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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>I for one welcome our new X overlords</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html" title="I see no X here."/><link rel="next" href="IANAL.html" title="IANAL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">I for one welcome our new X overlords</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="I-see-no-X-here-.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="IANAL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="I-for-one-welcome-our-new-X-overlords"/><dt xmlns="" id="I-for-one-welcome-our-new-X-overlords"><b>I for one welcome our new X overlords</b></dt></dt><dd><p>Variants of this phrase with various values of X came into common use
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in 2002-2003, generally used to suggest that whatever party referred to as
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the new overlords is deeply evil. In the original
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<i class="citetitle">Simpsons</i> episode <a href="http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-146/epid-1381/" target="_top">(#96,
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<i class="citetitle">Homer In Space</i>)</a> X = “<span class="quote">insect</span>”
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and th line is part of a speech in which a smarmy newscaster expresses his
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willingness to collaborate with an invading race of giant space
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