Why does Belkar know the complete score to Meet Me in St.Louis?

[Sewblon]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0383.html Does Belkar have an undisclosed passion for musicals? Are all rangers required to learn it? Or what?

[RMS Oceanic]

Because it follows the Rule of Funny (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny).

[Kurald Galain]

You have five ranks in decorative cake frosting?!

[Nimrod's Son]

Seeing as the title of that strip is "What's Really Scary is That He Knows the Words", it's kinda the joke.

[factotum]

Maybe Nale's Charm Person is just *that* powerful. :smallbiggrin:

[Meg]

I think a better question is "Why don't you?"

[Starscream]

Doesn't everyone?

[Larkspur]

A better question is, where's St. Louis?

[Starscream]

A better question is, where's St. Louis?

A few miles south of St. Cuthbert.

[Inhuman Bot]

A better question is, where's St. Louis?

Here (http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=chrome&q=st+louis&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Saint+Louis,+MO&ei=VMYKS8DrAsKAnQeS2cXHCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA) apparently.

[Somewhere]

Sort of like how Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons knows the score to HMS Pinafore?

[Maximum Zersk]

And how some people (like me:smalltongue:) know the complete score to "Here Comes the Sun"?

[veti]

Sort of like how Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons knows the score to HMS Pinafore?

Sideshow Bob is that kind of guy, though. I mean, he's voiced by Kelsey Grammer f'r goodness' sake...

I don't think anyone has suggested casting Kelsey as Belkar, although it's an interesting thought.

[derfenrirwolv]

I don't think anyone has suggested casting Kelsey as Belkar, although it's an interesting thought.

Get the guy who played Rorschach in the watchmen movie and have him suck on helium?

[Somewhere]

I brought up Sideshow Bob more as an example of a similar joke concept.
Although, come to think of it, does it match Bart's character to know of the HMS Pinafore in the first place to suggest it as a last wish? :smallwink:

[Sewblon]

Maybe Nale's Charm Person is just *that* powerful. :smallbiggrin: Nothing in the spell description says that the affected creature gains any knowledge, and Nale is a fighter/rogue/sorcerer none of his abilities could be that powerful.

[veti]

Oh gods... I really didn't mean to derail this into a casting thread.

Belkar as a gravel-voiced psycho would be dull. Belkar is cultured (gourmet chef), eloquent (always has the right word to hand) and has higher INT than he generally lets on. I think mini-Frasier would be... an interesting interpretation.

[Sewblon]

Oh gods... I really didn't mean to derail this into a casting thread.

Belkar as a gravel-voiced psycho would be dull. Belkar is cultured (gourmet chef), eloquent (always has the right word to hand) and has higher INT than he generally lets on. I think mini-Frasier would be... an interesting interpretation. We decided in a different thread that Belkar's intelligence is in the 10-13 range, his moronic actions are mostly due to his wisdom penalty.

[rewinn]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0383.html Does Belkar have an undisclosed passion for musicals? Are all rangers required to learn it? Or what?

"Meet Me in St. Louis" is the one of the more obscure mating calls of Judy Garland fans.

What Belkar does when he hunts down a Judy Garland fan takes little imagination.

[beerslayer]

A better question is, where's St. Louis?Here (http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=chrome&q=st+louis&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Saint+Louis,+MO&ei=VMYKS8DrAsKAnQeS2cXHCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA) apparently.
Or here (http://lightning.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8466378).

[Bogardan_Mage]

I brought up Sideshow Bob more as an example of a similar joke concept.
Although, come to think of it, does it match Bart's character to know of the HMS Pinafore in the first place to suggest it as a last wish? :smallwink:
That was foreshadowed earlier in the episode when the family listens to a tape entitled The FBI Light Opera Society Sings the Complete Gilbert & Sullivan. Presumably that's why Bart figured it would take exactly that long to get from Terror Lake to Springfield.

[Somewhere]

Huh, I've completely forgotten that part. Well, that makes sense.

[Berserk Monk]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0383.html Does Belkar have an undisclosed passion for musicals? Are all rangers required to learn it? Or what?

Why are there phones in a medieval setting? (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0667.html) Because it's ironic and meant to be a joke.

[Sewblon]

A few miles south of St. Cuthbert. Where does he live again?

[multilis]

Belkar is a secret agent for the celestials, his stats are much higher than he pretends. He sometimes pretends to be a bard, and thus knows many songs.

(He is a good guy who pretends to be evil)

[Lionheart788]

Because he wishes he had skill points in Steal (Spotlight). :-P

[awibs]

Oh gods... I really didn't mean to derail this into a casting thread.

Belkar as a gravel-voiced psycho would be dull. Belkar is cultured (gourmet chef), eloquent (always has the right word to hand) and has higher INT than he generally lets on. I think mini-Frasier would be... an interesting interpretation.

jackie earl haley actually doesnt sound anything like rorschach in his regular speaking voice. like many good actors, he can control that :> and given that he's just finished filming nightmare on elm street, he does seem to be in the groove of typecasting as various small, violent men. he's much too mature for belkar though - i think belkar needs to be someone substantially younger and shallower-seeming.

and to help stay on topic, i should add that more often than people suspect, people have childhood familiarity with musicals...

[the_tick_rules]

It's a comedy strip, these things happen.

[Faramir]

Sideshow Bob is that kind of guy, though. I mean, he's voiced by Kelsey Grammer f'r goodness' sake...

I don't think anyone has suggested casting Kelsey as Belkar, although it's an interesting thought.

omg, I'd always heard Belkar's voice as Cartman but that would be hilarious.

And it would explain why he knows Meet Me In St. Louis.

[mjo625]

Perhaps this knowledge is granted by one of his feats. "Greater Annoyance," perhaps?

[derfenrirwolv]

Well, the skill points that didn't go into survival, spot, listen, handle animal, or search.. so they had to go SOMEWHERE