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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by SwanMan3000: im really stupid so save the burning but what the hell is Soylent Green? Soylent Green is a movie (based on the book "Make Room! Make Room!" ) starring Charlton Heston. In the movie Soylent Green is a food product, secretely made from dead humans. Read more.
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M Jackson
Professor
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What is with Kiffs "4 million lines of basic" line in Kiff Gets Knocked Up a Notch? Is it just a computer programming joke? Is it a joke because he says such a mundane thing with such passion, or is there more to it?
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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From what I remember Basic isn't wellsuited for programming shapes and objects, so writing a holoshed program in Basic would indeed be a gigantic undertaking. I think it's just a programming joke.
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Action Jacktion
Professor
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Bender asks if it was badly xeroxed. It's just a joke about the weird stuff you see in New York.
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Drippy_taco
Professor
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It's mainly social commentary, so if you don't get it right away, you'll never be able to get the full comedic value from it.
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~FazeShift~
Moderator
DOOP Ubersecretary
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Originally posted by kwigibo on page 1: The 'Keigelciser' (sp?) in "Why Must I be a Crustacean in Love?" I didn't notice until Mr. Cohen pointed it out on the DVD commentaries. I am only vaguely familiar with the reference, and wouldn't have put 2 and 2 together if it hadn't been called the dirtiest joke they'd ever done. also, from only having watched a lot of the episodes on realplayer, i missed a lot of the visual details, i just assumed it was a thigh machine off screen.
By the way, it is the dirtiest joke ever on the show, and was itself worth the price of the season 2 dvd. I didn't get it, and this guy didn't explain it... Anyone?
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BrainDeadZombie
Delivery Boy
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« Reply #96 on: 07-30-2003 20:15 »
« Last Edit on: 07-30-2003 20:15 »
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Originally posted by VelourFog: some people don't know what spooning is? Here's a Picture (it's not dirty, i promise) it's easier to understand by looking at the picture than having someone write an essay about it
I couldn't help feeling this was aimed at me, and I felt a little patronised. If I can draw your attention to my original comments (alright then essay), I accepted that the first definition may well be correct in this instance. It's a definition I'm well aware of "Spoons" being a non-sexual lovers embrace, since I heard it used in the late eighties film "Frankie loved Johnny" with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino. I have no doubt that the act of forming the spoons has come to be known as spooning. Since I never claimed that this definition was wrong how can I be wrong when you say it was right. It is true to say, though, that that definition had not been around long enough by 1999 to appear in the English Dictionary. The 1999 edition of the Chambers Dictionary, defined "Spoon" as "Courtship esp when mawkish or sentimental" and "a person who engages in such courtship" The 1991 edition of the Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary defines "spoon" as "a silly or demonstrably fond lover" and, as a verb, meaning "behave in an amorous way" or "(archaic) to woo, in a silly or sentimental way". These meanings have the origins I set down in my erstwhile essay. I apologise for its length, I've made an effort to edit this response down. Many claim they write like they talk. Tragically that is the case with me too! LAN.gnome - You know I was been ironic, right? I'm not sure what I was saying with that irony, but it definitely was ironic.
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M Jackson
Professor
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Sooooooo cute. What?! Everyone was doing it, I just wanted to be popular.
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shyguy09
Crustacean
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I was just wondering if anyone caught that joke in "When Aliens Attack," when Lurr was declaring to Earth that he was satisfied with the finale of "McNeal" and thus, returned to 'A THOUSAND YEAR OLD LENO MONOLOUGE.'
You know, because Leno Monolouges are usually stale and traditional, and uh.. not that funny. I got that joke but none of my friends did, did YOU?!?!?
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DmitriZoidburg
Crustacean
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How about the scene in Spanish Fry where Fry just comes back to camp without his nose. In response to a question he touches what would be his nose, and Amy says something like "I don't get that gesture" , What gesture was implied there?
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catindisguise
Screamy
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #107 on: 08-01-2003 13:33 »
« Last Edit on: 08-01-2003 13:33 »
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YAY!!!!! I GOT THAT JOKE AWWWWWWWW BrainDeadZombie is soooooooo cute. I'm sorry I'll drop it now sooooo cute! thats probably how u look right now And this is me laughing MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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catindisguise
Screamy
Liquid Emperor
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MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA Ok I'll drop it now.........
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payn
Bending Unit
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« Reply #111 on: 08-04-2003 06:27 »
« Last Edit on: 08-04-2003 06:27 by VelourFog »
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Originally posted by SQFreak: Al Sharpton is a minister famous for his often radically left-wing political views. Actually, he's more famous for his radically wacky (or at best wackily left-wing) political views. He's a laughingstock among the left, to the point where the right can't even use him to make fun of their opposition. To give you an idea of how ridiculous Sharpton is, even among the "identity-politics" crowd, Jesse Jackson once had to apologize for giggling uncontrollably during one of Sharpton's speeches. Sharpton is also famous for wearing jogging suits. And for gaining so much weight while supposedly on a hunger strike that his jogging suits didn't fit right anymore. Originally posted by Cap'n McGlurk: Did anyone bring up the cultural differences yet? It reminds me if when I was in school watching the Star Blazers cartoon (a.k.a. Space Battleship Yamato -- 宇宙戦艦ヤマト . There were a lot of Japanese cultural references in that cartoon that were easy to overlook as a kid. As an adult, you see them and realize you don't get it. It's different from not getting it and not caring one way or the other.
