Catchphrase / Other Media

Advertising

• Allstate - "Are you in good hands?"
• "Hi, Anthony Sullivan here..."
• "HI BILLY MAYS HERE!"
• Campbell's - "Mmm, mmm, good."
• Capital One - "What's in your wallet?"
• Citibank - "Not just Visa. Citibank Visa."
• "For X meerkats, Compare the Meerkat.com. For cheap car insurance, compare the MARKET.com. Simples. Tssk."
• Dairy Queen:
  • "We treat you right."
  • "Hot Eats, Cool Treats"
  • "Because at Dairy Queen, good is not good enough."
• "It pays to Discover." ("The card that pays you back.")
• Parodied in an advertisement for Dr. Pepper 10. A faux action movie is unfolding where a protagonist and driver are driving a jeep through a jungle trying to outrun villains. The protagonist triggers a trap that stops the villains, then the jeep stops and the protagonist looks into the camera and simply says, "Catch phrase!" (If anything can be said to be an actual catchphrase for them, it would probably be "You make the world taste better.")
• Esurance - "Insurance for the modern world."
• Farmer's Insurance: "We are farmers. Bum ba-dum bum bum-bum-bum."
  • Nathaniel Burke: "We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two."
• Flex Seal inventor Phil Swift: "Wow! That's a lot of damage! But with Flex Seal..."
• "GEICO, 15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more on car insurance."
• Hallmark - "When you care enough to send the very best."
• "Just wait'll we get our Hanes on you."
• Jay Bush and Duke: "Roll that beautiful bean footage!"
• Most of The Jewelry Exchange's ads start with, "Diamonds! The Jewelry Exchange..."
• Kellogg's - "The best to you each morning." (In classic advertisements.)
  • Kellogg's Frosted Flakes - "They're not just good. They're grrrreat!" or "They bring out the tiger in you!"
  • Kellogg's Raisin Bran Crunch - "Sounds good."
• Lil' Sweet: "For [insert accomplishment here], you deserve the sweeeet reward of a Diet Dr. Pepper." [...] "It's the sweet one!"
• Macy's - "Way to shop."
• "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard."
• "Maybe she's born with it. Or maybe it's Maybelline."
• Microsoft - "Where do you want to go today?" began in 1994.
• The Most Interesting Man in the World: "I don't always drink beer...but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty, my friends."
• Motel 6 - "We'll leave the light on for you."
• Nescafe India - "No tring-trong? I'll play the next song." Bonus points for Heartwarming.
• "Nationwide is on your side."
  • In one series of Nationwide ads, NFL player Peyton Manning sings a phrase to the tune of the jingle.
• Nike - "It's gotta be the shoes."
• PlayStation 3 - "It only does everything."
• PlayStation 4 - "This is for the players."
• "Now that's Progressive."
• Roach Motel - "Roaches check in, but they don't check out!"
• "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."
  • "Here's the deal..." Jake from State Farm.
• Suave - "Don't you look smart?"
• Toyota - "Oh, what a feeling!", "I love what you do for me", "Moving forward" and "Let's go places."
• U.S. Navy - "It's not just a job, it's an adventure!"
• Visa - "It's everywhere you want to be."
• Zenith - "The quality goes in before the name goes on."
• Toucan Sam - "Follow your nose! It always knows!"

