[PW] Re: ? TV Catchphrases (Quotation Query #635)

[Waterman, Susan]

What about:

The devil made me do it! (Flip Wilson Show)
Very interesting. (Arte Johnson in bushes in Laugh-In)

susan

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Subject: [PW] ? TV Catchphrases (Quotation Query #635)



This is a query that by its nature could clog up the list with irrelevant 
postings, so please send responses to me offlist at fred.shapiro at yale.edu. 
If I get any kind of significant responses, I can summarize for the list.

TV Land has just issued a list of the 100 greatest catchphrases in TV 
history.  Many of these do not appear on the list of Television 
Catchphrases in The Yale Book of Quotations.  I am interested particularly 
in considering adding catchphrases from recent decades to the second 
edition of the YBQ.  Many of these I did not consider because, frankly, I 
haven't watched as much television in recent decades as I did in the 1960s 
and 1970s.  I would therefore welcome suggestions as to which of the 
following catchphrases are truly famous enough to be included among the 
100 most famous catchphrases of TV history:


Bam!  -- Emeril Live

Denny Crane.  -- Boston Legal

Here it is, your moment of Zen.  -- The Daily Show

Hey now!  -- The Larry Sanders Show

Holy crap!  -- Everybody Loves Raymond

Homey don't play that!  -- In Living Color

How you doin'?  -- Friends

I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl...  -- Newhart

I'm Rick James, bitch!  -- Chappelle's Show

No soup for you!  -- Seinfeld

Norm!  -- Cheers

Suit up!  -- How I Met Your Mother

Tell me what you don't like about yourself.  -- Nip/Tuck

That's hot.  -- The Simple Life

The tribe has spoken.  -- Survivor

Welcome to the O.C., bitch.  -- The O.C.

Well, isn't that special?  -- Saturday Night Live

Yada, yada, yada.  -- Seinfeld

Yeah, that's the ticket.  -- Saturday Night Live

You eeeediot!  -- Ren & Stimpy

You look mahvelous!  -- Saturday Night Live


Fred Shapiro


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