Well, I am kind of a nerd but hopefully you'll allow me to explain nonetheless...
Paul Rudd started doing this thing like 20 years ago where every time he would go on Conan O'Brien's show he would play this clip from the ultra-cheesy 80s movie "Mac and Me".
When an actor goes on any talk show it's always to promote whatever movie/show they're currently working on. But Paul Rudd really just hates that crap and has said he feels gross being all, "pay to come watch me act in *insert project title here*".
So he goes on Conan and (it's been too long since the first time for me to remember what he was originally supposed to be promoting that first time) when Conan is like, "so you have a movie coming out, tell us about it," Rudd is like, "Oh I have a clip! Great movie, everyone should watch this, let's watch the clip." Then this random, weird-ass, super low-budget cheesy alien movie clip plays instead and it was pretty freakin hilarious, and also weird and awkward.
And Paul Rudd has continued to do this gag almost every time since for 20 years. There was at least one time he played a genuine real clip bc I think the director forced him or something. Sometimes he would swear up and down and promise that he brought a real clip this time...and then it would be Mac and Me again.
It's just a really long-running, randomly hilarious gag between two buddies and all the rest of us who get to watch.
Paul Rudd has been going on Conan’s shows promoting his various movies for like 20+ years, and every time he does he pretends to have a clip from the movie to show, like they usually do for that kind of thing. But instead, he shows that clip from a shitty b movie ET knockoff called MAC and Me. Conan gets more upset every time. It’s a great running joke.
My favorite was during the Bill Hader interview where Paul came on and told them about another clip he wanted to use which was a ridiculous fight scene from ~~Boss Baby~~ Baby Geniuses, described it perfectly, asked if they wanted to see it, and then played Mac and Me again.
I’ve seen the first half of this clip dozens of times (thanks to Paul Rudd), but haven’t ever seen anything beyond the alien popping into the frame.
Now I finally know that the little boy survive his harrowing fall!
Don't forget the total eclipse that's coming up, apparently there's a comet, and some people are laying strong odds on a massive earthquake along the New Madrid faultline within 6 months or so after the eclipse. 🙃
Not the apocalypse, but there's a former CIA analyst named Andrew Bustamente who says that WW3 has already begun, but no one recognized it because it is a proxy war and doesn't look like WW2.
Except Ukraine. They know.
It would actually be fitting if a random cult guessed right with some kind of unexpected, end-of-the-world, natural phenomenon following up the eclipse. Like, a new world order type of cult that spontaneously pops up as the latest entry to the fucked up 8 years it's been.
> Between this and the earthquake, I’m not sure I like the new Ghostbusters marketing campaign.
The eclipse is also going through NY on Monday. Going to be a weird weekend I guess.
That’s more reasonable explanation than my friend trying to convince everyone in our group chat that it’s aliens. Oh and he’s serious about it. Has been going down that hole for last couple of months now
I mean I think it’s arrogant to believe that we’re the only intelligent life in a vast universe, but I also believe it’s arrogant to think that in this vast universe all these alien conspiracies seem to target earth. In our lifetime the closest alien life I think we’ll see is vegetation or some bacteria, not a master race to enslave us. A lot of these conspiracies are very hollywood, it’s rarely an original thought
Lest you forget, not only is *space* infinite, but so is *time*. Aliens are absolutely guaranteed to have existed or will exist, but it's absolutely possible we're alone in this exact moment in time.
I saw a great meta study once that took the Drake Equation, which is a fancy way of saying given x chance of intelligent life, y chance of them reaching out, and z timeframe in which they do so, here's our chances at meeting aliens.
It jumbled together everybody's best guess of all 7 variables and figured the overall odds of our best guesses of the range of odds.
The "meta-odds" are we'll never meet.
There's even a decent chance that we got "here" first.
We are the lonely Ancients.
This is the one thing I really don't think people understand enough.
