Pop culture sayings no one understand but you.

[Biggirl]

In another part of the internet, someone asked if there were any personal little saying that you say that no one else understands. I do but most of them are from TV shows and commercials. Catchphrases that are only catchphrases to me. A few examples:

"That's it! The World Serious!" from an old Bubble Yum commercial, I think.
"Come, come Algebra." Our Gang had a mule named Algebra and they were trying to get him to walk.
"Bullsear Catnip!" A beer commercial feat Catfish Hunter and Bob Uhker.
"What's this? Spighetti?" The Brady Bunch was picked to do a commercial and Alice got big baloney curls in her hair. This was what the director of the commercial said when he saw it.

How 'bout any of you? Any pop culture catchphrases you utter that only you understand?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

When I refer to a group of people putting things together quickly and well, I'll say "Tinker to Evers to Chance", referring to an old double-play team that were the subject of a once popular poem.

I doubt if anybody I say it to has any idea what I'm referencing.

[Diana]

Many, many people have actually never seen Mean Girls and don't appreciate being dismissed with "Boo, you whore!" Just so you know.

[Biggirl]

Many, many people have actually never seen Mean Girls and don't appreciate being dismissed with "Boo, you whore!" Just so you know.

You know what else doesn't work because many haven't seen the movie? "You dress like a fag and you're shit's all retarded."

Said that to a letter from a claimant I was reading. Had to explain to all around.

[TheFlame]

"It's good but it's not the one" (from the game show Catchphrase)

"The show may be over, but the game still goes on" (from Wanted)

[Sarahfeena]

When I refer to a group of people putting things together quickly and well, I'll say "Tinker to Evers to Chance", referring to an old double-play team that were the subject of a once popular poem.

I doubt if anybody I say it to has any idea what I'm referencing.

I totally do! I'm a Cubs fan. A similar reference that I substitute sometimes is "O'Brian to Ryan to Goldberg." I think that one's obscure to all but movie musical fans

[Dogzilla]

About 12-15 years ago, I saw Mick Jagger on David Letterman. I can't remember what question Dave asked Jagger, but the answer was completely non-sequitur and I've been quoting it ever since... and nobody understands wtf I'm talking about.

"That's the fun of a barbecue!"

Oh, and from the movie, Thinner, which I loved.
"Eat your own pie, white man from town!"

[LurkMeister]

When I refer to a group of people putting things together quickly and well, I'll say "Tinker to Evers to Chance", referring to an old double-play team that were the subject of a once popular poem.

I doubt if anybody I say it to has any idea what I'm referencing.

I totally do! I'm a Cubs fan. A similar reference that I substitute sometimes is "O'Brian to Ryan to Goldberg." I think that one's obscure to all but movie musical fans

Should I be more concerned that I got the "O'Brian to Ryan to Goldberg" reference, or that I started humming the tune while I was reading it?

[dread pirate jimbo]

I frequently say, "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!" As spoken by Hannibal Chew in Blade Runner. With the exception of a few of my friends who've heard it a gazillion times, I usually have to explain myself.

I also constantly quote Bull Durham to my ballteam, most of whom don't know the show because it was shot before they were born. Shitheads. I can frequntly be heard saying things like, "I love winning, man. I fucking love winning. Do you hear what I'm saying? It's, like, better than losing?"

[jali]

Hew the foooock are yeewww?

Bagby in Trainspotting. it's the funniest line I know, and I say it with his accent and my folks look at me funny. Well, funnier than they usually look at me.

[featherlou]

I frequently say, "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!" As spoken by Hannibal Chew in Blade Runner. With the exception of a few of my friends who've heard it a gazillion times, I usually have to explain myself.<snip>

It's true, he does. The answer to "Where do you want to go for dinner?" "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!"
"Where's that stuff we just bought?" "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!"
"When do you want to go?" "I don't know such stuff -- I just do eyes!"
It's a good thing I love him. :mrgreen:

[Sami]

"We try, Jerry, we try." From Real Genius.

I say it when people think I've done a good job or said something amusing. But it confuses most of them. I don't even know anyone named Jerry.

[Sarahfeena]

When I refer to a group of people putting things together quickly and well, I'll say "Tinker to Evers to Chance", referring to an old double-play team that were the subject of a once popular poem.

I doubt if anybody I say it to has any idea what I'm referencing.

