Borrowed Catchphrase / Western Animation

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• The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Magnificent Sonic", when Robotnik waits impatiently for Sonic to duel him near the end of this episode, he says, "I'm waiting!", then says, "Now where have I heard that line before?"
• The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan episode "The Eye of the Idol" has Scooter and later Anne borrowing Stanley's "Wham bam, we're in a jam!". Two episodes later, Henry uses it to make fun of Stanley when he fails at doing a magic trick with the stocks, and Flip says it in the following episode.
  • Charlie himself used it on one episode, which is lampshaded.
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Prince Zuko normally had a monopoly on honor related phrases (to the point where in the play version of the show, just about every line actor Zuko used had the word honor in there somewhere). This changes in the third season when both Aang and Sokka say that they need to restore their honor. Meta-lampshaded when Aang says, "I need my honor back," and it directly cuts to Zuko.
• Mixed with Tempting Fate in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Graviton yells "I'm stronger than all of you! I'm the strongest one there is!" Cue The Incredible Hulk arriving on the scene.
  Hulk: You sure about that?
• As the show went on, other Beast Wars characters started picking up Megatron's "yesssssss" when referring to him. Ditto for Primal's "That's just prime."
• During an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head, Butt-head goes "Boi-oi-oi-oi-oing" in a matter similar to Beavis.
• Yoram Gross' incarnations of Blinky Bill have had characters borrowing Blinky's catchphrase "Extraordinary!", usually said at the end of every episode.
  • In "Monkey See, Monkey Do", his step-sister Nutsy utters another phrase from him used during the third series; "Careful is my middle name!" Blinky wonders where he heard that.
• Bob's Burgers: In "The Hormone-iums", after Linda fails to pick up on Louise's hints that they should get the Fischoder brothers to invest in her "wine shoes" idea, Louise lets out an exasperated "Oh my god..." in unison with her father Bob.
• Budgie the Little Helicopter: In the episode, All at Sea, Pippa used Lionel's catchphrase "Juddering Joysticks.".
• In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Buzz Lightyear's signature catch phrase "To infinity, and beyond!" has had its fair share of being used by other characters just as much as Buzz does, including, but not limited to: his teammates Mira, Booster, and XR, his enemies such as Torque with Buzz's personality, and Evil Buzz, and even friends and family of his teammates, such as Booster's father.
  • In "War and Peace and War", when Guzelian's warship is imploding, he borrows Zurg's Defeat Catchphrase "Curse you, Buzz Lightyear!".
• Courage the Cowardly Dog has had three occasions where the episode's antagonist borrowed Eustace's catchphrase of addressing Courage as "stupid dog".
  • King Buffo from "Feast of the Bullfrogs" yells "Stupid dog!" as he leaves after his defeat.
  • Jeeves Weevil from "Evil Weevil" is defeated when he is tricked into sucking up his own body fat, which shrinks him to the size of a normal insect. He reacts by kicking Courage and the shin and shouting "Stupid dog!" in a high-pitched voice.
  • "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" has the title antagonist yell "Stupid dog!" after his tower has been demolished by Courage.
  Eustace: That's what I tell him all the time! You stupid dog. You stupid dog!
  • In another episode, Muriel herself uses multiple of Eustace's own catchphrases, including the aforementioned "Stupid dog!", which is met with Eustace repeatedly chiming "Me too!". Normally, she isn't like this, but a tentacled brain alien extracted her kindness, leaving her a rude old woman with a personality matching her husband's.
• Danger Mouse lampshades this in an episode of his show:
  Penfold: Good grief!
  D.M.: Penfold! That's my line!
  • In "The Strange Case Of The Ghost Bus," DM invokes James Bond's "Shaken...not stirred."
  • Greenback says "Penfold, shush!" in "The Ultra Secret Secret." DM says he'll ignore his line being stolen.
• Invoked by title character of Daria when she uses her father's famous line:
  Daria: Damn it, it's my turn to say damn it!
• In the Dastardly & Muttley episode "Who's Who?," Dastardly gets amnesia, leaving Klunk to run the Vulture Squadron. After yet another operation fails, Klunk says Dastardly's line of "Drat and double drat!".
