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<p dir="auto"><strong>MikeF-6</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 09, 2015 09:36 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">You know how some long forgotten memories will suddenly pop into your head? Well, today, when trying to negotiate the sale of one home and the purchase of another,  the phrase What a revoltin' development this is! came to me. It is one of the catchphrases from The Life of Riley. The series starring William Bendix ran from January 1953 to August 1958. (The almost forgotten first version of the show with Jackie Gleason lasted on season, October 1949 until March 1950.) Bendix frequently used this catchphrase.<br />
Do you remember any other 50 catchphrases that you heard used at home or at school?<br />
mf<br />
Trust me. Im The Doctor.</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Work!!"<br />
Maynard on Dobie Gillis<br />
"Heeeere's Tom Terrific!"<br />
on The Adventures of Tom Terrific<br />
"Here's Mr. Greenjeans."<br />
on Captain Kangaroo<br />
Ah, nostalgia.<br />
MAGA! FAFO! <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60e.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sunglasses" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":sunglasses:" alt="😎" /> Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f60e.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--sunglasses" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":sunglasses:" alt="😎" />  Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. <img src="https://filmglance.com/discuss/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f620.png?v=8570fb93240" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--angry" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":angry:" alt="😠" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393755</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393755</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>Platonic_Caveman</strong> — <em>6 years ago(January 27, 2020 09:00 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Elvis:<br />
Thank you. Thank you very much.<br />
Administrator<br />
"filmboards is a bold experiment in free speech and anarchy"<br />
I GameBoy</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well! That's my little Margie!<br />
Ward. We need to talk about the Beaver.<br />
Most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393753</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393753</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:16 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>3rdrowleft</strong> — <em>9 years ago(August 30, 2016 10:41 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">"Head 'em up!  Move 'em out!"<br />
But throughout it all, my motto was "Dignity! Always dignity!".</p>
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<p dir="auto">Arf, arf! Arf, arf, arf! (Timmy fell down the well!)</p>
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<p dir="auto">"I'm getting kind of misty, Dobe"<br />
Maynard G. Krebs (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis<br />
But throughout it all, my motto was "Dignity! Always dignity!".</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393750</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393750</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:11 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>Cine-Verite</strong> — <em>10 years ago(September 23, 2015 01:16 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">"Hold it! I think you're going to like this picture!" from the opening of Love That Bob.<br />
Some movies are released; others sneak out.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Exit..Stage left.<br />
I dought I saw a poody cat.<br />
He's smarter than the average bear.<br />
Hmmmm, Hmmmmmm, Hmmmmmmm, Picture a dog just receiving a dog biscuit jumping into the air and coming back down and hugging himself.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393748</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393748</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>NewtonFigg</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 23, 2015 08:54 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Write if you get work." "Hang by your thumbs."<br />
That was Bob &amp; Ray.<br />
How about: "Mmm. Fresh tracks, kemo sabe." (It was only years later that I realized how he knew the tracks were fresh.)</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393747</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393747</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:06 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>NewtonFigg</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 19, 2015 05:12 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">"Write if you get work." "Hang by your thumbs."</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393746</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393746</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:05 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>Patricia91</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 18, 2015 12:51 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">"Say the secret word and divide $100" - Groucho</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393745</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393745</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:03 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>NewtonFigg</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 18, 2015 09:37 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Hopscotching the world for headlines! (or D.O.D. handouts)<br />
Be sure and tell'em Groucho sent you.<br />
This is WNBT-TV signing off. beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393744</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393744</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:02 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>3rdrowleft</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 17, 2015 10:19 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">When I'm about to perform a seemingly difficult task at work: "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat".<br />
But throughout it all, my motto was "Dignity! Always dignity!".</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393743</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393743</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:38:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>NewtonFigg</strong> — <em>9 years ago(August 28, 2016 03:10 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Who was that masked man?<br />
"Oh Pancho." "Oh Cisco!" "Oh ho ho ho ho."<br />
Stand back away from your televisionary sets. Here comes Quaker Puffed Rice.<br />
Holy mackul, Andy!<br />
Lady!! I like it, I like it!<br />
Now youcan be Queen for a Day!<br />
How ah ya, how ah ya, how ah ya.<br />
Wunnaful, a wunnaful. Now let's get on with da show.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Jimmy Durante  Goodnight Mrs Calabash wherever you are<br />
Red  skelton    God Bless</p>
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<p dir="auto">Many shows had the host make some sort of sign off remark at the end of the show. Gobel got in trouble one week when he signed off: "Who says you can't buy happiness? Stop off on the way home and pick up a fifth."<br />
Jimmy Durante always said: "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."<br />
And every host at one time or another said: "We're a little late folks, so good night."</p>
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<p dir="auto">Speaking of which, I watched an episode of "The George Gobel Show" very recently. Funny stuff. Shame he is becoming forgotten.<br />
You're not getting any thinner, this time you're a cookie winner</p>
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<p dir="auto">They don't hardly make that kind anymore.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well I'll be a dirty bird.<br />
George Gobel! Haven't thought about him in years!<br />
He would sometimes introduce his show with another widely quoted (at the time) catchphrase: "So here I am, there you are, and here's the show."<br />
mf<br />
Trust me. Im The Doctor.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393737</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393737</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:37:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:37:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>NewtonFigg</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 15, 2015 05:19 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Well I'll be a dirty bird.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393736</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1393736</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:37:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to 1950s catchphrases on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:37:50 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>NewtonFigg</strong> — <em>11 years ago(March 12, 2015 09:06 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">Jackie Gleason used a lot of expressions. In one Honeymooners episode, he was trying to be groovy with a group of teenagers and said goodbye using a 1920s line he thought was still hip. He said "See ya later, alligator." Gleason's popularity was so great, he brought that line back from the dead and a song was even made with that title. Ralph also said "Pow, right in the kisser!" and "To the moon, Alice!" and "Har har hardee har har"<br />
Reggie van Gleason,III said "Mmm boy, are you fat." Fenwick Babbit said "You're a nice man." Charlie Bratton said "I gotta get me some more of these cigars." and "What's that slop you're eating?" Clem Finch said "Some day I'm gonna kill that man." Stanley Sogg said "Tonight's movie is brought to you by Mother Fletcher."<br />
Jimmy Durante said "I'm surrounded by incompetents."<br />
Steve Allen asked "Is it bigger than a breadbox?"<br />
Ed Sullivan said "Tonight, we have a really big shew."<br />
Jack Paar said "I kid you not." He asked guest Oscar Levant about Dinah Shore. Oscar said "I love Dinah, but my doctor won't let me watch her show. I'm diabetic."</p>
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<p dir="auto">If we were dawdling when it was time to eat, or get in the car to go someplace, my Dad would "channel," Buffalo Bob:  "<br />
Hey, boys and girls - what time is it!?<br />
"<br />
Jackie Gleason's "<br />
And, awaaayyyy we go!<br />
," was also useful in a variety of situations.</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">One I still use teasingly if the situation warrants: "Boy, Beaver, are you in trouble".<br />
But throughout it all, my motto was "Dignity! Always dignity!".</p>
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