The Simpsons Season 3 Episode 5: “Homer Defined” The time for waiting and wiggling your thumbs is over. We know that the BRB signifies that shit’s about to go down and the protagonist needs to act. The virus is uploaded on to the Dark Web. Whatever had to be activated was activated.
But when you press the BRB (an abbreviation I totally made up), there’s no turning back.
We’ve seen this is a million and one films and TV shows and stories. Everybody lives.)īig Red Buttons are big and obvious and tempting to press. In this case, he is able to save the day. (I’m sure you know the rest of it – the Doctor always saves the day, until he doesn’t. When he finds it, he grins and slams his hand on top of it in a satisfying manner, thereby ending an alien race’s control over the human population of Great Britain. Granted, he was on an alien spaceship and giving a very good, if blustering, speech about Lion King and tannins in tea, but really, he was looking for that Big Red Button that he could press and release (what we assume to be) a lot of people standing on top of their roofs, waiting to be mind (well, blood)-controlled into jumping from that height. In the first Christmas special of the rebooted Doctor Who in 2005/2006 (I can’t quite remember when it was first broadcast), David Tennant - playing the freshly-regenerated Tenth Doctor for the first time in his pajamas and robe and with his hair all sticking up - talks about a big red button. Not really the episode I was talking about, but this is much more cinematic, don’t you think? (This one’s from the 50th Anniversary, “The Day of the Doctor” and it also has a Big Red Button.)