Oh my God. I'm back...I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
— George Taylor, final lines of Planet of the Apes (1968), the former Trope Namer.
I hate every ape I see
From chimpan-A to chimpan-Zee
No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!
Oh my God! I was wrong!
It was Earth All Along!
You've finally made a monkey,
(Yes, we finally made a monkey!)
Yes, you've finally made a monkey
Out of me!note
From chimpan-A to chimpan-Zee
No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!
Oh my God! I was wrong!
It was Earth All Along!
You've finally made a monkey,
(Yes, we finally made a monkey!)
Yes, you've finally made a monkey
Out of me!note
—Troy McClure, playing Taylor in a musical version of Planet of the Apes (1968). The new Trope Namer.
We never left the Earth. That's why nobody tracked us. We never left the Earth, we j-just c-crashed back into it, hahaha! D-Donlin, Pierson, what have I done? I'm sorry!
— Officer Corey - "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", The Twilight Zone (1959)
No reason to send a message back to Earth. We're already here.
—Jemma Simmons, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Orientation, Part One"
If you see one or more shitty old Statues of Liberty on any post-apocalyptic wasteland planet, that automatically means it was Earth all along, as a rule.
BoJack: We just need a way to end this thing. What should the ending be?
Todd: Maybe it was Earth all along!
"What is this? 'The history of humanity was greatly altered by the discovery of the mysterious Hyper Information Convergence known as Juno. With the discovery of the fir'— whoa, hold on… in Australia!? This takes place on Earth!?"
