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Childhood Misconceptions (aka The Trap Thread, but misconceptions still welcome) — Page 5

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Bingowings said:

In a similar vein for decades I thought General Kala said "Dispatch Warlock and Ajax to bring back his body" in Flash Gordon and wondered what happened to the second ship.

It was yesterday, yes yesterday (not A LIE featuring PETER MAYHEW coming soon to DVD!) that I discovered it was "send war rocket Ajax".

 i always thought that bit was-

"dispatch warlokken agents to bring back his body"! 

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almonkey said:

Bingowings said:

In a similar vein for decades I thought General Kala said "Dispatch Warlock and Ajax to bring back his body" in Flash Gordon and wondered what happened to the second ship.

It was yesterday, yes yesterday (not A LIE featuring PETER MAYHEW coming soon to DVD!) that I discovered it was "send war rocket Ajax".

 i always thought that bit was-

"dispatch warlokken agents to bring back his body"!

Warlokken agents sound great they should turn up in something.

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In the vein of "Obvious Things I Just Realized":

Gunray is Raygun backwardsish.

MY HEAD ASPLODE!

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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Since we never saw them with their helmets off or anything, I thought that all Stormtroopers were robots.  I was like, "How'd Han & Luke get in those suits with all those robot parts in them?"

I don't believe I ever grasped the term "clone wars" as a child.  Probably because I wasn't familiar with the word "clone."  And for reference I was born in February, 1980.  I'm waiting to see if anyone thought Luke said , "the cologne wars."  War breaks out over mens' fragerences.

And yes, I called them "LifeSavers" as a kid, too.

-NJM

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Wow, too many to list. I'll just stick with the ones that spring to mind...

I thought Ackbar was called Ackbarn

I thought Tarkin was called Tock (you can't really hear the '-in' when Leia says it)

I thought the Emperor was like 1000 years old, not 80 (but who didn't?)

Same thing for Vader

I had no idea that the guy next to Obi-Wan and Yoda at the end of RoTJ was the same guy from five minutes previously

I thought the stormtroopers were robots

I didn't realise that Wedge was at the end of RoTJ, I thought it was just Luke hugging some random pilot. If you remember, we don't actually see Wedge with his helmet off until that moment, so I didn't recognise him.

 

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Well, I did always recognize Wedge, but, going off what you said, I was quite surprised to see him out of helmet.  Up to that point, I'd always assumed for some reason that he had a crew cut, honestly.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Oh yeah, I just thought of another really weird one. When Vader knocked Luke into the carbon freezing unit in ESB I thought he said 'Lord Wheezy', as opposed to 'all too easy'. My justification of this was that Vader was calling to one of the Ugnauts to turn on the machine for him. Or something.

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xhonzi said:

In the vein of "Obvious Things I Just Realized":

Gunray is Raygun backwardsish.

MY HEAD ASPLODE!

GORMALLY calls 'dibs!' on the remains.

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GORMALLY is at home.  The one called sluggo was an easy mark.  

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doubleofive said:

I feel like I'm missing out, now Gormally has Sluggo? Crazy!

http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/937/937329/southpark-big-gay-al_160_1229026831.jpg

Don't feel lonely, silly.  You seem super swell!

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I had always thought Yoda said, "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and events."  Never made much sense to me since, technically, everything is an event.

-NJM

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GORMALLY thinks that would make a great iphone app.  "Download the Yoda app now and become a master of knowledge and events".

 

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Good show.  Darn good show.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.