I totally do! I'm a Cubs fan. A similar reference that I substitute sometimes is "O'Brian to Ryan to Goldberg." I think that one's obscure to all but movie musical fans

Should I be more concerned that I got the "O'Brian to Ryan to Goldberg" reference, or that I started humming the tune while I was reading it?

I seriously doubt that you could hear that WITHOUT humming the tune. I'm going to have it going through my head for the rest of the day!

[Laughing Lagomorph]

In another part of the internet, someone asked if there were any personal little saying that you say that no one else understands. I do but most of them are from TV shows and commercials. Catchphrases that are only catchphrases to me. A few examples:

"That's it! The World Serious!" from an old Bubble Yum commercial, I think.
"

I remember this, it was Abner Doubleday (in the commercial) who said it. I associate it with Carefree Sugarless gum but you might be right.

[Wheresgeorge04]

I mumble tons of Simpsons, Futurama, Howard Stern, and general movie references to myself, all day. I don't bother letting other people hear, because they just wouldn't get it, I'd have to explain... forget it!

Joe

[Wheresgeorge04]

Many, many people have actually never seen Mean Girls and don't appreciate being dismissed with "Boo, you whore!" Just so you know.

You know what else doesn't work because many haven't seen the movie? "You dress like a fag and you're shit's all retarded."

I HAVE said "Go away! 'Batin'!" But it was to my wife, who laughed at me...

ETA : The quote is "TALK like a fag..."

Joe

[Biggirl]

ETA : The quote is "TALK like a fag..."

Joe

I knew that. I don't know why I typed 'dress'.

[pepperlandgirl]

I'm a big fan of RiffTrax, and one of my favorites is Point Break. At one point, Keanu tackles Patrick Swayze, and when he jumps back up, Michael Nelson quips, "That's throat-ripping behavior right there!" (A reference to Road House). Now I say that any time somebody mildly annoys me.

[Indyellen]

There are two I usually come out with that only very few people get:

"Yes, have some." - Ghostbusters (This is usually very non sequitur, when people are asking for an opinion.)

"Damn you Salazar! DAMN YOU SALAZAR!!!" - Charlie's Angels (the movie) (I say this a lot when playing euchre or hearts and lose a trick.)

The one more people get, but they have to be approximately around my age, is "Demented and Sad, but Social" from The Breakfast Club when someone is describing a group, or mentioning that something is "sad".

[Dangerously Unqualified]

I like to stick with obscure Simpsons quotes like one of them TV magic queers.

[xenophon41]

My brother and I have one... usually said when one or the other of us is demonstrating or trying to describe an object: "Is it atomic?" -The correct answer of course being "It's very atomic!"

This is from the delightful 1953 film "5,000 Fingers of Dr. T." (Screenplay and story by Theodor Geisel -'Dr. Suess'- and Allan Scott)

Nobody every recognizes this.

[sublight]

"Then I'm happy and sad for you."

Lazlo, from Real Genius. Said with perfectly distracted deadpan.

[Diana]

My excellent Joanne Worley "IS THAT A FAT JOKE?!?!?" impression is usually met with blank stares of confusion.

[Zuul]

"I don't have a love life of my own, so I want to share in yours. Now start from the beginning and be graphic."

Rockula, 1990. A vampire musical. Possibly the dorkiest and most obscure thing to have imprinted on at a young age in the world.

[Tool of the Conspiracy]

I've passed one along to my daughter, and I don't know where it's from: "I'm sorry, I'm not allowed any visitors. I've been quite ill." My vague feeling is that a character tried to learn English from self-hypnosis tapes, but this was the only thing that "stuck".
I remember a few of the "entries" in a "contest" that David Letterman had, back in the NBC days, to find a new catch-phrase:

• "Who do you think you are, Björn Nittmo?"
  "I lost my dolly... down the crapper!"
  "I don't mind the swelling, but ooo, the itching..."

My brother and I had a sequence of obscure phrases that we recited to each other, including "A street-fellow! Let us 'rap' with him and 'chill on his jive'.", followed by "Shoot-heck, Merle, they's differnt'n us. Let's kill 'em!"

[Laughing Lagomorph]

My brothers and I are fond of "220, 221, whatever it takes" from Mr. Mom.

Also "This spackle must be amazing stuff!" from an episode of Perfect Strangers.

Interestingly both of these bits involve home improvement projects which all three of us pretty much suck at.

"Yes, have some" is something my husband say a lot to each other. I have a feeling we make a lot of Ghostbusters references without even noticing.

