The gang discuss A Message from Earth, whose article seems to have since been deleted and merged with that of Gliese 581c 
. Ming the Merciless makes another appearance.
Tropes:
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Why does Gary know how Tinder works, despite being married? Because he lives in the same world as you and he reads newspapers. Matt and Chris then point out that they don't know how Tinder works, leaving him floundering.Gary: This is one of these things where you try and defend yourself and it just sounds worse, doesn't it?Chris: Stop digging, old boy.
- Fluffy the Terrible: discussed. Gary claims that you'd have a very different reaction to learning that Earth was being invaded by the Glee People rather than The Third Warfleet of the K'Flaarghs.
- For Inconvenience, Press "1": Gary suggests the message from Earth might have been this.Chris: "If you are a hostile alien species, please press 2 to be reacted to with nuclear missiles."
- In My Language, That Sounds Like...: A possible explanation for why an invading alien force would be called something seemingly innocuous:"We are the Glee People!""Ah, that's nice.""In our world, this is bad!"
- The Internet Is for Porn: On hearing that 501 messages from the internet were transmitted into space, Gary assumes the contents must have been "Porn, porn, porn, kittens, 'Good afternoon Sir/Madam, I have a fantastic opportunity for you...'"
- Shout-Out: To Star Wars:Gary: "Please note that Earth is only open between 9 and 5."Chris: "Nine to five what? I have been travelling for parsecs!"Tom: Obscure Star Wars reference! Nice.
