Sprockets – Sprockets, a recurring Saturday Night Live skit starring Mike Myers
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Sprockets#ixzz7b6ZV3OkS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprockets_(Saturday_Night_Live)
https://youtu.be/JmeoLzVGkYU
It’s too bad I have to mess up your pretty little hat, but I do.
Sprockets
Sprockets is one of the creatures you must defeat before you can venture on to defeat Meowiarty. His Monsterology Tome listing read thusly: He and his toad friends sometimes take long walks on the ocean.
As you are preparing to enter the Counterweight East, Sprockets taunts your wizard with this line, “Now is the time for Sprockets to make you dance! Dance to the tune of your undoing, slow-thinking human! You have naught but defeat in the Dungeon you call Counterweight East!”
Sprockets was a recurring comedy sketch from the NBC television series Saturday Night Live from April 1989 – Nov. 1993, created by and starring comedian Mike Myers as a fictional West German television talk show. The sketch parodied German art culture in the 1980s.
The sketch also parodied German stereotypes, especially those pertaining to German seriousness, efficiency, and precision. Originally created for the Toronto company of the Second City comedy troupe, Myers later ported the character to television for the Canadian sketch comedy show It’s Only Rock & Roll and the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rZMoGyr1BFU" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Myers played “Dieter”, a bored, disaffected West German expressionist and minimalist who interviewed celebrities in whom he was demonstrably barely interested, and then invariably sought to bring the discussion around to his “limited” monkey, Klaus, seated on a platform atop a miniature column. Myers has stated he based the character on a waiter he encountered, working at The Cameron House in Toronto, as well as German musician Klaus Nomi (after whom said monkey was named). Myers’ “Dieter” costume consisted of black tights with a matching turtleneck sweater, round wire-rimmed glasses, and slicked-back hair.
The skit invariably ended with Myers’ Dieter proclaiming he was bored and “Now it is time to dance.” Click the YouTube link to see the dance.
This is the seventieth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the twenty-seventh Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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