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The Incredible Hulk (1977)

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The Incredible Hulk (1977)	comment	The Incredible Hulk is a Live-Action Adaptation of the classic Marvel Comics character produced by Universal Television and developed by Kenneth Johnson, laced thoroughly with intentional Adaptation Distillation. Airing on CBS, it starred Bill Bixby as Dr. Banner, Jack Colvin as investigative reporter Jack McGee and bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno as Banner's violent super-powered alter-ego.As stated in the opening narration above, David Banner is a widowed scientist who was studying humanity's ability to unleash hidden super-strength when under duress along with finding the source of said ability. Trying to make himself stronger through gamma radiation, he ends up accidentally giving himself an overdose. Now, whenever Dr. Banner gets angry or faces great emotional pressure, he transforms into a giant, green-skinned man-monster capable of great strength and driven by rage. With his alter-ego blamed for a double murder (David himself is believed to be one of the victims) and chased down by a tabloid journalist, David is forced to let the public believe he is dead as he travels the country searching for a cure for his condition. Unfortunately for him, he often finds himself involved in situations that require him to unleash the beast that lives inside him.Preceded by a pair of Pilot Movies â€” The Incredible Hulk (aired on November 4th, 1977) and Death in the Family (no, not that Death in the Family; aired on November 27th, 1977) â€” the series proper aired from March 10th, 1978 to May 12th, 1982 and was in turn followed by three late-'80s Made for TV Movies. The first was a Poorly Disguised Pilot for a Thor series, the second was a Poorly Disguised Pilot for a Daredevil series (neither of which got made), and the last ended with the Hulk being Killed Off for Real, though this was not originally the intention, as the Hulk was going to be resurrected in a fourth film. However, it was cancelled due to low ratings, then any plans for a fourth film ended permanently with the death of Bill Bixby in 1993.Oddly, despite the many radical changes made to the concept — ranging from the character's first namenote Depending upon who you talk to, either the producers didn't want an "alliterative comic-booky name", or they thought the first name "Bruce" sounded stereotypically gay. Though it's also quite likely that there was another famous Bruce used as a civilian identity. all the way up to his enemies and locale — it managed to embrace and faithfully support the core idea of the original comic book. It remains one of three superhero adaptations from the 1970s that is remembered fondly to this date, the others being Wonder Woman and Superman. Hulk fans keep it close to the heart and future projects with the character from comics, games, and film frequently make reference to it as Mythology Gags, including Remake Cameos of Lou Ferrigno.Now has a characters page and a recap page.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: David's usual response when someone suggests the Hulk ran away. In one episode he saves a woman who was hallucinating her twin who died from drowning, when it was over she told him he wouldn't believe how her psychoses made him look.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_118bba4	comment	Non-Indicative Title: Trial of the Incredible Hulk The trial scene is a dream sequence.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_11cc78ff	type	Superheroes Stay Single
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_11cc78ff	comment	Superheroes Stay Single: Banner has a few love-interests-of-the-week, but the only time he's truly serious is in the Season 2 premiere where he meets a woman, falls in love, gets married, and becomes a widower (again)... all within a two-hour episode.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Jack Kirby appears as a police sketch artist in "No Escape." He is sketching a witness's description of the Hulk. Quite expectedly, the sketch resembles his own comics style of the character rather than Lou Ferrigno. Stan Lee would make the first of his famous cameo appearances in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_12e8e69b	type	Jekyll & Hyde
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_12e8e69b	comment	Jekyll & Hyde: Outright stated by David in "Married" when he is hinting his condition to Dr. Carolyn Fields after she realizes who he really is. In "Deathmask," police officer Frank Rhodes is pursuing a man who murders college co-eds, and comes to believe David is the killer, not realizing that it's actually himself. Taken further in "Dark Side," where David develops an id-driven split personality, which in many ways hews closer to the original novel. (David and "evil David" share a consciousness, like the original Jekyll and Hyde, in contrast to David having no memory of the Hulk's actions.)
