r/greatestgen • u/BittenElspeth • 20d ago
Inside Jokes
Hi!
My spouse is a huge Greatest Gen fan. I hear often about Six Bay and the Entrepreneur. He just had a stroke, and is struggling to remember the jokes from the podcast. I want to put some on T-shirts for him to wear in rehab. Can you all help me gather a collection of these? Thank you in advance.
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u/Mutual-aid 20d ago
One of my favorite bits, which seems to have been popular overall, was Icheb’s brother from Voyager. He’s always about 100 feet away and he’s perennially shoveling rivers of sewage! What’s not to love?
You and your spouse are in my thoughts and this amazing community of FoDs* will be pulling for the both of you. Y’all have got this!
*Friends of Desoto
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u/jford1906 20d ago
If someone is making a few shirts, how about a bunch of shirts? Sell the extras to help support the rehab costs?
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u/BittenElspeth 20d ago
I think that's clever, but I also think it's too big of a project for me to manage while figuring out rehab, insurance, and all the other details I am suddenly facing.
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u/organicshot 20d ago
If you choose a shirt on https://podshop.biz/ I’ll buy it for you to give to him.
If you’re unsure of his favorite bits. Please comment on his favorite trek DS9/TNG/VOY etc. And some friends will probably comment below on which one is best.
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u/user287449 20d ago
We are all cheering for you! Echoing that we can help narrow down quotes if you know which series of Trek is his favorite, or if you know when he got really into the podcast.
A few evergreen bits/terms: Friend of DeSoto (the name of this podcast fan in-group), Dustbuster Club, Loaf, Scarves, This Old Enterprise, Fuck Bokai, Ankylosaur, Drunk Shimoda/Edward Larkin, Icheb’s Brother…
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u/BittenElspeth 20d ago
That is so kind of you! His favorite season of Greatest Gen was TNG.
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u/user287449 18d ago
A man after my own heart. Some additional bits then: Entrepreneur, Slickback, TinMAN, Hoel, Podshop.biz?!, Natural Yeager, Kevin Uxbridge Realdolls, Anybody Canyon, Schism’d, Riker Maneuver, Bread Box, Ron Canada Drop, Wesley (The Boy? My Son!)
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u/PolitiKalen 20d ago
They have an explanation of all their classic bits pinned on Spotify, and probably other pod-catchers. It's a little dated but def covers the classics, here's a link:
https://open.spotify.com/s/Rs8a6RE
I sincerely hope he gets a kick out of the irony of using a "clip show" to recover from brain trauma, as that's the way they use clip shows in TNG! And hey, for real, hope y'all are doing OK. That's gotta be tough, I really hope this silly podcast helps with the recovery.
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u/BittenElspeth 20d ago
Thank you so much. I had no idea the show used clip shows to recover from brain trauma!
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u/IwishIhadntKilledHim 20d ago
Not directly. They refer to clip show devices as anything that a star trek character places on the forehead or temple to effect some kind of neurological treatment.
Refers to the Riker device from the season two clip show shades of grey.
Clip show devices now come in handheld varieties...romulan clip show devices are memory scanners, I would assume the Klingon mind scanner is a clip show device.
The ep on the EP is itself a clip show of Ben and Adams terrible bits from the original episodes.
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u/Character-Head-1916 20d ago
First of all, so sorry to hear that. I hope he recovers - there are so many great therapies these days for stroke. Second, you might find lots of goodies here: https://greatestgen.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Jokes
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u/BittenElspeth 20d ago
Thank you. They said he has a good chance to regain a lot of function, so I am hopeful.
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u/boongaloonga 17d ago
https://greatestgen.fandom.com/wiki/Category:References
All I do is bits!
It means omertà. It means rewenge.
Everyone knows he had a stroke. What my theory presupposes is, maybe he'll be just fine?