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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 25 March 2024 at 11:09pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

Okay, so I have been noticing this for some time, most particularly with regards to news journalism on the various networks: The use of the phrase "on Earth-Two" or similar referencing of "Earth-Two." Minutes before deciding to make a post about this, I was watching an interview with CNN personality Jake Tapper, and he used the phrase "on Earth-Two." I mean, this might not be an everyday thing, but it's also being used a considerable number of times that I have made special note of it.

So... Has anyone else here picked up on this? Also, I am pretty sure "Earth-Two" originated with comic books, with DC, naturally, during the Silver-Age. Was "Earth-Two" a thing before this? Certainly, in the context I am hearing it used on these news programs, it seems to be referencing the DC version in that it means to evoke a reality close to ours, but yet different in significant ways.

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Posted: 26 March 2024 at 12:57pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

I haven't heard any newscasters using "on Earth-Two", but I have heard the occasional use of "on Bizarro world"... which, to a non-comics-reader, could mean just about the same thing, depending on the context.

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Posted: 26 March 2024 at 1:02pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Phrases like “two point oh” have been around for quite a while, emerging from our subservience to computers. It’s not hard to imagine “Earth 2” evolving from this without any specific knowledge of the comic book version.

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Posted: 26 March 2024 at 1:26pm \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

Haven't heard this myself, but will keep an ear out for it now.

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Posted: 26 March 2024 at 11:40pm \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

I've heard Nicole Wallace mention "Earth Two" in regards to NBC hiring former RNC Chairwomen Ronna McDaniel.

I also heard during newscasts, late night talk shows, and comedies over the past 2 decades.

Some of my family and friends get the joke, others do not.

Edited by James Johnson on 26 March 2024 at 11:40pm

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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 27 March 2024 at 3:59pm \| IP Logged \| 6	post reply

I've noticed it a few times two.

When Reagan was around there were a lot of references to Bizarro world, not sure they were all made by readers of Superman. Saturday Night Live showed him living on a square planet though and with distorted speech.

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