Talk:List of phrases Chris copied from media

I think we would be better off creating an article about the phrases Chris repeats endlessly, and then noting which ones he copied from TV. Covers more bases.--Beat 14:20, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Not all of those are repeated endlessly, though. --Wtv 15:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

This isn't a totally bad idea for an article, but isn't this something that could be included in List of things Chris has ripped off? Also, when you make an article, please try to use proper capitalization and whatnot. --Champthom 15:03, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I think this deserves it's own article, because there is a lot of examples for this (they just need to be listed). I wouldn't call it ripping off something per se either, since it's perfectly natural to do this from time to time, it's just that chris does it a lot. --Wtv 15:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

The "Grinds my Gears" phrase comes from an episode where Peter uses the phrase and becomes the "Grinds my Gears" guy, so half of an episode was devoted to Peter saying a catchphrase. --Anaconda 15:33, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If that's not a reason to hate family guy, I don't know what is.--Beat 16:12, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If I remember correctly, Seth MacFarlane also said that was a phrase he ripped off from John Candy in "Plains, Trains and Automobiles". So, it's a rip-off of a rip-off.  I don't know that it's worth noting, seeing as how Chris would be totally unaware, but yeah.  That --CDiddles 05:26, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * On a similar not, we might want to make note of the fact that South Park is not the place to use "breakin' my balls", if you look around there are quite a few examples of the use of some variation of a phrase involving the breaking of balls even decades prior to that. --ThatMan 04:12, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It's pretty obvious where Chris got it from, though. That's all that matters, isn't it? --Wtv 13:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Renaming
Aside for correcting this for grammar, I think others have suggested this be given a more generic title, as television would be too narrow, not to mention I don't want to see things like "List of phrases Chris has copied from video games," "List of phrases Chris has copied from movies," "List of phrases Chris has copied from his parents," etc. Is "List of phrases Chris has copied" grammatically correct (I'm looking at you, Apostrophe)?

On an aside, the format is shit, needs something along the lines of Minor CWC-isms. --Champthom 21:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I didn't think about that when creating. I've suggested this on /cwc/ and I agree "List of phrases chris has copied" works for me. Sorry about the grammar, I'm german. I did look at the minor cwc-isms article when creating this one and debating how to set it up but I think this is kind of hard to group alphabetically. but I guess I'll mess with it a bit. --Wtv 22:46, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Star Trek
Chris could have easily gotten this from Family Guy, or any other show he watches that parodies Star Trek in the process. I think the problem with some of this is that these shows will usually rip off other media so Chris is ripping off stuff third hand (see above in the case of "grind my gears" - it's more likely he's heard it from Family Guy which in turn took it from "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles."--Champthom 09:29, 19 June 2011 (PDT)