Jokes you didnt get,

[Reply #240 on:]

It's not a joke, like you're gonna get a rimshot after it, it's just a cool thing to reference, just to see who gets it.  It weeds out the supernerds from the mere nerd poseurs.

Edit: TOTPD

[Reply #241 on:]

See, I didn't even get that. Ignorance is bliss

[Reply #242 on:]

Is the "that dog won't hunt, monsignor/ monsigneur" line a reference to something specific?


 

Originally posted by futuramamama:
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[Reply #243 on:]

Another joke i didnt get was those people hiding to the side of the beach in Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love.

What were they there for?

[Reply #244 on:]

Observing the mating habits of Zoidberg's people?

[Reply #245 on:]

But these people are Zoidbergs species. It doesnt make any sense to me. All the men are supposed to be doing their ritual and the women are supposed to be selecting a mate.

[Reply #246 on:]

They're perverts and losers who can't mate 

[Reply #247 on:]

Sort of like the decapodian version of SweetSweetCandy's avatar!

[Reply #248 on:]

I see. Just sick animals with telescopes and trenchcoats.

One more thing. Even though its not really a joke.
In Anthology Of Interest 2, a computer game creature comes down the stairs of the spaceship and says "All your base are belong to us." IS that from a computer game cos i heard it in a techno song a while ago too.

[Reply #249 on:]

It's from a game called Zero Wing that was badly translated from Japanese to English, resulting in lines like that.  A couple years ago someone made a song out of it.  Learn more:

www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml

db.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/file/zero_wing.txt

[Reply #250 on:]

Yeah, the mysterious Cats set me up the bomb! It was great. Is Zero Wing available en some kind of emulator?

[Reply #251 on:]

It's on Genesis I believe.

Which reminds: "What in Sega Genesis happened to you?"  I don't get the Prof's sayings, but they make me laugh.

[Reply #252 on:]

As Leela asks in 'A fishful of dollars', who was Ted Danson?

[Reply #253 on:]

I find it hard to believe that you don't know who Ted Danson is.

[Reply #254 on:]

Is the "Boneitus" in the eighties guy episode just a very lame joke, or does it referr to anything special and clever? Because it's not a funny name for a horrible sickness (I cannot spell deasece [see]), IT'S A LAME JOKE, FOR A MORONIC SICKNESS!

[Reply #255 on:]

firstly, disease
secondly, its not that its a funny name its the fact fry laughs and says 'thats a funny name' in a childlike way regardless of the horrible disease the man has.
A bit like if a 25 year old was to laugh at the word cancer when someone tells him they have it.
Its just a 'shock value' kinda joke.

[Reply #256 on:]

I still think the name itself is some kind of joke. Bone disease: Bone-itis. That would be like if blindness was called eye-itis... it's not a good joke, I admit that.

[Reply #257 on:]

I sometimes think that the reason Fry laughed it because it sort of sounds like "boner-tis", and of course Fry's going to laugh at something like that due to his immaturity.

However, I doubt that the writers would make a joke like that, so I think the whole joke is just the fact that the name is so unorginal.

[Reply #258 on:]

Here's something that's been bothering me for a long time:  In The Why of Fry, what's that sign that says "Stroganoff customers only" or whatever supposed to mean?

[Reply #259 on:]

I believe it is because Beef Stroganoff is known to... well- cause tremor in your stomach and intestines. So the sign is made to shorten the queue to the big white phone.

[Reply #260 on:]

In Time Keeps Slippin', Bubblegum Tate says to Fry "86 that ....." right after Fry tries to soften Leela up to go out with him with champagne.
What does 86ing mean?

[Reply #261 on:]

It just means to get rid of or throw out.

[Reply #262 on:]

It means to dump, reject or dismiss something.

So when Tate tell Fry to "86 the chump stuff, F-man. It's time to win Leela's heart with a big, showy, three-point, romantic gesture" he's saying he should drop the akward attempts of getting a date he's doing now, and do something big and romantic.

