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The Faculty's conspiracy theory


Everybody's been acting really strange, especially the faculty.
Tell me about it. It's like they've all turned into *beep* pod people... - or something. - Into what people? Invasion of the Body Snatchers. A small town was taken over by aliens. That was a joke. Look, what if it really happened?
- What if that really happened? - I think something's taking over our school.
The Body Snatchers is a story somebody made up, dingus. It's located in the fiction
section of the library. So is Schindler's List. All fiction is based on some truth, right? What does Miss Burke teach us in English 101? Write what you know. How do we know this writer guy... - Jack Finney. - didn't encounter aliens in his high school...
which led him to write a book about an alien invasion? - Your conspiracy theory is flawed. - How so? Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers is a blatant rip-off...
of The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein. So you can completely disregard
that entire work. Whatever. The point is they're here, they've been here and they're here again. You know, Casey, I think you've been racked into the flagpole one too many times. Look, how do you know there's not a conspiracy? Maybe X-Files is right.
Where do all these movies come from anyway? How do we know Spielberg, Lucas, Sonnenfeld, Emmerich haven't been visited by aliens? You know, maybe they're
aliens themselves. Maybe they're simply preparing us for what's to come. You know what, Casey, it's fiction. Okay? - It's science fiction. - Exactly.
Everybody gets hung up on the science part, which has nothing to do with it.
They're getting at us through the fiction. So, aliens have just been setting us up over the years, creating this happy little make-believe existence... with their E.T.
and their Men In Black movies... just so that nobody would believe it if it really happened? I think so. Yeah. - You're not buying this, are you? - No, I'm not.
But it's kind of cool. Okay, so what's missing? Well, in The Body Snatchers,
they were pods, but where are they? I mean, where are the pods? There are no pods.
There's gotta be something else. In Puppet Masters, they were parasites.


Cool theory. Do you like it?


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Nope. Love it.

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