There being no clear winner, I was forced, and it was a difficult decision, to choose as our daily mascot not Palpatine…
But rather Palpatine’s chin-ass:
(Please see original post, below, if you’re coming to this cold and want to know what in the name of Hector P. Valente is going on.)
It’s that time of morning here at the RiffTrax blog - time to once again choose our daily mascot! Will it be…?
This is HUGELY important! Please take it VERY SERIOUSLY! Once the issue is decided (that is, who will be the RiffTrax daily mascot) it CANNOT BE REVOKED!! For the WHOLE DAY we will all be stuck with your choice.














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1 Michael on Apr 22, 2008 at 8:48 am
Lintilla?
Definitely Lintilla
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2 Melman on Apr 22, 2008 at 8:51 am
I say Boyd, you don’t mess with that kind of moustache.
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3 Jen on Apr 22, 2008 at 8:58 am
Boyd Gaines’s mustache is so authoritative. I have to vote for him.
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4 MikeP on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:06 am
Otis Nixon
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5 Chris on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:07 am
I gotta go with “That Guy” … because I think he weighs more than all the other candidates…. combined.
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6 benedetta on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:15 am
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7 MonkeyCheezPants on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:17 am
Tie - either the dog in the last photo, or the tough chick with “That Guy”.
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Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
Ya, I agree with you sadly they are not choices to choose from.
I pick the chick though because she scares me more.
Thanks,
8 Joshdg on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:21 am
You know, at carnivals and fairs and stuff, that game where you have to throw balls at the clown’s faces and knock them down?
Rula Lenska looks like one of those clowns. I guess it’s just the hair.
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9 Ninjew on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:31 am
After years of suffering with her “Alberto VO5 Hot Oil Treatment” commercials, I think Rula Lenska deserves a day in the spotlight.
Just look how nice her own hair has held up over the years. She needs this little ego boost in her life.
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Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
Isn’t she wearing a wig though?
Thanks,
10 wild guy on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:35 am
I’m going with “that guy”
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11 Chris Hutton on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:35 am
My vote goes to THAT GUY— his MITS* are HUGE!!!!!
*Man T!ts
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12 wild guy on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:36 am
definately, “that guy (right)”.
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13 Clint on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:48 am
I want to say That Guy (on the right), but there are so many variables to consider. Is he willing? Does he have a history we should know about? I have read that was born in Prek Sbauv in Kampong Thom Province in 1925 to a moderately wealthy family of Chinese-Khmer descent.[3][4] In 1935, he left Prek Sbauv to attend the École Miche, a Catholic school in PhnomPenh. As his sister Roeung was a concubine of the king, he often visited the royal palace. In 1947, he gained admission to the exclusive Lycée Sisowath but was unsuccessful in his studies. His future first wife, Khieu Ponnary, her sister, (née Khieu Thirith) Ieng Thirith and Khieu’s future husband, Ieng Sary also attended the Lycée. After switching to a technical school at Russey Keo, north of Phnom Penh, he qualified for a scholarship that allowed for technical study in France. He studied radioelectricity at the EFR in Paris from 1949 to 1953. He also participated in an international labour brigade building roads in Yugoslavia in 1950. After the Soviet Union recognized the Viet Minh as the government of Vietnam in 1950, French Communists (PCF) took up the cause of Vietnam’s independence. The PCF’s anti-colonialism attracted many young Cambodians, including That Guy (on the right). In 1951, he joined a communist cell in a secret organization known as the Cercle Marxiste which had taken control of the Khmer Student’s Association (AER) that same year. Within a few months, That Guy (on the right) also joined the PCF. Historian Philip Short has said that That Guy’s (on the right) poor academic record was a considerable advantage within the anti-intellectual PCF, who saw uneducated peasants as the true proletariat and helped him to quickly establish a leadership role for himself among the Cercle Marxiste. As a result of failing his exams in three successive years, he was forced to return to Cambodia in January 1954. He was the first member of the Cercle to return to Cambodia and was given the task of evaluating the various groups rebelling against the government. He recommended the Khmer Viet Minh, and in August 1953, That Guy (on the right) along with Rath Samoeun travelled to the Viet Minh Eastern Zone headquarters in the village of Krabao at the Kompong Cham/Prey Veng border area of Cambodia. He and the others found that the Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP) was little more than a Vietnamese front organization. In 1954, the Cambodians at the Eastern Zone Headquarters split into two groups. Due to the Geneva peace accord of 1954 expelling all Viet Minh forces and insurgent, one group followed the Vietnamese back to Vietnam as cadres to be used by Vietnam in a future war to liberate Cambodia. The other group, including That Guy (on the right), returned to Cambodia. After Cambodian independence following the 1954 Geneva Conference, right and left wing parties struggled against each other for power in the new government. King Norodom Sihanouk played the parties against each other while using the police and army to suppress extreme political groups. Corrupt elections in 1955 led many leftists in Cambodia to abandon hope of taking power by legal means. The communist movement, while ideologically committed to armed struggle in these circumstances, did not launch a rebellion because of the weakness of the party. After his return to Phnom Penh, That Guy (on the right) became the liaison between the above-ground parties of the left (Democrats and Pracheachon) and the underground communist movement. He married Ponnary on Bastille Day, 1956. She returned to Lycee Sisowath but now as a teacher, while he taught French literature and history at Chamraon Vichea, a new private college.
