Talk:Who's your daddy?

Origin?
I believe the origin of the phrase is from the Alan Clarke movie "Scum" in 1979 which depicts the Borstal system in britain. In the movie, Carlin is seeking his way to the top of the prison chain, to become what in the prison was known as "the daddy" of the prison. In one of the scenes, when the previous "daddy" has been eliminated, a triumphant "Who's the daddy now!!!" is yelled. The movie was apparently quite disturbing, but gained huge popularity because of the controversy it sparked, particularly regarding the borstal system. It had been banned from public view for several years.

Time of the Season
What about the line, "What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me?" from "Time of the Season" by the Zombies? --Golbez 08:13, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Radio "shock jock" The Greaseman popularized this phrase when he was syndicated across the US by Infinity Broadcasting in the early 1990's. He claimed that he developed the phrase from the Zombies song. Citation is out there, but I can't find it right now.

Spanish League / Taiwan
"A glory chant by Barca fans in Taiwan to razz the Madrid fans". What does that have to do with anything? How can one verify what happened in some obscure bar in Taiwan?

Who's Your Papi
I clicked on the "Who's Your Papi" link in the David Ortiz article, and was redirected to Who's Your Daddy, but the article doesn't explain the connection -- David "Big Papi" Ortiz's contributions to the Boston Red Sox victory over the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series, after the Yankees' fans had been chanting "Who's Your Daddy" all through the series. The way it is now is confusing. Misterdoe 07:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Trivia section
I've removed the unencyclopedic popular culture section as it is unsourced, non-notable, massively under populated, and culturally biased. There really is no value in listing the use of a phrase in a particular non-notable episode of a tv series for instance. MLA 10:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I've removed it again. Hopefully it stays gone this time. Lists of media using this term as the title can be found at the disambiguation page. Damien Linnane (talk) 12:53, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Joecartoon
Also very popular in violent Internet Animation Series, Joecartoon's Superfly.

I can find reference that is in an official chant, but none for the t-shirt thing
I Googled and found mention of the phrase used by Duke basketball, but not it being printed on any t-shirts. Its one of their officially recognized chants. So, does that mean it'd probably be printed on the merchandise.  D r e a m Focus  03:05, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

References for all movies
Would it violate copyright laws to link to a site that shows movie scrips? http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/boogie-nights-script-transcript.html It makes it quite easy to find the quote, and confirm it.  D r e a m Focus  03:33, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * no, a link via a reference is not, but quoting from the website might be. see WP:COPY, and that web site is more fan site, than reliable source, see WP:SOURCES pohick (talk) 18:07, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

TV series Who's Your Daddy Now?
I think this TV series belongs in the Media section. Paradoctor (talk) 11:21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Sexual meaning/Miss Congeniality
In Miss Congeniality, the Sandra Bullock film, one of the cops is impressed with all the beautiful girls at the pageant and says "Who's your Daddy?" so I wondered if this was a sexual usage of the phrase, to imply dominance yes, which many girls would like, but maybe even used during intercourse to imply the potentially thrilling kinkiness of a daddy daughter encounter. Which is under Ageplay on the Glossary of BDSM page. --90.220.22.244 (talk) 16:53, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Boston Legal
One of the main characters of the TV Show Boston Legal Danny Crane is using it also quiet frequently. --Hector Bosch (talk) 20:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 28 November 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:59, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Who's your daddy? (phrase) → Who's your daddy? – Per WP:DIFFCAPS, only lowercase usage of this phrase. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 12:13, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support, not per nom but per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. While temporary page views are probably apt to reflect whatever was the most recent song, album, or whatever as a popular search target, that would be WP:RECENTISM.  The phrase itself is a major pop-culture phenomenon in its own right, so I can't see it not being PRIMARYTOPIC.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:39, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per nom although the other uses of the upper case do get more (4,240) than the phrase (2,647) it seems reasonable especially by PT#2 to land readers here.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 14:00, 4 December 2019 (UTC)


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Pedro Martinez
Could the press conference where Pedro Martínez said that he guessed that the New York Yankees were his daddy, and the later chants of the phrase, "Who's your daddy?" by Yankees fans, be added to the page? Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 08:46, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Assuming there's media coverage of ongoing use of the term as a result of the incident, probably. I'd rather not see this article into a list of when the phrase has been used though. Damien Linnane (talk) 09:49, 17 April 2020 (UTC)