Favorite Shatner Moment (with videos)

Standard: set.

http://www.khaaan.com/

rocket man

I'm voting 'Kirk becomes a horse' with no knowledge of what it refers to.

it was a very good year

i want to vote priceline b/c of carrie brownstein in the backup band but I should really just let my S-K love go...

it was...a very good year...for..small town girls

so much watching to be done before i can properly vote.

no tattletales, no credibility

This is going to be as hard as Pick Only One Nugget.

I'd like to change my vote to "It Was a very Good Year' now that I've watched it, particularly as his face emerges from some kind of mind control ray at the start of the clip. I also love him folding his arms and looking justifiably delighted with himself in the instrumental break.

I think I'll vote for "Common People" now and regret it come the morning.

I can't let this thread die!! How about suggesting some songs Bill should cover for his next album due out in 2040 when he'll be 109 (it's hard to believe he'll be 77 this March 22)?

As a former patron of the Harry Chapin playground, perhaps I should switch my vote to Sings Taxi on Dinah.

sings "Taxi" on "Dinah!"

No Incubus, no credibility.

I just saw Shatner tellling Henry Rollins how he was chased down and had segregationists threat his life.

Incubus clip

I wonder if, every time Shatner picks up a mic, Rex Harrison turns over in his grave?

$20K Pyramid blowup0K Pyramid blowup

All you people who think "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!" was something are behooved to click on that link.

It was so magnificent that they stopped inviting him onto the show; BTW, I included that in the poll, so you can vote for it.

Also, are the links bleeding into the other poll options for anyone else, or is just me?

amazingly this list is incomplete (no "Go Ask Alice"?)

Really? I can't seem to find it on the poll and I clicked on almost every link last night and didn't see it. And yeah, the bleeding links are a problem.

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he only has like two scenes in it as the mustachioed dad, but he is funny as the pained, square parent of drug-addled troubled teenager Alice

Oh yeah it's here Blows 20,000 for a contestant
but because of bleeding in the poll it brings up Capt. Kirk meets the Fresh Prince part 1

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A new favorite moment -- this whole story:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/09/william-shatner.html

“Look at Lance Armstrong and Brett Favre, these guys that keep coming back. It's the roar of the crowd and being told how great you are. It's like that with the nominations. It makes you part of the happening. When you’re not nominated, when you’re not on the scene, then you’re not happening. No matter what you or anyone else says, when that light is not on, you’re in the dark. You don’t know who you are until someone cheers your name. And spells it right.”

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/a.gif

future source (I love that the NY Times put "shat" in a URL):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/arts/television/02shat.html

“Shatner’s Raw Nerve” puts its host’s peculiar brand of intensity on full display. The set looks like the cavernous basement lounge in a Balinese hotel. Mr. Shatner sits in an armchair that butts up against his guest’s on a diagonal....

What does he want to know? He wants to know what Valerie Bertinelli thinks about sin. This Lifetime television star is the first guest on the show, and what she has to say about sin isn’t going to put Thomas Aquinas out of business. (Yup, she has done some sinning, and she feels really bad about it.) But Mr. Shatner is clearly modeling himself after the sort of interviewers who prod and prod for specificity. He just keeps going until he arrives at a question like this: “What lie lurks behind the eyes that you think is unforgivable?”

...Mr. Shatner’s subsequent guests include Jimmy Kimmel and Tim Allen. The roster isn’t terribly exciting (or even marginally so), but neither is it relevant. He could have a cactus in the chair and still he would ask, “So have you ever made love to somebody who was drunk?”

I wonder if I have this Bio Channel.

would watch

Got a new contender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdqRbWYWbU

Read Shakey's mention of "Go Ask Alice" and first thought was "Huh, I didn't know he did 'White Rabbit'"; then realized that it's more surprising that he didn't.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/reddit/youtube-william-shatner-reads-sarah-palin-farewe

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posting that because the youtube link was taken down.

doesnt shatner say 'hey i was taking the piss' in reference to that 'roketman' clip nowadays?

Shatnerstache!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlSq82iQuzw&feature=related

A further contribution:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattw/shatner-reads-palins-tweets-arl/

doing a one-man Broadway "show" next month. Great White Way officially dead.

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— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) November 29, 2017