Brockman was demoted to weather man due to the station paying a fine to the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and was soon fired when the network executives deliberately mistook a ring of Splenda in Brockman's coffee for cocaine.

On Kent Brockman's Channel Six " Oops Patrol " segment, he displays a humorous headline (" Mayor Displays Erection to Cheering Crowd "), noticed and submitted by Marge, for which she received a free T-shirt.

* Brockman's taste for Science or how to entertain the smartest people

" Deep Space Homer " is the source of the " Overlord meme ", which is lifted from Kent Brockman's line " And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords " and is commonly used on internet forums to express mock submission, usually for the purpose of humor or when a " participant vastly overstates the degree of oppression or social control expected to arise from the topic in question.

Regarding the long sequence that begins with Homer eating potato chips in the space shuttle and ends with Kent Brockman's dramatic speech, Turner claimed that it was " simply among the finest comedic moments in the history of television ".

The stress of seeing Kent Brockman's TV reports on the revolt causes Homer to immediately lose the hair he grew and regain the lost weight.

On an edition of Kent Brockman's talk show Smartline, Burns is allowed an opening tirade and he threatens dire events if the strike is not concluded.

Marge appears on Kent Brockman's show, Smartline where she confronts Roger Meyers over the violence and suggests that concerned parents send letters to Meyers.

The group of people running out of the zoo, before Homer, Bart, and Lisa, are caricatures of Mike Scully, his wife, and his children, who are also seen running behind Kent Brockman's news report.

When Homer is interviewed on news anchor Kent Brockman's Smartline, the cat burglar calls the show and informs Homer that he will steal the world's largest cubic zirconia from the Springfield museum.

He described the long sequence that begins with Homer eating potato chips in the space shuttle and ends with Kent Brockman's dramatic speech as being " simply among the finest comedic moments in the history of television ".

After a slow initial release, Lisa Lionheart suddenly gains popularity among the fans of the Stacy Malibu after being featured in Kent Brockman's news show.

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 author of the book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner, said that " if the institution of the News has a single iconic face on The Simpsons, it's Brockman's " and that " in Brockman's journalism, we see some of the modern news media's ugliest biases ", of which he says are glibness, amplification, and sensationalism.

As a result of Brockman's report, everyone in Springfield shows their community spirit by giving them a new Christmas tree and $ 15, 000.

Some people who have been named as members of the digerati, particularly in the first sense of the word, with their title in John Brockman's Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite ( 1996 ) in parentheses when they have one, include:

Two other accounts are given in Norbert Brockman's ( 1997 ) Encyclopedia of Sacred Places.

The residence hall is named in memory of Brockman's mother and grandmother, both of whom were named Pearl.

From October through early November 2000, she did all the actual composing in Jane Brockman's Santa Monica studio with Brockman serving as recording engineer.

These contemporary life conditions ( Historic Times ; Geographic Place ; Existential Problems ; and Societal Circumstances ) are explored in books like Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark ( New York: Ballantine Books, 1996 ), John Brockman's The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ( New York: Touchstone Books, 1996 ), and Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudo-science, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time ( New York: W. H.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.

* Twelve red-bearded dwarfs, with a penchant for farcical litigation.

Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions throughout his career.

He is the only person that has that peculiar something called ' audience appeal ' in sufficient quality to defy the popular penchant for movies that talk.

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.

This allowed Barks to indulge his penchant for elaborate backgrounds that hinted at his thwarted ambitions of doing realistic stories in the vein of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.

His penchant for the rugged life often took him to cold and damp situations, both in the long term as in Catalonia and Jura, and short term, for example, motorcycling in the rain and suffering a shipwreck.

This was more to preserve the logical precision of the argument than due to a penchant for polytheism.

The two shared a mutual penchant for cocaine and heroin, and as a result, the sessions were largely unproductive, with Parsons eventually losing interest in the project.

Most remarkable is Sushruta's penchant for scientific classification:

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

With David Angel's atmospheric string and horn arrangements giving the work a conceptual underpinning, Lee explores mainstream America's penchant for paranoia (' The Red Telephone ') and violence (' A House Is Not a Motel ') with songs that are as sonically subtle and lilting as they are lyrically blunt and harrowing.

The first five games in the series concern the renegade guardian of the planet Terra (" Earth " in Latin ), named Sheltem, who becomes irrevocably corrupted, developing a penchant for throwing planets into their suns.

The 1880s saw the club develop a penchant for inter-colonial travel with trips to Tasmania ( 1881 / 1887 ) and South Australia ( 1889 ).

Britain's Deviants, in the late 1960s, played in a range of psychedelic styles with a satiric, anarchic edge and a penchant for situationist-style spectacle presaging the Sex Pistols by almost a decade.

He also demonstrated a penchant for learning, and, according to Cristoforo di Piacenza, he was without famiglia in an age of nepotism, although once in the papal chair he elevated four cardinal-nephews and sought to place one of them in control of Naples.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

Winchell's casual writing style famously earned him the ire of mobster Dutch Schultz, who confronted Winchell at New York's Cotton Club and publicly lambasted him for using the phrase " pushover " to describe Schultz's penchant for blonde women.

Bad Taste begins Jackson's penchant for using the Morris Minor in his films-Giles drives a Morris Minor.

Later, Arnett's guest appearance as Max the Magician on Sesame Street referenced his Arrested Development character's penchant for using Europe's " The Final Countdown " during his magic shows.

He continued the Russian penchant for the whole tone scale, using it in the piece Les demons s ' amusent, included into the melomimic suite Les Rêves ( Dreams, 1899 ).

He retains his penchant for historical weapons, and in his brief stint as the Red Robin he's shown using a Mauser as his sidearm of preference.