I love how the “Repair Bug” (Scruffy from Futurama) is whistling as he’s preparing to fix the thing that kills everyone on board and blows up the ship. And that he’s wearing coveralls, and not a star trek uniform. And the thumbs up he gives in panel 2!
And seriously…we do need the Picard Face Palm for Codric’s comment above.
Funny enough, an incompent self-destruct repair guy might have saved the world.
Lufftwaffe General Walther Wever was killed in 1936 when the self-destruct on the plane he was flying detonated for unknown causes. Operator error or faulty maintainece were the most likely causes.
Good for the world that Wever was killed. He was a strong voice for Germany building long-range strategic bombers. With those, Germany might have worn the Battle of Britain, and/been been able to bomb relocated Soviet industry beyond the Urals. Either way, they might have won the war before America even became involved. When Wever died, the germans concentrated solely on small, short-range tactical bombers which could not strike deep into either Britain or the Soviet Union. And the rest is history.
So, some incompentent German version of Scruffy the janitor screwed up, killed Wever and possibly saved the world.
Wait a second…why does the Enterprise even have a blender?? They’ve got a replicator that can make any food appear! Perhaps if the self destruct button DID get crossed with a blender, things would be okay after all!
But what if they get a deadly space plague, or zenomorphs, or something, if you can’t get rid of it it would be better to destroy the ship so it doesn’t infect the rest of civilization, and you’d want it to go off when you want it, and only when you want it, so you need to maintain it.
Good idea, unless he cross wires the self destruct to the blender. That would be one dangerous smoothie!
I would be a smoothie to die for!
I really NEED the Picard facepalm for that remark…
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Even worse – it could be cross-wired to *anything*!
They’d never dare use the toilet again. Just in case.
Mmm… Explosive flavor!
I can’t decide if it could’ve worked with the headline ‘Live Long and Propellant’.
But what if Klingons led by Christopher Lloyd are taking over the ship? You have to avenge the death of your son some way!
Just turn on the blender.
I’ve always wanted a toaster connected to phasers!
It’s a good idea until the guy start the job by pressing that big red button.
I love how the “Repair Bug” (Scruffy from Futurama) is whistling as he’s preparing to fix the thing that kills everyone on board and blows up the ship. And that he’s wearing coveralls, and not a star trek uniform. And the thumbs up he gives in panel 2!
And seriously…we do need the Picard Face Palm for Codric’s comment above.
Maybe we’ll get another theme week, and Adam can work a “Bugcard” Face Palm in there.
It’s awfully tempting to do a Star Trek week.
Do it
I’m kinda liking the “Star Trek meets Futurama” vibe we got going here… WELL DONE, sir!
Had to look up the Jefferies Tube reference… I learned something new this morning!
Funny enough, an incompent self-destruct repair guy might have saved the world.
Lufftwaffe General Walther Wever was killed in 1936 when the self-destruct on the plane he was flying detonated for unknown causes. Operator error or faulty maintainece were the most likely causes.
Good for the world that Wever was killed. He was a strong voice for Germany building long-range strategic bombers. With those, Germany might have worn the Battle of Britain, and/been been able to bomb relocated Soviet industry beyond the Urals. Either way, they might have won the war before America even became involved. When Wever died, the germans concentrated solely on small, short-range tactical bombers which could not strike deep into either Britain or the Soviet Union. And the rest is history.
So, some incompentent German version of Scruffy the janitor screwed up, killed Wever and possibly saved the world.
yay scruffy!
Ah, so the spy was successful…
Wait a second…why does the Enterprise even have a blender?? They’ve got a replicator that can make any food appear! Perhaps if the self destruct button DID get crossed with a blender, things would be okay after all!
Just because we have lighters you can’t deny the satisfaction you get from starting a fire with two sticks.
Sometimes it’s nice to go old school.
So how does anybody know that that guy really fixes the self-destruct device?
“Hey, Sven, I just tested the self-destruct and it still doesn’t work!”
“Neither does the teleporter!”
…I just realized, these Bugs have floating heads.
But what if they get a deadly space plague, or zenomorphs, or something, if you can’t get rid of it it would be better to destroy the ship so it doesn’t infect the rest of civilization, and you’d want it to go off when you want it, and only when you want it, so you need to maintain it.
Am I seriously the only one that’s going to point out that “Red Dwarf” actually did exactly this?
They probably don’t have a repairman- it’s the last resort.