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: In The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil suffers this after he falls into Fisk's trap and is overwhelmed until the Hulk saves him. Aside from the rigorous beating, the villains use intense sound to disorient him, so he thinks that means they know he's blind. David tries to shake him out of it by pointing out Fisk employed assorted disorienting techniques all at once, including bright lights.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_164bd5fd	type	Hulking Out
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_164bd5fd	comment	Hulking Out: The series writers named this trope.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: In "The Slam," David gets put in one. Strangely enough, he doesn't Hulk Outnote possibly because he's just miserable, not angry or upset. Another prisoner in the box next door tells him how to survive: find a rock to suck on, put your head in the least exposed place possible, and don't move around.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_18d15922	comment	He is applauded after the second hulkout of "King of the Beach." Justified in that he appears on the stage of the titular bodybuilding contest, an event in which the audience expects to see muscular men. It also happens that he has the same muscular build of one of the contestants and the contest's winner, Carl Molino, also played by Lou Ferrigno.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: When looked at another way, Banner's experiment works TOO WELL; he wants strength enhancement, but he gets much more than he bargained for, leading to one really tragic case of Be Careful What You Wish For. Or, put another way: ANGER leads to DANGER.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1da3a484	type	Alice Allusion
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_1da3a484	comment	Alice Allusion: "Alice in Discoland" has shades of this. The title character is an alcoholic teenage disco dancer who has nightmarish hallucinations of John Tenniel's illustrations, and directly references the book.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_21c863c3	type	Plaster Cast Doodling
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_21c863c3	comment	Plaster Cast Doodling: In "The Beast Within", David's love interest of the week is a zoo veterinarian whose research on animal aggression he comes to believe may help with his "condition." Not recognizing him, she refers him to the work of "Dr. David Banner." Later, a brawl with bad guys leaves her with a broken arm. At the hospital, David writes a suggestion as to how to continue her research on her cast. She reads it aloud after he leaves her room.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: For some reason or another, no one can tell David is the Hulk. This is specially egregious if a group of mooks are beating David up, then suddenly (after always conveniently tossing him offscreen), Hulk comes out of "nowhere" to give them their just deserts. They react in confusion that this tall green monster suddenly appears out of thin air, and the guy they were beating up is nowhere to be seen.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_235a2706	comment	Baseball Episode: "The Phenom," which opened the final season. David becomes friends with Joe Dumming, a pitcher with college promises, but an unscrupulous agent has his own ideas of how to make Dumming famous. The episode is perhaps most famous for the San Diego Chicken-knockoff that appears in the climatic scene.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: David can never find the cure for his little condition, because if he did, no more show.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_26fd153	type	Early Adaptation Weirdness
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_26fd153	comment	Early Adaptation Weirdness: While not the first adaptation of the character to the screen (having come eleven years after The Marvel Super Heroes, as the first live-action adaptation), it takes surprising liberties, such as Hulk being rendered mute for the most part, instead communicating in growls and grunts, Banner being referred to by his given name rather than his middle name of "Bruce", his given name itself having been changed from "Robert" to "David", General Thaddeus Ross having been replaced with original character Jack McGee and pretty much every other character having been Adapted Out. The Incredible Hulk Returns also features this in the form of Thor. Also having first appeared in television in The Marvel Super Heroes, this was the first live-action portrayal of the Marvel portrayal and rather than Blake and Thor being the same individual, they are two different characters (The Kenneth Branagh film would do something similar, but with Blake being The Ghost and becoming a brief alias of Thor), with Thor not being a god, but a Norse warrior whom Blake summons by holding a magic hammer and calling the name of "Odin". The Trial of the Incredible Hulk features similar examples. While the Kingpin had been appearing on the screen since Spider-Man (1967), this was his first portrayal in live action and differs from what came after by never being referred to as "the Kingpin", only by "Wilson Fisk", having facial hair as well as averting Bald of Evil, by actually having hair. Likewise, this was the first portrayal of Daredevil, as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends had only portrayed him as Matt Murdock, and rather than the red suit everyone is familiar with, he wears a black ninja-like outfit and was inspired by a policeman to be a hero, rather than seeking to avenge his father's death.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_285b9e0	type	The Daily Misinformer
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_285b9e0	comment	The Daily Misinformer: Intrepid Reporter Jack McGee writes for the National Register, a publication not shy at all about running stories on a 7-ft tall green monster terrorizing people and destroying property all over the country. The paper also makes up fake news. In "Stop the Presses," Register employees are sent to Bruno's Diner (Banner's workplace-of-the-week) after hours with loads of rancid meat and rotting produce, which they spread all over the counters and photograph for an ongoing "expose" on local mom & pop eateries. Only David discovering that one published picture had captured both a clock on the wall and a copy of that day's Register proves that everything was faked. Meanwhile, McGee is covering a psychic convention in the same city. This, of course, leads to him trying to capture the Hulk for living proof of "the Creature" he's been reporting on for a couple of years now.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: David's tan-and-white jacket shows up throughout the series. Justified by him being pretty much homeless. What makes less sense is that he always seems to be wearing the same boots, even though they get torn up and discarded every time he transforms. Onr wonders how he affords to buy new clothes every week.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Julie shows she's tougher than she thinks when Michael, the old hermit helping them out, is bitten by a rattlesnake. She asks the Hulk to help, then quickly realizes the Hulk doesn't have most of David's memories. She then all but shoves the Hulk aside and tends to Michael's wound herself.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2dd4e28a	type	Clothesline Stealing
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2dd4e28a	comment	Clothesline Stealing: Occasionally David will find a clothesline with a shirt hanging in order to re-clothe himself. (Since he has Magic Pants he's not worried about below the waist.) Since he's an honest person, when he can he leaves a few dollars in its place so he's not always stealing the shirt in question.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: The title character of "My Favorite Magician" is played by Ray Walston, Bixby's co-star in My Favorite Martian. In "747," the boy who helps the Hulk safely land the plane is played by Brandon Cruz, Bixby's co-star in The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: McGee sometimes gets frustrated at the fact that David isn't more distinctive-looking. He'll ask somebody about him and the person will say, "Well, you know, sort of average...brown hair, brown eyes..."
