Masters of the Universe, or, He/Him-Man

There’s a particular clip from the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon that has been used a lot in memes. It’s one where Skeletor escapes into a mirror, and then he reaches his muscular arm back through and smashes the mirror behind himself. I was watching the new Masters of the Universe movie waiting for them to reference this, since I could not think of a single meme or pop cultural reference about He-Man from the past 43 years since the show was created that the movie doesn’t reference. It plays all the hits, repeatedly. Didja ever notice how all the characters were weirdly hyper-muscular and sexualized for a cartoon aimed at children? And how it was all kinda gay? And how all the characters had really silly names, like Fisto and Ram-Man? And how characters would stand in a circle and lean back and belly-laugh at the dumbest non-jokes? And you know that there was an entire scene set to the song “What’s Up?” The people sitting behind me and laughing were delighted that…