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Les Nessman, his bandaid replaced.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Their language is a lot like memes. Harold; holding cup.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The beast at Tanagra.

The Enterprise, in Generations.

Koltar, when he drowned in the swamp.

Armus, on his planet.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

🎶WKRP in Shaka🎶

[–] hardaysknight 8 points 1 year ago

“AS GOD AS MY WITNESS”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Picard at dinner with Lwaxana.

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-approved-approval-picard-clap-gif-5132586

But really, I can't tell you how happy this makes me, what a fantastic reference.

[–] APassenger 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nesman, in the parking lot.

[–] lemmyman 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The nice thing about this style of communication is that it makes the context explicit, so I can at least look up what you're talking about. You know, when I have access to a means to search the entirety of a civilization's works.

[–] APassenger 2 points 1 year ago

I never watch that scene without laughing uncontrollably.

[–] TheJims 4 points 1 year ago

Dr Fever, his head hungover

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So I figured I would google it, evidently some USian reference.... First few links were to when students drop out of Uni or other tertiary education, apparently they are referred to as turkeys, and turkey dropouts. For some reason. Or alternatively they break up with their partners.

But apparently that is a reference to dropping live turkeys out of a helicopter in a sitcom. It sounds somewhat bloodthirsty, and I do not want to see such a thing, though I can imagine... Terrifyingly that is apparently a reference to a real world event of dropping live turkeys from the back of a moving truck....

Okay. Huh.

I knew Americans were weird about turkeys and have a holiday set aside for them, but this seems ridiculous somehow.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't actually show the turkeys being dropped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that seems somewhat a relief.

Is Cincinatti when the turkeys drop considered a good or a bad thing? My wiki walk has led me other places now, but it seemed all to be negative consequences?

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The radio station was going to drop turkeys from a helicopter as a promotion because the station manager thought turkeys could fly. He was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it is a bad thing?

Turkeys might not be able to fly as adults, but they can glide just fine. If not affected by the downdraft under a helicopter rotor, which would affect any birds ability to fly.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

It's a sitcom. Believe it or not, they aren't known for their scientific rigor.