• In the Dora the Explorer episode, "Dora's Got a Puppy", Swiper's robot butterfly is stopped by Dora and Boots chanting "Butterfly, no swiping!" thrice at it, and it says "Oh, man!" like its creator before flying back to Swiper and swiping his signature mask and gloves.
• An episode of DuckTales (1987) has Launchpad suspected of being Gizmoduck. He shows up at a press conference to defuse the situation and tells the crowd that the rumors are "a bunch of blathering blatherscythe", even attributing the phrase to Fenton Crackshell. Unfortunately, he doesn't realize Fenton is Gizmoduck, "blathering blatherscythe" is the phrase he uses to activate the Gizmoduck armor, and Fenton's mother is watching the televised press conference with the armor in the background. End result: the armor attaches to Launchpad, ruining his attempt to deny being Gizmoduck.
• DuckTales (2017) does this on a few occasions with Donald as the subject:
  • Launchpad adopts a few, lamely delivered, when Scrooge has him pretend to be Donald.
    Launchpad *completely normal*: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
  • From the season one finale onwards, other characters have a tendency to borrow his catchphrase "Oh, phooey!" when something unexpectedly goes very wrong.
  • Webby says Scrooge's catchphrase "bless me bagpipes" right after finding out she's his Opposite-Sex Clone and therefore (technically) his daughter.
  • In The Lost Harp of Mervana!, when Webby is having a Heroic BSoD:
    Louie: C'mon, Webs, I need you to run.
    Webby: Why? So we can continue to get by in a cold, dark world where mermaids and grandmas are liars, and good people don't exist? Hoboy.
    Louie: Is that what I sound like? Hoboy.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • In "One + One = Ed," Kevin is about to call the Eds dorks, but Sarah finishes his sentence for him, to his approval.
  • In "Home Cooked Eds," Eddy imitated Edd by saying "filthy, filthy, filthy."
    Ed: That's something I'd expect from Double D, Eddy.
    Eddy: Don't remind me.
• Elinor Wonders Why:
  • "No Need to Shout" has Elinor lose her voice, so Olive says her primary catchphrase after making an observation.
    Olive: As Elinor would say: that's so interesting!
  • In the short "That's So Interesting — How Do Cheetahs Run So Fast" Ari declares "We need more observations!" saying that it's what Elinor would say.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • In "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", Timmy borrows Crocker's "FAIRY GODPARENTS!" outbursts and the attendant Wild Takes.
  • In "Fairy Idol", when Cosmo and Wanda quit their jobs after taking abuse from Timmy (actually an evil clone of him), Wanda calls him a "twerp" like Vicky normally does.
• A mix between this and Phrase Catcher shows up in the Family Guy episode "Griffin Winter Games", wherein Meg actually says "Shut up, Meg" when she's competing against her former voice actress Lacey Chabert in the tryouts for the Winter Olympic Biathlon.
  Meg: Shut up, Meg!
  Lacey: No, you shut up, Meg!
  Meg: No, you shut up, Meg!
  Peter: Shut up, Meg.
• In the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Hard Knocks", Ben borrows Hulk's: "Thing smash!" In "Bait And Switch", Reed comments, "I always wanted to say this — it's clobbering time!"
• The Flintstones :
  • Fred and Barney once yell their wives' "Charge it!".
  • In the episode "Ten Little Flintstones", Wilma mocks Fred by mockingly reciting his "Yabba-Dabba-Doo".
• Fish Hooks eventing Milo on the Lam where Bea first goes to Shellsea after that forensic morning catchprasing "Girrrrrrrrrl".
• Once in Futurama when Leela was explaining what Bender was doing, leaving Fry to be the one to utter "Oh lord!"
  • Another episode had a moment where Bender exploded; after he put himself back together, he walked in with a triumphant "Good news, everyone!" The Professor was thrown for a loop.
  • Fry says "Good news, everyone!" in "Jurassic Bark," imitating the professor's voice.
