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List of catch phrases - Definition and Overview

This is a list of catch phrases

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  • "F.A.B." - acknowledgement signal in Thunderbirds
  • "Fascinating." - Mr. Spock in Star Trek
  • "Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night." Bette Davis in All About Eve (not "a bumpy ride" like widely believed)
  • "Feh" - InuYasha from InuYasha
  • "Feck!" - Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted
  • "Fight, Megaman! For Everlasting peace!" Roll in Mega Man.
  • "Follow your nose!" - Toucan Sam from Kellogg's Froot Loops.
  • "Fool of a Took!" - Gandalf the Grey from The Fellowship of the Ring (Said to Perigrin Took on several occasions)
  • "For now, Dick Clark...so long." - Dick Clark's traditional TV sign-off, accompanied by a salute.
  • "From the mountains to the ocean, from the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California - good evening." - the late Jerry Dunphy's original opening phrase during KNXT's "The Big News" program aired in Los Angeles in the 1960's. Later in his career, he dumped the first six words of this opener.
  • "From the Sony Pictures Studios, this... is... Jeopardy!" - Johnny Gilbert at the beginning of Jeopardy!

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  • "Leapin' lizards!" - comic strip character Little Orphan Annie
  • "Leggo my Eggo!" - advertising phrase used in the sale of Eggo frozen waffles since the 1960s.
  • "Let me at 'em Uncle Scooby" - Scrappy Doo
  • "Let's play two!" - Ernie Banks
  • "Let's roll" - phrase allegedly spoken by United Airlines Flight 93 passenger and 9/11 victim Todd Beamer and overheard via cellphone by his wife Lisa; later used by George W. Bush and others to signify American determination in the months after 9/11
  • "Let's see what you could have won!" - Jim Bowen in Bullseye.
  • "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get." Tom Hanks as the title character in Forrest Gump
  • "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." Macdonald Carey, intoning the tagline on every episode of Days of Our Lives since 1966.
  • "Listen, kiddo. . ." Kim Hughes (Kathryn Hayes), As the World Turns
  • "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once" - Michelle of the resistance, in 'Allo 'Allo!. Pronounced "Lissern varry carfully, Ah shall say zis only wernce"
  • "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" - various cast members of US TV show Saturday Night Live, at end of first sketch, before the opening credits
  • "Live long and prosper." - Mr. Spock on Star Trek, and every Vulcan since. (The standard response is "Peace and long life.")
  • "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls" - from Laugh-In
  • "Lookin' good!" - Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez on Chico and the Man
  • "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaiiin!" - Team Rocket, the villains of the Pokémon anime. Used every time Team Rocket has failed at a plan and is invariably sent flying into the distance.
  • "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit..." -- Steve McCrosky (Lloyd Bridges) in the movie Airplane! This would be followed by a drug of some kind. "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue."
  • "Luvvly Jubbly!" - Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses

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  • "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- The Wizard of Oz in The Wizard of Oz *
  • "Permission to speak, sir." - Corporal Jones in Dad's Army
  • "Pine Valley isn't exactly the corner of Hollywood and Vine." - Erica Kane on All My Children. Originally said in the show's first episode, it has become oft-quoted in flashback sequences and later in Erica's life.
  • "Play it again, Sam." - attributed to Rick the bartender in the movie Casablanca. Actually spoken in the Marx Brothers comedy A Night in Casablanca. The real quote is "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By."
  • "Presented for your approval..." - US TV host Rod Serling on The Twilight Zone
  • "Pretty sneaky, sis." - from 1970s US television advertisements for the game Connect Four
  • "Putney says the Bormann 6 girl is got to have soul! Got to have soul!" - sycophantic ad agency executive in US film Putney Swope

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Example Usage of phrases
DALLASsDAD: Catch phrases from the 90's"did I do that" let me hear from u
TaylorHumphries: @MixxedMami213 why settle for keepin' it 100 w/ people when you can go all out and keep it 500 or damn, even 1000!?...Kanye and his phrases
strawberrysgirl: I love that there is at least one show where there can be an intelligent discussion on racial code words/phrases and such. #maddow
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