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happy pride!!!!!! having other queer people in online spaces always makes me extremely happy and means a lot to a lot of people. thanks for doing what you do :)
This missed the best thing about Russell the Werewolf, his full name is Jack Russell. The guy that made him wasn't a dog person so he didn't realize a jack russell was a type of terrier, but said later when someone asked him about it if he had known he would have named him that anyway; and honestly I love stuff like that.
Wait, the creator didn't know what a Jack Russell was???? I'mma need a source on that coincidinc, I always assumed it was intentional because HOW COULD THAT NOT BE INTENTIONAL
@@davidbjacobs3598 I went looking to make sure I wasn't misremembering and it's from an interview in "Back Issue! #71". On page 7, continuing from page 6, Gerry Conway is quoted as saying (when asked if the name was intentional): "Gosh no, but as people have pointed out to me repeatedly, it is kind of an appropriate name! I know that Roy and Jean came up with the original premise for the first issue. And it's entirely possible that when I wrote the script, and I wrote the characters name, that I was subconsciously making that association. I'm pretty sure I would have never have thought of it; I didn't own a dog, I wasn't raised with dogs, and the idea of calling a character Jack Russell - who turns into a werewolf - probably would've struck me ask hilarious if I had thought of it, but I didn't think I did." The full interview is available on twomorrows DOT com, if you or anyone that sees this wants to read it for themselves! A price is listed but I was able to digitally flip through the issue for free.
Given that there have been references to “boner” in a sexual context before the 1950s, and given that it was used over 40 times, I can’t believe that the writer of that Joker story DIDN’T do that on purpose.
So the thing is that the word boner was actually begining to gain its modern meaning at the time, but a writer could still use it and have the pausible deniability that they didn't know it had that meaning and the editors would let it slide, so I think that the use was intentially comedic and the writers were just taking advantage of the moment.
The funny thing about the fake swearing Moon Knight memes is they're not entirely inaccurate to the character. For those who don't know, Moon Knight was a former solider for hire and he originally appeared as a bounty hunter for a shady organization. So for his first few appearances, Moon Knight would talk in some very mean ways and use slang form the time to get the impression that he was a shady guy in the past. One of my favorite parts from his original appearance was his insistence of getting his "bread" (he actually uses that word in the story, multiple times). As time went on, he was sort of rewritten to be more of a stoic character like Batman.
In the adam west show, the true king of superhero memes, batman uses a bust of shakespeare to get into the batcave. Yes shakespeare was the original memelord and he transcends time, space and media to laugh at the peek of modern humour.
Scott just wanted to do a Shakespeare video but he knew the only way to get everyone to watch it was to sneak it in a video about comic memes. Well played, sir.
If I had a nickel for every time a Shakespeare reference was associated with a meme in this video... I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times!
Okay, but for real that dictionary is hilarious. There's one where Robin is driving the batmobile off a bridge and he tells batman something like, "I should not drive the car. You should have driven the car today."
The Joker's use of boners in the 50s reminds me, when I was reading Amazing Spider-Man from the start, there's an issue where Gwen Stacy thinks "Peter Parker is the only boy I've met who hasn't given me a tumble!" Now, it's clear from repeated context that at least in 60s US vernacular, to give someone a tumble meant to give them the time of day, but as an Australian, and a fan of British comedy, I literally spat my tea out reading that thought balloon. From my perspective, that says a lot about Gwen's promiscuity. I think someone must have told Stan Lee about the meaning after that issue, because nobody ever gave anyone a tumble again.
Honestly you got to give kudos to the person who edited the Dracula meme. It's a custom speech bubble, and with the attention to detail to include the bolding of an important detail.
When discussing the etymology of the word 'Meme', and tying it to 'Mimic'... You did not mention that it was a deliberately coined word. Richard Dawkins made it up on the spot in 1976 in his book, 'The Selfish Gene'. He dubbed it "a unit of imitation". He even suggested how it should be pronounced [rhymes with "cream", just like we do today]. Most word origins are much more nebulous. I think it is cool that this one has such a specific origin.