The one I love is "not unless you think "round" is funny" which is a line from "Raising Arizona". A convenience store clerk answers this when asked if he has any balloons with funny shapes.

First of all, even if this were appropriate to an occasion, almost nobody (w/ exception of aforementioned husband) would get the allusion (WHY did "The Big Lebowski" become the go-to Coen bros. quotable cult classic when "Raising Arizona" is so much funnier??? sorry.....) second of all, it almost never does make sense to say "not unless you think "round" is funny" which doesn't stop me from shoehorning it in where it doesn't belong, even if only under my breath, to myself.


Other favorite "Raising Arizona" quotes (mostly used only w/ husband. Gotta keep that guy around just so I make sense to somebody)

Isn't that your whole ray zon detruh?!

I don't know, they got yodas and shit on em

[sublight]

Other favorite "Raising Arizona" quotes (mostly used only w/ husband. Gotta keep that guy around just so I make sense to somebody)

Isn't that your whole ray zon detruh?!

I don't know, they got yodas and shit on em

"We got a little critter now, everything's CHAAYNGED!" - I find myself saying this one quite often now that we do, in fact, have a little critter.

[Wheresgeorge04]

Son, you got a panty on your head.

Joe

[Sami]

Something my ex-boyfriend said often and I picked up is "I'm all out of vodka." I now say that pretty much everytime I run out of anything, but I have no idea where it came from. I'm pretty sure it was a movie quote, since he was such a movie guy, and he always did an impression while saying it. But, alas, his wife won't let me talk to him anymore so I can't ask. Anyone have any idea?

Oh, and if it was a movie, it would've been pre 1995 or 1996.

[hendo]

My wife and i have one that we do with each other. If we're talking, and one of us describes something using an adjective like "interesting" or "terrible" or "unusual" or something like that, the other will often say, "It IS terrible, Doug" or "It IS interesting, Doug."

This comes from one of our favorite scenes in Season 1 of Flight of the Conchords, when #1 fan Mel and her husband Doug are giving Brett and Jemaine a ride home. Mel learns that the band has broken up, and says something like "Did you hear that, Doug?"

Doug isn't really that interested, and says, and i monotone, "Terrible."

Mel then sticks her face forward into camera view and says, with much emotion, "It IS terrible, Doug." It cracks me up every time i see it.

[Campionaki]

One that my friends and I have picked up is "I was dead at the time!," a line from Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill.

Hilarious if you've seen it, but utterly confusing if you haven't and hear it used as a response to a question.

[Diana]

Also from Dressed to Kill, "Do you have a flag? No flag no country!" Appropriate in a surprising number of situations.

Also surprising (to me, anyway) is how many people don't get "I'm crushing your head!"

[SilverTygerGirl]

"A thingy! A fiendish thingy!" I couldn't even remember where it was from until we watched Help! a couple of months ago. Thanks Mom.

[maggenpye]

"Well, it was worth a crack Nigel ... Nigel?" From an old ad where two mice are discussing the relative risks of getting a cheese flavoured snack from a mousetrap - I also use the preceding line sometimes. "But it's a Cheezel, mate, it's worth a crack!"

And "I'm feeling much better now" - after I've done something completely stupid. Can't remember where it's from.

[LurkMeister]

"Well, it was worth a crack Nigel ... Nigel?" From an old ad where two mice are discussing the relative risks of getting a cheese flavoured snack from a mousetrap - I also use the preceding line sometimes. "But it's a Cheezel, mate, it's worth a crack!"

And "I'm feeling much better now" - after I've done something completely stupid. Can't remember where it's from.

I don't know if this is the original source for "I'm feeling much better now", but John Astin's character on Night Court used to say this all the time. Usually, IIRC, after mentioning some bizarre activity or thought from his past.

[maggenpye]

That could well be the source, it's definitely the context.

[Larry Borgia]

"Hand me my patching trowel"

It's from the Simpsons. I say it every time I'm about to do something I'm not at all qualified to do.

[Indyellen]

"Smile & wave, boys, smile & wave." (from Madagascar) also tends to come up when I'm being "innocent", too.

[eleanorigby]

Many, many people have actually never seen Mean Girls and don't appreciate being dismissed with "Boo, you whore!" Just so you know.

That is so fetch!

I have some and my Daughter and I have some:

D and I--from Bend It Like Beckham, "oh, not the sports bras, darling" said upon choosing any item of clothing the other deems dowdy.

