Memes / Live-Action TV

Even if you don't see them on TV very often, some moments and phrases will be popular enough to remain in the heads of the most die-hard watchers. There are so many related to game shows that they get their own page, so please don't add them here.

Please add entries in the following format:

• The name of the television show.
  • The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme and the context in which it is used, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ^ExplanationLike this.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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Genres

• Game Shows

Works with their own pages:

• Arrowverse
• The Boys (2019)
• Breaking Bad
• Community
• Cory in the House
• Doctor Who
• Full House
• Game of Thrones
  • House of the Dragon
• Hell's Kitchen
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Kamen Rider
• LazyTown
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  • WandaVision
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• Monty Python
• The Muppets
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• The Noddy Shop
• Once Upon a Time
• Parks and Recreation
• Power Rangers
• Prehistoric Planet
• The Price Is Right
• Riverdale
• RuPaul's Drag Race
• Saturday Night Live
• Seinfeld
• Sesame Street
• The Sopranos
• Squid Game
• Star Trek
• Star Wars
  • The Mandalorian
  • The Book of Boba Fett
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • Ahsoka
• Stranger Things
• Supernatural
• Survivor
• Super Sentai
• Tiger King
• The Walking Dead (2010)
• Ultra Series
• Voltes V: Legacy

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In general

• "This program is/was recorded on tape/filmed/(video)taped/produced before a (live) studio audience."^explanationBeginning in the 1970s and largely phased out by the late-1980s/early-1990s, sitcoms that were made during this time would often announce this to the viewers to let them know that the shows weren't being done live—something that it itself had been phased out by the early 1970s — or to indicate that a Laugh Track wasn't being used. It usually happened just before or during the credits, but sometimes also happened at the beginning of an episode, whether it was the Cold Opening, or the beginning of the episode itself.

Creators

• Anderson Cooper would like to be your boo.
• Les Inconnus (trio of French comedians, well known in the French speaking world for their stand up comedy as well as their numerous TV sketches or mockumentaries)
  • Le bon chasseur, le mauvais chasseur (Good hunter, bad hunter)^ExplanationFrom one of their most famous sketches, a mockumentary presenting some hunters as a bunch of inbred morons. When asked what the difference is between a good hunter and a bad hunter, they are quick to answer that a bad hunter shoots anything that moves, then after some hesitation add that the good hunter shoots anything that moves, but he's a good hunter
  • Mais cela ne nous regarde pas (But that is none of our business) ^ExplanationFrom a sketch where they parody sport commentators during a competition. The commentators enumerate a long list of increasingly personal and outrageous rumours about the competitors, punctuating each new revelation with this quote
• Loriot:
  • Much like Monty Python, this German comedian created a huge amount of Memetic Mutations in Germany with his show in the 70's. There are dozens, if not hundreds, completely inconspicuous sentences or just words that can still get half the people in the room to crack up.
    "Ach?"

Networks

• The world is just awesome. ^explanationA popular advertisement for the Discovery Channel, partially for its highly exploitable snowclone nature, as shown below.
  • Boom de yada, boom de yada..
  • ...boom de yada, boom de yada...
• "This... is PBS."^ExplanationOne of the many idents between shows on PBS, usually with a gentle cascading synth note tune.The following are also idents for PBS.
  • "This is - PEE-BEE-EEEESSS! WHOO-hoo-hooo!"^ExplanationAnimated PBS logo people singing a gospel music type tune, remembered for scaring some children in the 90's.
  • "This... is PBS. And On! And On! And On! And..."^ExplanationReference to Square One TV and its "Infinity Song".
• "Hi! I'm [X], and you're watching [Y]!"^explanationThe most well-known of Disney Channel's Station Ident, in which an actor comes out, states their name and that the viewer is watching Disney Channel, and "draws" the channel's Mickey Mouse logo with a magic wand. Naturally, parodies ensued, the most frequent being ones where the person in question messes up the logo.

News Broadcasts

• Where the fuck is Zbuczyn?!^ExplanationAn angry rant by Polish newscaster Tomasz Lis, chewing out the studio crew for badly prepared material on road-blocking protests.
  • What is this?! Did we really spend the entire fucking day doing this graphic?! Grzesiu!
  • Ditch this fucking graphic. This fucking graphic is out.
  • How can those poor people fucking understand it if I can't understand it?!
  • I just can't work with dumbasses.
  • Sure, I'll get a job in computer graphics too.
• Fuckin' dirty desk^ExplanationAn angry rant by Polish newscaster Kamil Durczok, chewing out the studio crew, particularly the man nicknamed "Rurek", for not cleaning the news desk properly.
  • Can't someone just get their ass in gear and clean it?
  • And tomorrow, we'll meet at the clean - as nearly everyday - desk...^ExplanationSeveral days after the incident, Durczok signed off with this line.
• Live Tucker Reaction ^ExplanationDuring a 2021 primetime news conference by president Joe Biden that pre-empted the beginning of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News decided to have a picture-in-picture window in the bottom corner of the screen with Carlson awkwardly staring into the camera, captioned "LIVE TUCKER REACTION" (occasionally with the addendum "HIS RESPONSE IS NEXT"). The graphic immediately became a target of satire and parody, either by pasting the graphic onto other images and videos, or changing Carlson to another character.

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• 24:
  • Jack Bauer. 'Nuff said.
  • The following takes place between 3AM and 4AM.
    • Only one hour? WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!
    • DAMMIT!!
    • So much so, there's a radio show in Greece which begins with "The following takes place between 12PM and 1PM." Then a goofy-ish song.
  • Whenever Kim Bauer is brought up among fans, expect references to the whole mountain lion incident, even though it only happened to her once (with actual mountain lions at least).
  • Jack Bauer is such a badass, he doesn't even have to use the bathroom. ^explanationDue to the Real Time format, combined with The Law of Conservation of Detail, it's pretty rare that anyone is seen... Doing any of the normal bodily functions that an average person would reasonably have to do at least once during a 24 hour period, like eating, sleeping, or going to the bathroom. Interestingly enough, an idea for the first season was for Teri Bauer to go to sleep for a few hours in order to write her out of the story, but it was scrapped in favor of Easy Amnesia.
• 30 Rock:
  • It's a Werewolf Bar Mitzvah/Spooky/Scary/Boys becoming men/Men becoming wolves.
  • Ah, blergh!
  • "America, which I invented..." "BOOOO!"
  • You're making a mockery of The Source Awards!
  • By the hammer of Thor!
  • Cah-Runch!
  • What is this, Horseville? 'Cause I'm surrounded by naysayers. Wordplay!
  • Don't Menendez me.
  • Myert!
  • NERDZ!
  • You just got scrumped!
  • Everything is just the worst!
  • Actor announcement!
  • Court? At night? I'm already laughing. Tell me more.
  • N-O-E. No. E.
  • All I did is ask for some Diet Slice and some pita chips!
  • Finally giving America what it wants, a reunion of friends...from Night Court.
  • I love memes! I love them so much I want to take them behind the middle school and get them pregnant.
  • Mind Grapes.
  • "RESPAWN!!" ^explanationLiz purposely sabotages herself so she can 'die' and start over
  • "I want to go to there!" ^explanationLiz's expression for something she really wants
  • "DOCTOR SPACEMAN!!" "It's pronounced 'Spa-che-man."
  • "Why are wearing a tux?!" "It's after 6, what am I, a farmer?" ^explanationLiz has been under the impression she had to come up with jokes for a function Jack's going to tonight; turns out it's months from now, this is just how he dresses for dinner
  • What the what?
  • "How do you do, fellow kids?" ^explanationSaid by an undercover cop, played by Steve Buscemi, as he tries to infiltrate a high school, very unconvincingly disguised as a student. It is frequently used to mock people, usually in marketing or politics, who are trying too hard to prove that they are "cool and down with the kids" and also as a Snowclone Pretender Diss by various subcultures against people who in their eyes are transparently dishonest in trying to pretend to a member of their group.

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• Ace Hits the Big Time:
  • YOU'RE GONNA LOOK LIKE COOKED SPAGHETTI!!
  • THIS TURKEY IS A JERK!
• All That
  • "I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, 'cause we're all dudes, hey!"
    • "Welcome to Goodburger, home of the Goodburger, can I take your order?" ^explanationFrom the Goodburger sketches
    • "That'll be 8 bucks!"
  • "I feel the hurt." ^explanationThe Okra Winfrey sketches
  • "He's Walter, the Earboy, his ears are really big!" ^explanationTheme song to the Earboy sketches
  • "Am I a watermelon, or can. I. Finish?" ^explanationFrom Katrina Johnson's spot-on impression of Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot's non-sequitur speaking habits.
    • Relatedly - "I got - (Hoists up two money bags) 2 billion dollars!"
  • "Aww, the life I live is sad!" ^explanationCoach Kreeton's catchphrase
    • "My happiness is a memory!" ^explanationAnother Coach Kreeton catchphrase
  • "Jupiter!" ^explanationLump Maroon's only phrase
  • "Dear Ashley... That's me!" ^explanationHow every letter being read in the Dear Ashley sketches goes
• The Amanda Show
  • "Meme, please!" ^explanationHow Penelope Taynt, Amanda's #1 fan, would often end her sentences.
  • "Bring in the dancing lobsters!" ^explanationThe way Judge Trudy sketches typically ended, sometimes used in other sketches
  • "YOU HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER!!!" ^explanationA common phrase for the old man in a prank calling sketch
  • "What's that supposed to mean?!" ^explanation Misty's catchphrase in Moody's Point
• American Chopper
  • The rather explosive confrontation between Paul Teutul Sr. and his son Paul Teutul Jr., leading to Junior's termination from his father's employ, led to an explosion of meme comics in 2018.
• American Horror Story: Coven
  • "Surprise, bitch. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me."^explanationMadison flaunting her resurrection in the face of her murderer, Fiona Goode.
  • Many of Fiona's quotes, like 'This coven doesn't need a new Supreme. All it needs is a new rug.^explanationShe wants the rug to be removed because it's evidence that she killed a witch of the coven, Madison Montgomery.
  • 'Behold, our new Supreme' followed by shots of many characters from other works, especially if said characters are male ^explanationThe Supreme is the main head of a Coven/Witches/Witches And Warlocks (the show is kinda hazy on this) and In-Universe it's been implied it's always a woman.
• American Idol:
  • This...is American Idol!
  • Yo, dawg. That voice isn't a'ight for him, man.
    • But it was okay, man, it was okay.
    • [Contestant] is IN IT TO WIN IT!
  • Welcome to Hollywood!
  • Season 1: Keith the Virgin.
  • Season 2: Velvet Teddybear vs Ambiguously Gay Nerd.
  • William Hung. She bang! She bang!
  • Paula loves Simon. Simon loves puppies.
  • Reynaldo Lapuz. 25% German. 25% Black. 50% Chinese Filipino. 100% White Pimp. 200% WORSHIPPER OF SIMON COWELL AND MOTHERFUCKIN' BROTHA TO ALL MANKIND.
    • You are my brother, my best friend forever, singing the songs, the music that you liiiiiiiiiike...
  • More memes coming up...AFTER this break.
    • Plenty of other shows do it now; it deserves its own trope page.
  • Any comment from Simon. Any one.
    • "That performance was utterly ridiculous."
    • "The only part of your performance I liked, was the end. Not the beginning, not the middle, but the end."
    • "That was simply awful."
  • The other door. No, the OTHER door.
  • Prince Bishie, Mighty Is He, SANJAYA MALAKAR! (With a crying white girl around him.)
    • Mohawk with ponytails, people!
  • Clay is gay, with a baby in his hand.
    • So is Adam Lambert, without the baby!
  • Jordin Sparks supports Liverpool FC. (You are not alone...)
  • Just in, Kara can sing better than a girl in a bikini.
  • CaylaMARayyy.....
    • SALmon!
  • "Pants on the ground... pants on the ground..." Everybody!
    • "Lookin like a FOOL wit' your pants on the ground!"
  • Lee Dewyze + Andrew Garcia = Danny Gokey babies!
  • Kara wants Casey to show us everything he's got.
  • TV Tropes, OUT!^*Ryan Seacrest used to end every show by saying "Seacrest, OUT!" When it failed to catch on, he stopped using it.
• America's Next Top Model:
  • "Fierce! Versatile!"
  • "Smile with your eyes."
    • And now, "SMIZE!"
  • "Check out your thighs in the mirra, and I'm done."
  • "Wanna be on top?"
  • Skank ho poured beer on my weave!
  • Congratulations. You're still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model.
• Ancient Aliens:
  • "I'm not saying it was aliens...◊ but it was aliens." ^explanationThis guy's infamous infatuation with Ancient Astronauts became a rich source of hilarity once the interwebs got hold of it.
  • "I'm not saying it was humans but... humans◊."
  • "Is such a thing even possible? Yes it is.◊
• Angel:
  • "My name's Angel. I was born 244 years ago in Ireland. Small town, good family. Twenty seven years into an unremarkable life, I met a woman. She told me she could show me a world I'd never seen... She wasn't kidding." ^explanationAngel's summary of how he became a vampire.
  • Angel Investigations. We Help the Helpless. ^explanationThe slogan of Angel Investigations, and in some ways the series as well.
  • I'm brooding! ^explanationAngel's tendency for brooding is constantly mocked.
  • ... do the astronauts have weapons? ^explanationSpike and Angel having an argument (that soon spreads around the entire office) about whether cavemen could defeat astronauts.
    • NO!
  • YOU'RE A BLOODY PUPPET! ^explanationSpike's reaction to Angel being turned into a puppet.
    • I DO NOT HAVE PUPPET CANCER!
    • WEE LITTLE PUPPET MAN!
  • Numfar! Do the dance of joy! ^explanationWhedon's cameo in one episode, consisting of him dancing.
  • OH MANDY! ^explanationAngel is a terrible, terrible singer.
  • Can I say something about destiny? Screw Destiny! If this evil thing comes we'll fight it, and we'll keep fighting it until we whoop it. 'Cause destiny is just another word for inevitable and nothing's inevitable as long as you stand up, look it in the eye, and say "You're evitable!" ^explanationFred's reaction to destiny.
  • I am not a eunuch! ^explanationAngel's aggrieved reaction to being called a eunuch.
• The Apprentice:
  • You're fired!
  • Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: *Glasses Pull* You're fired as well!
  • The Drew Carey Show: Johnson, you're fired!
• The Armstrong and Miller show:
  • "Isn't it?" "Isn't it?" "Isn't it, though?" "Standard."
• Arrested Development
  • "I've made a huge mistake."^explanationUsed by GOB (initially) whenever one of his ideas... doesn't pan out.
  • "How much clearer can I be when I say that THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND?!"^explanationGeorge Sr's reaction to his coded message about hidden cash being misunderstood and said cash being burned
  • "That was a freebie."^explanationMaeby's response to random good fortune
  • "STEVE HOLT!"^explanationSteve really loves saying his name, while raising his arms above his head — characters around him tend to pick up on this and follow suit
  • "Say goodbye to THESE, Michael!"^explanationKitty's standard exit move — shout this while exposing the enhanced breasts the Bluth Company paid for
  • "I don't know what I expected."^explanationMichael's reaction to looking into a bag labeled "Dead Dove, Do Not Eat", which did indeed have a dead dove inside of it. Often used as a reaction image to something that isn't exactly surprising.
  • "If you’re saying I play favorites, you’re wrong. I love all my children equally." Earlier that day... "I don't care for Gob."^explanationMasterful use of the Gilligan Cut as demonstrated by Lucille. Can be snowcloned into whoever you need it to apply to.
  • Narrator (Ron Howard): It wasn't.^explanationOften heard when a character is being an Unreliable Expositor.
• The A-Team:
  • I love it when a plan comes together.
  • I pity da fool!
• Austin & Ally:
  • His and Her Derpy faces. ^explanation A Austin and Ally Tumblr that showcases their herpy-derpy facial expressions.
• The Avengers (1960s):
  • "Mrs. Peel, we're needed."
• Avenida Brasil
  • This Brazilian telenovela generated a few memes. The most notable one was the dramatic freeze-frame effect used at the ending of every chapter. Many videos imitating the concept with different shows popped up. Globo, the network which aired the telenovela acknowledged this and the effect was Played for Laughs on other shows.

