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And so it ends. 2009. 2008. 2007. 2006. 2005. 2004. 2003. 2002. 2001. 2000. They’re all gone now. R.I.P, those years. What a Toad’s wild ride it has been. So many ups and downs! Just kidding. I mean, I guess a lot has happened, and the world is really different now, because it has changed, which is why you can feel it in the water, but the truth is that all I can think about right now is the dinner that I am going to eat tomorrow night and the champagne that I am going to drink. You know what I mean? Like, who has time to walk down memory lane? Besides, where we are going we don’t need roads. (I’m sure that it would be possible to make this paragraph more obtuse and unreadable, but I still think I did a pretty good [bad] job.)
The point is, we finally have the official results of the scientifically valid and infallible poll for the Catchphrase of the Decade. This is the catchphrase you’ll be telling your hover-grandchildren about! Find out the one thing that we’ve been most obnoxiously repeating over all the other things we were obnoxiously repeating for the past 10 years, after the jump.
- “Very niiice!” – Borat 20% (815 votes)
- “Shit just got real.” – Bad Boys II 19% (769 votes)
- “I. Drink. Your. Milkshake!” – There Will Be Blood 13% (532 votes)
- “Why so serious?” – The Dark Knight 11% (425 votes)
- “I wish I knew how to quit you” – Brokeback Mountain 10% (395 votes)
- “I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!” – Snakes on a Plane 8% (319 votes)
- “This is SPARTAAAAA!” – 300 7% (274 votes)
- “Are you not entertained?” – Gladiator 4% (156 votes)
- “King Kong ain’t got shit on me!” – Training Day 3% (105 votes)
- “With great power comes great responsibility.” – Spider-Man 2% (98 votes)
- “Wilson!” – Castaway 2% (75 votes)
- “So it begins.” – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 1% (45 votes)
- “Get me Bourne.” – The Bourne Ultimatum 1% (28 votes)
Total Votes: 4,036.
So Borat wins. “Success!”, right, you guys? I don’t know, I don’t actually think the decade was “very niiiiice” so I have mixed feelings about the winner. I feel like the decade was much more about drinking other people’s milkshakes (which is a metaphor for beating them to death in the face with bowling pins) or wishing that we could all just quit it. And I definitely was rooting for the second place winner to make a first place finish, because THAT would have been a catchphrase for the ages:
Hella Dramatic Slow Camera Shit, indeed. But winners are winners and losers are losers. And you can’t argue with SCIENCE. Congratulations, Borat catchphrase. You are the catchphrase of the decade.
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i can’t wait for all the new annoying catchphrases that haven’t even been spoken yet! yay for the future – what an exciting world we live in…
it is so a great time to be alive i can’t believe i’m alive right now.
I want to go to there -Me in reference to 2010
” That’s a deal breaker, ladies!”
While we’re doing this, I think “Ya BURNT!” deserves an honorable mention, using the How Many Times I Used It scale.
I used “Ya burnt!” like, 35 minutes ago! Fact.
“shut it down”
uh, right, sorry – that’s what she said
This decade: “Shut it down!”
The only places I have heard the snakes line used (other than by people exiting the theatre after watching that movie) are bad comedy clubs where people parodied that line in terrible sketches. If that was the catchphrase of the decade I would have to suicide myself. I guess then I am satisfied with the winner.
I guess shit didn’t get real enough.
“Whassssssuuuupppp” deserves an honorable mention. I know I heard “Whassssssuuuupppp” way more than I heard “So it begins.”
While we’re in the mentioning mood, was that before or after “Yo quiero Taco Bell”?
This about sums it up for me: “I didn’t come here to make friends.”
you’re tearing me apart, lisa.
Oh man, if only!
This scientific poll was a great poll… for me to poop on.
I love Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. I went on it again recently and man is it creepy.
He goes to hell at the end! A frog (toad)! Hell!
yes – as an adult, that ride is very creepy! the theme song is also very annoying…
OMG, he does go to hell at the end! I’m scandalized!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF-_lKt0MgQ
Side note: that Youtube user’s screenname is ParkHopper and his entire channel is home videos of rides and performances at different theme parks, which is so charming and heartbreaking I almost can’t stand it.
Three things I learned from that video:
1.) I think I’ve been on that ride though the circumstances are sketchy
2.) the weird dude you thought was filming young girls on rides at Disneyland is actually filming disneyland rides in their entirety for his blog. you know, as a hobby.
3.) that frog deserved to go to hell.
I say “So that happened” from State and Main a lot.
A LOT.
I don’t personally know anyone who said “Very NIIIIICE” once in this decade (besides Sacha)…. but I did hear a lot of these:
“Looks like someone didn’t get the memo!”
“Why do you hate America?”
“Really?” [said in sad/disbelieving tone, as popularized on SNL Weekend Update circa '05]
“TWSS”
Wha’ happened?
I don’t THINK so!
I’ve got a real red wagon!
Not to be sticklergum over here, but it’s more like “I’ve got a weal wed wagon!”.
Nonetheless, hilarious.
I love Fred…. Durst (sp?)
Definitely MY catchphrase of all of – I dunno, whenever that movie came out. Wha’ happen? Fits for everything and always makes me giggle. Perfect for trying to recover the events of a hazy night before with friends. It’s definitely my favorite, but then I didn’t vote so I’ll just shut up now. kthxbai.
