The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

[RJDiogenes]

If I had the skills, I'd create a spoofy COD WARS logo.

That sounds like an appropriate use of AI.

Got me. All I know is that Ali goes on to beat Superman.

True. There's no rule against being charged up with Kryptonite radiation.

Young punk. Guess he wasn't the Boss on Elvis's property.

He was just the Boss. Elvis was the King.

Oh yeah, that would've been 15?

Yep, exactly.

I was surprised this one didn't chart a little higher.

It's often weird to see how well some classics did or didn't do when they were new.

It's alright; not as memorable or classic as the previous single.

No, I don't think he ever matched that.

How about this version?

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Oh, the pain. The pain.

An AI query comes up with some not-perfect terms, chief among them unsentimental.

I'm definitely unsentimental about it.

Unfamiliar to me as well, though I already had it. It's no "Strawberry Letter 23".

No, that's a goodie.

They always have him using his bionic eye to spot things that you shouldn't need a bionic eye to spot. Boop-boop-boop-boop-boo-boop, Boop-boop-boop-boop-boo-boop... "Hey, somebody's not in a chair ten feet away from me!"

I wonder if the people around him can hear it.

I think it was an Entertainment Tonight rival.

Oh, yeah, I did watch that from time to time.

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I feel like they're playing just for me.

I think they were just half-assing it.

"Is there room on that crane for one more?"

They could have sputtered off across the desert, three feet off the ground, and Jaime could have run them down and tackled them both.

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I'm very endearing.

Most, perhaps.

Maybe I just overthink the complications and awkwardness.