Geoff Roberts wrote: It's a reference to the film "Planet of the Apes" in which Charlton Heston plays an astronaut who crashlands on a planet where humans are animals and apes have a civilization. The punchline happens after he's headed off into the wilderness and finds the Statue of Liberty (a New York harbor landmark) mostly buried and somewhat the worse for wear and realizes he's been home all along. There were four sequels made, though the scriptwriters started on the third in the series with a large handicap due to an ancient doomsday bomb having sterilized the Earth at the end of the second movie. The cable channel American Movie Classics recently ran all five films (several times each, sometimes in pan-and-scan, sometimes in letterbox), plus a two-hour special on the history and production of the series featuring interviews with most of the principal actors and hosted by the recently-departed Roddy McDowell, which I guess must have been his last project (back in the late 60s / early 70s when the films were made he played a chimpanzee in the first and third movies and the son of that chimp in the fourth and fifth, then he played yet another chimp in the short-lived television series in 1974). The book by Pierre Boulle, written and originally published in French, was rather better. There were no computers in the film or television series, except for some standard prop blinkenlights. -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.