A refrence to D&D in pop culture...


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the other guy wrote:

kingdom of loathing. if you dont know what it is, i suggest you check it out. if you do, there are plenty of d&d references in it, both general and specific (evards black tentacles, for one). pop culture takes its hits, too...

tog

Linkies! Love KoL...a good at work time waster. :D


thanks lilith, i wasnt sure about the whole linking thing. i leave that to those of you who post to the boards more often. always good to meat another kol'er.

tog


I game with this guy who makes music (Stochastic Theory) and in the liner notes of his latest album he gives a shout-out to the D&D characters in the party.


There is another refrence to D&D in the X-files. I cant remember what episode or season. But mulder walks in to talk with that group of nerdy guys, and after he opens the door the guy with the long blonde hair is saying "cmon momma needs a new vorple sword". I was laughing my a&* off. Then agian it has been about 7 years since I've seen it so I could be wrong.

Later


Heathansson wrote:
I just wish I could be famous, just so I could go on his show and ask him, "Conan. What is best in life."

Ah Heathy! I have also always wanted to do this. He must've been asked this question at least a couple of times before. I just want to know if he knows the answer.

And Stephen Colbert (of the Colbert Report) was interviewed by the Onion AV club once about his early involvement with D&D. I think you could probably dig up the article from the archives there. Besides that article and the Conan interview, he has also mentioned D&D a bunch on his show. When D&D online came out, he retired a d20 and put it on his "wall of fame". He also had poker champion Annie Duke on as a guest and just before he interviewed her he said something like,

"I dont know much about poker, but if its anything like Dungeons & Dragons I'm going to be up to my baldrick in +1 scimitars before you can say cure light wounds" Awesome!

His shows gets on my nerves sometimes, but the man is funny.


Jason Fox from the comic strip "Fox Trot" by Bill Amend frequently plays D&D. He ropes his sister into playing on a rainy spring break day. He helps her make a character that takes all day only to have the character enter the first room of his dungeon (a cave) and be crushed to death by tons of boulders.
Paige Fox(sister): "I thought you said this would be fun."
Jason Fox: "Yeah, but I didn't say for who!"

The band Marcy Playground (Sex and Candy) has a song called "Cloak of Elvenkind"

On That 70's Show the main DJ from Donna's radio station (Booger from Revenge of the Nerds), Leo (I think), and Alice Cooper are all playing D&D at the end of an episode.

An episode of Dexter's Laboratory had his sister Deedee DMing an adventure for Dexter and his friends,and Dexter was forced to play a hobbit-like character whose only ability was burrowing.

Tom Hanks starred in a movie in the 80s called "Mazes and Monsters" about a college kid going nuts and believing that he was his character. He stabs a bum who he thinks is a monster and tries to kill himself.


This is not really a pop culture reference. I read a reference to instructions for a DM to come up with profecies. It is compared to the antics of pop "psychics". I think it makes the point very well.

http://randi.org/jr/2006-10/100606case.html

It is the second or third to last item.


Drizzt1977 wrote:
There is another refrence to D&D in the X-files. I cant remember what episode or season. But mulder walks in to talk with that group of nerdy guys, and after he opens the door the guy with the long blonde hair is saying "cmon momma needs a new vorple sword". I was laughing my a&* off. Then agian it has been about 7 years since I've seen it so I could be wrong.

that's the episode that i was referring to above. :)


The TV show Veronica Mars had a hilarious quote referencing D&D in the S2 finale:

Veronica: Where's your brother?
Dick: I think he took Ghost World up to his room. They're probably up there makin' love. Or playing Dungeons and Dragons. Or both, at the same time. They're both, like, 12th-level dorks. Just sayin'.

BTW, it's a great show and I wish more people would watch it.


I think I missed that editorial, so I'm not sure if these references have been covered, They're pretty well known..

Futureama has many many D&D references in it... (Rust Monster at the vets, Beholder guarding the 'Central Beaurocracy', Even Gary Gygax has a cameo as one of Al Gore's team of Supergeeks.)

Personally, my fave is from 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors', where D&D becomes one of the kids weapons with which to try and fight off the dreaded Freddy Kruger...

He fails, unfortunatly...


Scrubs, last episode of series 4. In a flashback when Turk meets J.D. for the first time, J.D. says "Welcome to our lair. I'm an 8th-level ogre magi with invisibility, and this is Randall." (Then he points to a miniature of a red dragon.)
Later in that episode, he also says “Huzzah!” at one point.


Vattnisse wrote:
M. Balmer wrote:

Weird Al Yankovic makes a brief reference to D&D in his new song "White & Nerdy". The video has two guys tossing polyhedral dice in a back alley.