@@FlynnTheRedhead if there was an earlier version, which there wasn't, it was replaced because of a sound imbalance that caused the background music to drown out Scott. But that's not possible, as this is the only version
@@chipscreations3987 Because videos take a while to get to full HD on TH-cam, so he kept it unlisted until it was ready, commented under it 45 mins ago and then released it just now
If it weren't for the dictionary book where the "forty cakes" meme comes from, we would not have Mojo Jojo's beautiful way of speaking. The way Mojo Jojo expresses himself would not be what it is without the dictionary. The dictionary is to thank for creating the way of speech for The Powerpuff Girls villain, Mojo Jojo.
I believe it was Shakespeare who first said, "To morb, or not to morb--that is not even a question. You should always morb when given the chance, even if you must break iambic pentameter to do so!" And I think that still rings true today.
I feel like you missed out on letting the audience know the full truth about Russell. Russell is his surname. His first name is Jack. Jack Russell. He is a werewolf.
Also, I just remembered a thing that people also might be unaware of. Mr. Russell, the titular star of the comic "Werewolf by Night" was created by Marv Wolfman. And as a third, admittedly tangential bit of info, Wolfman was kind of responsible for credits becoming a standard part of comics. At Marvel, likely not entirely unrelated to Stan Lee's ego, Credits were fairly common, but at DC, things were more haphazard in the silver age. However the editor of one of their few horror books that survived the Comics Code realized that Marv's surname of Wolfman could give them plausible deniability to insert the banned term of "wolfman" into the comic, so long as they gave credit to the actual Wolfman, and after that everyone demanded credits for their work.
Honestly I think the reason there’s so much Shakespeare in these comics is because Stan Lee was so verbose and eccentric that he just threw in a bunch of Shakespearean like wording (especially with Thor) because it sounded cool and future writers just took the baton and ran with it!
But the 1st example was a DC comic, and the 2nd was a TV show that Lee didn't have any part of. And the 3rd one was written by Tom defalco and Roger stern.
I feel like I heard the phrase to "pull a boner" to mean to make a mistake growing up in the 1980s (probably mostly via old sitcoms) even though boner as an erection was certainly current at that point also. A check of Google Ngram for the phrase suggests that references to "pull a boner" crashed by 1980 with limited usage after that so maybe a bit odd that I knew the phrase. The single most memorable thing about the Spiderman show is the theme song. As I would have commented more extensively on the original version of this video, if there was such a thing which there was not, Shakespeare has an extensive relationship to the English language.
@@Oturan20 The TV show Upstart Crow suggests that Shakespeare sought to sow confusion about what words and phrases he originated versus other sources like the King James' bible, guess it worked.
@@allanolley4874 And there was the Moon Knight meme of him throwing several blades. The word balloon is the "Random Bull$h¡t Go!!" and the caption is WHEN SHAKESPEARE NEEDS A WORD THAT DOESNT EXIST YET.
No idea, but only heard of "Morbin' Time and he morbed all over the guys" on this video and it had me chuckling for 5 minutes solid.. no idea why. Think its the way Scott said it.
well here's a kooky bit of trivia then, apparently the guy that named him that made the pun by coincidence lol, the didn't know it was a dog breed at the time.
This one is older, not an Internet-style meme, but how about Superman changing in a phone booth? It was so ubiquitous that even Superman: The Movie referenced it. Funnily, Superman had, I think, changed maybe twice in a phone booth in a serious depiction, and I think it was the first time that he said it was inconvenient and he only went there because there was nowhere else private to change.
If Scott had a nickel for every time Shakespeare came up discussing a comic book meme, he'd have 3 nickels! Which admittedly isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened 3 times...
As a twitter artist, my most popular work is a morbius shitpost. This is my legacy. I'm honored 😌 Also your deadpan delivery of "batman is nonfiction" got me so good. 🤣
I love this video so much, particularly for its spectacular segues. As always, your quips are on point, Scott, and I appreciate any appearance by your kitty (even if it's just to show off the phallic feeder). There are so many other Spidey memes I'm sad didn't get included (the "egads, a bullet came out of his gun somehow" and such comics similar to the Moon Knight ones have long been favourites).
