Lost to the Void wrote:Hades wrote:tell me the name.
I can't say I miss he-man that much,
always preferred de Rode Ridder (Galaxa !!) myself, but yeah...
He-Man was an advert for a Mattel toy range.
Did they have Rode Ridder toys then?
Of course not,
and if they ever did have Rode Ridder action figures, I'd love to know about them.
But this joke was more meant to anyone living in the Flemish part of Belgium, like Jordan
Many many moons ago I was on my way to Canada for a tobacco harvest season.
Back then nobody cared about trivial shit like your plane getting hijacked,
or some bearded guy with a passion for explosives so huge he was kindly willing to share it with the rest of us.
So me and the other Flemish guys started to drink heavily,
because back in those days, the air hostesses on long distance flights would actually still serve you alcohol almost non-stop if you kindly asked for it,
most of it totally free, and of course, if you knew how to behave while getting boozed up.
Anyway, the guy next to me saw I pulled out some Van Hamme strips,
and we got talking about strips (the most common name in English would be comics or graphic novels,
but I think apart from the French word "bandes dessinées" I don't think there really is any other proper word for it than "strip")...
At some point, he explained to me why he liked de Rode Ridder so much...
He said there is nothing funnier than the language used in de Rode Ridder strips,
and as he gave me some examples, I couldn't do anything but agree, and be destined to quote from the strip series for the rest of my life :
"na een zware dagreis doemen de massieve contouren van een nabije heuvelrug in Johan's zichtsveld op!" (het zal je maar overkomen)
"vanuit de diepste hellekrochten stuurde Bahaal zijn trawanten op de Rode Ridder af!"
"keer terug, gij addergebroed, gij zult het plat van mijn zwaard voelen !"
"gij vermetele dwaas, ge stort u recht in uw ongeluk!"
"waarachtig Galaxa, ik waande je ver van hier !"
"te lang duurde onze scheiding Johan, helaas zat ik vast tussen de grenzen van tijd en ruimte" (jawadde, die grenzen van tijd en ruimte)
...
I could go on forever...
Apologies for those who don't speak any Dutch, but I doubt even those above the Belgian border will get what's so funny about it.
I guess you just have to have grown up with that really really stupid but exactly therefore hilarious "the big red knight will come to rescue" shit.