Il Forza (et Wrath) del Khan
I can’t believe this Robot Chicken sketch of The Wrath of Khan done as an opera. Not because of the brilliant stage settings. Not because they actually wrote the lines and then translated them into Italian (seriously, you can hear “Kirk” and “Khan” and a few more…in Italian). Not because even if they didn’t compose the music being sung, they clearly hired real singers to do it, and they do a fabulous job. No, I can’t believe it because I know the Robot Chicken guys, and they’re all horrendously lazy. Weird.
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.