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: None of the supporting characters from the comics (particularly Rick Jones, Betty Ross and General Thunderbolt Ross) ever appear. However, some of David's girls of the week could be similar to Betty and the role of the guy hunting down the Hulk has been taken over by Jack McGee.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity: The first two telemovies were intended as pilots for Spinoffs based on Daredevil and Thor, with the Hulk added in an obvious effort to boost their popularity. Neither show ended up being produced.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Not entirely. The Hulk is still David Banner, just regressed to an animalistic state. Which is why the Hulk refuses to kill people, and protects and responds to people who are important to David. This becomes more clear in the two-parter "The First," in which Dell Frye is presented as more power-hungry and less concerned with others' safety than David. His "Hulk" is likewise crueler and kills a man, which doesn't bother Dell, since Dell murdered a teenager (for "snooping") and has no qualms or regrets. Played straight in "Dark Side," where an attempt at a cure instead unleashes David's id in the form of a second personality, only concerned with his own immediate needs and perfectly willing to use the Hulk to achieve them. David swaps back and forth between the two personalities during the course of the episode. The Hulk likewise becomes more aggressive and nearly kills several people before snapping back to normal. On the other hand, the third-season premiere "Metamorphosis" sees David affected by a powerful hallucinogen, and he starts having visions of the Hulk attacking him, which causes him to transform. As the Hulk, he then has visions of David, whom he attacks immediately and violently, destroying the room and injuring a bystander. They may not be fully separate personalities, but each represents a part of the whole that the other hates.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_3754b680	type	Temporary Blindness
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_3754b680	comment	Temporary Blindness: In "Blind Rage," David "Blair" experiences temporary blindness after being exposed to toxic gas. A transformation or two regenerates his cells and repairs the damage.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: The TV movies The Incredible Hulk Returns and Trial of the Incredible Hulk were obvious pilots for undeveloped TV series for Thor and Daredevil, respectively. The episode "The Disciple" was potentially a pilot for a series about the martial artist private detective played by Rick Springfield. It never got off the ground.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: "My Favorite Magician" - harks back to two of Bill Bixby's previous series. My Favorite Martian and The Magician, not only with the title, but also by featuring "Martian" Ray Walston as the eponymous magician here.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Though there are certainly exceptions, a good amount of the episodes follow the same formula. Banner, under an assumed name, hitchhikes to a new location and makes friends with someone in need. He later discovers that something is fishy about someone close to said new friend, and once they find out He Knows Too Much, he becomes the Hulk. Once he calms down, he tries to warn his new friend(s) only for them to either not believe him or be just out of reach. The villains reveal themselves to all, he becomes the Hulk a second time to save the day, and then Banner has to leave.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Banner is desperate to rid himself of his involuntary transformations into the Hulk. Not only is he hiding his true identity from the world since the creature is wanted for two murders (one of which his own), he's paranoid that he/the creature will accidentally kill someone.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4b279eb6	type	Buy or Get Lost
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4b279eb6	comment	Buy or Get Lost: While hitch-hiking between towns, David stops at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and asks to use the restroom. The attendant tells him it's for paying customers only. David pulls some change out of his pocket, buys a soda from a vending machine, and looks pointedly at the attendant. The guy reluctantly gives him the key. Cut to David washing up and shaving at the sink.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4bdbca25	type	Irregular Series
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4bdbca25	comment	Irregular Series: A four-year regular series that started out as a mid-season replacement and got early-season replaced itself, sandwiched between two pilot movies and three made-for-TV-movies.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The third movie which concludes the series. The Hulk falls out of a plane and transforms back into David, who dies. All of his years of searching for a cure were in vain, the only way he could be free from his condition was to die. To make this already depressing ending even worse, there was a script written for a sequel in which the Hulk would be revived with Banner's mind. However, due to Bill Bixby's declining health and eventual death, it was never made.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_50a4057	type	Strawberry Shorthand
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_50a4057	comment	Strawberry Shorthand: In the Season 2 opener, "Married," newlywed David feeds his bride, Carolyn, these as they sit in a gazebo right after their wedding. She tells him she'll eat all the strawberries he wants to give her and they share a passionate kiss.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_51041191	type	Umbrella of Togetherness
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_51041191	comment	Umbrella of Togetherness: A recurring flashback/dream of David's is of himself catching up to his late wife, Laura, in the rain and squeezing under her umbrella with her while they both laugh.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The show, while adding original elements and removing some themes from the comics, still followed the core idea of the comic (ex. "scientist transforms into a raging beast") and helped introduce many people to the character. Most of the film adaptations of the character took cues from the TV Show (including the 2008 reboot).
