das@ucla-cs.UUCP (12/31/85)
In article <804@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes: >How about "Mickey Mouse"? When used as an adjective, it means "cheap", >"shoddy", "unprofessional". There's been an observable evolution at UCLA in the term used to describe an easy class, one in which it's trivial to get a good grade. At some point in the past, before my time, it was called a "Mickey Mouse class". By the early 1970s, it would be called a "mickey". Since the mid-seventies, it's been a "mick". On another topic, if you ask people (at least Americans) now to imitate the sound a frog makes, you usually get the reply "Ribbet! Ribbet!". My memory is that this is not what people said in the early 1960s. Am I right or wrong on this? I've always claimed that "Ribbet" was popularized by a sketch on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967 or 1968, in which Tommy Smothers played a frog in a puppet theater. Since everyone at school the next day was saying "Ribbet! Ribbet!", it must have been because of the novelty, rather like the way "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" was on everyone's tongue the day after Sammy Davis, Jr. did the lead-ins to the judge sketches on Laugh-In one night. 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)). -- David Smallberg, das@locus.ucla.edu, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das
jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) (01/06/86)
> > ... if you ask people (at least Americans) now to imitate the > sound a frog makes, you usually get the reply "Ribbet! Ribbet!". My memory > is that this is not what people said in the early 1960s. Am I right or wrong > on this? I've always claimed that "Ribbet" was popularized by a sketch on the > Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967 or 1968, in which Tommy Smothers played > a frog in a puppet theater. You're right. > "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" was on everyone's tongue the > day after Sammy Davis, Jr. did the lead-ins to the judge sketches on Laugh-In > one night. I think that was Flip Wilson, not Sammy Davis, Jr. > > 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? > > -- David Smallberg, das@locus.ucla.edu, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das Tommy Smothers is responsible for another one. Once, on the Tonight Show, he was talking about Richard Nixon and Watergate. He said something like, "Some people think that President Nixon is innocent. Some people think chickens have lips." It brought down the house. People started to use the phrase to indicate incredible naivete, and there was even a (bad) song written around it. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..." {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff
figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) (01/06/86)
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
john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) (01/07/86)
About TV one-liners that hung around, and are still quoted, consider: (Wagging jowls) "I am not a crook." and "There he goes again..." -- Peace and Good!, Fr. John Woolley "The heart has its reasons that the mind does not know." -- Blaise Pascal
gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) (01/07/86)
-- > 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? "Would you believe...?" from "Get Smart". -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 07 Jan 86 [18 Nivose An CXCIV] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***
wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) (01/08/86)
> > > "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" was on everyone's tongue the > > day after Sammy Davis, Jr. did the lead-ins to the judge sketches on Laugh-In > > one night. > > I think that was Flip Wilson, not Sammy Davis, Jr. > I don't remember who did it first, but Sammy Davis Jr. certainly did use the line on Laugh In (and I suspect that he did originate it).
imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin ) (01/08/86)
> -- > > 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? > > "Would you believe...?" from "Get Smart". Dont forget "Sorry about that, Chief" from the same show.
evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (01/08/86)
Organization : Concurrent Computer Corp. (a P-E subsidiary), Tinton Falls, NJ Keywords: In article <1169@lll-crg.ARpA> figmo@lll-crg.ARpA (Lynn Gold) writes: >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 But, Lynn, all of these were used throughout the series, on numerous occasions. You bet your bippy they were! -- NAME: Evan L. Marcus UUCP: ...vax135!petsd!pedsgd!pedsgo!evan USnail: CONCURRENT Computer Corporation (formerly Perkin-Elmer DSG) M/S 308, 106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 MA BELL:(201) 758-7357 LIVE: "Hey, Evan" QUOTE: I'd rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin ) (01/08/86)
How about Flip Wilson's The DEVIL made me do it!
lhl@lanl.ARPA (01/08/86)
In article <677@bonnie.UUCP> wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) writes: >> >> > "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" was on everyone's tongue the > >I don't remember who did it first, but Sammy Davis Jr. certainly did use the >line on Laugh In (and I suspect that he did originate it). I recall that Pigmeat Markham did this bit about a generation before Laugh-In. It's really tough coming up with a completely original gag. <Of course, the University of California might see things differently.> We don't need no foreign ignoramusses ... we got local ones as good as anybody! Howland Owl
husiak@mhuxt.UUCP (NEWMAN) (01/08/86)
> > > > > "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" was on everyone's tongue the > > > day after Sammy Davis, Jr. did the lead-ins to the judge sketches on Laugh-In > > > one night. > > > > I think that was Flip Wilson, not Sammy Davis, Jr. > > > > I don't remember who did it first, but Sammy Davis Jr. certainly did use the > line on Laugh In (and I suspect that he did originate it). I think it was Pigmeat Markham. Tom Chase
rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) (01/09/86)
> > > > > "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!" was on everyone's tongue the > > > day after Sammy Davis, Jr. did the lead-ins to the judge sketches on Laugh-In > > > one night. > > > > I think that was Flip Wilson, not Sammy Davis, Jr. > > > > I don't remember who did it first, but Sammy Davis Jr. certainly did use the > line on Laugh In (and I suspect that he did originate it). In any case, how about Flip Wilson's "The devil made me do it!" line (as Geraldine)? Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611
gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) (01/10/86)
In article <491@ihlpl.UUCP> imd@ihlpl.UUCP (Ira M. Dworkin ) 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? >> >> "Would you believe...?" from "Get Smart". > >Dont forget >"Sorry about that, Chief" from the same show. And, of course, "Missed it by that much." Not to mention: "Ah, yes. The old _______ trick." as in "Ah, yes. The old Follow-Up-To-The-Net-With-A-Maxwell-Smart-Quotation trick." -- Geoff Loker Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 1A4 USENET: {ihnp4 decwrl utzoo uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!gkloker CSNET: gkloker@toronto ARPANET: gkloker.toronto@csnet-relay