It's likely that the writer of Batman #66 knew exactly what he was doing. The sexual connotation of the term "Boner" was apparently coming into popular use right around the 50s, which would have meant that the readers would have almost certainly known the slang term and been rolling with laughter. The writer, knowing the old version of the word likely saw a golden opportunity to slip in a dirty joke that his kid readers would get but which would go over the heads of adults while at the same time giving himself full deniability if anyone caught on. However, looking at the aggressive use of the word "boner" and the often awkward phrasing suggests that it was an intentional effort designed to get a rise out of an immature audience.
No, what I'm wondering about that double Spider-man meme that involved Cameo is why wasn't it the Chameleon as I always thought it was. Wait a minute... If Jamson is Jameson then Cameo is somehow the Chameleon. Question answered.
Scott! I loved this video, and all of the segues in it, but two things: 1) Regarding the (terrible) theft of forty(40) cakes, I couldn't tell you where/when, but at one point some aliens refer to Lex as "notorious cake thief Lex Luthor", further cementing his legacy. Also, you didn't show it but I stg there's an entry for sandwich or something where the Atom tries to get vored by Hawkman but hiding in his lunch. 2) Also! I have no idea how to get the message to you(as I don't have Twitter) but I'm pretty sure a local pawn shop has tapes for Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and what seems to be a Spider-Woman show. I don't know if they'd be of use to you for the series on old Marvel cartoons you have going but if they are I'd be happy to send them to you.
I'm not saying Batman V Superman would have been better if instead of Grandmas green tea he sent the judge 40 exploding cakes...but I would have liked 1 more thing from that movie than I currently do.
Fun fact about the superdictionary: Mojo Jojo's let's say,,, specific, cadence was inspired by the way the superdictionary explained things! And yes! I will never EVER unhear that, and I'm foisting it on you, too! Have fun!
Yes, you should definitely make a video about the 60s Spiderman cartoon. The Ramones do a great cover of the theme song. As a kid in Canada growing up in the 80s, I watched a lot of the series as a kid.
If the serum was supposed to make Superman immune to green kryptonite and then later Batman uses green kryptonite to trap Superman, who he suspected of killing his father and stealing the immunity serum... World's greatest detective my ass.
Best entry in the Super DIctionary is the one for "Adventure" where Jimmy Olsen is in a scooba suit being chased by skeletons, because that seems like something that would actually happen to him.
Oh shit, the batman slap meme is from a comic that is unironically Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It seems so much more interesting too. Also, I would watch the shit out of a Nerdsync series on Shakespeare.
The meme origin that broke my heart was the one with Batman and Raphael (the ninja turtle) standing in the rain where Batman says "This is where my parents died, Raphael" and Raphael responds with "Cowabummer". After years of seeing this image float around on the internet I finally managed to read the comic this image originates from, only to discover that in the actual comic, Raphael does not say "Cowabummer" at all. I was genuinely distraught.
A famous panel you didn't talk about is the JLA one were some supervillain had poisoned them and whoever they had "touched" would die or something and The Green Arrow, Flash, and Superman say oh no my girlfriend but Batman says "Oh no Robin"
Whenever I see the Dracula moon knight meme I get sad that not as many people know about how Luke cage invaded latveria because doom owed him 200 dollars
DC is missing a huge opportunity there. Have a scene where the Joker is ranting at/messing with the head of a captured character who was already established as being uptight or easily embarrassed. And have in his big scary villain monologue the Joker say "boner" as much as possible. Fans would get hte reference and even for people who didn't the scene would be funny and in character.
My adderall preescription lives in my nightstand, it's the only way for me to take my meds in the morning instead of at 1pm when I'm suddenly reminded by so random train of thought.
I cannot get over how it was Rata that popularized morbing, no matter how fitting it is. For context (since we love that here), Rata has a channel called Rank10YGO where he mostly talks about yugioh cards and such and is very funny.
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happy pride!!!!!! having other queer people in online spaces always makes me extremely happy and means a lot to a lot of people. thanks for doing what you do :)
Happy Pride fellow Bi!
Happy Pride in return from an ace boy!
