I never saw the series, just the Dolph Lungren live action version. Which is mildly funny as I’m currently watching Dolph Lungren and a whole herd of other aging action icons in Expendables 3. I’m a sucker for these musclebound hero types.
I saved up to buy Ram Man with my very own monies. I was so excited. I played with him all the time. Then I saw him on the show. He was the most idiotic hero character by far. My Ram Man was Not an idiot. He was a brilliant battering ram who often saved my living room from Skeletor, Hordak, Skulk, and Cobra. After the day Masters of the Universe demeaned by beloved Ram Man, I never reenacted another episode. All my battles were now conceived in my imagination.
My parents loved it so much. Stick with me here:
After they immediately agreed on Simon for a boy name (mom for Bible reference, dad for Duran Duran reference), they struggled for months to rest on Sarah as the name for a girl. Then I was born and they saved Sarah for a potential future child. Then Mom got pregnant with twins. And they didn’t bother picking out a second girl name because boy-girl twins run in the family (run? They stampede!), so why would they need a second girl name? So of course it’s two girls, and in a panicked half hour, they agreed on Shera as a name, but decided pronouncing it rhyming with Sarah would be nicer.
TL;DR= When pressed for time, my parents literally named a child after She-ra.
@simplersimon My parents had run dry on names by kid 5. A couple of weeks before my brother was born, my parents asked me for a suggestion. 15 years old and into vampires, I suggested Christopher Lee. And that’s his name.
@Fuzzalini Yeah, it doesn’t help that they’re identical. My mom says she would have changed Sarah’s name if they’d had more time because she always felt guilty about picking such an overused name and hadn’t considered all the possibilities for geeky names, while dad says he would have just changed the spelling to Serah. The twins went by middle names for a couple years in elementary school, but decided confusion was more fun.
Anytime I need to emphasis that I mean business, I just pull out my Putin Riding a Bear. This will usually result in submission by the aggressor. My landlord was being a jerk while trying collect the lot rent. When I pulled this out, his drunk butt fell off my block step.This talisman will also make the ladies throw themselves on you. It’s really not fair to them that this exudes so much testosterone. I mean really…what chance do they stand with this in your pocket?
Buyer beware! Do not carry this while wearing a lone wolf t-shirt. I made the mistake of doing that (because I forgot I had the Putin in my pocket) and there was almost a riot in the Walmart cigarette line. Thank goodness my wolf shirt got ripped off (maybe it leaped off to defend me…i will never know) and I was able to get away.
Supposedly every time Putin releases a shirtless/topless pic of himself as he-man, doing whatever, Chelsea Handler does a matching shirtless/topless pix of herself, doing matching whatever.
I’ve seen some episodes, but I still don’t give a damn about any of the characters. After all, it’s not like when you get to put your batteries in the refrigerator for crissake!
Tom Wolfe’s book Bonfire of the Vanities has many multi-paragraph descriptions of the protagonist’s conception of himself (a slimy bond trader) as a Master of the Universe. By the end of the book, he lamely gets his come-uppance, as I recall. And since I never saw the teevee show, I guess he’s my favorite. I think in the movie he was played by Bruce Willis?
Please include a Bruce Willis option in the poll next time, thanks!!
My older son watched and even had a couple of action figures (He-Man and Skeletor) that he played with. I never paid much attention to them.
I had some Si-Fi addicted friends who called themselves the Secret Masters.
When I was 16 and working in a pet store my supervisor and I made a bong out of water bottles and aquarium plumbing. We named it Skeletor. I assure you, it was master of the universe.
@shahnm I was not living with my parents when He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was on television or when Star Wars was viewable on a television.
I’m sure there were people in their twenties who watched He-Man, but I was not among them.
I was living with my parents, with one year to go, when Star Wars was in theaters, but it wasn’t released on VHS until several years later, and VCRs were expensive and not on my list of things I wanted.
since everyone is out partying I guess I will be the one to post it…
/youtube ambiguously gay duo
I never saw the series, just the Dolph Lungren live action version. Which is mildly funny as I’m currently watching Dolph Lungren and a whole herd of other aging action icons in Expendables 3. I’m a sucker for these musclebound hero types.
I am the center of my Universe.
Does that make me it’s Master too…
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Or is this just bait?
