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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.
 
Born from Ed McMahon's [[Catch Phrase]] “Here’s“Heeeeeeeeere’s Johnny”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 of all its own, occasionally with different names and/or words replacing Johnny.
 
A video of examples of this trope can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyJV-lXkcw&t=95s here].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the fourth ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" episode, "The Shining", Homer chases his family and spokesrepeats adifferent versionversions of this phase. First, with the standard, next with [[David Letterman]]… only to be greeted by Abe. ThirdThe third time, Homer was successful onin 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.
 
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