When they get back to Earth, Jimmy gets fed up with Carl's abuse and is about to tell Elke the truth, but gets restrained by the idiotic Sheen before he can do anything.Įlke tells Carl that she's been lying this whole time she's a farm girl, loves llamas, and came to American to buy llama feed from her cousin. Carl and Elke are about to be hit by a meteor until Jimmy and Sheen save them. So they both get into Jimmy's second rocket and they go after them then in space. While Jimmy and Sheen are walking away, they see Carl and Elke in Jimmy's rocket and realize they could get themselves killed in space. Elke says she should go, but Carl takes her for a ride in Jimmy's rocket. Then, Carl and Jimmy get into a fight and Jimmy and Sheen leave. Then at Jimmy's lab, Elke asks Carl to bring back her favorite poet, but Carl brings back Attila the Hun, then sends him back with nut brownies.
When they get in the Hover Car, Carl has no idea how to start it, nearly gets everybody killed and blames it on Jimmy. When Elke arrives, Jimmy tries to be polite, but Carl rudely tells him to get her bags. Desperate to keep her impressed, Carl begs Jimmy and Sheen to act in their new roles for the duration of Elke’s visit. She might find out that he was lying and dump him, so he has Jimmy pose as his lowly assistant and Sheen is a former monkey changed in a lab experiment – and it’s made an impression on Elke.
He mentioned Elke is coming to Retroville on a way to a tennis tournament and to meet him, and Carl is in a panic.
While walking on the street, Jimmy says that Carl is a nerd and what she sees in him, so he shows him and Sheen pictures that were actually pictures of Jimmy.Īt the Candy Bar, Carl says that he pretended he was a genius and had a lab so Elke would like him, basically saying he was Jimmy. Carl then comes over and says he's got a girlfriend: his Swedish pen pal, Elke Elkberg and she is coming to Retroville. BuzzFeed is breaking real news-yet there’s a cat video next to a political scoop.The episode opens up with a big hairy spider with Jimmy looking through it in the park with Sheen. I think that is what all of these media companies are still figuring out how to do. “It’s a really interesting time in media,” he says. One challenge of growing a media property today, he notes, is keeping pace with the way the industry is evolving. “It was interesting for me to know what not to do.” Today, he adds, the site does not run sponsored posts and instead offers advertisers custom ad units. “We pulled the post and turned off comments,” he says. I was like, `We’ll try it.’” Although the article was clearly marked as being written by the advertiser, Geller says, “the comments on it were the worst I’ve ever seen.” It was a whole bunch of revenue and a great brand. That meant learning from mistakes, like accepting a sponsored post his readers didn’t like. Its parent, PMC, was in the top 100 sites listed by comScore for December, with nearly 33 million unique visitors for the month.ĭoing everything himself helped him learn what needed to understand to grow the business. (comScore counted 3.9 million unique visitors for the same month the site's Google Analytics report for December-often a slow month for news sites-shows 8 million users, down from a 2014 high of 10.4 million in September). Today, the site attracts visitors with provocative posts like “Everything that’s wrong with Tesla and why they aren’t the car savior.” counted 2.8 million unique visitors in December, and Alexa says the site ranks 693 in the U.S.
“It’s a little odd if there’s a 27-year-old with a beard you’re calling Boy Genius,” says Geller. He now serves as president and general manager of BGR Media, Inc., and editor-in-chief of the site, which was rebranded as BGR. Geller said details of the deal- reportedly a multimillion one-are confidential but that there is a partnership aspect. Media company PMC-which also operates WWD, Variety, and Deadline-acquired Boy Genius Report in 2010, and he revealed his identity.