You may have missed pride month by a day but pride is really all year round, it’s just celebrated harder in June.
Or, we got a bonus pride day this year
The word 'boner' was said almost 40 times.
That's almost as many as four tens.
And that's terrible.
Forty terrible boners, indeed.
Honestly morbius flopping twice is funnier than any meme
This missed the best thing about Russell the Werewolf, his full name is Jack Russell. The guy that made him wasn't a dog person so he didn't realize a jack russell was a type of terrier, but said later when someone asked him about it if he had known he would have named him that anyway; and honestly I love stuff like that.
Well that's just nice
Wait, the creator didn't know what a Jack Russell was???? I'mma need a source on that coincidinc, I always assumed it was intentional because HOW COULD THAT NOT BE INTENTIONAL
@@davidbjacobs3598 I went looking to make sure I wasn't misremembering and it's from an interview in "Back Issue! #71". On page 7, continuing from page 6, Gerry Conway is quoted as saying (when asked if the name was intentional): "Gosh no, but as people have pointed out to me repeatedly, it is kind of an appropriate name! I know that Roy and Jean came up with the original premise for the first issue. And it's entirely possible that when I wrote the script, and I wrote the characters name, that I was subconsciously making that association. I'm pretty sure I would have never have thought of it; I didn't own a dog, I wasn't raised with dogs, and the idea of calling a character Jack Russell - who turns into a werewolf - probably would've struck me ask hilarious if I had thought of it, but I didn't think I did."
The full interview is available on twomorrows DOT com, if you or anyone that sees this wants to read it for themselves! A price is listed but I was able to digitally flip through the issue for free.
One of my favourite comic facts! Haha
I have frikkin wondered about that for years! (Just mild bemusement, not enough to, you know, look it up) Thank you!
I swear, that Joker comic must have been written by a time traveler who absolutely knew what they were doing.
Wouldn't be surprised if Bill Finger was a time traveller tbh it would explain some things. I think he wrote that one, could be wrong tho.
I think both meanings of the word were used at that time so it had a double entendre. They made a joke that was parallell to the story.
please tell me what else it would explain i gotta know
Yeah, the word actually meant what it does now back then as well, it was deliberate :D
Given that there have been references to “boner” in a sexual context before the 1950s, and given that it was used over 40 times, I can’t believe that the writer of that Joker story DIDN’T do that on purpose.
Especially the Tower of Pisa part haha
So the thing is that the word boner was actually begining to gain its modern meaning at the time, but a writer could still use it and have the pausible deniability that they didn't know it had that meaning and the editors would let it slide, so I think that the use was intentially comedic and the writers were just taking advantage of the moment.
The funny thing about the fake swearing Moon Knight memes is they're not entirely inaccurate to the character. For those who don't know, Moon Knight was a former solider for hire and he originally appeared as a bounty hunter for a shady organization. So for his first few appearances, Moon Knight would talk in some very mean ways and use slang form the time to get the impression that he was a shady guy in the past. One of my favorite parts from his original appearance was his insistence of getting his "bread" (he actually uses that word in the story, multiple times). As time went on, he was sort of rewritten to be more of a stoic character like Batman.
God, I love that bread used to be a word that tough guys use, and now every 13 year old uses it to describe their v-bucks
Because all of these memes were made by Moon Knight fans, basically 99% of them were created by the two admins of Moon Knight-Core
"Morb to the midterms" is legit the only time I've ever laughed at a Morbin time joke.
In the adam west show, the true king of superhero memes, batman uses a bust of shakespeare to get into the batcave. Yes shakespeare was the original memelord and he transcends time, space and media to laugh at the peek of modern humour.
Holy Shakespeare, Batman! You're right!
Scott just wanted to do a Shakespeare video but he knew the only way to get everyone to watch it was to sneak it in a video about comic memes. Well played, sir.
If I had a nickel for every time a Shakespeare reference was associated with a meme in this video... I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times!
I feel like Scott tapping the 'Don't Overthink It' sign should be a meme.
Okay, but for real that dictionary is hilarious.
There's one where Robin is driving the batmobile off a bridge and he tells batman something like,
"I should not drive the car. You should have driven the car today."
