Doctor Demented – Dr. Demento
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Doctor_Demented
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Demento
Doctor Demented and her stooges are helping the Admiral with his grand plan to drive the Dwarves and the Nimbari mad with fear. They stage attacks to make the Nimbari paranoid. They scare the Dwarves with Myth Monsters so the Dwarves will bring their nightmares to life which in turn riles up the Myth Monsters. It’s a beautiful cycle of fear.
However, the Doctor couldn’t care less for the Admiral’s scheme. She just wants to study the Myth and Storm Chain up close.
Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Pasadena, California station KPPC-FM. He played “Transfusion” by Nervous Norvus on the radio, and DJ “The Obscene” Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be “demented” to play it, and the name stuck.
Hansen holds a master’s degree in ethnomusicology and has written magazine articles and liner notes on recording artists outside of the novelty genre. He is credited with introducing new generations of listeners to artists of the early and middle 20th century whom they might not have otherwise discovered, such as Harry McClintock, Spike Jones, Jimmy Durante, Benny Bell, Rusty Warren, Yogi Yorgesson, Nervous Norvus, Allan Sherman, Ray Stevens, Candy Candido, Stan Freberg, and Tom Lehrer, as well as helping to bring “Weird Al” Yankovic to national attention.
The positive listener response to the offbeat novelties that Hansen included in his rock oldies show at KPPC led to his eventually turning it into an all-novelty show. At the end of 1971, he moved to KMET in Los Angeles. From 1972 to 1983, he performed a four-hour live show on KMET. From about 1974 on, the local Los Angeles market was the full 4 hours and the nationally syndicated show was cut to 2 hours. The show became a two-hour live show on KLSX and, after that station converted to a talk-only format in 1995, moved again to KSCA, where it remained until that station changed to a Spanish-language format, in February 1997. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network from 1978 to 1992. Broadcast syndication of the show ended on June 6, 2010, but the show continues to be produced weekly in an online version.
The current list of all the (known) Empyrea references can be found 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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