Circling back to the “groovy” line, it should be pointed out that nailing a character catchphrase is like hitting gold since it’s all you need to secure a character’s longevity in pop culture memory. Sometimes, these catchphrases happen by accident. They’re not repeated over and over like Ash’s groovy line; they’re said only once, but that once is enough to forever associate it with a character because it’s just so damn good.
Case in point, and from a modern comedy horror, no less:
Now, we know full well that one-liners in comedy-horror mashups didn’t start in the ’80s. We’re just choosing to focus on more modern productions because, well, no one’s going to read pages and pages on the history of one-liners on the internet. So when we say that the family-friendly ’90s comedy horror movies The Addams Family is another great example of classic one-liners, we’re not forgetting the original sitcom of the ’60, even though the series were more focused on visual gags than one-liners, anyway. Not like both The Addams Family and The Addams Family Values, two heavy-on-comedy, light-on-horror films who kept the slapstick action but also rolled out those one-liners like Republicans roll out anti-abortion laws.
'This Is My Boomstick' – The Evolution Of One-Liners In Horror-Comedy
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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