Which sitcom popularized the saying "Not that there's anything wrong with that"?
If you've been answering Classic Nerd's trivia questions for a while, you know I'm no stranger to TV catchphrases. And it's a lot easier to lob them into the cultural zeitgeist when you hear them again and again across the eight or more seasons of a show. Getting a phrase to spread from a single episode is a much tougher sell. Which sitcom popularized the saying "Not that there's anything wrong with that"?
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Correct Answer: Seinfeld
(Source)The benefit of being a show about nothing is you get to do a whole lot of talking, and sometimes what you say sticks. The 1993 episode "The Outing" had a reporter mistakenly out Jerry and George as a couple, and they spent 22 minutes frantically denying it while insisting being gay would be totally fine. Writer Larry Charles came up with the line "not that there's anything wrong with that" when the cast felt uneasy about the script, and Seinfeld turned it into the running gag that saved the episode. NBC thought it was too offensive to air, but the episode ended up winning a GLAAD award and the phrase became one of the most quoted lines from the entire series.
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