The Joker's use of boners in the 50s reminds me, when I was reading Amazing Spider-Man from the start, there's an issue where Gwen Stacy thinks "Peter Parker is the only boy I've met who hasn't given me a tumble!" Now, it's clear from repeated context that at least in 60s US vernacular, to give someone a tumble meant to give them the time of day, but as an Australian, and a fan of British comedy, I literally spat my tea out reading that thought balloon. From my perspective, that says a lot about Gwen's promiscuity. I think someone must have told Stan Lee about the meaning after that issue, because nobody ever gave anyone a tumble again.
Honestly you got to give kudos to the person who edited the Dracula meme. It's a custom speech bubble, and with the attention to detail to include the bolding of an important detail.
Let's be real, Shakespeare was something of a memelord himself.
That's an incredible book idea.
What you egg?
@@kyletowers9662 Villain, I have DONE thy mother.
Shakespeare was the first shitposter in written history
I think you have succeeded in putting that in a nutshell.
When discussing the etymology of the word 'Meme', and tying it to 'Mimic'...
You did not mention that it was a deliberately coined word.
Richard Dawkins made it up on the spot in 1976 in his book, 'The Selfish Gene'.
He dubbed it "a unit of imitation".
He even suggested how it should be pronounced [rhymes with "cream", just like we do today].
Most word origins are much more nebulous. I think it is cool that this one has such a specific origin.
if you saw the version of this video that came out earlier, no you didn't 👀
I always miss first version uploads, always wonder what lead to the reupload. Thanks a lot Scott
What video
Then how is this comment 40 minutes old despite the fact that the video is a couple seconds old
@@FlynnTheRedhead if there was an earlier version, which there wasn't, it was replaced because of a sound imbalance that caused the background music to drown out Scott.
But that's not possible, as this is the only version
@@chipscreations3987 Because videos take a while to get to full HD on TH-cam, so he kept it unlisted until it was ready, commented under it 45 mins ago and then released it just now
I'd assume this whole time he slapped the shit out of Robin because he gave one too many " Holy Something Something Batman " jokes.
Holy slaptastic assumptions, Batman! Me too.
*batman slaps robin*
Robin: …Holy physical assault, Batman!
*batman grabs robin by the neck and throws him to the ground*
If it weren't for the dictionary book where the "forty cakes" meme comes from, we would not have Mojo Jojo's beautiful way of speaking.
The way Mojo Jojo expresses himself would not be what it is without the dictionary.
The dictionary is to thank for creating the way of speech for The Powerpuff Girls villain, Mojo Jojo.
I feel that Lex stealing 40 cakes needs to have something to do with Hostess Fruit Pies.
that's as many as 4 tens.
@@ProjektTaku And that's terrible.
But if he had a Hostess Fruit Pie he wouldn't need to steal anymore, because Hostess Fruit Pies solves all the world's problems.
@@camerondodge2070 Maybe he stole the cakes because the store was out of Hostess Fruit Pies.
@@onbearfeet Well in that case Superman should've done something, because that's an emergency situation and a threat to the way of peaceful life.
I love the meme of Batman shouting into a loudspeaker "HAS ANYONE SEEN THE JOKER!?"
I believe it was Shakespeare who first said, "To morb, or not to morb--that is not even a question. You should always morb when given the chance, even if you must break iambic pentameter to do so!" And I think that still rings true today.
I feel like you missed out on letting the audience know the full truth about Russell. Russell is his surname. His first name is Jack. Jack Russell. He is a werewolf.
Also, I just remembered a thing that people also might be unaware of. Mr. Russell, the titular star of the comic "Werewolf by Night" was created by Marv Wolfman. And as a third, admittedly tangential bit of info, Wolfman was kind of responsible for credits becoming a standard part of comics. At Marvel, likely not entirely unrelated to Stan Lee's ego, Credits were fairly common, but at DC, things were more haphazard in the silver age. However the editor of one of their few horror books that survived the Comics Code realized that Marv's surname of Wolfman could give them plausible deniability to insert the banned term of "wolfman" into the comic, so long as they gave credit to the actual Wolfman, and after that everyone demanded credits for their work.
