Diabolik

(a shot of a boat)
Mike: Abandon ship, men, Sebastian Junger just wrote a book about us!

Mike and the ‘bots say this a lot in the later episodes, whenever they see a boat and all, because Sebastian Junger wrote an incredibly well-received book titled The Perfect Storm. It’s a nonfiction novel about the Andrea Gail, a sword-fishing boat that was lost in a hurricane. So why bring it up here? Because it was made into a movie starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. It was well received and #1 at the box-office in the summer of 2000, making more money than The Patriot, Mel Gibson’s action film set during the Revolutionary War. Just wanted to bring The Perfect Storm up. I liked the book a lot.


(in the opening credits, there’s a swirly spin-art sort of hippie thing going on)
Crow: …shagadelic man!

Austin Powers. Mike Myers’ hit comedy about a British swinger from the 1960’s who is transported to the 1990’s. It parodies the James Bond movies mainly. It was pretty funny, but was subsequently run into the ground. It was followed by Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and then Austin Powers 3: Goldmember. Sean Connery and Honor Blackman were initially rumored to play Austin Powers’ parents in the third installment (which admittedly would have been pretty awesome) but that idea fell through. Instead, the equally cool Michael Caine (Said in the style of Eddie Izzard: “You are a stupid bastard, all right? You’re a big lug and you have no brains, so shut your fucking face!”) played Papa Powers.


(A man has his foot up on a car.)
Mike: Are you trying to seduce me?

See what I had to say about The Graduate in the Prince of Space section. And a bit off-topic, but I recognized two songs from Diabolik that I’m pretty sure I’ve heard in other 60’s films or TV shows. There’s the guitar theme—which I’ll call the One Lick Theme (taking from Crow’s crack at it), which sounded a hell of a lot like one of the inane songs played during The Wild World of Batwoman. Then there’s the other theme, a rather peppy 60’s tune, which I’m 99 percent sure was used in an episode of “The Avengers” (specifically, Dead Man’s Treasure). If it isn’t the same, then the creators of “The Avengers” should definitely have looked into suing the makers of Diabolik. Just saying.