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{{quote|''"'''Earth (The Book)''' is a 2010 humor parody satire book written by the authors of the popular television program '''[[Did Not Do the Research|The John]] [[
The [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[America
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* [[Audio Adaptation]]: Read by [[Sigourney Weaver]], no less.
* [[Church of Happyology]]: Notably averted. The book takes several potshots at the Church of Scientology explicitly and by name. One quote about the book attributed to L. Ron Hubbard on the cover reads,
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* [[Confess in Confidence]]: Subverted. There is a transcript of a confession where the person confesses to: speeding, a hit-and-run, hitting a cop in the hit-and-run, robbing a bank, and murdering people in the robbery. This causes the priest lots of discomfort. It seems completely played straight, until you realize it was transcribed. This is lampshaded, saying the transcriptions were for 'insurance purposes.'
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* [[Face Palm]]: A rare textual example - see [[Humans Are Morons]], below.
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* [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]: The book claims that OJ Simpson used the actual Monopoly game card to avoid going to jail during the 1995 trial.
* [[Humanity Is Insane]]: The greater absurdities of human cultures, behaviors, and life situations are all wonderfully [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Anything that doesn't make us look crazy or evil makes us look like complete idiots. For instance, "not masturbating on a mass-transit system" is the example used to explain the "harsh, at times maddeningly frustrating trade-offs" that served as the basis for a '''social contract'''.
** Another example comes at the end of the FAQ Section on Chapter 2: Life, revolving around the author refusing to explain to aliens what creationism is, despite "billions of people" believing in it as the origin of life up until the end.
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A. Look, if you're so damn curious, check into a hotel room, open the bedside table and start reading.
'''Q. Hold on a moment. ''[Pause]'''''
'''Wow.'''
A. We know.
'''Q. Six days? ''Six days?!?'''''
A. ''[Covers eyes, shakes head]'' }}
* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: An in-universe example. In one of the FAQ Sections at the end of each chapter, the aliens ask (paraphrased) "what is the invention or scientific advancement that you most regret not accomplishing?" The answer: Jetpack, jetpack, jetpack, and jetpack would be 1 through 4, 5 would probably be the cure for cancer, then jetpack.
* [[Italians Talk
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* [[Nothing Personal]]: The stock phrase is mentioned and explained as just another absurdity of human nature (i.e. that trade is exempt from normal moral codes of conduct).
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Let's just say there's a good reason you can't buy this at Wal-Mart.
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* [[Parodic Table of the Elements]]: There's a "Periodic Table of the Synthetic" in the Science chapter.
* [[Shoot the Medic First]]: Parodied and taken to comedic extreme levels in the [[Geneva Convention]] section, on what exactly you are NOT allowed to do to Red Cross members.
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* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The section on Islam, which takes every effort to mention its peaceful nature and labels the religion as "a harmless beautiful daffodil blossoming in the desert". Then it tells you to meet in the book's index...
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: "Nothing horrified--or amused us--like Nazis."
* [[Uranus Is Showing]]: Uranus is described as being "the funniest planet by far," although any aliens would "have to spend about ten years learning idiomatic English to learn why." Lake Titicaca is also identified as "The 'Uranus' of Lakes."
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: "Love", as the book explains, [[Playing
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