Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site lll-crg.ARpA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!nike!topaz!lll-crg!figmo From: figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: "Mickey Mouse" and "Ribbet" Message-ID: <1169@lll-crg.ARpA> Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 07:26:55 EST Article-I.D.: lll-crg.1169 Posted: Mon Jan 6 07:26:55 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jan-86 06:32:16 EST References: <4300001@konech.UUCP> <804@rtech.UUCP> <8213@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG, Livermore Ca Lines: 19 In article <8213@ucla-cs.ARPA>, das@ucla-cs.UUCP writes: > For the net.games.trivia readers (and followup only to that group, please), > what other TV broadcasts have had bits or lines with such staying power? > "Here come da judge!" even inspired a song. Note my criteria: the causative > show must have been a single broadcast (so that rules out "Meathead!" from > All in the Family, since Archie used that in every episode, or "Take off, eh!" > from SCTV), seen by everyone at once (so that rules out "Make my day!" or other > movie phrases); the phrase or line must have been talked about by everyone the > next day, and there must have been some lasting effect (be it a few months, > like "Here come da judge!" or years and years, like "Ribbet!" (if my Ribbet > theory is correct)). > You forgot a couple of other ones from Laugh-In: "Sock it to me!" "Verrrry Interestingk" "Look THAT one up in your Funk and Wagnall!" --Lynn