Futurama and information theory

According to the article The Truth About Bender’s Brain in the May 2009 issue of IEEE Spectrum, one of the writers of Futurama, Ken Keeler, “confirms that he does read every issue of IEEE Spectrum and occasionally looks at the Transactions on Information Theory.” So is it true that source coding people are more funny than channel coding people?

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