  • During the fourth movie, Fry tells Bender he can bite his shiny metal hat.
  • After Bender's death in "The Ghost in the Machines," Hermes exhibits a graph which shows that "requests to bite one's shiny metal ass are down 98%." He's interrupted by Scruffy the Janitor's vacuum.
    Hermes: Do you mind doing that later?
    Scruffy: Bite my shiny metal ass.
  • Cubert has done this twice and gotten a Literal-Minded reaction from his dad both times:
    • In "The Route of All Evil":
      Farnsworth: This is my latest invention: a device that lets anyone sound exactly like me!
      Cubert: (talking into it) "Good news, everyone. I'm a horse's butt!"
      Farnsworth: I am? That's not good news at all, you little—
    • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television":
      Cubert: Hey dad, bite my shiny metal ass!
      Farnsworth: What?! Such an act would be most uncomfortable for both of us!
• The Galaxy High episode "The Brat Back" has Doyle borrow Rotten Roland's catchphrase of "I love it, I looove it" after hearing that Beef has gotten in trouble.
• Many familiar phrases in theatrical cartoons from The Golden Age of Animation (Looney Tunes, Popeye cartoons, MGM cartoons, and even Classic Disney Shorts) are actually Memetic Mutation references to film actors, radio shows, songs, and commercials that were very popular or well-known in the United States during the time of their release, but are now only associated with these animated works thanks to Time Marches On. Examples are:
  • "Turn off that light!" (reference to air raid wardens during World War II)
  • "Was/Is this/that trip really necessary?" (reference to a slogan used to encourage people not to take unnecessary trips to free up gas and rubber for the war effort and to free up space on trains to ferry troops to their duty locations. )
  • "It's a possibility!" (reference to Artie Auerbach's catchphrase as Mr. Kitzle during Al Pearce's radio shows)
    • "Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I hope" - Al Pearce
  • "That ain't the way I hear-ed it!" (reference to The Old Timer character from the radio series Fibber McGee and Molly)
    • "'T ain't funny, McGee!" (reference to the character Molly, addressing McGee in Fibber McGee and Molly)
    • "I love that man!" - (reference to the character Beulah (Marlin Hurt) on Fibber McGee and Molly.)
    • "Operator, give me number 32O.. ooh, is that you, Myrt? How's every little thing, Myrt? What say, Myrt?" - (reference to the character Fibber, whenever the operator connecting his calls turned out to be his friend Myrt, Fibber McGee and Molly. )
    • "Well now, I wouldn't say THAT!" - (reference to the character Peavey (Richard Le Grand) in the radio show The Great Gildersleeve)
  • "Don't you believe it!" (reference to a 1947 similarly titled radio show in which popular legends, myths or old wives' tales were debunked with this quote.)
  • "Aha! Something new has been added!" and "So round, so firm, so fully-packed. So free and easy on the draw." (reference to Lucky Strike cigarettes)
  • "B.OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (reference to a commercial for Lifebuoy soap against B.O. (body odor))
  • "Ain't I a stinker?" (Lou Costello from Abbott and Costello)
    • "I'm only three and a half years old!" - From a character named Martha (Billy Gray) on the Abbot & Costello radio show.
  • "Ah, yes! (Insert statement here), isn't it?", "Yehudi?", "Don't work, do they?" and "Greetings, Gate! Let's osculate!" (Jerry Colonna, sidekick on Bob Hope 's radio show.)
  • "I dood it!", "He don't know me very well, do he?" and "You bwoke my widdle arm!" (reference to Red Skelton's radio comedy character Junior, aka "Mean Widdle Kid")
  • "Of course you realize this means war!" (Groucho Marx)
  • "Ain't I a devil?" - Ralph Edwards in "Truth or Consequences".
  • "Which way did he go, George? Which way did he go?" and "I'm going to hug him and pet him and hug him and pet him And Call Him "George"..." (reference to John Steinbeck's novel, particularly to Lon Chaney Jr's. characterization of Lennie in the 1939 movie adaptation of Of Mice and Men)
  • Several dimwitted characters were based on Mortimer Snerd, who was created in 1938.
