Cultural Influence
Brockman is responsible for popularizing the snowclone "I, for one, welcome our new overlords", sometimes used to express mock submission, usually for the purpose of humor. The term has been used in the media, such as New Scientist magazine and Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!. Brockman's harangue about the Corvair spacecraft being taken over by a master race of giant space ants in "Deep Space Homer", which generated the meme, is considered to be one of the show's classic moments. The spacecraft was carrying an ant colony to see if they could be trained to sort tiny screws in space, but were released by Homer by accident. This led to an ant drifting by the video feed, appearing gigantic due to its proximity to the camera, at which point Brockman utters the line "and I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords". Author Chris Turner called it "perhaps his finest hour as a journalist" and said that it is "simply among the finest comedic moments in the history of television."
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