B

• Babylon 5:
  • The Narn Bat Squad^explanation An early episode of B5 featured a Zima sign in the background, hung up by a member of the production crew as a joke. J. Michael Straczynski, after learning about it, joked that he wanted to bring the guy from the Zima commercials onto the show so that he could be beaten to death by a gang of angry Narn with baseball bats. Ever since then, the Narn Bat Squad beat netizens senseless as rightful punishment for lame puns.
  • "Green." "Purple.'^explanation A second season episode revealed that Drazi politics consist of everyone grabbing neckerchifs from a barrel (thus affiliating themselves via which color they had), and then beating the crap out of each other until one color or the other was left standing. Always fun for a pointless invoked Fan Dumb argument du jour.
  • "How will this end?" "In fire." ^explanationSaid by Sheridan and Kosh. Used whenever a discussion is likely to degenerate into a Flame War.
• The Ballad of Big Al: "Allosaurus had never seen such bullshit before◊." ^explanationThe expression of Big Al's animatronic after he breaks his toe has been used to express annoyance in some circles.
• Bar Rescue:
  • Play some Janet Jackson! ^explanationOwner Paul's constant, drunken demand during the recon of Las Vegas gay club Gipsy. It was enough to become the episode's very title.
  • GOLF CLUBS! GOLF CLUBS! ...GOLF CLUBS! ^explanationTaffer outs Scott, minority-owner of Dale 1891, by reading off a bank statement littered with a ludicrous amount of unauthorized charges he'd made from the business's funds, mostly spent on sneaking off to a country club.
  • Remember me? Yoooooooour WIFE!? ^explanationThe owner of Summit House gets confronted by his wife, who had been watching him hit on some female customers during the recon. Jon sends her in with a "Rock his world."
• Battlestar Galactica:
  • "BY YOUR COMMAND" ^explanationThe response of the Cylons in the original series; used as a nice Mythology Gag in the new series.
  • AND THEY HAVE A PLAN ^explanationThe final line of the opening credits. Used derisively by fans worried about The Chris Carter Effect.
    • John Kerry is a Cylon. ^explanationDuring the 2004 U.S. Election cycle, Democratic Presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry kept saying that he had a plan, but refused to ever say what said plan actually was. As such, fans of the show used this line to mock him. The fact that Ron Moore never actually came up with a plan during the course of the show's run just added to this.
  • So say we all!
    • So say we all.
    • So say we all.
    • So say we all. ^explanationIn the miniseries, Cmdr. Adama leads a eulogy at a military funeral by these words, emphasizing their unity in the face of genocide. He's very insistent. In the series it's essentially expanded into the Colonials' equivalent to "Amen".
  • Frak off. ^explanationYou can't curse on broadcast and basic cable television, so BSG uses "frak" as a substitution for the F-word.
  • Starbuck is the best [Placeholder] in or out of the cockpit. ^explanationStarbuck quickly became the military equivalent of an Omnidisciplinary Scientist and remained one throughout the show's run.
• Behind the Music:
  • Behind the meme. ^explanationBehind the Music, VH1's show about our favorite artists being naughty.
• Being Human:
  • That was pathetic! We were... like... the world's GAYEST ninjas.
  • WHO WANTS SOME OF MY CHAIR?!?
• Between the Lions:
  • "Ooh, aah, dance in smarty pants!" ^note  Arty Smartypants' theme song.
  • "Cliff Hanger! Hanging from a cliff! And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger!"^note Theme song of "The Adventures of Cliff Hanger"
    • "Can't. Hold. On. Much. LONGER!"^note  Cliff Hanger's Catchphrase, used at the beginning and ending of each adventure.
• Big and Small: "Uh-oh, you found the toothpaste! Let's get one thing clear, I can brush my teeth all by myself, okay!"^ExplanationOne of their flash games in the old CBeebies website included a segment where Big and Small brush each others' teeth in the bathroom. Small's bit (which may start with the above quote) looks less like cleaning teeth and more like Big trying to waterboard Small with toothpaste and shoving the toothbrush down his (entirely toothless) throat while Small coughs, spits and chokes the whole time sounding like he's on the verge of drowning in toothpaste. The moment quickly got memed on thanks to how offputting and darkly hilarious it is in contrast with everything else.
• The Big Bang Theory:
  • It's hot in here. Must be Summer.
  • Bazinga!
  • I don't need sleep. I need answers.
  • *knock knock knock* Penny. *knock knock knock* Penny. *knock knock knock* Penny.
  • Sheldon: "I just installed Windows 7"
    • Audience: *dies laughing*
  • I'm not insane! My mother had me tested!
  • You're in my spot.
  • Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fuuuuur.
  • No Laughter.
• Big Brother:
  • Day Thurty-Naine, and Michelle has been called to the diii-aary room.
  • Most of the housemates... are in the house.
• Blackadder:
  • Fear not, I have a cunning plan! ^ExplanationSpoken by Baldrick, invariably before he comes up with the worst plan ever.
  • ...Bob. ^ExplanationKate claims that Kate is short for Bob.
  • Wibble! ^ExplanationA useful phrase when invoking obfuscatingInsanity. Blackadder does it.[[/labelnote]
  • CHISWICK! FRESH HORSES!!
  • X? That sounds a bit rude, doesn't it? Sounds almost exactly like... bum!
• Bones:
  • Dancing Phalanges! [[labelnote:explanation]]Temperance Brennan is trying to keep a baby occupied, except she can't just say "fingers". It somehow manages to be adorable.
  • King of the lab! ^explanationJack Hodgins and Zach Addy's ongoing contest as to who solves the case fastest. Gets Harsher in Hindsight considering what happens to Zach.
  • I don't know what that means... ^explanationBrennan's signature response to Booth asking her something pop culture-related. She's not lying, she really doesn't know what he means.
  • When science gets icky, it's okay to get si- *throws up* ^explanationBunsen Jude the Science Dude, who's a Bill Nye Expy, has this response after he dissects a particularly grotesque body.
• The Book of Pooh: "[gasp] A brain drain!"^explanationIn the episode "Brain Drain", Tigger says this line when Owl remarks that Eeyore may have a "brain drain" (that is, Eeyore keeps forgetting important things). Tigger's cries of "Brain drain!" have become popular in the YouTube Poop community thanks to a pooper named CamHead, who made multiple YouTube Poop collabs of the show due to this joke.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • "Don't you ever think about anything besides boys and clothes?" "Saving the world from vampires?" ^explanationBuffy's reaction to her mother questioning her priorities, before she knew about her daughter's status as The Chosen One.
  • "If the apocalypse comes, beep me." ^explanationThe Scoobies became increasingly blase about how The World Is Always Doomed.
  • "Dawn's in trouble, must be Tuesday." ^explanationA reference to both Dawn being a peril magnet and the formula of the series itself, Buffy airing on Tuesdays for a while.
  • "Love makes you do the wacky." ^explanationWillow's cheery outlook on why relationships cause problems.
  • "I hope it's a funny aneurysm moment." ^explanationBuffy thinks her mother will have a freakout when she sees how much her college textbooks cost. Became the Trope Namer for Funny Aneurysm Moment (later merged into Harsher in Hindsight) when Joyce dies from a brain aneurysm a year later.
  • "I'm sick of being everybody's Butt-Monkey!" ^explanationXander's reaction in the first episode of season 5 when he is mind controlled by Dracula. Not a Trope Namer, but close.
  • "Bored now." ^explanationSaid several times by Vamp Willow before she does some murdering. Used much later in a horrifying Ironic Echo when Dark Willow flays Warren alive
  • "Ben is Glory." ^explanationSpike repeatedly attempts to explain this to the rest of the Scoobies, who are influenced by a spell that forgets what they saw if they see Ben turning into Glory or vice versa.
    • So, wait... You're saying that, somehow, Ben has something to do... With Glory?
  • "Resolve face." ^explanationWillow assures Buffy that she can perform a spell despite her injuries, visually demonstrating her resolve.
  • "Uh, guys, oxygen becoming an issue." ^explanation Standard reaction of the Scoobies to being hugged or glomped too tightly.
  • "And I think I'm kinda gay..." ^explanation Willow's reaction to Vamp Willow. Used much later as an Ironic Echo in "Tabula Rasa".
  • "Don't warn the tadpoles!" ^explanationWillow after being disturbed from her sleep, explaining that she has frog fear.
  • "Ha! I mock you with my monkey pants!" ^explanationOz's conversation with Willow about how unfair it is that the monkey is the only animal cracker with pants.
  • "We saved the world. I say we party."
  • "Out. For. A. Walk...bitch." ^explanation Buffy gives Spike some words to explain why he's in her front yard
  • "Five by Five." ^Explanation Faith's catchphrase, indicating everything's cool. Derived from a bit of radio communications terminology meaning "Loud and Clear".
  • "Fire bad. Tree pretty." ^explanationBuffy's exhausted reaction to Sunnydale High blowing up/the sheer craziness of the last few days
  • "You had SEX with GILES?! ON THE HOOD OF A POLICE CAR?! TWICE?!?!" ^explanationBuffy briefly has psychic powers and hears her mother trying not to think about a secret she's been keeping for months
  • "Get Out!, GET OUT, GET OUT!!" ^explanationDawn Suddenly Shouting.
  • "What would Buffy do?" ^explanationXander from the first episode of season 4, in regards to how much of a hero Buffy is, and a mantra fans had adopted.

C

• Carga Pesada:
  • Brazil has its native version of Star Wars's "It's a Trap" thank to this TV drama series about two trucker guys, Pedro and Bino, who bump into adventures all over Brazil. Pedro shouting "É uma cilada, Bino!" (It's a trap, Bino!) happened enough times in the series so it is now uttered whenever one wants to talk about anything that has dubious merits.
• Castle
  • JOSH DAVIDSON ^explanationJosh Davidson was a Romantic False Lead for Kate Beckett in the third and fourth seasons. Given the popularity of the Beckett/Richard Castle ship, coupled with Davidson's slightly smarmy perfecter-than-perfect-hunky nature, he quickly earned a nice Die for Our Ship Hatedom. This in turn led to fans comedically blaming Davidson for everything bad that ever happened on the show, everything bad that happened around the show in Real Life, and eventually just everything bad that ever happened in Real Life.
  • Confused Castle.^explanationAt the end of "Love Me Dead", Castle and Alexis talk about her college plans and he is surprised to learn she's interested in going to Oxford. The gif of Castle wanting to ask her about Oxford but deciding not to has become a popular reaction shot on Facebook, Twitter and various internet forums.
• Chappelle's Show:
• "Modern problems requires modern solutions" is probably the biggest slow-burn, really only picking up traction in the late 2010s but becoming one of the biggest memes the show ever spawned.
  • Charlie Murphy's "C: True Hollywood Stories" sketches from the second season spawned a cottage industry of memetic catch phrases ("I'm Rick James, bitch!", "Cocaine's a helluva drug", etc.) They're also widely considered to be the funniest skits in the series.
  • What did the five fingers say to the face?
    • Slap!
  • Game. Blouses.
  • Ahem. "Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?"
  • FUCK! YO! COUCH! NIGGA! FUCK! YO! COUCH!
    • DAWKNESSIS DAWKNESSIS
    • YOOOU-NITY!
  • WHAT!? OKAY! YEAH!
  • SAM JACKSON BEER!!! MM-MMM, BITCH!
• El Chavo del ocho:
  • "Vamos, tesoro. ¡(Y) No te juntes con esta chusma!" ("Let's go, honey. Don't fool around with this riff-raff!") ^explanation A recurring gag on the classic Mexican sitcom El Chavo del 8. Said by Doña Florinda whenever Quico is found with Don Ramón, who she has a considerable love-hate relationship with.
  • "Si, mami. ¡Chusma Chusma!"^*PFFT!
  • Both are typically preceded by Doña Florinda (played by Florinda Meza) slapping Don Ramón (Ramón Valdés).
  • "¡Y la proxima vez, vaya a editarle los memes a su abuela!" (loosely, "And next time, go edit your grandma's memes!")
  • "¿Memes del Internet? Tenía que ser el Chavo del Ocho." ("Internet memes? It had to be El Chavo del Ocho.")
  • Pipipipipipipipipi... ^explanationThe characteristic sound El Chavo makes whenever he cries.
    • WAAAAAAAAAHHH! WAH! WAH! WAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!^explanationThis is how La Chilindrina cries.
  • To many Mexican viewers, "The Elephant Never Forgets" by Perry-Kingsley has also become memetic thanks to the show.
  • "Ron Damón" ^explanationA Spoonerism of "Don Ramón" that El Chavo is often prone to referring to him by.
    • "Don Rrrrrrrramón" ^explanationDoña Clotilde ("la bruja del 71") has an infatuation with Don Ramón, causing her to say his name with Trrrilling Rrrs.
  • "¡Satanas! ¿Donde estás Satanas?" ("Satanas! Where are you Satanas?") ^explanationA running gag in later episode in which Maiden Aunt Doña Clotilde is searching for one of her pets. With such a forboding name, it only serves to reinforce her perception as "La Bruja del 71".
  • "Yo tengo un meme, ¡y no te lo presto!" (loosely: "I have a meme, and I'm not gonna lend it to you!)
  • "¡AAAHHH, YA CÁLLATE, CÁLLATE, CÁLLATE QUE ME DESESPEEEEEE... ras!" ("AAAHHH, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAAAAA...zy!")
  • "Se me chispoteó." (loosely: "It just slipped", used when you say something you shouldn't have)
  • "Qué bruto, póngale cero." (loosely: "How dumb, give him/her a zero.") ^explanationIn the school episodes, when Professor Jirafales asks a question and one of the students gives a correct answer, El Chavo says this thinking they blundered. The phrase is used when someone indeed says or does something stupid or wrong.
  • In Brazil, "Era melhor ter ido ver o filme do Pelé!"^explanation"We would be better off watching Pelé's movie!", a Woolseyism changing what in the original was an Actor Allusion, "We would be better off watching al Chanfle!". Used whenever a movie - but could be a TV show or similar - ends up a major disappointment.
• Chernobyl:
  • Dyatlov's I Reject Your Reality moments towards the disaster have become quite memetic.
    • "You're confused. RMBK reactor cores do not explode."^explanation One just has, but Dyatlov's in denial.
    • "You didn't see graphite. YOU DIDN'T, because it's NOT. THERE."^explanation Graphite is only used in the nuclear core itself. Seeing graphite outside the core is bad news and means that it blew up. Note that Dyatlov saw the graphite in question but is in denial.
    • "3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible."^explanation This is true, but they only got that because 3.6 roentgen was the highest their scales could go. When measured with a better dosimeter, the the radiation levels turn out to be 15,000 roentgen (and in real life, it's suspected that even that dosimeter was maxed out). Everyone suspects this, but Dyatlov's in denial and insists it must be the lower number.
    • "Cherenkov effect. It can happen with minimal radiation."^explanation The blue light he's referring to isn't caused by the Cherenkov Effect. It's the air being ionized by the insane radiation levels around the core.
    • "He's delusional. Take him to the infirmary." ^explanationDyatlov refuses to believe the guy who tells him that the core just exploded.
  • It's the equivalent of a chest X-ray. ^explanationHow Shcherbina initially describes the reported radiation level. Legasov points out that it's actually equivalent to about 400 x-rays.
  • Graphite is just spicy concrete.^explanationFomin tries to pass off the (super radioactive) graphite debris that Shcherbina saw as being burnt concrete. Scherbina doesn't buy it.
  • Tell me how an RBMK reactor core explodes. ^explanationFomin shuts down initial evidence of the reactor explosion with the strategy of "If you can't explain how it could explode, how can it have exploded?" For the curious, the answer is a flaw in the AZ-5 system that accelerated the runaway reaction it was already experiencing.
  • "I serve the Soviet Union." "Thank you." "I serve the Soviet Union." "Thank you." "I serve the Soviet Union." "Thank you." ^explanationGeneral Tarakanov insists on individually thanking every one of the final round of "bio-robots" tasked with clearing the roofs of radioative debris.
• Chuck:
  • Chuck, you stay in the car!
  • It's never safe in the car!
• The Closer:
  • "ANSWER THE QUESTION!!"
  • "MURDER ONE!"^*Often used when referring to first-degree murder.
• The Colbert Report:
  • And the number one threat to America? BEARS! ^explanationThe Threat Down segment lists the current "threats to America", with bears originally always number one (Colbert, either actually or as part of his persona, has a massive fear of bears).
  • You know it's gone too far when the Studio Audience interrupts the host with it. "I'll do the lines, thank you!"
  • Great X? Or the greatest X? ^explanationA common question Colbert asks his guests, parodying the questions a lot of "real" news pundits ask.
    • I'll just put you down for great. ^explanationAfter the guest responds in a way that makes it clear that they hate whomever\whatever Colbert asked them about.
  • The character of Stephen Colbert can be best described as a joke that everyone in America is in on.
  • I CALLED IT!
  • TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN, JIMMY, TAKE IT DOWN!
  • All people who have ever viewed TV Tropes, and Senator Jon Kyl have had sexual relations with some form of poultry. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. ^*After Jon Kyl said that 90% of what the Planned Parenthood organization did was funding abortion, he was called out on the fact that the actual figure is more like 10%. He responded that it wasn't intended to be a factual statement. Colbert responded by suggesting that people Tweet misdeeds Jon Kyl has committed, with the above Twitter hashtag.
  • Munchma Quchi.
• Columbo:
  • (begins to save page...) Oh, and one more thing...
• Community: "Troy and Abed in the moooooooooooooooooorning!" ^explanationa recurring end-titles joke where Troy and Abed host a fake morning show is introduced with one of the catchiest jingles ever.
  • "The question isn't where, Constable...it's when." ^explanation In the episode Biology 101, Abed becomes a fan of a show called Inspector Spacetime (an obvious parody of Doctor Who). Though it appeared for only half a minute, it inspired Community fans to construct an elaborate history for the fake show, even giving Spacetime its own tropes page.
  • "Cool. Cool cool cool. ^explanationAbed's Catchphrase.
  • "Streets ahead." If you have to ask, you're streets behind.
  • "Britta, you are the WORST." ^explanationAny time Britta Britta's something
  • "I'm gettin' ridda Britta/I'm gettin' ridda the 'B'" "She's a G.D.B.!" ^explanationBritta's ex-boyfriend Vaughn performs this song (with Pierce on the keyboard) to humiliate her after she showed Jeff a poem Vaughn wrote
  • "Pierce, Pierce, Pierce, Pierce you're a 'B'!" ^explanationVaughn and Pierce had a falling out, this song is the result
  • HA! GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! ^explanationSenor Chang's response to Jeff saying that the most important tool is respect is probably the best known quote from Community.
  • Dan Harmon is a genius and I will die protecting his vision. ^explanationA paraphrase of a quote Annie says about the Dean in Documentary Filmmaking: Redux, which became a fandom rallying cry after the show was put on hiatus mid-Season Three, and then after Dan Harmon was fired. Interestingly, Annie is saying this because she's been driven to the brink of madness by the Dean's preening tantrums and insane perfectionism as his creative baby spirals completely out of control...
  • I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO MY WHOLE BRAIN IS CRYING ^explanationDelivered by Troy while panicking after Annie chloroforms a janitor in Accounting for Lawyers.
  • My emotions! MY EMOTIONS! ^explanationDelivered by Troy while workshopping negative emotions in a drama class in Competitive Wine Tasting
  • The gif◊ of a smiling Troy entering his and Abed's apartment with pizza only for his smile to fall away as he witnesses the absolute pandemonium ^{In brief}Vast swathes of the apartment are on fire, Jeff is swinging around a flaming jacket, Pierce is bleeding to death, a blood-soaked Annie and Abed are trying to save his life, and everyone else is screaming in terror ^{Full story}Troy goes to get the pizza and leaves in a hurry, so as not to miss anything interesting, and slams the door, which causes the Indiana Jones diorama to eject the boulder which rolls off the table and onto the floor. Jeff stands to get a drink but hits his head on the ceiling fan, and when Annie walks over to tend to him, she slips on the boulder and falls on the coffee table, in turn displacing Pierce's bottle of overproof rum, which shatters on the floor. Pierce abruptly rises from his seat, knocking Annie's purse on the floor in the process, causing the gun to go off and the stray bullet hits Pierce in the leg, and he falls to the ground, which sends his housewarming gift (a creepy Norwegian Troll) tumbling across the floor. While Abed and Annie ruses to Pierce's side to try and stop the bleeding, Shirley runs out of the kitchen in time to get a face full of spraying blood, and she screams in horror. Britta comes out from the bathroom and goes slack-jawed over the spectacle, causing her lit joint to fall out of her mouth and into the spilled alcohol, which starts a fire. Jeff takes off his shirt and swings it wildly around in an attempt to smother the fire, but it only ends up catching on fire itself and wraps around Jeff's arm. Meanwhile, Britta frantically tries putting out the fire by throwing glasses of water at it. Troy arrives with the pizza and stares in horror at the complete chaos that has erupted, before he sees the Norwegian troll in the middle of the flames and screams.that has ensued in the ninety seconds since he left is often used as a Reaction GIF when anything cataclysmic suddenly occurs in TV or Real Life.
• CSI :
  • Gangsta Griss! ^explanationAt one point in "Jackpot", Grissom turns his CSI ballcap backwards to allow him to lean in closer to something. It made him look like a gangsta.
  • Everyone just shot Justin Bieber! ^explanationA scene in one of the episodes of CSI featuring the (in)famous teen pop star has invoked a lot of youtube short videos involving different characters of various media shooting at him.
• CSI: Miami:
  • Caine One Liners. Even on... *puts on sunglasses* this very wiki. ^explanationOften done right before the show's opening.
  YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
• CSI: NY:
  • Boom!
• Cyberbu//y (2011):
  • I CAN'T GET THE CAP OFF! ^explanationCyberbullying victim Taylor tries to commit suicide through an overdose, but has trouble getting the childproof cap off. She's then put in a hospital, and placed on a suicide watch.