Wasn't it Star Cruiser Yamato? Anyway, that show was much tamer on the Japanese references than most anime. I'm always amazed at how many diehard Ranma fans don't get half the jokes (even when they're not translated badly). But if you want to really feel lost, check out the live-action version of "You're Under Arrest" (aka "Taiho Shichauzo" ). I know much more Japanese culture than your typical gaijin anime fan, and I still don't get half of that show.
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payn
Bending Unit
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« Reply #113 on: 08-04-2003 07:01 »
« Last Edit on: 08-04-2003 07:01 by VelourFog »
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Originally posted by Teral: Soylent Green is a movie (based on the book "Make Room! Make Room!" ) starring Charlton Heston. In the movie Soylent Green is a food product, secretely made from dead humans.
Everyone must go out and rent (or download) the movie and fast-forward just to get to the one line, "Soylent Green is people!" It's even better than, "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!" for understanding why Charlton Heston is the greatest comic actor never to appear in a comedy (which is a key to getting much of Matt Groening's humor). If you get the DVD, you can even listen to the same line dubbed into multiple languages. "Soylent Green ist menschfleisch!" "Soylent Green es... no! es gente!" Originally posted by catindisguise: bender says they are at 71st street. Fry says that downtown could be in any direction. Is this a joke.
The numbers get smaller as you go downtown, and then they stop being numbers when you get there. So, from 71st St., downtown is south. In fact, from any numbered street, downtown is south. Only an idiot could live in New York and not get that. But the same is true in any city with numbered streets. In Baltimore, from 20th St., you go south to get downtown. In LA, from 40th St., you go north to get downtown; from Ave. 40, you go south. In DC, from 20th St. NW you go southeast, from 20th St. NE you go southwest, etc. Anyone who lives in those cities for a few weeks knows this. And even if you don't, just go toward the smaller numbers. (In a few cities, that won't work; it may take you to the ocean, or the river, which may not be where downtown is--but residents of those cities know that.) I know nothing about ny. Well, almost nothing. Alos when fry says something about a man with a bushy beard handed out a socalist newsletter. then bender says was it .........
In every big city in America but LA, there's an area with people giving out badly-xeroxed leftist newsletters that nobody reads. And for some reason, the clean-shaven socialists never participate in this activity; they prefer to work in the socialist bookstores selling well-printed socialist newsletters from Europe that nobody reads. Originally posted by Action Jacktion: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Kegel's+exercises
What this doesn't mention is why it's a dirty joke: Women also use these exercises to build up their pelvic muscles for purposes other than controlling urinary incontinence. Originally posted by Atticus: When one taps his/her nose in response to a question, it is the same as saying something along the lines of "thats right on the nose", or "right on the money"
Tying this to the Star Blazers/Japanese reference, the same gesture in Japanese means something similar to "a place for everything, and everything in its place" (from a Japanese proverb which loosely translates to "the nose goes in the middle of the face" ). I believe this comes up in a Dirty Pair episode, confusing all American fans.
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Fing-longer
Crustacean
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Okay, in TDTESS, there's something I laugh at but I'm not sure I get it entirely...or maybe I do.
"I'm a gigantic brain!"
Is there more to that than meets the eye? Or was the brain just being loud and pretentious?
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LAN.gnome
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by payn: Originally posted by catindisguise: bender says they are at 71st street. Fry says that downtown could be in any direction. Is this a joke.
The numbers get smaller as you go downtown, and then they stop being numbers when you get there. So, from 71st St., downtown is south. In fact, from any numbered street, downtown is south. Only an idiot could live in New York and not get that.
But the same is true in any city with numbered streets. In Baltimore, from 20th St., you go south to get downtown. In LA, from 40th St., you go north to get downtown; from Ave. 40, you go south. In DC, from 20th St. NW you go southeast, from 20th St. NE you go southwest, etc. Anyone who lives in those cities for a few weeks knows this.
And even if you don't, just go toward the smaller numbers. (In a few cities, that won't work; it may take you to the ocean, or the river, which may not be where downtown is--but residents of those cities know that.) My interpretationof this joke was that Fry simply had no sense of direction. Also, when you're a kid, and part of the city is "downtown," so it could be in any direction. You might say that ry was not still a child when he was frozen, but given his track record, i'd say that's distinctly possible he never bothered to learn his way around the city enough to recognize street names. PS - Star Trek: The Next Generation is absolutely *loaded* with Dirty Pair jokes -- mostly easter eggs.
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bankrupt
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by Fing-longer: Okay, in TDTESS, there's something I laugh at but I'm not sure I get it entirely...or maybe I do.
"I'm a gigantic brain!"
Is there more to that than meets the eye? Or was the brain just being loud and pretentious? I think this line is the punchline to the conversation between Fry and the woman at the party. I'm paraphrasing here: Woman: Mr. Fry, you're quite the oddity. A bachelor at your age? Fry: If you think I'm weird, wait 'till you see... *In comes the brain* Brain: I am a gigantic brain. I think the brain's line is there to finish off Fry's point. Those lines in TDTESS are some of my favorites in Futurama because they describe what I feel like when I go to family reunions. I always get the questions about when I'm going to get married. A bachelor at your age?
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boo
Crustacean
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http://www.allaboutguadalajara.com/ As you will or are or can see Guadalajara is (often referred to as) the most mexican city in Mexico. Um... that being said IF the name of the place is a joke, perhaps it refers to diarrhea. To explain: North American visitors to Mexico are often warned 'not to drink the water' because of the likelihood of it causing severe diarrhea. The word Brown Drip would imply both this and the drip of coffee as its being made. A none to appetizing reminder.
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