This morning's exclusive announcement on The View of the impending nuptials of Northstar and Kyle Jinadu in the pages of Astonishing X-Men probably didn't go quite like Marvel envisioned, as a giggling Joy Behar could hardly wait for the applause to subside so she could ask, "Do you think Batman and Robin could come out of the closet now?" And Whoopi Goldberg's more heartfelt observations about the diversity represented on the cover of Astonishing X-Men #51 were quickly forgotten so they could move on to the next item about an unfortunate typo on the sign for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

But as awkward (and, some would suggest, over-blown) as that promotional rollout for this wedding may have been, Robot 6 contributor Graeme McMillan reminds us that it could be worse by taking us back in time to 1987 and "the tongue-in-cheek ceremony" at Shea Stadium for Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson -- officiated by Stan Lee, and attended by 50,000 baseball fans. Below, you can watch Entertainment Tonight's coverage of the publicity stunt, as well as the bizarre and excruciatingly long preview on Good Morning America in which the interviewer asks "Spider-Man" and "Mary Jane" whether they would have "children that were like, you know, little spider-babies or would they be normal, human babies." You can also check out the much shorter segment on The View.