Commander-in-Geek

By Matt Selman | January 17, 2009 | +

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As if fist-bumping Spider-man wasn’t dorky enough, now Barack Obama is having every detail of his inauguration detailed by the master builders at LEGOLAND California. (Even a Lego Rick Warren, who opposes same-sex Lego marriage, and a Lego Dick Cheney, hiding out in a Lego bunker five feet under Lego Washington D.C.)

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Now that he’s gotten a taste of dork glory, what other items are on Obama’s presidential nerd agenda? Dungeon mastering in the oval office? Airbrushing Air Force One with a Frank Frazetta painting of a valkyrie riding a three-headed dragon? Issuing an Executive Order for J.K. Rowling to write another Harry Potter book?

Our 44th President isn’t shy about using his power. Rumor has it Obama was behind the Fox-Warner brothers Watchmen detente. Barack just had to get his Rorschach on.

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baracka

Well, first of all, I’d like to know what the following episodes are about:

“Take My Life, Please”
“Father Knows Worst”
“Four Great Women and a Manicure”
“Waverly Hills 9021-D’oh”
“In the Name of the Grandfather”
“Coming to Homerica”
“The Great Wife Hope”
“The Devil Wears Nada”
“Pranks and Greens”
“Rednecks and Broomsticks”
“The Good, the Sad and the Drugly”
“Homer the Whopper”
“Eeny Teeny Maya Moe”
“Bart Gets a ‘Z’”

Especially “Coming to Homerica”, of course. Will you be my secretaty of “Telling the President future Simpsons plots” or will I have to use my scary powers?
Rorschach

If Obama played D&D in the oval office that would actually be pretty awesome
Kemper

If I was getting inaguarated as president tomorrow, the minute I’d taken the oath, I’d have my aides on the phone to Hollywood demanding IMMEDIATE special screenings of Watchmen and the remaining Battlestar Galactica episodes. An imploding economy and global unrest can wait while I get my geek on. And this is the reason that it’s very good for America that my write-in campaign caught on….
Kemper

“And this is the reason that it’s very good for America that my write-in campaing NEVER caught on.” is what I meant to say…. Yet another reason it’s good that I wasn’t elected.
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“I’m sorry, Mr. Ambassador, I meant to say that I WASN’T decaring war on your country. My bad.”
tereglith

That’s their lego version of the freakin Lincoln bible? It needs to be at least seven bricks bigger!