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Besides McGee himself, other episodes show his fellow journalists in less-than-flattering lights. Emerson Fletcher in "Interview with the Hulk" is a complex example. He was a respected science reporter until his daughter's tragic death, at which point his career fell apart. He steals a tip from McGee about the Hulk in the hope that landing the story will help him regain his professional standing, and uses deception to get close to David to get him to tell his story. But after listening to David for a while, he starts to remember the integrity and decency he used to have, and by the time McGee catches up, he has decided to help David escape.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: David is a 2-in-1 spanner: he tends to accidentally stumble into some illegal activity going on. When the villains running the schemes use violent methods to get rid of David, he transforms into the Hulk, who's an even bigger spanner, and ruins the schemes for good.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Some of the changes from the comic resulted from different needs in the televised medium. The Hulk's inability to speak came because even consultant and co-creator Stan Lee agreed that Hulk Speak sounds silly spoken out loud. Fan lore suggested that Lou Ferrigno's hearing impairment was a factor, but the decision predated his casting and Ferrigno has handled spoken dialogue in many other roles. The Hulk's origin was changed from a nuclear test gone wrong to a lab accident due to the budget limitations of a TV show shooting in 1978. The Hulk is pursued by a lone investigative reporter (Jack McGee) instead of a U.S. Army general (Thunderbolt Ross) with a considerable military force behind him. David stands more of a chance of continuously evading the former than the latter (not to mention that the former is a lot cheaper for a weekly TV series). According to Stan Lee, Thor was changed from a god to a Norse warrior because the executives thought audiences wouldn't be able to accept a god that wasn't the Abrahamic God, or some such thing. Stan himself pointed out in his graphic novel autobiography that this issue had never come up in the twenty-eight years between Thor's debut and his appearance in The Incredible Hulk Returns.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: The ending piece, literally entitled "The Lonely Man."
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_697e3ecb	type	Involuntary Shapeshifting
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_697e3ecb	comment	Involuntary Shapeshifting: Of the Hulking Out variety, but of course!
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Renee in "Haunted," whose twin sister drowned when they were children; she pretends to be the dead sister because everyone liked her more. However, the mental trauma she sustained causes it to become an Evil Split Personality, making for one of the most shocking plot twists in the series when the facade is revealed.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Irene, the female auto mechanic in "Ricky."
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: Attempted but averted when a KISS-like heavy metal singer (played by Mackenzie Phillips) plans to electrocute herself and make it look like an accident during a concert in order to teach her fans a lesson about...something or other. But when she sees David hulk out and the fans still scream for more, she realizes that her death would make no difference to them.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: As ever, the Hulk represents Wrath.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: In "Of Guilt, Models and Murder," David comes out of a Hulk episode next to a dead body, and subsequently hears several different accounts of how the woman was killed.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: The show opens with the narration seen in the page quote on top.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: David gives a well-intentioned one to Rich Bitch Diane in "Equinox." He was hired to sort through her family's library, but when he wants to leave her private island (McGee's getting close), she won't let him and insists that he stick around for the masquerade party she's throwing. When someone at the party tries to kill her, she suspects him, but he tells her that she needs to look at how she treats people and realize that he's not the only one with a motive to harm her. After a little introspection she realizes he's right and helps him get away from McGee.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: While most of the mooks that the Hulk deals usually do not know that David Banner and the Hulk are one and the same, there are a few instances, where after it is pretty clear that this rampaging green monster could easily defeat them, these mooks still attack the Hulk. A particularly good example is during the two-parter "Married", where one guy repeatedly throws several large plastic bottles at the Hulk as he is leaving. It does not end well, for the guy or for his entire house.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_812dd60	type	Costume Evolution
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_812dd60	comment	Costume Evolution: Though subtle, there are visible differences in the Hulk's look over the course of the series. For example, in the two pilot movies, his hair is noticeably longer, his eyebrows protrude out more, and his skin is a slightly darker shade of green (the latter of which is most noticeable in bright outdoor scenes due to the sunlight).
