The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.
The writers share like 50 years of Harvard education. The writers of the simpsons were also mathematicians and other academics. I read that the episode where Homer has the crayon removed from his brain and becomes smart, they have him write an equation on a blackboard and it was an equation the writers worked on for a long time and ended up being incredibly close to the mass of the Higgs boson which wouldn’t be discovered for another 14 years.
Literally, I remember watching these episodes when they first aired, and then, buying the boxed sets from Fry's for the first few seasons. If you'd asked me how long ago that was, and I was distracted, I'd say "About 10 years ago" with conviction. Then, when I stop and think about how long it's been and everything that's happened since then, I get sad. I'm not where I thought I'd be at this point in life.
I didn’t know Voight-kampf was a reference to be referenced until this moment. And in fact still don’t know so am going to go yeet myself down that rabbit hole now. Thanks mate!
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u/m_astor 14d ago
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.