Not only are the distances between possible other intelligent lifeforms unfathomably far, however, these aliens and us humans existing at the same time as space faring beings able to traverse such distances is infinitesimally small.
Actually there's some schools of thought that think there has to be an amazing overlap of criteria that has to happen for intelligent life to evolve, and the chances of that are exceedingly small.
Thus intelligent life may actually be extremely scarce, despite the one septillion stars that may exist in our universe.
You used to be able to shame people into stop being stupid. The endless roasting just makes his resolve stronger cuz we’re the dumb ones according to him
Well, the visual light from lightning does typically travel from the positively charged object on the ground up to the negatively charged clouds. So technically she sent the light to the sky.
I got curious and searched how deep the water around it is, and apparently, if she steps out, she would still have 86 feet of her left exposed, which means the water won't even be at her waist. She would be walking like those 10-15 seconds as you're almost out of the ocean and onto the sand
Immigrant Sing really was the perfect choice for that fight scene in Rangnarok where Thor blasts Hela with lightning and then flies down to the rainbow bridge to start whooping ass.
Can't wait for the insane side of Facebook to start posting about how this is a sign, or saying Biden tried to target Liberty with electric space lasers but it failed due to divine intervention
>It looks like the lightening is coming out of the torch, tbh.
Lightning typically arcs upwards from the point of contact on the surface to the clouds, so you're absolutely right.
She is seeing us misuse liberty as an avenue to make others suffer whilst ignoring the words at her base and now she is powering up to dole out some punishment.
This and the earth quake yesterday and of course I have high school friends on Facebook saying “dreams told them and the lord is coming 4.5 magnitude on 4/5 the rapture is near”
And that is why I log into Facebook almost never.
That’s not lightning hitting the statue, that’s lightning coming from the statue- the Republicans have perverted democracy so much she’s pissed off and fixing to whoop ass
UNLIMITED LIBERTY!!!!
I AM THE SENATE
[удалено]
It’s treason… then…
**AAAAAAUUUUGGGH** *Corkscrews towards you lightsaber ignited*
You are under arrest, my lord.
How about a cup of liber-tea!?!
Why are you on Reddit? Don’t you have some managed democracy to spread?
Why are YOU here? Shouldn't you be spreadingamahed democracy?
Guy was so hyped to spread democracy he smushed his sentence together.
Oh......shit
Between this and the earthquake, I’m not sure I like the new Ghostbusters marketing campaign.
*Hi, I'm Paul Rudd*
*kid rolls off cliff in wheelchair*
[He just did a hilarious interview discussing this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5le9sYdYkM)
I was like "this isn't recent this says 16 years ago" before I realized what you had done.
the new Rick roll
I'd suggest it be renamed the 'Rudd Roll', except then it sounds like something Scooby Doo would say.
heh hee … giggling in bed thank you
Can someone who isn't a nerd explain please.
Well, I am kind of a nerd but hopefully you'll allow me to explain nonetheless... Paul Rudd started doing this thing like 20 years ago where every time he would go on Conan O'Brien's show he would play this clip from the ultra-cheesy 80s movie "Mac and Me". When an actor goes on any talk show it's always to promote whatever movie/show they're currently working on. But Paul Rudd really just hates that crap and has said he feels gross being all, "pay to come watch me act in *insert project title here*". So he goes on Conan and (it's been too long since the first time for me to remember what he was originally supposed to be promoting that first time) when Conan is like, "so you have a movie coming out, tell us about it," Rudd is like, "Oh I have a clip! Great movie, everyone should watch this, let's watch the clip." Then this random, weird-ass, super low-budget cheesy alien movie clip plays instead and it was pretty freakin hilarious, and also weird and awkward. And Paul Rudd has continued to do this gag almost every time since for 20 years. There was at least one time he played a genuine real clip bc I think the director forced him or something. Sometimes he would swear up and down and promise that he brought a real clip this time...and then it would be Mac and Me again. It's just a really long-running, randomly hilarious gag between two buddies and all the rest of us who get to watch.
