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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Why do so many people think the heads in the head jars are frozen?! It's so annoying... They wouldn't be able to talk or move if they were frozen! Example from this article: The pair, who met when working together in the 1990s at Groening's The Simpsons, recently began hosting the Futurama video podcast, which runs on iTunes and the Comedy Central website. They appear on the show with their (illustrated) frozen heads in a jar — a nod to a joke on Futurama about how some of us will stay alive in later years.
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MuchAdo
Professor
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It is another Weinstein episode. But I think it's cool that Mars is sorta acting like a moon for Earth. When the two planets sorta collided, my mind was blown. It was pretty damn awesome! Anyway, I remember one of the staff mentioning an arc for this season. Maybe it's Viva Mars Vegas.
Good to know... that someone else is excited about the after effects of everything that went down and will internally affect the series. I'm excited to see what will happen to the Wong's.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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I'm excited to see what will happen to the Wong's.
"Hey Amy, we even closer to you than we were before, why you no visit us more often? And where are those grandchildren?"
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Louiswuenator
Starship Captain
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Loved Matt's bit about the drones and how you can't reason with them. Sounded exactly like what he said back in the commentary for "Fear of a Bot Planet" I think, where he talked about how he was afraid of robots as a kid for that same reason. Nice to see him plug King of the Hill, too. Also this bit: Cohen: "A major use of the Internet here at Futurama, which I wouldn't have seen when we started … we go to fan-run sites to see what we did on old episodes. (The show launched in 1999.) We don't have our own resources and don't need them. The fans have taken over them, and we go there every day." So that's who all of the non registered visitors are on PEEL.
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Frida Waterfall
Professor
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Look, I really wanted to post more but I've just been busy/lazy. But just hours before "Decision 3012" comes on, I just want to set the record (or make a fool out of myself) and state that the sci-fi twist at the end of this episode is going to be that Chris Travers doesn't have a birth certificate as he wasn't born, he was hatched or created or spudded/etc. So, yeah, he's an Earthling, just not natural-born. I can imagine the argument would be made that it doesn't matter how someone's beginning is, it is what they do with it.
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Frida Waterfall
Professor
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That's an interesting theory. I can see that idea actually being the twist of the episode.
THANK YOU!I have more theories, but I'm too lazy to bring them up. I should change my avatar to a Frida Waterfall-Sal, but that's too much effort.
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Frida Waterfall
Professor
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Maybe in the future, you can grow all types of humans, from teachers to presidential candidates, in the same way you can buy sea monkeys in their powder form. Just add water!
Never quite understood sea monkeys. I still associate them with miniature sea-dwelling primates. If not, the advanced nuclear civilization of sea people in South Park. Now that the episode has aired, I can rightfully say I was [mostly] incorrect with my prediction. The conclusion, I must say, was much more sci-fi than I ever could have imagined. I'm cool with being wrong this time because that was a refreshing twist, but can't I be right just once (well, I was right in my prediction of the romantic conclusion of "Bender's Big Score", but who couldn't see that coming)?
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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Yep, the "not being born, but otherwise created" idea was great. I also would have pre.ferd that one
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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So Comedy Central is doing its part to celebrate the Fourth of July by showing a block of four politically-oriented episodes: "A Head in the Polls," "300 Big Boys," "All the Presidents' Heads," and "A Taste of Freedom." I find this immensely amusing, for some reason (the inclusion of "300 Big Boys" in particular tickles me; it's like, "Let's celebrate America by pointing out how frivolous its citizens are with their money!" Very festive).
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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So, the 3 arcs we have going on (so far) this season are: - What's going on with Mars? I'm assuming it will have to be destroyed, as it was the end of the world for it...
- Is Calculon dead for good?
- How does the PE prom come into everything? (Remember, DXC said in one of the podcasts that there will be a full PE prom, but he didn't say it wouldn't be in 'A Farewell to Arms'...)
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Svip
Administrator
DOOP Secretary
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What the hell is the PE prom?
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Planet Express prom. Fry cuts Leela's head out of the photo and sticks it on his ticket to Mars. The photo was released way back near the start of the Countdown.* When they talk about it on one of the Podcasts, DXC says we get to see a full PE prom. *
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Svip
Administrator
DOOP Secretary
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So exactly what I presumed it to be? Weird. I think it might be a time travel thing, this.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Yeah someone suggested that in the review thread too.
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #197 on: 07-16-2012 09:30 »
« Last Edit on: 07-16-2012 09:52 »
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That's a very plausible idea, cyber. Maybe the only way they can get Fry and Leela to remember each other is for the Professor to invent some machine that forces them to 'relive' the prom. (I don't think time travel would work because the prom takes place before S7 started, and none of the others have indicated any foreknowledge of the events of FOAB. Though I could be wrong.)
Possible, though I doubt it. I think it would be just too much time consuming, as the Oktoberfest, the sausage making contest, and the Neanderthal battle are already strong motives. My bet is on a shock effect during the Fry/Leela fight, in which they realise after a few strikes that they in fact do not really want to hurt each other. Would also come full circle with my other guess of Leela losing her mind to a certain degress after realising the ingredients of the Fry sausage: One shock to lose the memory, another one to restore it, a common comedy trope. Might also fix the splitting up: Making a scene for someone being drunk is one think, seeing the death of that person might make you reconsider wether some drunken shenanigans are really worth such a fuzz...
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Yeah but the Scooby-Doo HB animation is older than the one The Ricky Gervais Show is based off of.
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