{"id":273,"date":"2008-05-01T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/01\/that-hulks-incredible"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:34:39","slug":"that-hulks-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/that-hulks-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"That Hulk&#8217;s Incredible!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m getting complaints that the comments section of this blog isn\u2019t working for some people with Internet Explorer.  I have a Mac and use either Safari or Firefox, and both browsers work with the blog. If you\u2019re having trouble commenting, please switch browsers and let me know what\u2019s up in the comments section. I\u2019m betting it\u2019s only older versions of the IE browser that are having problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/crime\/1\/0\/l\/7\/noltenick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/crime\/1\/0\/l\/7\/noltenick.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Incredible Hulk movie has a new trailer, and it\u2019s still pretty \u201cmeh\u201d for me.  Being a former comic book junkie, I ought to be excited, but I\u2019ve never been much of a Hulkist. I never read the comic, and I hated the first movie, which was an artsy, self-indulgent mess. Nick Nolte looked like he&#8217;d come to the set directly after taking his mug shot photo.<\/p>\n<p>But I still love the Hulk, although most of my appreciation for the character comes from the Bill Bixby TV series, which is far removed from the comic version and has none of the ancillary supporting characters \u2013 Rick Jones, Betty Ross and her military father, Doc Samson, et al. The show was pretty loopy, considering all the stupid tricks they used to piss Bixby off that stretched credulity to the breaking point  &#8211; how often does your average joe shove their hand in a hornet\u2019s nest, for instance? But each episode needed a requisite of two \u201cHulk-outs\u201d per hour, and so if he had to accidentally fall into quicksand in the middle of Los Angeles, then, by gum, the quicksand was there.<\/p>\n<p>What made the Hulk TV show so good was that it seemed to be taking place in the real world, and it maintained, amid the silliness, a genuine sense of melancholy. That was due primarily to the Hulk piano theme, dubbed \u201cThe Lonely Man\u201d by its composer. It was so elegiac that, in the words of Nigel Tufnel, you would weep instantly every time you heard it. I personally didn\u2019t weep, because I\u2019m very manly, but surely some of you lesser mortals did. Or you will, once you hear it in the YouTube video below.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_m4dAB7o2Cc&amp;hl=en]<\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that when I was on my mission in Scotland, I spent one of my days off adding words to \u201cThe Lonely Man\u201d theme. That may seem like a waste of a precious day off, but sometimes the soul yearns for Bixbyesque beauty.<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, crank up the YouTube &#8220;Lonely Man\u201d theme, and then sing along with these plaintive lyrics:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">He\u2019s ripped his jeans<br \/>He\u2019s loud and mean<br \/>To top it off<br \/>His skin is green<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s mad<br \/>And when he\u2019s really mad<br \/>He\u2019s bad<\/p>\n<p>Incredible!<br \/>That Hulk\u2019s Incredible!<br \/>His greenness is incurable<br \/>And that\u2019s why<br \/>He\u2019s incredible-y<br \/>Sad.<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s over. You can stop weeping now.<\/p>\n<p>*sniff*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019mgetting complaints that the comments section of this blog isn\u2019t working for some people with Internet Explorer.  I have a Mac and use either Safari or Firefox, and both browsers work with the blog. If you\u2019re having trouble commenting, please switch browsers and let me know what\u2019s up in the comments section. 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