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Fer chrissakes, can you imagine a world where really smart people were given parades, free sports cars, millions of dollars and celebrity makeovers just for being smrt?

This really reminds me of an episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex where Batou (a cyborg) talks about how, as prosthetics advanced beyond human capabilities, the Paralympics became a showcase for prosthetic and cybernetic manufacturers. As a result, the Paralympics became more mainstream and the Olympics, where they insisted on remaining unaltered, became a decorative event that merely served tradition.

then you need the home stenographer.

http://www.tv.com/chappelles-show/ep.-101/episode/220711/summary.html
(sorry, no youtube)

Yeah, wasn't there an X-Files episode on that? :-)

It's from the second episode of Futurama. Bender walks around complaining about being left out of things and says he'll do it better but with "blackjack and hookers" then says, forget what ever it was he was being left out of and just with the blackjack and hookers.

Bah... I can't take the article seriously when they don't mention The Simpsons' Focusyn: Summary and details.

Hope this goes better than when the Mythbusters tried it...they may have tested it under the cover of film myths but boy did climbing an air duct NOT work. :D

Well, that's a twist!

"Advice to all future male scientists: be sure you understand the opposite sex, especially if you intend being a computer expert. Otherwise, you may find yourself, like poor Elwood, defeated by a jealous machine, a most dangerous sort of female, whose victims are forever banished--to...

the Twilight Zone."

http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/from-agnes---with-love/episode/12725/summary.html

Ah crap. I got the episode right, but I should have linked to the quotes section.

Replacing one word in a well-known quote from a TV Show is wit?

That would be Duke Williams.

A Google search verifies this.
(Though I'd post AC too if I was admitting that I recognized a quote from that stupid show.)

I drive the Toyonda Pious myself. Isn't it great!?

And then, in a few hundred years, after a really bizarre sequence of events, a load of humans meet up with them and get caught up in some iffy alien politics?

Yeah, Star Trek's done it.

Be sure to make sure you don't waste resources on cloning a professional Scarlett Johansson impersonator.

You astroturf for the new TV show "Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles" and this is the best you can come up with?

The X-Files, Episode 152 "First Person Shooter". This was one of the William Gibson episodes.

You forgot that Brazil has gay money.

(Grampa and Bart pay a visit to Herman's Military Antiques.)
Herman: What's the password?
Grampa: Let me in, you idiot!
Herman: Right you are!
(Herman lets them in the store.)
Grampa: So, Herman, has the large-type edition of this month's Solider Of Fortune come in yet?
Herman: Uh, not yet. But, can I interest you in some authentic Nazi underpants?

And with that, the episode, and this thread, was Godwinned.

(from Bart the General)

He could always try hosting a game show.

Or Kevin Bacon, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, show #4299.

I WIN AGAIN!!!!

Frylock: "Thirty-two grand? That doesn't sound right. Did he even look at the car?"

Meatwad: "Yeah, I mean over the phone. He says that it sounds like the hobbit that turns the crankcase is depressed and needs therapy. We need to get us a new hobbit. They's from the land beyond time. Land beyond time's also gonna hook us up with the unicorn for the radiator. I ain't even gonna tell you about that haunted air conditioner. Plus the air filter, that's made of plutonium. That's gonna involve Superman, so, y'know, plus shipping from Krypton. Then the cow jumped over the moon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_Car
http://www.tv.com/aqua-teen-hunger-force/kidney-car/episode/276030/trivia.html

Why use propellant when you can just have the pig stuck in a hole in a dam until the the water pressure builds up and shoots it (the pig) out the other side.

Then you can always use the phrase, "When pigs fly".

Afraid it's real

If so, have I accidentally logged into some kind of bizarro-Slashdot, where everyone is polite and respectful?

No, that episode of Smallville airs in 2 weeks. :)

http://www.tv.com/the-daily-show/show/1293/episode _guide.html?season=12&tag=season_dropdown;dropdown ;11 it seems they were off from (last episode before break - first episode after break) 2/15/07 - 2/26/07 3/29/07 - 4/9/07 5/24/07 - 6/4/07 6/28/07 - 7/16/07

Voltron: The Third Dimension was a sequel to the cartoon and rendered 3D CG, but it was really bad. Is the movie going to be crappy like this one? Here is the introduction on YouTube.

