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"I read the script and thought, 'Aw, I'm not Mr. Freeze. I wanna be Mr. Freeze'... But when I went in there, I totally just geeked out on them; I wanted them to know I knew Batman backwards and forwards."
Mark Hamill on his casting as Ferris Boyle on Batman: The Animated Series, which eventually led to him also playing The Joker on the same show

"Unbelievable evidence of an emotional digression going on here: porno movies and video games. What am I, thirteen, emotionally? I mean, I'm looking at this receipt I got from [the video store], and it's like, Clam Lappers, and Sonic the Hedgehog. That was one weekend. That was Easter weekend. Something's going on with me, man. That's a pretty scary way to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, with Clam Lappers and Sonic-fucking-Hedgehog."
Bill Hicks, ''Arizona Bay'

"...And so I am happy to turn to the President and extend what I consider to be the most American of greetings; although we may not always agree, I have been and always will be your friend. Live long and prosper."
John Hodgman, addressing President Barack Obama at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner

"When the rest of us have to put together a costume for Halloween or Purim or whatever weird cosplay shit you do in your free time (no judgement) we go out to our nearest Savers...But not Madonna. Madonna is a very rich and very powerful lady. When Madonna wanted to dress up as Daenerys Targaryen for Purim, she didn’t just send out her assistant to Party Depot and grab a generic 'Dragon Princess' costume-in-a-bag...Emilia Clarke explained that the reason Madonna’s Purim costume was so good was because it was the real thing. Emilia had received an email from an HBO publicist asking if she’d be willing to loan Madonna one of her dresses from GoT, and since she can read between the lines — that Madonna doesn’t ask, she DEMANDS — she agreed and let her wear it. Good move, Emilia; it’s always better to keep Madge on your good side lest you wake up in an ice-filled bathtub with your kidneys missing and all the youth drained from your face."

"WHO'S THE "NOBODY" NOW, HUH?! HE'S JUST A FAT, UNEMPLOYED IDIOT, AND I HAVE A TVTROPES PAGE!!"
Chuck Sonnenburg, SF Debris, who actually has several.

"I once sold Robin Williams an entire run of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, back when I worked in a comic book store that inexplicably featured dozens of celebrities among its clientele. He was a semi-regular customer, the first celebrity I ever met in the store, and could not have been a nicer man if he tried."

"I have to admit, I was brought on board just by the music video—not the official one, but the lyric video she released as a preview—because it has one of the most bizarre, out-of-left-field pop culture references I think I've ever seen.

...Guys.

...That's Mike and the 'bots from
Mystery Science Theater 3000.

There is only
one person in the world who cares equally about Nicki Minaj and MST3K, and that is me. This video was made for me."
Todd in the Shadows on Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda"

"Someone was posting on 4chan saying that they're Taylor Swift. There is a lot of evidence for this, some of it to do with her cat, which is nice. My evidence for is that Taylor Swift has participated in a lot of seemingly unenjoyable hobbies, like listening to John Mayer say sentences and eroding the Rhode Island coast, so maybe this is just another one of them."

"Lots of very respectable people are trekkies."
Nathan Spencer, CASUAL+Y

"Thank you, folks. That was good of you. That was Lawful Good of you. Some of you know what I'm talking about."

Matt Striker: "Avengers assemble! This is Secret Wars, Team Smackdown style!"
Michael Cole: "What are you talking about?"
Striker: "Comic book reference, buddy!"
Cole: "You are a nerd!"
Striker: "Thank you!"
WWE Friday Night Smackdown Oct. 22, 2010

Q: I recognize this theme...
A: This Hotline Miami DLC for PAYDAY 2 is a true collaboration between OVERKILL, creators of PAYDAY, and Dennaton Games, creators of Hotline Miami.
Q: Why?
A: Because we at OVERKILL fucking love Hotline Miami.
Almir Listo, announcing the OVERKILL/Dennaton Crossover.

"The Azure Window sounds like a Diablo II wand. He referenced a video game, he must be cool."
Rare Earth, endcard of The Most Important Maltese Tourist Site That Doesn't Exist

"If [QAnon followers] are sad and looking for ways to spend hours on the internet researching arcane and impossible to understand theories, might I suggest nerd culture? Join us! It's great! I spend every waking moment I'm not on camera reading J. R. R. Tolkien, or listening to J. R. R. Tolkien, or reading about J. R. R. Tolkien, and taking Tolkien quizzes, and reading the Tolkien dictionary like this one [holds up "Tolkien: A Dictionary"], and correcting the entries! Why be upset about fictional reptilian satanists when you could be angry at the very real fact that Glorfindel got shafted in The Lord of the Rings movies? Look, I understand adding Arwen. I like that. Even Professor Tolkien knew she was an underdeveloped character added at the last minute to the novel, but why did they have to cut Glorfindel out? He defeated the Balrog at the Fall of Gondolin! Does that not count for anything anymore?!? And please, no letters that Glorfindel himself was killed while defeating the Balrog. So was Ecthelion, Lord of the House of the Fountain, and that was against Gothmog, so what's your point?"

"I have been an avid comic book collector since the third grade, when I got my first comic—The Avengers #249, which was plucked off of a spinner rack at a convenience store, and then I fell into the magic of comics, started collecting, found a comic book shop. I as well collect horror memorabilia. I love old autographs, letters, pieces of personal ephemera from legends of horror—you name it: Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, a lot of my heroes."

“It is not every day that I turn on the TV and find a character who eats the same foods, listens to the same music or uses the same Urdu phrases as me. What a joy to see Ms. Marvel reflect the lives of a Pakistani immigrant family and reveal a young superhero whose powers connect to her heritage. Thank you, Marvel and Disney+, and most importantly, Ms. Marvel.”
Malala Yousafzai, in a letter she wrote to Marvel Studios after watching the first episode of Ms. Marvel

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