Asian Animation

• Adit & Sopo Jarwo: Sopo likes to say "Be forbearing, Boss" whenever Jarwo's story of the episode ends poorly for Jarwo, which is a lot.
• In Bhaagam Bhaag, you have Sunny's "It's tigdam time!", said whenever he comes up with one of his loony ideas to avoid being Late for School.
• The eponymous main character of BoBoiBoy has "Terbaik!", Malaysian for (and indeed, translated in the English dub as) "Awesome!" It's usually accompanied by him giving a thumbs up.
• In the Japanese version of Cubix: Robots for Everyone, Doctor K, known here as "Professor K", often states his own name in a sing song voice to announce his presence.
• Happy Heroes: In Seasons 1 and 2, or at least their English dubs, Smart S. frequently says "According to my analysis..."
• Quite a few of Motu Patlu's main characters have at least one catch-phrase of some kind.
  • Motu often reminds Patlu that "My brain doesn't function on an empty stomach! You think of something!" whenever he is asked to come up with an idea.
  • Patlu himself says "Idea!" whenever he comes up with an idea. Usually this is accompanied by an Idea Bulb appearing near his head.
  • Dr. Jhatka often exclaims "I swear on my patients!" and also sometimes angrily says "May all the bitter medicines fall into your mouth!"
  • Ghasitaram, whenever met with an unusual situation, says something along the lines of "In all my 20 years of experience, I've never seen this before!"
  • Chingum has a few. "Why fear, when Chingum is here!", "It is impossible to escape from Chingum's plans, impossible!", "Stop! Stop in the name of the law!"
  • John the Don's catchphrase is "John banega Don" ("John will become the Don").
• Noonbory and the Super 7:
  • Cozybory's "Perfectly perfect!", or a variation thereof.
  • Rosygury has one, "Think pink!"
• Oye Golu: Adi's dad often says "Very good, very good!"
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf:
  • Whenever Wolffy fails to catch the goats (which is all the time, by the way), he says "Darn goats! I'll be back!" or some variation thereof.
  • Wolffy's son Wilie often sees his dad being sent flying into the air, and he genuinely believes he is able to fly of his own will. Naturally, this leads him to say "Look, daddy's flying again!" a lot. Another of his catchphrases is "Dad, you lied to me!"
  • Throughout the course of Great War in the Bizarre World, Jolly says "I'm gonna put a curse on all of you!" and draws circles in the ground with a stick whenever something one of the goats says frustrates him.
• Upin & Ipin:
  • Ipin has "Betul, betul, betul!" ("Right, right, right!").
  • Mei Mei has "Saya suka! Saya suka!" ("I like it! I like it!").
  • Mail's catchprase is "Dua singgit" ("two for one ringgit"), referring to the price of the stuff he sold and he loves to find opportunity to sell anything.
  • Jarjit likes to exclaim "Marvelous! Marvelous!".

Newspaper Comics

• In Calvin and Hobbes, "kablooie" is a word Calvin loves to use to describe any kind of explosion. He may have learned it from his favorite story, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie," though what the "kablooie" of that story was readers will never know.
• Cathy: "AAAAAAAACK!"
• Dick Tracy: "Ye gods!"
• Garfield's, if anything, is "I hate Mondays."
• In Peanuts, Charlie Brown had "Good Grief!" "Rats!" and "I can't stand it."
• In Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Marigold the Unicorn cheers "UNICORN!" whenever she does something awesome... which is fairly frequently.
  Phoebe: "That's a brilliant scam!"
  Marigold: "UNICORN!"
• Striker has a few, the most common being Eric Openshaw's "Muddy Mildred!"

Pinball

• Obviously, nearly everybody has one in WWF Royal Rumble.

