Mooninites for morons

Attention, citizens of Boston (and over-sensitive drama queens everywhere)!

This is a mooninite. A mooninite is an advanced, absurdly arrogant and highly annoying creature from the Moon. They first appeared in an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in October of 2001 and have since been featured in five additional shows (they showed up again for single episodes in 2002, 2003 and 2006, and in two 2004 episodes). The original mooninites episode is still probably the show's zenith (although for me, it's a toss-up between the mooninites and The Wisdom Cube).

They are all excellent spellers, but they are not terrorists. And those alleged bomb-like packages that got Boston's panties all in a twist? This is what they looked like. Terrified yet?

Some people were -- and are -- highly upset about the fact that a couple of "hoaxsters" put these up in Boston (funny -- in nine other cities the people who put them up were called "marketers" and nobody got upset). Then again, some people really need to get over themselves. It's a stupid joke. Laugh or don't. But don't ask me to take this stuff so seriously.

We do whatever we want whenever we want, at all times. -Ignignokt, a moonite

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[jmsloop]

Boston: All your base are belong to us.

[Vera]

I HEART Aqua Teen Hunger Force--the Mooninites ones are the best (the Foreigner belt episode is hysterical!!!), and I wish that marketing campaign had been in Charleston.

The cynic in me says that Boston helped Turner Broadcasting get more "bang" for the buck, and even if they have to pay Boston the $750K, it's cheaper than Super Bowl airtime.

[Nightwind]

It took me two days to figure out what the story actually even was. All of the articles about this disastrous case on CNN have been written with the assumption that all readers will clearly see how bomblike these devices appear. I read through story after story that simply said that when these signs were found, bridges and rivers and intersections were closed due to concerns of terrorism. I would blink, then blink again, figuring there much be an entire paragraph that is invisible to me but obvious to the author.

And then there started being mention of how these light up signs have wires of all things, and it starts to dawn on me wait a minute, lighted signs show up and Bostonians presumed they were bombs? Is that really what they're (badly) reporting? Does Boston not have electronic billboards? Do people panic every time a new stop light is installed? Is the entire town still lit exclusively by gas?

Clearly Boston was in desparate need of these signs. Welcome to the 21st century, Boston. Yes, we have electricity. And signs. And occasionally the signs even flip us off. Do not panic. This is normal.