Quotes / Person as Verb

Doctor: My God, I've never seen such a gruesome shark attack, especially this far inland.
Leela: It wasn't a shark, it was an awful, incompetent doctor.
Doctor: Wow, he must have been a total Zoidberg.
Hermes: It WAS Zoidberg!

— Futurama, "Tip of the Zoidberg"

Gene: Oh My God I'm a verb, I'm a bad verb!
Tina: You're a berb.
Gene: I'm a Berb!

— Bob's Burgers, "Best Burger"

Judy: This was just in case you pulled a Monica.
Monica: You promised Dr. Weinburg, you’d never use that phrase.

— Friends, "The One With the Cuffs"

Jeff: You probably just Britta'd the results somehow.
Britta: No, I double-checked them... wait, are people using my name to mean "make a small mistake"?
Jeff: [shifty-eyed] ...yes.

— Community, "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps"

Jeff: [to Britta] Wow, you Britta'd Britta.
Abed: Yeah, way to pull an Abed.
Shirley: I don't get it.
Jeff: Shirley, don't do a Pierce.
Pierce: I don't get it.

— Community, "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps"

Red XIII: But, what's wrong with using color as a convenient label for- ohhh... Did I just Cloud it?
Cloud: Can we not make that a verb, please?

— Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged, Episode 16

"My name was a verb. Like, if you bash someone in their kneecap, you 'Gillooly' them. That was... that was cool though."

— Jeff Gillooly, I, Tonya

Eleanor: You're doing what I used to do. You're pulling an Eleanor.
Michael: Posting my cousin's credit card number on Reddit because she said I looked tired?
Eleanor: [snorts and laughs] I forgot I did that...No. [clears throat] No. Pulling an Eleanor in this case is lashing out when you feel like a failure.

— The Good Place

Pinkie Pie: Classic Twilighting.
Twilight Sparkle: Twilighting? You... you made me a verb?
Applejack: It's not a bad thing, we just know you have a... process.
Rainbow Dash: Stage 1: you get big news, and you're like "NOOOOOOO!" But then you pace, and you chart, and you worry...
Fluttershy: It's okay; you go ahead and Twilight, and we'll be here for you.

—My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "The Beginning of the End, part 1"

Starlight Glimmer: Wow. You are Twilighting hard.
Twilight: You say Twilighting too?

—My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "The Beginning of the End, part 1"

Imagine if somebody Snippy'd Snippy.

—Age of Empires II caster T90 Official, on a frequent player known for getting wins through sudden sneak attacks.

Vegeta: Beerus the Destroyer? I think I've heard that name before.

King Kai: Well good for you, I'm sure you're very worldly and cultured. Now he's awake and looking for a challenge. So do not engage him in any way. That means no insulting, no fighting, no Vegeta'ing of any kind! Otherwise if someone or something sets him off, it'll mean the complete destruction of Earth!

—Dragon Ball Super

Mauricio Pochettino: While we're all optimistic, when it comes to a big game, Spurs have a tendency to be rather... eh...
Producer: Spursy?
Pochettino: That's the word!

—The Champions

Because Geoffrey C. Bible is real, you should not use the name "Geoffrey C. Bible" in a derogatory way. You should not, for example, say, "Darn it! The dog made Geoffrey C. Bible on the carpet again!" Nor should you permit your youngsters to use expressions such as "Tommy stuck his finger way up into his nose and pulled out a big old Geoffrey C. Bible!" Nor should you say that a person caught engaging in an unnatural act of romance with a sheep was "doing the Geoffrey C. Bible." That would be wrong.

—Dave Barry on Phillip Morris president Geoffrey C. Bible and Phillip Morris' ad campaign involving a character named Dave.

"We have what is referred to as the 'Sebali effect' in our little circle of friends, and it's when people are like not bright enough to understand what should be very common sense."

— Padre Snowmizzle talking about Omar Sebali after the latter's playthrough of Around the Clock at Bikini Bottom

Blue Beetle: You're gonna get blued!
Aquaman: What are you talking about?
Blue Beetle: "Beetled"? Gonna get Blue Beetled.

—Injustice 2

"I wonder if you've ever noticed how often we use the name of one person to describe another person with the same characteristics. For example, a stingy old killjoy is called a Scrooge, a Shylock is a money-grabbing skinflint, and, of course, a ladykiller is a Romeo or Don Juan. And then there's Midas, Judas, Houdini, Santa Claus, and so on. Oddly enough, most of these descriptive names belong to men. The women folks come out a little better, but the only one we can think of is Pollyanna, from the book by Eleanor Porter. Today, to be called a Pollyanna is not entirely complimentary. It means somebody who is so everlastingly optimistic and sunny and cheerful, that you can hardly stand it. Actually, even the original Pollyanna didn't go quite that far. And certainly, our Pollyanna doesn't in the story we're about to bring you..."

—Walt Disney, introducing his version of Pollyanna on his weekly television show

"What seems to be happening is no one wants new music anymore. Old music is kicking new music's ass. One of the most anticipated records of the year is Taylor Swift continuing to George Lucas her way through her back catalog!"

—Todd in the Shadows, Pop Song Review: "Fast Car" by Luke Combs

Goku: Vegeta, stop Vegeta-ing! You're making it worse!
Vegeta: Don't you verb me!

— Dragon Ball Z Abridged Buu Bits

"You just got Luigi'd!"

— Luigi, The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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