Radio

• Most of Superman's best known catch phrases actually originated in the highly popular radio show that lasted the entire decade of the 1940s, including the openings: "Faster than a speeding bullet!" and "Look! Up in the sky!", etc. Two of the best known are actually audio cues that helped listeners fill in the blanks of their own imaginations. "This looks like a job for Superman!" let the listener know that Clark Kent had just turned into Superman.^note Bud Collyer used to let you know exactly when he'd finished changing in that phone booth: (mild-mannered voice) "This is a job—" (voice drops about an octave and a half) "FOR SUPERMAN!!!" "Up, up, and awaaaaaayyyyy!!!!" let the listener know that Superman was now flying.
  • His "Great Krypton!" started very early in the comic book, but Clark saying, "Great Scott!" started with the George Reeves TV series. It was pretty clear that this was a case of Supie starting to say, "Great Krypton" and then covering it up.
• Comedy team Bob & Ray had a couple: inept reporter Wally Ballou's sign-on, "-ly Ballou here!" and the duo's closing signature. "This is Ray Goulding reminding you to write if you get work/And Bob Elliott reminding you to hang by your thumbs." Also possibly their habit of referring to their fictional staff as 'our Bob & Ray Organization', which by the end of their forty-year career in media parody ran to an empire AOL TimeWarner might envy.
• The two hosts of NPR's Car Talk end each show with "Don't drive like my brother!" "Don't drive like MY brother!"
• Comedienne Cass Daley would sometimes follow a particularly bad joke with a shout of "I SAID IT AN' I'M GLAAAAADDD!!"
• DJs Mark and Lard created loads of Catch Phrases during their run-on Radio 1. ("Get to Bed!" "Fancy a Brew?" "Whhhhhoooo?" "Stop!...Carry on." etc.) Many were Running Gags from sketches they did, which often became unattached when the sketches ended and were borrowed by other DJs or requested by listeners.
• Fibber McGee and Molly had a few- among others, Fibber's Puns were often followed either by Molly's "Tain't funny, McGee", The Old Timer's "That's pretty good, Johnny, but that ain't the way I heared it!" or Beulah's hysterical laughter followed by "Love that man!", Horatio K. Boomer's attempts to search through his pockets for a given object almost always ended with "And a check for a short beer- well, well, imagine that, no [object]!", Beulah, when summoned, usually entered with "Somebody bawl fo' Beulah?" and the Swedish Elk's Club janitor Ole was always "yust doo-natin' my time."
• From Radio City in Midtown Manhattan, third most listened to show in all of America. Hello, you sick twisted freak. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
  • (From the TV show) But here's the one thing:
  • The "sick twisted freak" part is a Shout-Out to another conservative talker named Bob Grant.
• The Goon Show had lots and lots. The best remembered include:
  • Bluebottle: "Enter Bluebottle..."; "Harm can come to a growing lad like that"; "I don't like this game"; and "You rotten swine, you!" and "You have deaded me!" In that order.
  • Neddy Seagoon: "No thanks, I'm trying to give them up" when offered something other than a cigarette.
    • "Picture of Queen Victoria?"
    • Subverted in one show, when the object on offer is a tree, "No thanks, I'm trying to cut them down" followed by hysterical laughter...
    • Another variation was for Neddie to be offered a gorilla and to reply, "No thanks, I've just put one out".
  • Eccles: "Shut up, Eccles!"
  • Grytpype-Thynne: "You silly, twisted boy, you!"
  • Little Jim: "He's fallen in the water!" This catchphrase was the character's only purpose.
  • Henry Crun: "You can't get the wood, you know." (or "You can't shoot an elephant, you know." and variations thereof.)
  • Minnie Bannister: "We'll all be murdered in our beds."
  • Also "Yuckabakakakoo", "Needle-nardle-noo", and of course "Ying Tong Iddle I Po", which was the basis for their hit record "The Ying Tong Song".
• On Hello Cheeky, most of the catchphrases were Share Phrases or Mad Libs Catch Phrases. The only catchphrase that belonged to one character and was never altered was "Silence in court! Silence in court!" which Denis announced at the start of every sketch that took place in a courtroom. It was constantly lampshaded. ("Silence in court! ...Ahh, I still do that better than anybody else.")
• In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) radio series, as well as other incarnations: Marvin's "Life! Don't talk to me about life!"
• The Howard Stern Show has spawned a number of catchphrases over the years. Some develop naturally on the show, while others come from the repetition of sound clips from other shows. Most are short-lived, but a few end up enduring. Examples of the latter include: "Baba-Booey" and "Hey Now!" (which itself was a catch phrase from The Larry Sanders Show).
  • "Baba Booey" is the nickname of Howard's producer. Whenever Stern fans prank-call other shows, they will usually chant "Baba Booey, Baba Booey!" as a sort of "gotcha!" to the victims.
• ITMA has been described as "consisting entirely of Catch Phrases. And no actual jokes." The one remembered today is Mrs Mopp, the charlady's "Can I do you now, sir?"
  • Others included the perpetually inebriated Colonel Chinstrap's "I don't mind if I do" in reply to any remark which sounded the least bit like one homophone or another for the offer of a drink ("Is this the first-class refreshment room?" "A first glass of refreshing rum? I don't mind if I do!"), the Middle Eastern postcard seller Ali Oop's departing "I go...I come back", the overweight character Atlas' "What, me? In my state of 'ealth?!" and the perpetually glum Mona Lott's ironic "It's being so cheerful as keeps me going", among many, many others.
  • This was parodied in a 1970s The Burkiss Way sketch, followed by a phone call from a listener complaining about the parody because ITMA was the one thing that gave his troops the morale to carry on fighting during the war. No prizes for guessing that the caller is Adolf Hitler.
• The Jack Benny Program had whichever character Frank Nelson was playing almost always come in with "Yeeeeeeeeessss?" as a response to another character's query. Also famous was the introduction exchange between Benny and Eddie Anderson:
  "Oh, ROCH-ester..."
  "YES, Boss?"
  • The Simpsons features a parody of the Frank Nelson character, voiced by Dan Castenella. In one episode Homer asks him why he talks like that, and is told "I've had a strooooooooooke."
  • "Well, honestly."
  • Jack's signature "Well!"
• Voice-artist Candy Candido, a regular on the Jimmy Durante Show, had "I'm feelin' mighty low", delivered naturally in a deep bass voice.
• Joe Penner, a now-obscure radio comedian of the 1930s, had several catchphrases, the best-remembered of which is "You wanna buy a duck?" Others included shouts of "YOOOOOOOUUUU NAAAAAAAASHTY MAAAAAANN!" and "DOOOOOOON'T EEEEEEVER *DOOOOOO* THAAAAAAT!"
• How could anyone have not heard "the latest news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."? Well, I guess "now you know . . the rest of the story."
• Hard to believe the list has gotten this long without someone shouting 'MAKEUP!'
• In The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, Alice's brother Willie had two: "Goooood morning, Philip!" and "Yes, indeed. Mmmmhmmm!"
• The Price of Fear: Vincent Price usually opens episodes with "Hello there." Not the most unique of catchphrases, perhaps, but it's quite recognisable in his voice.
• Riders Radio Theater has several, most said at least once per episode.
• Julian and Sandy, the Camp Gay double act on Round the Horne had "Ooh, isn't he bold?" (on the rare occasions Kenneth Horne made a Double Entendre before they did) and various phrases in Polari.
• The intro to each episode of The Shadow would begin with the The Shadow dramatically intoning "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?... The Shadow Knows." The series also included the catchphrase "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit." Both were used in the 1994 movie as well.
• Most classic radio comedies produced by The BBC had numerous catchphrases.

