Boomerangs in Pop Culture: Your Kryptonite is a Confined Space

Googling boomerangs has never yielded more spectacular results. Check out this actual thing!:

Meet Captain Boomerang!  The ginger son of an American soldier and an Australian woman that was forever doomed to dress like a retro Australian stewardess and hurl bad ass, homemade boomerangs at DC superheroes.  His weakness?  Confined spaces where he didn’t have enough room to throw a boomerang (citation: see this interview recently conducted between Conan O’Brien and a DC animator.  Super action starts around 3:18.)

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: A Well-Deserved Thank You

Guess what got a shout out on Jimmy Fallon’s weekly list of thank yous?  I bet you can guess.

Green is your color, dahhling.

There was also a boomerang on Jeopardy tonight.  Trendy to the max!

HIMYM Gets Creepy With Boomawangs (Please Don’t Make This a Thing)

I don’t know what it is about How I Met Your Mother and Thanksgiving, but as annoying as that show can sometimes be, it always nails this holiday’s episode.

Last week’s show, entitled “Blitzgiving,” might not be an instant classic in the same way “Slap Bet” was, but I think it was still one of the shining episodes we’ve seen so far this season.  Not to mention it had a boomerangy moment!

About six minutes into the episode, Robin dares Marshall to take a picture of his junk and text it to a random stranger.  He does it, and to his surprise, he gets an equally risqué shot back.  And then this bit of dialogue:

Robin: You sent a wang out and got a wang back.

Lily: It’s a boomawang!

And thus the “boomawang” was invented.

I’m usually pro-boomerang stuff, but between us, can we just make a pact that this isn’t going to become a thing?  I know how carried away the internet can get with shit like this…

Watch the full episode here (The epic line starts around 12:40.)

What to Get Your Boomerang Hipster Friend for Hanukkah

Hanukkah starts this Wednesday night whhhhhhhaaaaaat??

Great timing that I just saw this totaly sweet boomerang t-shirt on threadless that is currently on sale for a meager $5!

(In case you were thinking about it, I already bought myself one.)

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: Six Flags Malfunction Edition

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I don’t know how I missed this story: On August 19th, SFGate reported that the Boomerang Coast to Coaster ride at a Bay Area Six Flags was stuck in the “up” position for about an hour with 26 people on board (mostly children.)

True: a person who finds a “nerve-shattering” ride appealing – one that takes you through all the terror of a roller coaster, and then again, backwards – might not be daunted by chilling upside-down on a ride for an hour.  From what I can tell, the most serious “injury” was dizziness, and everyone received a free funnel cake for their troubles.  Whether or not they had the stomach to eat it was left unreported.

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: Victorian Author Action Figures Get All the Best Accessories

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I came upon this video some time during my boomerang sabbatical, but it’s so good it would be a shame not to post.

Get your daily dose of feminist confidence by watching this hypothetical ad for Super X-treme Mega History Heroes: Bronte Sisters Action Dolls.  Observe as they take down sexist publishers with their boomerang book throwing action!

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: Snarky T-Shirt Edition

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On sale on Busted Tees, you guys!

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: How Did We Forget Lew Zealand??

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So at trivia night last night (Stephanie and I, along with some fellow boomerangers, are regulars), the bartender comes up to our team, points at an elderly couple sitting at the bar, and says, “Given your age, I think you might want to combine teams with those people for this next round.”

Then he hands us a packet full of muppet characters to identify.

The joke was on him: not only did I grow up on muppets, but I think I am one of the few people who can truthfully claim to have been in a live action, Avenue Q-style stage reenactment of “The Muppet Movie.”  Another muppet-fan team member and I pretty much nailed the whole round.

There was one little guy who stumped us though.  Quick, can you name this muppet?

Time’s up.

I now know his name is Lew Zealand.  Why is he important?  Because Lew here is known pretty much for one thing, and one thing only: Boomerang Fish.

It’s a simple yet beautiful act in which he throws a fish, and it comes right back at him, usually at inopportune moments.  Check out his stylings in this vintage clip:

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: For Squares Only Edition

Posted by Jessica.  Thanks to tipster Bob (Dad.)

I hope all you verbophiles out there checked out the NYT crossword today.  If you’re late to the party and haven’t yet seen, ch-check it out:

Click link for answer.  Spoiler alert, obvs.

Boomerangs in Pop Culture: “An Unfortunate Incident Involving a Boomerang”

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Anyone else catch the sweet boomerang cameos on last night’s Lost? 

The first time, Sayid gifts one to his nephew (since he just got off the plane from Australia and that’s the only thing to get people there duhhh.)  The second time, it appears as though said nephew has used his new boomerang to destroy fragile chatchkes  in the family home.

For those of you who haven’t seen this week’s episode yet, don’t worry.  I haven’t spoiled anything.  It’s not as though every minute detail on an episode of Lost has some grand significance and ends up being really important in the long run.  That wouldn’t make any sense.

Or Would It?

L O S T.