Grool! (from Mean Girls)

Me, when hungry for dinner: "Hannah, I am hongry" (said in a Hungarian accent. It's from a PBS Mystery presentation of Agatha Christie's novel: A Murder is Announced. Another from the same show is "Lovely Juliar is peculiar". I just say it randomly)

and of course, most anything from the original Airplane movie/Monty Python/Princess Bride etc.

[TheFlame]

Not exactly a pop culture saying, but from a classic call on a phone-in I used to listen to:

"The price of pies!"

(every damn time I say this I have to tell the story)

[Thudlow Boink]

I remember a few of the "entries" in a "contest" that David Letterman had, back in the NBC days, to find a new catch-phrase:

• "Who do you think you are, Björn Nittmo?"
  "I lost my dolly... down the crapper!"
  "I don't mind the swelling, but ooo, the itching..."

"Nicely packed, bag boy!"


"Not cool, Zeus!" - from an old Late Night with Conan O'Brien bit

(sarcastically) "Sure is clever. Takes a lot of brains to go 'Quack quack quack' in a song about a fox." - from a Smothers Brothers routine

"Who told you that you were... the big... Jello Sheriff of the house?" - from a Bill Cosby routine

[Nzinga, Seated]

Many, many people have actually never seen Mean Girls and don't appreciate being dismissed with "Boo, you whore!" Just so you know.

You know what else doesn't work because many haven't seen the movie? "You dress like a fag and you're shit's all retarded."

Said that to a letter from a claimant I was reading. Had to explain to all around.

My husband can crack me up with that any time he says it. But our favorite is, "Now, I understand everyone's shit's all emotional right now." So many good times to break that one out.

[sublight]

"He's right, ya know. Y'are." - from Lethal Weapon 2, whenever someone points out something completely obvious (in the scene in question, "You're black.")

"Ho, whoa, whoa... nice shootin' Tex!" - a paraphrase from Ghostbusters (blasting apart the hotel room), used whenever someone is flailing frantically but completely missing their target.

[Zenster]

Nov schmoz ka pop! (You guess)

Ferschlugginer! (You guess, again)

Boy howdy! (James Dean as Jet Rink in the movie, "Giant")

Wham-a-doodle! (Foghorn Leghorn)

Hoombah! (Western Man from R. Crumb's "Zap Comix")

Shuckey-darn! (Joe Bob Briggs)

[Diana]

Many, many people have actually never seen Mean Girls and don't appreciate being dismissed with "Boo, you whore!" Just so you know.

That is so fetch!

I have some and my Daughter and I have some:

D and I--from Bend It Like Beckham, "oh, not the sports bras, darling" said upon choosing any item of clothing the other deems dowdy.

Grool! (from Mean Girls)

Me, when hungry for dinner: "Hannah, I am hongry" (said in a Hungarian accent. It's from a PBS Mystery presentation of Agatha Christie's novel: A Murder is Announced. Another from the same show is "Lovely Juliar is peculiar". I just say it randomly)

and of course, most anything from the original Airplane movie/Monty Python/Princess Bride etc.

My daughter and I can have entire conversations of nothing but "teen movie" and/or Buffy quotes. It's a little sad, really.

Some that get pulled out very frequently are:

That's way harsh, Tai. (In decline these days, since she's no longer a virgin who can't drive. :mrgreen: )

Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw (do I LOOK like Mother Teresa?)! (Also, my daughter's way of announcing a bad day is to walk into the house saying "Dear Diary, my teen angst has a body count".)

We attack the Mayor with hummus.

[eleanorigby]

We do the same thing with Bridget Jones and Saved quotes!

[Martini Enfield]

Try walking into a room of people and greeting them with "It's nice to see you..." with an expectant look on your face, and be deafened by the silence as they completely fail to reply with "To see you nice!" (Bruce Forsythe's The Generation Game, in case anyone from outside the UK or NZ was wondering).

Whenever anyone says to me "Are you done/finished?" (as in "Have you quite finished carrying on about absolute shit yet?") I invariably reply with "I had more, but you go ahead." (Futurama, of course)

[Roland Orzabal]

I won't ID this right away...I want to see if anyone out there is A) as hopelessly geeky as my friend and I in order to have seen the source material, and B) found this as amusing as we did. I doubt it, but: "You there! In the woods!"

If it helps, the proper response to this is "I am in the woods!"

[HelloNinja]

"There I was, there I was, there I was.... in...the Congo!"

From an old Bud Light commercial. Nobody every knows what the hell I'm talking about.