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• Dad's Army:
  • "Don't tell him, Pike!"
  • "We're doomed!" (Sometimes changed from Doomed to Marooned or Entombed depending on the situation)
  • “Don’t panic, don’t panic!” (With Captain Mainwaring (pronounced Mannering) sometimes added onto the end.)
• The Daily Show:
  • According to United States Senator Ted Stevens, the Internet is "a series of tubes". was right on top of this comment.
  • Let the record state that it is "not a big truck", either.
  • "And now here it is, your moment of zen..." ^explanationThe end of every episode, showing a clip that didn't make the final cut or an extended version of a previously shown clip.
  • Brought to you by the International Association for the Collection of Television Tropes, or NAMBLA. ^explanationApparently, the acronym of every organization is NAMBLA - the (actual organization) North American Man-Boy Love Association.
    • However, for the record, The Daily Show has absolutely no affiliation with the North American Man Boy Love Association, or, as it's called, UNICEF.
  • Glenn Beck has Nazi tourettes!
  • "Fox News is the Lupus of News"
  • "Meet me at Camera Three."
  • Roll 2:12! ^explanationOriginates from the Jim Cramer interview, where Jon had videos prepared of statements Cramer had made on his show, which contradicted parts of his explanation. Became a Running Gag for a while for Jon to shout it before playing a video clip of someone saying something in the past that conflicted with their more recent statements.
• Dateline:
  • A picture of Chris Hansen and/or "I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC"/"Why don't you take a seat over there?" is a frequent response to things related to paedophilia or Hannah Montana. (And in the wake of the 2008 Beijing Olympics... gymnasts.)
  • During the course of a typical interview, Hansen will read "explicit" lines such as "that's terribly sexy" or "I like rape" from the transcripts of chats between the alleged predators and non-underage decoys. These quotes are often remixed as pick-up lines, used for trolling purposes, or combined with other memetic material.
  • "Just me, my mommy, and my daddy." ^explanation A decoy who looks much, much older than his supposed age of thirteen delivers this very unconvincing line when a predator asks him who lives in the house with him.
  • OH CAWD!! ^explanation Predator Lorne Armstrong's bizarre pronounciation of "Oh God" when confronted by Chris Hansen.
  • Ben and Jerry's Funky Monkey?! ^explanation A predator says online that he'll bring ice cream to lick off the girl. The decoy promptly suggests this flavor, which is hilarious enough on its own, but isn't even a real flavor; in reality its called "Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey."
  • "That would be the cleanest, best, pleasure."^explanationCody Green, a predator from the Georgia sting, uses this as a reason for him seeking out a 13-year old. "Cleanest, best pleasure" has been used to describe superlatives for things among the TCAP community.
  • "NO RUBER"^explanationAnthony Palumbo, a predator from the New Jersey sting, uses all-caps in his chats. He misspelled "rubber". Fans have followed this format by misspelling words and writing in all-caps.
• "Dear John" Letter-s. ^explanationDear John is a show about a man who comes home and finds a letter (in the title sequence no less) beginning Dear John, from his wife explaining that she's leaving him. Decades later, a Dear John letter is a letter telling someone they're dumped.
  • Dear John letters probably originated back in or before World War II
• Degrassi High:
  • Tessa Campinelli? You were FUCKING Tessa Campinelli? You bastard!
• Degrassi: The Next Generation:
  • Did Manny get pregnate?
  • Is Manny a slut?
  • Did Emma get gonorrhea, spelled 60 different ways, none of them right?
  • I'm going to be an actress. Academy Award-winning. And you can sell these for a million dollars 'cause I am going to be FAMOUS!!!!
  • Boycott the Caf!
  • Last name Walking, first name Never! ^explanation in reference to Jimmy running from Rick, who then shoots him. parody of the line from Jimmy's actor Aubrey "Drake" Graham's song Forever
  • You told me... TO PLAY BASKETBALL!!!
• Dexter:
  • I'm watching you, motherfucker.
  • The Code Of Harry.
  • Surprise, motherfucker!^explanationA clip of Doakes greeting Dexter with these words led to a lot of parodies.
  • The final episode inspired plenty of Monty Python quotations ("I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK...").
• Diff'rent Strokes:
  • Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
• Dinner for One:
  "By the way, the same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?"
  "The same procedure as every year, James."
• Dinosaurs
  • "I'm the baby, gotta love me." ^explanationBaby Sinclair's catchphrase.
    • "Not the Mama!"
  • "SINCLAIR!!!!!! IN HERE NOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • "We're going to need another Timmy!"
• Dr. Phil:
  • You're fat, and don't try to sugarcoat it or you'll eat that too.
  • What gives you the right to imprison your wife in the basement?!
  • "Catch me outside, how about that?" ^ExplanationA 2016 episode of the show featured a girl named Danielle who stole people's cars. When the audience didn't take the situation seriously, she responded to them with this phrase, spoken in a weird manner.
• Dollhouse:
  • "Did I fall asleep?" "For a little while."
  • I'm talking about a clean slate.
    • You ever try and clean an actual slate? You always see what was on it before.
  • It's time for your treatment.
  • There are three flowers in a vah-ze
  • Look! Porn!
  • Man-reaction.
  • I cahn't pronounce hahd r's...
• Donkey Hodie:
  • Purple Panda wearing a beard and singing Jingle Bells. ^Explanation In "The Masked Veggies", Purple Panda worries he will mess up and do something silly while on the titular game show, claiming he will wear a Santa beard and sing Jingle Bells at one point, which he actually does. Many fans like posting this scene out of context because of how bizzare it is.
  • Donkey Hodie's failed kick dance. ^Explanation In "Hoof Dancing Is Hard", Donkey Hodie can't seem to get parts of the hoof dance right and has to practice them one by one. When practicing the kicking move, she accidentally falls down. People have edited the scene so it seems like she kicked something else instead, usually a villain.
  • Donkey Hodie dabbing. ^Explanation In "Planet Purple Party", Donkey raises her hands above her head during the second takeoff in Panda's rocket. Fans often point out that this pose resembles the dabbing dance move.
  • Another meme related to the show involves people recording videos of failed attempts at making froyo in the Donkey's Froyo Stand game.
  • "Stephanie, Duck Duck lives at a duck pond in Someplace Else on Donkey Hodie. Good thing the pond is fake. If it were a real pond, Duck Duck would swim in it, and puppets soak up a lot of water. You don’t want Duck Duck to soak up a lot of water. The tv show guys don’t want that." ^Explanation On Twitter, a fan of the character Duck Duck said this to Stephanie D'Abruzzo, the person who plays her. This post has become an inside joke among the Muppet community.
  • "Squibbit, squibbit!" ^Explanation In the episode "Squibbit", a penguin keeps interrupting Danda Ponkey's band practice by yelling this phrase.
    • "Bands always have hee-hawesome names, like...(beeping noise)" ^Explanation On a January 26, 2022 airing of "Squibbit" on PBS affiliate WMPB, a monthly required Emergency Alert System test occurred during the scene where Purple Panda and Donkey Hodie decide on a band name. The timing of the part where the beep occurred has become a recurring joke among the PBS Kids community.
  • Donkey's scream when she falls off the lemon in "A Lot Of Hot". ^Explanation In "A Lot Of Hot", Donkey tries to get juice out of a giant lemon, but fails when it rolls away and sends her flying through the air. This scene is a very popular clip on websites like YouTube.
  • Dancing Under The Golden Rainbow ^Explanation The song that Donkey and Panda perform after putting on sunglasses in "The Golden Crunchdoodles". The song is one of the most popular songs from the show.
  • Sancho Panda ^ExplanationSome people who learn about the show often ask why Purple Panda, Donkey's best friend, wasn't named after Sancho Panza to go with the Don Quijote reference. This might be a reference to The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda, which actually had a character with this name.
• Dragnet:
  • This is the city, Los Angeles, California...^ExplanationThe opening line of every episode. Usually followed up with some informational bit related to the episode, other times just skips to "I work here. I'm a cop/I carry a badge."
  • "Just the facts, ma'am."^ExplanationActually a Beam Me Up, Scotty!, the originating quote was "All we want are the facts, ma'am."
  • The four-note "Dragnet March" fanfare.^ExplanationUsed to indicate someone being in a good deal of trouble. Ascended for Joe in the 1987 movie, when Streebeck calls him on not referring to Connie Swail as "The Virgin Connie Swail".
• Drake & Josh: It's spherical! ^ExplanationJosh describing the Game Sphere, a console which he favors.
• Drew Careys Improvaganza:
  • DUUUUSTSTOOOOOOORM!

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• The Eric Andre Show: Who killed Hannibal? ^ExplanationAsked by Eric after he shoots Hannibal. Often used as an Image Macro to satirize people trying to shift the blame for their actions onto others, with the question edited to "Why would [scapegoat] do this?" It's also a common analogy for the behavior of Among Us players, since Impostors can easily report their own kills.

