There’s a disturbance in the matrix

This one was overheard in a conversation between a waitress and a customer. Perhaps one might overlook this jumbled phrase if one was not familiar with syfy, but our contributor, Dave Nemcsik recognized the malaphor. It is a mashup of “a disturbance in the Force” (said by Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope) and “a glitch in the Matrix” (discussed in The Matrix). Kudos to Dave Nemcsik for hearing this one and sending it in!