Tina is Ye Wenjie, and that is really not a good sign
3 BODY PROBLEMS could have been good | Netflix series review
The shiny new adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, from the guys who made Game of Thrones, may be the biggest show on Netflix right now, but it's not the only adaptation worth watching. Sure, there's also the longer, more thorough and faithful Chinese version of the series, but that's not the one we mean either. No, instead the best adaptation of this story comes straight from the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers.
Season 9, Episode 9 of Bob's Burgers is called "UFO No You Didn't," and while the name doesn't give any such clues, it's actually more or less an adaptation/parody of Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past series.
The episode begins with Tina being paired with her classmate Susmita for a science fair project. Despite Tina's best efforts to do nothing, Susmita insists that they try to send a radio signal into space to contact aliens. When their classmate Henry hears this plan, he immediately says it's a bad idea, then goes on to briefly explain a slightly altered version of the Dark Forest theory. That theory, which takes its name from the second book in Liu's series, posits that we haven't discovered aliens because they're all hiding from something more powerful than them. Of course, that doesn't stop Tina and Susmita from sending the message anyway. However, anticipating their brazen lack of fear of the potential of more advanced alien races, Henry intercepts their signal and sends them a similar, if funnier, version of the message Ye receives in The Three-Body Problem, beginning with "Dear idiots of Earth”, followed by a warning not to send any more messages.
