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Yada, yada, yada tops comedy catchphrases

Seinfeld's catchphrase tops The Simpsons, Friends and Happy Days according to a US list of comedy TV.

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seinfeldIt sounds like their very own 20 to 1, but NBC and media museum The Paley Center recently nominated America’s Top 50 comedy catchphrases, hosted by Jane Krakowski.

As succinct as “yada, yada, yada” was, it really only appeared in one episode, the 19th ep of the 8th season -so it’s a pretty generous vote for #1.

Here’s the way things stacked up.

50. “Hello, Newman” from “Seinfeld”
49. “Missed it by that much” from “Get Smart”
48. “Yeah, that’s the ticket” from “Saturday Night Live”
47. “God’ll get you for that” from “Maude”
46. “Hey, Hey, Hey” from “What’s Happening”
45. “Holy crap” from “Everybody Loves Raymond”
44. “Let me show you something” from “In Living Color”
43. “Nip it” from “The Andy Griffith Show”
42. “Thank you beddy much” from “Taxi”
41. “Do you wanna hug it out” from “Entourage”
40. “Watch it sucka” from “Sanford and Son”
39. “Jane you ignorant slut” from “Saturday Night Live”
38. “Mom liked you best” from “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”
37. “Sit on it” from “Happy Days”
36. “Now cut that out” from “The Jack Benny Comedy Program”
35. “I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl…” from “Newhart”
34. “What you see is what you get” from “The Flip Wilson Show”
33. “I’ve made a huge mistake” from “Arrested Development”
32. “I know nothing” from “Hogan’s Heroes”
31. “Here come de judge” from “Laugh In”
30. “You look marvelous” from “Saturday Night Live”
29. “I’m comin’ to join ya Elizabeth” from “Sanford and Son”
28. “Would you believe” from “Get Smart”
27. “Up your nose with a rubber hose” from “Welcome Back Kotter”
26. “Ohhhh Rob” from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
25. “Kiss my grits” from “Alice:
24. “Nanu, Nanu” from “Mork and Mindy”
23. “Don’t be ridiculous” from “Perfect Strangers”
22. “I’m Gumby, damn it” from “Saturday Night Live”
21. “No soup for you” from “Seinfeld”
20. “One of these days, pow right in the kisser” from “The Honeymooners”
19. “Did I do that” from “Family Matters”
18. “Will you stifle” from “All in the Family”
17. “Eat my shorts” from “The Simpsons”
16. “Hated it” from “In Living Color”
15. “Well isn’t that special” from “Saturday Night Live”
14. “Sock it to me” from “Laugh In”
13. “We were on a break” from “Friends”
12. “That’s what she said” from “The Office”
11. “It’s going to be legendary” from “How I Met Your Mother”
10. “Homey don’t play dat” from “In Living Color”
9. “Excuuse me” from “Saturday Night Live”
8. “Lucy, you’ve got some splainin’ to do” from “I Love Lucy” (even though he never said it quite that way – the closest he came was “Lucy, splain” and “All right, start splainin’”)
7. “Oh my god! They killed Kenny” from “South Park”
6. “Burn” from “That ‘70s Show”
5. “We are two wild and crazy guys” from “Saturday Night Live”
4. “Ayyyy” from “Happy Days”
3. “How you doin’” from “Friends”
2. “D’oh” from “The Simpsons”
1. “Yada, yada, yada” from “Seinfeld”

And for the record, this site has already done a catchphrase survey…

Source: Seacoastonline.com

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  5. Dreadful list. As others have mentioned, some of these so-called catchphrases have only been used sparringly throughout their respective series. Plus, since when was The Simpsons ever known for “eat my shorts?” Surely “Ha, ha”, “Excellent”, “think of the children” and countless other catchphrases they’ve spawned over the years are far more well known (and used).

  6. Wow Perfect Strangers haven’t seen that in years! Might see if it’s available on DVD. I was a little bit dissapointed when I started going into the 20’s and didn’t see “that’s what she said” number 12 happy with that 🙂

  7. oh and as for the ‘yada yada yada’ thing it must be the cable networks and the DVD’s that influenced that cuz they promote the hell out of that phrase whenever it comes to Seinfeld.

  8. what about ‘what the deuce’ or ‘don’t have a cow’

    well I guess their older catchphrases that haven’t been used lately in either series.

    But seriously how on earth could they miss ‘what u talkin bout’….that is incredibly ludicrous

  9. Yeah that lists crap.

    love sienfled but “Yada, yada, yada” is from one episode. Hello Newman is more a catchphrase. like the soup one. A more lasting one episode catchphrase type line is something like “I was in the pool”

    Doesn’t a catch phrase have to be a long running repeated thing?

    Eat My shorts, even the simpsons made a joke about 10 years ago that bart hadnt said it in years.

    Also some of that stuff, were they even catch phrases created on those shows. Like “how you doin’?”

    So yeah lame list, and missing obvious ones like

    “what you talkin’ ’bout willis”

    Also the enoutage one is wrong. it’s not “Do you wanna hug it out” it’s
    “Lets hug it out” or “lets hug it out bitch”

    I could go on but yeah not a very good list.

  11. Wow SNL had a few in there.

    And I love Seinfeld but wouldn’t put Yada Yada at #1..Hello Newman should have been higher.

    What about “Norm” from Cheers?

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