— but people often seem to start from the unquestioned assumption that what the serious fans care about is the same thing as what most audiences care about.

So... like pouches drawn by Rob Liefeld?

Wow, Mr. Robin Scherbatsky's a real Renaissance Man.

And it ain't just me using the joke, apparently:

To be fair, one of those smokers' lungs seems to be collapsed. Or is that the point of the demonstration?

IIRC the shit you're getting into your body with vaping are all relatively inert. As in you would need massive quantities of the stuff to start poisoning yourself.

And then 1987 rolled around, and it was back to being a joke. Then 2003 came along, and it was serious again. Then 2011, it became a joke again, although this time with a healthy knowledge of all the serious crap.

It's usually at its best when it's a little bit of both.

Seriously? Clean your ears, get a brand new speaker system, something. He says it MAhls, not Mi-Yuls.

She could be flat as a board, and people would still gawk if her chest was on display. It's Karen, after all.

Dude, just play the clip back one more time. Donald says it with one syllable. He doesn't go Mi-yules, he says Miles, one syllable. We can argue about accents all day, but I'm going with Donald here.

Sean Gunn and Bradley Cooper should get on this for their work as Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy. I never thought I could take a gun-toting raccoon seriously, but dammit, they made me care.

And yet strangely, most of his Nebula designs would have had poor Karen Gillan's tits hanging out for the world to see. Not that I'd complain, mind you.

Thank you. I needed a new way to troll my Liefeld-hating, Deadpool-loving friend.

Er... I thought this was used for a different kind of... "torture".

Thankfully, they didn't appear to be open to this interpretation. Even The Steroid-Using Sewer Perverts are a lot better than what this could have been. Say what you will about the godawful movie, they got the Turtles right. Well, except for the retarded origin story.

MK3 came out as part of the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for PC. You don't even need to emulate anymore.

No need to imagine it; just listen to exactly how Donald says the name. Scrub to 0:30 of the video.

Is this a Southern thing? Because my accent's pretty close to American broadcast English, and I say "Miles" as just one syllable.

Looks like this concept was done during the "Alien Turtles" phase of this film.