The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
for some reason it is this is one of my favorites from my childhood, only ever saw it on VHS and a rental at that. Back when you had to rend the Video player and the VHS tape.
Anyway, it is on Amazon Prime. I am watching it now.
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson
July 21, 2018, 04:31 PM
Otto Pilot
I have "No matter where you go, there you are" written on my backpack. Therefore, I am never lost when I am hiking, just headed towards a different destination.
For a long time "Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy" has been one of my favorite taunts.
______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon
July 21, 2018, 04:38 PM
H&K-Guy
Buckaroo Bansai represents 1 hour and 43 minutes of my youth I will never get back.
H&K-Guy
July 21, 2018, 04:42 PM
henryarnaud
It's Big-boo-TAY!
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes
July 21, 2018, 04:53 PM
mbinky
"We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey."
July 21, 2018, 05:01 PM
Orguss
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Originally posted by redstone: for some reason it is this is one of my favorites from my childhood, ...
Same for me but include The Ice Pirates. A weird but fun movie when I was a kid.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
July 21, 2018, 05:13 PM
SigJacket
Every guild in a MMO or other like game, my first suggestion for a name is The Hong Kong Cavaliers.
Also, it’s been my signature line here for awhile.
-- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
Was the "Mr. Wizard" reference in the Matrix a reference to Bonzai?
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson
July 21, 2018, 05:48 PM
Rinehart
Mission Control: Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?
Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him yes on one and no on two.
Mission Control: Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia... or number 2?
July 21, 2018, 07:11 PM
jhe888
Laugh while you can, monkey boy.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
July 21, 2018, 07:27 PM
SecurityGeek
Character is whata you are ina the dark!
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
- Satchel Paige
July 21, 2018, 07:34 PM
PghPI
“There are monkey boys in the compound, there are monkey boys in the compound!”
I could never take John Lithgow seriously after this.
July 21, 2018, 10:59 PM
PKFan
Use more honey!
July 22, 2018, 01:20 AM
cas
I had a Yoyodyne employee parking sticker on my car for years.
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July 22, 2018, 08:22 AM
lyman
quote:
Originally posted by Otto Pilot: I have "No matter where you go, there you are" written on my backpack. Therefore, I am never lost when I am hiking, just headed towards a different destination.
For a long time "Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy" has been one of my favorite taunts.
wasn't this line also used in a Mad Max movie?
I find it playing on a cable channel every now and them, and my wife rolls her eyes when I stop surfing and watch it,
Originally posted by jhe888: Laugh while you can, monkey boy.
I used that line in a public meeting where an uninformed government employee tried to ridicule something said by an informed member of the public.
No one, not one, got the reference.
It shows the sorry state of education today.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
July 22, 2018, 04:48 PM
cas
You reminded me I also had a Yoyodyne T-shirt. But it had "laugh while you can monkey boy" on the back, though that was NOT mentioned in the ad. I had to stop wearing it to work because no one got it, and thought it hinted at something else.
quote:
Originally posted by lyman:
wasn't this line also used in a Mad Max movie?
Beyond Thunderdome.
(and it made me feel cheated)
_____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911.
July 22, 2018, 04:49 PM
zoom6zoom
quote:
Originally posted by redstone: Was the "Mr. Wizard" reference in the Matrix a reference to Bonzai?
there are quite a few movies that reference or make homage to Buckaroo. Back to the Future even stole the Oscillation Overthruster and renamed it the Flux Capacitor. This site lists just a few of them.
I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm.
July 25, 2018, 12:36 PM
redstone
quote:
Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
quote:
Originally posted by redstone: Was the "Mr. Wizard" reference in the Matrix a reference to Bonzai?
there are quite a few movies that reference or make homage to Buckaroo. Back to the Future even stole the Oscillation Overthruster and renamed it the Flux Capacitor. This site lists just a few of them.
Thanks for the link, that was amazing how many of those I have seen. I have not connected the flux capacitor prior.
Just last night the girls and I were watching "Ready Player One" and he wears the 'Buckaroo Bonzai" outfit to the club, because that is his favorite
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson
July 25, 2018, 01:41 PM
Blaque Jacque Shellaque
I had a coworker who, if you asked what something on the electronics bench was, and made the mistake of pointing at it, would reply "It's your hand Buckaroo."
My SO also planned a Buckaroo Bonzai Pizza Pigout Party once. Invited all kinds of friends over and had all the fixings for whatever kind of pizza you could want. Make it yourself, throw it in the oven and enjoy the movie. It was a big success.
