Who is the next Internet Icon? Chuck Norris jokes are dead
I’m sick of how the internet has built up Chuck Norris and random other pop culture references without my permission. If you have been surfing around Rick Astley has really been gaining momentum over the last year.
Personally I think we need to have a voice and determine the next arcane reference to become hot. Here are some people I would like to put up for your consideration.
Sam the Butcher from the Brady Bunch
Positives: The Beastie Boys immortalized him with the lyric “like Sam the Butcher bringing Alice the meat”, in the song “Shake Your Rump”. This could possibly be a big boost to the butcher profession, which has been dying out. We could run the euphuism of meat = your junk into the ground.
Negatives: He is dead in real life, so um… no random pop culture appearances. Also I don’t know if the young ones have watched as many Brady Bunch shows as my generation.
Cledus Snow from Smokey and the Bandit
Positives: He was a country singer and has songs we can include in referencing him. He has some pretty quotable lines in the movie and in the third installment he actually plays the bandit. Also he had a basset hound name Fred in the movie, basset hounds are just funny.
Negatives: A pretty old reference and it involves country music, which is never a good thing.
Buddy Lembeck from Charles in Charge
Positives: The loveable but idiotic friend of Charles. He has retained some pop culture cache by appearing on some reality TV shows. Plus he is ultra Christian now, which makes it even more fun to make inappropriate comments about him and Nicole Eggert having forced sex or him drugging her.
Negatives: The Christian thing is a double-edged sword; we could all end up in hell.
BJ McKay from B.J. and the Bear
Positives: A monkey is way cooler than a basset hound. The theme song from the show makes most people go into convulsions and swallow their tongue.
Negatives: Two truck drivers enter, one truck driver leaves. I think they negate each other and this show is way too random of a reference. But the power of Greg Evigan should never be debated.
Dolph Lundgren
Positives: Action star with a ton of shitty movies under his belt. Should have won the Oscar for Rocky IV, where he played the husband to Brigitte Neilsen who is one Amazon like bitch. Also I saw him at the LA Airport, so it makes my picture worth something.
Negatives: We already have had an action star get a run with this.
Natalie Letisha Sage Green from the Facts of Life
Positives: We haven’t had a web popular female and she could be a groundbreaker, like if Hillary gets elected President. Wait she won’t get elected she will just destroy the electability of current front-runner by slinging mud. Anyways, she is also a little round and shows that you don’t have to be a muscular/or slightly gay man in order to be a pop culture reference.
Negatives: I don’t know how you can go with Natalie when Blair also makes a strong case… And we can’t forget Tootie… Plus you know George Clooney would get on the band wagon and say how much he was on the show, I need a little less Clooney in my life.
Would you like to nominate anyone to be the next pop culture icon? What do you think about the people nominated so far?
This is going up at humor-blogs.com
Have fun in NYC! 
On 03/25/08 at 6:33 am
Steve said:
I want to nominate Ladge Mardge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
On 03/25/08 at 6:33 am
Steve said:
Er…Large Marge.
On 03/25/08 at 7:52 am
Kevin said:
Marge… wow I haven’t thought of her since the last time I masturbated
On 03/25/08 at 6:33 am
Dr.B said:
Fist!
On 03/25/08 at 7:52 am
Kevin said:
So close
On 03/25/08 at 6:35 am
Josh said:
I’m all for Dolph, he’s already got a little meme credit, I think we can make a video and bring him up.
On 03/25/08 at 7:53 am
Kevin said:
A little Dolph goes a long way
On 03/25/08 at 6:43 am
Meghan said:
A fine list of candidates. I could always use more of Sgt. Hulka from Stripes or Three’s Company’s Mr. Roper. Mrs. Roper is too much of a cougar for me.
On 03/25/08 at 6:44 am
Meghan said:
But they both kicked the can years ago.
On 03/25/08 at 7:53 am
Kevin said:
Dead people don’t make appearances
On 03/25/08 at 7:17 am
Shieldmaiden96 said:
Donna Dixon.
There can be speculation on how Dan Aykroyd both got, and kept, that. I’ll never understand it.
On 03/25/08 at 7:55 am
Kevin said:
I forgot about Donna Dixon…
On 03/25/08 at 7:25 am
SoupNumber5 said:
Dolf has a vote. But I think it should be Buddy Lembeck from Charles in Charge. There’s plenty of material on both yet I think there is more to work with Buddy. He’s got the Christian thing going for him. Buddy Christ?
On 03/25/08 at 7:55 am
Kevin said:
I think you are onto something
On 03/25/08 at 8:36 am
Matty said:
Boner from Growing Pains.
On 03/25/08 at 9:25 am
Vince said:
That was going to be my nomination.
How about Styles from Teen Wolf.
On 03/25/08 at 9:37 am
Kevin said:
If anyone is coming out of Teen Wolf it is Coach Bobby Finstock
On 03/25/08 at 11:10 am
Vince said:
True he did have the best lines in that movie.
If this isn’t the best advice ever I don’t know what is.
“Listen, Scott, there are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.” - Coach Bobby Finstock
On 03/25/08 at 9:38 am
Kevin said:
I wrote a blog years ago about the time line of his life… I made some strong predictions.
What about Skippy from Family Ties?
On 03/25/08 at 11:15 am
Vince said:
Skippy was another one I was thinking of. You could pretty much pick anyone from that show except Michael J. Fox.
On 03/25/08 at 8:57 am
em em said:
What about Sloth from the Goonies? Apparently the actor is dead, but an entertaining side note, one of the plot keywords to the Goonies on IMDB is “group vomit”. Just thought you’d like a random unrelated fact for the day. =)
On 03/25/08 at 9:39 am
Kevin said:
Ah Goonies… that is good stuff.
