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Picture gallery: TV's greatest catch phrases

, Prev Next When you love a TV show, it's easy to find yourself quoting the lines uttered by your favourite characters. When everyone loves a TV show, it's all too easy for those lines to take on a life of their own.

Admit it: you dropped a few noice, different, un-ew-sew-als when Kath & Kim was at its height, you've probably employed a not that there's anything wrong with that or two to disentangle yourself from an awkward situation, and if you're a Friends fan you've certainly uttered how you doin' on occasion.

We've rounded up TV's most quoted lines, revealing the stories behind them and offering a handy guide on how you can apply them to your everyday life. Soon you'll be inserting but I'm a lady and you're fired into conversations like a pro!


Did we miss any? If your favourite catch phrase isn't on our list, let us know in the comments - what TV phrase do you find yourself saying all the time?

User comments
Doh homer simpson
...What Now? (The O.C.) Doh! (The Simpsons) How You Doin'? (Friends) Are You Free? (Are you being served?) My workmate and I use this last one often while working together. One will ask and the other will do their best Mr Humphries "I'm free" in reply.
I find myself sayin "look at me, look at me, look at me" as heard on kath & kim i just can not stop it.
'Na Na Na Buttman' Bart 'Is there a See-more butts here? I want to see more butts!' Moe 'You people will be the death me' Shirley Bobbins
"not happy jan!!!" remember from the yellow pages ad :)
Don't mention the war. The bleeding obvious.
Those Dr Who ones are one-off (or a couple of times) quotes rather than (regularly repeated) catch-phrases. Dr Who has never really had a catchphrase, maybe K9's "affirmative master". That said, the "what" has almost become a catchphrase of Tenant's time I guess. Want a jelly baby? Little Britain - Computer says no. *cough* I want that one. (and once received and impossible to take back) Don't like it. Ali G - Its coz I is black innit? Original Battlestar Galactica cylons - By your command Futurama - Well, we're boned. the "Kiff groan" Of course, the Simpsons is the home of the catch phrase. D'oh. Mmmmmmm, ..... Eat my shorts. Howdily-ho neighbourino. Exxcccelllent. Barney's belch. Krabappel's "HA!". Nelson's "ha ha". Hey hey kids. Surprisingly, neither Humphrey B Bear or Fat Cat ever had a catch phrase either.
i see no sign of intelligent life anywhere- buzz liteyear
Simpson ay.. Mr burns, screw u guys im going home, cartman southpark.
"Eat my shorts" "Don't have a cow man" Bart "Doh" Homer "Ha Ha" Nelson "Thankyou Come again" apu "Okili Dokili neighbourino" Ned Flanders "Excellent" Mr Burns And many more but i cant *** rite now

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