You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Neon Genesis Evangelion When...

Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:27 pm

You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Neon Genesis Evangelion When...

... You lie in an empty bath tub mumbling about your "synch ratio zero..."
...You insist to your friend who works at the Zoo on naming the newborn penguin Pen-Pen.
...You decipher the Sephiroth Scale of the Ten Divine Names and read over it for fun.
...Every time you see a dirty room, you think of Misato.
...You meet a guy in reality named Shinji, and can not help but wonder if he and his father hate each other.
...You were the only one of your friends who didn't think the Rei figurine with the detachable head was creepy.
...You are disappointed when the school guidance counselor says your not cut out for NERV employment.
...You sit in your chair with nothing to do and you say "I never thought that doing nothing could be this exhausting"
...To ask for an impossible favor you offer a steak dinner.
...You know the Names of all the NERV techs.
...You start acting like you favorite Eva character.
...You get a Renault Alpine and try to park like Misato...and succeed.
...You say, "It's hot" and your friend replies, "Yes."
...You start to bathe more frequently because it cleans the mind and soul.
...Half a maple leaf with the words "God's in his heaven, All's Right with the World" appear
in your dreams.
...Your computer opens with Thesis of a Cruel Angel and closes with "Fly Me to the Moon"
...When you wake up in a hospital, the first thing you think of is a giant eye.
...You get fired from your job as a street painter when you start painting the streets with signs to warn motorists there is an EVA plug ahead.
...You see a window overlooking a large room and you avoid it because you're afraid that Unit 00 will go berserk and try to smash it.
...You blame passengers for creating "thought noise" when your car won't start.
...You get in your friend's new Volkswagen and you begin thinking "bratwurst, strudel..." and other German words so you don't mess up their synchronization.
...In an awkward situation, you say nothing and stand perfectly still for an entire minute.
...When asked to point Tokyo out on a map, you ask "1, 2, or 3?"
...You wish you could replace a V8 engine with an S2 engine.
...You start seeing lines, zigzags, and other thickly drawn shapes in black on a white background in your dreams.
...You're pissed that your city doesn't have buildings that rise up out of the ground like Tokyo-3 does.
...You go to driver training, and when the instructor asks the class to explain why it's unsafe to pick up hitchhikers, you scream, "You can't allow unauthorized personnel into the entry plug!"
...You take a psychology course just so you can better understand the mental conditions of all the characters of Evangelion.
...You sign everyone's yearbook " Gods in his heaven all's right with the world"
...You actually know that Robert Browning wrote that.
...When a girl complains she's on her period and you say "So? That shouldn't affect your synch ratio."
...When in a sticky situation you say " I mustn't run away ... I mustn't run away" over and over.
...You convert your basement into an underground shelter just in case an Angel attacks.
...You take offense when your beloved calls you angel.
...You buy a Frank Sinatra CD just so you have another version of "Fly Me To The Moon".
...You do your final paper in English class on Eva.
...You do your psychology thesis on the psychological themes in Evangelion.
...You realize that for every character in Evangelion you have a friend similar to him/her.
...You find it kind of funny that this page is on Angelfire.
...You make a club called Seele.
...You start using NGE characters/situations anytime you are asked to make comparisons in a Literature class.
...You tell your (Female) classmates that they would make great mothers.
...You never get tired of visiting pages like this.
...When angels don't seem heavenly anymore.
...You believe that your AT Field will protect you from anything.
...Your emotional outbursts include the words "antabaka", "bakat nanikateneyo" and "kirai!" without you even noticing.
...You understand exactly what is happening at any given point in the series. Even during the psycho-babble!
...You tell your unenlightened friends about Evangelion all the time, even though they have no idea what your talking about.
...You refer to your basement/wine cellar as terminal dogma
...Volcanoes erupt, and you tell your friends that an angel has awoke inside the magma.
...You think its normal to have dreams about Eva characters, especially blue haired, red eyed ones.
...You have a dream about piloting you own Evangelion.
...You go into a jewelry store and get upset because You can't find a cross like Misato's.
...You try to mix your own LCL in Chemistry Class.
...After reading a list like this you realize that more than half of them describe you.
..........and you're damn proud of it.
...You are in withdrawal because you do not have access to new NGE material.
...You check this webpage to see what symptoms you haven't come down with yet.
...You start to fantasize about Asuka coming into your room, falling asleep beside you.
...You can listen to 'Fly me to the Moon' for, oh, say a billion times and not get sick of it.(Of course it helps when there's 20 different versions of the song.)
...You start to clasp your hands together and rest your head on them like how Gendo does it.
...You have trouble synchronizing with your car.
...Having a penguin as a pet doesn't seem that weird to you anymore.
...You think "God's in his heaven. All's right with the world." makes sense.
...You actually understand what I'm talking about.
