Ford's Dreams Of Getting A Pop Quiz On What He's Attracted Reminds Me Of Mabel's Guide To Dating, Where

Ford's dreams of getting a pop quiz on what he's attracted reminds me of Mabel's Guide to Dating, where Mabel springs a 9000-question quiz on Soos, Dipper, and Stan to determine their dateability.

I mean, these two are on a similar wavelength, clearly.

SPOILERS FOR THE SIMS 4 STRANGERVILLE

Currently debating if I should have my Sim Stanford Pines eat the Bizarre Fruit.

On one hand, it'll get him possessed by the Mother Plant and I'm worried that'll be annoying to deal with. On the other hand, it is 10000% in character for this man to take one look at the "seriously don't eat this it's weird and dangerous" fruit and put it in his mouth. But on the other other hand, you'd think he'd have learned something from his experiences with Bill. (Well, I do, anyway.) But on the other other other hand, the story can be pre-character development.

So I'm going to let the good people of Tumblr decide! I'm sure I won't regret this at all!

"I'm not going to therapy!" -Bill

I've had this silly idea in my head for awhile and I feel like I need to get it out.

I've been speculating on what Ford's impact on the other dimensions he visited would be, and I can't help but feel like he'd end up on some other dimension's version of Cops at some point. Probably blasting triangles off the side of a building at 2 in the morning with a weapon that's illegal in seven sectors.

The police order him to stop and he calmly, but sternly explains that he can't because the triangle symbols are access points for an evil greater than all of them. The police are unimpressed, but he keeps arguing with them. They end up having to space-taser and tackle him to arrest him. Somebody photoshops a screencap of the footage so it looks like he's blasting a pretentious sculpture by Knish Karich (no relation to Anish Kapoor we swear!) instead. It goes viral and becomes a meme to photoshop "the suspect" blasting things the photoshopper dislikes. The meme gains some controversy because some netizens think it glorifies police brutality and mocks somebody who is obviously mentally ill. Other netizens think "the suspect" is awesome, and quote catchphrases from the footage ("you can't shoot me, I'm right!" in particular).

Gravity Falls is a nexus for the weird, and sometimes TVs there pick up signals from other worlds. Stan's TV happens to catch a documentary series about the other dimension's version of Cops. Stan initially is only watching the series because changing the channel would require him to Get Up and he's not doing that. Plus he shouted for Ford to change the channel and Ford refused. But then it starts talking about the series's biggest contribution to pop culture in that dimension and Stan realizes that he recognizes "the suspect." He shouts for Ford again, this time telling him that he's got a really, really good reason change the channel for him.

Ford had no idea they were even recording him for a TV show. Stan, being a typical brother, is teasing him mercilessly about it. Ford is horrified yet morbidly curious about what kinds of reality TV exist in other realities.

Ford's lucky Stan only got the other dimension's version of Cops, though. There's at least one Law and Disorder villain based on him in a dimension that conflated his actions with those of a glass-armonica-loving serial killer. He was also featured on Geonaz's Least Wanted, the true crime dating show that captures fugitives and their hearts.

That one is not that much of a stretch. Texas Instruments is first and foremost a semiconductor company. That means its main product is microchips (which TI made commercially viable and was instrumental in proliferating) and things that can be made from microchips like vocal synthesizers (like the Speak and Spell). Built from the ashes of the defunct Geophysical Service Incorporated in 1951, it actually did work for the seismology part of the oil industry and military defense before it invented the handheld calculator in 1967. Thematically, missiles aren't that far off from military submarine navigation systems and covert monitoring of Soviet nuclear tests.

Plus, the underlying math for calculating points in multidimensional space is basically the same regardless of what the space is or what the points represent. A calculator is highly generalized in functionality. So even if TI did start out as a calculator company, it really wouldn't be that hard from an engineering standpoint to take the basic calculation hardware (or more likely, multiple calculators' worth of hardware) and affix it to a missile rather than a dot-matrix screen.