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• Farscape:
  • Can I get a 'Hell Yeah?' ''--Hell Yeah!'' This one was shouted live action before the Farscape panel at Comic-Con. A random audience member shouted the question, and—without prior planning—about a third of the crowd responded.
  • Well, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin had meme-ified this for years beforehand, and that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold says so.
• The Fast Show:
  • Scorchio!
  • This week, I have been mostly editing this page.
  • And editing this page is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.
    • This troper was going to edit it, but there was a problem with the drainage in the lower fields.
    • And I was very...very...drunk.
    • Little bit woah, little wey. I'm a geezer!
    • ...Chris Waddle.
  • Aren't tropes brilliant?
    • Nah, s'a load of old bollocks.
• Father Ted:
  • Would you like a cup of tea?
    • Ah go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on...
    • It's got cocaine in it...
  • (Mrs. Doyle: And what do you say to a loverly cup [of tea]?) FECK OFF, CUP!
  • ARSE BISCUITS!
    • I'm soooo, soooo sorry.
  • NUN(S)!
  • HAIRY JAPANESE BASTARDS!
  • Are those my feet?
  • Nudie Father Jack!
  • I LOVE MY BRICK!
    • ARRGGHH! FECK IT! FED UP WITH BRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!
  • Quite long for Meme but deserves a mention as it's the longest and most coherent line Father Jack has: "They lie in wait like wolves. The smell of blood in their nostrils. Waiting. Interminably waiting. And then..."
  • Fupp off, you fupping grasshole!
  • "My lovely horse running through the ... fiiiiiield. Where are you going with your fetlocks blowing in the ... wiiiind?"
  • "That would be an ecumenical matter!"
  • "These cows... are small. And THESE cows are far away."
  • You address me by my proper title, you little bollocks!"
  • I've no willy.
  • Who smells of wee? ... It's this one. This one smells of wee.
  • I hear you're a racist now, Father.
  • Feckin' Greeks! They invented gayness!
  • Down with this sort of thing! ... Careful now.
  • "hairy babies"
    • Hairy Baby Maker!
  • Now to ride Mrs. O'Reilly.
    • THERESA! I FORGOT ME FECKIN' TROUSERS!
  • How's your bra?
  • More water.
  • (No, Father! Don't drink that, it's-) FECKIN' WATER!
  • Instead of a mouth it has four arses!
  • DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING
    • CAREFUL NOW
  • "I kicked Bishop Brennan up the arse!!"
  • "Spider baby".
  • You have used 5 centimetres of sticky tape. God bless you.
  • Ooh, I really hate Father Dick Byrne!
  • *Leer* It's Ireland's biggest lingerie department!
• Firefly:
  • I'll be in my bunk. ^explanationA common Unusual Euphemism, even on this very wiki, for whenever someone is aroused and wants to masturbate.
  • Also? I can kill you with my brain. ^explanationRiver's warning to Jayne. Used as a summary for Psychic Powers.
    • Ceiling River is watching you procreate. ^explanationAt the end of The Movie, River uses a hole in the ceiling to watch Simon and Kaylee take it to floor.
  • Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! ^explanationThe entirety of Wash's first appearance, in which he plays with his dinosaurs, is a meme in one way or another.
    • We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land.
    • Ha Ha Ha Ha! Mine is an Evil Laugh!
  • Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
    • Big Damn Heroes, sir!
    • Ain't we just! ^explanationBoth a Trope Namer and an example of Mal's dedication to his crew and being a badass.
  • Special hell. ^explanationBook's warning to Mal about a special hell "reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre".
    • ...Special hell.
  • This food is problematic. ^explanation One of River's classic lines.
  • I Call It "Vera". ^explanationJayne has a lot of affection for his weapons.
  • He robbed from the rich / And he gave to the poor / Stood up to the man / And he gave him what for / Our love for him now / Ain't hard to explain / The hero of Canton / The man they call Jayne... ^explanationThe ear worm of a song in the episode "Jaynestown" made in Jayne's honour.
  • A good portion of Early's dialogue, including "That seem right to you?" and "Arson. The little man loved fire."
  • Shiny!^explanationUsed on the show to mean "It's fine" or "Cool." ("Everything's shiny, Captain.")
  • “How do reavers clean their spears? They run them through the wash”^explanationA reference to Wash dying from a Reaver spear in the movie.
  • Too soon^explanationAnytime a joke about Wash dying, like the one above, is made, expect this as the reply, no matter how long it’s been.
  • Jayne’s hat has spawned a lot. Especially calling it “cunning” or using the quote “A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”
  • “I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you” ^explanationMal’s line in “Our Mrs Reynolds” when he’s disguised as a woman
  • A plethora of memes exist about the show being cancelled far too soon.
  • “You can’t take the sky from me” ^explanationLine from the theme song, often seen with images of the ship
  • Captain Tightpants^explanationKaylee’s nickname for Mal when he was wearing his tight dress outfit in “Shindig”. Became a Fan Nickname for Mal
• FlashForward (2009):
  • BECAUSE I WAS LOADED OK?!
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
  • Now this is a story all about how/My life got flipped, turned upside down/And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there/I'll tell you how I become the prince of a town called Bel-Air. ^explanationThe opening theme song of the series, became an endemic Interrupting Meme in many parts of the internet.
    • Additionally, The Fresh Prince of [insert title here], or some variation thereof. ^explanation:There's a fad among video makers that involves synching the show's theme song with other music, claiming that it works with any kind of music. Unsurprisingly, it does. Too well, in fact. No, seriously. This seems to have been inspired by the Guile theme goes with anything meme in the Street Fighter fandom. Naturally, the two themes go together.
  • It even goes with the RickRoll.
  • When one talks turkey with Uncle Phil, he'll start daydreaming about pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes.
  • Philip Banks is running for Superior Court JuJuJudge.
  • I'm stuck in a basement sittin on a tricycle girl gettin on mah nerves/goin outta mah mind I thought she was fine don't know if her body is hers.
  • I can still see him... It just reminds you how unfair and cruel the world can be... I can still hear them taunting him... Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids...
  • The Carlton Dance. ^explanationCarlton looooved to break out into dance to Tom Jones. Even Will (who usually gave this antic a Fascinating Eyebrow) joined in for the final time.
    • JUMP ON IT! JUMP ON IT! JUMP ON IT! ^explanationAnother dance involving Will and Carlton; this time, it was a duo act used to win a contest.
• Friends:
  • How you doin'? ^explanationJoey's Catchphrase that he uses to attract women.
  • OH...MY...GOD! ^explanationRecurring character Janice's Incoming Ham Catchphrase
  • That dog'll lick itself, but it will not touch your sandwich, what does that tell you? ^explanationRachel comments on Joey being an Extreme Omnivore and kinda disgusting.
  • It's a moo point anyway. It's like a cow's opinion - it's moo. ^explanationBook Dumb and other kinds of dumb Joey tries to argue his opinion.
  • "Noooooo!"; "I KNOW!" ^explanationRachel and Monica's catch phrases.
  • "Could this quote be any more memetic?" ^explanationA speech pattern that many of the characters mock Chandler for, despite the fact that they use it to mock him more than he uses it himself.
  • Paper! Snow! A Ghost! ^explanationJoey took part in a game show as a celebrity and he was not doing very well. This was his answer to almost every question.
  • WE WERE ON A BREEEEAAAAAKKK!! ^explanationRoss's frequent insistence that he was not in the wrong for sleeping with the girl at the copy place because he and Rachel were on a break.
  • Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat... ^explanationPhoebe fancies herself a musician but opinions on her abilities differ in-universe. "Smelly Cat" is her biggest hit which was even used in a commercial and it was also released as single, but Phoebe's singing was replaced.
  • Laminated list, also known as freebie list. ^explanationA list of your top 5 people, usually famous celebrities with whom you can have sex if you have a chance to score, regardless whether you are in a relationship or not, and your significant other must comply. It was first mentioned by Chandler when he dated Janice, and Ross spent the entire episode trying to figure out the very best selection of ladies possible, and when he was finished, he had his list printed and laminated.
  • PIVOT! ^ExplanationRoss has bought a new couch, but in order to save on the delivery fee, decides to take it to his apartment himself. He enlists Rachel and Chandler's help to carry it up the tightly winding staircase in his building. As they reach a corner, Ross instructs the others to "PIVOT", in an increasingly loud and bizarre voice. Eventually Chandler snaps and screams "Shut up, SHUT UP, SHUT UUUUUUPP!"

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• Garth Marenghis Darkplace:
  • Blood. Her blood. Blood. Blood. Blood.
  • Blood.
  • Maggots. Maggots. ............ Maggots.
  • ...and bits of sick.
  • It had a Short Run in Peru …
• Generation Kill:
  • "You're not gay if you think Rudy is hot."
• Glee:
  • "Do you think this is hard? Try doing memes. THAT'S hard!" (And that's how Sue C's it!) ^explanationSue Sylvester lives in the realm of Refuge in Audacity, and signs off her television show with the latter phrase.
  • From the top! ^explanationWill Schuester's favorite phrase.
  • Eyes on your own paper. ^explanationWill Schuester's other favorite phrase.
  • Figgins: "Shue, my hands are tied!"
  • Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?
    • "I'm pretty sure my cat's been reading my diary."
    • "You guys, it's like cool epilepsy."
    • "I didn't wear a bra, and I had them turn on the air conditioning."
    • Sometimes I forget my middle name."
    • ""I've been here since first period. I had a cold and I took all my antibiotics at the same time, and now I can't remember how to leave."
    • "Who can tell me what a ballad is?" "A male duck."
    • "Brittany, you're supposed to be in your wheelchair." "I lost it."
    • "Sex is not dating." "If it were, Santana and I would be dating." ^explanationBrittany Pierce takes Dumb Blonde and Fountain of Memes to a whole new level.
  • The University of Los Angeles. That's in Los Angeles. ^explanationJesse St. James is informing everyone where he intends upon attending college.
  • Think of the mailman! ^explanationHow Finn attempts to stave off premature ejaculation.
  • That fucking COCKBLOCK PIANO!^explanationWhen Kurt and Blaine kiss in "Original Song," it lasts for a very passionate ten seconds. After they stop to breathe, they practically jump each other for a second kiss — and the scene cuts almost immediately to a keyboard being played as a segue into Mercedes' song "Hell to the No".
    • On that note, it seems to have become a thing to post a video of yourself totally geeking out over the kiss on youtube.
    • Now you can add a variant on it for A.N.T. Farm: That fucking COCKBLOCK BOOMERANG! ^explanationChyna was about to confess that she liked Fletcher in "endurANTs", then the boomerang hit her head and collapsed. Fletcher badly wants to know what she was about to say.
  • Suddenly... Karofsky! ^explanationA parody of the Little Shop of Horrors song "Suddenly Seymour", mocking Karofsky's sudden reveal.
  • Courage.^explanationFormer CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather's sign off on his last newscast after being forced off the newscast in disgrace in 2005 following the Memogate controversy during the 2004 U.S. Presidential election involving questions over the authenticity of documents claiming then-President George W. Bush received preferential treatment and avoided combat duty in The Vietnam War thanks to the influence of his father. In September 1986, Rather attempted unsuccessfully to turn the phrase into a regular Catchphrase similar to "That's the way it is" by predecessor Walter Cronkite. Instead, the attempt, particularly a botched attempt to say it in Spanish, led to Rather dropping it after a week.
  • Someone on Tumblr suggested the idea that Rory and Sugar are time-traveling future children of current show couples (Klaine and Brittana, respectively). With that suggestion was born an entire Fandom-Specific Plot about new characters being time traveling children. It's practically a genre at this point.
  • "Why is the T-Rex eating the Jew?" ^explanationIn universe internet reaction to Finn and Rachel's kiss at Nationals.
  • NO ME GUSTA ^explanationA Spanish sentence Santana used, it means 'I don't like it'.
  • Santana reacts ^explanationDue to her original background status, the most notable of Santana actress Naya Rivera's performance was the epic facial expressions. Even after her promotion they endured, and images/gifs of her are used as a reaction to nearly everything on the Internet. Quinn's faces come a close second.
• Gossip Girl:
  • You know you love me.
  • (after somebody insults you) Yeah? Well your sweet potatoes are bland.
• The Greatest American Hero
  • The theme song has enjoyed renewed popularity recently, thanks to its use by a certain internet critic.
• Grey's Anatomy:
  • McDreamy is so McGorgeous (TM).
  • Seriously? Seriously! ...SERIOUSLY!?
  • O'Malley... stop. lookin. at. my VA-JAY-JAY!

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• Haneru no Tobira: "Osechi, osechi, osechinko!" ^Explanation On one Osharace segment, the contestants had to think of words that began with the last letter of "osechi", the word for a special meal eaten on New Year's in Japan. Akiko Wada accidentally said "chinko", the Japanese word for "penis", during the segment, which was not allowed because of its' profane nature. This scene, known as "Osechinko", inspired various remixes where audio from the scene was placed into other songs and even clips from other TV shows.
• Hannah Montana:
  • Sweet niblets!
  • Dang flabbit!
    • What in the Sam Heck?
  • TVTropeseditorsayWHAT?
  • Hey-O!
  • Rrrrrrrico! Muahahahaha!
  • Eep!
  • Oh yeah! I went there!
    • Ya think?
• Hannibal:
  • Ravenstag ^explanationthe recurring Animal Motif of a creature that appears in Will's hallucinations
    • "Swiggity swag I'm a stag", "Swiggity Swag the Nightmare Stag" and other variations
    • This gif◊ from Adventure Time has also become popular in relation to the show
  • X Is People ^explanationafter a tweet by Bryan Fuller during the first episode.
  • I'm concerned about / someone help Will Graham. ^explanationstandard response to Will's increasingly fragile mental status, especially when it comes from people who don't even watch the show or are also fictional characters
    • Not you Dr. Lecter, sit back down. ^explanationCaveat to the above, since Hannibal is largely responsible for it
    • THAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF HELPING WILL GRAHAM! ^explanationStandard response to the season one finale, in response to the original meme.
• Harry Hill's TV Burp:
  • "But which is better? There's only one way to find out..."
  • FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!
  • The otherwise VERY serious BBC4 archaeology/history series Time Watch has used this meme. A scholarly argument between two university professors as to the dating, structure and purpose of a Roman coliseum in the North of England was briefly described. the narrator said that the argument was so entrenched that it was hard to see which point of view was better. There was indeed only one way to find out... cue the two professors striding purposely at each other from opposite ends of the arena floor. ^note Who then shook hands and debated the question perfectly amicably.
• Have I Got News for You:
  • "PETROL, WE'RE RUNNING OUT"
  • Paul Merton has a CSE ungraded in metalwork. "If anyone's interested, I can make a trowel."^ExplanationOften comes up when Paul is being particularly Book Dumb on the show.
  • "Allegedly."^ExplanationIan Hislop's Catchphrase.
• Heroes:
  • Save the cheerleader, save the world.
  • Dad doesn't verb objects, Claire.
  • YATTAAAAAAAA!!!.
  • "Eat your brain? Claire...that's disgusting."
  • "I am bery Special!"
  • "I know how X works. What makes them TICK."
  • It's the HUNGER! I can't control it. I don't want to.
  • "Hi, do you like pie?"
  • "Waffles! Woo-hoo!"
  • You're a bi-rian! Bi-rian! BI-RIAN!!!
  • ...Cake?
  • "And I am tired of you telling me what I have to do. I don't have to do anything!" "Except fly." *grins mischievously and shoves Peter off the roof*
  • Mr. Muggles was one near the starting of the series. Sadly, the fandom has seemed to have forgotten him now.
    • He may be the one who started it all.
  • "Mystery sock?"
  • Don't anger Linderman, or you can't have any of his pot pie.
• Highlander
  • "I am Duncan Macleod of the Clan Macleod!"
  • (shared with the films) "There can be only one!"
• Hip Hop Harry
  • Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! (Who's next?)^explanationThe song used during the Once an Episode dance circles, which saw a resurgence on TikTok.
• Hipp Hipp:
  • Vem vill inte gå in i systemet? Hunden, katten, glassen! Hunden, katten, glassen!
  • Dagens I-landsproblem ("The Daily First-World Problem")^ExplanationA recurring joke on the show featuring rich, 'privileged' people complaining about obviously minor things happening to them in a intentionally Wangsty fashion. Spread into Swedish culture as a way to tell someone to man up.
• The Honeymooners:
  • "Honey, you're the greatest!" ^explanation Ralph Kramden would always say this to his wife Alice at the end of every episode.
  • "Bang! Zoom!" ^explanation Ralph uses this onomatopoeia, along with a vigorous fist swing at nothing, to indicate that someday he will punch Alice to the moon. It's worth noting that not once did he ever lay a hand on her in anger.
    • "To the moon, Alice!"
    • "One of these days... ONE OF THESE DAYS... POW, right in the kisser!"
• House:
  • "It's never lupus." "... Until that time!" ^explanationIt became a Running Gag that the team would keep suspecting the patient had lupus only to be proven wrong, to the point were House used a hollowed lupus textbook for storage. The joke died swiftly after there was a patient who actually had lupus.
  • Tritter and his tendency for rape. ^explanationTritter was unbelievably creepy in all of his appearances, and the fandom immediately leaped to "serial rapist".
  • "I'm not on antidepressants; I'm on speeeeeeeeeeeed!" ^explanationHouse drugs Wilson with amphetamines, leading to this line.
  • Be not afraid. (For the nymphs have taught Wilson how to please a woman.) ^explanationIn a spectacular Funny Moment, House discovers that Wilson was once in a pornographic film and said this line. Cue every person in the hospital saying this to Wilson in one form or another.
  • Another life saved by girl-on-girl action. ^explanation One of House's many quips, referring to how he wouldn't have managed to diagnose the patient if Thirteen hadn't kissed her.
• House of Anubis-
  • To squee or not to squee? SQUEE! ^explanationA popular quote from Willow.
  • Falls out of his/her chair in amazement. ^explanation One of Alfie's most popular quotes
  • You have five minutes precisely, tropers, and then I shall want to hear a pin drop. ^explanation Victor's famous catchphrase.
  • Moy Castle ^explanation Moy is the name for the pairing of Joy and Mick. Some fans searched it up and discovered there is a Moy Castle in England, leading to the idea of Mick and Joy being the rulers of Moy castle, with Alfie as the jester, and all the shippers living there too.
  • Dark Fabian ^explanation Came from fans wanting to see Nice Guy Extreme Doormat Fabian with an evil side.
  • WHERE'S JOY?! ^explanation In the first episode, Patricia would constantly ask this question.
  • LOAS ^explanation Also known as Lack Of Anubis Syndrome, the fan's term for what happens when the show is over, and they remain obsessed. Apparently, the only cure is more of the show.
  • I'm Nina, I'm from America! ^explanation The way Nina liked to introduce herself to people in the first season became popular with fans.
• House of Cards (UK): "You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment."^explanationThe catchphrase of Francis Urquhart that he uses for plausible deniability when he is confirming something or leaking information.
• How I Met Your Mother:
  • "Legen-wait for it and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is-DAIRY!" ^explanationBarney's Running Gag of calling things "Legendary" and having Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!.
  • Haaaaave you met Ted? ^explanationBarney's introduction of Ted to random women, including the one who kicks off the whole show, Robin.
  • LAWYERED! ^explanationMarshall's exclamation upon kicking legal ass.
  • The Bro Code.
  • Suit up! ^explanationBarney's rallying cry to his friends. Because suits are awesome.
  • But, um... isn't it pronounced encyclopaedia? ^explanationRobin has a habit of saying but um and it was turned into a drinking game by viewers of her show. Ted also has trouble pronouncing encyclopedia.
  • NOBODY ASKED YOU, PATRICE!! ^explanationA jealous Robin screams this at a coworker who sighs that Barney's Grand Romantic Gesture towards Nora is "so dreamy".
  • I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR! ^explanationTed shouts this to an appreciative crowd in McLaren's Bar while drunkenly performing for them. A common reaction gif, the proper response is "We love you too, Drunk!Ted!"
  • I got the sandwiches! ^explanationSince Ted is telling the story to his kids, he turns smoking pot into eating sandwiches, even though the "sandwiches" are in plastic bags.
• Human Target:
  • GUERREROWNED! has become a small-scale meme among Human Target and Jackie Earle Haley/Guerrero fans.
• Hunter:
  • "Works for me."^explanationOften says this about his (initially) more violent approach to solving crimes, etc.
• Hyvät Herrat: Bowling alley screens when you get a strike^ExplanationA phrase frequently used online to describe the show's second intro, stemming from a YouTube upload named after the phrase that went viral. While the meme was already used to describe dated and/or bizarre CG animation elsewhere, the deeply surreal nature of the opening left it intensely associated with the phrase, to the point where other videos related to Hyvät Herrat include the description in their titles.

