Catch phrase

A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. They are especially common among cartoon characters.

Well-known catch phrases

"All your base are belong to us" - Zero Wing
"And away we go!" - Jackie Gleason
"And it's goodnight from me" - "And it's goodnight from him!" - Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker respectively in The Two Ronnies
"And now for something completely different." - John Cleese in Monty Python's Flying Circus
"Ay Carumba!" Bart Simpson
"Backbackbackbackback..." - Chris Berman
"Beam me up Scotty" - attributed to Captain Kirk in Star Trek - actually never used
"Book 'em, Dan-o." - Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O
"Come up and see me some time." - Mae West
"D'oh!" - Homer Simpson
"Did I do that?" - Steve Urkel
"Drat and double drat!" - Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races
"Dy-no-mite!" - Jimmie Walker
"Eat my shorts!" Bart Simpson
"Fascinating" - Mr. Spock in Star Trek
"Go ahead. Make my day." - Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact
"Good Grief!" - Charlie Brown
"Good night, Mrs. Calibash, wherever you are." - Jimmy Durante
"h'Arsenal!" - Eric Morecambe (originally a quiz answer disguised as a cough, thereafter a random interjection)
"He could go all the way!" (spoken in a staccato style) - Chris Berman
"He fallen in the water!" Spike Milligan as Little Jim in the Goons
"Holy cow!" - Phil Rizzuto, Harry Caray
"I am outta here!" - Dennis Miller
"I don't get no respect." - Rodney Dangerfield
"I hate the itching. But I don't mind the swelling" - David Letterman
"I have a cunning plan" - Baldrick (Tony Robinson) in Blackadder
"I'll be back." - The Terminator^* (and other Arnold Schwarzenegger movies)
"I love it when a plan comes together." - Hannibal Smith on The A-Team
"I'm free!" - John Inman in Are You Being Served (the feed line is "Are you free, Mr Humphries?")
"I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy" - Kenneth Williams in Round the Horne
"I pity the fool!" - B. A. Baracus (played by Mr. T) in The A-Team
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed" - Marvin the paranoid android, in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
"I've fallen and I can't get up!" - "Mrs. Fletcher, in a 'Lifecall' television commercial
Nice to see you, to see you - nice! - Bruce Forsyth
"No Problem!" - ALF
"Oh boy..." - Samuel Beckett in Quantum Leap
"Oh, Matron!" Kenneth Williams again, this time in Carry On films, to Hattie Jacques,
"Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" - "You bastards!" - Stan and Kyle in South Park
"Ooh... I'm being ha-RASSed!" - Frank Spencer (Michael Crawford)
"Smarter than the average bear" - Yogi Bear
"Stone me, what a life!" - Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour
"They think it's all over... - it is now!" - Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating on the 1966 World Cup final^*
"To the moon" - Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners
"Well, excuuuuse me!" - Steve Martin
"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" - Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel (note: "nice", not "fine")
"What do you think of the show so far? - [throws voice] Ruggish!" - Eric Morecambe
"What's up Doc?" - Bugs Bunny
"Yabba Dabba Do!" - Fred Flintstone
"Ying tong iddle i po" - The Goons
"You silly moo!" - Alf Garnett to wife Else in Till Death Us Do Part
"You stupid boy!" - Captain Manwaring to Frank Pike in Dad's Army
"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) in The Italian Job^*
"You wouldn't let it lie!" - Bob Mortimer in Vic Reeves' Big Night Out

^* These phrases occur only once in their respective film/series etc, but have still become catch phrases.