What better way to spend a Friday night than watching Pushing Daisies on Netflix. No, I have not yet gotten an account, but I’m puppy-sitting for friends who have it. I’m super lazy about things like that. It took me several threatening “last offer” letters from Entertainment Weekly to finally renew my subscription. It’s certainly not that I didn’t want to. I just procrastinate. Anyway, while watching this delightful confection of a show (Sniff, sniff. Tear.), I heard Olive Snook, as portrayed by Cheno, exclaim her adorable own silly interjection, “Jiminy Crispies!” This made me think of a few things: once again how sad I am this show was canceled, of my favorite School House Rock song, and also of other funny interjections, which characters have made their own. Here are some:
Olive Snook - Jiminy Crispies!
Of course, I said this already, but I couldn’t resist including this adorable picture. And it’s a funny little catchphrase.
Zenon - Zedis Lapedis!
This one I’m sure is known to only a few of you. In the late nineties/early aughts, Disney Channel rebranded their original movies, calling them DCOMs (Disney Channel Original Movies). Then they started churning them out like Amish people making furniture (or butter…they make that too, and you actually churn it). Well, 1999’s Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century and 2001’s Zenon the Zequel (yep) brought us the story of Zenon, a teenager growing up on a Space Station in 2049. It also brought us this amazing phrase, among other things. Protozoa’s Supernova Girl, anyone?
Liz Lemon - What the what?!
I’ve appropriated this phrase and use it in my every day life, so, thanks, Liz Lemon. And Tina Fey. Though Tina has said her toddler Alice comes up with many of the hilarious things Liz says. “I want to go to there” is Alice’s work. She probs came up with this one as well. Kids say the darndest things. Am I right, Bill Cosby?
Annie - Leapin’ Lizards!
Another precocious child, Annie gave us one of my favorites: Leapin’ Lizards! I don’t really thing that much more needs to be said about it. It speaks for itself. (Isn’t that doll creepy?)
Wayne and Garth - Schwing!
It probably took me awhile to figure out what this dirty little exclamation referred to. Apparently the hot chick it was directed at and the pelvic thrust weren’t enough to clue me in. I probably just thought it was a funny sounding word, which it is. 
Yakko and Wakko Warner - Hello, Nurse!
Another hot lady inspired exclamation, though this one’s less vulgar. Considering Yakko and Wakko were on a kids’ show, that’s a good thing. I also liked that though there was the hot nurse lady, this outpouring of affection could be said to anyone the Warner brothers found attractive. The Warner sister was also known to utter it.
Homer Simpson - D’oh!
And perhaps the granddaddy of modern catchphrase interjections, you have the “Annoyed Grunt.” For those of you who aren’t Simpsons nerds, that’s what initially appeared in the script and what Dan Castellaneta turned into “D’oh!”