My favorite comic-related meme is “This is where I watched my parents die, Raphael.”
"Cowabummer"
"Cowabummer"
L+ratio+didn't ask+don't care+you're parents are dead
Awesome idea for a video. I'd love a part 2, as well as that 60s Spider-Man specific one.
I 2nd all that
Honestly I think the reason there’s so much Shakespeare in these comics is because Stan Lee was so verbose and eccentric that he just threw in a bunch of Shakespearean like wording (especially with Thor) because it sounded cool and future writers just took the baton and ran with it!
But the 1st example was a DC comic, and the 2nd was a TV show that Lee didn't have any part of. And the 3rd one was written by Tom defalco and Roger stern.
see my guess was more that a lot of people who become writers have read Shakespeare.
@@yourlocalnerd7788 makes sense
@@karl_alan My Bad. I read Roger Stern as Roy Thomas and got confused. I was working as I watched so I was only half paying attention to the visuals.
@@rej3ktstudios986 no, totally. I can see that. Reading old Stan Lee is like reading historical fiction.
I feel like I heard the phrase to "pull a boner" to mean to make a mistake growing up in the 1980s (probably mostly via old sitcoms) even though boner as an erection was certainly current at that point also. A check of Google Ngram for the phrase suggests that references to "pull a boner" crashed by 1980 with limited usage after that so maybe a bit odd that I knew the phrase.
The single most memorable thing about the Spiderman show is the theme song.
As I would have commented more extensively on the original version of this video, if there was such a thing which there was not, Shakespeare has an extensive relationship to the English language.
I learned the word from an early episode of The Simpsons!
According to TV Tropes Shakespeare created half the English Language, F. Scotts Fitzgerald created the other Half...
@@Oturan20 The TV show Upstart Crow suggests that Shakespeare sought to sow confusion about what words and phrases he originated versus other sources like the King James' bible, guess it worked.
@@Oturan20 Why? What'd he do to you? You said "eff Scott Fitzgerald."
@@allanolley4874 And there was the Moon Knight meme of him throwing several blades. The word balloon is the "Random Bull$h¡t Go!!" and the caption is WHEN SHAKESPEARE NEEDS A WORD THAT DOESNT EXIST YET.
After explaining the origin of the two Spideys pointing meme, you gotta do the "that's right Peter, I'm you, you're me, and this is a gun"
No idea, but only heard of "Morbin' Time and he morbed all over the guys" on this video and it had me chuckling for 5 minutes solid.. no idea why. Think its the way Scott said it.
hows that rock u live under?
I never at any point get over the concept of a werewolf named Jack Russell. I guess Doberman Pincher would be too on the nose.
well here's a kooky bit of trivia then, apparently the guy that named him that made the pun by coincidence lol, the didn't know it was a dog breed at the time.
I would totally watch a nerdsync video of the connection between Shakespeare and comics. Please overthink it.
This one is older, not an Internet-style meme, but how about Superman changing in a phone booth? It was so ubiquitous that even Superman: The Movie referenced it. Funnily, Superman had, I think, changed maybe twice in a phone booth in a serious depiction, and I think it was the first time that he said it was inconvenient and he only went there because there was nowhere else private to change.
I had that book as a kid, the 1978 Super Dictionary. I was like "Damn, Superman, you gonna fight algae forever"
What was terrible wasn't that Luthor was stealing 40 cakes, but the fact that it is as many as four 10s!
And that's terrible.
How did Jubilee in X-Men TAS saying, "Does a mall-baby eat chili fries?" not become a meme?
I recently found the "Me and the boys" meme, and it always gives me chuckle.
If Scott had a nickel for every time Shakespeare came up discussing a comic book meme, he'd have 3 nickels! Which admittedly isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened 3 times...
I thought "Morbin time" was a take on "Clobberin' time" from The Thing.
same
Nah Rata is a huge tokusatsu nerd
Ah but was Morphin time itself a reference to clobberin time?
Or am I overthinking it?
@@nicka3697 is it?
Me too
The non fiction batman comics joke mad me literally laugh out loud.
