Here’s Johnny!
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A common Stock Phrase, most often by a villain, to express upon entering the area of the target. Often accompanied by the destruction of a barrier, commonly a door, with an object such as an ax. Occasionally found as a bad guy's Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner.
Born from Ed McMahon's Catch Phrase “Here’s Johnny” on The Tonight Show, it was made popular and haunting when in the film The Shining by Jack Nicholson. Since then, it had made its way into popular culture as a trope of all its own, with different names and/or words replacing Johnny.
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Examples of Here’s Johnny! include:
Advertising
Anime and Manga
Comic Books
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".
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.
- Seed of Chucky: Chucky breaks down the door but didn't say the phase. He simply uses "Fuck It".
Literature
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.
New Media
Newspaper Comics
Oral Tradition, Myths and Legends
Pinball
Podcasts
Professional Wrestling
Puppet Shows
Radio
Recorded and Stand Up Comedy
Tabletop Games
Theatre
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".
Visual Novels
Web Animation
Web Comics
Web Original
Western Animation
- In the fourth Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episode, "The Shining", Homer chases his family and spokes a version of this phase. First, with the standard, next with David Letterman… only to be greeted by Abe. Third time, Homer was successful on 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.