Good Eats

Alton Brown: "Don't leave home without it" In the 1990's, credit card issuer American Express warned America not to leave home without one of their cards with this catchphrase.

Alton Brown: "I'll be back" Another phrase thoroughly embedded in pop culture, this one dates to 1984's The Terminator in which it was uttered by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the title character, a homicidal cyborg.

Alton Brown: "Time to make the doughnuts..." Alton's singsong intonation apes that of Dunkin Donuts' long suffering Fred the Baker who braved snow, sleet, rain, and worst of all early morning hours getting to his store in time to make the day's doughnuts. The advertisements ran through most of the eighties and nineties - almost fifteen years.

Alton Brown: "Submitted for your approval..." In 1959, Rod Serling's eerie anthology The Twilight Zone first aired. Serling introduced each of the episodes with a short monologue; many of these began with what became a Serling signature: "Submitted for your approval..." The phrase is now embedded in pop culture.

Alton: Well do ya feel lucky, punk? Alton's imitating iconic Clint Eastwood character Harry Callahan from 1971's Dirty Harry. The line is part of a longer speech where Callahan intimidates a bank robber into surrendering.