My bottom 3.
3. Kiss My Grits was classic. But Flo's replacement on Alice (Belle played by Diane Ladd) was give a piss poor replacement. "My little voice said Isobelle (my little voice calls me Isobelle)" I mean, the fuck does that even mean?
2. Norman Lear and Garry Marshall were the kings of the '70s TV catch phrases. Maude's "God'll get you for that" and JJ's "Dyn-O-Mite" are classics. But the one they gave Ann Romano on One Day at a Time was the pits! "Oh my Gooooood" Jesus, that was the worst. I think they abandoned it after 3 years, it just never worked.
1. I think THE WORST, most annoying '70s TV catch phrase came from Garry Marshall. "Sit on it!" was an early classic from Fonzie on Happy Days. I think THE WORST bottom of the barrel, annoying catch phrase, made worse be ase ir was SUNG was Carmine singing "You know I go from rags to riches." AGAIN, what did it even MEAN? What was it meant to signify?
Here's an example- Carmine has a surprise cameo on Happy Days. I guess he's joining a gang of theirs or something? This sissy comes out, sings the catchphrase, does some gymnastics and faggy dance moves... why???
(BTW, I'm gay)
That is a horrible catchphrase they gave to Eddie Mekka,as Carmine Ragusa, aka The Big Ragoo.
What do you dudes think? Are these as bad as I say? What do you think we're some bad ones that didn't work or never caught on?
Btw, I LOVED Dewayne's "HI HI HI" on What's Happening. So don't even. ; - )
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 25, 2023 11:22 PM |
Clarification: I adore Diane Ladd, and I liked Belle. I was talking about the catch phrase, not the actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 27, 2023 3:37 AM |
"Here come da judge!" ('Laugh In") "Goll-EE!" (Jim Nabors on "The Andy Griffith Show"
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 27, 2023 3:40 AM |
[quote] But Flo's replacement on Alice (Belle played by Diane Ladd) was give a piss poor replacement. "My little voice said Isobelle (my little voice calls me Isobelle)" I mean, the fuck does that even mean?
Apparently it was good enough that the writers of "Golde Girls" more or less stole it for Blanche (although they improved it): "I like to call myself 'Water-Lily.'"
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 27, 2023 3:41 AM |
R2 oh yeah, and "SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!" Shaddup Gomer!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 27, 2023 3:41 AM |
Ann Romano's catchphrase was actually, "DAMMIT, [Julie/ Barbara/ Schneider/ Alex]!"
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 27, 2023 3:43 AM |
R3 REALLY? I never knew they "borrowed" that one for Blanche. Funny.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 27, 2023 3:44 AM |
Excuse me OP, but this is a Wendy’s. Do you wish to order something?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 27, 2023 3:46 AM |
Fonzie's "Ayyy"
Blair's "Brilliant Ideas"
Mel's "Stow it"
Arnold's "What'choo talkin' about, (character name)"
"Marcia Marcia Marcia" was not a catch phrase on the OG Brady Bunch, it was said only once. It was the SNL spoofing of Jan Brady that turned that into a catchphrase, and the Brady Bunch movies cemented it.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 27, 2023 3:46 AM |
📺 [italic] Live, from New York ........
It's Saturday Night Live !
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 27, 2023 3:47 AM |
R5 I think that one was ok, because it did sort of spring organically from the character.
I think with "Oh my Goooood" it was the writers saying "Maude, Archie, George, and JJ have them. We need one for Ann." They tried to force it for a while, but dropped it.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 27, 2023 3:47 AM |
R9 that was a good one. But there were some Annoying ones from SNL. "Buh bye" comes to mind.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 27, 2023 3:49 AM |
“Up your nose with a rubber hose” was pretty stupid.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 27, 2023 3:50 AM |
"Dyn-O-mite" and "Sit on it" were definitely the worst of the bunch.
The writers created situations where the characters could say those catchphrases at least once an episode, sometimes more.
Audiences came to expect those phrases every episode and felt ripped off it they didn't hear them.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 27, 2023 3:51 AM |
R8 YES! Marcia Marcia Marcia! was a retroactive catchphrase.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 27, 2023 3:51 AM |
In his standup routing Gabe Kaplan’s Sweat-hogs said “Up your hole with a Mello Roll” - which was a a popular cylindrical ice cream treat in postwar Brooklyn.
For TV it was sanitized to “Up your nose with a rubber hose”
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 27, 2023 3:51 AM |
Later on, Welcome Back Kotter had a funny one "Get off my case, toilet face!"
And Chico and the Man "Not my chob mang" and I think "Lookin' GOOOOOOOD!"
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 27, 2023 3:53 AM |
I got the spelling wrong - but you get the idea.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 27, 2023 3:54 AM |
"Welcome Back, Kotter" was almost all catchphrases:
Mr. Kotter: "Julie, did I ever tell you about my Uncle Murry?"
Vinnie: "BAH-BAH-BAH, Bah-Bah-barino...
Horschack: "Oooh! OOOH! OOOH!"
Freddie: "Hi there!"
