Stuart Smalley - Catchphrases

Catchphrases

The character is known for a number of catchphrases, many of which are chosen not just for comic effect, but to play on a perceived tendency of the self-help movement to talk and think in psychobabble. Some, such as the phrase "stinkin' thinkin'", are taken from common 12-step slogans.

• "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."
• "That's just stinkin' thinkin!"
• "You're should-ing all over yourself."
• "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt!"
• "I am a worthy human being."
• "...and that's...okay."
• "Trace it, face it, and erase it."
• "I don't know what I'm doing. They're gonna cancel the show. I'm gonna die homeless and penniless and twenty pounds overweight."
• "I'm in a shame spiral."
• "You're only as sick as your secrets."
• "Compare and despair."
• "You need a checkup from the neckup."
• "I am a human being, not a human doing."
• "Pee-wee Herman: There but for the grace of God go I."
• "I'm a skeleton because it's scary and because it reminds me that I am a human being. And that's okay. That's what I am. And besides, I think it makes me look thinner (a Halloween thought)."
• "I learned what love is from my parents. Which is that you find that one special person who was placed on the planet just for you, and then you put them through forty years of living hell."