epguideiconEPISODE NUMBER: 5137 (October 28, 2009)
GUESTS: Brian Cox
SEGMENTS: Joe Lieberman does not support the public option, The WØRD: You-Genics, Supercollider being sabatoged from the future
VIDEOS: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

I don’t know if it’s because Stephen’s hair is finally at 100% of the Pre-Iraq length, or if he spent a day at a spa on his week off, or what, but he has looked particularly lovely this week. Just glowing.

Tonight was one of those WØRDs that delighted me with the leap of logic satire that tends to spin my head on occasion. To see it done on Fox News by O’Reilly or Beck is infuriating, but to see Stephen masterfully go from people being uninsured to suggesting a Master Race of insurable women and insurance companies’ CEOs was brilliant and most definitely head-spinning.

And can I get an Amen about the official return of Bobby!! What a funny way to bring him back! The whole Time Travel motif this evening, with the supercollider segment and Future Stephen coming back, was made of silly. And I love how Stephen finds a way to use that shiny metal suit at any opportunity. I also love how Future Stephen doesn’t wear glasses.

The interview tonight was fantastic. I loved how Stephen kept coming up with insights that actually freaked out the guest a bit. And I loved even more that Stephen seemed to be so adorkably proud of that fact.

What did all of you enjoy about the episode tonight?

Future Stephen Colbert - brought to you by Jiffy Pop

  • Joe [Lieberman] is a true independent. He’s independent of political parties, he’s independent of his constituents.
  • That’s why before I have sex, I call Allstate. Then I know I’m in good hands.
  • A kid that skinny doesn’t need health coverage. Why pay for an x-ray when we can just hold her up to a bright light?
  • We are a commodity, like gold or hog futures. [Which Reminds Me, Swine Flu Not Covered]
  • [Orange You Glad He Didn't Say Kidney Failure?]
  • You’re saying Stephen, Master Race has such ugly connotations. ["Amazing Race" Was Taken]
  • [What a DNA-Hole]
  • It figures a bunch of Europeans would accelerate God around a track and try to smash him to pieces.
  • These physicists are clearly building on their ground-breaking grammar school treatise, Tomorrow Ate My Homework.
  • The future’s always keeping us from doing fun stuff. “Oh Stephen, you can’t eat a 12 egg omelet every morning, because ‘in the future’ your heart might explode.”
  • Stephen: Well this ends now, folks. I’m not going to take the future coming into its past, our present, lying down. From now on, the future’s going to have to come through me if it wants to play games with time and space and bend reality to suit its whims, right Bobby?
    Bobby: Absolutely.
  • Cool Ranch flavor does not appear in nature, my friend. That’s technology.
  • I asked an excellent question of a physicist.
  • Brian Cox: You’re saying sensible things, it’s going horribly wrong.

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