Shit just got Real(ly boned in the polls. Which Sums up this Decade nicely (EXTRA SADLY) as I think about it.)
Also Borat looks like my Dad, so I hate that part too.
Boo.
I?m just going to come out and admit I don’t watch a lot of popular movies. In fact I avoid anything blockbuster-y (#1 at the box office? most likely not going to see you. ever.) The first time I found out “shit just got real” is from Bad Boys 2 is when I saw it nominated for catchphrase of the decade (like what, a week ago?). My friends said it all the time, hell, I even voted for it. But all these years, I thought it was just a witty thing white people said at inopportune times to sound more badass. and hilarity.
While I did hear every frat boy ever repeating borat-isms ad nauseum, the win kinda hurts cuz the catchphrase of the decade also happens to be lame-o times 100.
I was wondering the same thing about how “Shit just got real” got to be a popular saying because I don’t know anyone who has actually seen Bad Boys 2. I like to think Hot Fuzz has something to with it since that is what introduced me to the phrase. And because I like thinking that everyone has seen and loves Hot Fuzz.
Yeah, Hot Fuzz is how I was exposed to it.
well la dee da. how’s your 19th tarkovsky netflix marathon going?
I just have to say your comment made me laugh so fucking hard. Good one. Applause. Fuck, that’s a good one.
Were there any non movie-realated votes? You’d tink there would have been a well-spring coming from all of the garbage television the deacde produced. Especially political pundit television. From that arena, “thrown under the bus” would have to be among my most-heard and most-hated phrases of the decade.
And Borat’s “Niiiiice” seems like the non-’70s equivalent of Fonzie’s “Heyyyyyyy.”
Ugh.
Favorite non-movie related quote: “Worlds been had colliding.”
*related*
And please tell me “thrown under the bus” did not originally come from a movie, or I may cry.
“tink” “deacde” “realated”
I clearly do not need to bother drinking tomorrow night as I am apparently already very, very drunk.
If there was a way to downvote myself with a pan to the face, I would do it.
Oh wait, there is.
Yay!
I’d like to throw “Say hi to your mother for me” in the pile, cause that shit makes me laugh every time I see it. He’s better at Mark Wahlberg than…Mark Wahlberg.
Wow. Epic fail for me on the link there. Here’s what I’m talking about: “Say hi to your mother for me”. (Sorry monsters!!!!)
“Hello, house. You got a sturdy foundation. I was the sturdy foundation of Entourage. Say hi to your mother for me, okay?”
The fact that shit just got real didn’t win just proves that y’all are pussified.
anyone?
wtf?!? I’m sorry guys, here’s what I wanted to post
I used “I’m Rick James, bitch” or “Charlie Mur-phaaaaaaay” more than Fuck Your Couch, but damn, it’s up there.
Where’s “Stupid lamp!”?
where is “____ is the worst” ? because that is the catchphrase of my life. Also,
Almost forgot. Raaaaaaaandy and DJ Ol’ Youngin’ had a late entry that aptly sums up the aughts: 1. Y?all ain?t ready. 2. Motherfuckers need to know. 3. Get yo? shit. CASE CLOSED.
“I’ve abandoned my child! I’ve abandoned my boy!”
-Gabe
(DDL made it famous, but Gabe said it first, regarding that little lacrosse-loving bastard.)
It never took off world-wide, but my friends and I say, “thinks he’s Captain Tyin’ Knots” a LOT! (via Drinks Out Of Cups)
I love your funky gif!
Who am I kidding, I love everyone’s funky gif!
Which reminds me, I think that old Lipps Inc. song needs a 2010 redux
“Let me show you my…FUNKY GIF”
Thanks! It’s from Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Bingo Gas Station made it for me.
I love your funky Joey Jeremiah!
Cheers. Please buy a copy of Zit Remedy’s Greatest Hits.
You mean ANOTHER copy of Zit Remedy’s Greatest Hits. Because the one I have right now is getting a little worn out.
everybody wants something…
I also tried to get, “not my chair, not my problem” off the ground, but it never really stuck.
“Not once, not never.”
I love seahorses. They’re so @#$%ing beautiful.
“This is Top Chef, not Top Scallop.” = a summary of the decade.
Ugh, that was supposed to be @ SeeYouNextTuesday. Joke ruined, worms everywhere! This is what I get for being in 2009
Err…’I've made a huge mistake’ gets no love?
Err…”I’ve made a huge mistake” gets no love?
this is why i don’t comment here =[
I still think “I’m Rick James, bitch” was the Catchphrase of the Decade. All the frat boys were saying it, and it made me want to punch all of them in the face. Too bad it wasn’t in the poll…
Monsters! You are all forgetting “Have fun at dinner.” WTF, gummers? You all have the attention span of – wait, did someone comment on “I’ve made a huge mistake”? Cus that one is my favorite. Oh look, a fudge vodka martini!
fuck yo couch
I’ve started using “Is this real life?” and will continue to do so well into the next decade.
“Is this real life?” – David…after dentist
“Is this real life?” – David…after dentist
Get me Bourne – No Way
Jeff Dunham was cancelled, so 2010 is already better than 2009. Just ‘sayin.
“after the jump”
good call!
“That’s what she said” , “You and your boys, versus me and the Revolution”
You have jean?! Cools.