And Gabe Kaplan had to read Epstein's catchphrase for him every episode: "Signed, Epstein's Mother."
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 27, 2023 3:55 AM |
Here you go OP.
Anyway, during a taping of “Happy Days” Garry Marshall addressed the audience and informed them they were going to see a scene with some new characters. We came on, did the scene and the audience loved it. Garry Marshall told us, “we’ve got a show!” As the show progressed Garry sat down with me and asked me “what else can you do?” I told him I could sing and dance. “Yeah…let’s see.” The following week in the show Laverne tells Carmine that she’s trying to get Shirley to jump out a bachelor cake for the Fonz. I tell her that I can’t get Shirley to do anything but “she’s a sucker for my Tony Bennett (in a perfect Bennett impersonation) YOU KNOW I GO FROM RAGS TO RICHES!” The audience applauded and that was it.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 27, 2023 3:56 AM |
They tried to give Al on Hapoy Days two of them.
"I ever tell ya about Rosa Coletti?.. It was 1943, or was it '42?" "It was '42, Al"
And then "Yup yupyupyupyupyup"
So bad. Haha
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 27, 2023 3:57 AM |
R20 was about "Wha? Where?"
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 27, 2023 3:58 AM |
All from the Garry Marshall universe, and they all suck:
Fonzie: Ayyyyyyyy!
Mork: Nanu-nanu
Chachi: Wah-wah-wah
Al: Yup yup-yup-yup-yup-yup
Carmine: "You know I go from RAGS to RICHES..."
Pinky and Leather Tuscaderos hand gestures.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 27, 2023 4:08 AM |
Jayna from the Wonder Twins: "Spacey, Zan... real spacey!"
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 27, 2023 4:10 AM |
All in the Family
1) Stifle
2) ARRRcheeeeee
Both nails on a chalkboard
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 27, 2023 5:14 AM |
From "The Facts of Life" and they all sucked:
Blair-"I just had another one of my brilliant ideas"
Tootie: "You're gonna be in troublllllllllle"
they tried to give George Clooney one when he was on. he kept telling stories and including "you know what I mean" in the story. It lasted for about 3 episodes.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 27, 2023 5:31 AM |
Watchu talkin’ about, Willis?
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 27, 2023 6:29 AM |
R31 Also, that girl used to yammer on and on about her boyfriend Roger on FoL:
On Good Times, JJ also used to say "Well you knowww, what can I say?"
I think Travolta on Kotter used to say "I'm so CONFUSED!"
On Alice, Jolene used to talk about "Granny Gums."
Oh GOD, maybe even worse than Rags to Riches was Chachi Arcola saying "WAH WAH WAH!" Who are you, a horny Helen Keller? Goddamn it, that was annoying. I swear, it was like they were writing Happy Days for 9 year old by season 4.
And, Arnold's laugh. "BAH- HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 27, 2023 6:36 AM |
Another vote for Dy-no-mite. It was painfully unfunny when they would constantly crowbar it into the show.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 27, 2023 6:42 AM |
What's Happenin'?!? have every main character an annoying catch phrase. Hell, the title was a catch phrase! Mostly spoken by Rerun.
Dwayne had two: Hey-HEY-hey! and "Uh-huh... uh-huh... unh-UH!"
Dee: "Oooh... I'm gonna tell Mama!"
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 27, 2023 6:48 AM |
R26 I think Esther was hysterical.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 27, 2023 6:55 AM |
^I was about 4 yrs old when I’d watch that show & thought she was the funniest person I’d ever seen. I’m laughing out loud right now just typing this, remembering the banter between Redd Foxx & her. Even her facial reactions were hysterical.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 27, 2023 7:40 AM |
R37 I agree. One of the most naturally funny people I've ever seen. "You bug eyed heathen!"
Her party records from the '60s are filthy. Sexual and scatological.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 27, 2023 7:51 AM |
R27 vo-Dee-doh-doh (I don’t know if I’m spelling it out right) was genuinely funny though, imo - a clever way to get around the censors.
Especially this exchange:
Laverne: you vo-dee-doh.
Shirley: ONCE!
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 27, 2023 8:02 AM |
Ralph Malph: “I still got it.”
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 27, 2023 8:14 AM |
Not really a catch phrase, but that stupid screech laugh Pete Puma would do used to annoy the fuck out of me when I was a little kid.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 27, 2023 8:18 AM |
"Dy-no-mite" sucked balls as the worst of the bunch because no one ever used it except the character on TV. So over the top just became annoying. The other ones I remember other kids using or repaying at school. Even today I occasionally hear "Whach you talkin bout Willis" as a joke phrase among people my age. Dy-no-mite... haven't heard anyone say it in 50 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 27, 2023 8:28 AM |
Phyllis "hi-Hi" Lindstroms, "Go Suck an Egg" never really caught on for Cloris Leachman
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 27, 2023 9:16 AM |
Maude - “God Will Get you for that, Walter!”
