My name is LENN-AY – Good Time started to get weird in its last season and a half. Well, you know, what can I say? They tried to give JJ another one, this one having fun with his ladies man imagie, but it never caught on the way Dyn-o-mite did. Eventually, you can say in a way John Amos was fired for resenting it, and Esther Rolle quit for a season due to it. The studio audience seemed to eat it up with a spoon. It may not sound like much, but it was funny the way Bea did it.Īlso, Maude getting all upset, and yelling, and Walter yelling 'MAUDE! SIT' and she'd shut up and sit immediatelyĭYN-O-MITE! – the most famous catchphrase, I think. A funny take on it, was one time, Maude pointed toward the sky, and then pointed at Walter. There was a thing where if someone insulted someone, Archie would say 'That was a beautiful shot.' Please contribute any I might be missing, and tell me about the history of using them on television.ĭidn't really have catch phrases, per se, but I guess just the words 'Dingbat' and 'Meathead' count. I'm gonna list some off the top of my head. He and Garry Marshall are responsible for quite a lot of them. Ironically, it was Norman Lear, who was known for quality, who seemed to spearhead the movement. What was the first TV catchphrase that caught on? It almost became part of the formula of a successful show in the '70s.
