Slog - Comments on Get to Know Your Doomed Sidekicks http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:50:09 -0800 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:02:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by heywhatsit Come on, Mav, do some of that pilot shit!

]]> heywhatsit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765377 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765377 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:04:00 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger 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!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765381 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765381 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:07:15 -0800 Comment by Lizzy keep 'em coming! these are fun! :)

]]> Lizzy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765397 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:21:04 -0800 Comment by Sarah What was that number for the truck driving school?

]]> Sarah http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765403 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765403 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:23:03 -0800 Comment by JessB Such a good guilty pleasure movie. Right up there with Dirty Dancing and Adventures in Babysitting.

]]> JessB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765408 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:29:16 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Also Spicoli's sidekick. "No shoes, no shirt, no dice."

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765418 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765418 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:37:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765425 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765425 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:44:13 -0800 Comment by Darcy Oh, Goose. Le sob.

]]> Darcy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765438 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:57:17 -0800 Comment by longball @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.

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765485 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765485 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:24:17 -0800 Comment by longball 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.

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765495 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:28:11 -0800 Comment by fun shaped I've gotta see this some time. I'm gay.

]]> fun shaped http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765559 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:31:12 -0800 Comment by pidgin Howsabout Jesus and John the Babtist for the next instalment? or even better what about Jesus as Gods doomed boywonder?

]]> pidgin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765768 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765768 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:47:55 -0800 Comment by ellarosa "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"

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765865 History Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:48:36 -0800 Comment by Darcy @13: Here you are, my friend.

]]> Darcy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765881 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/07/get_to_know_your_doomed_sidekicks#c765881 History Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:02:03 -0800