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 27, 2023 9:24 AM |
“Who Loves You, Baby?” - Telly Savalas - Kojack
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 27, 2023 9:27 AM |
Next up from OP: Most Annoying Shoes Worn by Characters on 60's Series.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 27, 2023 9:29 AM |
Not actual catchphrases, but pretty imaginative fictional ones, Fred Willard’s character’s boasting about his near misses, like “Hey! Wha haapa?”
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 27, 2023 10:30 AM |
I liked Muttley's laugh on Wacky Races.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 27, 2023 10:37 AM |
It's a long way to go for a joke, R46, but as a teenage gayling I always hoped Linda Dano's agent would take out a full page ad in variety touting her upcoming engagements with that headline.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 28, 2023 12:45 AM |
R41 Pete Puma was based on a character Frank Fontaine did on the old Gleason Show named Crazy Guggenheim.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 28, 2023 4:34 AM |
In the last two horrid seasons of "Designing Women", they had Julia saying "I don't think so" as a catchphrase
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 28, 2023 5:21 AM |
From "The Mary Tyler Moore" show, which you would think would have been devoid of them:
MARY: "Ohhhh... Mr. Grant...."
SUE ANN: (smiling right before she's going to deliver a nasty riposte to Murray who has just zinged her): "Murray, Murray, Murray..."
TED: (Deeply gruff voice) "Hi, guys!"
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 28, 2023 6:15 AM |
Every villain on "Scooby-Doo": "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it's hadn't been for you meddling kids!"
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 28, 2023 6:17 AM |
It's not annoying but Bea Arthur in Maude saying "God will get you for that" when she felt personally attacked.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 23, 2023 2:52 PM |
[quote] made worse be ase ir was SUNG was Carmine singing
Are you having a stroke?
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 23, 2023 2:58 PM |
Lawanda Page started out as a stripper...The Bronze Goddess of Fire
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 23, 2023 3:29 PM |
Now THAT would have Fred Sanford exclaim, "Here comes the BIG one!"
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 23, 2023 3:32 PM |
Praise Jesus! - The 700 Club
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 23, 2023 4:00 PM |
[quote] 📺 Live, from New York ........ It's Saturday Night Live !
Oh, DEAR.
The phrase is, "live from New York, it's SATURDAY NIGHT."
True fans, and eldergays like myself who watched the show from its inception will know that it was originally called "NBC's Saturday Night." There was ANOTHER program on ABC that debuted the same year called "Saturday Night Live," which was a short-lived variety show hosted by Howard Cosell. the NBC show didn't become known as "Saturday Night Live" until much later.
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 23, 2023 5:59 PM |
[quote] Lawanda Page started out as a stripper...The Bronze Goddess of Fire
R59 “You gotta get a gimmick.”
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 23, 2023 9:34 PM |
It's not enough to have no talent!
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 23, 2023 10:45 PM |
What did the “it” in “sit on it” actually refer to? Did it mean “come over here and sit on this dick” or something less sexual?
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 23, 2023 11:17 PM |
I think it was a censor friendly way to say "Get fucked, bitch."
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 23, 2023 11:20 PM |
They were basically telling you to go fuck yourself, so "Sit on it". was a dick.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 23, 2023 11:51 PM |
Didn’t squel like a pig become a thing after Deliverance.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 24, 2023 12:11 AM |
Sit on it was a dick. Happy Days was so dirty!
I thought meant a tack. Or literally sitting down to cool off.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 24, 2023 1:20 AM |
[quote] Btw, I LOVED Dewayne's "HI HI HI" on What's Happening. So don't even. ; - )
Apparently you didn't love it enough to remember it was actually "Hey, hey, hey..."
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 24, 2023 1:30 AM |
I'm Chevy Chase and all of these catch-phrases are not.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 24, 2023 2:17 AM |
Chevy, you ignorant slut.
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 24, 2023 2:24 AM |
A tie between "Awwwww, RIGHHHHT!!" and "Outta SIGHT!"
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 24, 2023 2:36 AM |
"Dyn-O-Mite!!!" may have sucked ass, but did any other 70's catch phrases spawn a top 10 Billboard pop hit?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 24, 2023 2:40 AM |
Didn't Richie Cunningham at some point have his own musical catch phrase, a la The Big Ragoo?
I seem to recall him singing "I found my thrill..." (Blueberry Hill) all the time. Not sure if it petered out, or if they stuck with it...I stopped watching the show fairly early on in its run.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 24, 2023 2:47 AM |
You guys are the best at picking out the worst.
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 24, 2023 2:49 AM |
[quote]Excuse me OP, but this is a Wendy’s. Do you wish to order something?
This is one of the 2020's most annoying reddit catchphrases.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 24, 2023 2:51 AM |
R76 It wasn't so much his catchphrase as something he said/sang when he was into a girl.
Like "sit on it," I think it was meant to imply something more vulgar in a more subtle and/or era appropriate way.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 24, 2023 2:57 AM |
R76 yes, and the Blueberry Hill thing was done endlessly.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 24, 2023 12:58 PM |
I really should be home waxing my floors...
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 25, 2023 11:21 PM |
This is Carlton, your doorman.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 25, 2023 11:22 PM |
