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Catch Phrases

A catch phrase becomes such by repetition. Many if not most originate from television, motion picture or cartoon characters.

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"What's up, Doc?" - Bugs Bunny

4.83 Stars | 6 ratings

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"Good Grief!" - Charlie Brown from Peanuts

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"I don't get no respect." - Rodney Dangerfield

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"Ain't I a stinker?" - Bugs Bunny

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"Go ahead, make my day."* - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact

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"Elvis has left the building!" - Al Dvorin announcement over public address after Elvis Presley concert to induce fans to leave

4.60 Stars | 5 ratings

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"Different strokes for different folks." - Sly & the Family Stone

4.50 Stars | 6 ratings

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"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." - Leslie Nielsen's doctor character in the movie Airplane! in response to the question: "Surely you can't be serious?"

4.50 Stars | 6 ratings

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"Round up the usual suspects." (Casablanca)

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"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." - title card at the beginning of each Star Wars film

4.40 Stars | 5 ratings

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"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" - Rhett Butler in the 1939 film Gone With the Wind; the last words he speaks to Scarlett O'Hara before leaving her.

4.33 Stars | 6 ratings

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"I can't believe I ate the whole thing." - from US television advertisements for Alka-Seltzer

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"Beam me up, Scotty!" - attributed to Captain Kirk in Star Trek

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"I did not have sexual relations with that woman..." - Bill Clinton

3.38 Stars | 8 ratings

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"Aflac!" - Aflac Duck

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"Baseball... been berry berry good... to me." - Garrett Morris as Chico Escuela on SNL, as spoken to "Hane" Curtin

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"Use the force, Luke" -- Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

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"I feel your pain." - US President Bill Clinton.

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"Oh, my God! They killed Kenny!"--South Park

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"Cowabunga!" - The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," Popeye the Sailor (from irishgit)

3.50 Stars | 6 ratings

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"Head them off at the pass!" This was used in many westerns on tv and in the movies. In Blazing Saddles, when Taggart uses the expression, Hedley Lamarr says "I hate that cliché!" and shoots Taggart in the foot.

4.67 Stars | 3 ratings

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"Resistance is futile" - The Borg in Star Trek

4.67 Stars | 3 ratings

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"What me worry?" Alfred E. Neuman, mascot of Mad magazine

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"From this moment, they're on double secret probation." Dean Wormer in Animal House

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"Gentlemen, start your engines!" - Auto racing - most famously at the Indianapolis 500, spoken for many years by Tony Hulman

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"I didn't do it!" - Bart Simpson in The Simpsons

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"And away we go!" - Jackie Gleason on his television programs.

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"Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim." Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

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"BAH! HUMBUG!" - Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

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"I coulda been a contender" - Terry Malloy, played by Marlon Brando in the movie On the Waterfront

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"I'm a doctor, not a..." - Dr. Leonard McCoy of Star Trek, protesting any non-medical duties he is given. When Kirk asked Bones to repair a silicon-based life form using cement, McCoy replied, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer."

4.25 Stars | 4 ratings

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"Vodka martini, shaken not stirred" - James Bond

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"You big dummy!" - Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) on Sanford and Son

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"And that's the way it is." Walter Cronkites' sign off on the evening news

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"'C' is for cookie, it's good enough for me." - Cookie Monster on Sesame Street

4.20 Stars | 5 ratings

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"I know nothing! Nothing!" Sergeant Schultz (John Banner), from Hogan's Heroes

4.00 Stars | 5 ratings

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"I'm smaaarter than the average bear!" - Yogi Bear

4.00 Stars | 4 ratings

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"I don't think so, Tim." - Al Borland (Richard Karn) on Home Improvement

3.75 Stars | 4 ratings

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"Is that your final answer?" - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

3.75 Stars | 4 ratings

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"I've fallen and I can't get up!" - Mrs. Fletcher, from the LifeCall Personal Emergency Response Systems commercials

3.17 Stars | 6 ratings

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"Hello... Jerry." - Newman to Jerry on Seinfeld---"Hello... Newman." - Jerry to Newman on Seinfeld

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"There can be only one!" - the Highlander films and series

4.50 Stars | 2 ratings

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"Who are those guys?" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

4.33 Stars | 3 ratings

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"Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" - Bart Simpson

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"Hailing frequencies open." - Lt. Uhura, Star Trek

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"I am not a crook." - President Richard Nixon on his involvement in Watergate

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"It's alive!" - Dr. Frankenstein beholding his awakening monster

4.00 Stars | 2 ratings

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"It's not over, til its over" - Yogi Berra

4.00 Stars | 3 ratings

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"Read My Lips, No NEW Taxes!" (George Bush on George Bush 1988 campaign)

4.00 Stars | 2 ratings

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