"Holy catchphrase, Batman!" Our language is peppered with famous buzzwords and catchphrases we've picked up from television. See if you can match those words or phrases with the right show or character in our TV Talk quiz. If you can't, just fuggedaboutit.
Based on the hit movie "American Graffiti," "Happy Days" made a star out Henry Winkler, who played the ultra-cool Fonzi. His trademark "AHHHHHHHHHY" always came with a thumbs up.
How many times have you said "Beam me up, Scotty," when faced with something ridiculous? If only "Star Trek" were real. Chief engineer Scotty could do just about anything.
Don't open the door if you get a Candygram from a Land Shark. The character, voiced by Chevy Chase, was a regular on "Saturday Night Live," when the show was, ahem, funny.
Ed McMahon was Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. The oft-heard phrase "Here's Johnny" was also the title of McMahon's memoir.
The rabbit with the Brooklyn accent was not only clever, but had a treasure trove of catchphrases including "Eh, what's up doc?" and "Of course, you realize this means war." Bugs routinely got lost by not taking that left turn at Albuquerque.
"Diff'rent Strokes'" star Gary Coleman played the lovable Arnold Jackson who made "What'chu talkin' 'about Willis?" one of the best-known catchphrases in the 1970s and 1980s.
With his hand smacking his forehead and uttering a hearty "d'oh," Homer Simpson is constantly realizing his mistakes when he uses this awesome buzzword.
Matt LeBlanc, the womanizing Joey Tribbiani, often used this catchphrase when he was on the prowl in the hit comedy "Friends." So, what ever happened to David Schwimmer, anyway?
"Gentleman, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."
"The Bionic Woman"
"Star Trek: Next Generation"
"Battlestar Galactica"
"The Six Million Dollar Man"
An ear, and eye, a few limbs. Good as new. It would probably costs three or four times more to rebuild Steve Austin today, but $6 million went a long way in the 1970s.
Who would win in a fight, Mighty Mouse or Under Dog? For one thing, "Mighty Mouse" was a better singer, belting out his famous catchphrase "here I come to save the day..." at the beginning of his show.
After successful careers in vaudeville and in the movies, Groucho Marx's career got a huge boost with the quiz show "You Bet Your Life." If a contestant said the secret word, they won $100. That was big bucks in the 1950s.
No one can ever understand what Kenny says on "South Park." But when he dies unexpectedly, time after time after time, someone in the animated cast inevitably says, "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"
1984 presidential hopeful Walter Mondale used the "Where's the beef" catchphrase from a Wendy's commercial to show how his opponent Senator Gary Hart's policies lacked any substance.
Steve Carell's Michael Scott in the American version of "The Office" can't resist using this joke wherever he can ... and not necessarily when he should.