...You would do absolutely anything for that Nerv jacket.
...You do Misato's "oookay?? Oooookay." thing.
...You're lying in your bed and you can't help but say "Another unfamiliar ceiling"
...Your teacher assigns you a research paper on your favorite city. You turn in a full report on
Tokyo-3.
...This list is an accurate reflection of your life.
...You go scuba diving in a swimming pool.
...Nothing on this list seems that unusual to you.
...You learn German just so you can understand what Asuka is saying.
...You see the sun breaking through a batch of storm clouds and you avoid it at all costs so the Angel can't unravel your mind.
...Your electric razor comes unplugged and you wonder why it stops because the internal battery should have 5 min. of power.
...You go to the UN to apply for a position in Nerv.
...You think you're best friend is an Angel because he acts like Kaoru.
...You have fantasies about Rei, Asuka, Misato, Ritsuko, Maya, Mari, or all of the above.
...You start picking out the cast to the live-action "Neon Genesis Evangelion" series.
...The thought of Church frightens you simply because they talk about Angels.
...You start asking pet shops what their prices are on penguins.
...You wonder where you'll be and what you'll be doing in the year 2015.
...You refer to your room as Central Dogma.
...You want to trade places with Shinji.
...You get a fake Nerv ID card.
...'Thesis of a Cruel Angel' is your song of the day, and it's playing through your head in both English and Japanese.
...You start muttering nonsensical Eva-related things in a social situation.
...Your computer software has a bug in it, so you initiate the self-destruct sequence on your computer so that the two can "coexist."
...You hop into a friends car and fear that it might reject you.
...After a trip to Japan, you're crushed because you never found Tokyo 3.
...You don't know who was the famous general in the war of 1812, but you know all the details of Eva 04, which wasn't even completed.
...You still get tense wondering what will happen next, even though you have seen the episode six dozen times.
...You seen every episode at least five hundred times, and it still hasn't worn thin on you.
...It never dawns on you that others don't care about Evangelion.
...You have a favorite version of "Fly Me To The Moon."
...You walk out of the room in the middle of a conversation without saying a word.
...Your head hurts.
...You own all 26 episodes plus the director's cuts.
...You think it's a good idea to watch the entire series in one sitting.
...You believe that Angels are evil.
...You've read the Dead Sea Scrolls just because of Eva.
...You understand what Shinji is going through.
...You think of Eva whenever you hear Handel's Messiah.
....When ever your schools alarms go off you think an angels attacking.
...You think that "mankind has no time left."
...When you see a friend in hospital, you bring them a fresh plug suit, a meal and begin briefing them on the Operation Yashima timetables.
...When you are asked what its like driving another persons car, you say "It smells like _______ insert owners name here."
...Someone starts crying and you say " I'm very sorry, but I don't know what I should do or feel at a time like this."
...You begin to feel uncomfortable around large groups of noisy people.
...You catch yourself wondering why you pilot an EVA.
...Your Spell checker now knows all the Eva vocabulary, because that's all you ever write about.
...You wish that you could have been part of the fan-dubs for Eva.
... During a sudden blackout, you think that the your computer's voltage regulator will provide reserve power for only 5 mins. flat.
... You believe that unfriendly people have a strong AT Field.
... You think that you will be replaced by a clone if you die.
... You start referring to everyone with "baka." (Sadly this is another common symptom.)
... You know what "SEELE" means.
...You go to Egypt and every time you look at the pyramids, you see NERV!
...You look at happy faces, and you see Sachiel.
...The city's power goes out and you think Ramiel has arrived.
...Every time you pick up a pair of chopsticks, you can help but think of the Longinuss Spear before you separate them.
...You suggest your company change their elevators from having digital floor counters, to little sliding panels that click.
...You buy three computers, network them and call them Casper, Melchior and Balthasar.
...You think your car "smells a lot like blood"
...You notice the significance of the shape of the explosions that Sachiel makes.
...You suddenly find yourself writing nothing but NGE fan-fiction, many of which star you as a pilot with your own Eva, or stories biased on it (With so much in common you can't tell the difference between the two.)
...When your immediate reaction to a confrontation is to apologize.
...You demand to have your room moved to the basement and an escalator installed so you too can have a Central Dogma (don't forget the UFO catcher doll of Lilith to tack on the wall!)
...You wonder why there are over 300 Star Trek figures, but no affordable Eva character figures.
...You search EVERYWHERE for the car that Misato has. (Ito a Renault Alpine, thanks to everyone who sent me this info.)
...You know more about Shinji then you do your own brother.
...You talk about, dream about or write about NGE daily.
...You mutter nonsensical German in annoyance. "dummkopf."
...You get worried/excited whenever you get called to the principal's office because you're afraid they want to talk to you about piloting an Evangelion.
...You stop shaving in honor of Kaji.
...You wont go swimming at the beach because your afraid an Angel is in the water.
...You think that an EVA pilots headset should be the latest fashion item