Destiny, thy name is Austin Powers in Goldmember

We've found it at last: the holy grail of movies. Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Whoa there, friend. I'm not saying that Goldmember is anything more than the worst movie I've seen in recent memory. Because it is, in fact, the worst movie I've seen in recent memory.

But it does have a Smashmouth song on the soundtrack...

...and it does, indeed, feature "the robot."

Long time Furdell.com readers know that, by scrolling down the page and looking to the left, you can find two movie lists. The first lists movies, always comedies and often starring Adam Sandler, in which a character does the robot -- that breakdancing technique that is the Hollywood equivalent of laff trak, because it tells you when to laugh without actually being funny.

The second list attempts to document the millions of films for which approximately $2.50 was shelled out to secure the rights to any given song by Smashmouth, especially "All Star."

We have tirelessly pursued that holy grail of movies that has a Smashmouth song AND robot dancing...until today. And thank god somebody else made it so we don't have to.

I'm going to assume that it took us four years to discover that Goldmember had robot dancing only because nobody watched Goldmember, until last night when I took one for the team. But I know there are more robot dance movies out there. Stay alert, faithful reader.

To find the robot scene in Goldmember, just go to the part right before the most racist scene.