Unconscious Best Show references

[christine]

The only Best Show-ism I've found myself dropping unintentionally "jeepers."  A lot, too.  Pretty much any time I would normally say "jeez," I guess.  Luckily no one's asked so I haven't had to explain.

[Amplituden]

I keep saying Holy Guacamole and calling people hot shots.
I just got a new job where I have to talk to people on the phone all the time and my voice seems raise three octaves when i am saying good-bye.
I don't mean to imitate Tom, but he has creeped into brain!

[Tim K in DC]

I find myself using "horrible," "just horrible," or "awful" more often lately, and I always notice them when they're coming out of my mouth.

[dotmap]

Me and my brother do the "HUGH!" exhaling sound he does when he hangs up with people to each other to the point where now I do it to people who don't even listen to the show, like my parents.

[moonshake]

Not an unconscious reference, but I've used this on purpose a couple of times:

"I shan't..."

[yesno]

I've actually started making that little squeak that has replaced "goodbye."

That sounds to me like the "impression" that people on the Howard Stern Show used to do of Jackie Martling.  Also, in a recent show, Tom asked a caller, "What, do you think you're Jackie the Jokeman?  Laughing at your own jokes?"  So now I can't hear that sound as anything *but* a Jackie the Jokeman impression.

[nerryawesome]

Me and my brother do the "HUGH!" exhaling sound he does when he hangs up with people to each other to the point where now I do it to people who don't even listen to the show, like my parents.

I'm the brother Dom's referring to. I have actually resorted to repeating Tom's recent "bye" sounds to waiters or waitresses when they walk away from the table after taking our orders. It's become completely second nature.

[John Junk]

You haven't lived until you've seen a group of four year olds running around saying, "Give me back my family."  It didn't make me very popular with my cousins, though.

I started cracking up just reading this.  I say "how dare you" and "Whaat?" (the Tom way not the Wurster way) all the time.  I also said "Holy Moly" a lot for a while and then eventually I just started saying "Holy Smokes" which I'm not really sure is a Tom thing.

[Tim K in DC]

Also: "Horrifying."

[masterofsparks]

I've found myself making Tom's "Ugh" noise of disgust a lot lately.

[Phantom Hugger]

You haven't lived until you've seen a group of four year olds running around saying, "Give me back my family."  It didn't make me very popular with my cousins, though.

I just started saying "Holy Smokes" which I'm not really sure is a Tom thing.

I think "Holy Smokes" is Rookie of the Year, Eddie's tag.

I've found myself stammering for a couple seconds (or more) while searching the old memory banks for an appropriate reference.

Also, I will consciously use, "what is this, a Paul F. Tompkins convention" at the next appropriate event.

[John Junk]

Me and my brother do the "HUGH!" exhaling sound he does when he hangs up with people to each other to the point where now I do it to people who don't even listen to the show, like my parents.

Oh yeah, I've totally got in the habit of saying a very high pitched "bye" to everyone I know when I get off the phone.  I also have been encouraging my gf to say "What are you bragging?" to her fellow grad students whenever they refer to any minor, barely-worth-mentioning thing they've acheived or accomplished.  As in

 "I finally finished reading 'Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' this morning."

"What are you braggin'?"

"No, I just thought he makes som..."

"You're a big shot all the sudden?"

[DoodleJump!]

i said "Jeepers" the other day and got soundly made fun of.

[Chris L]

Sometimes I'll say "jeepers creepers" in Bishop Pablo Fontana's accent.

[Chris L]

Also, I just said about something innocuous at work, "That's hot stuff, jack."