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For those who don’t know what Colin is talking about, he’s obviously referencing Flash Gordon – and like a real nerd, he’s not just going from the 80s Dino De Laurentiis remake, but he’s going back to the original 1936 serial. I actually never saw the 80s version as a kid, but I did fall in love with the older serials. They’re great fun – obviously made on a shoestring budget, but also made with love.
That’s some real old, old, old school nerd cred talking there. The pigeonholer has become pigeonholed. Bethany is going down.
I may have been watching too much EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY of late.
Should we ask for Ming vs. Palpetine?
oh hell yes! there can never be enough epic rap battles!!
You should. You really should.
What you mean to tell me that Bethany is nothing more than a wannabe ?
Even I thought she was a true master of being a trivial nerd.
She’s more than a wannabe. But she’s an arrogant know-it-all, and nothing gets under the skin of that type more than somebody knowing something they don’t.
Who knows what nerdity lurks within the hearts of man? The Shadow knows.
OMG, I know the cranston ref, as well as the gordon ref.
Does that mean I am a nerd? Or just really, really f’ng old.
1930 feels like it was just yesterday.
Now THAT is a vintage nerd reference. I liked listening to the old radio serials. I liked the 90s movie less.
Looks like Colin is going to bring the hammer down on a wannabe nerd. Beat he like a tent stake Colin! Strike a blow for true nerds. Like the ones that KNOW Han shot first and didn’t need to have the Force explained by midi-chlorians
I’m not sure that’s real nerds you’re talking about. I think it’s old nerds you’re talking about. But as an old nerd, I’m happy to agree.
Ming The Merciless was always my favorite title
My favorite title of anything ever is “Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe”. What a great title.
Beats the hell out of “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”!
David Letterman (on Late Night, ca. 1982): Pia! . . . Zadora!
Pia Zadora: [Hits Letterman with death stare; wholly ineffective; audience laughs asses off] 😀
Really depends. Does Colin know it from the books, the comics, the serials, or that dreadful movie?
But it’s so dreadful that it’s gloriously dreadful! “Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!”
That dreadful movie with the fantastic sound track, if you please. Accuracy is important in Nerddom.
I love the theme song. Did you know that De Laurentiis had never even heard a rock band of any kind before hiring Queen for the soundtrack? Kooky old Italian man.
There’s no worse movie than a bad movie with a great soundtrack.
Nightbreed, anyone?
I know it from the many 30s serials. Comic came first, though.
A yankere in nerd’s clothes?
Oops, That was supposed to be a general comment, not a response to your comment. I should not try doing this on my cell phone; I’m not in the right generation for it!
Nor I.
The Big Little Books might have pre-dated the comics. When I was younger, about maybe 10, so, 1975, one of my elderly neighbors lent me her collection of first edition Flash Gordon Big Little Books. She was a nerd before all of us. And, oh yes, she did know their value.
Ooh. Vintage nerd.
Meh,
There’s so many different fandoms out there now that anyone can trip anyone else up by referencing a fandom they may not have heard of before
The correct answer, Bethany, is “Who died and made you the Gatekeeper of Nerd-dom? ”
The state of being Nerd extends to all. It’s within your heart, waiting for a hobby to start obsessing over
well yeah, of course there are too many fandoms to know them all, but some fandoms are just omnipresent+timeless…..if you have no answer to the eternal question of ‘star wars or star trek (or both)’ you can´t call yourself a nerd in my book.
Though as a true nerd, I can say that even that has been muddied over the years. Like Adam Savage once noted, the core difference between the two was that Star Trek was a utopia whereas Star Wars was a dystopia. But successive versions of both properties kinda lost that thread.
Did I do it? Am I a true nerd?
Yes, you succeeded, Professor Gecko. Anyone who can turn Shakespeare’s utopian Puck into the merry demonic dystopia we so enjoy is a true nerd indeed.
Well, I thank you.
Where’s that upvote button when we need it? 😀
Star Trek sure lost the utopia, but where did Star Wars get it? It definitely wasn’t in anything produced by Disney.
You are right. Of course you are right. And I don’t believe Colin is sincere in this exchange. He’s just using her own arrogance against her to make the place a hostile environment for her.
Weird
And here I thought Puck and Daphne were the Apprentice and Master Sith Lords
You know, there’s a rumor that the real Lord of the Sith was meant to be Jar Jar Binks…
Nerd Judo.
The Filmation version of Flash Gordon is the first one I was exposed to, and still my favorite. If you’ve never seen it, you should check it out. Both the series and the movie can be found on Youtube.
Filmation made some good stuff. I must admit.
I had forgotten about the Filmation Flash cartoon. It was excellent and true to the original Alex Raymond strip and movie serials. The current version on the Comics Kingdom website is excellent too. The 1980 movie was indeed so dreadful tha Max von Sydow is still rolling over in his grave. Queen’s music was good but the cheesy chorus was so overused to punctuate every action point. After 45 years, I still have “Bumbumbumbum…Flash! Ohyah!” stuck in my mind anytime I hear a chord of Queen music.
Buster Crabbe, the OG Flash.
A bit harder to find the serials now but some of them are still around.
So much of the old stuff is hard to get now. Sad.
VCI Entertainment still has quite a collection. And there are boxed sets of Space Soldiers/Trip to Mars/Conquers the Universe. Though DVD, they’re in pretty good shape.
“Conquers the Universe” is my favorite. Bit higher budget, and the best name of anything ever.
Are we Bethany fans gonna get to see her in Princess Aura garb at some point?
Maybe? You Bethany fans. You can never be sated!
She . . . doesn’t know Ming? That’s like not knowing Wilma’s last name! Buck’s! Lamont’s! Deejah’s! Leave the shop, you, you poseur!
We could accuse her of being just being too young, but we’ve already established that Bethany’s pushing forty, so…
I think the may reference Flash Gordon and the Water Worlds of Mongo.
I bet she doesn’t even know Radar Men from the Moon or The Phantom Creeps.
Or the Republic serial that features the female ZORRO.
Unlikely.
She probably thinks Buster Crabbe is the weekly special at Red Lobster.
Admittedly it sounds delicious.
If Colin has to deploy the REALLY BIG guns, he could mention the Lensman books by E.E. “Doc” Smith, the original Martian Chronicals by Ray Bradbury, the original Buck Rodgers, and possibly Space: 1999…
“Space: 1999” was the show that was so unappealing and so British that it overcame my inherent nerd nature as a child and made me change the channel every time it came on.
Try Smith’s first “Skylark” book—that and the original Buck Rogers story were both first published in the same issue of Amazing Stories.
Admit, I didn’t recognize ‘Princess Aura’ and just skimmed the rest, assuming was something obscure or made up.
Well, obscure by design!
Colin is no ordinary nerd. He is nerdissimo! 🙂