It’s not a terrible metric if it’s used as it was initially intended. IQ was supposed to be a benchmark to show where you’re at, like weighing yourself on a scale. Then you’re supposed to take measures to improve it. It was never meant to be a defining attribute or a contest. Bragging about having a higher IQ than someone makes as much sense as bragging about how much skinnier you are than someone else. Bragging about having a 135 IQ makes as much sense as bragging about weighing 135 lbs.

Your ideas aren’t original anyway. For every script that makes it to production, there’s another 1000 in the rejection pile that have the same basic story and probably a lot of similar dialog and jokes.

How does a first time chef ensure someone along the way doesn’t rip off their cheeseburger recipe?

The super-dimensional beings that wrote the chicken script came first.