Friday Quotes

Context

The famous dismissal is spoken by Craig Jones (Ice Cube) in the comedy Friday (directed by F. Gary Gray, 1995).

In the movie Friday, Craig and his friend Smokey (Chris Tucker) have 24 hours (on a Friday, of course) to raise money to pay back a drug dealer. When user and loser Felicia asks to borrow a car, then a cigarette, Smokey advises her to "borrow a job."

So she turns to Craig. But before she can even ask him for the same thing, he simply dismisses her—without even looking at her—by saying, "Bye, Felicia."

Where you've heard it

"Bye, Felicia," became mainstream when it was explained to Ryan Seacrest in April 2014 and later when Shonda Rhimes dismissed an anti-gay viewer with the phrase via twitter in October that year.

Additional Notable References

• The Vh1 TV show Bye Felicia is about two no-nonsense life coaches in LA.
• Dismiss haters before breakfast with the Bye, Felicia coffee mug.
• You don't even have to answer the door if you lay out the Bye, Felicia un-welcome mat.
• Jordin Sparks released her #byefelicia mixtape in November 2014
• The Onion-wannabe fake news site The News Nerd tried to make people think some rando named Felicia trademarked the phrase and was making bank off lawsuits in 2014.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

"Bye, Felicia" is the perfect way to dismiss someone who is being pretentious. Just make sure to use it properly—do not acknowledge their presence, and do not utter any syllables beyond the four needed to say "Bye, Felicia."