80's Catch Phrases
Do you want to remember some 80's catch phrases so you can take a mental trip back into the wild and funky decade? Well then, you have come to the right place.
80's Catch Phrases
Maybe you are heading to an 80's themed party in the next few weeks or so and you really want to get into character, or perhaps you just want to remember another period of your life. You will find that some of these phrases came from popular culture such as television and movies, while other phrases just seemed to spring forth from the generation on their own.
- Airhead
- Barf bag
- Bad to the bone
- Barf me out
- Bimbette
- Bogus
- Boho
- Boy toy
- Butt ugly
- Cheezy
- Chill
- Chocoholic
- Couch potato
- Ditz
- Let's do lunch
- Dweeb
- Eat my shorts
- Gag me with a spoon
- Gal pal
- Gnarley
- Hacker
- Have a cow
- Homeboy
- House music
- Jap
- Ill
- Just say no
- Lame
- Like
- Major
- Mall chick
- Party hardy
- Pencil you in
- Phat
- Poser
- Preppy
- Psych
- Rad
- Road pizza
- Spazzing
- Slam dance
- Stoked
- Stud
- To the max
- Totally
- Tubular
- Valley girl
- Veg
- Wannabe
- Wicked
- Yuppie
- This message will self destruct. (Inspector Gadget)
- A-Duh (Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
- The actual retail price of your... (The Price is Right)
- Alvin!!! (Alvin and the Chipmunks)
- Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba! (Speedy Gonzalez)
- And now you know and knowing is half the battle. (GI Joe)
- Anybody got any cheese? (Family Matters)
- Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! (Beetlejuice)
- Big bucks, Big bucks, No whammies, STOP! (Press Your Luck)
- Bubble yum keeps it poppin' (Bubble Yum commercials)
- Care bear stare! (Care Bears)
- Cowabunga! (Ninja Turtles)
- Da plane boss, da plane! (Fantasy Island)
- Danger Mouse (Good Grief)
- Do bears bare do bees be (Moonlighting)
- I ain't goin on no damn plane, fool! (A-Team)
- I don't have to take this. I'm going home. (Family Matters)
- I heard that! (You Can't Do That on Television)
- I meant to do that. (Eureka's Castle)
- I'm Gumby, damn it! (Saturday Night Live)
- Is it much farther, Papa Smurf? (The Smurfs)
- Meep-Meep (Road Runner)
- Missed it! By that much! (Get Smart)
- Never feed him after midnight. (Gremlins)
- Not!!!! (Wayne's World)
- Nothing comes between me and my Calvins.
- Nobody puts baby in the corner. (Dirty Dancing)
- Not the Mama! (Dinosaurs)
- Now we do the dance of joy! (Perfect Strangers)
- Oh, bother! (The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)
- Orange you smart
- The power is yours! (Captain Planet)
- Punky power! (Punky Brewster)
- Say what? (Different Strokes)
- Scooby-dooby-doo! (Scooby doo)
- Someone's in trouble! (Facts of Life)
- Sorry 'bout that! (Get Smart)
- Talk amongst yourselves. (Saturday Night Live)
- Transform and roll out! (The Transformers)
- Turtle Power! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Well, I bet that the neighbors are just loving this! (Mama's Family)
- Who ya gonna call! Ghostbusters! (Ghostbusters)
- Whoa baby (Full House)
- How rude! (Full House)
- You got it dude! (Full House)
- I pity the fool... (A Team)
- Say hello to my little friend. (Scarface)
- You wouldn't like my when I'm angry. (The Incredible Hulk)
- I want my MTV!
As you can clearly see from this rather extensive list of 80's catch phrases, some of these words, fragments, and sentences remain frozen in time in the 1980's, where they may stay forever. However, some of them have traversed on forward into the 21st century, to the dismay of some and to the joy of others.