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_83c9369b	type	Simple Score of Sadness
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_83c9369b	comment	Simple Score of Sadness: The closing theme, "The Lonely Man," is a slow, haunting piano tune.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_853a0e84	type	Transformation Discretion Shot
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_853a0e84	comment	Transformation Discretion Shot: The original pilot movie had an impressive and realistic transformation sequence. The series had a smaller budget (which was reduced even more over time), so instead of the full transformation they would simply use Banner's eyes turning white and then a few brief shots of his clothes ripping as he transformed. To cut time spent filming and save even more money, Banner would often get pushed out of the picture, the transformation music would play, and then a fully-transformed Hulk would reenter the frame.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_88fa3225	type	Partial Transformation
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_88fa3225	comment	Partial Transformation: In "Prometheus," where Dr. Banner gets stuck halfway between himself and the Hulk, thanks to being too close to a meteor emitting gamma radiation.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_8e6a882b	type	Prison Episode
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_8e6a882b	comment	Prison Episode: "The Slam," David is arrested for stealing an apple and sent without trial to a corrupt prison.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Many of the people who look back on the show today are quick to point out, favorably, that the show was basically Kung Fu (1972) with superpowers! Also, a distinct influence from The Fugitive is obvious. Coincidence or not, two episodes ("Another Path" and "The Disciple") feature Asian characters and martial arts. Li Sung, who appears in these episodes, is an old and blind awesome martial artist, like Master Po from Kung Fu.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_95d5fa0e	type	Area 51
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_95d5fa0e	comment	Area 51: A secret military installation that investigates possible alien landings is featured in the "Prometheus" two-parter. The radiation from a crashed meteor causes David to be stuck mid-transformation. Thinking him to be an alien creature, the authorities there capture him for study and experimentation.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9adeadc	type	Bandaged Face
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9adeadc	comment	Bandaged Face: In "Mystery Man," David and Jack McGee are stranded in the woods together, but because David is suffering both amnesia and a badly burned (and bandaged) face, neither of them recognizes the other.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9aef4f64	type	Propping Up Their Patsy
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9aef4f64	comment	Propping Up Their Patsy: In "Of Guilt, Models and Murder", the Hulk is suspected of murdering a woman. As David Banner doesn't retain the memories of when he's the Hulk, he fears the suspicions can be true. However, Sheila Cantrell (a friend of the victim) tells David that the victim was dead when the Hulk arrived and the creature was saddened for arriving too late to save her. It turns out that Cantrell was the murderer.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The Season 3 episode "Proof Positive" is centered entirely around Jack McGee. David himself only appears briefly in the episode and is only seen from the back before turning into the Hulk, where he is played by a stunt actor instead of Bill Bixby, making it the only episode of the series Bixby doesn't appear in.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: The Hulk was originally created by exposure to too much gamma radiation, and further exposure can affect the transformation, as seen in "Prometheus."
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9d7eccbf	type	Trope Telegraphing
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9d7eccbf	comment	Trope Telegraphing: Not so often as Once an Episode, but if there's any water around whenever David hulks out, the baddie is gonna get wet.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9ddf598a	type	Mundane Object Amazement
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9ddf598a	comment	Mundane Object Amazement: Happens to Hulk sometimes, due to his primitive mind. For example, in "Ricky," he is amused with... soda cans as he watches the title character teach him how to open one.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The Hulk has a simple four-note theme that is mixed into whatever background music is playing while the Hulk is on his rampage. David's leitmotif is variations on "The Lonely Man" theme, including a disco version. The main title theme alternates between the two (starting at 0:16, with the Hulk's leitmotif getting louder and louder each time) before segueing back into Banner's theme, but the final notes are Hulk's theme. In "The First," Frye's Creature has his own five-note leitmotif.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_a9f392fd	type	Pilot Movie
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_a9f392fd	comment	Pilot Movie: Two of them. The unnamed "Pilot" is the actual origin story, detailing how David gets afflicted with his condition, and why he has to go on the run; "Death in the Family" is a two-hour adventure that starts the series proper.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The usual reaction by the Mooks in each episode when they are beating up on Banner and suddenly a giant green monster appears with a tremendous roar.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ad902899	type	Constructive Body Disposal
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ad902899	comment	Constructive Body Disposal: Attempted in "Broken Image". David Banner is mistaken for a look-alike gangster, and the goons of a rival gang try to murder him by burying him in concrete. Of course, this gets Banner excited enough to change into the Hulk and escape.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: David's parting words to characters of the week are often, "You be good to yourself."
