I remembered something else from yesterday…

In one of the episodes of 3rd Rock from the Sun, it comes on twice a day here, William Shatner, “The Big Giant Head,” came to Earth to check on John Lithgow’s (Dick Solomon) team’s progress in their study of humans and Earth cultures. When asked how his flight was:

    Big Giant Head: “It was horrible! I could have sworn that I saw something on the wing of the airplane!”
    Dick Solomon: “Same thing happened to me!”

This was a nod to The Twilight Zone episode and movie segment “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” In it, an airline passenger looks out the window and believes that he sees a creature eating the wing of the plane; no one else can see it… Shatner starred as the passenger in the series version, while Lithgow portrayed the same character in the movie version.

I like it when shows can successfully pull of in-joke references like this.

And now, off in search of frozen mocha goodness before work!

Peace.