pad for a Joshua Tree homestead - and a growing gay communityĪfter living in Yucca Valley, just north of Joshua Tree National Park, for more than a year, former Angelenos Kit Williamson and John Halbach have learned some hard lessons about the high desert. You have Alice, Happy Days, What’s Happening- a whole trove of catchphrases. What do you guys think? Which ones did you love? Which did you HATE? Name some I haven’t. Said my Ann Romano when something bad was revealed to her. One Day at a Time “Oh my Goooood.” This was one of the fucking worst. Ooooh! Ooooooh!- Arnold Horshack when he was raising his hand to be picked on. Wha? Where? Vinne Barbarino’s version of “I know NOTHING!” Said by Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington when trying to flirt his way out of a problem. Welcome Back Kotter- I think this show really helped eventually kill the catchphrase. It was a good imitation, and somewhat amusing, but I swear to God he seemed to do it on every single episode.Ī non-verbal catchphrase from that show was, when Fred was talking about someone who he felt was gay, he say “You know…” and put his hand out flat and then make the “a little of this, at little of that” tilting it from side to side motion. Sanford and Son This one isn’t a phrase, but Fred Sanford would start singing If I Didn’t Care by Bill Kenny and the Ink Spots. And every poem stated with “My name is LENN-AYYY” If you haven’t see it, it’s a awful and inexplicable as it sounds. And then, they were always running into this pimp type of guy named Lenny, who spoke in poems. It was like the show had merged with the Copycats. First of all, almost the entire cast started doing imitations. My name is LENN-AY – Good Time started to get weird in its last season and a half. Well, you know, what can I say? They tried to give JJ another one, this one having fun with his ladies man imagie, but it never caught on the way Dyn-o-mite did. Eventually, you can say in a way John Amos was fired for resenting it, and Esther Rolle quit for a season due to it. The studio audience seemed to eat it up with a spoon. It may not sound like much, but it was funny the way Bea did it.Īlso, Maude getting all upset, and yelling, and Walter yelling "MAUDE! SIT" and she'd shut up and sit immediatelyĭYN-O-MITE! – the most famous catchphrase, I think. A funny take on it, was one time, Maude pointed toward the sky, and then pointed at Walter. There was a thing where if someone insulted someone, Archie would say "That was a beautiful shot." Please contribute any I might be missing, and tell me about the history of using them on television.ĭidn't really have catch phrases, per se, but I guess just the words "Dingbat" and "Meathead" count.
I'm gonna list some off the top of my head. He and Garry Marshall are responsible for quite a lot of them. Ironically, it was Norman Lear, who was known for quality, who seemed to spearhead the movement.
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