Top Thirteen Phrases from TV – T13

1. Get Out! (as she pushes you) Elaine, Seinfeld

2. Giddy up! Kramer, Seinfeld

3. (any of) Lennie Briscoe’s wise cracks, Law & Order

4. “Who is this?” Jerry asks when his friends call him in a manic state, Seinfeld

5. Master of my/your domain, Seinfeld

6. “…we need to fit a square peg in a round hole.”  Gene Krantz, Apollo 13 (may I recommend his book Failure is not an Option - excellent read!)

7. “ProLife?  You ever notice how some people’s concern for life stops at birth?  They want those babies to come out & then they don’t give a damn what happens to them” Anita VanBuren (S. Empatha Merkerson) Law & Order’s Progeny episode from 1995.

8. “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” The Princess Bride, 1987.  Sometimes varied by the DH with, “My name is Hector Juan Montoya…”  …no one knows why he says that……

9. “Heeeyy” The Fonze, before he jumped the shark.

10. “…the jimmy leg” Kramer,Seinfeld

11. “Hello Newman” Jerry “Hello Jerry” Newman

12. “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” George, Seinfeld

13. “Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?!”
“It’s impossible!”
“Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top?!”
“It can’t be.”
“Can it? Or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?”
“Alright, that’s enough.”
“Yaaaaaaahhh!!!”
- Jerry and Kramer, in “The Stall”