George Takei/Awesome


 * As a teenager he joined a group of mostly Mexican-American workers going out to harvest that year's strawberry crop. Since Takei spoke fluent Spanish, many people mistook him for "a suntanned, Spanish-speaking non-Japanese of some kind." Consequently, he overheard the Japanese-American paymasters in charge of the project talking about how they were planning to shortchange the Mexican laborers. He proceeded to bust out his fluent Japanese, told them off, and threatened to go to the authorities if they didn't pay the workers fairly. It worked, and the paymasters caved. To a teenager.
 * When Arkansas School Board member Clint McCance encouraged gay teens to kill themselves, Takei went on YouTube and said: "Mr. McCance, you are a douchebag." He then went on to predict that sooner or later McCance would be caught in a compromising position with a young man from South America.
 * Lending his name to the backlash against Tennessee's infamous "Don't Say Gay" Bill. Also a Crowning Moment of Funny. It's OK to be Takei, kids!