I think to be a catchphrase, it has to be an actual spoken line from the show. "The truth is out there" was text on the screen at the end of the opening credits -- it wasn't something Mulder went around saying to people.

and I think it has to be uniquely identified to the character or show. I dont think that something said once that became famous is a catchphrase, like "oh, my nose!" I mean, that was one show. And "resistance is futile" is the Borg catchphrase, not "picard as borg"

Jesse, I think you're right about HIMYM

I think to be a catchphrase, it has to be an actual spoken line from the show. "The truth is out there" was text on the screen at the end of the opening credits -- it wasn't something Mulder went around saying to people.

I've just started watching again from the beginning on SciFi and I believe he actually does say this in one of the first episodes.

HIMYM: I thought it was Megan Mulhally (or however you spell it).

I think a bonafide catchphrase has to stand the test of time. "I knew Jack Kennedy...and you sir, are no Jack Kennedy" still pops up in everyday usage nearly 20 years later. "Hey hey hey" (and I only remember the Fat Albert version)? Not so much, although it is recognizable as an emblem of its time.

IO(cat)N, a great kitten video and its sequel!

Jesse: It was Megan Mullally.

Speaking of shoes, I bought these yesterday off the internet.

Megan, I think you have a problem. I think we need to stage an intervention. (And steal your shoes at the same time.)

if you're suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, you're better off letting the air out of your lungs

I knew that! Because I had to talk about it in a Farscape recap. And because of Jericho, I learned how to build a fallout shelter. And because of Angel, I learned.... hm. Well, some poetry, I guess.

Studio 60: This is the most absurd fucking premise for an hour of television I have ever seen IN MY LIFE. With one email I could get you 25 writers who could go in that room and put up a show. Can I promise you they could do it every week? No. But they would walk in with their A-Game and this week would be taken care of. And some of them WOULD be able to ring it every week. Hell, I could get you 50 writers a HUNDRED writers who would do something besides sit there and mope for a fucking week. Each and every one of them would take their shot. Each and every one of them knows how it feels to have a sketch die already.

But Trudy, they're NEW!

Bored with pi pie?

Pie-cosahedron

Here's a project you don't see every day.... a step by step of the construction of a pie with the topology of a sphere from 20 triangular modules attached with magnets, wow!

Does a catchphrase have to be repeated outside of the context of the show? Fat Albert's catchphrase is "Hey, hey, hey!" because it's his and recognisable as such. Being reused (and I have no idea if that is or not) is something different, no? Personally, I think "Space, the final frontier" as a scripted piece of the show does count, but how often is it used? Much of that list isn't that reused anywhere I see it, not without it being a reference to the show itself.

I did have a "Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?" moment this evening, but the "Wayne Brady" in question had never seen the show, so it was a lonely moment.

I checked the IMDB quote page for the X-Files, and t's certainly something they've played with:

"One day, you'll ask me to speak of a truth - of the miracle of your birth. To explain what is unexplained. And if I falter or fail on this day, know there is an answer, my child, a sacred imperishable truth, but one you may never hope to find alone. Chance meeting your perfect other, your perfect opposite - your protector and endangerer. Chance embarking with this other on the greatest of journeys - a search for truths fugitive and imponderable. If one day this chance may befall you, my son, do not fail or falter to seize it. The truths are out there."

"I'm more certain than ever the truth is out there, Scully."

"I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there."

"You're in the basement because they're afraid of you, of your relentlessness, and because they could drop you in the middle of the desert and tell you the truth is out there, and you'd ask them for a shovel."

Kashi:

If a friend had a scheduled C-section today, what's the standard length of stay?