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I'm having bad acid flashbacks, man

Category: Creationism • Humor
Posted on: February 9, 2010 7:59 AM, by PZ Myers

It's never going to end — Ben Stein's voice still makes me grind my teeth (oh, wait — Stein's voice did that to me even before he made Expelled). Now here's another parody of his horrible little movie, with a little name check of yours truly in there.

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Posted by: Rorschach | February 9, 2010 8:36 AM

Mildly funny.
Fish in barrels funny.

;)

Posted by: Zeno | February 9, 2010 8:43 AM

Ben Stein is currently appearing with Shaquille O'Neal in a commercial for Comcast. Stein says, "As an economist, I know about being smart with my money." Given his failure to recognize the nature of the housing bubble, his economic smarts are questionable. And he also compared Obama's 2008 Democratic convention speech to a Hitler rally (Stein doesn't have a broad repertory.)

It sure doesn't make me want to subscribe to Comcast -- or anything else that Ben Stein is selling.

Posted by: PeteJohn | February 9, 2010 8:49 AM

Wow. That was good.

Zeno: I think I've gained insight into Stein's brain. Don't like something/being paid to not like something? IT'S LIKE ADOLF HITLER!!! Yeah! Boom, I win.

"Bueller... Bueller..."

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | February 9, 2010 9:09 AM

If you have some B-12, go ahead and take that.

Posted by: royman53 | February 9, 2010 9:10 AM

Jeebus! I was eating breakfast! So much for my appetite.

I know it's parody, but the fact of Ben Stein's very existence spoils my appetite. How could so many give credence to somebody so blatantly sleazy?

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | February 9, 2010 9:18 AM

If you have some B-12, go ahead and take that.

Alright, PZ, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..

Posted by: Rutee, Shrieking Harpy of Dooooom | February 9, 2010 9:31 AM

It sure doesn't make me want to subscribe to Comcast -- or anything else that Ben Stein is selling. It's a fittingly bad spokesperson for a bad service.

Posted by: David Marjanović | February 9, 2010 10:02 AM

"Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior or else you're a satanic Nazi!"

And read the credits at the end. And the word written on the blackboard by wiping the other stuff out…

Posted by: Tom S. Fox | February 9, 2010 10:59 AM

They should have made him say "Bueller? Bueller?" at the end.

#10

Posted by: Glen Davidson | February 9, 2010 11:27 AM

Do not question testicles, especially forcibly.

It is unbelievable that people died for our country, only for spherical (oblate spheroidal, for the pedants) earthers to disallow questioning of their dogma.

And of course they won't teach the truth in history classes, that Nazi Germany started precisely because spherical earth dogma was forcibly fed to schoolchildren. Go ahead, find me a single German school that allowed flat earthers to question the ancient Ptolemaic BS about a "round earth."

So of course that brought Hitler to popwer.

Glen D
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#11

Posted by: recovering catholic | February 9, 2010 11:42 AM

Is the little boy in the film (Elijah Behe) related to the other Behe, I wonder???

#12

Posted by: tastyrerun | February 9, 2010 11:55 AM

As I understand it, Elijah Behe is actually the great-grandfather of Michael Behe thanks to a rather humorous accident involving a time machine, a toaster strudel, a goat, and Eva Braun's cousin Lulubelle...

#13

Posted by: PJ Dietz | February 9, 2010 12:16 PM

Another Comcast commercial with Stein and Shaq introduced them as "The best and the smartest." Does anyone actually still think Ben Stein is smart?

#14

Posted by: Qwerty | February 9, 2010 12:35 PM

The video appears to have been pulled as I keep getting the "try later" message.

Rev BDC - Should PZ have some bacon with the beer and B complex? Also, you've managed a post without a typo. Impressive!

#15

Posted by: Givesgoodemail | February 9, 2010 12:43 PM

If we've told you once, Dr. Myers, we've told you a dozen times...

If you won't stay off the nitric acid, those trips are going to recur.

#16

Posted by: Matt "Nora" Penfold | February 9, 2010 12:43 PM

Qwerty,

I get the same when I tried to view it embedded here, but I can see it OK direct at YouTube.

#17

Posted by: recovering catholic | February 9, 2010 1:05 PM

Givesgoodemail--surely you mean "nitrous oxide"?

