Someone compiled a hilariously exhaustive list of all the reasons Dr. David Banner’s inner Bill Bixby gave way to his external Lou Ferrigno.
Possibly my favorite:
I should not be reading this at work, because it’s really hard not to start laughing.
If I was David Banner, I don’t think I would look for a cure after reading all that. he wouldn’t survive for a day.
Now if someone can compile a list of ways that the criminal underworld of Gotham City (circa 1966) has unsuccessfully attempted to off Batman & Robin…
Ok, this one almost made me wet myself
As I recall, #58 - “Being forced to land a 747”, wasn’t a full-fledged hulk-out and probably shouldn’t be consider a hulking at all since all they did is add facial appliances and green paint to Mr. Bixby. He was so frustrated trying to land the plane he had the very rare partial hulk-out.
Somebody getting bacon salt in his vagina-flavored risotto didn’t make the list. Damn!
I hate it that happens. Thor is a real jerk.
You know what I never understood about Dave? Why he was even looking for a cure. It seems to me that if my daily routine included “wandering into an Army dump to get the deadly canister of army nerve gas that has blinded his friend, only to be caught by a mean MP who knocks his gas mask off and throws him back down the hill, knocking the canister open so that David can frantically try to put his mask back on before looking up to see that the MP has somehow brought in a crane and is dumping two tons of garbage on him”, I might just realize that turning into a pissed off Lou Feregno is the only thing that is going to get me through the day.
You just know that if he ever managed to cure himself, then 10 minutes later he’d find himself locked in a hotel basement with a rabid gorilla who is beating him over the head with a “High Voltage” sign.
Is getting in the 10 item express lane behind someone with a cart sky high with groceries on there? That’d do it for me.
I’m surprised “that Ang Lee movie” isn’t on the list.’
The best thing about this list is that it comes to us directly from the creator of the Hulk TV show, who explains he worked with a big Hulk fan while working on JAG who recalled every single time Dr. Banner turned into the Hulk on the TV show, hence this list.
Did David Banner ever Hulk out over someone calling him “Bruce?”
“This is Captain Hulk! Hulk land in Los Angeles shortly! Hulk SMASH PUNY RUNWAY!”
“Tray tables up OR HULK SMASH!”
Well, if I were the comic book Dr. Banner, I might get pissed that the only pants I have in my wardrobe are purple and really stretchy.
in #8 he was mauled by a bear
when he fell into the bear trap in #36, was he like HULK APPRECIATES IRONY!!
#118. Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris crash his list.
What were these guys on?
#73 involves a friend being punished under the rites of the “Culta de Cabeza Chocolata”. blink The Cult of the Chocolate Head? Whadda they do, make you eat the ears off 1,000 chocolate Easter bunnies?
And #79 talks about the High Priest of the Baba Yaga voodoo cult. Talk about cultural diversity! A voodoo cult with a Russian witch as its patron saint/god!
In summary, oy! I remember liking this show! 'course Bill Bixby was cute, and the piano music was sad. That made up for a lot.
It occurs to me that the Hulk may have actually reduced this show’s entertainment value. If the writers didn’t have to work in those mandatory two transformations, they could easily have included several more Bill Bixby misadventures per episode: accidentally setting his own legs on fire, being beaten up by nuns, getting his head stuck in a ferret cage, etc., etc.
"Doctor David Banner. Physician. Scientist. Searching for a way to open his rusty backyard tool shed; unaware of the colony of South American tree porcupines hiding inside…"
“GYEEAAAUUGHHH!!!”
I believe they recycled #95 in the comic series The Ultimates, only sans parachute, and it was the good guys (or people on the payroll of the good guys) who shoved him out of the airplane.
After which Hulk smashed, then consumed, the bad guys.
The TV show Hulk was my favorite, until I read that series.
#119. Dr. Banner’s cel phone company commits a massive overbilling error which they refuse to acknowledge.