Archive for 28. Jenny Who?
“Exit Stage Right” was a phrase uttered by the Hanna-Barbera pink mountain lion character Snagglepuss. If you’ve seen The Fifth Element, there’s a line uttered by the assistant priest who whines quietly “I don’t want to go to Egypt.” Same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tyrant, gettin’ his Darth Vader on. Which makes Tortoise, er, Shield Luke Skywalker. That’s funny, see, because he uses Luke’s hairpiece. Except he has two hands. And doesn’t cry like a baby at Tyrant’s offer.
Robot Silverstein’s dialogue was borrowed from the death throes of the HAL-9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. All except the final derp durrr. That’s my own addition.
Now we know what Tyrant did with that robot head he acquired from Science Guy all those strips ago. But where’s the REAL Silverstein?
Jenny was the cloned daughter of The Doctor as played by David Tennant. Obviously she’s got her father’s way with words…
Silverstein is actually referring to the time he had hospital security tase LEGO Ian and haul him away. Cylons in the new Battlestar Galactica series were frequently referred to as toasters.
I’ve met a few Australians in my life, but I can’t say that I’ve ever heard one actually say “fair dinkum.”