I'm Spartacus!
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I'm Spartacus! is the catchphrase from the film Spartacus.
A famous scene of the movie has the recaptured slaves being asked to point out which one of them is Spartacus in exchange for leniency. Instead, they each proclaim themselves to be Spartacus and thus share his fate. A similar scene or event is sometimes called a Spartacus moment in reference to this particular scene. This has sometimes been misidentified as historical fact, notably by George Galloway, who identifies Spartacus as his hero.
[edit] Use in popular culture
The phrase has passed into popular culture and was mimicked in the films
- Countdown to Destruction, the finale of Power Rangers in Space, in which characters claim to be Power Rangers
- The Mask of Zorro
- Whose Line is it Anyway?, Ryan Stiles performs the scene as Carol Channing.
- In & Out, in which characters claim to be gay
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, in which characters claim to be drag queens
- In the Johnny Bravo episode "Quo Doofus," various villagers yell "I'm Spartacus!" when Johnny questions them.
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (spoofed)("I'm Brian, and so is my wife!")
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (spoofed)
- a Pepsi commercial
- That Thing You Do! (1996) Guy Patterson (played by Tom Everett Scott) and other characters use the phrase to express their beatnik coolness)
- Malcolm X (using the phrase "I am Malcolm X!")
- A Nike commercial (using the phrase "I am Tiger Woods!")
- the South Park episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", in which characters make the claim, "I broke the dam"
- UnderGrads (In an auditorium students explaim "I am G Prime" until an actor in a campus play stands up dressed as Spartacus, saying the famous line.)
- The cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have occasionally used the line in appropriate situations in the movies they satirize. Any scene showing a large group of men standing in formation outdoors, especially if they're bedraggled and shirtless, is apt to evoke the line.
- In the popular teen drinking game "circle of death", when one chooses a 9 the player becomes "Spartacus", whereby he now has the power to stand and claim "I'm Spartacus", with the last standing player receiving a drink.
- In the Futurama episode A Tale of Two Santas, as Bender is about to be executed for being Santa (who in the year 3000 is a murderous robot,) the rest of crew arrives and exclaim "I'm Santa Claus," until Dr. Zoidberg enters and proclaims, "And I'm his friend Jesus!"
- In the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide episode called Guide to: Social Studies & Embarrassment , all the students are claiming "I'm Fartacus!" after Ned describes how everybody farts in school.
- In the Ian Dury song Spasticus Autitisticus, several are shouting "I'm Spasticus!" at the end.
[edit] See also
- List of cultural references to Dr. Strangelove
- List of cultural references to The Shining
- List of cultural references to 2001: A Space Odyssey
- List of cultural references to A Clockwork Orange
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