William Shatner should take the remaining members of Ben Folds Five* and start a band called William Shatner Four, and go on a tour of Japan.
*the band in the priceline.com commercials that recently broke up
Bill S. is tha’ man! Anyone who says otherwise is jealous of all that green slave-girl pussy he gets or of his ability to translate song into spoken word.
If you don’t like Shatner, you don’t get the joke. The man has made a career out of image and mocking the image he created.
If you want to see just how brilliantly he does this rent “Free Enterprise”. While not a “great film”, it’s entertaining and a good look at Bill making fun of “Kirk”.
If I was in a room with any of you people talking shit about Shatner I would give you one of those two clasped fist neck chops and knock you the fuck out and then I’d bang your wife and make her call me “Captain”.
I never got that episode. Three gelatinous glowing brains who are gambling addicts just never struck me as an inspiring enemy. Plus how to brains get to be three colors?
If they were smary they would have never gottin rid of the bodies. After all you got them hot babes in the silver strapwear running around doing whatever they are told and all you can think of is to make them fight? Dismal.
I think that when they finally killed off Captain Kirk in ST: Generations, Shatner (having come to believe that he really was Kirk) completely snapped…
In some of the Priceline commercials, if you look carefully, you can see his old Captain’s uniform peaking out under the collar.
Did all three members of Ben Folds Five really appear in the Priceline commercials? I didn’t see the bassist or the drummer, just Ben Folds whacking a cowbell like his life depended on it.
I don’t believe so. The Priceline commercials featured a lot of different musicians in their “house band,” including Ben Folds, Lisa Loeb, Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Mary Timony of Helium, and others.
I must confess. I loved those commercials. I like that hammy actor. He was a total trip. And although I didn’t see him wearing his Star Trek uniform in the priceline.com commercials, it would probably be part of the joke. I think he has a great sense of humor about the whole thing.
Free Enterprise? Screw that. I enjoyed Free Willy so much more. When that massive creature, symbolizing Shatner’s enormous ego, managed to escape those who wish him harm, I just started bawling like a red headed stepchild after breaking a family heirloom.