History Main / NoIntelligentLifeHere

->'''Peter:''' [leaning on a rock] ''Do you think it's possible that someone out there has intelligence greater than my own?''
->'''Curls:''' ''Sure.''
->'''Peter:''' ''Where?''
->'''Curls:''' ''You're leaning on it.''
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** A screencap of the scene has become something of a small internet meme in which it gets juxtaposed with particularly stupid comments, [[http://toponday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/no-intelligent-life-anywhere.jpg like so.]]

** The joke used in the film proper was a StatlerAndWaldorf quip about how they don't have lives on earth (as in social lives).

'''Alien agent/scientist''': "I came to this planet many years ago to investigate the rumors about existence of intelligent life, and I can safely say that they have been thoroughly disproved."

'''Ki''': Yeah, Dolphins. Just kidding... but sometimes I think the jury's still out on us humans.\\

* The struggling actor played by RobinWilliams in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' makes this joke during a scene where he demonstrates his ability to "do voices".

-->'''Blake:''' Does the planet support any intelligent life?
-->'''Avon:''' Does the Liberator?

** Recycled by ''Shoe''.
* Used in ''{{Mafalda}}'', when she and her friend Felipe eagerly await the radio news on the latest space flight to Mars, Felipe comments excited on how amazing it is that there may be life on other planets. When the radio instead only gives news on the Vietnam war and other conflicts, Mafalda says that the amazing thing is that there is life on ''this'' planet.

* In a HaveANiceDeath sequence from ''SpaceQuest V'', two aliens watch Roger go down in flames over their planet (because he was TooDumbToLive, the game suggests):

* ''Series/{{Blakes 7}}''

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* Creator/EricBogle uses the joke in his song "Beam Me Up Scotty":

* The beginning of ''MuppetsInSpace'', as well as a trailer joke there.

* The struggling actor played by RobinWilliams in Film/MrsDoubtfire makes this joke during a scene where he demonstrates his ability to "do voices".

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Ziggy}}'': "We're looking for intelligent life. If you find any, call this number."
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' (''Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"'', page 29):
-->'''Calvin''': Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
** Recycled by ''Shoe''.
* Used in ''{{Mafalda}}'', when she and her friend Felipe eagerly await the radio news on the latest space flight to Mars, Felipe comments excited on how amazing it is that there may be life on other planets. When the radio instead only gives news on the Vietnam war and other conflicts, Mafalda says that the amazing thing is that there is life on ''this'' planet.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', an alien, having observed the antics of the farm's residents (it was in the ''USAcres'' segment), reports that the mission to find intelligent life has failed.

* ''[[StarTrekVoyager Captain Proton]] and the Planet of Lesbians''. Earth has been attacked by a DeathRay from Venus.

* '''[[StarTrekVoyager Captain Proton]] and the Planet of Lesbians'''. Earth has been attacked by a DeathRay from Venus.

* '''Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians'''. Earth has been attacked by a DeathRay from Venus.

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* A chapter of CarlSagan's book ''Pale Blue Dot'' is titled "Is There Intelligent Life On Earth?" and covers a fictional alien visitor observing things from space that cause it to ask that question.

* The comic strip ''{{Ziggy}}'': "We're looking for intelligent life. If you find any, call this number."
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' (''Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"'', page 29):

* In the ''{{Frasier}}'' episode ''The Candidate'', Frasier and Niles were both promoting a political candidate who they learn believes he was abducted by aliens. When they discuss whether they can keep supporting him in light of this there is this exchange:

* On ''HomeImprovement'', Brad and Randy are trading insults and Randy says that Brad would fit in on Mars where there's no sign of intelligent life. Tim scolds them with "First of all... they've never confirmed that."

* Used with alternate dimentions instead of space in the ''GeneralProtectionFault''/''KevinAndKell'' crossover, when Ki and Nick are visiting Kevin & Kell's world - filled with {{Talking Animal}}s of every size and shape - but no humans. Leading to this exchange...

* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' the alien Nemesites have held the lease to our planet for eons, designating it as a nature preserve, and consider the young species of humanity to be unintelligent wildlife. Princess Voluptua is deeply concerned about whether changing that legal designation to grant humans Imperial Citizenship would do mankind more harm than good.

* In one episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', an alien, having observed the antics of the farm's residents (it was in the ''USAcres'' segment), reports that the mission to find intelligent life has failed.
* ''DangerMouse'': In "The Aliens Are Coming," DM and Penfold have a rendezvous with a visiting spacecraft which houses what looks like a small mechanical being that is quite mischievous. After DM dispatches of it, a booming voice calls out "Well, get's go home, Gary. There's no intelligent life on this planet."

* Slouchy Smurfling's comment in regards to why there's no aliens on board the spaceship that crash-landed in the Smurf Forest in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Where No Smurf Has Gone Before", with the "no intelligent life" part sarcastically referring to [[ButtMonkey Brainy]].

* ''JohnnyBravo'' had this in one episode as an Expy of Kirk said that there was no intelligent life there while in the middle of a park right before the title character ended up switching places with him in a beam up on a parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

* ''LiloAndStitch'': Upon discovering that the titular alien has landed on an isolated island - ''Hawaii'';

-->'''Pleakley''': NO, crazyhead! The mosquito's food of choice, primitive humanoid lifeforms, have colonies all over that planet.

* Bill Watterson said this only half-jokingly: "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."