Mythology & Religion

• Older Than Feudalism with The Bible, Partly due to the earlier parts originally being oral tradition and therefore repetitive to aid memorization.
  • God has 'I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob', sometimes appended with 'who brought you out of Egypt'.
  • Moses (and every cinematic portrayal of him) is best known for saying "Let my people go!"
  • Jesus has 'I tell you the truth' (or variants thereupon depending on the translation, such as 'Verily I say unto thee' or 'I tell you solemnly' or 'Amen, I say to you').
  • Biblical angels almost always introduce themselves with a "Fear not" (alternatively "Be not afraid"), due to being spirit monsters from beyond time that just want to help people out.

Stand-Up Comedy

• Bill Engvall has "Here's Your Sign", where he imagines himself giving stupid people signs that say "I'm Stupid".
• Jeff Foxworthy is best known for "You Might Be A Redneck..." when listing traits that might get someone characterized as a redneck.
• Larry the Cable Guy is fond of saying "Git-r-done!" He'll also say "Lord, I apologize" after making a potentially offensive joke and follow it up with "Be with the starving pygmies down there in New Guinea. Amen."

Tabletop Games

• Many factions of Warhammer 40,000 have their own:
  • Imperium of Man: For the Emperor!/The Emperor Protects!
    • Let's not forget that every Space Marine Legion has its own Pre Ass Kicking One Liner, but the Dark Angels' "Repent! For tomorrow you die!" seems pretty popular (But an amusing point made by a forum poster once has a Chaos Space Marine note that for them to follow their battlecry, they would have to come back to attack them tomorrow. Naturally, if they kept saying it, they'd never get a chance to attack. The Dark Angels were reasonably upset that their centuries-old battlecry just got ruined).
    • Well, the point of that battlecry in the first place was that they would capture the Chaos worshippers alive and torture them to death...
  • Chaos: Death to the false Emperor!/For the Dark Gods!
    • Khorne: Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Throne of Khorne! (or Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!)
    • Kharn The Betrayer: KILL MAIM BURN! KILL MAIM BURN!
  • Orks: WAAAAAAGH!
  • Tau: For the Greater Good!
• Everybody has at least one catchphrase in Wasteland 2010.
  • Zolgar: "Buddy Jones!" So far, the game's creator has not explained what it means.
  • Bogg: "Rawwwr!"
  • Lady Mistra: "By powers ancient and arcane!"
  • Krome: "Goto 10, attack!" and "Existence is binary." If he does a Heel–Face Turn, the latter phrase becomes "Existence is binary. I prefer one over zero."
  • Slade Mulligan: "I am the law 'round here!"
  • Cammie: "The forest has power."
  • Jay Alcott: "We must remain civilized."
  • Dr. Brett Stahl: "I happen to have just the right thing."
  • Dr. Vanessa Stahl: "Let me show you how a woman handles this."
  • Malevolokk: "...and that name is Malevolokk!"
  • The Crimson Overlord: "Bow before your leader!" and "Destroy them all!"
  • Captain Cutthroat: "Arrrrr!!"
  • Mutor: "Mutor break!"
  • Eve-L: "I curse you!"
  • The Ape Man of Chicago: "Grrrrrrrrrrrr..."

