GI Joe

Me and my brother would set up an interview situation, we'd play with our GI Joe's, set them on fire, but we never imagined that we would have a career in it.

He says there is photo evidence of his mother wearing a habit, possibly holding a doll of a nun to which Meyers replied, “I have a picture of my dad holding a GI Joe, but I don’t think he was in the army.”

He worked on such songs as “When Barbie Married GI Joe” and “Pizza Man — He Delivers” for the Brave New Workshop, a Minneapolis comedy troupe still in existence.

Trackzy’s plan mimics the strategy of building powerhouse media franchises from toy lines like GI Joe and Transformers.

And each brought a professional stereotype to the date: If he was a Midwestern GI Joe, she was a high-powered, tough-as-nails New York lawyer: “That’s the image I had in mind before I met her.”