Woody Harrelson was the host of SNL on Saturday night. In his monologue, he shared a sci-fi/horror story he had pitched years ago that critics in 2023 are calling anti-science.

Woody's pitch was about "the biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and forcing all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs, and keep taking them, over and over."

But he threw the script away. After all, who would believe such a crazy idea?

Haters were quick to attack, for some reason. Rolling Stone magazine, which has been getting stories wrong since they threw William Miller under the bus for his article on Stillwater in the 70s, claims that in sharing a story idea he had years and years and years, Harrelson was spreading conspiracy theories.

But in Woody's defense, there were lots of stories that came out in the 90s and 00s. Take this X-Files clip.

Unlike Harrelson's idea, this insanity actually made air:

• Everything the “internet lunatic” said that sounded crazy in the end turned out to be true.
• “No one has the right or the ability to tamper with your DNA.” "Unless we gave them that ability.”
• The letters “R,” “N” and “A” used in that order. Though, to be fair, no lowercase “m.”
• "Your own government lies as a matter of course.”
• Joel McHale’s entire rant about a cabal taking over America, and then the world itself.

It must have been a Fox thing because The Simpsons in 2010 had a similar crazy idea:

I know it's just a cartoon, but this is utter ridiculousness:

• "We are here to come up with the next phony baloney crisis to put Americans back where they belong. In dark rooms too terrified to skip the commercials."
• They went with a good old-fashioned public health scare.
• It's an epidemic, and it's all the time.
• "We have standards. This can't be a made-up disease. The only moral thing to do is release a deadly virus into the general public.
• Homer Simpson burns everything the cat may have touched, because apparently, you can catch the new "cat flu" on shared surfaces.
• "Homer, stop burning. They have a schmaccine."

Woody Harrelson, unlike others, had enough sense to know his idea, even as pure fiction, was ridiculous. I don't get where the hate is coming from.

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