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Here are some of the most famous catch phrases from movies

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"I'll be back" Terminator The Terminator 1984

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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore Apocalypse Now 1979
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" Rhett Butler Gone with the Wind 1939
"Here's looking at you, kid" Rick Blaine Casablanca 1942
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse" Don Vito Corleone The Godfather 1972
"Go ahead, make my day" Harry Callahan Sudden Impact 1983
"You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" Harry Callahan Dirty Harry 1971 ]
"You talkin' to me?" Travis Bickle Taxi Driver 1976
"Hasta la vista, baby" Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
"Play it again, Sam" Rick Blaine Casablanca 1942

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Notable Catchphrases In Literature
"Elementary, my dear Watson" Sherlock Holmes (Never actually said)
"Time's a-wastin" Snuffy Smith Comic strip, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith 1919
"Leapin' lizards!" Annie Comic strip, Little Orphan Annie 1924
"It's Clobbering Time!" The Thing Comic strip 1961
"HULK SMASH!!!" The Incredible Hulk Comic strip 1962
"Blistering Barnacles" Captain Haddock Comic, The Adventures of Tintin 1941
"Take me to your leader" Extraterrestrial Aliens Cartoon, Alex Graham 1953
"Stupid, Stupid Rat-Creatures!" Fone Bone Comic strip, Bone 1991
"Old sport" Jay Gatsby Novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
"Big Brother is watching you" Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel, George Orwell 1949
"Constant vigilance!" Alastor "Mad-eye" Moody Novel series, Harry Potter 2000
"Are we having fun yet?" Bill Griffith Zippy mid-1970s

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TV's 60 Greatest Catchphrases by TV Guide

1. "Heeeere's...Johnny!"
Ed McMahon hailed the arrival of Johnny Carson from behind the Tonight Show curtain for 30 years and it never got old. Just ask Jack Nicholson.

2. "D'oh!"
A forehead-smacking Homer Simpson popularized it, other residents of Springfield have said it at one time or another and the Oxford English Dictionary even deemed it worthy of an entry.

3. "Yada, yada, yada."
The ultimate show about nothing gave us more than its fair share of catchphrases, but this Seinfeld signature uttered by Elaine to gloss over a bad date and favored by George's felonious girlfriend is still really something.

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4. "How you doin'?"
We can't imagine how many times Joey Tribbiani's best pick-up line was tried out by Friends fans during the show's heyday, but it's safe to say no one said it better than Matt LeBlanc.

5. "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
Gary Coleman's unforgettable delivery of Arnold Jackson's trademark line on Diff'rent Strokes made it the go-to phrase when you just had to tell a pal he was speaking nonsense.

6. "The tribe has spoken."
Reality TV has spawned countless elimination catchphrases, but Jeff Probst's final words to the ousted Survivor competitors are the perfect blend of camp and cool.

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7. "And that's the way it is."
Long before the advent of cable news, revered newsman Walter Cronkite closed his nightly broadcast with these iconic words. And we understood we'd just seen and heard everything we needed to know.

8. "Who are you wearing?"
When Joan Rivers first took to the Golden Globes red carpet to ask stars about their designers, the E! host spawned an infotainment genre and turned celebrities into walking billboards.

9. "Come on down!"
The Price Is Right contestants have been rushing the stage for more than 40 years upon hearing this command, most famously uttered by Johnny Olson.

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10. "It's gonna be legen — wait for it — dary."
He's a one-man one-liner machine, but our favorite Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) quote on How I Met Your Mother brilliantly captures his bro-vado.

The Other 50 (by Decade)

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" — Adventures of Superman

"Baby, you're the greatest." — Ralph, The Honeymooners

"Yabba dabba doo!" — Fred, The Flintstones

"The thrill of victory and the agony of *defeat." — Jim McKay, Wide World of Sports

"Ruh-roh!" — Astro, The Jetsons

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"Danger, Will Robinson!" — Robot, Lost in Space

"To the Batmobile!" — Batman, Batman

"This tape will self-destruct in five seconds." — Mission: Impossible

"Live long and prosper." — Spock, Star Trek

"Sock it to me!" — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

"Book 'em, Danno." — McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0

"Just one more thing..." — Columbo, Columbo

"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" — Jan, The Brady Bunch

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"Stifle!" — Archie, All in the Family

"You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join you, honey." — Fred, Sanford and Son

"God will get you for that." — Maude, Maude

"Jane, you ignorant sl*t." — Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin, Saturday Night Live

"Who loves ya, baby?" — Kojak, Kojak

"Dy-no-mite!" — J.J., Good Times

"Kiss my grits!" — Flo, Alice

"Good night, John Boy." — The Walton family, The Waltons

"Aaay!" — Fonzie, Happy Days