Lay Lines by Carol Lay for March 01, 2021

PETA might have some issues with the treatment of other specimens in the zoo, though.

At least it’s not a Slaughter-House.

Suspicions confirmed.

Aliens also need entertainment.

The Tr(h)uman Show

That really explains a lot…

This is kind of like an episode of Ancient Aliens from the History Channel combined with the Twilight Zone starring Roddy McDowall who ended up as the new marquee exhibit in a Martian zoo….

As did others, I immediately thought of Jim Carrey as Truman and Roddy McDowall as the hapless astronaut.

In the interest of science.

So the aliens are watching us making fools of ourselves while watching other people on tv making fools of themselves. How meta.

I used to think that we were inmates in an interplanetary penal colony. One day the truth dawned on me as I watched the many migrants looking for asylum – we had all been committed and didn’t know it…

IIRC there was a Futurama episode like this

I dream of being the only real person on Earth. Everyone else is just actors.