For as media savvy as I am (or as I sometimes seem to be), I was a bit surprised by the number of these “100 Greatest Catchphrases” that I hadn’t heard (and, thus, the number of these I don’t myself use).
In a lot of cases, of course, it’s part of what I do or don’t watch. I don’t watch “Everybody Loves Raymond” or “The Larry Sanders Show,” so entries from that don’t mean much to me. On the other hand, some of those don’t sound familiar, which tells me that they haven’t entered the gestalt of the culture. Being a top-rated show and having a catch-phrase doesn’t mean that catch-phrase itself is popular or pervasive or a real part of “pop culture jargon.”
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