Saw the video this morning. Opening line is something like "Got my BA from MIT/got mad skillz at D&D". Fun song.

I freakin' LOVE that song now! Probably because I always preferred NWA to Rush, and because "Lost" bores me to death.


Occasional wrote:

I think I missed that editorial, so I'm not sure if these references have been covered, They're pretty well known..

Futureama has many many D&D references in it... (Rust Monster at the vets, Beholder guarding the 'Central Beaurocracy', Even Gary Gygax has a cameo as one of Al Gore's team of Supergeeks.)

Personally, my fave is from 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors', where D&D becomes one of the kids weapons with which to try and fight off the dreaded Freddy Kruger...

He fails, unfortunatly...

"I am the Wizard of Dead Tongues!! A Conjurer of Conjugation, a Dervish of Declension: with a million hit points, and maximum charisma!"


I don't know how often D&D is mention in Jeopardy! but there's one category where the response all have spelled out from the letters of the word "circle". The answer went something like "A healing class in RPGs" and the question is of course "What's a cleric?" There was another answer where the response explicitly mentions D&D.


RavinRay wrote:
I don't know how often D&D is mention in Jeopardy! but there's one category where the response all have spelled out from the letters of the word "circle". The answer went something like "A healing class in RPGs" and the question is of course "What's a cleric?" There was another answer where the response explicitly mentions D&D.

I wish they'd have a "RPGs" category - I'd love to see how many people get/don't get the questions. Out the Gamer! :)


I saw another one last night.

That 70's Show has an episode where Donna starts working at a radio station. To make a long story short, the main character is jealous of the sexy-sounding DJ and confronts him at the radio station, only to find out that it's the sidekick from Moonlighting.

They decline his offer to play D&D and go off to do that thing that teenagers do so well. The final scene of the show has said DJ, the guy who played the hippy DJ in [i}WKRP in Cincinnati[/i] and Alice Cooper playing D&D in the basement.

It had my girlfriend in stitches. She couldn't stop laughing and pointing at me.


Lilith wrote:
I wish they'd have a "RPGs" category - I'd love to see how many people get/don't get the questions. Out the Gamer! :)

Why don't we suggest it to the staff? We can't give specific answers (it's against their rules), but the category as a whole is ok. And I'd like see how College Tournament contestants compare to regular contestants. It would be an interesting test of demographics in RPG knowledge.


Depending on one's definition of "Pop Culture", there was an episode of "The Littlest Hobo" (picture an 80s show inspired by Quantum Leap and Lassie) about a group of elementary school kids who were basically LARPing, befriended the title character (a dog) and kept calling him "Blink Dog".


I don't know if it counts as Pop Culture or not, but my high school's newspaper editorial compared still celebrating Halloween as a teenager to being a "DnD Loser."

*rolls eyes*

I promptly balled the newspaper up and threw it in the trash can after that. (It was a double insult, too. I plan to celebrate Halloween this year and every year.)

Dark Archive

BOZ wrote:

The movie Airheads references D&D. When the main character, played by Brendan Fraser, is "outed" as a geek, his army of supporters comes to defense by admitting their own geekiness. One character, IIRC, admits to having played D&D in high school (perhaps Fraser's character even).

It has been years since I watched this movie, but IIRC the other character that admits to playing D&D is Lemmy from Motorhead. Is this right, or am I just imagining it?

Also--Stephen Colbert should be named the patron saint of D&D players--the guy rocks!!


Wasn't it the black kid that said he played D&D?

Liberty's Edge

got a few here...
a few years back on Adult Swim they had a show called Eljon(I think that's how it was spelled), where they are always playing DnD or watching Star Trek

Trivial Pursuit 20th century edition has a couple of referances

Scarab Sages

Spyder wrote:

got a few here...

a few years back on Adult Swim they had a show called Eljon(I think that's how it was spelled), where they are always playing DnD or watching Star Trek

Trivial Pursuit 20th century edition has a couple of referances

I believe you are talking about "Welcome to Eltigville", the cartoonicized version of the Evan Dorkin comicbook series "The Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, and Role-Playing Club" from his Dork! comic book. I never got to see the Adult Swim treatment of 'Bring me the Head of Boba Fett', but the comics were hysterical! Yes, it does hold up all the negative stereotypes of gamers (fat slobby social outcasts, strong-arming kids at Toys 'R Us for the best action figures and their variants, etc.), but thats what makes it funny when the bad things happen to them.


A classic episode of Dexters Lab was called D&DD. Dexter and friends are playing D&D and DeeDee wants to join in and becomes the DM, hilarity ensues.

