Discussion Main / MagicFranchiseWord

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Is there a way to make this less subjective?, started by Prfnoff on Feb 6th 2011 at 10:23:48 PM

What about the word "chucklehead" and TF 2? OR "blockhead" and Peanuts?

With apologies, removed the following because they aren't single words, making them examples of Catchphrase not Magic Franchise Word:

• And, let's face it, no one can present a good "Ah HELL No!" better than Will Smith.
  • Not even Emerson Cod?
    • Aw hell naw, not even Emerson Cod.
• "Hey you guys!" from The Goonies.
  • However, other people will recognize it from The Electric Company (which incidentally, is also used in the new version as well, just in a slightly different context).
• The phrase "Great Caesar's Ghost" used to be fairly well known as a minced oath. It is now solely associated with Perry White of the Superman mythos.
• Everybody say it with us now: Believe it!
  • Or better yet, don't.
• Depending on who you ask, this could also apply to The French Chef (another PBS show) with Julia Child's closing line of "Bon Apetit".
• The old PBS series The Joy Of Painting had Bob Ross' "happy little trees".
• Fushigi Yuugi has brought us no da, no da!
• The Dresden Files has introduced the phrases "empty night," "stars & stones," and particularly "Hell's bells" into the fans' lexicons.

Reposted here as a tribute to the hard work of the people who put them up in the first place. (I left a couple of multi-word entries in because I wasn't confident in removing them; "Et Cetera" is definitely two words in Latin, but could be considered a coumpound word in English. "Uh Oh Chongo" is three words, but "Chongo" itself might qualify ... if you allow words that aren't standard English words to count, which is a battle someone else can wage).