# All Hail Kang and Kodos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 21, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122 "2002-05-21T16:30:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/41 "2002-05-25T13:56:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dooku \*  
> \*\*It is 100% impossible to read these lines in anything other than the Kang and Kodos voice. \*\*

That’s the best part about the “tickets to the ballet” line. They still have this booming, scary alien voice…god i do love them so.

I’m going to become a Quantum Presbyterian

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/42 "2002-05-25T17:42:32Z")

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After the dust-up at the Jerry Springer taping, one of the aliens says “Anyhoo.” This cracks me up for some reason.

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/43 "2002-05-25T17:50:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \*  
> \*\*I’m going to become a Quantum Presbyterian \*\*

UUism might serve better, seeing how Kang and Kodos both subscribe to the Unitarian Field Theory.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/44 "2002-05-26T01:23:38Z")

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You guys might like a little political parody I wrote, featuring Kang:

[http://www.sciencewonk.com/pundit/kangclass.htm](http://www.sciencewonk.com/pundit/kangclass.htm)

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/45 "2002-05-26T01:47:04Z")

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\*\*Sam stone, \*\* that was great!

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**Author:** ![Dale\_The\_Bold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dale\_The\_Bold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_The_Bold)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/46 "2002-05-26T02:36:32Z")

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I always liked their “borrowed” catchphrase when they were hitchhiking and no one picked them up.

“Oh, Shazbot.”

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**Author:** ![Dale\_The\_Bold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dale\_The\_Bold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_The_Bold)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/47 "2002-05-26T02:44:48Z")

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Oh, and I’m reminded of the time some friends and I were in a loud restaurant discussing politics when I used the name “Clint’n” as it is usually pronounced. My friend’s wife said “Who?” I said “Clint’n.” “WHO??” I had no choice but to clarify, “CLIN-TON.”

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**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/48 "2002-05-26T06:22:00Z")

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Foolish human unprpepared for the consquences of time travel

ZAP

What do we do now Kodos

Quiet You!

By the Way wasn’t Kodos the name of the guy guy who executed a colony that Kirk was on. (The Conscience of the King)

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/49 "2002-05-26T08:08:25Z")

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Kodos, Kang and even Serak (the preparer) are all named for _Trek_ characters.

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**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/50 "2002-05-26T15:29:54Z")

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We could have shown you emotions 1000 times as wonderful as what you know as love

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**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/51 "2002-05-27T03:01:12Z")

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We have been watching your planet ever since it was created - five thousand years ago - by God.

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**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/52 "2002-05-28T23:40:37Z")

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Kodos: “Commander Kang, recieving transmission from infant pod thirteen.”  
Kang: “Holy flurking schnit! What’s the message?”  
Kodos: Larval stage completed, standing by for orders, experiencing terrible rash, over."  
Kang: “Ensign Kodos. set coordinates for the obscure T-shirt producing planet known as Earth! It’s time I paid a visit to…my daughter!”

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/53 "2002-05-29T03:58:33Z")

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Remember, we are newleyweds on our way to Earth Capital.  
Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/54 "2002-05-29T04:33:21Z")

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I hear all!

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**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/55 "2002-05-29T09:57:00Z")

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“I am actually speaking Rigelian. By an astonishing coincidence, both of our languages are exactly the same.”

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**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/56 "2002-05-29T12:59:53Z")

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Kodos: Well it looks like we’ve lost.

Kang: Have we? Soon ther will make bigger boards with bigger nails until one day they’ll make a board big enough to destroy the world  
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH  
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH  
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH  
HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA  
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA  
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH

(say why don’t they laugh forever anymore)

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**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/57 "2002-05-29T14:24:34Z")

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Marge: “Oooohh. Radish rosettes. These are difficult to make. They’re a very advanced race”  
It also kills me how one of them answers the phone “Kang & Kodos productions” in the Halloween episode that they aren’t in.

That air of desperation and false arrogance is just priceless.

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**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-kang-and-kodos/110122/58 "2002-05-29T17:35:47Z")

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“Bow before my slingshot, earthling!”

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