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Rob Lowe Explains Why Chris Traeger Is Literally the Best at Saying "Literally"

by | September 11th, 2012

Vulture visited the set of Parks & Recreation and was able to corner Rob Lowe and ask him about his character's unlikely catchphrase:

“I think I just leaned into that word really hard a couple of times and it made [Mike Schur] laugh. The next thing you know it just became one of Chris’s things, but it was never designed that way. It was merely a word in a sentence. I think I just took a really big, probably very embarrassing swing at it and it stuck.”

He continued:

“It’s funny, I have no idea what I’m doing when I’m doing it … But it’s very exciting to [...]

Catchphrases

Jim Gaffigan Has Finally Found a New Catchphrase

by | May 24th, 2012

For over a decade, Gaffigan has been the "HOT POCKET" guy. Even on Fallon last night, before he was able to get a word out, some bros screamed it at him. It's about time for a new catchphrase and surprisingly it's almost 100% curse words. Find out what it is above (first part of the interview is below) before a mother washes his hot (with obscenities) pocket of a mouth out with a bar of soap.

Catchphrases

The Genesis of "Illusions, Michael"

by | January 3rd, 2011

Here's a fun find by CollegeHumor's Jeff Rubin, from the second season of The Larry Sanders Show, in which Jeffrey Tambor's Hank corrects a coworker for calling one of his illusions a magic trick. If someone can find a third show that Tambor was on that made this joke, we'll really have a pattern.

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