{"id":15130,"date":"2011-11-01T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2011-11-01T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T04:22:27","slug":"shake-the-world-and-take-the-world-with-the-sons-of-hercules-land-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15130","title":{"rendered":"Shake the World and Take the World with &#8220;The Sons of Hercules: Land of Darkness&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/rifftrax.com\/\"><em>RiffTrax<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows Hercules (or Heracles, if you\u2019re really fun to talk to  at parties), the mighty Greek whose heroic exploits included cleaning up tons of horse crap. But not everyone knows his sons, who for some reason went by the name The Sons of Hercules!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, The Sons of Hercules, whose theme song informs us \u201cwere men as men could be.\u201d What in the hell this might conceivably mean, we have no idea. Perhaps their Y chromosomes are bulked up monstrosities like Popeye. Or maybe it\u2019s because, as the song goes on to inform us, \u201cThey shook the world AND took the world,\u201d while the rest of us, failing to be as men as men could be, merely do one or the other depending on who\u2019s playing in Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>This particular episode centers around Argolese, a man whose ability to grow a respectable beard is severely hampered by his periwinkle mini-skirt. Argolese befriends a horrible man named Babar who, as a sidekick, ranks somewhere in between Jar Jar Binks and Shia LaBeouf\u2019s character in <em>Crystal Skull<\/em>. Their lighthearted goal? Free a bunch of innocent people who have been horribly enslaved!<\/p>\n<p>Along the way they\u2019ll wrestle a lion (real), fight a dragon (fake) and evade a hungry bear (we\u2019re not sure. We\u2019re leaning toward it being Nicholas Cage.) One thing is for certain: a sword and sandals tale this bizarre requires the full riffing efforts of Mike, Kevin and Bill, who, put together, come very close to being as men as men could be.<\/p>\n<p>Only $9.99!<\/p>\n<p>Get it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifftrax.com\/video\/sons-hercules-land-darkness\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from RiffTrax: Everyone knows Hercules (or Heracles, if you\u2019re really fun to talk to at parties), the mighty Greek whose heroic exploits included cleaning up tons of horse crap. But not everyone knows his sons, who for some reason went by the name The Sons of Hercules! Yes, The Sons of Hercules, whose theme song &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shake the World and Take the World with &#8220;The Sons of Hercules: Land of Darkness&#8221;!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-films","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}