I discovered many Google searchers were coming to my page looking for
lyrics to the Incredible Hulk theme song. I blogged an entry
about the
history of the theme for the 70s TV series -- but searchers
apparently weren't satisified. Today I spotted someone
who specified they wanted lyrics to the theme for the cartoon version of the Incredible Hulk.
I'd never even heard of it, but apparently it was re-run on UPN in 1999. There were two versions,
unfortunately, and the opening credits on this
Hulk media
page were just instrumentals.
But continuing the quest, I found
a 1999 Usenet post
that remembered the weird musical snippet that had introduced the Hulk's
segment on Marvel's 1966 superhero show. And Yesterdayland remembered the
show, too....
Was the animation bad? You bet.
Did they overuse narration so they didn't have to bother animating lips? All the time....
Now my interest was really whetted. Digging still further, I
found
a web page that actually had that rare media gem we'd all been searching
for...
Behold, then, that must-listen cartoon theme -- the bizarrely poppy choral tune that
introduced young children to the rampaging Marvel superhero.
(RealAudio,
mp3,
or RM
format.)
The most
amazing thing is how happy and upbeat it is, with a comical female voice shouting
out sentences that start with the word "ain't" and rhyming the words gamma rays with "un-glamor-ous."
So for all you Google searchers still looking for the lyrics to the
Incredible Hulk cartoon series...here they are!
Dr. Banner!
Pelted by gamma rays!
Turned into the Hulk.
("Ain't he unglamorous!")
Wreckin' the town with the power of a bull!
"Ain't no monster clown who is as loveable!"
Okay, now I've just written two entries commemorating
noteworthy Google search results. I've been calling this process "Goog-
enheiming."
(Yes, I'm unduly proud of my
little glossary for made-up words about web-logging.)
And I ended
up using another of those words today.
Everyone likes the thought of being the blog of the moment, with temporary fame propelling their URL up the rankings at DayPop.com as one of the day's most popular. I jokingly started calling the practice of self-promoting your URL "DayPimping."
I never dreamed that anyone would combine Goog-enheiming with DayPimping -- but I was wrong. Last week Google didn't have any matches for the phrase "Jell-o judicates." But blogger Jim Treacher decided to change all that. Today, Google is showing forty matches.
And in the process, Jim's call to insert the nonsense phrase into your web-log moved his own page high up into the coveted realms of the Daypop Top 40...
Encouraging children to read, a local public library creates a cute red mouse mascot wearing glasses and a back pack.
Walt Disney Company tells the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that they want 90 days to review the library's mouse character for possible trademark infringement.