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• iCarly:
  • "Fatcakes, YEAH!"
  • When temperatures get too high, the elderly will start to die!
  • In the Miranda Cosgrove / Nathan Kress Real-Person Fic community, Nat Wolf has become known as The Goober for some reason.
  • For most Creddiers, Ariana Approves!
  • You are grounded for 'til cock.^note Not from the show itself, but from a YouTube Poop called Spencer Launches a Bagel into Griffin's Rectum.
  • "What's Gibby Thinking About?" ^Explanation A video remix series based on a sketch which people replace what he is thinking about with various other videos.
  • "Whatcha Got There?" ^Explanation A memorable scene where Carly's brother Spencer misinterprets a question about his recently-purchased ostrich.
• I Dream of Jeannie
  • Jeannie's fold-arms-and-nod-head spell seems quite catchy if you look at it so often.
• Inai Inai Baa!:
  • "Guru Guru Dokka~n!" has become the subject of many memes:
    • Perhaps the most famous of these memes has people editing videos of explosions into the song when the word "Dokka~n!" (meaning "Ka-boom!" in Japanese) is said.
    • It's common to see videos on Nico Nico Douga with the song synced up to scenes from anime or remixed with audio from other sources.
• The Inbetweeners:
  • Bus wankers!
  • Oooh, frieeeend.
  • Briefcase wanker.
  • My dad's not bent.
• Iron Chef:
  • COD ROE ICE CREAM?
  • If memory serves me correctly, Fukui-san, there were quite a few others memes in the quest to see who's cuisine reigned supreme... Allez Cuisine!
• The IT Crowd:
  • "Goddamn these electric sex pants!"
  • "FAATHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR!"

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• Jimmy MacDonald's Canada:
  • Good evening, Canada. I'm Jimmy MacDonald and I'm going to give it to you straight.
  • If you're Canadian, you smoke Provincial.
  • A Womannnnnnn's Advice.
  • Memes... are outrageous!
  • That footage was intentionally disturbing!

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• Kaamelott:
  • C'est pas faux. (It ain't false)^explanationStandard answer a couple of very stupid characters give when they don't understand something. Later on one of them begins to think that everybody does that, causing him to ask anybody who says "C'est pas faux" what they did not understand.
• Kamen Rider franchise:
  • Belt Announcer. Always. Except when it is a Weapon Announcer.
    • KAMEN RAIDO DECADE! ATTACKU RAIDO D-D-D-DECADE!
    • Adovento!
    • CYCLONE! HEATO! LUNA! TORIGGA! METARU! JOKA!
    • EXTEND, please~! FLAME, please~! Connect, NOW! Shabadobbie TOUCH TO HENSHIN! Luppachi Magic TOUCH 'N GO! Very nice! Kick Strike! FABULOUS!
    • TAKA! TORA! BATTA! TA-TO-BA! TATOBA! TA-TO-BA! TRIPPLE SCANNING CHARGE! PU-TO-TYRANOSSAURUS~! PU-TO-TYRANO HISSATSU!
  • Since Kamen Rider #1, it's a tradition for every Kamen Rider to have a Rider Kick. That meme went as far as to spread into various games.
    • Castlevania has the diving kick, Smash Bros has Falcon Kick, we could go on a HUGE list here, guys.
  • Narutaki's infamous catchphrase from Kamen Rider Decade: ONORE, DICKEIDO!!◊ ^explanation"Curse you, Decade!" Narutaki is a character who believed Decade was going to cause the apocalypse he was trying to prevent, but we never learn more about him or get more out of him than appearing Once per Episode to gripe that "this is also all Decade's fault!" The particular phrase "Curse you, Decade!" became a thing due to the DVD short where the characters were in a game show about past Rider trivia. Narutaki could hardly play because every third thing someone said reminded him of Decade, starting another rant that inevitably ended with ONORE... DICKEIIIIIIIIIIIDOOOOOO!!! Which is something of an exaggeration of the katakana transliteration of the English word "Decade." But the way he says it, it's definitely "Dickeido" and not Decade. Yes, he finally did get to say it in a real episode, during the finale movie in fact.
  • This take on Ievan Polka.
  • IKA DE BEER! ^explanationTranslated, it makes no sense. But in romaji, without spacing, it becomes Ika Debiru, which translates into Squid Devil or, more accurately to the series, Ika Devil. Now think about Doctor Shinigami.
  • Kamen Rider Blade is full of memes:
    • ONDULI RURAGITTAN DESKAA?!^explanation A relatively unknown meme in the West (for obvious reasons), the Japanese have had a lot of fun with Kamen Rider Blade. Onduru-Go (roughly translated as "The Ondul Language" or "Ondulish"), is a meme originating from protagonists, Kenzaki's fairly heavy-handed enunciations. The meme name comes from the first episode where Kenzaki is supposed to be saying, Hontou ni uragittan desuka!? ("Have you really betrayed us?"), but ended up sounding like, Onduru ruragittan disukaa!? Since then, it's reached a fair amount of popularity as a Japan-based net meme and has in fact received reference within the Blade Alternate Universe episodes of Kamen Rider Decade, as well as a shout-out in Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. It got another nod in the net movies for Let's Go Kamen Rider (the 40th anniversary movie), where the phrase that inspired the meme is the title of the episode that focuses on Blade. Kenzaki, for his part, has since been labelled the Kenjaki, the Prince of Ondul Planet.
    • ( 0w0), ( 0M0), ( 0H0), (<::V::>)^explanationEmoticons of the faces of the four main riders
    • (^U^)^explanationKamen Rider Glaive's emoticon, though rather taken from the rider suit like those other emoticons, it is taken from his actor. And even then, it is based on the A. R. version of Missing Ace from Kamen Rider Decade (there called DiEnd World as it also ties to his backstory). There Glaive is donned by Junichi Kaito (as with other A. R. Worlds, he is based on a character from the main world, this one being Junichi Shimura, although this time he is played by the same actor). His acting there is very memetic to the Japanese due to the mix of Slasher Smile and Stepford Smiler, hence the happy emoticon. Because the character is played by the same actor and that the A. R. World is based from a movie of Kamen Rider Blade, this emoticon (along with the other memes associated with the character - like the dissonant smiling and repeated phrase of "Brother!") have been treated as some sort of Canon Immigrant to Blade memes. It's telling that whenever he is included, they usually refer to the Decade version than the Missing Ace version.
    • Tachibana is everywhere...^explanationA famous scene from the show is the shot of Garren looking out silently behind a wall from episode 1. Whenever there is a Blade related fanart, be sure to look out for this.
    • ORE NO KARADA WO BOROBORO DA!!^ExplanationTachibana screams this in an over-the-top fashion that it sounds more hammy than dramatic. The line translates to "My body is breaking down!"
    • SAN!!^ExplanationIn the episode where Tachibana is training Mutsuki, they were practicing in those automated baseball field and he has Mutsuki call out the number of the approaching ball. He shows off by catching an incoming ball and shouting three (hence "SAN!!") before revealing the ball to Mutsuki. The way he shouts it became a meme word for fans of him.
    • His over-the-top scream when an Undead approaches him is very infamous.
    • The insert song Rebirth is attributed to Kamen Rider Garren as his actor Hironari Amano sung it. Part of the end of the chorus is the line "GOTTA BE STRONG!" repeated twice. However, Memetic Mutation is in full effect and Japanese fans have taken to call it as "KARA-MISO!" (a brand of spicy curry).
    • SAYOKO!!!
    • Kamen Rider Chalice has some that is used a lot.
    • MUKOROSU!!^explanationHim threatening Kenzaki and shouting "MUKOROSU!" is his meme catchphrase (a kin to the "traitor" phrase of Blade and "body is broken" phrase of Garren). Japanese fans also take note of his face, complete with hilariously popped out eyeballs and widened nostrils.
    • ULTIMATE FORM!!! SPECIAL TURBO!!!^explanationIn one point in the series he became amnesiac and is switched roles with a look-alike (Ryo Mikami, played by the same actor) who happens to be a heir to a takoyaki stand. Later in the episode Ryo puts on a hilarious armor called Taiyaki Master that improves takoyaki cooking. He even yells "ULTIMATE FORM! SPECIAL TURBO!" that doubles his speed in cooking (as fans joked as a pre-cursor to Clock Up). It doubles as a Shout-Out to Kamen Rider Kuuga, particularly his Ultimate Kuuga form as they share colors even. Now even though the character Hajime never wore it, his actor did, and so using this image and meme is attributed to him.
    • Kamen Rider Leangle has some too.
    • GO AFTER HIM, MUTSUKI!
    • SAIKYOU DA!!^ExplanationHis obsession with being the strongest makes him utter this line (it means "I'm the strongest!") many times to the point that it's his meme catchphrase
    • These videos should ultimately summarize the whole insanity of the memes this show produced.
  • "I'm well-trained." "I live ON a train." "Heh heh hehehe..."◊
  • "This page's creation must be a part of Gorgom's plot!"
  • "I AM AMAZON!"^explanationAn attempt by Saban to localize Kamen Rider Black yielded a role call scene of the past Riders that resulted in almost every Rider present swapping names. Skyrider, in terms of the meme itself, was given the name of Amazon.
  • "Ucchu Kitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
  • "I am Edison! Edison! Are you Edison? No you are not! I am Edison!"
  • "ORE WA TENKUJI TAKERU!"
  • Kuroto Dan:
    • People just love to compare Kuroto to groups like Nintendo or Konami after their less than favorable deeds, especially when Kuroto talks about the Mighty Brothers XX like how Nintendo would C&D fan games.
    • To a lesser extent Kuroto gets likened to a corrupt/incompetent indie game developer with a Small Name, Big Ego.
    • The clip of Kuroto's actor attempting to replicate the Dangerous Zombie Gashat's jingle on stage has become famous as well as of late.
    • Various snapshots of Kuroto's exaggerated facial expressions and actions are used for reaction images.
    • Also, referring to him as "the Game Master", "KAMI-DA," or "Dan the Man" instead of his actual name, with Shin (Neo) Dan being a In-Universe nickname.
    • There's just the fact that ever since his reveal as a villain, the man is nothing but pure unfiltered ham who spends every onscreen moment devouring the scenery. As one person said, he's like if Cakeboss and Warring had an angry manchild.
    • Kuroto ascending from the continue pipe has caught on to fans that they decided to play with that scene. And it isn't even a one-off visual gag too, as it is how Kuroto actually resurrects!
  • Poor Shin, last on the meme list...^explanationIt's popular to lament how little respect or notice that Shin has gotten since his movie, not getting a continuation to the original story or much role in crossovers.
• Kasamh Se: The Indian Soap Opera has become a meme due to its overuse of transition effects.^Explanation Both of the above scenes are supposed to be serious, but used an extreme amount of transitions for dramatic effect.
• Kenan & Kel:
  • Aww, here it goes!
  • "I... dropped the SCREW... in the TUNAAAAA! IT WAS ME!! OHH, THE HUMANITY..."
  • WHHHHHYYYYYYY?!
  • sigh Seriously, TV Tropes? Who loves orange soda?
    • Kel love orange soda.
    • Is it true?
    • Mmm-hmmmm I do, I do, I doo-oo!
• Kitchen Nightmares:
  • You work like a pig! YOU FRENCH PIG!
  • Well, if it's your ***ing kitchen, then clean it, you lazy ***t!
    • NO!
  • Fuck off, will ya! Touch the wall! You dirty pig!
  • I'm forty years of age, and I've gone to a lot of restaurants, but I've never, ever, ever, ever met someone I believe in as little as you.
  • GREEN BURGERS KILL PEOPLE.
  • Hello! My name's NINOOOOO!
• Kojak:
  • "Who loves ya, baby?"
• Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion:
  • MALDITO JUSPION!!! ^explanation This one's said in the Brazilian Portuguese dub of the show, the language's translation of "Onore Juspion (Damn You, Juspion)!"