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: "Death in the Family" has one. After David finds out the whole family history, the Damsel in Distress of the episode was to die with her father because her stepmother wanted the family fortune. The girl survives, but was told she couldn't walk due to the "accident," and thus overdoses on medication. After David and the girl manage to report to the authorities, the stepmother and her Mooks are presumably sent to prison for attempted murder.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Not David's, but on several episodes, David comes across a kid being smacked around or otherwise abused by his parents (it's mostly boys). David tries to help the kid, only for the Abusive Dad to come after David, and try to beat David around, too. Say hello to the other end of the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, Mr. Abuser!
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: In the first TV movie, Thor is amazed at the shower, having never seen one before.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b6f6226	type	Snobby Hobbies
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b6f6226	comment	Snobby Hobbies: In "The Snare," David meets millionaire Michael Sutton who invites him to his private island for a game of chess. Upon arriving at Sutton's mansion, which he inhabits by himself, David notices lots of mounted heads of taxidermied wild animals. Sutton serves David a meal of freshly caught rattlesnake, drugs David's wine during their chess game, then forces him to become his prey as he hunts him down with a rifle. After he'd caught one of every large animal he wanted, he got bored with hunting more of the same and decided he needed a human trophy to add to his collection. Seeing David transform into the Hulk only increases his enthusiasm.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b87ae3ba	type	Crash Course Landing
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_b87ae3ba	comment	Crash Course Landing: In "747", David has to land the eponymous aircraft, while hulking out. He somehow manages to slow the transformation's pace note The flight controllers may provide an involuntary help in that regard: they constantly urge him to remain in control, meaning control of the aircraft, but it's possible that David's mind interprets it as control of the transformation., because, while he needs extra strength to move the control stick, which is stuck, he also needs to retain intelligence enough to follow the flight controllers' instructions. After the landing, the transformation goes full course (and his intellect goes away), and a teenager that David befriended early on enters the cockpit, helping the Hulk to activate the brakes and stop the plane.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_bafac7bc	type	Sad Battle Music
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_bafac7bc	comment	Sad Battle Music: The uptempo version of "The Lonely Man" that plays in the opening. Though not used in a battle per se, it does display quite a bit of the destruction that David Banner causes in his Incredible Hulk state.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_bb99411d	type	It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_bb99411d	comment	It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: In "Babalao" â€” in fact, the first transformation of the episode happens right in the middle of the parade itself.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Averted by making the character David Bruce Banner. This was either because a) the name â€œBruceâ€� was considered effeminate or b) Kenneth Johnson hated alliterative names. However, Bruce is technically his middle name in the comics as well, so it could be interpreted as this iteration just preferring to ignore it.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c64656d1	type	Mirror Reveal
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c64656d1	comment	Mirror Reveal: In the original pilot movie, after his first transformation into the Hulk and back again, Dr. David Banner sees his reflection in the edge of a stream and notices something different about himself for a brief moment. Later recounting the event to a trusted friend, he says, "My eyes were white." Little did he know...
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Stop the Presses," the name of the publisher of McGee's newspaper, the National Register, is R. B. Steinhauer. One of the series' producers at the time was named Robert Bennett Steinhauer. American rapper and music producer David Banner (real name Lavell Crump) named himself after the show's iteration of the Hulk. According to the man himself, he chose the stage name due to relating closely to the character's situation - he grew up poor and often had to drift around due to sporadic homelessness, and was often told that he was a really nice person but had an incredibly short fuse and got extremely angry far too easily.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Used in most episodes to some degree, but one of the most infamous is in "Never Give a Trucker an Even Break." David's friend is locked in a nearby warehouse screaming for help, as she's surrounded by mobsters who want to beat her up and then kill her, so he tries to call the police at a nearby phone booth. First he calls the Operator, doesn't get an answer, and doesn't get his dime back (which isn't supposed to happen). Then he calls Directory Assistance. The DA operator is unable to return his dime or connect him directly to the police, and also annoys him with incessant questions. She finally gives him the number for one of the local police departments. He hangs up, not getting his dime back again, and calls the number he was just given, only for the operator to demand 25 cents, which means DA didn't even give him the number of a local police station, but one further away! At that point:
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c85c20f6	type	Super Hero Origin
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_c85c20f6	comment	Superhero Origin: The original pilot movie recounts the gamma radiation experiment that Banner did on himself which causes his transformations into the Hulk. He was unaware that the machine he used was labeled incorrectly, so he gave himself a substantially higher dose than he intended. A shot of him using the machine is included in the series' weekly opening sequence, and the narration refers to the accident as well.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_cde840c1	type	Pro Wrestling Is Real