#18

Posted by: arrakis | February 9, 2010 1:15 PM

I love how many of the books in the kid's room were written by Terry Pratchett. Nice touch.

#19

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | February 9, 2010 2:06 PM

That's what I was after; thanks. Just too lazy to actually look it up. Seems I misremembered.

#20

Posted by: Nineveh | February 9, 2010 2:09 PM

Ha! That was great. This guy made his voice just as grating as Ben Stein's.

#21

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | February 9, 2010 2:10 PM

uh, no not that that was something different.
always preview.
that

#22

Posted by: Qwerty | February 9, 2010 2:24 PM

"Do not question golf balls." I've seen the start, but it stalls. Anyhow, "the stork theory" spoof was funnier as they actually use footage of Stein.

In a previous post, someone commented that Ben Stein will visit Penn State. In Stein's bio for the visit, he neglects to mention "Expelled."

Is he embarrassed? Or what?

#23

Posted by: toth | February 9, 2010 3:03 PM

Stein's Comcast commercials make me want to vomit. I really wish I didn't have to subscribe to Comcast. Every time I call them, I'm treated to Shaq's and Stein's voices greeting me. Blargh.

#24

Posted by: Bill Dauphin, avec fromage | February 9, 2010 3:12 PM

RevBDC:

Alright, PZ, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..

Aww, now you've made me feel very old, because not only do I know exactly what you're quoting, I remember watching it live!

#25

Posted by: boygenius | February 9, 2010 3:42 PM

I'm having bad acid flashbacks, man

I prefer to call them "freebies". :)

#26

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM | February 9, 2010 5:04 PM

You think the Earth is round like a balloon? That's just stupid talk. It would have taken gawd a lot longer than a week to blow up a balloon the size of the Earth. And look at a galaxy. It's flat. Why would planets be round and galaxies flat? You scientists only think the Earth is round because physicists assume everything is round. It's just an assumption to make the math easier. There are PYGMIES + DWARFS because they're closer to flat than other people. Sit on that, round earthers.

#27

Posted by: Audley Z. Darkheart OM, purveyor of candy and lies | February 9, 2010 7:11 PM

Another Comcast commercial with Stein and Shaq introduced them as "The best and the smartest." Does anyone actually still think Ben Stein is smart?

Does anyone actually think Shaq is still the best basketball player?

Comcast: totally mediocre all around.

#28

Posted by: kosta.matt | February 10, 2010 12:25 AM

Dr. Richard "PZ" Darwin, wow, can you get any more evil. I'll bet he eats babies on that so called "round" earth of his.

#29

Posted by: NitricAcid | February 10, 2010 12:26 AM

If we've told you once, Dr. Myers, we've told you a dozen times...
If you won't stay off the nitric acid, those trips are going to recur.

Hey!!!

#30

Posted by: maxamillion | February 10, 2010 2:12 AM

Was that supposed to be funny?

I got a far as Elijah Behe and stopped.

Not one laugh, or is that the joke, comedy without a laugh?

#31

Posted by: DLC | February 10, 2010 2:40 AM

According to Dr House on TV, a massive dose of anti-depressants will clear up the acid trip pretty quick. of course, it's only a TV drama, and not really a valid source of medical information, but hey, neither is Ben Stein a valid source of information.

#32

Posted by: Kel, The Privileged View From Nowhere | February 10, 2010 5:29 AM

One day I'll get around to watching Expelled.

#33

Posted by: Knockgoats | February 10, 2010 7:57 AM

According to Dr House on TV, a massive dose of anti-depressants will clear up the acid trip pretty quick.

I understand they used to use benzodiazepene tranquillisers. Fine as long as you hadn't taken 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (known as DOM or STP) instead of LSD. Apparently more likely to cause a bad trip (probably because its slower onset led people to decide they hadn't taken enough, and take some more), and benzodiazepenes potentiate it. Caution: this is not based on either peer-reviewed literature or personal experience, and could be a druggies' urban myth.

#34

Posted by: brotheratombombofmoderation | February 10, 2010 9:25 AM

In case anyone is curious, the Flat Earth Society's spokesperson back in 1994 said that OJ Simpson was framed for murder because of the movie "Capricorn One."

Apparently, this movie exposed NASA as a fraud by suggesting that the space program was faked in a TV studio:

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/94q3/ojspace.html

#35

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | February 10, 2010 9:34 AM