And just in time for the Spring Season...the Episode #112 Obscure Quotes!
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As before, feel free to submit your own explanations, kiddies! The best ones win a free Coke!
SAMAS <Darryn Hinch>: Shame, Australia, shame.
ICE <Jim McGuffin>: Viewers in Kent have phoned in to report a downpour of shooting stars! Perhaps somebody's been celebrating Bonfire Night early...
SAMAS <Damien Day>: Jutting out from the rubble is a profound reminder of this tragedy, a battered teddy bear.
MARK <Jinsaku>: 50. GODDAMN. POINTS. OF. DAMAGE.
[This is probably a reference connected to the Japanese Collectable Card Game/anime series Yu-Gi-Oh. Mark, be as so kind to tell us more? -rJ]
MARK <Seth Brundle>: And we hadn't even been formally introduced.
MARK: ...Moondragon?
MARK: Three bucks says it's Mikado Sanzenin inside that rubber suit.
[If I got my Japanese film lore course straight, Sanzenin was better known to be the poor actor who played the man inside the suit of such rubber monster epics such as Godzilla and Gamera as well as some early sentai series which involved big robots operated by power rangers fighting against ungodly demons. Armpit of a job, but I bet the benefits packages rock. -rJ]
ICE: I'm Guy Noir, private eye.
[Garrison Keilor. Prarie Home Companion. Last great radio show. Don't make me spell it out. -rJ]
EON: Why do I feel like I've suddenly fallen into "Operation Mindcrime?"
SAMAS: I'm getting a strong R.A. Salvatore vibe from all of this.
ICE: Hey! That's Banishing Blade! Put that back!
SAMAS <K'Ehleyr>: I know! I was *there*!
MARK <Gyrados>: JUGGERNAUT HEADCRUSH!
ICE <Hactar>: What's done is done. I have fulfilled my function.
[The last words of the world's smartest supercomputer in "Life, The Universe, And Everything". As an appropriate tribute, the MiSTing of "Pokemon Master" was dedicated to the memory of Douglas Adams, who passed away diring this session. Rest in peace, friend. -rJ]
SAMAS: So Misty grew up, went off, and became Cate Archer?
TBS <Clov>: If I don't kill that rat, he'll die.
ICE <Hamm, absently>: That's right.
TBS <Judge>: Where did you last see her?
ICE <Johnny, holding up a picture>: I drew a picture! Wanna see?
TBS <Judge>: Do you know where she might be?
ICE <Johnny, pointing at the picture>: You see the sun? Hehheh! He's smilin'.
ICE <Brian Van Hoose>: This smells trap.
[Oh yeah...Knights of the Dinner Table...right...rJ]
MARK <Alex>: I'm sorry, but that is the wrong question.
TIFF: I hate Vib Ribbon fanfic.
ICE <Eisenstein>: No. Don't turn around. You mustn't turn around.
ICE: No! Despero! Despero is attacking!
EON <Scoot>: Dogs--hump your master's leg at an inappropriate time.
EON: Back! Back, flame of Udun!
EON: Frederic Wertham, call your office.
TBS: Along with Sydney Carton, yes.
SAMAS: He's got the emotional range of Austin St. John.
[An actor better known to star in some of the earlier Power Ranger episodes as the Red and (much later) Gold Rangers. Think of him along the lines of a Keanu Reeves waiting to happen. -rJ]
ICE: He uses that thing more often than Kan Konar, man.
ALL: Akodo Kage?!
EON: The only thing Ash had learned from watching the "Faith & Values" channel was how to mindlessly follow.
[This is one reference verbatim from one of the older captions from the "Dysfunctional Family Circus." God knows how THAT got there...-rJ]
MARK <grumbling>: Rikimaru would never have done it like that...
EON: He's turned into the guy from Shadow Skill!
MARK <muttering>: Gau Ban...
TIFF: Or perhaps Domon Kashue.
MARK: NO! Not Jay Garrick, too!
> Heck, Lord Garick lives in the Palace of the Elite Four."
MARK: The Baxter Building?
ICE: Four Voyagers--I mean, Four *Freedoms* Plaza?
EON: Pier Four?
MARK: This is similar to J'onn J'honnz Oreo Habit.
[Mark...check the spelling and enlighten us with your Green Lantern wisdom, would you? -rJ]
TBS: That's no ninja! That's Kayin Amoh!
MARK: Huh, Jessie and James are the Orson and Shiris of this merry little adventure.
TIFF: ...the image of Berserker James is more amusing than it should be.
[Being a Lodoss War fan myself...I must agree with Tiff on this one. -rJ]