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Xanfor
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I dunno. I trust you. And come to think of it, my printer probably wouldn't have paper jams as much if it was tractor-fed. But I wouldn't be able to post on PEEL with a punch-card eater, so... ( )
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Cyan60
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wow some of you dont get a few jokes and Quimbly I'm not sure that the was a non-sequiter I mean it technically makes sense in the uncommon sense. As for the scary door it's a parody of the Twilight Zone an old 1980's show.
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Xanfor
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I liked the 1960's version better.
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Teral
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Originally posted by HipNoJoe: OK, I'll buy that.
Here's another one. They use 3.5 inch diskettes and video cassette tapes. I can't decide if they're trying to poke fun at sci-fi by using technology that's not cutting edge or if they were just not very imaginative with the technology. It's obvious that the pneumatic tube mail system is meant to be ironic since it's been obsolete for decades, but this started airing in 1999 and the 3.5" diskette had not yet gone away then and dvr's and dvd burners were not prevalent. Now this is just speculation, but it might also be a comment on the tendency for outdated standards and technologies to remain in modern computers, simply because it's too much of a hassle to do anything about them in a timely matter. Take the Y2k issue: back in the 70s it was a huge save in memory to only use 2 digits for years. Later the point became moot as the price on memory dropped, but by then it was too much work to rectify it and it didn't offer any benefits (that is until Y2k popped up) and so it remained. The 640k barrier is another example. Though it's probably a joke about Benders entire brain fitting on a 3.5'' floppy. Originally posted by Quimbly: The short answer: it's a non-sequitur.
It's funny because it DOESN'T make sense.
Actually it's a presupposition failure.
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transgender nerd under canada
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Originally posted by Teral: Actually it's a presupposition failure. OMGWTFBBQ! I was going to post that but figured that nobody on Offtopic would have a clue what I was talking about. For the 347th time, Teral, I salute you!
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Xanfor
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I'm allergic to stupidness. Just like a holocrew.
Anyways, shinyass and I own the copyright on the word 'Stupidity'. We're gonna aboelish it. With no word for 'Stupidity', there won't be any stupidity!
At least we can hope.
(And I can't believe tnuk ignored an opportunity to bash me. Well, let's see if he picks up on my mispelling of 'abolish'...)
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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The joke isn't so much about vampires and whatnot, it's the fact Bender is acting like a used car-salesman when trying to sell the kids. He might as well have said "how about this Pontiac then? 100% American produced, no Asian parts in there."
The vampire line is a simple non sequitur.
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JoshTheater
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« Reply #105 on: 02-25-2007 00:21 »
« Last Edit on: 02-25-2007 00:21 »
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Leela and Amy are in spandex in that scene?!?!Oh wait, of course they are. I just watched that episode with my mom (*JoshTheater levels up to "momma's-boy nerd status"*). She commented that she liked their wrestling outfits. Anyway, having just seen the episode again, I took it just as a joke that the animators like making the Professor's head really big (like in the third segment of AOI2), or that it's not a joke at all...just a simple hologram of only his head. But perhaps you're right. Anyway, get this: Instead of crying at the end of the episode, she LAUGHED, then said "He waited for him for the 12 whole years? That's so sad!" then laughed again. (She was being serious though, not sarcastic.) Still, very odd. And mean. I almost cried again. Stupid b****. Hehe, just kidding of course..."I love my mommy."
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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Yep, that's it. The joke is that at this point in the episode Fry doesn't have a nose, so naturally Amy with her limited (don't hurt me Kryten!) common sense is a bit confused.
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