Jokes you didnt get,

[Reply #280 on:]

Don't thank me, thank MST3K.

[Reply #281 on:]

I acctually got this, but have anyone seen Soylent Green, the movie starring Charles Bronson. Is it any good?

[Reply #282 on:]

I think you mean Charlton Heston.

[Reply #283 on:]

Did someone mention guns?

[Reply #284 on:]

Ok.. in AOI2 the professor asks two cameo characters to get a turn in asking the machine.. Katrina and Zanthor/Xanthor.. are these references to something existing?.. (the names Katrina and Zanthor appear in She-Ra and He-Man episodes respectively, but I don't think that they are these Katrina and Zanthor).

[Reply #285 on:]

 

Originally posted by nipplehigh:
are these references to something existing?.. (the names Katrina and Zanthor appear in She-Ra and He-Man episodes respectively

I'm not sure, but I think you may have just answered your own question.

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Originally posted by Pikka Bird:
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.

-itis as a suffix means "inflammation of". Also, -lysis as a suffix means "bursting of".

Meh.

[Reply #287 on:]

Welcome to PEEL, lpetrazickis!

Well I was watching Bend Her earlier and Bender(or more correctly Coilette) was getyting ready for her first date with Calculon and Fry says "What if he wants to...what if he tries to...uh...Barry White?"

I just one of the jokes I didn't get.

[Reply #288 on:]

(Best read in a deep bass voice):

Barry White plays seductive, sexual music, baby.  The kind you can play in the background while you get it on.  Oh, yeah.

[Reply #289 on:]

Well, you know what Barry White's music generally is about and used for, right?  If so, you can see why it's an appropriate metaphor on Fry's part.

[Reply #290 on:]

ohhhh...

Sexy!

[Reply #291 on:]

You better believe it! 

[Reply #292 on:]

It's acctually a very good metaphore

[Reply #293 on:]

 

Originally posted by lpetrazickis:
 -itis as a suffix means "inflammation of". Also, -lysis as a suffix means "bursting of".

Meh.

Not quite right my friend.. both those suffixes come from the greek language. -itis usually describes something that suffers a disease.. so bonitis would just be a disease of the bones.. -lysis means "solution" but also "untying" or "bringing things apart"..

and yes.. I'm greek.. =)

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Originally posted by nipplehigh:
 Not quite right my friend.. both those suffixes come from the greek language. -itis usually describes something that suffers a disease.. so bonitis would just be a disease of the bones.. -lysis means "solution" but also "untying" or "bringing things apart"..

and yes.. I'm greek.. =)

   

And maybe too much time on your hands.

   

[Reply #295 on:]

...or maybe his Greek-ness helped him out. If I could correct someone by using my Danish grammar, it wouldn't take me many seconds...

[Reply #296 on:]

 

Originally posted by 1 of the gang:
     

And maybe too much time on your hands.

   

That's for sure not best described with an -itis suffix 

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I have a question: what's the joke behind Dinkin Donuts?

[Reply #298 on:]

It's a play on the name of an American donut chain, Dunkin' Donuts.

[Reply #299 on:]

Well, obviously. But why base it on David Dinkins of all people?

[Reply #300 on:]

would you rather it be called guiliani donuts?

[Reply #301 on:]

 

Originally posted by Mouse On Venus:
Well, obviously. But why base it on David Dinkins of all people?

Because Dinkins sounds like Dunkin' maybe?  Seems pretty obvious.

[Reply #302 on:]

Eh, fair enough. I just thought there might be more to it than simply 'coz it sounds similar. You even had Dinkins' mug on the logo.

[Reply #303 on:]

Out of all the similaruty puns on Futurama, my favourite is by far "U-Yank". I just break down laughing.

[Reply #304 on:]

My favourite was pi-kea, although that had 3 or 4 jokes about Ikea attached to it so it probably doesn't count. Still one of my favourite jokes in the whole series though. 

[Reply #305 on:]

What about the pi-in-one oil?

[Reply #306 on:]

Okay so I just saw Farnsworth Parabox again and I've heard this joke everytime but I've never gotten this. Please explain...
(This is right after both universes realize that they've lost the Universe 1's box and can't find it in any of the other boxes)

Fransworth: We still have a perposterously slim chance.
Amy: Is it a kind of hair spray?

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Originally posted by 1 of the gang:
Farnsworth: We still have a perposterously slim chance.
Amy: Is it a kind of hair spray?

1). Amy is obsessed with personal grooming.
2). Amy is pretty stupid.

Ergo...

Vis-a-vis! Concordantly!

[Reply #308 on:]

Well I already knew that but where did she get hair spray out of what he said?

[Reply #309 on:]

It's called a "non-sequitur". Futurama's full of 'em, mostly from Fry, and some from Bender.

[Reply #310 on:]

Heh.

What do you know!
I learned a new word today!
Makes sence now though.

[Reply #311 on:]

You mean like when Kif says "Precious hamburgers?"

[Reply #312 on:]

No, I think in that case he just misheard what the marine biologist said. A good "Futurama" non-sequitur is in 2ACV15 "The Problem with Popplers".

FARNSWORTH: To Leela! She taught us it's wrong to eat certain things!
(Crew congratulates her)
BENDER: Let's get drunk!

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That's Bender's good timing.
He just randomly wants to get drunk.
For example...
(In The Sting when Leela has the dream where she knocks the royal jelly on the couch and Fry reforms.)
Bender: Yay! My buddy's back and his credit cards are valid again!Let's go get hammered! 

[Reply #314 on:]

from the quotes thread:
Monique: Calculon! But I thought you were...
Calculon: Egyptian?

i never got that 

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well In WMIBACIL I never got the joke of the woman using the "Kegelcizer"

[Reply #316 on:]

Go back a few pages in this thread and you might be enlightened. If not, try to have your mother explain it to you.

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In reply to BuffDaddy's question I will now refer to LAN's reply to an earlier question of your's truly...


 

Originally posted by LAN.gnome:
It's called a "non-sequitur". Futurama's full of 'em, mostly from Fry, and some from Bender.

But in this case Calculon used one.

Thank you and good night! 

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Originally posted by 1 of the gang:
In reply to BuffDaddy's question I will now refer to LAN's reply to an earlier question of your's truly... (...)

so there IS nothing to get. Alright  thanks

[Reply #319 on:]

Can anyone tell me what they were referring to in I Dated A Robot when Bender and Leela were talking about Fry dating Lucy Lui....the whole convo where Bender says things like "Stifle that meatbag and Humans dating robots it's an outrage"

Bender was sitting cross-legged on the chair smoking a cigar and I guessed it was a reference to something but I dunno what....