Those moments when the stars of geekdom all seem to align in harmonious conjunction, when the elements add up to a pure geek gestalt that makes your skin tingle, your smile stretch to the back of your head, and you find yourself helplessly jumping up and down in your seat?

I call that a geek bomb.

Personal examples?

• In Pulp Fiction, when Butch picks up the baseball bat, then picks up the chainsaw, and then sees the purest of pure geek weapons — HOLY HELL, IT’S A FREAKING SAMURAI SWORD — hanging on the wall? Geek bomb.
• In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Nazis drive off with the Ark of the Covenant, and then Indy appears [insert Raiders theme here] chasing after them ON A FREAKING HORSE? Geek bomb. (Echoed later on by an equally powerful geek bomb when he appears on the deck of the submarine. Hoo-whee.)
• In Superman Returns, when Superman lifts THE ENTIRE FREAKING KRYPTO-CONTINENT into space, finally showing on screen the incredibly massive moving-planets-if-he-so-chooses strength that comic book fans know Superman has but have never gotten to see? Geek bomb.

I could go on in this vein FOR DAYS… but I do have a point.

Last night’s episode of Heroes.

Seen it?

If not, I will keep this spoiler-free.

Suffice it to say… I got ONE MOTHER OF A GEEK BOMB last night.

If you saw it, you probably know what I’m taking about.

My glee reservoirs? They are full.

…

Got your own personal geek bombs? Then delurk, my pollen-dusted readers… delurk!

On Clerks II:

“It’s got everything you could want in a movie — comedy… bestiality… a dance sequence!”

And then — I’m not making this up — she wiped away a tear.

Good movie.

Stopping by Blockbuster to pick up a couple of movies. Movies in hand, I get in line to pay. A cashier calls me up to the register and off we go:

CASHIER: And did you find everything you were looking for today?

ME: Yup.

CASHIER: [Opening the DVD cases] So we have “Brick” and the movie that we are not allowed to say the title of.

ME: Yup… What?

CASHIER: We aren’t allowed to say the name of that movie.

ME: What?

SECOND CASHIER: Yup. Had to take down the poster and everything.

ME: You’re not allowed to say “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story”?

FIRST CASHIER: Nope.

ME: Ahem… “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story”.

[Anticipatory pause.]

FIRST CASHIER: Oh, YOU can shout it to the rooftops. We just can’t. Had a customer complain.

ME: That’s stupid.

SECOND CASHIER: Yup.

ME: Really stupid.

FIRST CASHIER: Yup.

ME: Wow.

[Pay for movies. Walk to exit. Pause. Turn around and face the store.]

ME: Tristram Shandy. [Pause.] A COCK and BULL Story.

[Pause. World does not end. Exit.]