1.19.2007
Round 1 Match 9
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Heyyy! vs. Whaaaa?
Fonzie: The hood with a heart of gold, and a Genie-esque finger snapping power. Lost's Sawyer owes a lot to Fonzie. In a very obvious and literal sense (it was even one of his catch-phrases), the Fonz is cool.
Arthur Dent: Sure, "Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy" had great reference points, (Zaphod, the Babel Fish, the talking meal at the restaurant, 42, etc.) but it is Arthur who is the heart of the increasingly inaccurate trilogy. In as far as an anxiety-ridden, pajama clad fish out of water can be cool, Arthur is cool.
Criteria: Do clothes really make the man? If Arthur had gone into space in tight jeans and a leather jacket, would he be cooler? If Fonz had to fix his motorcycles and charm the ladies with a towel and a bathrobe, would he still be seen as cool or would he be told to "sit on it"?
# posted on Friday, January 19, 2007
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Fonzie was cool when he was in hopital garb. Fonzie was cool wearing his overalls at the shop. Fonzie was cool wearing shorts on the beach.
Clothes don't make you cool. Making things work by hitting them and having women fall over you at the snap of your fingers... Now that makes you cool.
Pit those abilities against MacGyvers avility to make a bomb out of a piece of string and chewing gum and we've got ourselves a competition.
Clothes don't make you cool. Making things work by hitting them and having women fall over you at the snap of your fingers... Now that makes you cool.
Pit those abilities against MacGyvers avility to make a bomb out of a piece of string and chewing gum and we've got ourselves a competition.
After looking at A-Bear's very small photo, I vote for him. Assuming of course, he's wearing both a robe and leather chaps as well.
Fonzie for sure.
Fonzie for sure.
I gotta chime in. For the record, this could also have been "Battle of the Arthurs"
If Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli were cool, he wouldn't be the butt of jokes on That 70's Show (see Episode 205: I Love Cake). Fonzie was a high-school dropout gang tough, whose "coolness" is supposed to be manifest in his ability to make 50's era machinery work by punching it. Garry Marshall told us Fonzie was cool, and we believed it, but we shouldn't be held accountable for that: we were only little impressionable kids. Our blind idolatry of the Fonz was milked by producers to turn him into a public advocate for all sorts of child-friendly causes. Remember "reading is cool" when Fonzie got a library card? Remember how he always ate Mrs. C's veggies? Are public service announcements cool?
Arthur Dent is a regular guy who crosses space and time in his bathrobe, deals with aliens, robots, teleporting couches, and even manages to find a cup of tea along the way, while learning special powers.
"What powers, you ask? How about the power of flight? That do anything for ya? It's levitation, Holmes."
-- Tenacious D, Wonderboy
Fonzie is supposed to be so tough, but have we ever seen him throw a punch? If Arthur Dent came and and kicked Fonzie's ass twice per episode in Happy Days' ninth season, how many ass-kickings would that be?
42? Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Fonzie has jumped the shark. My support lies outside Milwaukee with Mr. Dent.
If Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli were cool, he wouldn't be the butt of jokes on That 70's Show (see Episode 205: I Love Cake). Fonzie was a high-school dropout gang tough, whose "coolness" is supposed to be manifest in his ability to make 50's era machinery work by punching it. Garry Marshall told us Fonzie was cool, and we believed it, but we shouldn't be held accountable for that: we were only little impressionable kids. Our blind idolatry of the Fonz was milked by producers to turn him into a public advocate for all sorts of child-friendly causes. Remember "reading is cool" when Fonzie got a library card? Remember how he always ate Mrs. C's veggies? Are public service announcements cool?
Arthur Dent is a regular guy who crosses space and time in his bathrobe, deals with aliens, robots, teleporting couches, and even manages to find a cup of tea along the way, while learning special powers.
"What powers, you ask? How about the power of flight? That do anything for ya? It's levitation, Holmes."
-- Tenacious D, Wonderboy
Fonzie is supposed to be so tough, but have we ever seen him throw a punch? If Arthur Dent came and and kicked Fonzie's ass twice per episode in Happy Days' ninth season, how many ass-kickings would that be?
42? Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Fonzie has jumped the shark. My support lies outside Milwaukee with Mr. Dent.
OKay I must stop this Arthur Dent insanity. Flannel pants in public is never cool - unless you are camping or at the cottage. Yes, Charlie that includes you.
Okay - onto the real criteria as set by A-bear. Dancing with the stars.
Although probably initally too cool to dance, Fonzi shocks the nation by showing us some moves that only those comfortable in leather dare to try. The audiences and judges love him.
They do not like Arthur Dent.
End of story, Fonzi for the win
Okay - onto the real criteria as set by A-bear. Dancing with the stars.
Although probably initally too cool to dance, Fonzi shocks the nation by showing us some moves that only those comfortable in leather dare to try. The audiences and judges love him.
They do not like Arthur Dent.
End of story, Fonzi for the win
I doth protest the flannel pant comment. Plaid flannel with a rainbow coloured seat-belt belt is all the rage with the hip teenagers. I just happen to be tapped into my youthful side.
I like Arthur Dent. I like his adventures dans robe. I like the number 42 and whenever it or Arthur is referenced, I'm likely to get the reference. Sadly, those references do not happen as much as "the Fonz" seems to randomly appear in coversations.
I have actually been at a party and someone has said something about someone being cool and another person said, "Yah, but not like Fonzie cool."
So despite my like of all things Adams, Fonzie has the greater popular icon status. He's the only one of these two that made it onto the brithday cake of someone we all know well...
I have actually been at a party and someone has said something about someone being cool and another person said, "Yah, but not like Fonzie cool."
So despite my like of all things Adams, Fonzie has the greater popular icon status. He's the only one of these two that made it onto the brithday cake of someone we all know well...
Arthur Dent's going down unless something unlikely happens. Activate the improbability drive! Turn on the Bistromathic drive!
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