The Line: A Story of Our People
Our people, of course, being huge fucking nerds. This is the first episode of The Line, a short series from Funny or Die, starring Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis, which debuted more than a month ago. In fact, the seventh and final episode is already up (just watch all of ’em here). As always, I blame you people for not letting me know sooner. I’m going to give you guys the weekend to shape up and start sending me tips in a timely fashion, and if you don’t, daddy’s going to take off his belt, if you know what I mean.
I mean I’m going to beat you. With a belt. Just wanted to clarify that. See you on Monday.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.