It helps to know these things.
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Reply from Tim D on April 22, 2008:
And it’s ironic that That Guy (on the right) is a leftist. Maybe its his left.
Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
Nope it’s her left, his right or left depending on where you start, but either way it’s gonna take some time to get to the other side. Remember folks he’s not fat he’s big bone-ded.
Thanks,
14 Dallas on Apr 22, 2008 at 9:52 am
Toots! Toots! Toots!
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Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
Dallas, honestly now, go outside when you do that, how rude.
Thanks,
Oh God the smell ……….. gag ………..
15 ern2150 on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03 am
Uh oh, it’s THAT guy…
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16 MarkAndrew on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03 am
Boyd Gains gets my vote, for his classy ’stache, if for no other reason.
And ’cause ‘he oh so good’.
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17 Hugh on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:08 am
TOOTS.
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Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
Whooooo weeee that don’t smell like teen spirit to me!!!!
Thanks,
lol
18 Barry on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:09 am
When you’re a professional whistler like Toots Thielemans, there’s simply no contest.
Heck, I voted for him for President today, and I don’t even live in Pennsylvania.
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19 GMaupin on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:10 am
The Wife says Boyd, I’m assuming based on his She Loves Me/One Day at a Time cred, but my vote is for Toots. I hate to think what this house will be like in November.
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20 Chris D. on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:25 am
As a lifelong Twins fan my vote is for Sandy Valdespino, but as long as we are referencing Minnesota can I write in KSTP wacky morning traffic guy Rusty Gatenby?
http://kstp.com/kstpImages/cs/GATENBY-RUSTY.jpg
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21 R.A. Roth on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:40 am
I vote for Sandy Valdespino’s glove, Boyd Gains’ lip critter, That Guy’s left man-boob, Toots Thielemans’ critterless lips and Rula Lenska’s fiery red mane.
Randy
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22 dignan on Apr 22, 2008 at 10:47 am
Sandy Valdespino.
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23 Dave-o on Apr 22, 2008 at 11:18 am
that guy on the right simply because the chick on the left is pretty hot…wow in retrospect that sounds like a prepubescent boys answer but i dont care…i dig her
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24 Tim D on Apr 22, 2008 at 11:22 am
Sandy Valdespino’s real first name is Hilario. And Rifftrax is all about the funny.
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25 Walter on Apr 22, 2008 at 11:24 am
Rula’s Hair!
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Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
It’s a wig!!!!
Thanks,
26 Darth Chimay on Apr 22, 2008 at 11:29 am
Ohmigosh ohmigosh ohmigosh… is that *the* That Guy?!? Squeee!
Okay, now that I’ve composed myself somewhat (at least 20% fewer squees), I shall place my vote. As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, I’m voting for Toots.
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27 Tv Miller on Apr 22, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’m picking Ewan McGregor in his latest role as Blue’s Traveler frontman John Popper in the film “That Guy” also starring the vivacious Laura Dern (Conor!).
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28 Gamera on Apr 22, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hi, I’m Rula Lenska.
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29 Raistlan on Apr 22, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Rula Lenska. All the way.
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30 Dave-o on Apr 22, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Palpatine is in definate need of chinderwear
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Reply from QuackersnCheese on April 24, 2008:
lol chinderwear good one…
1. not by the hair of my chin-e-chin chin….
2. keep a stiff upper lip, keep that chin-arse up never know who’ll be sniffing around….
3. where oh where are my chinderwear, I’ve searched here and I’ve searched there but can not say where my chinderwear have gone.(country song gone wrong)
4. Mother: Was he wearing clean chinderwear?
Cop: Yes ma’am we found them his glove compartment.
And so ends my list for now but I may return for another chintastic list or something…..
Thanks,
CUT!!! CUT!!! Good grief Quacky you suck!!!!!
31 dave on Apr 23, 2008 at 10:14 am
Under rated Twin, Sandy Valdespino. He is in need of some press and hasn’t gotten any work in some time.
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32 QuackersnCheese on Apr 24, 2008 at 3:59 am
You know Mike the worst part is not his chin-arse it’s the fact that he’s not wearing makeup that is his real face.
Thanks,
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