Futurama Riddles

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If you solve mine, post the next one! Rhyming quartets are dandy. I'll start with an easy one.

Within the yellow were kindred souls
Alike in all ways save one
Focused intently on grandmother's goals
He went and missed all the fun!

[Reply #1 on:]

Is it from Bendin In The Wind?  I remember in that episode Hermes didn't go, and Fry mentioned something about his Grandma's ashes.

Or is it Roswell That Ends Well?

[Reply #2 on:]

You could've given us an easier one to start with don't you think?

[Reply #3 on:]

Farnsworth Parabox.

[Reply #4 on:]

I thought this was an easy one!

SoS has the episode right, but I was referring to a specific person.

[Reply #5 on:]

OK, Hermes in Farnsworth Parabox.

[Reply #6 on:]

That's it! Your turn.

[Reply #7 on:]

I'll defer. Bit busy.

[Reply #8 on:]

Excellent thread idea! I got that first one, most excellent.

In the bowels deep below
Where rhymes ran free
Only this tiny instrument
Could help our heroes flee!

[Reply #9 on:]

A gold violin that weighs hundreds of pounds and sounds crummy?

[Reply #10 on:]

You are correct sir!

[Reply #11 on:]

How is that a "tiny" instrument? It's relatively smaller than a number of other musical instruments, but I'm not so sure about it being tiny.

[Reply #12 on:]

Created by MOS Technology,
Over one thousand years in the past.
Used every day for robopsychology,
For however much longer it lasts.

[Reply #13 on:]

Bender's 6502 main CPU?

[Reply #14 on:]

That was quick.

[Reply #15 on:]

Yeah, I like old microprocessors.

The day it came to Earth,
The end was near.
It's what the humans deserve,
Everybody did fear.

[Reply #16 on:]

V-GINY?

[Reply #17 on:]

How is that a "tiny" instrument? It's relatively smaller than a number of other musical instruments, but I'm not so sure about it being tiny.

I felt "golden" would have really given it away, and compared to another instrument reference from that scene, the drums (they're sorta similar) it's relatively tiny.

[Reply #18 on:]

I thought maybe you were hoping that "bowels" and "tiny" would make people think of "Parasites Lost" (plus there's another musical instrument in that episode, though it's not too tiny either, nor is it involved in the heroes' escaping anything).

[Reply #19 on:]

V-GINY?

No, but something similar.

[Reply #20 on:]

Okay... Big Ball of Garbage?

[Reply #21 on:]

Yes, it's your turn.

[Reply #22 on:]

A half dollar less than an invincible comb
Clear wrapping shimmering in the light
Delicious black cracker for deliverymen
Leading straight into some parasites

[Reply #23 on:]

It's like a party in my mouth and everybody's throwing up!

[Reply #24 on:]

A Gas Station Men's Room!?

[Reply #25 on:]

It's pretty obvious by now that it's Parasites Lost.

[Reply #26 on:]

Although he didn't give the exact answer, it's pretty obvious Xanfor and everyone else know it was the sandwich. Your go again, Xanfor!

[Reply #27 on:]

I don't know if everyone actually grasped that it was the sandwich itself.  But Xanfor certainly won the answer through recursive logic.  I really like your thread though. WHO THE FUCK IS SINGING THIS THSHIT? It's a really neat game... and you're


What are those?  Rhymes?  Patterns? Shapes?Couplets?Limericks?

I can't remember anymore..... it's neat.... this is a thinking game of actual thinking instead of random guessing. Hmmm.  Let us not hesitate.

[Reply #28 on:]

From these five little settings
(And five buttons to match),
Came the loss of some dressings,
And a hard-to-work catch.

[Reply #29 on:]

Oh, oh. Is it the shapeshifter from A Leela of her Own?

Edit: Elcazar!

[Reply #30 on:]

There was a shapeshifter? Dang, I need to rewatch this series.

[Reply #31 on:]

I don't know if everyone actually grasped that it was the sandwich itself.

Yeah. I'm sorry I keep criticizing the riddles, but that one made it seem like the answer was something to the effect of "the contents of the vending machine in the truck stop men's room."

Edit: Elcazar!

Alcazar.

This is a bad pattern I'm getting into.

[Reply #32 on:]

Alcazar is from 'A Bicyclops Built for Two' not 'A Leela of Her Own'...

[Reply #33 on:]

That is true as well. Well spotted.

[Reply #34 on:]

Haha, whoops. My mistake.

[Reply #35 on:]

Ohhh the shapeshifter is Alcazar, doy! Hahahaha wow.

[Reply #36 on:]

Shame on you all, Alcazar is highly offended!

He even made it into the Crowd Scene in ITWGY!

[Reply #37 on:]

Since I saw DS9 when I think shapeshifter I think weird no teeth guy...although he probably did have teeth

[Reply #38 on:]

No, it's not Alcazar. But Tedward has got me thinking that maybe it's a lousy riddle.

I'll give it a short while longer.

[Reply #39 on:]

It's a machine of some kind.