MST3K Catch Phrase Catalog

Cliff Chaput

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Here is the latest version of the MST3K Catch Phrase Catalog. I've been
getting lots of requests for it lately. It is sorely out of date and needs
you (yes, you) to help bring it up to date. Please send me suggestions for
additions.

A "catch phrase" is a phrase that is repeated in more than one episode of
MST3K
with no significant content alterations. By these rules, running gags
internal
to a single show (e.g., "James Arness... I mean Peter Graves!" from _It
Conquered the World_) and volatile context-based phrase changes (e.g., "Jim
Henson's Ghandi Babies", "This week on 'Tormented'", etc.) are
disqualified. A
good rule of thumb: if you can use the phase in several conversations
without
changing it at all, it's probably a good catch phrase. (Test this rule at
your
own risk!)

Also, quotes here are listed as they "appear" in MST3K, and not necessarily
in
their original form. The reason is that I intend this to be a Catch Phrase
Catalog, not a Catch Phrase Sources Catalog.

The list is alphabetized for use with the MST3K Drinking Game.

Enjoy.

The MST3K Catch Phrase Catalog.
Created by a Cast of Usenet Thousands
Compiled by Cliff Chaput
November 11th, 1993
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A planet where apes evolved from men? (Planet of the Apes)
Again? (a la Rocky Squirrel) (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show)
Allright? S'allright! (Senor Wencis (sp?))
Am I a CLOWN?! Do I AMUSE YOU?! (GoodFellas)
Animels vill be bred und SLAUGHTERED! (Dr. Strangelove)
And there, on the door handle, was a HOOK! (Traditional campfire story)
Are you known for your work in the theater? (What's My Line?)

Bring out your dead. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
By this time my lungs were aching for air. (Sea Hunt)

Charlie, they took my thumbs! (The Pope of Greenwich Village)
Chili peppers burn my gut. (Side Hackers)

Do not bring your evil here.
Do you find me pleasing? Do I please you? (Star Trek, TOS [which
episode?])
Do you want to go faster? (Yea!) Raise your hands if you want to go
faster! (Yea!)
Does this bug you? I'm not touching you.
Don't look at me! Don't you look at me! Mommy! MOMMY! (Blue Velvet)
Don't you do it! (An Officer and a Gentleman)

Faster, pussycat, kill, kill! (Russ Meyer title)
Fisher!
Football practice! (Shocker)

Go to bed, old man!
Good night and may God bless! (Red Skelton)
Gymkata! (Gymkata)

He is one wierd mamma jamma.
Hello, Cleveland! Rock and roll! (Spinal Tap)
Hello, Shoil! (Laverne & Shirley)
Hi-Keeba! (Women of the Prehistoric Planet)
Hooker's a good cop! (TJ Hooker)
How about a little fire, Scarecrow? (Wizard of Oz)
How fortunate! This will simplify everything! (The Phantom Creeps,
Episode 2, a la Bela Lugosi)
Hurts, don't it? Tell your friends. (Roadhouse)
Huzzah! (Ren Fest, or other renaissance festival)

I *WILL* kill him! (Dune)
I am Kirok! (Star Trek, TOS)
I am not an animal! I am a human being! (Elephant Man)
I got nowhere else to go! (An Officer and a Gentleman)
I had Jello today.
I like you--that's why I'm going to kill you last. (Commando)
I'll harm you! (Joe Besser)
I'm Batman (Batman)
I'm a Grimwold Warrior! (Saga of the Viking Women and... you know)
I'm comin' Beanie Boy! (Beanie and Cecil)
I'm dead now. Please don't smoke. (Yul Brenner, ALA commercial)
I'm going to give you such a pinch! (Joe Besser)
I'm huge!
I'm hysterical, and I'm wet, and I'm in pain! (The Producers)
I'm made of liquid metal. (T2, a la Ahnold)
I'm not dead yet! (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
I'm the god! I'M THE GOD! (Twilite Zone, "The Little People")
Interesting--but STUPID! (Laugh-in)
Is it safe? (Marathon Man)
It is balloon! (F Troop)
It puts the lotion on its skin. (Silence of the Lambs)
It stinks! [w/ OK hand gesture] (Pod People)
It's hot and it hurts and stuff. (Bactine commercial)
It's my way or the highway. (Roadhouse)

Join us! (Evil Dead)
Just shakin' the bushes, boss. (Cool Hand Luke)

Krakatoa, east of Java. Bentonville, east of Muncie.