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_cde840c1	comment	Pro Wrestling Is Real: In "Half-Nelson," David has a job as a trainer/medic at a pro wrestling arena. The wrestlers get along with each other well enough, but inside the ring it's all real.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: In "My Favorite Magician," David assists an elderly magician. As part of a trick, he is handcuffed in a glass box full of water placed behind a screen. The handcuffs' key is supposed to be in the box's false bottom, but the magician forgot to place it there. Not finding the key and unable to hold his breath for much longer, David hulks out, breaking out of the box and bringing the screen down. The audience feels baffled for a moment, then applauds. A short while later, a middle-aged couple finds the Hulk outside the theater... and compliments his performance. When he reacts awkwardly to the camera's flash (yes, they wanted pictures of him), they simply regard it as "show folk" being eccentric. He is applauded after the second hulkout of "King of the Beach." Justified in that he appears on the stage of the titular bodybuilding contest, an event in which the audience expects to see muscular men. It also happens that he has the same muscular build of one of the contestants and the contest's winner, Carl Molino, also played by Lou Ferrigno.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Jack McGee is only after The Hulk because he believes Hulk is responsible for the deaths of David and Elaina Marks. In the "Mystery Man" two-parter however, when he finds out where The Hulk actually comes from, he wants to help the man who becomes the Hulk, unaware that he was talking to David.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d02585dd	type	Ending Theme
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d02585dd	comment	Ending Theme / Solemn Ending Theme: "The Lonely Man," perhaps the only one that is more famous than the opening theme.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d346d7e8	type	Mail-Order Bride
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d346d7e8	comment	Mail-Order Bride: A Chinese mail-order bride shows up for David in "East Winds," much to his bewilderment. She's actually been sent to root around his apartment for a fortune in gold that is hidden there.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: The Hulk's feats of strength here are mostly limited to stuff like bending iron bars, throwing heavy boxes and wrestling with gorillas. The comic version certainly wouldn't have perished from the fall he endures in "Death of the Incredible Hulk".
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d725222d	type	Foul First Drink
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d725222d	comment	Foul First Drink: In Death in the Family, the Hulk encounters a hobo at a campfire, eating discarded fried chicken. When the hobo sits still, too flummoxed to do anything, the Hulk concludes the hobo is no threat and sits opposite him at the campfire. The hobo offers Hulk a piece of chicken, which he sniffs warily, then eats it "bones 'n' all." Then the hobo offers the Hulk some of his whiskey, which he also sniffs, then begins to drink. Stunned by the alcohol, Hulk spits the stuff into the campfire, which makes it flare up. This sends the Hulk roaring away from the site.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When watching "Terror in Times Square," it's obvious who were the paid actors hired to react, and who were the random people in Times Square watching Lou Ferrigno's performance.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ded30b33	type	Triage Tyrant
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ded30b33	comment	Triage Tyrant: David's friend-of-the-episode, a badass biker, gets a broken arm. David takes him to a doctor's office, where they end up sitting for hours. David finally calls the doctor on this; the doctor says that he can tell by looking that the biker is only there to get some prescription drugs and he refuses to participate in such activities.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_df04109a	type	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_df04109a	comment	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Jack McGee plays with this during an episode wherein he infiltrates a secret government base that has captured the Hulk and is examining him, thinking he's an extraterrestrial life form. When caught, the people running the installation are desperate to keep the place a secret and threaten to have him imprisoned for trespassing. Jack tells them to go right ahead and send him to prison, saying a lot of good books have been written in prison. They get the point and back off, since they can't shut him up by sending him to prison, where he'll do exactly what they are trying to prevent.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e0443d9a	type	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e0443d9a	comment	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger: "Broken Image" has David Banner cross paths with a criminal who looks exactly like him (Bill Bixby with a mustache and a suit). Despite trying to frame Banner, the criminal is caught by police and attempts to weasel out of it by saying, "There's a guy who looks exactly like me." The police dismiss the idea as inane.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e15a23b4	type	Disposable Superhero Maker
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e15a23b4	comment	Disposable Superhero Maker: The machine in the pilot that emits gamma rays (and which is apparently mis-labeled so David gives himself a much higher dosage than intended). It's destroyed when the entire lab goes up in an explosion. There's another machine in "The First" that does something similar, and it gets destroyed in the two Hulks' fight.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em/Screw This, I'm Outta Here: While most of the villains, mooks, or antagonists fail to grasp this concept until it's too late and try for the latter, only to fail, the episode featuring a rodeo has the Hulk smash into the arena (after David is thrown into a bull-pen and left to be trampled), and face off against a berserk multi-ton bull. After the Hulk grabs the bull by the horns and wrestles him to the ground, the bull goes to the other side of the arena and tries to smash his way out, with the rodeo commentators going, "He's had enough, smart animal!"
