#120: “Thank you for calling Client Support. All of our representatives are busy on other calls at the moment. Estimated wait time is currently twenty-four minutes. Please hold onto the line…”
We were howling over this one last night. Why is it always bad cops, drunk tanks, and trash cans? And fire?
Clearly Dr. Banner has deep-seated emotional problems, and also issues with motor skills.
#121. “With polls closed and all precincts reporting coast to coast, it’s clear that Mike Huckabee has won the Presidency by a landslide…!”
The only thing missing from that list are the words: “ACME Co.”
My mother–who is not at all a comics fan–enjoyed the pathos of the original “Hulk” series. When she heard there was going to be a TV movie, she seemed genuinely excited to watch.
Until Thor showed up; I’ll never forget her words after the Thunder God first appeared: “Who the hell is this jerk?” Those TV movies absolutely ruined what was a halfway-decent premise, toned down substantially from it’s comic book melodramatics.
“I DON’T HAVE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!!!” AARRRRRRRRGHGHGHGGGHHHHH!!!
I remember The Incredible Hulk being a depressing show, he had bad unbelievable shit happen to him every damn episode.
#122: Tried posting in his favorite chatroom, but got server error messages again and again and again, until somebody beat him and posted the nitpicky little trivia he was going to post.
You wouldn’t like me when I’m Ang Lee.
“Wow, where does that hobo get those nice white shirts?”
That’s not how I remember it. The hydraulics were out on the plane, so he couldn’t control it. He had to fully hulk out to get the strength to move the control surfaces without hydraulics.
And the theme song gave it a real dramatic finish. It made you want to cry for David.
But looking at that list, it seems as if we should have all been laughing. It was all a big joke, wasn’t it? Well, it was one that flew over my head. I was treating that shit seriously. I was a kid and didn’t know any better. I didn’t know!
I don’t like being made a fool of.
::hulking out::
I don’t think it was supposed to be a joke at the time. It’s just seeing a list of all the hulking out reasons together makes you see how ridiculous it all is as a whole.
It’s rather like Agent Scully still claiming to be skeptical when by the third season of X-Files she’d seen several dozen mutants, vampires, werewolves etc. In aggregate, the premise doesn’t hold, which is why it seems so comical.
Generally each episode of shows back then was self-contained. All us kids would tune in to see the Hulk each week, so they had to invent reasons for him to Hulk out.
I think The Incredible Hulk could be done as a serial like Heroes and be a great show.
I think you’re right about the hydraulics, but I’m sure it wasn’t a full hulking. I remember the stewardess (were they still called that in the 70s?), looking at him as if thinking “WTF??”, rather than screaming for her life. And I don’t think that the full on hulk would have the wherewithal to fly a commercial aircraft. I’m sure he hulked just enough to give him that little extra “oomph” he needed.
Hey, cut me some slack; I couldn’t find an online clip of the jean-jacket version. Maybe Banner just had a really attentive laundering service.
“Shirt have no starch because you no order starch! Ticket say no starch! Starch extra twenty-five cents!”
“I DON’T HAVE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!!!”
On further reflection, any action/adventure/crime show looks ridiculous when summarized. TV cops get into more car chases, gun battles and fistfights in a season than most real cops do in a career. The CSI guys clear more murders than real techs ever see. Heck, Jessica Fletcher got inadvertently tangled up in, what, 230 murders? There are ethnic cleansers that haven’t seen that much death.
C’mon now, let’s not use the term “skeptical” so loosely here on the SDMB. Skepticism is the right scientific attitude for dealing with any extraordinary claim, no matter what else one has seen. If you showed me definitive proof of pyrokinetic mutants, human-eating insect creatures, and alien-human hybrids, it wouldn’t make me suddenly believe in ghosts.
Wasn’t there one episode where Banner spent the whole show in a semi-Hulk state (that is, Bill Bixby with makeup, instead of Lou Ferigno)? Caused by a radioactive meteorite, which makes perfect sense.
This whole post cracked me up. Like, I could read this a hundred times and laugh each time.
“I DON’T HAVE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!” is also doing a number on me.