As a twitter artist, my most popular work is a morbius shitpost.
This is my legacy. I'm honored 😌
Also your deadpan delivery of "batman is nonfiction" got me so good. 🤣
I love how you just monologued about Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and love in the middle of things.
Finally, reading all those Moon Knight comics paid off
Does Scott have any idea how ready we are for him to write a comic? How exciting
I love this video so much, particularly for its spectacular segues. As always, your quips are on point, Scott, and I appreciate any appearance by your kitty (even if it's just to show off the phallic feeder). There are so many other Spidey memes I'm sad didn't get included (the "egads, a bullet came out of his gun somehow" and such comics similar to the Moon Knight ones have long been favourites).
I'm just happy you got the glowy green lantern back in the background, for some reason it's always been my favorite background thing
It's likely that the writer of Batman #66 knew exactly what he was doing. The sexual connotation of the term "Boner" was apparently coming into popular use right around the 50s, which would have meant that the readers would have almost certainly known the slang term and been rolling with laughter. The writer, knowing the old version of the word likely saw a golden opportunity to slip in a dirty joke that his kid readers would get but which would go over the heads of adults while at the same time giving himself full deniability if anyone caught on. However, looking at the aggressive use of the word "boner" and the often awkward phrasing suggests that it was an intentional effort designed to get a rise out of an immature audience.
No, what I'm wondering about that double Spider-man meme that involved Cameo is why wasn't it the Chameleon as I always thought it was. Wait a minute...
If Jamson is Jameson then Cameo is somehow the Chameleon. Question answered.
0:56 as someone who used to watch power rangers every day, I'm deeply ashamed I didn't catch that
Scott! I loved this video, and all of the segues in it, but two things:
1) Regarding the (terrible) theft of forty(40) cakes, I couldn't tell you where/when, but at one point some aliens refer to Lex as "notorious cake thief Lex Luthor", further cementing his legacy. Also, you didn't show it but I stg there's an entry for sandwich or something where the Atom tries to get vored by Hawkman but hiding in his lunch.
2) Also! I have no idea how to get the message to you(as I don't have Twitter) but I'm pretty sure a local pawn shop has tapes for Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and what seems to be a Spider-Woman show. I don't know if they'd be of use to you for the series on old Marvel cartoons you have going but if they are I'd be happy to send them to you.
I'm not saying Batman V Superman would have been better if instead of Grandmas green tea he sent the judge 40 exploding cakes...but I would have liked 1 more thing from that movie than I currently do.
This is the first time I’ve actually been interested in a sponsored segment… hope that blacksmith’s son can figure out how to get rid of his anvils
The algorithm has given me a gift today. I needed that laugh and I need to find that comic so I can treasure it forever.
Fun fact about the superdictionary: Mojo Jojo's let's say,,, specific, cadence was inspired by the way the superdictionary explained things! And yes! I will never EVER unhear that, and I'm foisting it on you, too! Have fun!
Yes, you should definitely make a video about the 60s Spiderman cartoon. The Ramones do a great cover of the theme song. As a kid in Canada growing up in the 80s, I watched a lot of the series as a kid.
Wait... how was the origin of the Batslap meme not the basis for "Batman v Superman"?
If the serum was supposed to make Superman immune to green kryptonite and then later Batman uses green kryptonite to trap Superman, who he suspected of killing his father and stealing the immunity serum...
World's greatest detective my ass.
Best entry in the Super DIctionary is the one for "Adventure" where Jimmy Olsen is in a scooba suit being chased by skeletons, because that seems like something that would actually happen to him.
"Isn't the evolution of language fun? This is fun right?"
Yes it is, please keep talking about it
This midsummer night's dream bit might be my favourite part of one of your videos
That Joker comic was obviously not a coincidence but a time traveling Ant man knowing what he was doing
Oh shit, the batman slap meme is from a comic that is unironically Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It seems so much more interesting too. Also, I would watch the shit out of a Nerdsync series on Shakespeare.
1:02 I thought it was a reference to the Thing with 'it's clobberin' time'... this makes so much more sense
My favorite superhero meme is the sad Wolverine meme. You could put almost anything in that picture frame and it will make me laugh.
