‘Boom Goes the Dynamite’ Continues to Carve Its Place in Pop Culture Immortality

Will Smith was shockingly not nominated for his work in Hancock, so he was rewarded with the next best thing: presenting the Oscar for Best Picture Sound Editing. I simply couldn’t stand the suspense, so I turned the channel. Luckily, Awful Announcing stuck with it and caught Smith making a reference to “boom goes the dynamite”:↵

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↵Since March 22 of 2005, the day Brian Collins filled in at sports anchor for a Ball State student newscast and coined the term “boom goes the dynamite,” the phrase’s pop culture relevance has spiked quite dramatically. The chart below demonstrates this:
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↵The only way it could possibly grow any larger is if it’s mentioned on the ESPYs. That’s as big as it gets. (Those are still around, right?)↵