Jokes that time forgot

I love it when a funny bit comes up that I had completely forgotten about.

Last night Frank, Paul and I were talking about Buffy, (Frank's making his way through the sixth season DVDs), and Frank noted how back when we were watching the original airings of the seventh season, we had a running gag that maintained that the First's actual evil plan was just to make Buffy cry. It certainly makes a bit more sense than its actual evil plan, which was what exactly? Kill all the Slayers and take over the world? Did its decision to do that have something to do with Buffy's resurrection? That's why it had never tried it before? I don't remember, and it'll be some time before I can hit the seventh season DVDs. Anyway, just wanting to make Buffy cry is a much more compelling reason. It even explains why it brought Angel back in season 3! Just wanted to see ol' Buffy squirt a few.

This of course relates back to our joke that General Zod's sole motivation in Superman II is to get Superman to kneel before him. The whole movie that's all he's ranting about, and then when Superman finally does kneel before him, he becomes a total pushover. Hey, he got what he wanted! "Now you may defeat me, son of Jor-El. I've gotten what I wanted. You totally kneeled. We all saw."

Because, you see, it's funny when villains have petty motivations like that... and um, it sort of undercuts their evil in a humorous way... it's sort of... uh...

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