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Julie in "Death in the Family;" for two-thirds of this two-hour episode, she's about as much use to David as a bag full of sand. Mainly because she's been thoroughly convinced through psychological torment that she's paraplegic and can't fend for herself because of it. She gets better shortly before the end, and she even makes sure the Hulk won't get caught. Julie shows she's tougher than she thinks when Michael, the old hermit helping them out, is bitten by a rattlesnake. She asks the Hulk to help, then quickly realizes the Hulk doesn't have most of David's memories. She then all but shoves the Hulk aside and tends to Michael's wound herself. Her actress, Laurie Prange, appears again as the blind girl Katie in "Prometheus," where she plays a similar role - at least, until she has to act as the Demi-Hulk's brain while he acts as her eyes and hands.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: While incarcerated by corrupt officers for vagrancy in "The Slam," David is addressed only by his prisoner number, 1124.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: Subverted with Carl Rivers in "Long Run Home," who, though he was previously in a gang and has a criminal past, is generally a decent guy.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: In The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, Matt Murdock explains to David that he was inspired to become Daredevil after hearing Officer Tendelli bemoan to the press the corruption inherent in the city's law enforcement. He says he needs good people to change things, including someone who can do the kinds of things he can't. Matt decides to become a masked vigilante and, once trained and costumed, approaches Tendelli about working together. Tendelli doesn't know his secret identity, but he does have a way to contact him and provide any useful information.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: In Trial of the Incredible Hulk, Matt Murdock's office mates are seen but have no lines and remain unnamed. Marvel fans, however, know that they are Foggy Nelson and Karen Page. Presumably, they would have been properly introduced had the intended Daredevil spinoff series been greenlighted.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: In the Made-for-TV Movie The Incredible Hulk Returns The Mighty Thor appears; but instead of Don Blake turning into Thor, Blake and Thor are separate characters. Blake calls upon Odin while holding Thor's warhammer and Thor magically appears. Presumably in the spinoff series that never happened, one's a doctor, one's a Norse warrior.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f40c8e72	type	Ill-Fated Flowerbed
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f40c8e72	comment	Ill-Fated Flowerbed: In "A Child in Need," Banner is working as a middle school groundskeeper. As he plants flowers at the end of one school day, the final bell rings and scores of kids race from the building, trampling the flowers and ruining all his hard work. As the last of them pass by, he hollers, "You missed one!"
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: One episode has a girl effectively steal her dead twin sister's identity.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: "David Banner is believed to be dead." Obviously Elaina Marks' body is found, hence her burial. But no human remains can be found that could be connected to David. Even burned bodies leave behind something. The nature of the lab explosion was not anywhere enough to completely incinerate a body without a trace. Strange that no one has ever postulated searching for David as a suspect.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f65c014c	type	Conveniently Interrupted Document
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: In "The First," David finds a multi-volume diary detailing the process by which a scientist actually turned someone else into a Hulk-like creature, and cured the condition... but the volume with the actual process is missing. The scientist's groundskeeper - who was the person who had been turned into the Creature - had hidden it.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: The opening narration tells viewers that Dr. Banner is letting the world believe he is dead until he finds a cure for his condition.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_f9f2c33	comment	In "My Favorite Magician," David assists an elderly magician. As part of a trick, he is handcuffed in a glass box full of water placed behind a screen. The handcuffs' key is supposed to be in the box's false bottom, but the magician forgot to place it there. Not finding the key and unable to hold his breath for much longer, David hulks out, breaking out of the box and bringing the screen down. The audience feels baffled for a moment, then applauds. A short while later, a middle-aged couple finds the Hulk outside the theater... and compliments his performance. When he reacts awkwardly to the camera's flash (yes, they wanted pictures of him), they simply regard it as "show folk" being eccentric.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: In 2018, Immortal Hulk introduced a very different version of Jack McGee: a black woman named Jacqueline "Jackie" McGee. Unlike Jack, however, she knows who she's looking for, and she wants to find Banner so she can also gain the power of the Hulk.
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_fcd9f998	type	Burying a Substitute
The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_fcd9f998	comment	Burying a Substitute: Implied in the pilot, when we see David Banner's already filled in gravesite as they bury his colleague/love interest. After everyone leaves, David comes out of hiding and spends some time contemplating his gravestone. (This last part is seen during the opening, as well.)
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) / int_ffa0483f	comment	Cut Short: Season 5 was only a few episodes long. This also goes for the ending of the show itself, as another movie was planned but ultimately cancelled, though this merely served to alter the final outcome of Banner's fate.
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