Edit: Heh, took too long searching for the quote.   

[Reply #263 on:]

Ok this is my first post so right off the bat I'd like to say hello to everyone. Now in the sting there are two jokes/refrences I don't get .
Hermes: Honeycomb big. Yeah Yeah Yeah
Bender or Fry: It's not small?
Hermes: No No No

Leela: It'll take more than some deadly deadly bees

I know these are refrences to something though to what I have no idea.

[Reply #264 on:]

Congratulations on your new profile, iamkiffkroker (are you really?)... And welcome.
I cannot really help you with the question, I just wanted to greet...

[Reply #265 on:]

 

Originally posted by iamkiffkroker:
Ok this is my first post so right off the bat I'd like to say hello to everyone. Now in the sting there are two jokes/refrences I don't get .
Hermes: Honeycomb big. Yeah Yeah Yeah
Bender or Fry: It's not small?
Hermes: No No No

I can help you with this one.  The joke's based on an old ad campaign for Post's Honeycomb cereal in the 80's.  Read this to get more information than you need.  You'll find the key words near the bottom of the article.  Yes, you can find anything on the internet.

[Reply #266 on:]

Wow that was odd! But, atleast I think I get the joke now.

[Reply #267 on:]

In Love and Rocket, Leela says "Shields to maximum Yarnell!" Yarnell?

[Reply #268 on:]

there is a miming duo by the name of Shields and Yarnell. I'm sure the reference is to them.

[Reply #269 on:]

 

Originally posted by bankrupt:
 I can help you with this one.  The joke's based on an old ad campaign for Post's Honeycomb cereal in the 80's.  Read this to get more information than you need.  You'll find the key words near the bottom of the article.  Yes, you can find anything on the internet.

Holy nuts, I remember seeing that commericial was I was really little in the early 90's.  Seeing those pictures on that site suddenly brought memories back.

[Reply #270 on:]

When you were really little?  Thanks for making me feel old, Leah.  I remembered that commercial as being from just a few years ago.  Then again, I usually think of the early 90s as only being a few years ago.  I guess that I am getting old.
 

[Reply #271 on:]

 

Originally posted by SwanMan3000:
'this isnt a war this is a moider'- War is the H word. whats all that about?

perhaps it's "this isn't a war, this is a murder"?

[Reply #272 on:]

Oh, I have a question actually. What's that joke with the giant can of Tab supposed to be about in Amazon Women In The Mood?

[Reply #273 on:]

   

Originally posted by SlaytanicMaggot:
 perhaps it's "this isn't a war, this is a murder"?

He says it twice, once maudlinly, once irreverantly.  The joke is that it's the same line.

 

Originally posted by Mouse On Venus:
Oh, I have a question actually. What's that joke with the giant can of Tab supposed to be about in Amazon Women In The Mood?

I'm not sure why, but Tab is seen as a drink for women.  It might be because it was one of the first diet drinks.

[Reply #274 on:]

 

Originally posted by futuramamama:
OK, I don't believe you heard me, I flunked MATHS! I still don't get the joke. Maybe I'm not supposed to get it.
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It translates to "however I do have a sexlife." http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
^check it out for yourself.

[Reply #275 on:]

 

Originally posted by iamkiffkroker:
Leela: It'll take more than some deadly deadly bees

I think that's just there so that it's funny when they find the old PE ships black box and the old captain says the same line

[Reply #276 on:]

perhaps your correct zeep but I'm usually good at picking out refrences even when I don't know what thier refrencing.

[Reply #277 on:]

Welome to PEEL, iamkiffkroker!
I hope you enjoy it here...

I thought the whole honeycomb big thing was a song reference, but boy was I wrong!

[Reply #278 on:]

 

Originally posted by iamkiffkroker:
Leela: It'll take more than some deadly deadly bees

That's probably a reference to this film.

[Reply #279 on:]

Wohoo closure!!
Thanks David