• Waaazzzzzuuuuuppp?

  Filed under A Dude's Guide to Kids, A Dude's Guide to Life
  Nov 23

  by Richard

  So I was sitting there with the three little dudes the other day and I realized something: After years of complaining about them, it seems as if I have a catch phrase. And, not only that, but I seem to have passed along my disdain for them to George of the Jungle, Zippy the Monkey Boy and Speed Racer. Or maybe it’s just mine. All of this leads me to a conclusion — parents ought to have their own catch phrase, even if it’s only to annoy the kids. Because, really, is there anything more fun than that?

  It turns out that my catch phrase is, “I’m just that good.” I have no idea where it comes from or how I first started using it, but I do know that I pull that puppy out now every time I come close to being psychic, at least in their eyes, by knowing something I have no business knowing. For instance, all three little dudes had been looking forward to a movie on Cartoon Network about Ed, Edd and Eddy (truly stupid, the celebration of stupidity.).

  George of the Jungle was upstairs in the bonus room when I stuck my head in and asked him to come downstairs. As I stuck my head in, I could plainly see he was watching the Ed, Edd and Eddy movie. I went along to get the other two little dudes. In the meantime, George of the Jungle came out of the bonus room and closed the door (we don’t want the dog getting in there and eating everything below knee level) and asked, “Guess what I’m watching?” (No, I have no idea why. He just did.)

  “The Ed, Edd and Eddy movie,” I said.

  Dumbstruck for one blessed moment, he quickly recovered. “How did you know that?”

  “I’m just that good.”

  The little dudes have taken that to mean that I’m psychic and that, to quote Layla Miller, “I know stuff.” Not true. I’m just more observant than they are and I actually remember stuff for longer than an average of 39.4 seconds.

  But that’s only part of the picture. I mean, we all remember catch phrases, right. The word from the headline, from a Bud commercial. Where’s the beef? for you older people like me. I’m Rick James, bee-yotch (yes seriously). Eat my shorts. Space, the final frontier. Book ‘em, Danno.

  Catch phrases one and all. They’re, if not instantly reminding us about their product, person or setting, at least instantly recognizable. I mean, I’m pretty sure you can guess where the above phrases come from, just through general cultural knowledge. It’s good branding.

  And it’s something I think we, as parents, should get into. So you should definitely believe me. After all, I’m just that good.

  • Spread the word, dude!

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