Earl Green reviewed some candidates to be the next All Your Base Are Belong to Us:

On the other hand, there are plenty of video game catchphrases just waiting in the wings to become meaningless flash-in-the-pan pop culture reference points. I was recently playing a Japenese game based on the anime' characters of a specific studio, the most popular of which was exported to the U.S. as "Battle Of The Planets." Most of the game's dialogue is in Japanese, and there's not a lot of it then because, being a fighting game, it's mostly grunting. But the announcer/narrator speaks in very clear, though heavily Japanese-inflected English, and the fellow they hired to do this voice was apparently very intense: "Your - game - is - OVER!" "You - are - HURT!" and so on. Almost Seinfeld Soup Nazi intense. I just find that amusing for some reason.

Still plenty of nominations for the It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time award. Here's one from Dave:

Is it my imagination or does the music industry seem to be full of nominees here? I just read on Yahoo that music labels are lining up to sign Mariah Carey. Unless some kind of 24 hour reality TV show when-will-she-have-another-breakdown concept is at the heart of this, I'm thinking someone would say, "Hey Mariah, take the 20 million, record the album, then show us what you got. You might want to steer clear of Puffy, or Diddy, or Da-Do-Run-Run, or whatever he's calling himself this week." Clearly, I can not think like a record executive.