  • "Henry! Heeeeeeeeeeen-RY!" "Coming, Mother!" (reference to The Aldritch Family, a radio sitcom)
  • The NBC Chime (the notes themselves remain as a signature for the television network)
  • "Monkeys is the cwaziest peoples." - A catch phrase from Lew Lehr. In parody the word "monkeys" was often replaced by other animals or people.
  • "Ah say! I'm from the South, son!", "That's a joke, son!", "Pay attention now, boy!" - Kenny Delmar as Senator Claghorn in "The Fred Allen Show". The Looney Tunes character Foghorn Leghorn was entirely based on this radio personality.
  • "See?" - A verbal tic actor Edward G. Robinson used. When characters in Looney Tunes use it, it's usually in a police or gangster context.
  • "I'll moida da bum." - A reference to boxer Tony Galento.
  • "I have a problem, Mr. Anthony!" - Reference to John J. Anthony, who presented the daily radio advice program "The Goodwill Hour".
  • "Train leaving on Track 5 for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuuuu-ca-mon-gaaa!" - Mel Blanc usually said this, as it was a reference to a character he played on "The Jack Benny Show".
  • "Come with me to the casbah" - Reference to Charles Boyer as Pépé le Moko in the 1937 film Algiers. Interesting detail: the line was prominent in the trailer, but not in the movie itself.
• In Goof Troop episode "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp", people start commenting on how Max looks like Goofy, much to his dismay. When P.J points it out too, Max loudly protests that he's nothing like his father. Unfortunately, his argument isn't helped when he ends up losing his balance during his rant and falls while giving his version of Goofy's famous holler.
  P.J: (Laughing) Yeah, right, Max! You and your dad even fall alike!
• In "Taste of Sunset" from Guess How Much I Love You, Little Nutbrown Hare tells Little White Owl a story instead of the usual other way around. Afterwards, Little White Owl asks him if it was a true story and he says it's true that it was his story.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): In "Evil-Lyn's Plot", Skeletor uses an amulet of Coridite to become just as strong as He-Man. When he powers up, he borrows He-Man's phrase with, "Now, I have the power!"
• Lampshaded in Hey Arnold! when in one episode, Arnold uses Gerald's catchphrase.
  Arnold: You know, you're a bold kid, Gerald.
  Gerald: Hey, that's my line.
  Arnold: Oh yeah.
• In the Higglytown Heroes episode "Twinkle Tooth", Twinkle is unable to come up with a convoluted idea on how she could get her loose tooth back from the sink drain, so the others do the honors for her, right down to them using her catchphrase "Aw, pickles!" when Fran points out the one fatal flaw in their idea - there are no whales in the sink drain.
• Penny from Inspector Gadget uses her uncle's "Wowsers" once or twice, thought it's usually not Played for Laughs when she does it.
• In a few episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures, Tohru said Uncle's "Aieeya!" when something went wrong for him.
  • Jade eventually started copying Jackie's "bad day" when having an Oh, Crap! moment.
  • In one episode, Uncle stowed away with Jackie when he wasn'yt supposed to, and just like Jade he said "Hi Jackie!" when caught.
• Jabberjaw considered it plagiarism when someone other than him complained about lack of respect, which is ironic since it was a borrowed catchphrase to begin with
• Normally, when Johnny Test does a parody, Johnny's the one to catch on with a "Now where have I seen this before?", but in the The Cat in the Hat parody, when Bling-2 shows up, Dukey delivers the line.
• Kaeloo: In the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo uses one of Stumpy's own catchphrases when talking to him ("Are you stupid or what?").
  • In another episode, Kaeloo uses Stumpy's "I hate your guts" catchphrase on Mr. Cat (though it's more for comedic effect than actual hatred).
• In the King of the Hill episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do", when Bobby sees how ridiculous lives the kids of Lucky's sister live, he says "Those boys ain't right."
  • In the episode "Bystand Me," Peggy starts writing a column about household hints. She tells her latest column to Hank, where she told her readers to mix pneumonia and bleach to clean their bathroom fixtures. When Hank tells her that that's the recipe for mustard gas, Peggy lets out Hank's trademark "Bwahhh!"
