Nasty Pasty
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« Reply #440 on: 03-30-2004 00:33 »
« Last Edit on: 03-30-2004 00:33 »
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~: A lot of the "U.S. only" jokes go over my head. Like I didn't know who Al Sharpton (still not sure). And some of the location jokes I didn't get either, like the Atlanta episode. Well just as "the Deep South" said, Atlanta is just an airport hbu and nothing else. And Al Sharpton is just a douchbag accoring to me and many others. There i explained it. ------------------ "Everybody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but once you put it in the body of a great white shark, uhuhuh, suddenly you've gone too far!"
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bertrand k
Poppler
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On the subject of US-UK confusion in jokes, one that absolutely cracked me up was the right-wing singer in A Taste of Freedom singing "Waving proud around the world, from Dallas to Fort Worth"; for, ooh, about 90% of the UK audience at least they might as well have said San Diego to Boston, because nobody in the UK knows where Fort Worth actually is.
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Bushmeister
Professor
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A quick question which may have come up before, but in BSNBAOTV, what is the joke behind the child robot being told off for having hanging wires?
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SwanMan3000
Starship Captain
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Originally posted by starone: Yes, the kegelciser, would I be accurate in saying it strengthens the ass muscle?
nearly- the cunt muscles- god ive got a foul mouth.
also in future stock, the intergalatic stock exchange has two enteries that say "run" and then "dmc" or "dmx", that really sounds like the name of a rapper to me. Is it supposed to be a name?
Yep Run RMC u MUST have erd of em
Also in luck of the fryish, what did bender mean by "except sports by hewy lewis" after fry says "everything else in here held up ok"? i do not know. Anyone? maybe its just a crap song... if it is a song?!?
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by starone: Also, what does the alien language say on the professor fun bills in AOI2?
"Toxic Ink".
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Farnsworth said it in "A Clone Of My Own", they raised the speed of light to be able to travel to galaxies in mere seconds.
The traditional sci-fi way of overcoming the wast distances in space is to equip spaceships with faster-than-light engines (warp-drives, hyper-jets, ludicrous-speed, etc). Since that would violate our current understanding of the Universe (the Theory of Relativity rules out crossing the light barrier), the futurama team dicided to for the slightly more scientific solution, increase the speed of light.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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No, they never build FTL-engines in Futurama.
Futurama: increased the speed of light
Every other sci-fi show in existence: builds FTL engines
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Mercapto
Professor
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Technically, they're still slower than light now that's it's been increased, but, yes, they're faster than the "old" speed of light.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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Faster than the old speed of light (~300000km/s), yes. Faster than the new increased speed of light, no.
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Gleno
Liquid Emperor
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ok 2 things, I just watched Mars University again today and the flashback part where Fry "enrolls" in Coney Island college....I don't get it, why is the college at an amusement park....? Second one, Fry's college tutor says "Look left, look right, then in 9 other directions...." [Homer]I....don't get it....[Homer]
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David A
Space Pope
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Originally posted by Gleno: ok 2 things, I just watched Mars University again today and the flashback part where Fry "enrolls" in Coney Island college....I don't get it, why is the college at an amusement park....? Yeah, exactly. That's the joke: Fry says that he went to college, but the college that he went to was at an amusement park. I don't know how to explain it any better than that. Second one, Fry's college tutor says "Look left, look right, then in 9 other directions...."
[Homer]I....don't get it....[Homer] Well, supposedly, in really tough college courses, the professor starts the first day of class by saying, "Look to your left. Look to your right. One of you will not be passing this class." In other words, the course is so tough that one out of three students would not pass the course. Apparently, Fry's class wasn't as hard, so they had to look in nine other directions, because only one out of twelve wouldn't be passing the course.
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dvdashot
Crustacean
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Kegels strengthen your cunt muscles. The group is called "Run DMC". "Huey Lewis and The News" wrote Rock the Boat (Rock the boat, rock the boat baby. Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over.) Their album "Sports" was just an album they were poking fun at likely because one of the writer's thought it was a low point in Huey Lewis's career.
The Huey Lewis one had been answered on an earlier page in this topic. You should read through the whole topic before asking a question. Most people don't like answering a question that's already been covered.
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Invader_Tak
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by dvdashot: "Huey Lewis and The News" wrote Rock the Boat (Rock the boat, rock the boat baby. Rock the boat, don't tip the boat over.) Wrong. That song predated Huey Lewis quite a bit. "1974" I remember when it was a hit.... :/ http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/hues_corporation/hues_corporation_profile.htm The Hues Corporation, a vocal trio based in Los Angeles, California. The group consisted of H. Ann Kelley, Flemming Williams and Bernard "St. Clair Lee" Henderson. The group had two disco chart toppers hits in the mid 19'70s, their biggest being the catch 1974 dance floor filler Rock the Boat. The signature tune took The Hues Corporation to the number two spot on the R&B charts and got them their first and only number one hit on the pop charts. Following this success, Williams left the trio and was replaced by Tom Brown. He was then replaced by Karl Russell in 1975. The next single, Rockin' Soul, failed to repeat the success of their first hit, peaking at number six on the R&B charts and only managing number 18 on the pop charts. Their final R&B hit was in the following year. Love Corporation reached number 15 Their final release was 1977's I Caught Your Act was the last release in 1977.
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german fry
Crustacean
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to lazy to read the whole thread, so tell if somebody already asked that. in ATOF morbo shows his nipples to the news women. She starts screaming. What does that mean?
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dvdashot
Crustacean
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Sorry about my error. I was just looking that up right now and saw my error. I was coming here to atone for my wrong-doings... and correct myself.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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And that's the explanation for the "The Name's Bender"-line; it's a non-sequitor. It's funny because it doesn't make sense or is connected with the previous line.
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Mouse On Venus
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #474 on: 04-05-2004 16:04 »
« Last Edit on: 04-05-2004 16:04 »
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Or it's not funny because it doesn't make sense and isn't connected with the previous line. Delete as appropriate. Anyways, I have a question about a deleted joke I didn't get. One of the deleted scenes from The Cryonic Woman was in the Jewish kids' society and it went something like... Chief: "Orowheat and Ice-V will free you." Fry: "Ice-V?" Orowheat: "His real name's Virgil." Virgil: "Yo, shut up or I'll cut you!" Was this joke actually based on anything, or was it deleted because it didn't work or...what? Anyone?
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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My assumption is that the joke didn't work, like Teral said. But your theory, Mouse On Venus, could also work, but it's a long shot. I actually thought that the joke was rather funny.
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