Sovereign Court

The Jade wrote:
Heathansson wrote:

Then there was the desultory X-files episode where the guy says something to the effect of "you don't play 15 years of Dungeons and Dragons without learning how to deal with dangerous situations."

I remember my father watching that with me, and ragging on me mercilessly for that...
I feel for you. That said, I'll bet you're actually pretty level headed in dangerous situations, aren't you? Interesting, isn't it? How you can put together a plan under stress or duress? How there is always a solution to be realized?

Yeah.... playing D&D helps someone remain levelheaded in a crisis...

I'd argue the opposite, because the real world doesn't use a system of rules to determine outcomes.

Liberty's Edge

Gavgoyle wrote:
Spyder wrote:

got a few here...

a few years back on Adult Swim they had a show called Eljon(I think that's how it was spelled), where they are always playing DnD or watching Star Trek

Trivial Pursuit 20th century edition has a couple of referances

I believe you are talking about "Welcome to Eltigville", the cartoonicized version of the Evan Dorkin comicbook series "The Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, and Role-Playing Club" from his Dork! comic book. I never got to see the Adult Swim treatment of 'Bring me the Head of Boba Fett', but the comics were hysterical! Yes, it does hold up all the negative stereotypes of gamers (fat slobby social outcasts, strong-arming kids at Toys 'R Us for the best action figures and their variants, etc.), but thats what makes it funny when the bad things happen to them.

that would be the one...deffinatly ammusing


DocG wrote:

Yeah.... playing D&D helps someone remain levelheaded in a crisis...

I'd argue the opposite, because the real world doesn't use a system of rules to determine outcomes.

Seconded.


MaxSlasher26 wrote:

I don't know if it counts as Pop Culture or not, but my high school's newspaper editorial compared still celebrating Halloween as a teenager to being a "DnD Loser."

*rolls eyes*

I promptly balled the newspaper up and threw it in the trash can after that. (It was a double insult, too. I plan to celebrate Halloween this year and every year.)

I wonder if you could collect a bunch of the papers and make a mock scarecrow like thing of the writer and you and your friends could get a permit to burn it in effigy while dancing around it; lol; that would be great; things are probably to authoritarian and legislated to have this much fun with it though.


The Jade wrote:
DocG wrote:

Yeah.... playing D&D helps someone remain levelheaded in a crisis...

I'd argue the opposite, because the real world doesn't use a system of rules to determine outcomes.

Seconded.

I think D&D teaches you to look for alternatives in a crisis; that is priceless.

Scarab Sages

Lilith and The Other Guy-

I've joined KoL and become immediately addicted... the number of They Might Be Gaints, MST3K, and Tick references alone was enough to get me hooked. I'm a 9th level Pastamancer (Linguini Thaumaturge). Any suggestions on clans? Are they worth it? What's a good one to join?


Gavgoyle wrote:

Lilith and The Other Guy-

I've joined KoL and become immediately addicted... the number of They Might Be Gaints, MST3K, and Tick references alone was enough to get me hooked. I'm a 9th level Pastamancer (Linguini Thaumaturge). Any suggestions on clans? Are they worth it? What's a good one to join?

Clans are okay, as they provide sources of income and booty. Not to mention you can train in the gym or shake the meat tree.

Scarab Sages

Lilith wrote:
Clans are okay, as they provide sources of income and booty. Not to mention you can train in the gym or shake the meat tree.

And really, at the end of the day, aren't we all just interested in getting a little more booty and shakin' the meat tree? Well, I have two characters running, I guess I'll join one and keep the other one unaffiliated for a while. Thanks.

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Heathansson wrote:
I just wish I could be famous, just so I could go on his show and ask him, "Conan. What is best in life."

"To crush your critics, to see your ratings driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of Dave Letterman!"


http://www.looptard.com/weird_video_Reno_911_dungeons_and_dragons_funny.htm l

This is a very funny clip from Reno 911

Silver Crusade

Did anybody catch Drawn Together this week? They had a scene where it was revealed that Captain Hero is the DM for Xandir and Wooldor. They even had polyhedral dice.

I love seeing D&D references.


Let me just mention mc chris. He drops quite a few D&D references in his white-nerd rap.

M@


Celestial Healer wrote:

Did anybody catch Drawn Together this week? They had a scene where it was revealed that Captain Hero is the DM for Xandir and Wooldor. They even had polyhedral dice.

I love seeing D&D references.

LOL! I love Drawn Together, it's just so...whacked!


Celestial Healer wrote:

Did anybody catch Drawn Together this week? They had a scene where it was revealed that Captain Hero is the DM for Xandir and Wooldor. They even had polyhedral dice.

I love seeing D&D references.

Yeaah I thought that was hilarious.


