An illustration from Other Stories by E. H. Knatchbull Hugessen (1880).

"Why don't you call those phrases what they really are, cliches?" —Bewitched, season six

A pipe smoking black cat and its witchy familiar fly on a broomstick under cover of chimney smoke. An illustration from an 1860 issue of Punch magazine.

We've heard the nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe, but here's an old witch who commutes in one.  From Punch, 1860.

Before "snail mail" there was "butterfly mail," as we see in the sixth season of Bewitched.

The spirit of the teapot: an illustration from an 1862 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Now then, I'm ready if you are..."

This moment in Bewitched, in which Serena confesses she can't boil water, is a precursor to our "One Hundred Ways I've Failed to Boil Water" (here's the interactive version, and here are all 100 ways in a concise grid.)

Blowhard wasn't exactly the word he was looking for: a still from Bewitched.

The concept of de-evolution is that humankind is regressing, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.  The idea was developed in the late 1960s by the founders of the band Devo.  Could they have been inspired by this 1964 episode of Bewitched?

Here's a precursor to The Matrix (1999), from a 1968 episode of Bewitched.  Larry takes the red pill.

"Darrin, you keep asking and answering your own questions": a still from the unquestionably classic Bewitched.

The right word is witch in the classic sitcom Bewitched.

Here's a bit of flapdoodle and blatherskite from the classic sitcom Bewitched.

The classic Bewitched episode "Solid Gold Mother-in-Law" offers a precursor to the Seinfeld episode "The Pony Remark."

"Everything was coming up black Peruvian roses."  From the classic sitcom Bewitched.

About 28 years before Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, Endora was combining the same two holidays in Bewitched.  The subtitle reads: "'Twas the Night Before Halloween."

"Uhhh has nothing to do with it," as we learn in the classic sitcom Bewitched.

In this moment from the classic sitcom Bewitched, Samantha corrects Aunt Clara's previously garbled incantation, changing "abba-dabba-dabba, dabba-dabba-abba" into "aba-daba-daba, daba-daba-uba."