There was a time when a TV show could create a catchphrase that became part of everyday language. The audience fragmenting of streaming has all but brought that to an end, but occasional idioms sometimes still break through.
 
“Bazinga!” become a common expression thanks to The Big Bang Theory. And “master of my domain” and “yada yada” were both popularized by Seinfeld. And there’s “Nanu Nanu” from Mork & Mindy. All In The Family gave us "Stifle" and "Meathead."
 
But in the pantheon of TV shows that spawned phrases that seeped into the language, there are only two that stand out with multiple examples - and both are from the 1960s, when the audience gathered around only three networks, making a saying more likely to spread.
 
One was “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and the other was “Get Smart.”
 
Consider the endless expressions Laugh-In brought into the language:
  
-“Very interesting”
 
-“One ringy dingy”
 
-“You bet your sweet bippy”
 
-“Here come da judge”
 
-“Sock it to me”
 
-“Beautiful downtown Burbank”
 
-“Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls”
 
-“Is that a chicken joke?”
 
-“And that’s the truth…”
 
-“Say Goodnight Dick.” “Goodnight Dick.” 

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There were a ton of them, but to be fair, not many of them are still used by people today. But Get Smart was another story. I still occasionally hear some of the catchphrases that sitcom spawned in use now, most notably the first one:
 
-“Sorry about that chief.” 

-“And loving it!”
 
-“Would you believe…”
 
-“The old [insert name] trick”
 
-“Missed me by that much.”
 
-“I asked you not to tell me that.”
 
-“Shtarker, this is KOAS. We don’t [insert action] here!”
 
While there are occasional turns of phrases that still resonate with a lot of people, I’m pretty safe in saying this phenomenon isn’t likely to occur in the modern era. But at a time when we all gathered around the same TV show, it was a reality. To paraphrase one more from Jackie Gleason, “How sweet it was!”

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