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Confirmed
-IT'S OVER 9000!
-I decay, my BFF Jill?
-They're eating her,… OMG!
-The Balls are Inert
-A cat is fine too
-It's machine code
-[something about a sandwich]
-Garbage day!
-I'm the bleep Batman!
-I'm the Juggernaut, bleep!
-Za Warudo!
-AYBABTU

Submitted
-People die…
-My parents are de…
-X points from Griff
-Bitches and Whores
-X makes Mikuru Cry
-Mikuru~beam
-It's not Lupus

Deadpooled
-The cake is a lie
-So Zetta Slow (BTW, Sine…Cosine…Tangent LOLZ)

Something I have in mind that isn't submitted yet:
-Endless recursion of time

My question:
When will catchphrase be memes and when will they not be?

I know I've been asking this for a long time, but it still bugs me since I'm too scared to create an entry which is about catchphrases…

When it has enough derivatives and you see it often on image macros and forums.

Was the catchphrase something that most people became familiar with simply by watching a movie or playing a video game? Was that catchphrase designed by the writers of the production to be a catchphrase?

If you answered yes, then the catchphrase did not need the internet to become recognizable.

Has the popular catchphrase been given a new context aside from its original intention? Was the catchphrase an obscure moment from a long-forgotten piece of media that later turned into an in-joke within one community? Did that joke then spread through exposure in forums, rather than just the original media?

Then it's probably an internet meme.

I'd like to add that, as a side note, "The cake is a lie" has been brought back into submissions. It's no longer deadpooled.