Oh, right, you watched Escaflowne in English, didn't you? It's from there. Merle the cat-girl is always yelling "Van-sama" piteously. Anyway when Rosie and her sibs got back from Entmoot, the sibs took one look at the car and yelled "Van-sama"! It stuck
"Merle the cat-girl is always yelling "Van-sama" piteously."
Oh, is that the equivalent of when in the dubbed version she cries "Lord Van!" at least three times every episode? :) I think I mentioned that to you at the time but I didn't know the Japanese equivalent so I didn't realize it related to the Van-sama thing. I was cracking up over that--I actually found myself going around the house after watching that hearing "Lord Van!" pop into my head at random intervals :)