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Toshay turtle8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() “Oh my stars and garters!” (Beast, X-Men) Not only did this 1985 film (often considered the greatest high school movie ever made) predate The Simpsons by four years, but another Bart Simpson slogan, “don’t have a cow”, was also featured in a John Hughes’ film, namely Sixteen Candles.Ĭoincidence? Plagiarism? Flattering tribute? Common schoolyard teasing which has evolved over decades and ultimately adapted into popular culture? Do you even care? 2. However, conspiracy theorists have since hypothesised that this rude dismissal was directly stolen from John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, more specifically, from the character John Bender who instructs the assistant principal, Richard Vernon, on how to approach his next dietary decision. With that arrogant introduction setting our stage up nicely, let’s look back at some of the most famous catchphrases on cartoon record, and uncover the deeper heritage of where these mottos came from, incidentally ruining your favourite lines with the knowledge that what you have been saying for all these years is probably not what you thought. And before you know it, you find your voice reciting the slogan itself, dropping the phrasing into casual conversation like a winking in-joke that only those who watch the same animations as you will understand, while you scoff at those who raise their eyebrows at your inappropriate response. ![]() A trademark when executed at precisely the right time, it functions as the laziest punchline in existence, triggering the warm chemicals of familiarity right down into your lungs, knocking out a laugh even though you’ve heard it an immeasurable amount of times already. That quote uttered by your favourite character so many times that it has pried open your skull and set up home in your everyday vocabulary. ![]()
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