Worst thread ever: What lines from the Simpsons do you use the most in your everyday lingo?

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Yup, another Simpsons thread.

I think for me, it's from that episode where Apu and his wife are trying to have kids, and for some reason at the beginning of the episode, Homer keeps saying all these annoying catchphrases, like "Too much inforMAtion! HelLO! Don't GO there!" For some reason, this comes up all the time in my everyday life, and I'm fortunate that I live with someone who understands what I'm talking about when I say "Too much inforMAtion!" in a weird Homeresque voice.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably "My cat's breath smells like cat food".

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, especially because I was super drunk on a strawberry margarita last night. I kept saying, "Could you BE any more... Hell-LOOO?!"

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

N i was obsessed with that line during the world cup last year, every time brazil were on it was "my cat's breath smells like kafu".

also d'oh and mmmmmmmmm,[insert anything here], [drooling noise]

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i do the Prof Frink 'hm-hi!' thing sometimes...bemusement ensues

Nelson's laugh obviously

some adaptation of Bumblebee Man possibly too e.g. "Aiii! El Statment Del Banco!"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I can hear you say "mmmmmmmmm,[insert anything here], [drooling noise]" in my head. I think you say it all the time.

The other thing I say is "This [x] will kill us all", as people on ILE may have noticed.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot the best one - "Could you BE any more..." which is great because he just kind of trails off, and then says "HelLO!"

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I do the mmmmm [x] [drool] thing all the time too.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm thinking of holding another meeting...in bed."

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

a friend of mine and i are very bad for this - always doing exchanges like "food goes in here / it sure does" and "what's the point of this story? / i like stories"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Honey, I'd like to be alone with the sandwich for a minute"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I do the mmmmm & drool thing aswell. I also do the mmm, mmmm, mmmm, noises he makes when he is picking sweets of his 'cake to spoil'.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Bizarrely (and I don't want to get even more of a reputation for derailing threads here but) the most commonly heard bit of stolen lingo in my house is 'it's... coffee', a random line from People Like Us. I don't know why, but it's the funniest thing ever and we can't stop saying it.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I do "mmmmm [thing] *drool*" a lot as well. Plus the occasional "D'oh!"

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Archel! Me & me friends do the same thing with the "It's a cobweb" line from The Day Today.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Just because I don't CARE doesn't mean I don't UNDERSTAND!"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, the other one I do a lot is when Bart is crying about, Homer says, "There, there...shut up, boy."

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

anything remotely crap gets a "boooo-urns"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm.. I do Nelson's 'har har' quite a bit. I should stop this shit.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's... coffee.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem OTM on Nelson's laugh. I'm surprised I don't get hit, as I use it all the time even on virtual strangers.

Also of course D'oh

I would like to think that after this whole mess has died down, it will be possible to reclaim "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" for polite conversation.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I never do the Nelson Muntz laugh. However I do the Edna Krabappel "HA!" laugh constantly.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My speech is punctuated by the Nelson laugh, the Krabappal laugh, the Frink "mm-hay!", the Comic Book Guy "worst ______ ever!", a variety of Homerisms (the "D'oh!" of course and the mmmm drool thing too, as well as his trademark "woohoo!"), and on top of this there are at least three other more specific phrases that I can't seem to avoid saying regularly, these being:

"MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!" (wasn't this Grimey?)

"He's kicking it old school!" (Sideshow Mel)

"C'mon boozy, you're late for your Drunkening." (Moe)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The goggles quote is from when Ranier Wolfcastle was filming Radioactive Man ("up and at them!")

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i use 'slack-jawed gawker' as an insult from time to time

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

can anyone actually burp like Barney (tho its actually the trademark Simpsons burp used by Homer, Maggie and others from time to time)? sadly i can't

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I also forgot about "worst. <blank>. ever." and the woohoo.

xpost: I fairly regularly refer to the omni-directional sludge pump.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but what are you gonna do.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i've started refering to sugar as 'white gold'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

bed goes up, bed goes down, bed goes up, bed goes down.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Muntz laugh, the occassional 'mmmm' and most often of all (on-line at least) 'Whoohoo!'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nelson Muntz wins this thread with the "haw haw", probably, but "Mmmmm, _______" and "D'oh!" probably are close seconds. Surprise entries from people around me: "That's right, I did the iggy!" and "Pretty lame, Milhouse."

