My friend Sarah Kuhn, over at Alert Nerd, sent out a call for all geeks within the sound of her tweets to come clean with our geeky confessions. If you knew her, you’d know that if you refused her anything, you’d feel like you kicked a whole stadium full of puppies. Puppies with capes who would fry you with their adorable laser-beam stares.
Anyway, here goes, in no particular order, my top 5 guiltiest pop culture pleasures and shameful confessions. This very well might get my license here revoked, so just in case I lose all of my cred and get kicked out of the Bunker without so much as a farewell bag of Cheetos, it’s been nice knowing ya!
5. Gambit
I don’t know why, but I just love him (except for in that terrible WOLVERINE movie). I don’t even read a whole lot of X-Men books, but there’s just something about him that’s had me ever since I was a kid watching the cartoon. I drive a purple Scion xB, and even though I had never named a vehicle before, people kept telling me I had to this time. So, what’s it’s name? Remy LeBeau. My friend Scott and I spent an afternoon driving around to every toy and comic shop in the greater Hampton Roads area to find a Gambit figure to go in my car. We finally found one crummy little Toy Biz Gambit, who has resided in the driver’s side sunvisor ever since.
I know that everyone hates Gambit. If I sat down and did a scholarly analysis of the character and everything that he represents, I might hate him too. That’s no fun though, says I. Laissez les bon temps rouler, says I!
4. Josh Groban
Here goes my indie music cred. Bye-bye, cred! It was nice knowing ya. I’m sure you’ll be ashamed of me when I tell you that I have purchased tickets to see Josh Groban live in concert not once, but twice – and one of those times required a road trip. I suppose this is where I can play the girl-card. I am a heterosexual woman, and as such, enjoy it when a cute boy with an amazing voice sings a sad love song in Italian. I do suspect that Mr. Groban may be a giant geek himself, which maybe makes it a little more okay.
Come on… a little?
And hey, the guy CAN carry a tune.
3. Pauly Shore
You’re not even paying attention anymore at this point. Actually, you’ve already said to hell with me and removed this post from your site history. What can I say? I love me some Pauly Shore. I could watch a marathon – Encino Man, In the Army Now, Son In Law… Oh yeah. Even the movies that are bad FOR Pauly Shore movies – Bio-Dome? Oh yeah. Freeeeeeee Mahi-Mahi, if you will.
But you won’t.
And that’s okay.
I came to terms with being a pariah for this one a long time ago, when I was the only one who was sad that Totally Pauly got canceled the second time.
2. Battlestar Galactica
I’m talking about the new series. What’s to confess about it, you ask? Well, you see, I kind of… hated it. I watched the first season, and at first, I wanted to like it so much that I’d convinced myself that I did for a few episodes. There was enough about it that I thought was interesting or intriguing, and well… everyone else loved it so much… but by the time I got to the end of the season, I really just didn’t care. What a bunch of self-involved characters who speak in cheesy soundbites! Sure, there’s some eyecandy in there, but just not enough to make me sit through any more of this show that just ultimately depressed the crap outta me.
That brings me to…
1. SeaQuest
I don’t know what it says about me that I hated a show so universally regarded as good, while having a near-obsessive love for one that’s just patently terrible. This near-future creation of Rockne O’Bannon’s doesn’t even hold a candle to his later effort in Farscape. Almost every character in SQ was a pathological Mary Sue, especially Lucas. Who cares? Jonathan Brandis (may he rest) was my reason for living when I was 14. That meant my family had to endure this addition to NBC’s Thursday night lineup. Now, here’s the REAL confession: even then, I knew how bad it was, and I used to rewrite the scripts in notebooks when I thought I could do better. The keyword there is thought. At the time, better meant more screentime for Jon Brandis and Marco Sanchez (although, even now, who can argue with more Marco Sanchez?), and more cheesy banter from the brothers DeLuise, who entered the show in the second season.
There you have it, folks! Fire away!