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• The Langoliers:
  • "Scaring the little giRL?! LADY!"^explanationBronson Pinchot's character, an impatient businessman, gets extremely upset that his flight to an "important business meeting" is going to be delayed to stop at a small airport. His yelling scares one of the young girls on the plane, but he doesn't care. (Note the extra emphasis on "little GIRL?!")
• Larry King Live:
  • "Larry, I'm on DuckTales!" ^Explanation During an interview with Danny Pudi, King asked about what luxuries were important to him, causing him to respond with this line.
• Late Night:
  • I think it's time we took a look, once again, into the future.
  • The future, Conan?
    That's right, TV Tropes wiki editor! Let's look to the future...all the way to the year 2000!
    (singing) In the year two thou-saaaaand...
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
  • John Munch would like you to know that your ideas intrigue him, and he would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Though technically he was quoting The Simpsons. (Ironically, due to John Munch himself, SVU arguably occurs in the same canon as The Simpsons.)
  • Don't forget: "Are you ready for me, Daddy?" ^explanationElliot is undercover as a thug and Olivia's about to be caught in his apartment. She strips down to bra and panties and poses as a prostitute. Cue worldwide race to bunks everywhere.
  • Speaking of Law & Order, six words: "Is this because I'm a lesbian?"^explanationSerena Southerlyn, upon being fired. One of the most famous Ass Pulls in history.
  • DOINK DOINK ^explanationThe trademark sound that plays over the title cards. So named after a USA commercial where actor Dann Florek described it as "the doink doink."
  • I read on Kotaku that it was better than Civilization V with the Brave New World expansion. ^explanationPretty much every attempt to reference or make puns on gaming in the "Intimidation Games" episode is becoming memetic.
    • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intimidation Game.
• The Lawrence Welk Show: Turn off the bubble machine!^ExplanationFrom Stan Freberg's parody of the show, "Wun'erful, Wun'erful," in which Freberg would say this in an exaggerated version of Welk's accent whenever the bubble machine malfunctioned. The actual show's bubble machine did in fact malfunction frequently, though obviously not quite as badly as in the parody. Several fans of So Bad, It's Good movies have used this line to riff on the scenes in Robot Monster featuring the Automatic Billion Bubble Machine.
• The League of Gentlemen:
  • This is a local meme, for local people! There's nothing for you here!
  • Hello Daaaave?
  • Within universe, it is strongly implied that "EXCOOD BEE, HAD ADYBAHDY GOTTA BATLOV ONGE DOOCE?" becomes an advertising meme.
    • According to IMDB (and sounding closer to the sounds heard by this troper), the quote is "Eskeewd beef! Have anybody got any bokkle oran doove?"- which is fitting because the character's name is Pamela Doove. Still, very definitely a meme in-universe.
• Legends of the Hidden Temple:
  • Near the bottom of this page you will uncover The SHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE of the Silver Monkey.
    • "THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS!" ^explanationA common youtube comment found on videos regarding the aforementioned Silver Monkey. The gag originated in the video Rainbow Dash Presents Captain Hook The Bike Gorilla in which one scene parodies the puzzle's notorious difficulty by having Scootaloo and Applebloom being unable to figure out the puzzle and two Thrackerzods exasperatedly telling them how to solve it.
  • The choices are yours and yours alone! ^explanationWhat Olmec would tell the contestants before the temple run even though locked doors limited options.
• Leverage:
  • Sterling always wins. Always.^explanationOne of the rules of the show's writers.
  • Alright, let's go steal a meme.^explanationNate's Catchphrase
  • DAMMIT HARDISON!^explanationHeard frequently from Eliot
  • It's a very distinctive X.^explanationEliot's knowledge of obscure things that are important at the moment.
    • I worked as an Y./I dated an Y.^explanationEliot's explanation of the source of that obscure knowledge.
  • Age of the geek, baby!^explanationHardison's Catchphrase
• Life:
  • Are you making fun of us tropers?
  • It's the universe that is making fun of us all.
    • ...
    • Why would the universe make fun of us?
    • I don't know. Maybe it's insecure.
  • We have to use his strength against him.
    • What's his strength?
    • His weakness.
    • His strength is his weakness?
    • Yeah, it's like the one-handed clap.
    • Are you really Zen?
    • Zen-ish.
  • An Xbox isn't like a computer; it IS a computer. It's a hard drive with games on it. And Prince of Persia is a game with numbered levels where the objective is to Save the Princess.
• Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes:
  • Don't move! You are surrounded by armed bastards! ^explanationGene Hunt's declaration to bad guys. Co-opted by other characters to be more badass.
  • Fire up the Quattro. ^explanationGene's cue for a Big Damn Heroes moment.
  • It backfired on the Labour Party when they tried to use to suggest David Cameron and the Tories would take Britain back to The '80s, forgetting that comparing Cameron to Gene Hunt was both unlikely and unadvised.
  • The Master is alive and stuck in the 70s! ^explanationBoth Sam Tyler and the Master were played by John Simm.
• Little Britain:
  • I'm the only X in the Y.
  • Computer says no.
  • Yeah, I know.
  • Bitty.
  • OH MY GOD I SO CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT!
• The Lone Ranger: "What do you mean we, kemosabe?" ^Explanation A popular joke, suggesting that Tonto would inevitably get sick of taking orders from the Ranger and turn against him if they were ever surrounded by hostile Indians—leading to the exchange "Looks like we're done for!"/"What do you mean we, kemosabe?". It's used to poke fun at the popular perception of Tonto as the Ranger's put-upon servant, but it's well-known enough that certain jokesters often tack "kemosabe" onto the phrase "What do you mean we?" for humor's sake. Note that the writers of the actual show never had Tonto and the Ranger fighting Indian baddies, likely to avoid accusations of racism; the implication is that Tonto would have joined them in a heartbeat if he had ever met them.
• Lost:
  • Guys? Where are we? ^explanationOne of Charlie's lines at the end of the pilot episode, indicating to the audience that the survivors aren't on a normal island.
  • 4+8+15+16+23+42=108. ^explanationThe memetic numbers of the series and their sum, which appear in the plot on multiple occasions.
  • "Hey, you got yourself a fish biscuit! How'd you do that?" ^explanationSaid by Tom to Sawyer in a season three episode when the latter is being held in a polar bear cage, famously remixed on YTMND.
  • Keamy makes good eggs. Poached or fried. ^explanation From a season six scene when the villainous Keamy affably offers to make Sayid some eggs.
  • Locke is gonna blow your shit up. ^explanationFrom Locke's habit of blowing objects up during season three.
  • JACKFACE! ^explanation Jack's habit of making strange faces, which was turned into a Drinking Game. Referenced here in a Cyanide and Happiness comic.
  • WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!!!!!!! ^explanationMichael's Narmy cry for his kidnapped son Walt, heard at the end of season one and frequently during season two.
  • X, dammit, RUN!! ^explanationIn reference to a season three cliffhanger when Jack orders Kate to escape and yells "Kate, dammit, RUN!"
  • WHY IS THERE A DEAD PAKISTANI ON MY COUCH?! ^explanationOne of the many humorous lines that comes from Hurley's mother. She's referencing Sayid, who is neither Pakistani nor dead.
  • Ben lied. ^explanationBen is known for frequently lying on the show, to the extent that his Catchphrase is "I Lied."
  • "We're the good guys." "Well, how about that?" ^explanationLines frequently uttered by the Others.
  • See you in another life, brother. ^explanationDesmond's Catch Phrase, occasionally repeated by other characters.
  • One popular meme on GameFAQs is to intentionally confuse all the Asian characters on the show for one another.
  • "We have to go back, Kate!" ^explanationA famous line from the Meta Twist final scene of the season three finale.
  • A popular one on IMDb around Season 4 was, "With Cane canceled, Nestor Carbonell should be free for Lost." ^explanationNestor Carbonell plays the popular character Richard Alpert, who was largely absent during most of season four because he was working on the show Cane. After Cane was canceled, he was able to make more appearances, eventually becoming a regular cast member by season six.
  • Is Mr. Eko gonna have to hit you with his Jesus Stick? ^explanationBadass Preacher Mr. Eko carries around for a weapon a stick with Bible verses carved in it. On the show, Charlie nicknamed it the "Jesus Stick", a name that the fans embraced.
  • Richard is ~stealing your innocence~! ^explanationFans took the Unfortunate Implications of Richard saying that young Ben's innocence will be lost and ran with it, making Richard into a borderline Memetic Molester.
  • "You can't come with us, Kate!" ^explanationKate frequently wants to come along whenever Jack and/or Sawyer is doing something.
  • Hurley throwing the Hot Pocket at Ben: "Hello Hugo. HYAHH!" *throws hot pocket at Ben*

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• Mad Money:
  • "Hey, I'm Cramer. Welcome to Mad Money. Welcome to Cramerica. Other people want to make friends ... I just want to make you some money. Because my job is not just to entertain you, but to educate you. So call me at 1-800-743-CNBC."
  • "ARE YOU READY, SKEEDADDY?"
  • "Bulls make money, bears make money, hogs (sfx) get slaughtered!"
  • "Sudden Death! Booyah-free zone! There goes Swifty!"
• Malaysian Idol:
  • Perhaps the closest equivalent to William Hung is this Michael Jackson impersonator.
  • My heart is break! Boy, wonder how he feels after MJ's death...
• María la del barrio:
  • "Maldita lisiada!" ^explanationBig Bad and Yandere Soraya shouts and threatens her wheelchair-bound stepdaughter, Alicia, calling her a "maldita lisiada" or roughly "damned cripple/paralytic" and beats up her caretaker. Soraya has had a resurgence in popularity lately among Spanish-speakers for her ridiculous schemes, even by novela standards, and it's almost a must in Latin-American forums to post a GIF or a video of that scene
  • "[CRIES IN SPANISH]" ^explanationA screenshot of Soraya with the subtitle "[CRIES IN SPANISH]", which is often replaced with "[doing action] in Spanish," including "[GASPS IN SPANISH]" from the beginning of the memetic scene described above
• Merlin
  • "Shut up, Merlin!" (frequent Arthur exclamation)
  • "Merlin's at the tavern." ^explanationGaius started using this as an excuse for Merlin's disappearances.
  • Merlin's insults of "prat" and "clotpole" have spawned a lot of memes as well.
  • Camelot tis a silly place^explanationMashup with Monty Python, specifically the film in that franchise.
• The Mighty Boosh:
  • "I'm Old Gregg!"
  • 'I gaaaht a mangina!'
  • Shit that bawl was producin some sweet cream.
    • It was about the saahze of a medicine bawl and covered in teets.
  • Do ya love meh, or are ya playin yaw love gayms?
  • "Who the f- is John Simm?!?" from "The Chokes" unsurprisingly gained traction in the Doctor Who fandom.
  • 'This is an outraaaage!'
  • Any dialogue the Weird Moon's spoken. He's a vanilla rapist.
• Documentaries are rarely the source for Memetic Mutation, but it happened to the Discovery Channel miniseries Miracle Planet. The first episode showed what early life (circa 4 billion years ago) had to go through, including strikes by asteroids up to (and including) 500 kilometers in diameter. The episode did a computer animation showing the effects of an impact by such a huge asteroid upon the Earth. To give it a proper sense of scale, the target was modern-day Earth. See the results here. It ends with Earth a barren wasteland, with its oceans evaporated, all surface life vaporized, and the only survivors being bacteria living deep underground. The sheer violence of the scenes led to it basically becoming Stock Footage on YouTube, in order to show (sometimes in an overblown/comedic fashion) the destructive horse of, say, a collision between two Falcon Punches.
• Misfits:
  • SAVE ME BARRY!
  • I'M EMARTAL!
• Mission: Impossible:
  • The opening theme (and optional lighting of very long fuse). ^ExplanationAssociated mostly with situations that involve having to be stealthy, no matter how mundane.
  • Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
  • This meme will self destruct (in X amount of time)...^ExplanationHeard at the end of a message, sometimes with an announced time before the device playing it self-destructs in some way.
• Mock the Week:
  • Are YOU Paying Too Much for Your Car Insurance?
  • ... sponsored by PowerGen.
  • '...and the band was Showaddywaddy.'
  • Speaking of, I've got good news. I just saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to Geico.
  • Oh, this meme list is so high. I need a Sepp Blatter.
  • EXTERMINATE DAFFODILS! ^explanationA sketch of Unlikely Scenes From Doctor Who resulted in some "Dalek poetry reading". The poem was about daffodils.
• Monk:
  • It's a gift... and a curse. ^explanationMonk's repeated line about his incredible observation skills which comes with crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
  • Here's what happened.^explanationMonk says this near the end of most episodes as The Summation. Led to it being lampshaded in-universe.
  • Unless I'm wrong, which, you know, I'm not^explanationMonk has never been wrong about a murder case before. Well, as far as we are aware.
  • "I don't know how he did it, but he did it. He's the guy." ^explanationWhat Monk says when he is certain he knows who his primary suspect is, but there is nothing to prove it
  • "It's a jungle out there"^explanationThe titular theme song "It's A Jungle Out There" by Randy Newman sums up the show
• Die Montagsmaler:
  • "Hund, Katze, Maus!" (dog, cat, mouse!) (The show was about one party drawing something on a board, and the other party having to guess it. Similar as in Pictionary.) Later became the name of another show about pets.
• Mork & Mindy:
  • "Mork calling Orson. Come in, Orson..."
  • "Nanu nanu."
  • "Shazbot!"
• The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet:
  • The image of "Spaghetti Cat", which interrupts the show's broadcast on occasion for legal purposes. Joel McHale just happened to catch one of these instances and, assuming that it's just a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment due to the lack of an explanation from the show, featured it on The Soup, launching the meme. For the full story, view this video.
  • And "Creepy flesh colored beard", which became an Ascended Meme.
• Murder, She Wrote:
  • Jessica Fletcher committed all those murders herself. ^explanationIt is a widely known and accepted Epileptic Tree that Fletcher is actually the world's most prolific serial killer, framing other people for each murder.
• MythBusters:
  • "Am I missing an eyebrow?" ^explanationAdam's reaction after a small scale experiment isn't quite as small as they expected. For the record, he was.
  • Jamie wants big boom. ^explanationThe single instance of Jamie being less eloquent than Adam. Also a fairly accurate summary of the entire series.
  • I reject your reality and substitute my own! ^explanationAdam's reaction after being corrected by previous footage of himself. Became an Ascended Meme when Adam wore a shirt bearing the line.
  • Quack, damn you. ^explanationTesting the myth of whether a duck's quack echos, the first step is actually getting the ducks to quack. It doesn't go well.
  • *holds up a busted thingamajig* Well, there's your problem. ^explanationAn extensive Running Gag, used after something has been completely destroyed.
  • "Holy crap, run!" ^explanationThe only viable reaction when things don't go as planned.
  • Here, we see a wild Hyneman, in its natural habitat... ^explanationAdam on occasion will pull out a nature documentary voice and proceed to describe Jamie as if he were some kind of rare animal, with hilarious results.

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• Nanalan''
  • Thassa peepo! ^explanation The show is quickly gaining infamy for its unintentional absurdity, barely intelligible English and odd character designs. This scene where the main character, Mona, explores her Nana's garden and points out a "peepo" (aka. a pea-pod) has quickly become one of the show's most famous moments.
• NCIS:
  • The Gibbs-slap. ^explanationLeroy Jethro Gibbs is the master of the Dope Slap, and Tony DiNozzo is his favorite victim..
  • Ya think? That's a good question. Why don't you find me an answer?
    • On it, boss. ^explanationStandard conversation between Gibbs and either Tony, McGee, or Ziva being Captain Obvious.
    • I hate it when they do that.
  • He's right behind me, isn't he? ^explanationGibbs is always right behind you.
  • McFlowerPower McNerd McGoo McGeek McProbie.... ^explanationTony DiNozzo and his many, many nicknames for McGee.
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks :
  • From the Doctor Who special: "BARROWMAN! Grrr...!" *shakes fist*
  • Or SUTIN!

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• The O.C.:
  • Welcome to The O.C., bitch!
  • "Welcome to the O.Z., bitch."
  • BANG! "Mmm, whatcha say..."^ExplanationIn the climax of the Season 2 finale, when Marissa shoots Trey, Imogen Heap's auto-tuned song "Hide and Seek" immediately begins playing.
• Odd Squad:
  • "Potato potato, sha-la-la-la!" ^ExplanationThe song Agent Olaf sings at the end of "O is Not for Old" about his love of potatoes.
• The Office (UK):
  • "He's put my stapler in jelly again!" ^explanationTim put Gareth's stapler in a jelly mould as a prank
  • "I'm the Assistant Regional Manager-" "Assistant TO the Regional Manager." ^explanationGareth/Dwight think the former is his title, when it's actually the latter, though it's technically meaningless either way
  • "I got some/free love on the Free Love Freeway..." ^explanationDavid Brent's 'spontaneous' acoustic guitar performance at what's meant to be a seminar
  • "I think there's been a rape up there!" ^explanationAt the same seminar, David Brent is doing a role play as a hotel guest complaining about noise upstairs, while the seminar leader plays a concierge ignoring his complaints; David blurts this out to 'get his attention', stunning the conference room into silence
• The Office (US):
  • "That's What She Said!"
  • Fact: Bears eat beets!
    • FALSE! Bears eat everything from berries to fish.
  • Michael Scott declares...BANKRUPTCY!
  • "I love it." Followed by nodding to indicate the opposite.
  • "HARDCORE PARKOUR!" ^explanationMichael, Dwight, and Andy take up internet-style parkour in the cold opening of "Gossip." It goes about as well as you'd expect.
  • "Corporate wants you to find the difference between these 2 photos, they're the same photo." ^explanationIn the episode "Search Committee", Pam pranks Creed by asking him to spot the differences between two pictures, clarifying off camera that they're actually the same picture. Used to point out similarities between 2 pieces of media.
  • "Everybody stay calm...stay calm...STAY FUCKING CALM!" ^explanationMichael trying to calm his employees down during a fire drill. Often used to express anxiety when something is about to happen.
  • "NO! NO! GOD, PLEASE, NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO-" ^explanationMichael doesn't take things well. Often used as a reaction to something unpleasant.
• The Oprah Winfrey Show:
  • YOU GET A CAR! YOU GET A CAR! YOU GET A CAR! EVERYBODY GETS A CAR!
  • Tom Cruise jumping on the couch deserves special mention.
  • Dragon Ball/Oprah Over 9000 penises! ^explanationOver 9000 was the original meme, but Oprah was trolled into saying "Over 9000 penises!" on her show by Anonymous.
• Orphan Black
  • Everyone is Tatiana Maslany, except for Tatiana Maslany, who actually is Tatiana Maslany. ^explanationTatiana Maslany plays no less than 12 different characters on the show, 11 humans and one scorpion, not even counting the clones only seen in photos.
  • "Sestra". ^explanationIt's how Helena pronounces "sister". After she used it a couple times, the fandom caught on and used it non-stop when referring to Helena and Sarah. It got a bunch of more ironic uses in-universe.
  • "As a lesbian...supporter" ^explanationOnce, while pretending to be Alison and giving a speech in front of a group of conservative suburbanites, Cosima said, "As a lesbian..." She then realized her mistake and recovered by adding "...supporter."
  • TDOOB. ^explanation thingsdrawnonorphanblack.tumblr.com has become a subculture within the Orphan Black fandom.
• The Outer Limits (1963):
  • Do Not Adjust Your Set. We are controlling the transmission.

