Mr. Show - Blow Up the Moon

Laser Time · 260.7K views · 2015-11-13 · 3:56

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Overview

A Mr. Show sketch, 'Blow Up the Moon', in which characters cheerfully argue for blowing up the moon.

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Used purely as a joke reference in threads about the moon, Project A119 and big dumb ideas.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2018–2025

Topics

Stand-up & sketch comedy

What people said

tombert · 2025-03 · Joke / meme
Hell yeah! It would be very cool if we are able to properly colonize the moon in my lifetime. Even if we don't have humans living there like in Futurama (as cool as that would be), it would be unbelievably cool if we have constant back-and-forth trips to the moon. Or we could just blow it up, which might be fun in its own right: [VIDEO]
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wormius · 2024-04 · Joke / meme
"Tonight we can, will and must blow up the moon." "Earth First: We're earthlings, we should blow up earth things. No to blowing up the moon!" [VIDEO]
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reddog · 2021-11 · Joke / meme
Sure this makes complete sense and everyone I know is all for it, but shouldn't we be concentrating on blowing up the moon first? [VIDEO]
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