Right?
Well yeah, the last part is obviously repeated for effect. No one is claiming the line plays four times in a row in the real ep.I don't recall that at all especially how he says it like 3 times.
Well yeah, the last part is obviously repeated for effect. No one is claiming the line plays four times in a row in the real ep.![]()
It's there in the original, at least the version on Netflix, but I'm pretty sure Sulu's saying "Come on, Johnny, okay."
I'm guessing it is indeed a whispered extra "okay" at the end.The dialog is:
You're on duty, Johnny-o. Back to reality.SULU
You can feel their eyes when they look at you, like something grabbing hold of you. Did you notice that?FARRELL
I noticed. How I noticed. Come on, Johnny.SULU
I think someone is playing around with sound mixing or something.
It does kinda seem like he's whispering to Johnny that he's immune to Mudd's women![]()
So this is a simple trick of suggestion -- the video is headlined "Sulu Admits He's Gay," and that predisposes us to hear a slightly unclear "Okay" as "I'm gay." It's the nature of the human brain to try to fill in unclear or incomplete patterns by projecting what it thinks is a likely interpretation, so you can prejudice the result by giving someone (or yourself) a suggestion ahead of time.
Is it hilarious that Shatner pretended to be afraid of a guy in a rubber alien costume, or that Nimoy pretended to be mind linked to a rock?That’s hilarious...George Takei/Sulu pretending like he was checking out Mudd’s Women.![]()
The line is, “Because I just went GAY all of a sudden!”Also, tangentially related, there's a famous early appearance of the word gay as "that kind of gay" in Bringing Up Baby (1938). Cary Grant is caught having hastily covered himself in a woman's negligee, and he explains it sarcastically: "I just turned gay, all of a sudden!"