Actually FLPR is related to the mascot for MySQL.

"The rioting has been going on all night. The men involved are young, angry, and almost all of them work with computers. In Tokyo, two games designers went on a rampage in a shopping center and frightened a dog. We have heard that a group of software developers has shouted at a bus. The situation is completely out of control..."

As illustrated in the BBC series Red Dwarf, episode "Polymorph": http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/polymorph/episode/1095 9/summary.html.

After an alien that feeds on negative emotion sucks all fear out of Lister, he volunteers to strap on a neutron bomb and go after the beast. Hilarity ensues.

The Internet: the public toilet big enough for us all!

A vivid metaphor, indeed. Unfortunately, ever since Dave Chappelle's show, I can't help but think of it more as an exceptionally shitty shopping mall.

Hell, he'd freak out even if he was from 1996.

I don't watch this series, but it was interesting to see how the rating was on TV.com. I guess everyone didn't like this series finale. :(

They didn't even have to read it, they could've just watched TV. Just a six months before the attack there was a network (well Fox, but close enough) TV show that had terrorist flying a plane into the the world trade towers. How much more accurate can you get?

Hmm. A Sci-Fi show, presumably with Sc-Fi writers predicting 9/11. Maybe they're on to something. Though on the onther hand in the example it was a chip hijacking the plane, which might be to much imagination

Actually, my vision was of Stewie and Olivia fighting over who was on-key in that Family Guy episode. ^_^

It is a higher grade of the plastic found in Tupperware.

Dr. Shay: (on video) Hello, I'm Dr. Richard Shay, here to tell you about my exciting new drug-free treatment for children with Attention Deficit Disorder. (Several hyper and rambling children) This treatment is fast and effective and it doesn't use harmful drugs. Watch closely as I apply treatment to the first child. (SMACK) SIT DOWN AND STUDY! If you would like more information on my bold new treatments, please send away for this free brochure entitled: 'You can either calm down, or I can pop you in the mouth again.'

Law & Order sort of tackled this in the 2004 episode Gunplay. A website very similar to WhosARat.com, run by a defense lawyer, got two undercover cops shot while they were trying to score some illegal guns. (The story was apparently inspired by the deaths of James J. Nemorin and Rodney Andrews on Staten Island in 2003, although I don't think the website element was present in that incident.) As is typical of Law & Order, they raise the tough question, but they don't answer it: The prosecutors are let off the hook when they discover a much more sinister wrinkle.

Anyway, if the site does not get shut down preemptively, I'm sure that a death like this is only be a matter of time. When that happens, the investigators and prosecutors will stop at nothing to make a very messy example of the site owners, First Amendment be damned.

Well, we all knew that. According to the this documentary, the second bullet must have come from Kennedy's gun (the Kennedy from the alternate timeline) on the grassy knoll in order to correct the timeline and get the crew back to Red Dwarf. If Lister wasn't so hung up on Indian food, we wouldn't have these problems.

"Ice" from American Gladiators

Clearly El Niño the mexican wrestler.

Simpsons did EVERYTHING!

"... Except I read it as "Obama's Space Dream"

cf: Mars, Bitches!
Or (direct quote, video): Mars, Bitches!

(but you really should watch the whole "Black Bush"-Episode... great moments in TV history, indeed. Thank you, Mr. Chappelle!

In fact, theorists say one variety of wormhole wraps back onto itself, so that it leads not to another universe, but back to its own entrance.

The "many worlds" interpretation is popular with science fiction (such as Stargate SG-1).

pssst, SG is a single universe. Sliders was "many worlds".

You think we don't know you? (No comment on the sock monkey?)

http://www.tv.com/robot-wars-extreme-warriors/show /6995/episode.html

First came the Paul Mooney sketch, then he later did "Ask a gay guy" with Mario Cantone. http://www.tv.com/chappelles-show/ep.-106/episode/ 234160/summary.html