What is Kojak's signature catchphrase?
The 1970s gave us some truly iconic TV detectives, but none had quite the swagger of Lieutenant Theo Kojak prowling the streets of New York City. Telly Savalas played the bald, lollipop-sucking cop from 1973 to 1978, and he turned what could have been just another police procedural into something genuinely cool. But there was one line that became his signature phrase and outlasted the show itself. What was Kojak's catchphrase?
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Correct Answer: Who loves ya, baby?
(Source)Realistically, this question could've been "What was Telly Savalas' signature catchphrase?" because he had been saying "Who loves ya, baby?" long before "Kojak" started airing. When the show's writers heard him dropping it casually into conversations, they decided it was too perfect not to use and wrote it straight into the script. Savalas could make the phrase work in any situation, whether he was sweet-talking a witness or delivering it with maximum sarcasm to some criminal he'd just busted. It turned Telly Savalas into a household name and gave every guy in America permission to think they were smooth. The line got so popular that Savalas recorded a whole album called "Who Loves Ya Baby?" because why the hell not?
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