BOZ wrote:

The movie Airheads references D&D. When the main character, played by Brendan Fraser, is "outed" as a geek, his army of supporters comes to defense by admitting their own geekiness. One character, IIRC, admits to having played D&D in high school (perhaps Fraser's character even).

Heathansson wrote:

Then there was the desultory X-files episode where the guy says something to the effect of "you don't play 15 years of Dungeons and Dragons without learning how to deal with dangerous situations."

I remember my father watching that with me, and ragging on me mercilessly for that...
Much better is the episode starring the Lone Gunmen. They are playing D&D in a poker-style, betting real money on the outcome of the game. I'm trying to remember the quotable line from the scene, something about one character's "kung-fu" or "ninja skills" being inferior to another's. ;)

"Daddy needs a new sword of wounding." - exclaims the guy with glasses, as he roles the d20.

That episode had a red dragon figure from Ral Partha, which was the same one I used to gawk at,in my local gaming store as a kid that swhy I remember that episode.


The rap group "Dream Warriors" had a song called "role of the twelve sided die. with lyrics like "keep my hit points high and my AC low." (second edition) It was about taking the initiative in life.


Gavgoyle wrote:

Lilith and The Other Guy-

I've joined KoL and become immediately addicted... the number of They Might Be Gaints, MST3K, and Tick references alone was enough to get me hooked. I'm a 9th level Pastamancer (Linguini Thaumaturge). Any suggestions on clans? Are they worth it? What's a good one to join?

gods bless you, gav, another addict to the drug which is kol. the jick army grows...

tog


Tonight (Sunday) the American prime time cartoon American Dad is running an episode called "Dungeons & Wagons"

I like Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy, but this show doesn't hold me. I'm taping it though, just in case there's more D&D content than mere show title wordplay.


The Jade wrote:

Tonight (Sunday) the American prime time cartoon American Dad is running an episode called "Dungeons & Wagons"

I like Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy, but this show doesn't hold me. I'm taping it though, just in case there's more D&D content than mere show title wordplay.

Just saw it. Pen and paper D&D wasn't mentioned. It was yet another satire (following South Park's worthy offering) of the WoW/EQII gaming experience.


This one is really obscure but anybody into Death Metal may know the band.

On Morbid Angel's "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh" thanx page, lead guitarist Try Azagthoth metions "36HD undead beholders" and a name checks what I can only assume is stuff relating a homebrew dugeon campaign including combat modifiers !! also in an interview with UK mag Kerrang mentioned praised DnD as a tool of creativity and imagination. lately though this has given way to a preoccupation with online QUAKE ( and two very underperforming albums ...IMO...)


on the Nickelodeon show Mr. Meaty, more than one episode references D&D, usually coming from the nerdy character Parker.

Grand Lodge

Just bought John Hodgman's very, um..., illuminating book "The areas of my expertise", and lo and behold! Nestled between useful and informative chapters like "On actuaries and their tattoos", "Nine presidents who had hooks for hands" and "Nine colonial jobs involving eels", there is a table called "Great rivalries in Dungeons and Dragons". Most useful, I must say.


Here's another (sort of) Buffy reference; in the graphic novel "Fray" (written by Joss Whedon) about a future slayer, the new watcher is explaining things to her (Fray) and starts at the beginning where the demons, and monsters of magic, shared the earth with mortals.

There is a splash page with all sort of mosters (including the requisite dragon) and in the bottom left corner is a Bullette! When I saw it I yelled out "Ha! A Bullette!" at which point my wife looked at me with concern over her coffee and asked "What's a Bull-Ett?". I just mumbled something like "never mind" and went back to my comic. :-)


farewell2kings wrote:
...and don't know the difference between Paris Hilton and Las Vegas Hilton...

One has a Star Trek exhibit in it the other has exhibited herself for many stars to "trek" in. :D

Anything? Anything?

This is why I don't do comedy. ;)

- Chris Shadowens


Sir Kaikillah wrote:
"Daddy needs a new sword of wounding." - exclaims the guy with glasses, as he roles the d20.

Episode 5X01: Unusual Suspects, gives us the origin of the Lone Gunmen. It's Langly's line, btw.

Also, in Episode 6ABX19: Three Of A Kind, after Jimmy (a fellow conspiracy enthusiast) gets offed by the Feds, his buddy Jimmy organizes a D&D game in memoriam, Langly offers to attend. (One of my favorite episodes, and not just because we get to see Scully "loosen up" a little.)

- Chris Shadowens


Found this link on another messageboard.
Dunno if it's pop-culture (don't know the guy) but it is kinda funny.

Guy is called Stephen Lynch, he does a stand-up routine and he has a song about D&D.

Linky?
Linky!

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