Cramer's catch phrases
- Boo-yah!
- (That stock is) en fuego.
- Are you ready, skee-daddy?! It's
the The Lightning Round on
Cramer's Mad Money!
- Hit me! / Speak to me. (when he
takes phone calls)
- You! Me! Let's try to make some
MO-NEY!!!... Mad Money! (during the
opening sequence)
- There's always a bull market
somewhere, and I promise to try and
find it just for you. (usually at
the end of the show)
- Go cry to your mother.
- Wake up and smell the coffee /
the hard prices.
- Diversification is the only free
lunch.
- Bulls make money. Bears make
money. Pigs/hogs get slaughtered!!!
- I wish I'd own that company
myself.
- Uh–uh. (That stock's) not for
me.
- Best of breed. (you know I like
/ stick with best of breed)
- Dive! Dive! Dive!
- "Back 'em up!", "C'mon back!",
"Load up / back up the truck!",
"'Mon back!" (refers to backing up a
semi-trailer to a loading dock to
buy a lot of a particular stock he
considers undervalued, used with his
sound effect of the beeping truck).
- Ring the register (i.e., sell
the stock, or some of it, to take
profits).
- Are you an arbitrageur? We don't
need arbitrageurs.
- I like to schnitzel a bit / take
some profit.
- Some people try to make friends,
I just try to make money. (Note: His
"others make friends but I make
money" line is often varied for each
broadcast. On the early shows in
2006 Cramer proclaimed as his New
Year's resolution that he has
changed and wants to make friends,
as well as help them make money.
However, at the beginning of the
January 6 show, he reveals that
everyone can't keep New Year's
resolutions forever, and is once
again about making "mad money" and
not friends.)
- Here on Mad Money, we
don't care where the stock's coming
from, it's where it's going!
- My job is to not only entertain
you, but to educate you!
- You know, I gotta tell ya...
- The book! The book!/Holy cow,
the book! (used when a caller
mentions Cramer's book, he will then
grab the book and flash it on the
screen before tossing it aside)
- That's (ticker symbol) for all
you home gamers (for example, if
Cramer were discussing Wal-Mart, he
would say "that's WMT for all you
home gamers")
- OK. Let's understand each other
here...
- I'd give that stock two thumbs
up (sometimes one thumb up), and
we're taking it way up! (Recently,
he has referenced a drinking game,
that has college students taking two
shots of tequila each time he gives
the two thumbs up to a stock; he
does not endorse that behavior, and
it is uncertain if this is real or
part of his routine.)
- The bottom line... (this usually
signifies either the end of a
segment followed by a closing
summary of a stock he was talking
about before taking calls or going
to commercial)
- You stick/stay with [the stock]
and you stick/stay with Cramer!
(usually said at the end of The
Lightning Round)
- Oh man! (typically said when
somebody says a unique 'boo-ya'
statement)
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Boo-yah! catch phrase used by
Cramer and his listeners
On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, a viewer
asked Cramer by e-mail on Mad Money's
Mad Mail segment what his
boo-yah! catch phrase means, and
Cramer replied he himself did not have a
clue.
On the next day, Wednesday, May 25,
2005, two viewers e-mailed him on his
Mad Money program and said that
Cramer's boo-yah! catch phrase is
similar to the Booyah registered
trademark of the Booyah Bait Company [1]
or to the phrase of SportsCenter's
Stuart Scott, but Cramer answered that
his phrase is not copied from that
company nor from Stuart Scott, and that
he apologizes for any similarities,
since his boo-yah phrase means
"Are you ready to make some money?"
The boo-yah phrase has since
become an opening greeting for his
callers, similar to the "dittos" used by
Rush Limbaugh callers. A recent trend
(late 2005-early 2006) has been for
callers to have their young children
shout boo-yah; Cramer will then
fall to his knees and push the "crowd
cheering" button. Another up-and-coming
trend on the show is the "stuttering"
boo-yah, "b-b-b-b-ooo-yah!"
Cramer has since come up with a new
phrase, "Are you ready, skee-daddy? It's
the Lightning Round on Jim
Cramer's Mad Money!"
