Speak to me only in Science Fiction

You know me, I’m impulsive.

Come on, Baal, you know me. Of course I dare mock you.

You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957.

That goes good with cheese dip!

Well, get it away from me! I hate popcorn! I can’t stand popcorn!

That’s exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn’t figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.

You have to drink it. That’s how it works.

I’ve got a bottle of schnapps and half a rhubarb pie. Let’s see which makes us sick first.

We are? What about that time I found you naked with that bowl of Jell-O?

You admit that you very well may have hallucinated this whole thing.

You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example. Uh-huh. 18th century: no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person. Along comes this doctor, uh… Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He’s trying to convince people, other doctors mainly, that’s there’s these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. He’s trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy, crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do they call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, up to the 20th century — last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole — I go in to order a burger at this fast-food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. James, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it’s all okay. “What about the germs?” I say. He says, “I don’t believe in germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps.” Now he’s crazy, right? See? Ah! Ah! There’s no right, there’s no wrong, there’s only popular opinion!

Dr. Charles Dutton: I’m glad you’re amused gentlemen, but it might just turn out to be true. During this symposium, we’ll discuss the possibility that intelligent life on a distant planet may be no larger than a flea.

[more laughter]

Dr. Charles Dutton: Perhaps no larger than… a bacterium.

They are as far above us as we are above the amoeba.

Let me tell you a story. Dinosaurs ruled our planet for millions of years and yet they died out almost over night. Why? The evidence suggests that a meteor fell to Earth carrying an alien bacteria.

Good grief, it’s a stegosaurus!

That is one big pile of shit.

The government has changed your name to Ginormica.

It’s a solid, it’s a liquid, it’s a viscoelastic polymer made out of polypeptide chains but you eat it! I mean, it tastes good!

Soylent Green is people!

Oh Karen, I’ve found some more! Some more of the People!