h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Julie Andrews was in Bedknobs and Broomsticks?

It was on the cover of a Sheffield Wednesday Fanzine when they were relegated....

I'm positive this is not from Mary Poppins. (And I also remember the talking to the parrot bit.)

Julie Andrews was not in Bedknobs and Broomsticks - it was Angela Lansbury - but the father of the children from Mary Poppins (Mr Banks) was in it.

I've got a picture from a film in my head - guy standing in doorway wiping hands on piece of towel. "My work here is done." Drops paper towel, opens door and exits. But the guys face just won't come

I remember Homer saying it after give Marge 'the time of her life' on a waterbed, in a hotel.

If autist is right about the suicide note, we really need to look further back than films.

Leonard Nimoy said it after a monorail disaster was narrowly averted in Springfield.

"But you didn't do anything"

"Didn't I?"

he says.

Bart, in "Blazing Saddles."
Last scene, before the townsfolk of Rock Ridge say "bulls**t!"

But, I think that means that Mel Brooks was harkening back to Richard Boone in "Paladin" or James Garner in "Maverick", or even further, back to Hopalong Cassidy or The Lone Ranger, who was in radio long before he hit the tube.

There was a kid doing cooking on "This Morning" the other day called Maverick after some character in Top Gun.

Some parents have no idea.

God probably said it after Adam and Eve ate the apple........

I think it was the Eastman note that gave the phrase it's notoriety.

I think it was seen as an unusually noble sentiment.