Quote from Kripke in the episode Spoiler: Gary Dies
Stuart: With all due respect, my liege, how is it that you're the... the grand... Kripke: Cawiph. Stuart: Caliph of South Pasadena? Kripke: [sighs] I suppose we have time for a wittle backstory. Uh, I apologize. You guys have heard this before. Uh, when everything went screwy and civilization as we know it cowapsed, a vacuum of weadership was created here at the university, and as we all know... Bert: [hesitates] Nature abhors a vacuum? Kripke: Wight-o. So, I seized power, got all the food, the guns, and the girls. Yeah, end of backstory.