“But why?”
“Because we have to stretch the goddamned season from 12 to 24 goddamned episodes, that’s why. We have to go back because we have to burn airtime meandering in pointless circles, that’s why. That and Mystery Box™️!!!”

Meanwhile, the Romulans:
“I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!!!”

For a long time it was Huevos Rancheros, but that got nudged into the #2 spot when I discovered Eggs Benedict.

Is their first language Python, by any chance?

But what if I want neutrino flavors?
Do I have to go to another store?

Where’s that bottom image from? I can’t place it, but if I was a betting man I’d say that’s from the flash-forward in the finale of the penultimate season of LOST, when the doctor is back in the real world, popping pills and swigging Jack Daniels.

In other words - everything she accused the “others” of being.
What was it that she called them, again? I can’t be bothered to look it up, let’s see if I can remember…

Empathists? Philanthropists? Something like that.

EDIT: altruists!

I’m afraid they might be a whole bunch of oldies but goodies:

2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Empire Strikes Back.
Miller’s Crossing (the third movie written and directed by the Coen brothers, from 1989).
A Bridge Too Far (from 1977, a sprawling, star-studded epic about the Allies and their costly, ill-advised and ultimately unsuccessful Operation Market-Garden in WWII).
A Bout De Soufflé. (Godard’s seminal French New Wave cannon blast).
From Russia With Love.
The Spy Who Loved Me.

He’s still got a valid point. In songs and in some ads, they even show up.
Add cellphone ringtones to that list, the list of “whoever thought this was a clever idea is an idiot” ideas.

Imagine a universe where mirrors didn’t exist in its’ multiverse…

Oh will you look at that?

People are
talking about,
talking about,
talking about.

Some people even say!

Are you collapsing the wave function again?
I keep telling you that when you high af, you are one step closer towards becoming an observer, you see what I’m saying? If you weren’t high af you wouldn’t even be looking at it, or looking for it.

Stop collapsing the wave function, dammit! Some of us are trying to sleep over here!

General Kenobi!

Hey, you keep your dirty government hands off my Medicare, you hear?

I feel like there’s a bunch of parallel narratives to be unwoven here, and I’m hearing many of them at the same time.
My compliments to the meme chef.

companes

It’s ok… I practice intermittent fasting.

Let’s be briends.

EDIT: breands

Dimensionless numbers, not dependent on any mere mortal, subjective arbitrary unit of measurement like length (meters or yards or cubits - same difference) or time.
Whether you are on Earth or a planet in Andromeda or a billion light-years away, if you study subatomic structure you WILL bump into the fraction 1/137. Just like you will in geometry with 3.1416.

Meanwhile, Pi and the Fine Structure Constant watching the show, passing each other the popcorn.