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sailorlibra (sailorlibra) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-17 16:03:00

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char: betty cooper, char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: rip hunter, char: veronica lodge, publisher: dc comics, title: booster gold

Personally, I've always liked Blondes
The other nerd reference from Booster Gold #20

If my knowledge of the fifties Archie comics is correct, they got Betty's hair wrong. She wore it down, with a headband on top. The ponytail, however, is the more recognizable hairstyle, so I can see why they used it instead.

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	ashez2ashes 2009-05-17 03:15 pm UTC (link)
	Oh Booster, you're so adorkable. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-05-17 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	What makes you think it's Betty and Veronica? There aren't any other recognisable Riverdale characters there are there? I'd say they were just generic teeny-boppers. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-17 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	Because of the Fantastic Four reference, and because I can't make the scene make sense otherwise. There's no reason to show these random teenagers, unless he's trying to make some sort of nerd joke... But you could be right and it could just be dumb writing. But I prefer to think of it my way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kagome654 2009-05-17 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	It makes sense if you've ever watched Happy Days. The Fonz always used to hit the jukebox like that, iirc. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-17 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	See, I don't know know much about the Fonz, other than that Booster's a fan. Do the girls think he's a jerk because he's imitating the Fonz? I still stubbornly believe that the girls are Betty and Veronica, however. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kagome654 2009-05-17 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	They may just think he’s a jerk because a lot of what Fonzie did would not seem the slightest bit cool in ‘real life. It wouldn't surprise me if the creators were going for a twofer and were referencing Happy Days as well as attempting to evoke classic Betty and Veronica with the girls. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-05-17 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	The Fonz was supposed to be irresistible to anyone in a poodle skirt, so I think the joke is that acting like Fonzie won't actually get you laid. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thokstar 2009-05-17 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	Youtube surprisingly doesn't have much in the way of Fonz clips, but this clip sums him up nicely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-05-18 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	That clip is like a greatest hits of the Fonz. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	interrobamf 2009-05-17 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Happy Days was a 1970s show (hence the title—a look back on the "good times" of the 1950s). The Fonz does not exist in this timeframe. (Reply to this) (Parent)

madripoor_rose
2009-05-17 07:17 pm UTC (link)

As someone else said, Happy Days was a nostalgic sitcom from the 70's set in the 50's...so the girls have no clue what Booster's doing. Just a weird guy who walked into the soda shop and hit the jukebox and then made a strange noise.

Huh...Happy Days was a sitcom that was supposed to be about the wholesome Cunningham family, but quickly got taken over by the Fonz...the cool bad-boy everybody knew and who just had to snap his fingers to have girls chasing after him. If this is one of the old tv shows Booster watched to learn 20th Century culture....that explains a lot....

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	thandrak 2009-05-17 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Just that it's a brunette and a blonde at a malt shoppe, as the focus of a panel, in the 1950s. It's not the only way to call it, but it is recognizable enough to go, "yeahhhh, that's on purpose." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-05-17 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	I'd probably buy into it more if any of the other eight teenagers in the shot looked anything like Archie, or Jughead or the rest, but they're so generic looking. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-05-17 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	I think I should be buying Booster Gold. (Reply to this)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-17 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Pah, call that a Nerd-Reference? The issue should have ended with Booster waking up next to Betty, having become his own great-grandpa! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-17 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	Pfft, like Betty would ever lose her virginity before marriage. Veronica, on the other hand... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-17 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	I was just presuming it'd be on the rebound from Arsie. (Is that his name? I'm not completely versed in that comic universe.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	leikomgwtfbbq 2009-05-17 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	It's official--Booster Gold is a hundred times cooler than Fonzie. (Reply to this)

	thokstar 2009-05-17 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	I was actually thinking Laverne and Shirley rather than Betty and Veronica, but the would be Laverne doesn't have an L on her shirt and the pair looks more like Betty and Veronica. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	saralakali 2009-05-17 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	Possibly Joanie Cunningham and Jenny Piccalo seeing as how Veronica Lodge had long, straight hair. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-05-17 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Also, I'm pretty sure those are the cars from Grease in panel two. (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-05-17 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	I'd probably do the same thing, given the chance. Then I would travel to the 1970s and carry a paint can down a street in Brooklyn. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	proteus_lives 2009-05-18 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	I'd wake up in the house of a sprawling Catholic clan and stumble my way to my summer job as a caddy at the country club. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Betty and Veronica? Nahh.. proteus_lives 2009-05-18 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	Where's the hate? The simmering waves of sexual sadism? Where's Archie, the most submissive member of their warped triad? (Reply to this)

	janegray 2009-05-18 01:36 pm UTC (link)
	I very, very barely know Betty and Veronica, so I don't know and don't care whether the two girls are supposed to be them, but the Happy Days reference made me so freaking happy :D (Reply to this)