• Kim Possible asserts that Yoko won't be a problem after all the other villains that had been smacked down. Funny given she isn't a wrestling fan. (Though Ron is, so she probably cribbed it from him.)
  • In "Oh No! Yono!", Ron shows his parents baby Hana's karate skills, and he borrows the phrase they use whenever they drop a life-changing bombshell on him.
  Ron: This is my way of telling you.
• The Legend of Korra has Zhu Li using Varrick's phrase "Do the thing" against him when he gets arrested.
  • Later, when Varrick and Zhu Li get married, it's Bolin who borrows the phrase.
  Bolin: Will you "do the thing" forever?
• In a couple of Looney Tunes shorts Daffy Duck uses Sylvester's catchphrase "Sufferin' Succotash!".
  • On a episode of the game show Press Your Luck, one of the questions was which character used that catchphrase. The show had Daffy as the correct answer, which was incorrect. All three contestants were invited to come back on the show because of this, and in the next episode Mel Blanc called in as Sylvester and complained that Daffy was always stealing from him.
  • At the end of "Rabbit Transit", when Cecil Turtle's trick on Bugs causes Bugs to get arrested for speeding, Cecil is the one who says "Ain't I a stinker?".
• The Loud House:
  • In "Potty Mouth", Lisa is disguised as Lily and says Lily's catchphrase "Poo-poo!". Lincoln does the same in "Cover Girls", as a synonym for Oh, Crap! when he has to play video games with his classmates dressed as Lily.
  • When Leni is pretending to be Lori in "Change of Heart", she says Lori's "literally" catchphrase, as does Lynn when she pretends to be Lori over the phone in "Sitting Bull".
  • In "The Loudest Thanksgiving", all members of the Loud, Santiago, and Casagrande families say "Let's do this!" (which is usually said by Lincoln) except Lori, Bobby, and Lily.

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• In the episode "Friend In Deed" in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit once borrowed Christopher Robin's "Silly old bear." And yes, he used it with the same amount of endurance.
  • A non-verbal example, Roo has also bounced a couple of characters just like his idol, Tigger.
  • Roo has also imitated Tigger’s “hoo hoo, hoo hoo” a couple times.
• The Patrick Star Show:
  • A cross-show example. In "Squidina's Little Helper", Squidina wakes up and says "I'm ready!... to get this show on the road!", referencing SpongeBob's "I'm ready!" catchphrase.
  • In "To Dad and Back", Patrick imitates Rube's "Amazing!", even morphing his face to look like him.
• Peg + Cat:
  • Downplayed in "The Doohickey Problem" when Cat says, "I doohickey what I can", which resembles Ramone's catchphrase "I do what I can."
  • In "The Beethoven Problem", Peg does say her catchphrases "Really big problem" and "Cat's right, we should count backwards from five to calm down", but Beethoven says them along with her and, in the case of the former, so does Cat.
  • In "The Halloween Problem", Richard instead of Peg says that he's got a big problem and then later, he's the one who brings up counting backwards instead of Peg.
  • In "The Cleopatra Problem", Cleopatra says Peg's "totally freaking out" catchphrase with her.
  • In "Yet Another Tree Problem", Cat's the one to say that he's "totally freaking out" instead of Peg. He also says, "You're a genius" which, again, is usually Peg's line.
  • Usually, it's Peg and/or Cat who sing the "Problem Solved" song, but in "I Do What I Can: the Musical", it's the singers who sing it.
  • In "The Girl Group Problem", Aki says, "Really big problem" instead of Peg, then all the girls say, "totally freaking out".
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The episode "Hail, Doofania!" does a role reversal for the title characters and Dr. Doofenschmirtz, so Phineas delivers Doof's "Behold, the (Subject)-inator!", "...the ENTIRE TRI-STATE AREA!" and "Bless you, Perry the Platypus!", while Doofenshmirtz does Phineas's "I know what we're going to do today!", "Aren't you a little old to be..." "No. No I'm not" and "Oh, there you are, Perry." His daughter also takes on Candace's role, including her outfit (there was a mix-up at the laundromat) and catchphrase "Mom! Mom! You gotta see this!" And even her mother assumes Candace's mother's role, right down to her saying, "I think it's time you got out of the sun for a while."