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Being a girl has its perks in this crowd. The Baroness gets to cut in line at geek parties.
Ha! on two counts:
1. I never really got the new BSG either, so don’t feel alone there.
2. SeaQuest, which was a going concern when I was finishing film school at FSU and was shot semi-locally in Florida, was often used as negative reinforcement. “Well, lets see, what do I do when I graduate? Move to LA? Or *work on SeaQuest?* Hmmmm.” God, that show.
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No worries Heather, I’ve got your back. Especially on the Josh Groban and Pauly Shore leanings…
While I can’t back you up on your BSG hate or love for Pauly Shore, I am 100% with you on Gambit. I love Gambit. LOVE him. And any serious geek worth their salt hates him, but I says c’est la vie! I love the Cajun, and the bad accent, and the hair, and the staff, and the charging of objects.
And…I really liked SeaQuest too, when I was younger. Talking, sentient dolphins namned Darwin RULE. And I used to have the hugest crush on Jonathan Brandeis (sp?).
Awesome confessions!
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I will admit to enjoying Encino Man a little too much when it came out. Did I just say that out loud?
I also LOVED Ted Raimi on Seaquest. Maybe if the show had been called “Ted Raimi Does Awesome Stuff on Seaquest,” I would’ve watched more regularly.
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I love this post! Probably because I like cheesy stuff myself. Nice to know someone as cool as you does too!
No fear that this post is PopBunker Seppuku. I actually agree with, in spirit, all of those choices except Pauley Shore. I think he is generally unfunny but also it is more popular to ridicule him for being unfunny than his unfunniness merits. Otherwise, except for the bit about being a girl, I pretty much agree with the rest. Well, except the singer dude. I have no idea who he is so can offer no feedback.
Wow. I might get kicked out for mentioning my nerdy music crush. And I don’t even write for you guys. (It’s Michael Crawford, by the way…)
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I’ll give you a pass on that one!
DARWIN PLAY
As one geek Heather/woman to another. Maybe I can give you an insight on a couple of your choices.
Gambit – I think Gambit (and Rogue)were the two x-men designed for the girls. In general girls like accents, he isn’t a sissy emo like cyclops and he is more approachable than wolverine. He’s also single and as far as I know not pining over anyone. Besides – HE’S HOT!!
Pauly Shore – I pity any girl who doesn’t love Pauly Shore, because they have no sense of humor. He is really funny, great body and he (at least use to) date porn stars – so he either has something in the bed department and/or learned a few tricks.
I have to admit, I don’t get your other 3, but to each geek her own.
ps – the girls really miss their aunty
Porn star may have dated Shore because they wanted someone to take a rest with, i.e. average endowment, ten minutes and lights out. I could imagine for some porn stars that would be quite the catch in a guy indeed.
I did sorta like Gambit. Now I wonder about myself. I sure do love me some Cajun accent.
I think that when you have to do that for a living – it gets pretty mundane – so you have to have something fabulous to go home too. Just sayin…
I don’t get your obsession with serial killers and putting fruit on salads, so we’re even!
What’s there to get? I’m a little off kilter.
Pauly’s cool. Gambit, too.
Yes, but why is there a picture of Edward Norton at the top of your article?
Because he’s dressed as a pr–
I mean…
‘Cause it’s Pop Culture confess–
Oh, skip it.
I have to reply as I am indirectly implicated in her number 1. She forgot to add we ALL wrote Seaquest DSV scripts and shared them at our 7th grade lunch table (Go core team Horizons!) The most popular scenes were those of us living out our fairly chaste 7th grade romantic fantasies of some female character making out with Jonathan Brandis’ character, Lucas. One of my favorites that I can remember (don’t remember who wrote it, not me) was one of Lucas meeting a girl by knocking her out of the way of a bus. No idea why I still remember this.
As for number 5, I remember the same cartoon series that made Gambit cool, and my favorite character was Jubilee. I loved her name, and the fireworks. By the way, I’ve always disliked Jean Grey, she just gets on my nerves.