all the way!" (spoken in a staccato style) - Chris Berman
- "He fallen in the water!" Spike Milligan as Little Jim in the Goons
- "Holy cow!" - Phil Rizzuto, Harry Caray
- "I am outta here!" - Dennis Miller
- "I don't get no respect." - Rodney Dangerfield
- "I hate the itching. But I don't mind the swelling" - David Letterman
- "I have a cunning plan" - Baldrick (Tony Robinson) in Blackadder
- "I'll be back." - The Terminator* (and other Arnold Schwarzenegger movies)
- "I love it when a plan comes together." - Hannibal Smith on The A-Team
- "I'm free!" - John Inman in Are You Being Served (the feed line is "Are you free, Mr Humphries?")
- "I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy" - Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne
- "I pity the fool!" - B. A. Baracus (played by Mr. T) in The A-Team
- "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed" - Marvin the paranoid android, in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
- "I've fallen and I can't get up!" - "Mrs. Fletcher, in a 'Lifecall' television commercial
- Nice to see you, to see you - nice! - Bruce Forsyth
- "No Problem!" - ALF
- "Oh boy..." - Samuel Beckett in Quantum Leap
- "Oh, Matron!" Kenneth Williams again, this time in Carry On films, to Hattie Jacques,
- "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" - "You bastards!" - Stan and Kyle in South Park
- "Ooh... I'm being ha-RASSed!" - Frank Spencer (Michael Crawford)
- "Smarter than the average bear" - Yogi Bear
- "Stone me, what a life!" - Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour
- "They think it's all over... - it is now!" - Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating on the 1966 World Cup final*
- "To the moon" - Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners
- "Well, excuuuuse me!" - Steve Martin
- "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" - Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel (note: "nice", not "fine")
- "What do you think of the show so far? - [throws voice] Ruggish!" - Eric Morecambe
- "What's up Doc?" - Bugs Bunny
- "Yabba Dabba Do!" - Fred Flintstone
- "Ying tong iddle i po" - The Goons
- "You silly moo!" - Alf Garnett to wife Else in Till Death Us Do Part
- "You stupid boy!" - Captain Manwaring to Frank Pike in Dad's Army
- "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) in The Italian Job*
- "You wouldn't let it lie!" - Bob Mortimer in Vic Reeves' Big Night Out
* These phrases occur only once in their respective film/series etc, but have still become catch phrases.
see also: Stock phrase