  • Vanessa adapts her father's catchphrase in another episode when she says "Thank you, Perry the Platypus!"
  • Isabella's catchphrase "Whatcha doooin'?" is borrowed by a few other characters, but she's very protective of it. She elbows Buford in the ribs when he starts to say it in "Out of Toon", she acts visibly irritated when Suzy and Candace use it to Phineas in "Suddenly Suzy", and she can sense Candace using it from across town in "Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation". However, she doesn't mind when Phineas says it to her in "I Scream, You Scream", "That Sinking Feeling" and "At the Car Wash", and Phineas even alters it as "Whatcha waaatchin'?" in "Run Away Runway".
    • In a Real Life example, the cast does this in the final panel; Hilarity Ensues.
  • In "The Remains of the Platypus", Isabella says Candace's "It Was Here, I Swear!" phrase once the kids return home to see Cheese-topia has disappeared.
  • In "Meapless in Seattle", Linda says Candace's "You are so busted" phrase when she sees Candace never took out the trash she asked her to do in the beginning of the episode, and punishes her for such.
• Regular Show: Benson once used a particularly long "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!" when getting fired by his new boss whom he detests.
• In Rocko's Modern Life, while laying in bed during a nervous breakdown in "She's the Toad", Ed Bighead says "Garbage day is a very dangerous day", echoing Rocko's usual "(blank) day is a very dangerous day" catchphrase.
• At the end of the "Treasure of Monte Zoom" arc in Rocky and Bullwinkle, Natasha Fatale borrows Boris Badenov's catchphrase of telling her "Shaddup your mouth!"
• Rugrats (1991):
  • In "The Legend of Satchmo", Grandpa Lou tells the babies the story of Sasquatch when they camp out in Tommy's backyard. When Chuckie goes inside the house to use the bathroom, the other babies assume he went looking for Satchmo and look for him. When they are unable to find their way back, this exchange occurs:
  Phil: Tommy, if Chuckie were here, I think he'd have something to say.
  Tommy: What's that?
  Phil and Lil: We're doomed!
  • In "Heatwave", the babies meet a boy named Al-Sabu, who has come to drink from the water fountain on a hot day. When the babies tell him that there's no more water in the fountain, Al-Sabu says "We are doomed! Doomed, I tell you!" Chuckie's response? "I think I'm gonna like this guy."
  • In "The Bravliest Baby", Tommy slips at the playground during a trek up "Mount Neverest", losing his confidence. When Kimi wants to climb back up, Tommy tells her, "I don't think that's such a good idea." Chuckie then says that he was just about to say that.
• Twice in Samurai Jack:
  • In her intro episode, the Scotsman's wife tells the Scotsman to "shut it!" (which is the Scotsman's catchphrase). He responds with "yes, dear."
  • Ashi borrows Aku's catchphrase in episode 4 of season 5 when she rants to Jack.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show episode "No Thanks, Masked Manx" ended with Shaggy emulating Scooby's catchphrase of "Scooby Dooby Doo" by exclaiming "Shaggy Shaggy Doo".
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated:
    • In "The Wild Brood, when the Gang unmasks that episode's Monster of the Week and finds that it's someone they don't recognize, the episode's supporting characters (who do recognize the guy under the mask) end up delivering the Gang's trademark synchronized announcement of the villain's identity.
    • Also in "Dead Justice", after the Gang helps Sheriff Stone collar the Monster of the Week:
      Fred: Y'know, Dad, Bucky would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for us meddling kids! Maybe a "Thank you" would be, uh...
  • Three examples occur in the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown": first Shaggy says, "Jinkies" (which is Velma's catchphrase), then he says, "Let's set a trap" (which is usually what Fred says), then Velma joins in on the catchphrase-stealing and says, "Like" (which Shaggy is known for saying). This is part of a general Perspective Reversal between Shaggy and Velma.
