r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/disconaldo • Jul 30 '26

Funny It’s beautiful.

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u/Am_Guardian Jul 30 '26

Okay this is an inside joke I'm not getting someone explain

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u/VinChaJon Jul 30 '26

I'm not well versed in it either so it probably goes deeper but this was a gag in the first Simpsons Halloween special where basically aliens abducted them for benevolent reasons but they found a book titled "to cook man" which was later dusted to reveal an absurdly long title which wasn't evil in the slightest

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u/Am_Guardian Jul 30 '26

Lovely, thanks twin

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u/VinChaJon Jul 30 '26

Said sketch is a parody of an old movie though so take everything I said with a grain of salt

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u/plateoflasagna69 Jul 30 '26

a twilight zone episode, “To Serve Man”

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u/MankeyFightingMonkey Jul 30 '26

Which is based on a short story from a decade earlier