So after getting into a conversation yesterday that quickly degenerated into a stream of Waynes World quotes I started thinking about this. It's amazing how many words or phrases you pick up from films and TV that become part of your everyday patter, sometimes unconciously.

What stuff have you picked up that you find yourself using again and again?

For me:

'good call' from Wayne's World
'it's all a rich tapestry' from an episode of the Simpsons (surprising how often I can fit this in!)

probably there's more, I'll have a think.

ew from will and grace. i started using it when grace said EW all the time. EWWWW
ewww

i know, it's really sad.

everyone says eww huh

Mr. Wildwoman, our closest friends and myself can pretty much have entire conversations consisting of nothing but Simpsons references.

I now say 'doh!' if I get startled. Which is good, because I used to say 'Ow!' and then I always had to explain that I wasn't hurt.

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this probably isn't related cause it's an album, but I just wrote a post there after reading this and realised I'm always something is the king of something, like raspberry, king of jams, because of a mountain goats album called yams, king of crops.

aaaanyway. I speech is probably so made up of simpsons jokes I don't say anything original.

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"does the pope fuck kids?" i.e. yes.
"orson fucking wells" instead of jesus christ.
"michael fucking jackson" instead of jesus christ.
"it's well fucking futile" i.e. it's great.
"keep it foolish" i.e. keep it real.
"that's well brown" i.e. that's good.
"that's totally jackson" i.e. that's amazing.

that and anything from withnail and i tends to get quoted daily.

when somethings bad I usually say it's '...of doom' don't know where that came from though.

From the movie Matilda, I always say "Much too good for children." when eating something delicious.

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I sometimes say "I believe I had a hat" to myself if I've lost something. From The Simpsons when Homer gets thrown out of Moe's trendy bar and they throw him a random cowboy and he runs off with it.
And fiddly dee I'll say if I hit my foot, because of the swear jar episode.

And I think I've said "fuck me gentle with a chainsaw" at least once out loud.

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my friends and i speak in simpsons quotes about 80% of our conversations.

i say stuff out of home alone, fear & loathing in las vegas, austin powers. clueless and bottom a lot.

I now say 'cheese it!' instead of 'run away!' because of Bender from Futurama.

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I've used this before. The Simpsons really is a cornerstone of popular culture and language, without us even realising it most of the time; when I mentioned that I was concerned my summer in France would be like Bart and Milhouse's, everyone understood what I meant. Well, it had a bit more context than that but even if you say 'French holiday' and 'Simpsons', people know what you mean. I.e. horror story, trampling grapes, making wine with antifreeze.

Anyway, that went slightly off-topic. I've noticed my friends use 'literally' a lot. Some of them do it specifically in homage to Peep Show in a kind of ironic way, which is acceptable. However, I've also noticed other people using 'literally' pretty often without this irony, which is irritating.

I quote Ghost World quite often.

I admit Barley's immensely quotable but isn't it just a bit too 'Nathan Barley' to quote Nathan Barley? Referencing him makes me feel a bit dirty. My friends and I sometimes use the phrase 'Barleyesque'.

I think they did a study a while ago that proved that Friends had completely altered the way people speak, like totally.

Yeah. Although I try to change it up a bit, sometimes I'll say "good shout", b/c if I said it every time someone says something fairly right-on, I'd be saying constantly.

I use "...of doom" but in reference to things that are so brilliant that they blow everything else out of the water. I don't know where it's from either.

I do that "like" thing in speech and in writing (on forums/IM) and it annoys me so much. But the same goes for loads of people. It's just like a comma now.

I know this isn't a phrase but the one thing I'm particularly conscious of picking up from Friends is the thing Ross did with his hands when he wanted people to be quieter, that closing-pinching motion. And it's sad that people know what it means when I do it. I don't know if that's exclusively a Friends thing, but it's the only time I've seen it.

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Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

hehe I most often use it in relation to bad late night food, e.g. the kebab of doom, also known as the kebab of shame.

heyaww ~ for yes (Wayne's World)
I promised myself I wouldn't cry ~ (Wayne's World)
The lesson is, never try ~ (Simpsons) and about 50 more
Durka duh! ~ for anything that is retarded (South Park, rednecks who's jobs got stolen)
Crab people (South Park) Mole people, of which mole man is the head of (Simpsons) often pop up randomly.
I'm super cerial you guys or excelsior! ~ characature or Al Gore (S.P.)

Now that I've thought about it, The Big Lebowski is probably my biggest influence in adulthood.

Frequently ending sentences with "dude", "sir", or "man".
"Chinaman" (a slight improvement on the hideous term "Chinky" that people use around here?)
"Phone's ringing, dude"
"You fucked it up... you fucked it up!"
"You ready to be fucked, man?"
"New shit has come to light"

And if there's ever a conversation about a rug, obviously it "really ties the room together". Whether it actually does or not.

etc etc. There are so many more, but many of them wont work unless other people have seen the film.

I'll pretty much use any excuse to drop a quotation from that film, but the list above has the most frequent ones that can come up in natural conversation. If only there were more opportunities to tell people that they're "entering a world of pain" or show them "what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass".

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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

lol, i use that ALL the time.

haha and this one too.
and i'm such a simpsons geek that i use random phrases from the show in conversation.

black books is also a rich source of hilarious quotes to use irl. and my friend and i will endlessly quote bill bailey stand-up to each other.

oh and i say "i'm the mary and you're the rhoda" from romy & michele a lot too.

milhouse didn't go to france. at least not in that episode.