Sitcom Catchphrases You'll Never Forget As Long As You Live

By | November 12, 2018

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Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson, Todd Bridges as Willis Jackson on 'Diff'rent Strokes' -- Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank

There's nothing like a sitcom catchphrase to breed familiarity with a character, and on a sitcom that connection between audience and character is key. So many of them come to us reflexively -- it's hard to imagine Ralph Kramden from The Honeymooners, Arnold from Diff'rent Strokes, or Flo from Alice without thinking of the characters' famous and oh-so-repeatable lines. Situation comedies go away, or go into re-runs on obscure cable TV channels, and as humans we are bound to forget many basic things as our memories fail in our later years. But we won't ever, ever forget these -- sitcom catchphrases are with us forever.

'You Wanna Go To The Moon, Alice?'

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The Honeymooners takes place mostly in Ralph and Alice Kramden’s apartment, where Ralph and Alice get into a lot of “discussions.” Sometimes these discussions take place over some get-rich-quick scheme that Ralph and his best friend, Ed have cooked up. When Ralph gets upset with Alice, he likes to use the catchphrase “You wanna go to the moon, Alice?” He likes to think he has the upper hand; but, in reality, it’s Alice who gets the better of him usually by making him feel dumb.