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For a guy who says he wants to be left alone to get his shit together, David Bruce Banner is one nosy busybody.

The Incredible Hulk Gag Reel

Scientist: Do you KNOW what you’re DOING?!

Banner: Yes, I do, believe me.

Scientist: We’ll you’re not going to kill yourself with MY laboratory!

Banner: Well you’re being pretty shitty about it aren’t you?

After a lukewarm episode involving an earthquake and averted nuclear meltdown (how? how was that episode so boring?), Banner joins Scully’s mom and Doogie Howser’s dad in a story of union corruption that features the Hulk in a barfight.

An interesting underlying theme of season one is Banner’s friendships with women, whether it’s for a day or several months, he’s a guy who just genuinely enjoys the company of women, is capable of being emotionally supportive, and encourages them professionally and as independent people (even when they turn out to be the villain).

I’ve already joked with @thassalia that if I were the essay writing type I’d already be drafting one on the remixed masculinity of Bixby's Banner (And Ferrigno's Hulk) "Free To Be My Monster and Me". 

What do you mean, stereotaxis? I looked it up, and it has something to do with contact with a rigid surface?

Locating areas in the brain in 3-D, which means you need to keep the head secure in a specific spot and not moving.  Or else you’re spraying gamma all over the damned place.  I doubt Banner could get through a frickin’ glaucoma exam the way he headbangs in the lab.

Deep Space Nine’s GARAK attempts sketchy gene therapy on Banner.  Three guesses as to whether he’s evil.

The stereotaxis in this series is pure shit, I love it.  I also love how folks are only halfheartedly fleeing from the overdosed Hulk running amok in the OB/GYN ward, peeking around corners and giving him wary side-eye.

In which Banner learns that hitchhiking is dangerous, and small angry women driving big tanker trucks are hella scary.

If you’re looking for Banner on the side of the road gifs, this might be your episode.

Banner tries to call the police with his last few coins, has a snit fit with the Very Unhelpful Operator, and descends into PAYPHONE RAGE!

We really were overdue for an exploding car wreck.  This time it’s a car and a tanker truck in glorious slow motion down the side of canyon as the Hulk roars after it like, FUCK YEAH!

The perky blackjack dealer training Banner asks him to buy her lunch--which he does with mild resentment.  I think it’s because she isn’t a nerd.  We don’t see much of her after she makes fun of the “big green monster” story and the tabloid reporter dogging Banner across country.

Smart chicks are Banner catnip, bonus points if they’re biology geeks.  I’m totally not bringing this up because I’m developing a weird thing for Bill Bixby.  Honestly, though, there’s a lot of interesting things going on with this show re: the 70s remix of masculinity and subversions of the damsel in distress trope (both successful and non).

This episode features Alan Alda’s dad as the skeeze running the local protection/smuggling bracket.

I’m starting to think that Dirty Jobs was a non-scifi reboot of The Incredible Hulk.

Banner sneaks onto your fire escape and steals shirts from your laundry, and leaves a fiver pinned to the line.  Banner breaks into your office and steals your delivery logbook and your cheesy statue full of hashish. And leaves you nothing but grief.

Banner: I’ve got to be there by five!

Taxi driver: Mister, you’re gonna be ten minutes late, keep your shirt on!

Cue traffic jam Hulk-out

Cue me being grateful they gave Lou little green sneakers for running through New York streets in the winter