Look into your heart! (Miller's Crossing)

Mazola corn goodnness... (Mazola commercial)
McCloud!!! (McCloud)
Mitchel!
Mm-HMMMMmmmm, that's good weed! (Carson, a la Art Fern)
My mother was a saint! (Public Enemy #1)
My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
(The Princess Bride)

N Y P D (NYPD)
No, mommy, not the clown suit!

Oh, the pain, the pain... (Lost In Space)
Ohhhh, lady! (Jerry Lewis)
Oops, sorry! That was me...
Ouch! I fell on my keys. (Wayne's World/The Producers)

Peppridge Fa-ahm remembahs. (Commercial)
Puma? Puma! (Ring of Terror)

Saaaaaaay!
Saigon. I can't believe I'm still in Saigon. (Apocolypse Now)
Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. (Batman TV Series)
Serpentine! (The In-Laws)
Skipper! Little buddy! (Gilligan's Island)
SLEEP!
Smuckers jellies and jams...
Spock! Spock! (Star Trek, TOS)

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Enjoy the buffet!
That's what I'm asking. I don't know! THIRD BASE! (Abbott and Costello)
The horror! The horror! (Apocolypse Now)
This is gonna be my new Saturday night thing. (Roadhouse)
This square bugs me! He really bugs me! (Wild Rebels)
This was no boating accident. (Jaws)
Throw me the whip! Throw me the idol! (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Tonight on Emergency 911 (Emergency 911)
Tonight, on a very special Trapper John, MD

Warriors, come out and play! (The Warriors)
We're gonna get a bigger boat, right? (Jaws)
We're having an adventure--just like the Goonies!
Welcome to Death Valley Days. The driver is either missing or he's
dead. (Ronald Reagan, Death Valley Days)
What about Scarecrow's brain? (The Wizard of Oz)
What would McGyver do?
What's that, boy? Daddy's hurt? Down in deadrock canyon? (Lassie)
When you're a jet, you're a jet all the way, man! (West Side Story)
Works every time. (Billy Dee Williams, Colt '45 Malt Liquor commercial)

Xanadu, stately home of Charles Foster Kane. Cost, no one can say.
(Citizen Kane)

You... are going... to die! Because I... am going... to KILL you!
You *will* bow down before me! (Superman)
You did it! You finally did it, you damn dirty apes! (Planet of the Apes)
You die Joe!
You go; I'm bitter. (Seven Samurai?)
You must sink the Bismarck. (Sink the Bismarck)
You've broken ape law. (Planet of the Apes)

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Jon P LeVitre

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Nov 8, 1993, 11:34:53 AM11/8/93

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cha...@ils.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput) writes:

I have one source: vvvvvvvvvvv
>Do not bring your evil here. (Swamp Thing)

And a few additions:
Hello, Hello, Hello, .... Hello (???)
Knew your father, I did (Mr. B Natural)
Shakin' the bush boss (Cool Hand Luke)

jonl

Steve Lionel

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Nov 8, 1993, 1:16:21 PM11/8/93

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In article <2blsfd$3...@cs.pdx.edu>, jo...@cs.pdx.edu (Jon P LeVitre) writes:
|>And a few additions:
|>Hello, Hello, Hello, .... Hello (???)

This is from the Three Stooges.

|>Knew your father, I did (Mr. B Natural)

Eh? This is really from "The Empire Strikes Back" (Yoda to Luke). The line
in Mr. B Natural was somewhat different.
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Mike Cohen

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Nov 8, 1993, 12:45:54 PM11/8/93

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cha...@ils.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput) writes:
>By this time my lungs were aching for air. (Sea Hunt)

Especially useful when watching SeaQuest, which crys out for MiSTing ;)

Don't forget the immortal "Watch out for snakes!".
--
Mike Cohen
is...@netcom.com / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20

Jason D Corley

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Nov 8, 1993, 1:27:24 PM11/8/93

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In article <2blsfd$3...@cs.pdx.edu> jo...@cs.pdx.edu (Jon P LeVitre) writes:
>
>And a few additions:
>Hello, Hello, Hello, .... Hello (???)

The Three Stooges

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christopher motherway

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Nov 8, 1993, 2:00:42 PM11/8/93

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> Hello, Hello, Hello, .... Hello (???)

