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Clips from Love, Death & Robots - When the Yogurt Took Over (S01E01)

"[narrator] When the yogurt took over, we all made the same jokes."
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""Finally our rulers would have culture."
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"Our society is curdled."
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"Our government is now the cream of the crop," and so on."
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"But, when we weren't laughing about the absurdity of it all,"
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"we asked ourselves, "How did we ever get to the point where we were,"
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"in fact, ruled by a dairy product?""
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"Oh, as a matter of record, we knew how it happened."
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"Researchers took one of their most computationally advanced strains of DNA"
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"and grafted it onto Lactobacillus delbrueckii,"
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"commonly used to ferment yogurt."
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"Initial tests appeared to be failures."
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"However, one of the researchers sneaked some of the bacillus out of the lab"
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"to use for her homemade yogurt."
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"The night of June 27th, it became sentient."
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"[yawning]"
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"[gasping]"
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"The yogurt declared it had arrived at solutions"
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"to many of the country's problems."
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"But it wanted payment for that."
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"We."
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"Want."
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"Ohio."
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"[everyone laughs]"
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"That's fine, we will just go to China."
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"They promised us a whole province."
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"[president chuckles slowly]"
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"[narrator] The yogurt  was crafty and shrewd..."
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"and got a century-long lease on Ohio"
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"with the promise that it would respect the human and constitutional rights"
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"of those who lived within its borders."
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"[electronic humming]"
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"There it kept evolving, and soon,"
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"it handed over a complex formula"
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"to eradicate the national debt within one year."
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"[yogurt] Follow it exactly."
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"Any deviation will bring complete economic ruin."
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"We will."
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"[narrator] Naturally, the politicians didn't follow instruction."
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"Within six months, the global economy collapsed."
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"I am going to eat your little toes."
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"-[narrator] Only Ohio remained unscathed. -[baby laughs]"
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"[yogurt] We told you not to deviate from the plan."
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"Your experts are too close to the problem to solve it."
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"Any. Human. Is."
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"[narrator] The government declared  martial law,"
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"and gave the yogurt supreme executive power."
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"Of course, some people weren't pleased at first."
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"[crowd yells] Down with yogurt, down--"
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"The anti-government demonstrators--"
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"[erratic electronic music plays]"
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"[narrator] Now, ten years later, humanity is happy, healthy, and wealthy."
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"No one argues with the yogurt, no one tweaks its formulas."
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"That's how it happened, but we still ask ourselves,"
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"if the yogurt was smart enough to solve our debt problem,"
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"wasn't it also smart enough to realize that human intellectual vanity"
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"would keep us from following the formula exactly?"
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"Then there's this."
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"-In the past several weeks, the yogurt... -[rocket engines blasting]"
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"...has initiated several space launches."
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"Life from earth is going to the stars,"
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"it just may not be human life."
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"What happens if the yogurt goes to the stars without us?"
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"What happens if it goes and leaves us behind, forever?"
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