# When you hear, "Where Is Everybody?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514 "2022-08-11T22:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/1 "2022-08-11T22:34:16Z")
Do you think of Enrico Fermi or The Twilight Zone? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/2 "2022-08-11T22:41:27Z")
I think of an old Arby’s commercial based on The Twilight Zone WHERE IS EVERYBODY! WHERE’D EVERYBODY GOOOOOO?? Eh, they all went to Arby’s for the Roast Beef Special Link to youtube video of [Arby’s commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEomZtfPUcs) ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/3 "2022-08-11T22:55:32Z")
Neither. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/4 "2022-08-11T23:13:34Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > Link to youtube video of [Arby’s commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEomZtfPUcs) Snerk, worth the click. > [@TheCuse](#): > > Neither. Pleb! Just kidding of course, what does it make you think of? ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/5 "2022-08-11T23:17:51Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Pleb! > Just kidding of course, what does it make you think of? Actually–nothing. I guess I never thought about it. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/6 "2022-08-12T03:34:30Z")
I think of Bette Midler in _The Rose_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oY1xfpR6qUE/maxresdefault.jpg "Bette Midler in The Rose (Death Scene)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY1xfpR6qUE) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/7 "2022-08-12T09:56:04Z")
I’ve never heard it. I left with everyone else before anyone said it. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/8 "2022-08-12T10:50:56Z")
I’m reminded how much my parties suck. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/9 "2022-08-12T11:46:01Z")
Enrico Fermi. In fact, by shear coincidence I’m reading Stephen Webb’s _If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens… Where is Everybody? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and Problem of Extraterrestrial Life_. The SF novel _Existence_ by David Brin also deals with this in a very interesting way. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/10 "2022-08-12T12:22:18Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > Actually–nothing. I guess I never thought about it. I second this. It doesn’t make me think of anything in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/11 "2022-08-12T13:50:06Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I second this. It doesn’t make me think of anything in particular. Thirded. It’s too generic of a statement and the two examples you gave of its use are fairly obscure. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-where-is-everybody/969514/12 "2022-08-12T14:03:08Z")
Fermi. Maybe I watch too much _Kurzgesagt_