I got up at my normal time of oh-dark-thirty, but
since it's Saturday, I'm off. So I tuned into over the air station Heroes & Icons, and
The Green Hornet TV series was on. GH and Kato were in the Black Beauty chasing some
bad guys in an armored car down dusty studio back lot roads.
When
they cut to Green Hornet and Kato inside Black Beauty, and you see Kato
driving and GH in the backseat, it really hit me hard for some reason: the Green Hornet is a
superhero who has a chauffeur. A. Chauffeur. What. An. Asshole.
Batman didn't sit in the backseat and have Alfred or Robin drive him
around Gotham looking for supervillains and all-night Krispy Kreme
stores. Green Arrow (while he was still a Batman ripoff in his early
years) always had Speedy, his Robin-esque sidekick, sit beside him in
the
Arrow Car. Hell, Hutch never sat in the back of the
Grand Torino while Starsky tore down Bay City's mean streets chasing after the crooks and vampires (the John Saxon episode).
But the Green fucking Hornet has got to have a dude chauffeur his wealthy crime-fighting buns around town. And an Asian dude at that.
I also now wonder if Kato was from Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump's "Djhina."
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