You Know You Watch Too Much MCoG When...
You go to the Public Library and ask for a copy of Tao's encyclopedia
When you are cornered in a dark alley way you yell for Mendoza
to save you
You dress up as an MCoG character for Halloween
You dress up like MCoG characters when it's not Halloween
You cried when the Solaris was destroyed
You learned to speak French and/or Japanese just to be able
to understand their version of MCoG
You call you boyfriend/girlfriend Esteban, Tao, Mendoza/Zia
You day dream about the men of MCoG in speedos
You carry around a plastic sword claiming that it is Mendoza's
You cry for the High Priest's noble sacrifice
You climb up on walls or other high places then realize that
you are afraid of heights and become dizzy
You can sing the MCoG theme song backwards
When asked to choose a topic for debate, you say "Is Mendoza
good or bad"
You start a baby-sitting job in hopes that the children will
be Esteban, Tao and Zia
When your friends ask you what profession you prefer when looking
for someone to date you say "navigator"
You wake up with your hair looking like Esteban's and don't
consider it a bad hair day
Every time you here the word 'gold' you giggle
Your local anime supplier sees you walk through the door and
yells that"for the umpteenth time we don't have MCoG stuff"
You rename yourself and your friends after the MCoG cast
You drool when you see Mendoza without a shirt on
You dye and style your hair like your favorite MCoG characters
You make yourself a blue cape
You have covered your bedroom's walls with MCoG pictures
You blew your entire life savings buying MCoG on DVD and cels
from Japan
You have MCoG pictures all over your house
You send your pen pal info and pics of the MCoG
You've hit every MCoG site on the net at least once
You ask for directions to Xelia
You want to go to the Galapagos Islands on your next vacation
You carry several pictures of your favorite MCoG hunk/ or babe
in your wallet or purse
You recite random lines of dialogue in the original French
or in Japanese
At the department store, you go to the clothing section and
ask if they have any blue capes
You watch the TV special "Conquistadors" hoping they
will interview Pizarro
You make your own copy of Tao's encyclopedia
You think Gaspar is brilliant
You get into debates with other MCoG fans about which characters
are dead
You memorize all the words to the MCoG themes in French and
Japanese
You can explain in detail the entire legend of El Dorado and
the Seven Cities of Cibola
You start the cult of Mendoza
You make your own manuscripts
You name your pets after MCoG characters
You name your kids after MCoG characters
You get into fights with other MCoG fans over which one of
you Mendoza belongs to
You accuse stupid people of having a "Pedro and Sancho"
moment
You ask for a Medallion of the Sun for your birthday
You actually make a medallion in your high school jewelry class
When someone asks for directions you pull out a 16th century
map
You have read all the MCoG Fanfic there is
You have looked at all the MCoG Fanart there is
You know the names of everyone on the MCoG mailing lists
You have found Japanese MCoG sites
You have been to every French MCoG site
You name all your characters after the MCoG cast when playing
RPG
You legally change your name to one of the MCoG characters'
names
Your pin number, computer password, and phone password all
relate to MCoG
You name your car after an MCoG character or vehicle
Your MCoG tapes have been watched so many times they don't
work anymore
You create a website dedicated to MCoG
You have a life-sized cardboard cut out of a MCoG character
You talk to the cutout
You demand different language tracks be added to MCoG DVD releases
You petition for a new show devoted only to your favorite MCoG
character
You insist you play the character's love interest on the show
Your computer's desktop theme is MCoG.
Your parents/spouse know all the MCoG themes by heart
You actually think that Pedro and Sancho are quite funny
You look at your school notes and find you have only been drawing
MCoG fanart
The King's Fifth is your favorite book and you've never read
it
You write a fanfic that is more like a complete history of
MCoG because it contains every character, object, weapon, town, and item seen
in the series
You fit every description on this list
"Top 10 Ways You Know You've Been Watching Too Much MCoG"
- Matt (First posted on Goldlist on May 31, 2004)
10. You use the word "mysterious" at every opportunity
9. You have thought to yourself at least once in your life, "If only
I had a gold jar I couldn't open..."
8. You wish your car was shaped like a condor
7. You have a pet named Kokaptl
6. You have spent at least three hours researching the possibility
that the ancient Americans might actually have had solar power
technology
5. Last Halloween, you wore a gold mask and inhaled a lot of helium
4. Whenever you go swimming, you have an uncontrollable urge to
cover yourself with gold dust
3. You insist that your coworkers refer to inter-office memos
as "manuscripts"
2. You just cannot accept the fact that a circular coin won't slide
into a crescent-shaped medallion
1. You found any of these so-called jokes even remotely funny
You convince your friends to write a computer game called MCoG.
- Marc Thompson (June 5, 2004)
When it rains, you run outside because you're convinced you
can bring out the sun. - Nicolette (First posted on Goldlist on June 1, 2004)
You know you watch too much MCOG when you get hiccups and say
your sea-sick. - David Groenewegen (August 25, 2004)
If you're on a boat when the water gets choppy, and you yell,
"Take in the sails". - Gemini (October 3, 2004)
You try to make a piano reduction to the bacground music! -
Gemini (October 3, 2004)
When you have a picture of the medallions as a screen saver
on your mobile phone! :O) - Issam Nimri (December 6, 2004)
When you ask all your achaeology professors if they've discovered
the Mysterious Cities of Gold. - Katie (February 28, 2006)
When your life’s ambition is to visit Mayan Mexico and
Machu Picchu and your wallpaper is pictures of the place, even though you
can’t afford to go and you KNOW you will get altitude sickness, but it’s
OK because Mendoza will be with you… -Alison (March 7, 2006)
You think your gold locket looks like a medallion. -Alison
(March 7, 2006)
You are seriously contemplating studying for a pilots license
to fly over the Mexican Gulf, with the music playing on your MP3 player -Alison
(March 7, 2006)
On a trip to Barcelona you tried to persuade the guard to let
you go up the tower (the one in the first episode when Mendoza shows Esteban
he has the rest of the medallion, and then you sulk because it’s off
limits. -Alison (March 7, 2006)
You’ve written to the BBC to get it shown again. And again.
And again. -Alison (March 7, 2006)
Your Grandmother made you Zia’s dress for your 10 birthday
which was in Macdonalds. -Alison (March 7, 2006)
You know you watch to much MCOG when you base reality at that
time on the cartoon its self or think it actualy happenned. -jacques-alexandre
(June 11, 2006)