Theatre

• The Book of Mormon:
  • Elder Cunningham's favorite phrase is "Tomorrow is a Latter Day!" Ironically, he barely gets in a few lines in the song of that name.
  • Gotswana repeats his line "I have maggots in my scrotum" at several (in)appropriate moments.
• Dinner for One:
  James: Same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?
  Miss Sophie: Same procedure as every year, James!
• Follies has a Catchphrase spread among four characters:
  Young Sally: Hi.
  Young Ben: Girls.
  Young Phyllis: Ben.
  Young Buddy: Sally.
• Various characters in Gypsy, in the Show Within a Show sequences: "Hello, everybody! My name is _____. What's yours?" Used first by Baby June, then by her older version, Dainty June. After June leaves the show, the phrase passes to Louise, and is sarcastically appropriated by Rose in "Rose's Turn."
• Hello, Dolly!: Barnaby's "Holy cabooses!"
• The King and I: The King has "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera."^note Truth in Television! One of the few things from that play the illustrious Rama IV really did say, although he used it more in writing. Also, less often: "is a puzzlement."
• La Nona: Due to her obsession with food, la Nona's most common phrase by far is to ask whether there's a snack [for her to eat].
  Nona: ¿Un piqueíto?
• In On The Razzle, by Tom Stoppard, the Servile Snarker Melchior uses the word "Classic" constantly. This leads to the following exchange with his new employer-
  Zangler: Only you'll have to stop using that word. It's stupid.
  Melchior: There's nothing stupid about the word. it's just the way some people use it without discrimination.
  Zangler: Do they?
  Melchior: Oh, yes. It's absolutely classic.
• Fastrada in Pippin: "After all, I'm just an ordinary housewife and mother, just like all you housewives and mothers out there."
• Punch and Judy. Punch's famous Catchphrase is "That's the way to do it!"
• Lampshaded and Parodied in Ride the Cyclone — when mechanical Fortune Teller and narrator The Amazing Karnak gives an introduction for each of the six teens who die in a tragic roller coaster accident, he includes their catchphrase alongside information like their star sign and favorite carnival ride. Some of the teens express surprise or concern over the particulars of the catchphrase The Amazing Karnak uses to introduce them. Ricky might be the only one to take it seriously, using his catchphrase unironically in conversation now that he's able to speak again.
  Ocean O'Connell-Rosenberg: Democracy rocks!
  Noel Gruber: Being the only gay man in a small rural high school is like having a laptop in the stone age. I mean sure, you can have one, but there's nowhere to plug it in...
  Mischa Bachinski: My gangsta persona is just armor to conceal that I am a naked child wandering through the wilderness, holding in my hands my wounded, fragile heart.
  Ricky Potts: Level up!
  Constance Blackwood: Sorry!
  Jane Doe: When the lioness has children, she stops making love to the lion. The lion gets jealous, sometimes so jealous he eats the children. You'd think this would upset the lioness; far from it. They make love again like the children never existed. I find that idea terrifying.
• In The Rose Tattoo, Alvaro announces his entrances with the happy greeting "Rondinella felice!"
• The Arab in The Time of Your Life: "No foundation. All the way down the line." He rarely says anything other than this cryptic comment.
• Numerous characters from Gilbert & Sullivan operettas have catchphrases:
  • Lady Jane in Patience: "Crushed, again!"
  • Every appearance of the Bridesmaids in act I of Ruddigore is marked by the song "Hail the bridegroom, hail the bride" - eventually leading to other characters yelling at them and chasing them off.
  • As well, when Captain Corcoran, a character from H.M.S. Pinafore, reappears in Utopia, Limited, he tells how the British Navy "never runs a ship ashore" - leading to his catchphrase from ten operas previous: "What never?" "No, never." "What, never?" "Well... hardly ever!"
  • Similar use of catchphrases appear in Patience and Gilbert's solo work, Engaged.
• In Critic's Choice by Ira Levin, Parker Ballantine, at several moments, utters the line, "In thirty seconds we're going to have 'Spank-the-Precocious-Children Hour'," usually but not always to his son.

Theme Parks

• Kimberly, the Cyberdyne hostess in Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time at Universal Studios frequently says, "Super!" at the end of her speeches.

This Very Wiki

• Bomberman 121890 has 'Never let it be said that I would not use twenty words when only a few words would be necessary.'
• The Lord Of Potatoes has Potatoes! as one... obviously.

Toys

• Hatchimals - The Adventures in Hatchtopia shorts have Draggle's "Let's do this!"
• "Time to change your batteries! You need four new AA batteries!" - Heard when Leap Frog's LeapPad Learning System is on low batteries.

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