The 100 top TV catchphrases
The 100 top TV catchphrases
#1The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 10:58am
"NEW YORK (AP) -- Sometimes it takes only a word, or just a few, to become immortalized in television history.
The TV Land cable network has compiled a list of the 100 greatest catchphrases in TV, from the serious -- Walter Cronkite's nightly signoff "And that's the way it is" -- to the silly: "We are two wild and crazy guys!"
The network will air a countdown special, "The 10
You can find the TV Land list here
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#1re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:02am
Yes...Fonzie is on there!
I was just thinking, "it can't be a TV catchphrase list without the Fonz."
:)
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#2re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 11:07amI can't believe they didn't include "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 1:13pm
There are about a hundred tv commercials that they've missed. That should be a list all by itself.
"No "Kiss my grits?"
I'm surprised they didn't include this one.
#6re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 1:36pmThis list made me SO happy! A lot of my favorites were there, and even some that I had forgotten about. My favorite Get Smart quote that didn't get included: "This is KAOS!"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#7re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 1:39pmWait Emeril's "Bam" but Urkel's "Did I do that?" Didn't make the cut? Kiss my grits, thats a crime.
#8re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 1:44pm
At least two "Seinfeld" phrases made it. Then again, you'd need a separate list for just "Seinfeld" phrases.
"... not that there's anything wrong with that"
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#9re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 1:51pm
Gotta say, I've heard of nearly all the list except the Dave Chappelle-Rick James one. Didn't watch most, but that just goes to reinforce their point.
Where's "he likes it, hey Mikey!", or "who killed JR?"
#10re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:01pmI've never even heard of "Kiss my grits!"
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:03pmChild.
#12re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:17pmI instantly lamented the absence of any quotes from 'Alice' as well.'
#13re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:17pmDouble post -- move on. Updated On: 11/28/06 at 02:17 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:25pm
Beam me up Scotty (Star Trek)
The story you are about to see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. (Dragnet)
You've just entered the Twilight Zone (Twilight Zone)
Abner! Abner! (Bewitched)
Oh my stars! (Bewitched)
I'm pickin' and I'm grinin' (Hee Haw)
Ah-one and Ah-two (Lawrence Welk)
ETA:
I'd also replace the Brady Bunch with either
"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" or "Mom always said, Don't play ball in the house".
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#15re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:49pm
How did a quote from the OC make it and not "Just Jack" from Emmy winning W&G???
I'm glad Raymond made the list, though I'm not entirely sure if that phrase ("Holy Crap") was the invention of the show.
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#16re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:51pmRaymond made the list????? Um, something is wrong here.
#17re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 2:59pmI never heard "holy crap" before Raymond, and I say it all the time.
#18re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:00pm
As long as they had "How you doin'?" I knew I would be happy 
A question--why didn't they pick "One of these days, Alice..." from The Honeymooners? That seems to be the more famous line to me.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#19re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:00pm"Holy crap" still doesnt surpass some of the egregiously overlooked.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#20re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:02pmSM2, how do you not know "kiss my grits?" I'm a young'n and I know that one!
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#21re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:05pmHow can we trust a list that doesn't even include Lucy? As Wanda Spark once said, "Everybody loves Raymond, except me!"
#22re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:07pm
Doesn't "catchphrase" mean a phrase that's made it into the vernacular? You don't go around saying "It tastes just like candy!" on a regular basis.
Oh, wait. Forgot the company I'm keeping. 
#23re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:07pmjustagirl2: I don't know. I've never come across anyone who's uttered it. What show/movie is it from?
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#24re: The 100 top TV catchphrases
Posted: 11/28/06 at 3:12pmI just don't understand the criteria for this list. How did Urkel get the shaft? I wasn't around for Lucy's peak, but "Lucy, I'm Home," her "Ewwww," "Lucy you got some splainin' to do" must have made it to the water cooler right?
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