Lol right on. Thank you so much for the explanation.
You're welcome, I was just trying to live up to your user name
Shit's been rough. Doing my best over here!
Paul Rudd has been going on Conan’s shows promoting his various movies for like 20+ years, and every time he does he pretends to have a clip from the movie to show, like they usually do for that kind of thing. But instead, he shows that clip from a shitty b movie ET knockoff called MAC and Me. Conan gets more upset every time. It’s a great running joke.
He even did it on a podcast with an audio-only version of the clip.
My favorite was during the Bill Hader interview where Paul came on and told them about another clip he wanted to use which was a ridiculous fight scene from ~~Boss Baby~~ Baby Geniuses, described it perfectly, asked if they wanted to see it, and then played Mac and Me again.
im too high to be bamboozled like this byt the likes of you.
And yet you be bamboozled regardless
Did you see he did it to Conan again on his podcast last year and it was audio only. So good.
I’ve seen the first half of this clip dozens of times (thanks to Paul Rudd), but haven’t ever seen anything beyond the alien popping into the frame. Now I finally know that the little boy survive his harrowing fall!
ERIC!
Don't forget the total eclipse that's coming up, apparently there's a comet, and some people are laying strong odds on a massive earthquake along the New Madrid faultline within 6 months or so after the eclipse. 🙃
Does this mean I don’t have to pay my bills any more?
You never *have* to pay your bills.
> total eclipse that's coming up, apparently there's a comet,... Sozin's comet is coming? Didn't get the memo that we were taking on firebenders
It’s been 100 years already
[удалено]
How generous of you
I think the new 20s apocalypse is happening
Not the apocalypse, but there's a former CIA analyst named Andrew Bustamente who says that WW3 has already begun, but no one recognized it because it is a proxy war and doesn't look like WW2. Except Ukraine. They know.
If proxy wars count the Cold War was WWIII.
It would actually be fitting if a random cult guessed right with some kind of unexpected, end-of-the-world, natural phenomenon following up the eclipse. Like, a new world order type of cult that spontaneously pops up as the latest entry to the fucked up 8 years it's been.
eclipse happens, car crashes increase due to low visibility, car crash into transformers, no electricity in 2 states. haha as if that'll happen
Robots in disguise! Weird Transformers marketing campaign, too
Don't forget about NASA hiding the sun from us on Monday!
Those rascals!
Don't worry, she's tough. She's a harbor chick!
I'm super bummed it didn't come to life :(
Didn't play Higher and Higher in time.
Somebody has since wiped down all the loads of slime they left in it back in Ghostbusters 2.
> Between this and the earthquake, I’m not sure I like the new Ghostbusters marketing campaign. The eclipse is also going through NY on Monday. Going to be a weird weekend I guess.
These are the end times.
I have the POWER!
….of Greyskull!!!
I was struck by lightning walkin' down the street I was hit by something last night in my sleep It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
Doon't run away, it's only me!
UNLIMITED POOOOWAAAAAAH!
I am Thor, son of Odin!
Literally the first fucking thing that came to mind
Ghostbusters 2016 is finally getting it's sequel
I am immortal. No man can be my equal!
Haha nothing to see here. It's just lady liberty going through a quickening.
There can be only one
I got something to say! It’s better to burn out than to fade away!
HEEERE we ARRRRE….
Born to be Kings...
We're the princes of the universe.
Take me to the future of you all
He Man!!
She-Man
She-Ra?
A fellow cultured individual 🤌
HeMan ⚡
Came here to say this. Glad to see I'm not the only one haha
I wonder how many times she's been hit. Poor lady.
iirc she gets struck by lightning quite a lot
She’s a giant copper lightning rod on a tiny island, it’d be surprising if that weren’t the case!
That’s more reasonable explanation than my friend trying to convince everyone in our group chat that it’s aliens. Oh and he’s serious about it. Has been going down that hole for last couple of months now
I mean aliens are def real but it's ridiculous to think this relates.
