I, for one, welcome...

You may have seen the phrase, "I, for one, welcome our new ______ overlords," where the blank is filled in with whatever's funny and/or appropriate. I've done this myself; mainly, I admit, in blatant copy of jwz, who uses the device more than any other single author I know.

So I, for one, welcomed the description of where this little gem came from, when I came across it in a Slashdot comment recently.

...this comes from "Deep Space Homer" (I think that's the name), the one where Homer gets launched into space with Buzz Aldrin and Race Bannon. At one point in the episode Homer accidently breaks a container containing an ant colony (Now they'll never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space!), just as the news is breaking in with live coverage. The world gets a shot of what looks to be a giant ant (floating right next to the shuttle camera).

Anchor Kent Brockman draws the only assumption that can be drawn: (stolen from snpp.com)

Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.