In 2001, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of SouthPark wrote an episode entitled 'The Entity', in which one of the major characters became so frustrated with air travel that they created a new gyroscopic transport device (an obvious parody on the Segway), entitled 'It', to replace air travel. Unfortunately, 'It' required you to perform sexually inappropriate acts to operate the device.
In 2005, George Lucas released Episode III in the Star Wars series, featuring a cyborg named "General Grievous" as one of the antagonists. During a battle with Obi Wan Kenobi, he escapes their duel on a gyroscopic device that is remarkably similar to "It" above. Given the release dates, one can only assume this was a nested joke from George Lucas, but you can decide for yourself. Here is a video link with "It" featured at about 1:50.
Interesting post. Keep writing.
Cheers,
Vaibhav
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Posted by: Vaibhav | April 17, 2008 at 05:22 AM