Here’s Johnny!

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A common Stock Phrase, said when Lampshading somebody's entrance. If you're announcing yourself this way, either you have no friends to announce you or you have a big ego. If you announce somebody else this way, you're drawing everyone's attention to the other person's big entrance.

Occasionally found as a bad guy's Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner.

Born from Ed McMahon's Catch Phrase “Heeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!” on The Tonight Show, it was made popular and haunting when used in the film The Shining by Jack Nicholson. Since then, it had made its way into popular culture as a trope all its own, occasionally with different names replacing "Johnny".

Examples of Here’s Johnny! include:

Fan Works

• In the short WWE fic Break Out The Shovel, Alexa says the classic "Here's Johnny" when presenting a sledgehammer as a joke. Later, she screams "HERE'S FREEDOM".
• In Episode 12 of Final Stand of Death, Joe Pesci jokingly says this to a random bystander, which turns out to be Leo.

Film

• The Shining: This phase was made famous in the scene where Jack Torrance takes an axe to the door in order to track down Wendy.

Live-Action TV

• The Tonight Show: The Trope Namer. Ed McMahon's Catch Phrase, proclaimed boldly Once an Episode during Johnny Carson's tenure to introduce him to the audience at the start of each show.
• iCarly, "iSaved Your Life", Spencer shouts, "Here's Spencey!!", upon Sam opening her locker. The latter wasn't amused and locks Spencer.

Music

• "Here's Johnny" by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his 1986 album Polka Party!, a parody of "Who's Johnny" by El DeBarge which references the McMahon catch phrase.
• There's also "Here's Johnny", a 1995 song by Dutch pop group Hocus Pocus which incorporates a sample of Jack Nicholson's line from The Shining.

Video Games

• One of the fatalities done by Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat X, as he rips his victim from the waist, stating "Here's Johnny".

Western Animation

• In the fourth Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episode, "The Shining", Homer chases his family and repeats different versions of this phase. First, with the standard, next with David Letterman… only to be greeted by Abe. The third time, Homer was successful in finding the rest of the family.
  • In "Blazed and Confused", after Mr. Jack Lassen punches the chalkboard, leading to Mrs. Hover's classmates, Milhouse pokes through and says "Heeere's... Millie!"
• In the episode "Doug Inc./Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street" of Doug, Doug's dog, Porkchop, does a version of this.