• Throughout the first season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Catra would sarcastically greet her ex-friend with a mocking and flirtatious "Hey, Adora." Adora gets to return the favor in the season two premiere, saying it to a camera that Catra and her allies were watching a battle from before destroying it.
  • Double Trouble gets in on the action fairly spectacularly. They transform into Adora to say, "Hey, Catra", and in the same scene, they become Scorpia to deliver a brutal verbal blow by calling Catra, "Wildcat".
• The Simpsons:
  • Throughout the show, when things go south, members of the Simpson family tend to borrow their patriarch's "D'oh!" Rare occasions have other characters, such as Krusty and Mr. Burns, use it.
  • In "Homer's Night Out", when Homer realizes Bart took a photo of him dancing with Princess Kashmir, he prepares to strangle him with his trademark "Why, you little...!" But he's interrupted by Marge shouting "Why, you big...!" and trying to strangle Homer.
  • In "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", to impress her new friends, Lisa said "Don't Have a Cow, Man!" and "Ay, Caramba!", two of Bart's catchphrases. As of this episode, they became Lisa's catchphrases.
  • In "Lisa the Simpson", Lisa worries that her genetics will lead to her becoming as dumb as Homer. When she learns that it's only male Simpsons who carry the dumb gene, and subsequently solves the puzzle she's been stuck on all episode, she lets out a Homeresque "Woo-hoo!" before catching herself.
  • Homer Simpson's "D'oh" in itself was borrowed from somebody else, namely actor James Finlayson from the Laurel and Hardy series, who used to say it in a very long outstretched way, more like "D'oooooooooooooooooooh". It was shortened because things have to go a lot quicker in animation.
  • In "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace", it's Lisa, rather than Homer, who shouts "Why you little—!" and strangles Bart.
  • In "Natural Born Kissers", Moe borrows Helen Lovejoy's "Won't someone Think of the Children!?" line.
  • In "Little Big Mom", after tricking Homer and Bart into thinking they have leprosy, Lisa utters Mr. Burns' "Excellent," while tenting her fingers like he does when saying it.
  • Multiple cross-show examples appear in the Family Guy crossover, including Homer responding to Peter's "Woohoo!" with a kick to the face and a "Road House!"
  • In "Homer the Moe", Michael Stipe borrows Homer's "Mmm, [food item]..." while eating tofu turkey, saying "Mmm, curds..."
  • Nelson's "Haw-haw!" has been used by other characters on ocassion.
    • In "Homerpalooza", a member of Cypress Hill uses it towards Bart when he overhears Marge talking about how she hadn't been backstage since Bart ripped his pants during the Christmas pageant.
    • Lisa uses it towards Bart when he has to sit next to Nelson on the bus in "The Haw-Hawed Couple".
    • In "The Wreck of the Relationship", Martin somehow manages to beat up Nelson. Standing over him, he proclaims, "It is I who wears the vest! Haw-haw!"
    • In "Stealing First Base", Nelson encourages another student to laugh at a girl for having kissed Bart. The student does so, although slightly confused. Nelson is still very satisfied. Later, he nails it perfectly, to Nelson's amazement.
    • Reverend Lovejoy does it to Bart in "500 Keys", after his attempts to cause trouble only end up helping everyone instead.
• South Park:
  • A couple of times Stan and Kenny have said Cartman's "Screw you guys, I'm going home!"
  • There have been instances where Stan and Kyle's usual "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" is taken by other characters:
    • In "The Red Badge of Gayness", when Kenny got killed, Grandpa Marsh yelled "You bastard!" which Kyle responded with an annoyed "Hey!"
    • In "Prehistoric Ice Man", Cartman causes Kyle to fall into a hole. Stan tells him "Great job, fatass, you killed Kyle!" and Kenny followed with a muffled "You bastard!"
    • In "Clubhouses" Cartman is the one to say the "Oh my god! They Killed Kenny!" line, while Kyle finishes it by randomly walking past and shouting "You Bastards!"
