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the 16 Greatest TV Catchphrases
YahooTV ^ | 04/09/09 | Adam Bryant

Posted on 04/09/2009 4:12:27 PM PDT by kik5150

Now that The Donald is back on the air giving us our weekly dose of "You're fired!" on "The Celebrity Apprentice," we decided to count down our favorite one-liners. For brevity's sake, we ruled out any one-word catchphrases (including "Blerg," "D'oh!," and "Aaaayyyy"), but feel free to tell us how stupid we are mention those and all your other favorites in the comments below.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: teevee; television; tv
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To: yarddog

Those fifties and sixties sitcoms, even the children’s cartoons, are filled with adult double entendres. No harm I guess, the kids had no clue at the time. I know I didn’t. I do recall my parents getting a giggle out of things that I didn’t think were funny, though.


61 posted on 04/09/2009 4:33:58 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: yarddog

I always loved Jackie Gleason. He was a brilliant, if tortured soul who could squeeze more laughs out of a widened roll of his eyes than most comedians could get out of a whole monologue.


62 posted on 04/09/2009 4:33:58 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: AU72

This dates me but “What another revolten development this is!”

Willian Bendix in "The Life of Reilly."

63 posted on 04/09/2009 4:34:07 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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To: kik5150
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
64 posted on 04/09/2009 4:34:10 PM PDT by Vision ("Test everything. Hold on to the Good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21)
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To: AFreeBird
I think Eddy had a MILF crush.

"Why, thank you, Eddy!"

65 posted on 04/09/2009 4:34:20 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Very good... also dating myself: “Just the facts, M’am.”


66 posted on 04/09/2009 4:34:50 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: andy58-in-nh

“And awaaaay we go!”


67 posted on 04/09/2009 4:35:09 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Well, I guess I’d better be shoveling off.” Digby O’Dell, the friendly undertaker, in “Life of Reilly.”


68 posted on 04/09/2009 4:37:26 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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To: kik5150

“This is Jim Rockford, at beep leave your name and number and I’ll get back to you.”


69 posted on 04/09/2009 4:37:29 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: kik5150

“Who loves ya, baby?” Kojak

“You won’t like me when I’m angry” Incredible Hulk


70 posted on 04/09/2009 4:37:31 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean (Looking for the reset button.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I am not sure they were done on purpose. The language has changed quite a bit. I had never heard the word Beaver used in a salacious manner until maybe the 1970’s.


71 posted on 04/09/2009 4:37:33 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: kik5150

“And that’s the name of that tune.” —Baretta

“There y’go.” - McCloud

“You bet your bippy”, “Very interesting” or “Sock It To Me” —Laugh In

“Here come da judge” —Flip Wilson

“You rang?” —Adams Family

Then there’s the classic beckoning by name. Guess who?

“Ain’t Bee” “Norton” “Hi, Bob” “Aah-lee-vah”

I could go on. Pity me.


72 posted on 04/09/2009 4:37:45 PM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: kik5150

“And now, here to tell you everything about anything is Mr. Know-It-All.”

:)


73 posted on 04/09/2009 4:37:58 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: luvbach1
The best one-time live quote in TV history is Buckley responding to Gore Vidal during the Democratic National Convention in 1968:

Buckley: “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in you goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.”

74 posted on 04/09/2009 4:38:11 PM PDT by AU72
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To: TruthHound

Am I the first with “ book em Danno”.


75 posted on 04/09/2009 4:38:37 PM PDT by eastforker (.)
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To: kik5150

“Whats you talkin’ about, Willis”


76 posted on 04/09/2009 4:38:42 PM PDT by bubbacluck
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To: kik5150

“Mr. Mason, you’ve got to help me! I’m innocent!”

The lesson here was, if you went to see Perry Mason about getting a zoning variance, fifteen minutes later, Hamilton Berger would arrest you for murdering a member of the zoning board. How he ever got any non-criminal work was beyond me.


77 posted on 04/09/2009 4:40:15 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: kik5150

“Noorrmmmm!!!”

“How’s it going Mr. Peterson?”
“It’s a dog eat dog world, Woody & I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear.”


78 posted on 04/09/2009 4:40:47 PM PDT by Redcat (Perspective from an inner city school teacher)
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To: eastforker
Am I the first with “ book em Danno”.

No, it's in the article, Meathead. You can get 30 days for posting without reading the article.

80 posted on 04/09/2009 4:41:56 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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