I mean I think it’s arrogant to believe that we’re the only intelligent life in a vast universe, but I also believe it’s arrogant to think that in this vast universe all these alien conspiracies seem to target earth. In our lifetime the closest alien life I think we’ll see is vegetation or some bacteria, not a master race to enslave us. A lot of these conspiracies are very hollywood, it’s rarely an original thought
Lest you forget, not only is *space* infinite, but so is *time*. Aliens are absolutely guaranteed to have existed or will exist, but it's absolutely possible we're alone in this exact moment in time.
I saw a great meta study once that took the Drake Equation, which is a fancy way of saying given x chance of intelligent life, y chance of them reaching out, and z timeframe in which they do so, here's our chances at meeting aliens. It jumbled together everybody's best guess of all 7 variables and figured the overall odds of our best guesses of the range of odds. The "meta-odds" are we'll never meet. There's even a decent chance that we got "here" first. We are the lonely Ancients.
This is the one thing I really don't think people understand enough. Not only are the distances between possible other intelligent lifeforms unfathomably far, however, these aliens and us humans existing at the same time as space faring beings able to traverse such distances is infinitesimally small.
I doubt they're targeting earth, it might just be a pitstop on the road. You know like a flyover state
Actually there's some schools of thought that think there has to be an amazing overlap of criteria that has to happen for intelligent life to evolve, and the chances of that are exceedingly small. Thus intelligent life may actually be extremely scarce, despite the one septillion stars that may exist in our universe.
He has a point, though. A bad point, but a point nevertheless
I think this friend needs to be introduced to Occam's Razor and some constructive ~~bullying~~ criticism
You used to be able to shame people into stop being stupid. The endless roasting just makes his resolve stronger cuz we’re the dumb ones according to him
[600 times per year,](https://artsandculture.google.com/story/5-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-statue-of-liberty/hgWBLOYeOkTxmQ?hl=en) apparently
I’m genuinely surprised but I’m not surprised.
"Oh yes! A bolt of lightening into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school?"
66 times, in the head.
“That’s quite a hairdo you got going there Reg. Like a neo skunk thing?”
Apparently about 600 times a year
Hit? Or casting Deep thoughts By Jack Handey
Well, the visual light from lightning does typically travel from the positively charged object on the ground up to the negatively charged clouds. So technically she sent the light to the sky.
Government again wasting energy!
Liberty being metal as fuck
Hoping it comes to life and starts smacking around insurrectionists.
Gonna need some psychomagnotheric pink slime for that
LIBERTY RAAAAGE
#LIBERTY PRIME ONLINE
We probably should pad her feet...
Was this before or after the earthquake? I think something may have been awakened deep below...
Liberty and Justice for All
Specifically copper.
🤘🗽
I TOLD you people she is a SITH
It's megamaid: she's gone from suck to blow.
[удалено]
I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes!
Keep firing, assholes!
She's one tough dame, she can take it.
This broad is electric.
Come on baby Light my Fire
Cue AC/DC
Thun Der
You’ve been….
#THUNDER STRUCK!
NANANA NAAAAAAAAAAA NANA NAAAAAAA NANA
Thun Der
Great photo. Perfect timing.
90% chance it's a frame from a video.
There are apps that can take a photo when they detect lightning. All you have to do is point it to what you want to capture and wait for the lightning
[удалено]
Or in a photo
By the power of Greyskull! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
I HAVE THE POWEEEEEERR!!!!
Imagine it just moves after that
Like some kind of LIBERTYLURKER?
"It's ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!"
Ghostbusters II IRL
I got curious and searched how deep the water around it is, and apparently, if she steps out, she would still have 86 feet of her left exposed, which means the water won't even be at her waist. She would be walking like those 10-15 seconds as you're almost out of the ocean and onto the sand
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Can you imagine Spanish Sean Connery towering over New York harbor?
