I can't take that much credit for just riffing on "Forbidden Planet". And it doesn't go that far; who plays the professor-analog, and who gets to be Robbie the Robot? (OK, maybe Spicey for the goofy robot.)

This is the sort of glimpse of a ray of sunlight amidst the darkness that gives me hope. The bad guys aren't supervillains, they're just ordinary villains powered by ignorance and malice. The intellectuals and experts and fact-checkers of the world may well get the last laugh, as the right's anti-intellectualism and mindless authoritarianism prove to be their fatal weakness.

You can go far on pure bullshit. But you can't go the distance and produce results on bullshit alone. In the long run it's the thinkers who win the war.