  • In "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000", when Stan and Kyle declare Clyde the new "fat kid" in order to replace Cartman for the upcoming sled race against the girls, Clyde says Cartman's old catchphrase word for word:
  Clyde: For the last time, I'm not fat, so stop calling me fat, GODDAMMIT! (Covers his mouth when he realizes he's beginning to act like Cartman)
  • In "Going Native", Cartman borrows Butters' "Fellas! FELLAS!"
• From the Spider-Man: The Animated Series episode "Return of the Spider-Slayers":
  Spider-Man: I hate to borrow someone else's line, but... it's clobberin' time!
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Pineapple Invasion", Plankton uses Fred's "MY LEG!" Also an Actor Allusion, since both characters have the same voice actor.
• In Star Wars Rebels, Zeb's favorite curse word is "Karabast." Season 2 shows that Ezra had picked up on using it.
• This occurs at the end of Turtles Forever, as the 1988 and 2003 turtles say goodbye to each other by trading catchphrases. Another example occurs in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode "Turtle X-Tinction", where Serling uses the phrase "It's Serling time" — borrowed from the turtles' own "It's ninja time!" — before embarking on his mad dash to save Cody.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • Emily borrows Thomas' "Cinders and ashes!" in "Tickled Pink" when she sees James' pink undercoat.
  • Henry borrows Gordon's "Express coming through!" in "Henry Gets the Express" while pulling the express coaches. Gordon lampshades it: "But...that's my line!"
  • Gordon's "Oh, the indignaty!" is said by Sir Topham Hatt in "Buckled Tracks and Bumpy Cars". Again, Gordon lampshades it.
  • Percy borrows the narrator's "and then there was trouble" in "Reds vs Blues".
• Tom and Jerry: Not necessarily a catchphrase, but Butch the black cat has used Tom's signature Stock Screams in the handful of episodes he appeared in after suffering an injury.
• In the [adult swim] pilot Welcome to Eltingville, Jerry uses "Beedee beedee beedee" as his own catchphrase in reference to Twiki from Buck Rogers. This actually becomes important later on, as Bill and Josh's exhaustively long trivia showdown comes to an end when Bill asks who says "Beedee beedee beedee", and Josh blurts out Jerry instead of Twiki, causing him to lose.
• Borrowed (and altered) catchphrase as a show title: Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
• Woody Woodpecker: Often in shorts where Woody is on the losing end, another character imitates his "Hahaha-ha-ha!" laugh. Examples include the quail from "The Coo-Coo Bird", one of the chicks from "Solid Ivory" and Wally Walrus in "Ski for Two", "Well Oiled" and "What's Sweepin'".
• Work It Out Wombats!: In "The Treeborhood Parranda," Mr. E says "Did you not know?" which is usually Louisa's catchphrase.
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: In "We Are the Wright Brothers", Brad says Xavier's Catchphrase — "To the Secret Museum!"
• Yogi Bear makes a swipe using his signature rhyming in Yogi's Treasure Hunt, with apologies to Mr. B. Bunny:
  Yogi: At the risk of stealing a line most appealing: "What's up, Doc?"
• On Young Justice (2010), M'gann's "Hello, Megan!" line is revealed to be from an old, forgotten sitcom that she watched growing up. Wally, in turn, borrows it twice: as playful ribbing in "Image" and legitimately in "Failsafe." (The latter turns out to be Fridge Brilliance when you find out that the Team are unknowingly mind-linked and that M'gann's Psychic Powers are accidentally brainwashing them all).
  • By the third season, about seven years have passed in-series, and all of the characters have picked up each others' catchphrases as a sort of in-joke. Artemis says "Hello, Megan!" when she realizes things and Oracle uses Impulse's Future Slang when she discovers things. Even Superman gets caught using one of Nightwing's early backformations and confusing the hell out of the Justice League when he tells them to "Stay whelmed." Season four shows that Red Arrow, at least, has added Terra and Geo-Force's "Mother of GOAT!" to the lexicon, and Artemis confuses the heck out of a pair of assassins and/or moles she's working with when she tells them to "Stay whelmed."

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