@2many2no Does that make you the master of the bate?
@therealjrn Please do not make light of my man-to-hand relationship.
I saved up to buy Ram Man with my very own monies. I was so excited. I played with him all the time. Then I saw him on the show. He was the most idiotic hero character by far. My Ram Man was Not an idiot. He was a brilliant battering ram who often saved my living room from Skeletor, Hordak, Skulk, and Cobra. After the day Masters of the Universe demeaned by beloved Ram Man, I never reenacted another episode
. All my battles were now conceived in my imagination.
@Nate311
My parents loved it so much. Stick with me here:
After they immediately agreed on Simon for a boy name (mom for Bible reference, dad for Duran Duran reference), they struggled for months to rest on Sarah as the name for a girl. Then I was born and they saved Sarah for a potential future child. Then Mom got pregnant with twins. And they didn’t bother picking out a second girl name because boy-girl twins run in the family (run? They stampede!), so why would they need a second girl name? So of course it’s two girls, and in a panicked half hour, they agreed on Shera as a name, but decided pronouncing it rhyming with Sarah would be nicer.
TL;DR= When pressed for time, my parents literally named a child after She-ra.
@simplersimon Ha ha!
@simplersimon My parents had run dry on names by kid 5. A couple of weeks before my brother was born, my parents asked me for a suggestion. 15 years old and into vampires, I suggested Christopher Lee. And that’s his name.
@simplersimon Does that mean they were Sarah and Shera? Wow.
@Fuzzalini Yeah, it doesn’t help that they’re identical. My mom says she would have changed Sarah’s name if they’d had more time because she always felt guilty about picking such an overused name and hadn’t considered all the possibilities for geeky names, while dad says he would have just changed the spelling to Serah. The twins went by middle names for a couple years in elementary school, but decided confusion was more fun.
The Sorceress! She’s hawt.
I thought Vladimir Putin was the master of the universe, but I can’t vote for him if he is not on the list
But there are shirtless action figures of him.
https://www.amazon.com/Putin-Na-Medvede-Bear-Decorative/dp/B0133GF138/
@phendrick it’s a good thing I don’t have the money to spare right now, otherwise I would have a hard time resisting the urge to buy that monstrosity.
@phendrick Great 5
review.
@2many2no screw it, I don’t need to buy food. I’m buying this.
@phendrick
Supposedly every time Putin releases a shirtless/topless pic of himself as he-man, doing whatever, Chelsea Handler does a matching shirtless/topless pix of herself, doing matching whatever.
Competition is good.
You left out my favorite choice, Meh:
I’ve seen some episodes, but I still don’t give a damn about any of the characters. After all, it’s not like when you get to put your batteries in the refrigerator for crissake!
Please be more careful next time.
Tom Wolfe’s book Bonfire of the Vanities has many multi-paragraph descriptions of the protagonist’s conception of himself (a slimy bond trader) as a Master of the Universe. By the end of the book, he lamely gets his come-uppance, as I recall. And since I never saw the teevee show, I guess he’s my favorite. I think in the movie he was played by Bruce Willis?
Please include a Bruce Willis option in the poll next time, thanks!!
@UncleVinny No, he was played by Tom Hanks. Bruce Willis was the morally challenged journalist.
I only know skeletor as a character but never watched it
I’m surprised one of the choices isn’t, “What’s going on?”
My older son watched and even had a couple of action figures (He-Man and Skeletor) that he played with. I never paid much attention to them.
I had some Si-Fi addicted friends who called themselves the Secret Masters.
When I was 16 and working in a pet store my supervisor and I made a bong out of water bottles and aquarium plumbing. We named it Skeletor. I assure you, it was master of the universe.
Dorko(s)
the only reason i even really know some of these characters is because
I didn’t watch it for the same reason I didn’t see Star Wars until I was seventeen.
@craigthom That’s when your family finally broke down and bought a TV?
@shahnm I was not living with my parents when He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was on television or when Star Wars was viewable on a television.
I’m sure there were people in their twenties who watched He-Man, but I was not among them.
I was living with my parents, with one year to go, when Star Wars was in theaters, but it wasn’t released on VHS until several years later, and VCRs were expensive and not on my list of things I wanted.
@craigthom You should put your batteries in the refrigerator. That makes everything better.
The live action film, bar none.