The Adventures of the S-Team!

If you’re a nerd like me, you know that Gary Gygax was the author of Dungeons and Dragons, and one of the stupidest monsters created for that game was the Gelatinous Cube. The Gelatinous Cube was a ten-foot-by-ten-foot cube of gelatin (durh!) which fit neatly down every ten-foot-wide corridor in every dungeon, sweeping up “organic detritus” and eating it, and collecting massive amounts of treasure along the way.

Yeah, it was basically a Santa Claus monster. Kill it and get stupid rich.

And in case there’s a need to light a fire under someone’s butt, I’ll just say that Dungeons and Dragons blows. GURPS is better.

This would be the second call from the attorney, the first being when Dr. Mat and Company were first introduced and he was speaking ill of the S-Team.

Tribbles, of course, are from Star Trek, and this references the fan-favorite episode with my favorite non-cast character of Harcourt Fenton Mudd (HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING AGAIN???) and the cute, Klingon-hating Tribbles. Gremlins are from the eponymous movie, and there were specific rules you had to follow (that didn’t make a whole lot of sense except for the purposes of plot advancement) about not getting them wet or feeding them after midnight.

The “Say it with me” line is a reference to Mystery Men, when Mr. Furious, the Shoveler, and the Blue Rajah first meet the weapons designer, Heller. (“My name is Heller. Say it with me…Heller.”)