I think it was :homer-bye:
You could alternately see it as an Elon Musk-type figure selling the town of Springfield a gadgetbahn when they could have solved their problem with a regular bus or train for half the price and double the reliability.
…but the average viewer probably interpreted it as being anti public transit.
Springfield does have a school bus, I think. idk where that fits into the bus/train thing, we don’t have them where we live (but we have a lot of regular buses and a C+ train network)
Also there have been a shitload of crappy American monorail projects.
:wtyp-gang: or maybe just donoteat01 did a video on the general phenomenon of American transit authorities preferring flashy new garbage to known, workable solutions, and monorails tend to fit the bill because they’re pointlessly slow, have short routes, and fail to use rail standards - but they’re cool hotness
The part of Nimoy was originally written to be George Takei. Takei wouldn’t do it because he considered it anti public transit; Takei was also doing commercials for the Milwaukee bus system at the time.
Conan didn’t consider it anti public transit and isn’t anti public transit himself, but he’s a massive End of History lib, so ideology played a role in public transit being the punching bag.