The Three Stooges (usually during the opening credits of each of their
short films)

Chris Wolvie wol...@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Disclaimer: Don't blame me; my inner child is a sick little bastard!!!!!!
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Dahner

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Nov 8, 1993, 6:34:14 PM11/8/93

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>What's that, boy? Daddy's hurt? Down in deadrock canyon? (Lassie)

~~~
Uh, isn't that "girl"?

Thanks, Cliff - that was a lot o' work!

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Dahner

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Nov 8, 1993, 6:35:07 PM11/8/93

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>|>Knew your father, I did (Mr. B Natural)

>Eh? This is really from "The Empire Strikes Back" (Yoda to Luke). The line
>in Mr. B Natural was somewhat different.

FWIW, Yoda never actually said this... check your tapes...

Steve Lionel

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Nov 8, 1993, 4:23:08 PM11/8/93

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In article <2bml3b$1...@hub.ucsb.edu>, uda...@mcl.ucsb.edu (Dahner) writes...

>
>>|>Knew your father, I did (Mr. B Natural)
>
>>Eh? This is really from "The Empire Strikes Back" (Yoda to Luke). The line
>>in Mr. B Natural was somewhat different.
>
>FWIW, Yoda never actually said this... check your tapes...
>

Tapes? TAPES? Tapes are for recording MST3K. Laserdiscs are for watching
movies! Anyway, you're right - I checked the disc (the THX-approved
version; fabulous!) and Yoda indeed doesn't say this. I wonder why I
thought he did.

Dave

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Nov 8, 1993, 10:03:25 PM11/8/93

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Don't forget the older catchphrases:
"Nice tag!"
"Oh, I'd hate to shoot a butt like that!"
"Kicks, baby."
"Nipple nipple, tweek tweek, fly fly fly!" (Commando Cody)

Yours in Spam,
Dave

Marc Y. Wasserman

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Nov 9, 1993, 12:51:25 AM11/9/93

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In article <isisCG6...@netcom.com> is...@netcom.com (Mike Cohen) writes:
>cha...@ils.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput) writes:
>>By this time my lungs were aching for air. (Sea Hunt)
>Especially useful when watching SeaQuest, which crys out for MiSTing ;)
>
>Don't forget the immortal "Watch out for snakes!".

Joel also says "Think about it, won't you? Thank you," a lot. Any
idea where that's from, if anywhere?

Marc
mwas...@du.edu

>--
>Mike Cohen
>is...@netcom.com / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20
>

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D O C T O R W H O
30 Years
"Why not? After all, that's how it all started!"

Bill Parrill

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Nov 9, 1993, 10:48:59 AM11/9/93

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In <chaput-08...@chaput.ils.nwu.edu>, cha...@ils.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput) writes:
>Please send me suggestions for additions.

I've heard Crow and Joel say a few times:
"Quit talking and start chalking" and
"8 Ball Deluxe"

These come from a pinball game called "8 Ball Deluxe" (worked
in an arcade for a few years and heard it over and over and over
and ...). The pinball game has a picture of what looks like
Lee Majors, so it could have been derived from some movie.

Bill P.

James Ellwanger

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Nov 9, 1993, 11:28:35 AM11/9/93

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In article <CG7Mx...@du.edu>, Marc Y. Wasserman <mwas...@du.edu> wrote:
>
>Joel also says "Think about it, won't you? Thank you," a lot. Any
>idea where that's from, if anywhere?
>
>Marc
>mwas...@du.edu
>

As far as I can guess, it's from an old PSA called "Like Father, Like Son,"
which I've only _heard_, on the CD "Television's Greatest Commercials." The
announcer says "Like father, like son." Then there's 45 seconds of cheesy
music, and the announcer says, "Like father, like son? Think about it."

--Jim Ellwanger (trai...@merle.acns.nwu.edu)
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This extra line added to promote short .sig files. Oops.

Jon P LeVitre

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Nov 9, 1993, 11:15:40 AM11/9/93

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lio...@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) writes:

>In article <2bml3b$1...@hub.ucsb.edu>, uda...@mcl.ucsb.edu (Dahner) writes...
>>
>>>|>Knew your father, I did (Mr. B Natural)
>>
>>>Eh? This is really from "The Empire Strikes Back" (Yoda to Luke). The line
>>>in Mr. B Natural was somewhat different.
>>
>>FWIW, Yoda never actually said this... check your tapes...
>>

>Tapes? TAPES? Tapes are for recording MST3K. Laserdiscs are for watching
>movies! Anyway, you're right - I checked the disc (the THX-approved
>version; fabulous!) and Yoda indeed doesn't say this. I wonder why I
>thought he did.

Maybe you had Yoda and Mr B Natural confused (They have similar
