Metalocalypse2006

Senator Stampingston:
It appears that Dethklok has taken to studying comedy. This is not good, gentlemen.

General Crozier:
With all due respect, Senator, how can this mean anything to world economics?

Senator Stampingston:
It means everything. It's true that comedy has been no threat to us over the last fifteen years, but with Dethklok in the mix, they threaten to excite a field of entertainment we all know to be dead. Gentlemen: our comedy specialist, Dr. Donald Gorfield.

Dr. Donald Gorfield:
Well, the people of the world are depressed and stupid. They look to comedy to lighten the load of their boring, dreadful lives. These idiots have been force-fed garbage from our own secret cable networks and our own employees covering as high-profile standup and sketch comics.

[the Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV logos, as well as cartoon representations of comics like Jay Leno and Larry the Cable Guy, appear on the television screens behind him]

Dr. Donald Gorfield:
Should we lose control of this, only God knows what will happen.