# Gort Klaatu Barata Nicto **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 29, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703 "2004-02-29T03:00:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/1 "2004-02-29T03:00:42Z")
Saw this printed on the side of someone’s cubicle in the movie Tron. Any idea what it means? I looked briefly on usenet and found no references to Tron, oddly, but apparently it was said by one of the aliens in The Day the Earth Stood Still. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/2 "2004-02-29T03:08:44Z")
It was a message relayed from Michael Rennie’s “Klaatu” by Patricial Nel to “Gort” meaning, “Get yo’ 7’6” ass over here! I’m in a heapa trouble!" ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/3 "2004-02-29T03:10:46Z")
Actually, it was said by [Helen benson](http://imdb.com/title/tt0043456/) to the peace keeper robot to get Klaatu and fix him. Ringo Star has a nice album cover with Gort on it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/4 "2004-02-29T03:17:22Z")
Klaatu (the spaceman, played by Michael Rennie) tells Patricia Neal that if anything happens to him, she must say these words to Gort, the robot. Otherwise Gort would wreak incredible destruction on the Earth. Klaatu is avoiding capture when he is shot and killed by the Army. Patricia Neal goes to the spaceship. Gort disintegrates the block that the Army imprisoned him in and does the same thing to two sentries. Gort approaches her and as he is about to zap her, she says the words. He stops, picks her up and puts her in the ship. He then gets Klaatu’s body, returns to the ship and brings Klaatu back to life with some weird machine (not your average defibrillator). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/5 "2004-02-29T03:24:24Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Ringo Star has a nice album cover with Gort on it. That would be [Goodnight Vienna](http://www.pop-infodatenbank.de/goodnight_vienna_6928211.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/6 "2004-02-29T03:25:53Z")
To further the spoiler: In the original story, “Farewell to the Master,” we find that Klaatu was actually the creat_ed_ and Gnut (the robot’s name in the original) was the creat_or_. That relationship was clearly _not_ the case in the movie, but the incident did occur in the story, in which Klaatu was brought back to life. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/7 "2004-02-29T03:55:35Z")
“Klaatu Barata Nicto” were also magic words from the movie Army of Darkness, as an obvious homage to The Day The Earth Stood Still. The hero, Ash (Bruce Campbell), spoke the words wrong, and as a result, was responsible for waking up the Army of the Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/8 "2004-02-29T04:30:00Z")
Was this in the movie or the written version? I’ve never read the story, but I’ve seen the movie and I don’t recall this line or the scenes described. Of course, my memory may just be faulting me. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/9 "2004-02-29T05:31:31Z")
[What does Klaatu Barada Nikto mean?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=41135) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/10 "2004-02-29T05:34:17Z")
Implement Plan B ---
**Author:** ![Patr100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Patr100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patr100)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/11 "2004-02-29T11:35:20Z")
Great film. Classic scene of the saucer landing. The original story was written by Harry Bates. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/12 "2004-02-29T13:36:55Z")
Baa Weep Gra-na Weep Ninnibong. fnord. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gort-klaatu-barata-nicto/231703/13 "2004-02-29T17:30:23Z")
> [@Trigonal Planar](#): > > Was this in the movie or the written version? I’ve never read the story, but I’ve seen the movie and I don’t recall this line or the scenes described. Of course, my memory may just be faulting me. This was in the movie. It was not in the short story \*Farewell to the Master \* because the events in the movie surrounding the line do not happen, and the robot is named Gnut, not Gort.