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• The Partridge Family:
  • "Hello, world, there's a song that we're singin'/Come on get HAPPY!..."
  • "I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of..."^explanationIt was the fictitious band's (and by extension, David Cassidy's) only major hit outside the show
  • CAREFUL/NERVOUS/MOTHER/DRIVING ^explanationThe rear of their bus has a painted on roadsign with this message, with each word originally in descending order from top to bottom.
• PBS NewsHour:
  • The principles of MacNeil/Lehrer Journalism, especially for that last one: "And finally, I am not in the entertainment business!"
  • The closing credits fails over the years, to the point where a video was made of one such fail that ended with the Blockbuster Losing Horns.
• Pimp My Ride:
  • YO DAWG! WE HEARD YO LIKE EXAMPLES, SO WE PUT AN EXAMPLE IN YO TRUNK SO YO CAN READ TVTROPES WHILST YO DRIVE!
• Pizza has alot of memes, (well, some thanks to YT Pooper Guy) including:
  • DJBJ: "DILDO UGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" (DJBJ hates Doctors), Also "You look like a Poof, Mate!"
  • The Golfing Doctors has some of their own like for example,: "What?!" & "Get that f*ckin Pizza!!!"
  • "Stooge" (A Stooge Teacher)
  • Bobo Gigliotti: "Fat Pizza, Pizza's. They're Big and they're cheesy." Especially used in "Freaky Pizza".
  • Ronnie McDoggle's "A Small Hawaiian Pizza's" scenes.
  • Another Ronnie McDoggle example: McDoggle Fight
  • Cronulla Beach Riots.
    • "LET'S GET 'EM!!!!!!" is part of the Cronulla Beach Riot.
    • "Arabic" is another.
  • Prime Minister John Howard: "Hello and Have a Good Day Nations Capital, uh." and "Bloody Rog Hoons."
  • Habib: "Oh Ma God."
    • "Tuk it easy, Ulleh."
  • (Davo) Quarantine Dinkum drunk face and laughs with "I'm feeling GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!"
• Poldark
  • "T'ain't right, t'ain't fit, t'ain't fair, t'ain't proper!"
• Police Ten-7:
  • Always blow on the pie. Safer communities together.
• The Prisoner (1967):
  • "Who is Number One?" - "You Are Number 6." - "I am not a number, I am a FREE MAN!"
  • Be seeing you.
• Project Runway:
  • "Desiiiigners!"^explanationMentor Tim Gunn is known for his enunciation of this word (which he often utters when he enters the work room, putting emphasis on the second syllable).
    • "Make it work!"^explanationTim's catchphrase, usually spoken to encourage the designers when they find themselves in a bind.
    • "Carry on."^explanationSpoken whenever Tim leaves the work room.
    • "Frankly, I'm concerned...."^explanationTim says this whenever a design project is looking less-than-spectacular.
  • "Auf wiedershen!"
  • "I'm a squid with no ocean."
  • Season 2 brought us Project Runway: The Musical.
  • "Lighten up! It's just fashion!"
  • "What happened to Andrae?"
    • Designers, look out for Andrae. He's our little lamb.
  • Tropers, up until now you have all fucking sucked. However, go out there and kick butt!
    • Pretty much anything said by Santino Rice counts.
  • "Where the hell is my chiffon?"
  • "Tropes are so fierce."
  • "His design was just a hot mess."
    • A hot tranny mess, even.
  • Oh, here go hell come.
  • MONDO WAS ROBBED.
  • "Oh my Lord of the Rings!"
  • "Blood orange? She's so pretentious. Shut up, it's fucking red"
• Psych:
  • I've heard it both ways.
  • No you have not, Shawn!
  • Gus, don't be a [insert unusual noun here or a character from a movie/TV show]
  • "WHAT?!
  • "You know that's right."
  • "You must be outta your damn mind!"
  • "C'mon Son!" ^explanationAfter Ed Lover guest starred on the show.
• Punky Brewster:
  • Henry, I'm getting boobs! *spittake*

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• QI has spawned a few, including:
  • "Blue whale!" *KLAXON*^explanationIn the episode "Aquatic Animals", the question about which animal was the longest in the world was asked. Alan answered "a really, really long sea animal, like, a whale or something" which caused "Blue Whale" to flash up as the forfeit answer (the correct answer was the lion's mane jellyfish, although a later episode revealed it was actually the bootlace worm). Since then, Alan answering "Blue whale" to nearly every question became a Running Gag in the series. Was given a bit of Meme Acknowledgment when Stephen finally asked a question to which the correct answer WAS "blue whale" - except that Alan failed to get it because Stephen asked the question in French.
  • "Which moon are we talkin' about?"^explanationThe question "How many moons does the Earth have?" was asked in the episode "Astronomy", with the forfeit answer being "one" and the correct answer being "two" (the second being 3753 Cruithne, which is an asteroid sometimes described as "Earth's second moon"). Rich Hall found this so preposterous that ever since then, whenever the Earth's moon was mentioned when he was on the show, he would retort with "Which moon are we talkin' about here?" It became so common that they actually started making it a forfeit.
  • "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is..."^explanationIn the episode "Elephants", an unaired segment from the episode "Engineering" is shown, in which Stephen attempts to explain that the Acropolis of Athens, where the Parthenon temple is located, has no straight lines. However, he has a little trouble getting the words out...
  • "All you need is length and thickness."^explanationThe episode "Flotsam & Jetsam" described the mathematical formula for paper folding, which shows how many times you can fold a piece of paper in half, and reveals that it depends on the length and thickness of the paper. Alan correctly predicted that Stephen's remark will be "snipped out, straight on YouTube".

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• Finnish sketch series Ranuan Kummit: And now, ladies and gentlemen, TV viewers everywhere, we present to you... UFOPORNO!^explanationA recurring sketch where three people in alien outfits dance suggestively in various locations - someone's house, someone's workplace, while a random dude watches...
• Red Dwarf:
  • All these memes and no reference to Mr. Flibble? He will be cross.
  • For that matter, smoke me a kipper: I'll be back for breakfast.
    • What a guy.
  • Everybody's Dead, Dave.
  • Alphabetti Spaghetti!?
    • Gazpacho soup!!
  • So what is it?
    • It's a swirly thing in space.
    • Swirly thing alert!
    • So what is it?
  • Space Corp Directive 546879 clearly states this is a Meme.
  • So what is it?
  • He's a Smeeeee. A Smeeeee. A Smeee Heeeee.
• The Ricky Gervais Show:
  • Karl Pilkington could eat a knob at night.
  • He's got a head like a fuckin' orange. ^explanationKarl Pilkington's head is rather round in shape causing Ricky Gervais to jokingly compare it to an orange.
  • Mr Dilkington.^explanationIn one of his diary entries, Karl writes about how he got a letter in the post which misspelt his surname as Dilkington. Steven reading it out causes Ricky to laugh hysterically for a good couple of minutes.
  • "Get your knickers off!" ^explanationKarl, for reasons, is imagining himself as the wife of a soldier gone to fight in World War II. When asked about how they first met, this is what Karl says is what he'd immediately tell his future husband. Ricky is highly amused.

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• Sam & Cat:
  • "This plus that equals Sam and Cat!"^ExplanationA song in a promo for the show on Nickelodeon that was overplayed back when the show was still on the air.
• Saved by the Bell:
  • "I'M SO EXCITED!!! I'M SO...SCARED!!!"^explanationElizabeth Berkley's character is addicted to "caffeine pills".
  • ""Hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?''
• A scene of the antagonist of Brazilian telenovela Senhora do Destino (released in English as Her Own Destiny) was transformed into the "Math Lady" that became a standard reaction image of confusion. Even the actress herself opened her Instagram acknowledging the meme.
• Sherlock:
  • "John, we're out of milk." ^explanation:The number of fanfictions mentioning milk (or rather, the lack of it), is astronomical. In universe? It's mentioned once. (Well, technically twice, if you count Sherlock's forum.) Three times once you find John's private blog.
  • Also, "John, could you pass me a pen/my phone?" works as well.
    • Either of the two above followed by -SH. ^explanationIt's become very popular within some areas of the fandom to roleplay as any combination of characters from the show on Omegle. The milk line is frequently used to start off the conversation, and the character speaking is tagged with their initials.
  • Mycroft is talking to you through Captcha./"Mycroft says..." ^explanationSince Mycroft is, in essence, Big Brother, controlling all of the CCTV in London and generally running the world, it was decided on the Kink Meme that Mycroft was manipulating the LJ Captcha, used to filter out spambots.
  • "Rupert Graves is good at football and has five children." ^explanationOn the commentary for "The Great Game", Benedict Cumberbatch is asked to describe why he likes Rupert Graves (Lestrade). He answers with that quote, in one of the campiest of all Camp Gay voices.
  • "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." ^explanation Sherlock to Anderson, in response to being called a psychopath one too many times.
  • "Oh. God. Yes." ^explanationJohn's rather Ho Yay-ish response to Sherlock asking if he wants to see some more death and danger. Used rather often in anonymous responses to Kink Meme prompts.
  • I BELIEVE IN SHERLOCK/MORIARTY WAS REAL/SHERLOCK LIVES! ^explanationat the end of The Reichenbach Fall, Moriarity sets things up to make Sherlock seem to be a fraud in the media. Several Sherlock fans have now started a "campaign" stating they believe Sherlock's innocence.
  • "Fine. It's...all...fine..." ^explanationJohn is trying to learn whether Sherlock has a girlfriend or a boyfriend without sounding homophobic or...interested
  • Martin Freeman is made of jam, kittens, and RAGE.
    • He's a tiny assassin in a cuddly jumper.
    • Martin Freeman is a hedgehog.◊ ^explanation Some cheeky Tumblr user compared Martin Freeman to a hedgehog. The meme exploded, with pictures like "yawning Martin/yawning hedgehog" and "grumpy Martin/grumpy hedgehog" spreading like wildfire. The capstone on the whole thing was Freeman's partner Amanda Abbington's Tweet response to a twitter user who asked if Martin knew about the meme and how he reacted, to which Abbington responded, "He laughs, he cries, then he curls up in a prickly little ball and hibernates for the winter." It also later spawned "otters who look like◊ Benedict Cumberbatch".
  • Certain photos of Moriarty are happening now too, with two of his more expressive faces from The Great Game. The first is an angry face with some kind of violent action as the caption, ex. "I WILL BURN-" and the second is a chill expression with something like "-you a CD of my favourite songs." Known as Misleading Moriarty.
  • "Fuck you, I won a BAFTA." ^explanationMartin Freeman's snarky response to an interviewer teasing him about his character's lack of dialogue.
  • "And, honey, you should see me in a crown", or, alternatively, "I will turn you into shoes."
  • Martin Freeman's grape eyes. ^explanationA picture from Facebook features Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman together, and Martin has two green grapes in his eyes. Tumblr exploded.
  • Not your housekeeper. -Mrs. Hudson ^explanation Mrs. Hudson is constantly reminding John and Sherlock that she's not there to clean up after them.
    • Not his date. -JW ^explanation John is constantly trying to convince various people that he is not Sherlock's date.
    • Not our division. -GL
    • Not a psychopath. -SH
• Shogun:
  • "Hai Toranaga-sama"^explanation"Yes, My Lord Toranaga". You'll hear that phrase a LOT in the Shogun TV series, specially considering that Toshiro Mifune's Toranaga is the local Magnificent Bastard.
• Six Feet Under:
  • My arm's numb. Numb arm. N'arm. NARM! *thud*
• Skins:
  • I'M KATIE FUCKING FITCH, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?
  • Now I've told you, okay? Now you know.
  • Oh. Wow. Lovely.
  • Be brave.
  • I bought a fucking gateau!
  • You're always scared.
  • I think I was twelve.
  • I DON'T COMPROMISE!
• The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
  • "So how does this work then?" "I dunno — BUT IT DOES." ^explanationA lot of surreal things happened on this show. Every so often, Vic Reeves or Bob Mortimer would ask precisely how something worked. This was inevitably the response.
• Spider-Man (Japan):
  • Spider-Man’s various poses and statements while posing have gained quite a bit of attention, especially the one from the first episode where he refers to himself as ‘AN EMISSARY FROM HELL’ ^explanation A fact that’s become so notable that many attribute it with being his main self descriptor and has even become an Ascended Meme due to the phrase’s appearance twice during the original Spider-Verse comic crossover
  • Machine Gun ^explanationIn one episode, Spider-Man takes a machine gun from one of the enemies and fires it towards them, hitting the equipment and lab tubes behind them. Often manipulated just to show him firing either in gif or image form, which, coupled with the use of a giant robot in other episodes of the show, is used to hype up the absurdity of the show.
  • HE TOSS A GENIE!!!!
• Stargate SG-1:
  • Indeed. ^explanationTeal'C says this on many occasions. Used as shorthand to demonstrate his status as The Stoic.
  • With magnets! ^explanationO'Neill never understands any of the Technobabble, content to think that everything works with magnets.
  • Mektel shree lotak! Meta...Setak...Oz! ^explanation Daniel is told to get on the radio and stall the Goa'ould threatening them. This is his response when he's asked to identify himself; it translates to "I am the Great and Powerful Oz.
  • "Are you a Russian spy?" "Niet!" ^explanationWhile in the past (during the Cold War), the team is suspected of being spies. The interrogator asks Daniel Jackson, in Russian, if he is a Russian spy. Daniel, being fluent in Russian, replies with "Niet!"
  • Jaffa! Kree! ^explanationA command used by every Goa'uld ever, with meanings ranging from "look" to "pay attention" to "be ready". Summed up by O'Niell as "yoo-hoo".
  • Burns as Goa'uld. ^explanationJack O'Neill's theory from Lost City, Part 1
• Steptoe and Son:
  • "You dirty old man!" ^explanationIn the British sitcom Steptoe and Son (the basis for Sanford and Son), the son would often call his father this whenever the father said something the son really disagreed with.
• Strictly Come Dancing:
  • "You're my favourite." ^ExplanationSaid by Bruce Forsyth at least once a series, often to an Ensemble Dark Horse or Joke Character, and sometimes to multiple different contestants in the same series.
  • "Seveeeeeen! ^ExplanationHead judge Len Goodman's highly distinctive manner of announcing a score of 7/10. Quickly became an Ascended Meme with Len now saying the number in that manner no matter what the context.
  • "Fab! U! LOUS!" ^ExplanationCraig Revel-Horwood's stock exclamation whenever a contestant's performance really impresses him.
  • John Sergeant's paso doble. ^ExplanationIt could have been just another terrible dance, but what elevated it to memetic status was a sequence in which he dragged partner Kristina Rihanoff across the dance floor while marching, with a ridiculously stern look on his face. It became one of the show's most memorable dances, and the resulting Narm Charm propelled Sergeant to fan-favourite status. He made it all the way to Week 10 before withdrawing, out of a genuine fear that he might actually win the thing, and every series since then has, for better or worse, included at least one (usually elderly) Joke Character who manages to get much further than they should because their dancing is just So Bad, It's Good.
• Super Sentai:
  • Fighting for traffic safety! GEKISOU SENTAI! CARRRRRRRRRRANGER!
  • The opening scene from the first episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, wherein every single Sentai team stages an epic battle, has made the rounds as one of the most epic things in recent television. (It has a similar reputation to the "Rider Orchestra" scene from Kamen Rider Decade). As someone on College Humor wrote, "I want to go back in time and high-five my twelve-year-old self."
  • Big One, featuring the J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai^explanationBig One is a very notable Spotlight Stealing Squad and turns everyone else into supporting characters
    • Big One, featuring every other Sentai hero in existence. ^explanationIndeed, Big One has showed up leading other heroes in both Gaoranger and Gokaiger. Sure, he was a co-leader in the latter, but Big One is one of the most successful Spotlight Stealing Squads of all time.
  • NOSSAN! ^explanationThanks to Nobuharu Udo of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, this has become a popular response to bad puns among fans.

