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1 Response to “AudioShocker Podcast #74 - Britney Spears vs. Crimson Viper... GO!”

1. 1 nick marino
   April 1, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   for the hardcore comic book historian, here's a snippet from a Steve Gerber interview from the late 1970s. it ties in nicely with the beginning of this episode (who even knew "bonging" was a word?)...

   Groth: The Dr. Bong episodes confused me. Who or what did Dr. Bong represent?

   Gerber: That story started out, too, as something very different from what it became. It began as a parody of The Island of Dr. Moreau, with an attempt to create a villain for Howard of the stature of Dr. Doom or the Red Skull, someone we could bring back periodically. The origin of the name is funny, too. I was over at Gene Simmons's apartment — this was during the time we were working on the Kiss book — and he was showing me some of the group's fan mail. Someone wrote them a very strange letter that said, "Come over to the house. We'll have some good music, some good wine and some bonging." Whatever that meant. Gene didn't know, and neither did I. We had different assumptions about it. But it struck me as very funny, and it stuck with me, and when it was time to create this new villain, Dr. Bong was it.