On 03/25/08 at 9:41 am
Heart Shaped said:
You left out Mr. Belvedere. He is the only intelligent one of the bunch!!! Please elect the Belvster!
On 03/25/08 at 9:51 am
Tim Welch said:
I vote Rick Astley! He Rocks!
On 03/25/08 at 9:53 am
Jason - GorillaSusi said:
I vote for Buddy Lembeck. Who wants to get BuddyRolled?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeE8x–PeII
On 03/25/08 at 9:58 am
David said:
Gary Burhoff (a.k.a. Radar O’Reilly): My reasoning below.
1.) Helps the economy of Ottumwa, Iowa. Why else would anybody go there?
2.) He’s still alive. Big Plus!
3.) He had skills. Anybody that could trade a roll of toilet paper for a helicopter with two phone calls definitely has “street cred”.
On 03/25/08 at 11:12 am
Vince said:
Don’t forget he also shipped an entire jeep piece by piece home to himself.
On 03/25/08 at 12:58 pm
Katie said:
I second.
On 03/25/08 at 1:25 pm
Katie said:
Gary Burghoff
On 03/25/08 at 1:35 pm
Katie said:
2
On 03/25/08 at 8:15 pm
David said:
So nice to see some Radar fans!
On 03/25/08 at 10:06 am
John--Softball Stud said:
Detective John Munch from Law & Order: SVU. He’s been on the X-Files and Homicide and other tv shows…This could get viral…then again he is on SVU…
On 03/25/08 at 10:12 am
bunny said:
betty white. absolutely and totally. betty freaking white.
On 03/25/08 at 10:59 am
Patrick D. said:
Vicki from ‘Small Wonder’. Give it up.
On 03/25/08 at 11:41 am
Fanton said:
I vote for Rick Moranis.
Or, failing that, Rick Moranis.
I know I said Rick Moranis twice there (three times now), but it’s such an excellent idea I think it warranted repeating.
On 03/25/08 at 12:31 pm
Doug Robertson said:
My vote goes to Willie Aames, Bible Man. Fat Bible Man these days. Apparently he forgot about that whole gluttony as sin thing.
On 03/25/08 at 1:08 pm
Meghan said:
I see there is not yet a Carey Mahoney/Police Academy reference - you have no idea how happy that makes me.
I was surprised “The Jimmy” from Seinfeld never took off…like a ‘Bo Knows’ thing.
On 03/25/08 at 2:20 pm
Christian Cawley said:
Web icon? Surely Heather Mills McCartnet fits the bill…?
On 03/25/08 at 2:47 pm
JiMoe said:
I think Rick has been gaining popularity is because of this site.
http://www.internetisseriousbusiness.com
On 03/25/08 at 2:48 pm
Garg the Unzola said:
You guys are behind.
South Africa already has the new chuck norris.
Check out Rambo guy, Vernon Koekemoer
On 03/25/08 at 2:51 pm
JiMoe said:
His popularity has risen due to this site
http://www.internetisseriousbusiness.com
On 03/25/08 at 3:02 pm
Tyler @ Building Camelot said:
I can not believe that his name has not been mentioned here…come on guys - you gotta vote for Ralph Macchio! The Karate Kid!
Wax on…
Wax off…
Just think of the possibilities!
–TW
On 03/25/08 at 3:53 pm
Rickey Henderson said:
Rickey would like to take this opportunity to announce that RICKEY GODDAMNED HENDERSON is the next internet icon. Indeed, it’s been a long time coming, but it’s Rickey’s time now. Fighting this inevitable conclusion is in essence standing against the ebb and flow of the tides: fruitless. The next internet icon is none other than Rickey Henderson. Accept this and move on.
On 03/25/08 at 4:12 pm
Lisa Thurmond said:
My bet would be on Rick astley. Anyone ever hear of the RICKROLL?
On 03/25/08 at 4:22 pm
Tori said:
Me. I’m the next icon.
On 03/25/08 at 5:04 pm
offendedblogger said:
I can’t believe you left out the most obvious choice, which is obviously Lauren Tewes aka Cruise Director Julie McCoy from the Love Boat.
I think I might have had a crush on her as a little girl, which is creepy now that I think of it because she is way too damn perky and happy for my tastes in women now.
On 03/25/08 at 7:22 pm
Dillon said:
I think all of these people are born for mediocrity. Let’s see some He-Man (cartoon, NOT Dolph) and She-Ra references.
On 03/25/08 at 11:05 pm
Cheddarben said:
What about Boner from growing pains?
On 03/26/08 at 12:52 am
Missygail said:
I vote for Curtis Armstrong aka Booger from Revenge of the Nerds!
Dudley “Booger” Dawson: “Did you get in her pants?”
Gilbert Lowe: “She’s not that kind of a girl, Booger.”
Dudley “Booger” Dawson: “Why, does she have a penis?”
Com’on that’s epic!
On 03/26/08 at 3:42 am
Jigsaws said:
Chuck is not dead! Chuck will choose the next hero.
On 03/26/08 at 4:33 am
Tracy said:
I would like to nominate two people. First, Tony Danza from Who’s The Boss. Since he went on to have a horrible talk show and managed to film himself falling on roller blades, we would have a lot of references.
Second, Blanche from The Golden Girls. She was a sex crazed old lady. And she had a thick southern accent.
On 03/26/08 at 1:15 pm
randi said:
I used to work with Mindy Cohn at the University of Judaism in L.A.
She was nice.
That’s all.
On 03/27/08 at 12:41 pm
Darcie said:
I still like Chuck Norris jokes.