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I also say and hear people I know say "It tastes like burning!" all the time.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"thats a load of rich creamery butter!"

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

cowabunga dude! eat my shorts!

no not really

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

forgot Burns' 'excellent' crops up now and then, and 'woohoo' all the time

i say 'Quiet you!' in the same way Homer says it to Bono in the 200th episode - that shit cracks me up

and Krusty's 'shut your hole!' or better still Wiggum's 'Shut your wordhole!' are also gold

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

and piehole. Don't forget piehole.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter."

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

obscene Flanders-isms, eg "screw-diddly-ewed."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh how did I forget "eeeeeexcellent"? I say that word like every fifteen minutes, either the Burns-version or the Bill S. Preston Esq. version.

One thing I gaffled from The Simpsons' geeky cousin Futurama = "bonghole" as in "shut your bonghole hippy!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, excellent as well. I'm now wondering if there's anything in my life I haven't nicked from the Simpsons.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Doh!
Cowabunga! (due for a revival by the trucker hat set)
Don't Have A Cow!
Its just a little airborn, its still good!
Its also illegal to put weasals down your pants for the purposes of gambling. (used only with brothers)
Excellent!
Exactly, Doh!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm not not licking toads."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

One day, I want to be able to go "oh! That's good adultery!" during sex.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i do the shudder all the time - uuhhuhuhuhh... (it turned out that Liza Minelli impersonator really was Liza Milleni)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, that ain't right

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Shut uuuppp." Carl to Lenny? Lenny to Carl? One of those.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Eveything's coming up Millhouse!!!!

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"He he. Monkey"

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually say "boo-urns" at various times, at shows, company events, etc.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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I can't believe no-one's thrown up the spotty kid who seems to have a new job every week:

"Here's your tacos Mr Simpson. Oops, I dropped them in the fryer - I'll get it out. Aaoooww, Aaaaaooouuuw."

Kid: "Are you over eighteen"
Bart: "Are you?"
Kid: "I'm not authorised to answer that question".

(etc etc)

― AndyTheScot, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, and curse my ungrammatical transcription. Apologies.

"Here's your taco Mr Simpson. Oops, I dropped it in the fryer. I'll get it out. Aaoooww, Aaaaaooouuuw."

― AndyTheScot, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

can't talk, eating

― mentalist, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't Lisa Simpson the first person to say "Meh" in popular culture? If so, then that's surely ILX's most-used Simpsonism.

― Hello Sunshine, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

"ha ha" (pointing)

"EXcellent." (fingers together)

"hi, everybody!" (Dr. Nick voice)

"I... don't understand" (in Apu voice)

god, there's millions more. and I don't even watch it all THAT much.

― StanM, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

Reading through the complete thread, I've realised that roughly 30 per cent of my daily conversation has been directly lifted from episodes of the Simpsons.

― Hello Sunshine, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturally_significant_phrases_from_The_Simpsons

Oh my, how could I forget "cromulent"...

― Hello Sunshine, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

I've completely given up watching it, but the old ones stay with you. Insect overlords and everything's coming up Milhouse are probably the ones I use most.

I also like and use "Marge my friend, I haven't learned a thing."

Oh, I also own perfectlycromulent.com

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

And when life is good: "everything is coming up Milhouse!"

I always say this too. And "Wait! There's plenty of Milhouse to go round!"

And of course "MY EYES, ZE GOGGLES DO NOTHINK!"

― Trayce, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and the "I deride your truth handling abilities" one.

I'll go to work now.

― Hello Sunshine, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

That last one is mainly thanks to this place, though

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost re: "goggles")

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

How could I forget:
"What's the obsession with my secret closet of mystery?"

and when Nelson is at some posh party, and is beating up the butler by taking his hands and forcing him to strike himself: "Stop butling yourself!"

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

And, of course, there's CHOWDAH whenever anyone mentions chowder.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

So many of these you forget came from the simpsons! I've lately been saying variations on "he's tryin to make uh munkey outta yewww" (bart from the tell-tale heart episode).

