Open the pod bay doors, Alvin.

[athelind]

After revisiting the comments on kinkyturtle's entry about Inappropriate Songs for Alvin & The Chipmunks, I realized that, aside from any musical numbers, I want to hear Alvin delivering HAL's dialogue from 2001:

"Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

You could work that into just about any A&TC script ever. You know you could. You can just hear it, can't you?

Comments

[toob.livejournal.com]

It'd all be cool until Halvin tried to kill Dave by flushing him out an airlock, and then you'd realize it's not your childhood, it's a horrible nightmare...

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then the Chipmunks would all sing a rocked-out version of "Daisy", so it's all cool.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

HALvin and the Chipped Monks? Sounds like something from A Canticle for Liebowitz.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

*distracts you with ♥s while stealing your brilliant idea* ;D

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

"HALvin..."

"I'm sorry Dave..."

"HALvin!"

"I'm sorry Dave..."

"HALLVINNNNNNN!!"

"Okay!" *click, woosh*

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

That would be, like, the greatest Flash animation ever...

[two-pi-r.livejournal.com]

Ow.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

@_@

The sad fact is, I can hear that in vivid detail as I read the text.

I can also imagine Theodore saying it actually.

EDIT: It seems I meant Simon. Meh. I should not post comments when still barely awake.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Oh crap. The trendiness of "Blog Like It's the End of the World" Day mixes with 2001 to generate "Talk Like HAL" Day.

Thankfully that's still not as cool as "Speak Ye Like Unto The Odinson" Day.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Back around '82 or '83, I was GMing Champions, the superhero RPG. Our Heroes were battling Sentinels (or the campaign's reasonable facsimile thereof), and I was using the HAL 9000 voice as they telegraphed their attacks in classic Sentinel fashion.

Subject Designate: Power Preppie. Metahuman Ability: Super-Strength. Analysis: powers useles without leverage. Initiating null gravity field.

The response of Preppie's player:

"Jeez, with that voice, it's no wonder they paint them lavender!"

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Heehee!

Though I think it sounds more in character for Simon.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Simon for the win.

Alas, while that loses us the elegance of "HALvin and the Chipped Monks", it can't be helped. That's so definitely a Simon line.

As is: "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."

Incidentally, I quite enjoyed the movie when I saw it on DVD recently.

(Oh, and I don't know if you were reading my LJ last year when I posted my pre-release commentary about the movie, so have a link.)