The meme origin that broke my heart was the one with Batman and Raphael (the ninja turtle) standing in the rain where Batman says "This is where my parents died, Raphael" and Raphael responds with "Cowabummer". After years of seeing this image float around on the internet I finally managed to read the comic this image originates from, only to discover that in the actual comic, Raphael does not say "Cowabummer" at all. I was genuinely distraught.
It is worth mentioning that Sheakspere possibly invented the Knock Knock joke... in Macbeth of all plays, possibly the most memetic of all joke forms!
Loved the sidetrack of breaking down a midsummer night's dream. It was excellent.
I feel like pointing Spider-Mans only pull ahead of Spider-Man at a desk in the last five years or so as the biggest meme from the 60s show
Ok turns out that one peaked 10 years ago, but time flies when.... everything
Best examination of a Midsummer’s Nights Dream I’ve ever seen.
A famous panel you didn't talk about is the JLA one were some supervillain had poisoned them and whoever they had "touched" would die or something and The Green Arrow, Flash, and Superman say oh no my girlfriend but Batman says "Oh no Robin"
Whenever I see the Dracula moon knight meme I get sad that not as many people know about how Luke cage invaded latveria because doom owed him 200 dollars
Scott's Shakespeare soliloquies sound super. Soon significant script space should support speculation surrounding Stratford's sonnet scribe.
The greatest surprise for me was that Super-Dictionary. That was… an experience.
I maintain that Midsummer Night’s Dream would be a great Muppet movie
2011-12 60s spiderman memes were an amazing period of time. One of the funniest old memes in a time when memes weren't very funny
I like how Jokers first appearance is about boning
Scott pulled a Morb and uploaded this video twice for the memes.
I like to think the panel where Batman punches Tim Drake in Batman 71 is a potential reference to the meme.
Starting a video by Scott about memes of course means we get an education on Shakespeare and love.
The forty cakes meme even made it into the Exalted 2nd Edition book Masters of Jade.
As a fan of Rata's videos but non-follower of his twitter, it's really funny to find out he's the source of that meme this way.
DC is missing a huge opportunity there. Have a scene where the Joker is ranting at/messing with the head of a captured character who was already established as being uptight or easily embarrassed. And have in his big scary villain monologue the Joker say "boner" as much as possible. Fans would get hte reference and even for people who didn't the scene would be funny and in character.
Those dictionary descriptions are really like poems in the legacy of Shakespeare.
My adderall preescription lives in my nightstand, it's the only way for me to take my meds in the morning instead of at 1pm when I'm suddenly reminded by so random train of thought.
I have named the Halfing mail man in my 5e campaign Scott Nicewander.
I cannot get over how it was Rata that popularized morbing, no matter how fitting it is.
For context (since we love that here), Rata has a channel called Rank10YGO where he mostly talks about yugioh cards and such and is very funny.
Not the first thing he has meme'd into existence
Nor the last
I'm just waiting for the moment he gets Konami to make an Ojama Lime card
Scott how could you forget Doom's Toot! Doom Toots as he pleases! It's a classic!
You deserve 40 cakes for this video, good sir.
Batman isn't anti firearms. He's opposed to using them himself.
the whole video is great as usual but that Shakespeare bit was just spectacular omg
I genuinely thought it was in reference to "It's clobberin' time!"
I *will* name a character after you, Nerdsync
"He really...
...tugged at it." 🤣🤣🤣
Gotta love how the best Yugioh shitposter also kickstarted the Morbius bullying.
Mojo Jojo from the powerpuff girls talks the way he does because Craig McCracken, the creator of the show, had that super dictionary lol
The Boner jokes did not get old in fact they just got funnier and I’m confident if I read that entire issue they won’t get stale at any point
Spider-Man is an icon for memes. Whether its comics, animation, games or movies, he’s a Jack of all trades.
Morb to the midterms is the only meme I ever want to see for the rest of my life.
Moon knight core makes some of my favorite memes
TL;DL on the Shakespeare thing *ahem*: "MEMES THE DNA OF THE SOUL!!!"