T

• Taggart:
  • "There’s been a murder."^explanationTo be said in your best, or worse, Scottish accent, with murder pronounced "Mud-da".
• Ted (2024):
  • "I think if we all just take a couple of deep breaths here and just try t—" ^explanationIn the first episode, Blaire confronts Ted for giving marijuana to John, and he tries to defuse the situation before suddenly getting up and running out of the house for dear life. Edits of this scene have different music and/or sounds as Ted bolts.
• That '70s Show:
  • Red Foreman will put his foot in your ass.
  • WHERE'S MY CANDY, YOU SON OF A BITCH?! ^explanationFez has an epic Sweet Tooth, and says this phrase upon being given an apple while trick or treating in his first Halloween in the USA.
  • Dumbass!
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!!:

"It's free real estate." ^Explanation Punchline given by Tim in one of their sketches, used as a 'community ownership' format where something either happens or exists and a group sees it as theirs (ex: vacant lots: exist, squatters: "It's free real estate.")

• Top Chef:
  • "Please pack your knives and go."
  • "I'm not your bitch, bitch!"
  • "Utensils down, hands up!"
  • Ladies and gentlemen, TV's Jesse Spencer!
• Top Gear:
  • Caravans may not be Made of Explodium, but they probably should be. It's all they're good for.
  • One might say that caravans are one of the most useless inventions...in the world.
  • Some say that he's become a meme, and that he thinks the Internet is a connection between fishing boats. All we know is, he's called the Stig.
  • The little beby jeesus.
  • Ambitious but rubbish.^explanationRichard Hammond's preferred way to describe himself and his coworkers, the show, and just about everything they do.
    • Speaking of, the show's constant use of the word "rubbish" has led to Nico Nico Douga's user-base treating it as a mix of this and Inherently Funny Word.
  • "Oh no! Anyway..."^explanationJeremy Clarkson's response to James May reporting that the Dacia Sandero was delayed.
  • "Flappy Paddle Gearbox", a term Clarkson made up to refer to a Semi-Automatic Transmission. Bonus points for being an Ascended Meme: much of the car world has adopted this term.
• Torchwood:
  • "Bloody Torchwood." ^ExplanationALWAYS to be read in the accent of South Wales.
  • "You people and your quaint little categories."
  • "Mobiles, landlines, tin cans with bits of string—everything, absolutely everything! No phones, phones all broken! Hello, anybody there? No—because the phones aren't working!"^ExplanationIanto excitedly elaborating on the fact that all lines of communication are down.
  • "Lots of things you can do with a stopwatch...."
  • "With a dashing hero like me, how could we fail?"
  • "Innovative. Bordering on the avant garde."
  • And, while it's not technically from the show itself: We're To-oir-chwood. These are my SHINY TEETH.
  • WE ARE COMING.
    • WE ARE HERE.
• Trading Spouses:
  • "Ungodly!"
  • "Dork-sided".
    • "I'm a god-WARRIOR!"
  • Kermit's "Yaaaay!" scream and arm flailing.
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog:
  • No, but seriously, you've all been a great audience...for me to poop on!
• True Detective:
  • The spiral symbol that is seen everywhere in the first season.
  • The happy mug.^ExplanationRustin Cohle has a mug that says something to this effect.
  • "The Yellah King..."^ExplanationPointing out the accent of the characters in the show.
  • "Time is a flat circle."^ExplanationCohle says this. Whether or not it's profound or Fauxlosophical is your choice.
• The Twilight Zone (1959):
  • These memes are entering... The Twilight Zone.
  • Doodoodoodoo doodoodoodoo!
  • "It's not fair. There was time now!"
  • "You're a very bad man!"
    • "It's a real good thing you done. Real good."
    • "Go to the cornfield!"
  • "It's a cookbook!"
  • "THERE'S A MEME ON THE WING!"
  • "Submitted for your approval..."
• Twin Peaks:
  • "She's dead... wrapped in plastic."
  • Who killed Laura Palmer?
  • Damn fine coffee, Diane. Damn fine coffee.
    • Douglas firs!
  • The owls are not what they seem.
  • Through the dark of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds... fire walk with me.
  • I AM PRO-PELLED BY THE FURY OF MY OWN MO-MEN-TUM...
  • I didn't order creamed corn.
  • I want my garmonbozia (pain and suffering).
• The Two Ronnies:
  • Four Candles.^ExplanationPossibly their most famous sketch, written by Ronnie Barker. A man (played by Ronnie Barker) enters a shop and asks for "fork handles", but due to his strong London accent, pronounces it "fork 'andles", making it sound like "four candles". He then goes through the rest of his shopping list, which due to his terse nature and the ambiguity of the items in question, leads to the shopkeeper (played by Ronnie Corbett) becoming increasingly frustrated.
  • "It's goodnight from me." "And it's goodnight from him." "Goodnight."^ExplanationTheir Signing-Off Catchphrase.

U

• Ugly Betty:
  • I'm Wilhelmina Slater and I don't get wet!
• Unnatural History:
  • "I don't want to taze you, bro."

V

• Victorious:
  • Creeper Tori.
  • "I'm sorry, I hit the wrong thing!" "NO! Fifteen years ago, your mother GAVE BIRTH TO THE WRONG THING!" ^Explanation A scene from the episode "Tori The Zombie" in which Tori gets mad at Sinjin for playing disco music. The audio clip of the exchange has become a popular sound on TikTok.
  • "I think we all sing" ^Explanation During an interview, while Liz Gillies was sincerely praising Ariana Grande's singing, stating that she's 'always singing', Victoria Justice cut in with "I think we all sing". This phrase is often used when fans feel that Tori's character was stealing attention that Jade and Cat deserved more

W

• Walker, Texas Ranger:
  • "Walker told me I have AIDS".
• The Walking Dead
  • "Where's Carl?" "He's in the house." ^explanation Addressing Carl's habit of running off and causing trouble in the first two seasons
  • If Daryl dies, we riot ^explanation Fan-favorite Daryl is so popular that fans threaten to riot if the writers kill him off.
  • This isn't a democracy anymore. It's a Ricktatorship. ^explanation Lead protagonist Rick Grimes takes absolute control over the group at the end of season 2, being fed up with their inaction and criticism. Fans wasted no time coming up with the aforementioned pun
  • Lori is infamous for causing unnecessary tension in the show and generally irritating everyone. Everyone. This combined with her questionable parenting skills leads to some fun pictures.
  • Andrea is criticized for becoming the "New Lori" in season 3.
  • Herschel is Santa Clause ^explanation Herschel grows a beard between season 2 and season 3, causing him to look like father Christmas
• Walk on the wild side:
  • "Alan! Alan! Alan! Al! Alan!"
• Wednesday:
  • "What signals Tyler? Are the signals in the room with us right now?" ^Explanation At one point in the show, Tyler claims that Wednesday is giving him "signals" that she likes him, despite most of her interactions with him up to that point being no different than with anyone else. This lead to an influx of memes where fans jokingly ask what signals he is talking about and if they are in the room with them right now.
  • This image of Wednesday and Enid^ExplanationUsed to show the difference between similar subjects, but one being much harder or serious than the other, usually lighter in tone.
  • "Girl trying to scare me with her Wednesday personality//My personality" ^ExplanationSome fans and detractors of the show took to comparing Wednesday's anti-social behavior to other fictional characters notable for being more anti-social and edgier.
  • Wednesday dancing to Lady Gaga^Explanation Wednesday's dance scene to "Goo Goo Muck” by The Cramps became popular to parody on TikTok, though with "Bloody Mary" by Lady Gaga in place of the original song.
  • "Wednesday goes to Monster High"^ExplanationSome fans have pointed out how Nevermore Academy is very similar to Monster High and the plot of the show is comparable to the the live action monster high movie.
• The West Wing:
  • "You want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing???" ^explanationSam questions Toby about having written two drafts of an election speech - one if Bartlet wins, the other if he loses — and claims they're obviously going to win. Toby goes white, tells him not to tempt fate, and to go outside and turn and spit so he can remove the curse.
  • What's next? ^explanationBarlet's Catchphrase, showing he's ready to move on and get work done. Gets many heartwarming Call Backs.
  • Some tropers have had woot canaw. ^explanationCJ has a root canal done. Josh tortures her by asking her what she had done again and again, just because he wants to hear her say "woot canaw".
  • GERALD! ^explanationLord John Marbury can't remember — or just doesn't want to remember — Leo's name. He bellows for "Gerald" instead.
    • Abigail! May I grasp your breasts? ^explanationLord John's greeting to the President's wife. Refuge in Audacity at its finest.
  • MARGARET!
    • DONNA!
    • MRS LANDINGHAM! ^explanationLeo, Josh, and Bartlet's respective bellows for their assistants.
  • Andrew Jackson, in the foyer of the White House, kept a 2-ton block of cheese... ^explanationEvery year, Leo pays tribute to Jackson on "Big Block of Cheese Day", where he gives this speech and invites people to the White House who normally would not have their voices heard. Leo takes BBOCD very seriously, so don't call it "Total Crackpot Day".]]
  • Crime, boy I don't know. ^explanationGovernor Richie says this after hearing about the convenience store shooting of a secret service agent, inadvertently exemplifying in one fell sentence everything wrong with American politicians that the Bartlet White House is fighting against.
  • I drink from the keg of glory. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land. ^explanationWhat Josh exclaims to his assistant Donna after a professional victory.
• Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego:
  • DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!
• The Whitest Kids U' Know:
  • NOW YOU FUCKED UP! NOW YOU FUCKED UP! NOW YOU FUCKED UP!
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?:
  • It's a rare Youtube video featuring arctic terns where the highest rated comment isn't "Backstreet Boys".
  • Tapioca.
  • Oooooooooh Iedi diedi diedi diedi diedi diedi diedi ie!
  • CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!
  • Hoedown!
  • What!? PORNO!
  • It all started with a badly timed bald joke!
  • Captain Obvious
  • Nice pants.
  • Lightning Rod of Hate.
  • I'll help you fluff your Garfield.
  • Bill Cosby and Hitler.
  • The CAT!!!
  • Hi, welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway?, where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points don't matter, just like the Troper Tales pages. Nobody reads them, they don't matter at all. Just a gag to hold the show together. I don't know, the show is British.
• Wife Swap in 2009 aired an episode called "Brown/Holland" in which a Bratty Half-Pint boy named King Curtis shouts for chicken nuggets (actually chicken fingers) and bacon for every meal. When his mother was substituted by a militaristic fitness instructor, Curtis objected to her throwing away all their junk food complaining, "BACON IS GOOD FOR ME!" Since then, Curtis voraciously tried generating income off his viral footprint such as starting his own bacon brand, his own television show and a Gofundme fundraiser but never succeeded in any of these.
• Thanks to WKRP in Cincinnati, every Thanksgiving, someone in the United States is saying "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

X

• The X Factor
  • That's why you use autotune and I don't! ^explanationFrom a episode from the American version where a buzzed auditionee defended himself after getting flak from Simon, Demi Lovato told the man that "a lot of people work really hard for their dreams, but it's not meant for everyone", he replied with this.
  • #nataliakillshercareer. ^explanationFrom a now-infamous episode of the New Zealand version where Natalia Kills and her husband Willy Moon verbally attacked a performer mainly because he wore a suit and a combed haircut, as he was supposedly plagiarizing it from Willy. This caused them to lose their jobs in less than 24 hours and recieving massive backlash by critics and ex-fans alike, hence the name of the hashtag.
• The X-Files:
  • The theme song. Wah-wah-wah-wah-WAH-wah (Deedledeedledeedle) Wah-wah-wah-wah-WAH-wah (Deedledeedee) WAH-wah-wah-wah-WAH. ^note  Humming, playing, or whistling the melody indicates that something paranormal or at least something very weird is going on (somehow actually deposing the theme from The Twilight Zone (1959) for the job). It's also associated with conspiracy theories about The Illuminati, often by people parodying said theories (usually by pasting the Eye of Providence onto anything that's vaguely triangle-shaped and then playing the music).
  • I want to believe. ^note  Both the phrase itself and Mulder's UFO poster displaying it, which has spawned its own set of online photoshops.
  • The truth is out there. ^note  It was the main message appearing at the end of the opening credits. Represents the constant search for what exactly is going on. Repeatedly said by Mulder. Very often quoted and referenced.
  • Trust no one. ^explanationThe season 1 finale changed the phrase in the opening credits for the first time from 'The truth is out there' to 'Trust no one', and Mulder's first Mysterious Informant Deep Throat told him the phrase as his dying words. It kept resurfacing from time to time.
  • Agent Mulder and Agent Scully. ^explanationEven people who never watched the show know them by name and the vast majority of people know that Mulder is a whacky believer and a conspiracy nut, while Scully is a sceptic with scientific mind.
  • The Scully Effect. ^explanation In the late nineties, there was a significant increase of women studying STEM subjects and seeking careers in such fields. This is attributed to the influence of the positive portrayal of Dana Scully, an FBI agent, a medical doctor specializing in pathology. 21st Century Fox partnered with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Their research survey of women in the USA found a correlation between women who were familiar with, or fans of The X-Files and its influence on their career choices.
  • "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" helped give us the persistent refrain "ayy lmao" with a screenshot from the episode serving as the original macro template. ^note  The phrase is used as a caption for any picture of an extra-terrestrial, ostensibly because that is the only thing an extra-terrestrial ever says.
  • It was fans of the show who invented the term "Shipping", as a way of labelling the fans who wanted Mulder and Scully to get together (shippers; from the word relationship) and the ones who didn't (noromos, from "no romance"). Though the phenomenon actually predates the show.
  • "Mulder, are you suggesting that..." ^explanationand other variations of such, almost once per episode as Scully's reaction to Mulder's outrageous explanations regarding the paranormal stuff or wide-ranging conspiracies. And he happens to be almost always right.
  • "Mulder, it's me." / "Scully, it's me." ^explanation Scully's and Mulder's way of answering on the phone or starting their phone conversation. To the point that it was winkingly used as Scully's introductory line in the first movie. Mulder and Scully were among the first characters on TV who were using cell phones regularly, and early designs of mobile phones became their iconic props.
  • Red speedos. ^explanation In "Duane Barry", Mulder is seen doing laps at the inside swimming pool, wearing only red speedos. This tiny piece of clothing has become legendary and iconic among the show's fans. Supposedly, it was even given to the Smithsonian with other X-Files memorabilia. It became an Ascended Meme twice: When Mulder shows his FBI badge in the Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files", Mulder's has a picture of him in speedos (admittedly black ones). In the revival series' episode "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", Mulder is seen lying in bed, wearing nothing but red speedos.
  • Flashlights of various sizes.^explanation They are the agents' iconic items that they always kept carrying and using while solving their cases. It helped to create a mysterious atmosphere.
  • ... bleeping dead alien. ^explanation In "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''", detective Manners curses like a sailor, which they can't show in the "Rashomon"-Style episode. So he says "bleep" or "blank" a lot. Both Mulder and Scully quote the detective in phrases like "blankety-blank bleep", "blank-hole", "Yeah, that's a bleeping dead alien body if I ever bleeping saw one." or "He said they just found your bleeping UFO." Popular phrase and pattern to copy.
  • Cockblocking bee. ^explanation In the first movie, Mulder and Scully share a deep emotional moment and their Almost Kiss is stopped by an alien bee that was hidden in Scully's clothes. The bee is very much hated to memetic levels by Mulder/Scully shippers in the fandom.
  • Mulder's flirty "come-on" lines to Scully. ^explanation Mulder has a tendency to jokingly flirt with Scully, and his suggestive lines are very memorable. "I think it's remotely plausible that someone might think you’re hot" after Scully's comment about Lone Gunmen or "birds do it, bees do it, even educated MD's do it" - after discovering that all the babies with a tail share the same father; or "Hey Scully, should we be picking out china patterns or what?" Said after Scully guesses Mulder's theory. Or while climbing a tree: "Hey, Scully, is this demonstration of boyish agility turning you on at all?"
  • A meme mixed with "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" by Ylvis. As far as the X-Files fandom is concerned, the Fox says "Scullyyyyy!" ^explanation Mulder's first name is Fox which he consideres slightly embarrassing. Other Fox/fox puns are common as well.
• X-Play:
  • "Morgan's not a gamer!" "Adam is a lamer!" Adam and Morgan even referenced these lines in their "X-Play Board" song.
  • Dik dik! ^explanationAdam became rather amused by the word and used it as a catchphrase. It was part of the Ultimate Muscle character's name "Dik Dik Van Dik".

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