speech patterns. Yoda showed Luke how to use the force--Mr B
showed the kid how to harness his love of music, the parallels
are endless!!!)

jonl

Harlan Freilicher

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Nov 9, 1993, 8:31:49 AM11/9/93

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In article <2bml3b$1...@hub.ucsb.edu> uda...@mcl.ucsb.edu (Dahner) writes:
>>|>Knew your father, I did (Mr. B Natural)
>>Eh? This is really from "The Empire Strikes Back" (Yoda to Luke). The line
>>in Mr. B Natural was somewhat different.
>FWIW, Yoda never actually said this... check your tapes...

And that was the exact line in Mr.B Natural. It's at the very beginning,
when our beloved perky minion of Beelzebub pops out of the musical staff.
When introducing itself, Mr.B lists its "credentials" including "Knew your
father, I did!" and "And don't be too sure I wasn't in the Garden with Mr.
and Mrs. Adam!" To the latter, Tom Servo fearfully replies, "Yeah, you
were the Snake!"

And did everybody catch the Mr.B remark at the lockers in Teen-age Strangler?
Nice to know they're keeping the continuity going, despite Joel's departure.

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Greg Gershowitz

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Nov 9, 1993, 3:28:19 PM11/9/93

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mwas...@du.edu (Marc Y. Wasserman) writes:

>In article <isisCG6...@netcom.com> is...@netcom.com (Mike Cohen) writes:
>Joel also says "Think about it, won't you? Thank you," a lot. Any
>idea where that's from, if anywhere?

And Tom also does a whole bunch of "We'll be right back" kind of
things.

-Greg G
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"No matter who you are, no matter what you look like, deep down in
the gunny sack of your soul, in the top drawer, in the back, on the
bottom, we all have a pair of pants with a pocket full of kryptonite."
"When God belches, it sounds OK" - Spin Doctors, Jones Beach, 7/9/93

JAMES E. GALL

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Nov 9, 1993, 4:42:41 PM11/9/93

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In article <2bogfj$i...@news.acns.nwu.edu> trai...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (James Ellwanger) writes:

>As far as I can guess, it's from an old PSA called "Like Father, Like Son,"
>which I've only _heard_, on the CD "Television's Greatest Commercials." The
>announcer says "Like father, like son." Then there's 45 seconds of cheesy
>music, and the announcer says, "Like father, like son? Think about it."

I think I remember that one. Dad and junior are playing in a park. "Like
father, like son." From junior's smiling face, you can tell that he thinks
his dad is the greatest. Then Dad pulls out a cigarette and lights up.
Junior keeps looking at him with a sense of awe. "Like father, like son?
Think about it."

Brought to you by the American Lung Association.

Ron Asbestos Dippold

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Nov 9, 1993, 4:36:51 PM11/9/93

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jo...@cs.pdx.edu (Jon P LeVitre) writes:

>Hello, Hello, Hello, .... Hello (???)

Nyuck nyuck! Three Stooges, soitanly!

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Nov 10, 1993, 12:55:05 PM11/10/93

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How 'bout this one:
"That's my boss. Always getting into trouble...(etc.)"
Any idea where this came from?

-Dave
dco...@andy.bgsu.edu
"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

william saez

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Nov 10, 1993, 2:57:25 PM11/10/93

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Were "Game over, man!" from Alien and "You've never given up on anything
in your life, now live dammit, LIVE!" (Tom and Joel say it, but I don't know
where they got it from) in there?
-Bill

Ken Frauwirth

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Nov 10, 1993, 3:03:42 PM11/10/93

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I'm pretty certain this is from "Hart to Hart", starring Robert Wagner.
Max (the butler) was always saying this sort of thing. The into of the
show was narrated by Max as well ("And the day they met, it was
murder!"). There was a recent "Hart to Hart" reunion-type show on
recently, but I missed it. :-(
--

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Jon P LeVitre

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Nov 10, 1993, 3:05:53 PM11/10/93

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dco...@andy.bgsu.edu (Dave) writes:

>How 'bout this one:
>"That's my boss. Always getting into trouble...(etc.)"
>Any idea where this came from?

This was from a show from the early 80s about a husband and
wife who were detectectives or something. The narrator was
their chauffeur.

?Hart to Hart?

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Nov 10, 1993, 9:01:48 PM11/10/93

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Don't forget: "Yep, pretty much." Usually it's Tom Servo who says this when
Crow asks, "So, they're <doing such-and-such>, then?" whenever the movie takes
