![]() ![]() For those keeping score, it breaks down to one "baack," 27 "baaack," 28 "baaaack," 25 "baaaaack," eight "baaaaaack," six "baaaaaaack," three "baaaaaaaack," one "baaaaaaaaack," one "baaaaaaaaaack" and one "baaaaaaaaaaaack." There are also several hyphenated versions. In fact, the phrase has turned up more than 100 times in many variations. The Tribune hasn't been immune, either, with five "baaaack" citations in October alone. ![]() And sort of like the Terminator, it's baaack." In another, sportswriter Leonard Shapiro pronounced, "Keith Olbermann. In one story Joel Kotkin of the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy mixed his movie references: "About 10 or 15 years ago, everybody thought Houston was dead and buried. 24 Washington Post managed a double play. 7 about "The Little Mermaid."Īnd the Oct. "She's baaaaaack!" topped a USA Today story on Nov. 14 table-of-contents promo for a story about teenage performers. "They're baaaaaa-aaaack!" read an Entertainment Weekly Nov. 17 Winners & Losers column citing Saddam Hussein, Madeleine Albright and others. "They're ba-a-a-a-ck!" was the headline of Time magazine's Nov. Her cry - the follow-up to her original "Poltergeist" announcement of "They're heeeere!" - became the crux of the movie's marketing campaign.Įleven years later, the expression doesn't need to come back, because it won't go away. "They're baaaaack!" squealed the little girl played by the late Heather O'Rourke in the 1986 movie about evil spirits invading a suburban home. The movie "Poltergeist II" seems an unlikely source for such a towering contribution to our popular culture, but its key phrase continues to haunt us. ![]()
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