― negotiable, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

the only thing i say lately is "now it's Marge's time to shine"

― Ste, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

i used "let me get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini" for the first time in a long time the other day.

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

from one of the early halloween episodes, where homer buys the evil krusty doll, the way he says "that's good!" and "that's bad"

I had one of those "So that's where they got that from" moments when I viewed Billy Wilder's Sabrina for the first time a few years ago and saw the scene they got this from. (Sabrina's dad is reading a letter from her to his fellow servants, who reply with those lines to each point in her text.)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

I actually said "in your FACE, space coyote" twice yesterday.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't Lisa Simpson the first person to say "Meh" in popular culture?

Have you heard of the Catskills?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

aforementioned

― M.V., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season10/cruddy7.mp3

― M.V., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I suspect the only one I still use is "yoink!".

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah - mmmmmmm floorcake

-- Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:43 (Yesterday)

heheh - that should of course be floorpie...

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Another ILX fave: "I, for one, welcome our new _______ overlords."

And, "Mmmmmmm.... sacrilicious" (Homer eating a Jesus-looking pancake)

"In theory! Sure it works in theory. Communism works in theory." (probably badly mangled, but more of Homer, can't remember the context)

― nickn, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

I still use "yoink" as an expression and a verb

― kingfish, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

much as I love the show (up til about 6-7 years ago), as I don't watch the syndicated reruns or DVDs I remember hardly any of these.

I sometimes say "it's funny cuz it's true"

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

unsurprisingly, almost all of these are from between Seasons 2 and 10.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Our dog isn't allowed into the spare bedroom, and whenever he tries to get in we refer to it as "the forbidden room of mystery".

― Hello Sunshine, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

I toss out the phrase "Oldie Hawn" from time to time.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, that's a simpsons thing? okay, maybe I have more of those left than I thought

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I got it from the show (It's something Comic Book Guy called Skinner's mom)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

"POLAR BEARS!"

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

"Just because it doesn't rhyme
Doesn't mean it isn't true"

― Mark G, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

When embarking upon any shenanigans (or shenanny-goats), I'm a big fan of "Awl-right! Time for a crime spree..."

― hejira, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

smashy smashy

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

i say yoink and im so hungry i could eat at arby's all the time :(

― chaki, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

d'oh, yoink, excellent, picture them in their underwear, suit of drugs, mmmm <thing>, do i know what rhetorical means, hey there blimpy boy...

― electricsound, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

hamster 1, Bart zero (when referring to anything you should know to stop doing and don't).

― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

whenever i tell friends about a lame show i saw, it inevitably starts with, "boy that band sure did suck last night. i mean, i've seen bands suck before, but they just plain sucked. they were the worst band of sucks that ever sucked."

― Lawrence the Looter, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah I do hey there blimpy boy as well.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"i cant believe i ate the whole thing"

― nayrj26, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:50 (eighteen years ago)

ohh that <foodstuff> was so goood.. i wish i was eating it right now

― electricsound, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

it is getting harder and harder to make it into the office by ten

delete all messages

― MPx4A, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i say "quit hoggin das ice cream" basically every time i share ice cream.

― Moreno, Saturday, 6 March 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

*observes stain*

aww, nothing gets chocolate out. see?

― ramses 'gyptian nightmares (m bison), Saturday, 6 March 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

I'm going to ze lobby!

― ABBAcab (Trayce), Saturday, 6 March 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

Pretty sure at this point in my life it's either "You tried and you failed. The lesson is: Never try," or its corollary, "Got it: Can't win, don't try."

― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:14 (fifteen years ago)

I...can...see...through...time - always in the midst of chilli-infused Sichuan meal.

― ned ragú (suzy), Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

If my husband squints to try to read fine print, I start saying "R...Q...J...question mark...smiley face..."

"Stupid tv! Be more funny!" (esp. whenever I hear Garrison Keilor's voice on the radio)

When barefaced lying..."It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography."

plus, yoink, doh, excellent...all the usual suspects. It's kind of sad when you start listing them all.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 7 March 2010 03:32 (fifteen years ago)

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