Commentary Captions

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Anyone else ever notice, if you put captions on during TDHAIP, when fry says:"you evil, metal, dooooork.", the captions say "you evil, metal, dog." *Wow*

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Heh, thats pretty dumb.
I've had the subtitles on while watching a few episodes and a lot of them don't match the words at all, especially on the commentaries.

If they can't get the English right, the foreign subtitles must be really screwy.

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I've seen Futurama on Israeli TV with hebrew subtitles... They literally translated Nibbler's name and all sorts of stupid things... its really funny to watch.

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I think the reason why the subtitles for the commentaries don't match up properly is because there is too much speech and so a word-for-word transcription wouldn't fit in the space they have for subtitles. Hence, they just give you a shortened version that you have a chance in hell of reading.

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Call me stupid, but are you talking about DVD captions or regular TV captions? I've never noticed anything wrong with DVD captions, but a few years ago, I got really sick and my ears were blocked, so I watched TV with subtitles. More often than not, the subtitles were quite screwy.

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That's because deaf people write them. You understand how "dork" looks like "dog" when you're reading a cartoon character's lips right? Come on people, give em some freakin credit here.

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Like Wernstrum said, you'll only be getting the gist of the line when watching subtitles. Unless you're watching karaoke.

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What? When did Wernstrum say that?

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Originally posted by Prof. Wernstrum:
I think the reason why the subtitles for the commentaries don't match up properly is because there is too much speech and so a word-for-word transcription wouldn't fit in the space they have for subtitles. Hence, they just give you a shortened version that you have a chance in hell of reading.

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There's been a few subtitle errors. I remember in 1ACV06, Igner's name was captioned as "Edgar."

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Oh, the real guy Wernstrum....right....

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Does anyone know which episodes has the commentary captioned? I remember people saying there were a few commentaries that were captioned, but I forgot where to look.

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As far as I know, they all are.

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Season 1 doesn't have audio commentary captions, I don't think.

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So, you just press the SUBTITLE button, and I'll eventually get subtitles? Is the entire commentary captioned, or just parts of it?

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It's all captioned, what would be the point of captioning only parts of it?

Just press Subtitle, then scroll through the selections until you find the commentary one.

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Back on topic, whenver Zoidberg "whoop"s, it usually says "Mimics three stooges".  Now I've been told that the three stooges whoop, but I don't think Zoidberg is tryin to mimic them.  That's something that really annoys me.

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Originally posted by slayercrazy144:
Back on topic, whenver Zoidberg "whoop"s, it usually says "Mimics three stooges".  Now I've been told that the three stooges whoop, but I don't think Zoidberg is tryin to mimic them. 

Zoidberg as a person, probably not. Zoidberg as a Futurama character, most definitely.

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Okay, my mistake.