Can you hear me in the cone of silence?

I kept hearing the words Cone of Silence today and it sounded so familiar. It came from Get Smart as the wikipedia and this commercial point out. Of course to our national debate and Presidential election are now referring to a failed technology on a television show about an inept (no offense meant Maxwell)  spy with no regard to the absurdity of its source. Still if this becomes something, bad form to cheat in a church.