TR Contest: Things Peter Cullen Shouldn’t Say
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?This week’s contest was actually suggested a long time ago by Hippy Hippy Shake, and I’m just now getting around to it. The premise is simple: Peter Cullen has been the voice of most versions of Optimus Prime since the very first Transformers cartoon, and has one of the most commanding, inspiring, badass voices of all time. Almost everything he says sounds awesome… almost everything.
Your mission: figure out something that Peter Cullen can’t say and sound awesome. A few of you might recognize this vaguely as the idea for a Letterman Top 10 list, but I’ll be damned if the Topless Roboteers can’t be several million times more clever than the Late Night writers (I’d rank you against Leno’s writers, but I don’t think they’re sentient lifeforms). You each get three entries, each entry should be three sentences max, and the contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, August the 23rd. I don’t just expect comedy gold this weekend, but several hundred entries, so tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Tell any snakes that happen to be erotically eating you. Just enter.
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.