an inordinate amount of time with the characters doing something (or nothing).

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Lost Boy

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Nov 11, 1993, 5:31:11 AM11/11/93

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In article <dcornel-10...@m32-103.bgsu.edu> dco...@andy.bgsu.edu (Dave) writes:

>How 'bout this one:
>"That's my boss. Always getting into trouble...(etc.)"
>Any idea where this came from?

Um..."Hart to Hart?"

Lost Boy
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I can't believe I just confessed to SEEING that...

Harlan Freilicher

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Nov 11, 1993, 2:26:37 PM11/11/93

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Okay, let's not forget the new guy. So far, both of Mike's experiments
have featured an "Ironically, ..." and then a dark, slightly sick joke at
a death or mutilation.

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Nov 12, 1993, 11:52:56 AM11/12/93

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I'm ashamed. No one has yet mentioned:
"The owls are not what they seem." - Twin Peaks
(Once transformed to "The owl footage is not what it seems.")

-Marc Bailey <pan...@wam.umd.edu>

kristoff

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Nov 12, 1993, 3:25:23 PM11/12/93

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Hey, since all these new ones kep floating by since the originally posted list,
I hope that *someone* is collecting them all and making a big ol' master.
Perhaps it could circulate with the faq and all...?

kristoff

<<GS-12>>

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Nov 12, 1993, 2:45:18 PM11/12/93

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Don't forget a line that Tom uses almost every movie: "<So-and-so>, in a role
that will inspire/surprise you."

Also, I can remember that Tom would always say: "Hey, this is a <So-and-so>
film! This must be pretty good."

david zevcalvert hines

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Nov 12, 1993, 5:35:21 PM11/12/93

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They don't really refer to anything as far as I know, but what about the
infamous "Meanwhiles?"
Has anybody got a list of all of those, by the way.
Just thought I'd ask...
David Hines
Meanwhile, in an entirely different .sig...

Phil Anglin

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Nov 12, 1993, 9:27:56 PM11/12/93

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In article <1993Nov10.2...@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>,

<<GS-12>> <<GS-12> wrote:
>In the movie "Bride of the Monster," Joel and/or the Bots kept saying
>"spa spa." Where is this from? It sound awfully familiar.

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Nov 14, 1993, 6:25:11 PM11/14/93

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Here are a few more I thought of (don't hurt me if someone else already
posted them - I don't remember seeing these):

"I sing whenever I sing whenever I sing..." (The Giant Gila Monster)
"Dear Abby, I'm an elderly woman who doesn't get out much..."
Star Trek (original) fight music (not really a phrase, but often used)

Phil Anglin

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Nov 14, 1993, 9:44:34 PM11/14/93

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The WGN movie theme.
Seen in Space Travelers (40 minutes into the show) and other films
("Fire him. I'll be back in 'McKenough(?)'s Gold'.
Da-da-da-da da-da da-da da-da da-da").

pamu...@ingr.com

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Nov 14, 1993, 3:52:59 PM11/14/93

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"I sing whenever I sing whenever I sing"

First used in Giant Gila Monster, but also used in City Limits, Rebel Set
and Day the Earth Froze.

--
Phillip A. Mueller pamu...@ingr.com
".sig ... .sig ... I .sig whenever I .sig whenever I .sig ..."

william saez

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Nov 16, 1993, 2:32:45 PM11/16/93

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How 'bout this:
<<Someone>> pops the clutch and tells the world to eat his dust!
(If you have any idea where that came from....)
-Bill

Will O. Dobbs

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Nov 16, 1993, 3:48:49 PM11/16/93

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The phrase is, of course (of course?):

"RON HOWARD pops the clutch and tells the world to EAT MY DUST!!"
taken from the trailer of what I believe was Opie's directorial
debut.

I'm not all that proud that I know this.

Slack,

Will O'Dobbs
SubGenius Foundation

Richard McConnell

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Nov 24, 1993, 11:53:38 PM11/24/93

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How about "Even in the future/on other planets, Booze really satisfies"?
Or "Booze, it's what your body's thirsty for"? Or "Sweet, sweet Booze"?
And so much more.

Basil

PS: Does anybody know what "that's what happens, when <something something>
with old-time bus driver, Billy Slater" is from?