http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/toyfare/000060706.cfm

To get you started:

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"100. K.I.T.T. WITH A WHIP Back in the 1980s, there was no cooler superhero on TV than K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider, even if he was a car. But what every good superhero needs is an evil counterpart. So when K.I.T.T. met the evil K.A.R.R., we knew we were watching TV history in the making. (November 19, 1982) 99. HE-MAN, HE OF HIGH SELF-ESTEEM Yeah, He-Man’s got a little sugar in the pocket, but there’s no denying the rush of hearing Prince Bowl Cut booming “I have the power!” even if it’s always accompanied with stock photography. (September 5, 1983) 98. NERDS ASSEMBLE! Acknowledgement. Dignity. Not getting beaten up. We geeks strive for some type of acceptance, and Futurama wrote an entire sequence just for us when Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols, Deep Blue, Stephen Hawking and D&D creator Gary Gygax starred as the Nerd Collective. We have arrived. Then Futurama was cancelled. Go figure. (May 21, 2000) 97. THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT In a rare communal experience betraying their limited social skills, sunlight-adverse geeks came together for the midnight debut of Star Wars: Episode I toys. It’s the first time—outside of cons—we ever remember being somewhere, looking around and thinking, “We are among our own kind.” (April 2, 1999) 96. SECRETS OF SECRET WARS The same month that Marvel’s first maxi-series was starting, we were shocked by comics that revealed the mysterious consequences of the very end of Secret Wars: the Thing was MIA, She-Hulk had joined the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man had the costume from Hell. The shock of seeing the status quo so upturned was enough to make us forget all about the Beyonder’s jeri-curl in Secret Wars II. (May 1984) 95. I RAN CONTRA It was the mantra of gamers everywhere: the control sequence that would give you thirty lives in Konami’s pacifist NES drama Contra: “Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A!” If you think it’s not a big moment in geek history, try finding one geek who can’t recite it. (Summer 1988) 94. A VERY UNGRACIOUS SPACE HOST When Space Ghost could barely hide his contempt for comic Kevin Meaney on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, he simply brushed him off with a dismissive “Whatever.” If only Letterman had the same chutzpah, he might have inspired the whole genre known as “Adult Swim,” too. (April 15, 2004) 93. WELCOME TO THE OC, FANBOY! Cementing the Fox soap’s geek cred, Rachel Bilson’s devotion to comic geek boyfriend Seth manifests itself when she dresses up as Wonder Woman for a strip tease on The OC. (December 3, 2003) 92. ANGELA’S ASSETS McFarlane Toys skips a paint job step and leaves off Angela’s panties, signaling a new trend: toys ain’t just for little kids anymore. A toy industry intent on envelope-pushing (mostly the sculpting envelope, not the going commando envelope) results. (Spring 1995) 91. TRANSFORMERS ARE DOING WHAT, NOW? Nothing will ever beat being thirteen (or six…or two) and hearing that first wah-wah-wah sound cue that signaled the transformation of a robot into an eighteen-wheeler, a gun, or even a tape deck. (Tape deck?) (September 17, 1984) 90. CRISIS ON INFINITE TURF DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths played for keeps when Earth 3’s Crime Syndicate bit the big one in the first 10 pages of issue #1. The ‘Event’ series was here, and it wasn’t taking any prisoners. (April 1985)"

Number 95 made me realize tww entertainment needed to see this.

6/4/2006 12:40:41 PM

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"3. NO...I’M YOUR FATHER! You thought this was going to be number one, right? When Darth Vader smacks Luke across the face with that little notice in The Empire Strikes Back, we about died of Skittles inhalation. We’ll never be that emotionally broad-sided again. Thanks a lot, Internet. "

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6/4/2006 1:40:13 PM

I'm willing to bet that 50% of the people compiling/reading this list were not alive when Empire Strikes Back came out

6/4/2006 1:48:27 PM

This list is way too nerdy, even for me.

6/4/2006 1:52:08 PM