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[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

other favored theories include:

  • one or more Beastie Boy(s) was on the bus in The Voyage Home, saw Spock neck-pinch the punk with the boombox, and thought "damn, we should write a song about that"
  • in the Star Trek universe, the line is "like a slap on the ass from Doctor Spock"
  • the line alludes to a character in a pulp sci-fi story authored by one Benny Russell and published in Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder, circa 1953
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

one or more Beastie Boy(s) was on the bus in The Voyage Home, saw Spock neck-pinch the punk with the boombox, and thought “damn, we should write a song about that”

This is further supported by a lyric from the track "Body Movin'" off the same album "Hello Nasty":

It is clear that MCA was the one that witnessed the bus incident. The other Beastie Boys are asking where he was that he saw the neck pinch:

MCA, where have you been?

MCA responds with the next lyric in the track referring to the bus:

Packed like sardines in the tin
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago

The ship is dockin', interlockin' / And up-rockin', electro-shockin'

clearly indicates the aforementioned Boys witnessed the sudden appearance of the HMS Bounty off the coast of San Francisco earlier that same day, and furthermore, we must assume that MCA followed Spock from the bus all the way to the Cetacean Institute where, moments before leaping into the tank and mind-melding with the whale — the whale he had been searching for; his goal, his target, his quarry, if you will — Mr. Yauch witnessed him, and I quote:

kick off your shoes and put on your swim fins / 'Cause when it comes to quarries I'm known to swim