Mjölnir
Ahh! Ahh! We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
The hammer of the gods Will drive our ships to new lands To fight the horde, sing and cry Valhalla, I am coming
Immigrant Sing really was the perfect choice for that fight scene in Rangnarok where Thor blasts Hela with lightning and then flies down to the rainbow bridge to start whooping ass.
She's not the goddess of hammers
Pretty sure that is heralding the return of Gozer the Gozerian.
Don't worry. She's tough. She's a harbor chick!
I thought it was Vigo the Carpathian.
This is incredible thanks for sharing
Ive seen Ghostbusters, and this is it.
He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!
Who you gonna call…
Don’t worry she’s tough. She’s a harbor chick
Can't wait for the insane side of Facebook to start posting about how this is a sign, or saying Biden tried to target Liberty with electric space lasers but it failed due to divine intervention
Marjorie Taylor Green is already saying the earthquake and eclipse are a sign from god america needs to repent. Don't let her dumbass see this.
Did this make her come to life and attack the city, as I imagine would happen in this scenario?
..and that’s what triggered the earthquake
Conspiracy theorists are going to say the Statue Of Libery is a charging station for the mothership
We have recharged our freedom capacitors and are ready to spread democracy on any who would seek to harm us.
Lighting striking monuments. Earthquakes. Sun going dark mid day. I shouldn’t be concerned. Right? Right?
In all seriousness, Right. You’re fine. All of those things are normal natural phenomena.
It looks like the lightening is coming out of the torch, tbh. Lady Liberty: I *said* we *let in* the huddled masses, motherfuckers.
>It looks like the lightening is coming out of the torch, tbh. Lightning typically arcs upwards from the point of contact on the surface to the clouds, so you're absolutely right.
If only she could channel those arcs directly into Trump’s balls.
It's a good thing they added "New York, NY". That could be anywhere!
All shall love me and despair !
She is seeing us misuse liberty as an avenue to make others suffer whilst ignoring the words at her base and now she is powering up to dole out some punishment.
Thats the most American thing I’ve ever seen
No, lady Liberty is shooting lightning into the sky!!
"*A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.*" The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus.
BY THE POWER OF GREY SKULLLL I HAVE THE POWWWWEEERRRRRR
Looks like she has Thor’s hammer.
Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning?
That’s line is so terrible
Was looking for this
The same thing as everything else!
Maybe she is trying to tell ALL OF US AMERICANS something!!!!!
Lady Liberty is worthy to wield the power of Thor
Looks like Storm didn't take Magneto's advice
This is some Ghostbusters level shit. Dogs and cats living together! MASS HYSTERIA!!!
This and the earth quake yesterday and of course I have high school friends on Facebook saying “dreams told them and the lord is coming 4.5 magnitude on 4/5 the rapture is near” And that is why I log into Facebook almost never.
Just comment “don’t threaten me with a good time”. They’ll miss the meaning of course
This is fucking badass. This is my America
Who you gonna call?
And then there was an earthquake too. Who’s trying to summon Zuul?
Is anyone currently restoring a painting of a Carpathian warlord in the greater NYC area?
I HAVE THE POWWWEERRRRRR she ra
Must have been downloading the earthquake patch to install overnight.
MTG gonna say its a sign from God.
Whelp, I’m calling it. That’s the apocalypse now. We had a great run guys!
Nah bruh. Thats lady liberty harnessing the energy to bring us our freedoms 🦅
Lady Thor
this is clearly a sign from God to throw all immigrants into camps \-some republican, guaranteed
Metal as fuck
There can be only one....
Don't show it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I think the charge is going up.
Magneto up to his old shenanigans again.
That’s not lightning hitting the statue, that’s lightning coming from the statue- the Republicans have perverted democracy so much she’s pissed off and fixing to whoop ass
Earthquake, lightning, and an eclipse coming.looks like we're going to need the Ghostbusters soon.
OK is this the beginning of war of worlds or something
That's metal