History Get to Know Your Doomed Sidekicks
posted by on July 18 at 11:50 AM
Name: LTJG Nick Bradshaw
Nickname: “Goose”
Occupation: F-14 RIO (Radar Intercept Officer).
Hobbies: Piano playing/singing.
Significant Other(s): Carole Bradshaw (wife); LT Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (other)
Notable Quip: “No, boys. There’s two ‘O’s in Goose.”
Dialogue Doubling as Ominous Prediction: “The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid.”
Cause of Utterly Predictable Yet Untimely Death: Ejection from F-14 trapped in horizontal (or “flat”) spin; cracked coconut on canopy. (See video, below.)
Immediate Effects of Untimely Death Upon Star Lead: Moody reflection, struggles with self-doubt, unconscionable spurning of Kelly McGillis sexual advances.
Remedy for Effects of Untimely Death Upon Star Lead: Man-up speech delivered by respected higher-ranking officer, blasting of commies back to the Stone Age.
Overall Doomed Sidekick Rating Based on 1-10 Scale: 8.
Come on, Mav, do some of that pilot shit!
But he was hot (before he lost his hair) and the Volleyball scene in Top Gun...... PRICELESS!!!! Just PRICELESS and so hot!!! And so Homoerotic!! I am sure Dan popped a boner watching it!
keep 'em coming! these are fun! :)
What was that number for the truck driving school?
Such a good guilty pleasure movie. Right up there with Dirty Dancing and Adventures in Babysitting.
Also Spicoli's sidekick. "No shoes, no shirt, no dice."
Can someone explain to me why this was a huge hit? It just seems like terrible filmmaking to me. The jets are the only characters with personalities.
Oh, Goose. Le sob.
@7 - Fnarf - all i can tell you is i was 10 when this came out and it was the coolest shit ever. Me and all my friends were going to be jet pilots and we spent the whole summer air guitaring to the soundtrack on tennis rackets, or whatever was available. We had no idea we were indulging in gay porn. If you were there, you would understand.
I also remember being shocked and quite impressed that Maverick strolled right into the ladies restroom and asked Kelly McGillis to get it on with him right there on the counter. Move over Han Solo, i had a new hero.
I've gotta see this some time. I'm gay.
Howsabout Jesus and John the Babtist for the next instalment? or even better what about Jesus as Gods doomed boywonder?
"see, ice is saying to maverick, 'go with us, go the gay way'"
-quentin tarentin in his cameo appearance at a party in a film named "sleep with me"
@13: Here you are, my friend.
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