Human Broth

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In Bender's Big Score, before Lars and Leela's wedding they are at Elzar's Resteraunt organising the appetisers and in the background there is a sign in Alienese. People are going to take what appears to be some kind of some kind of stew from the kiosk. When translated the alien language sign reads: Human Broth.

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Nice find.

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Didn't David X say that in the commentary at the same time other interesting things came up?

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Sure.

You're up early

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Dr. Pain!

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Didn't David X say that in the commentary at the same time other interesting things came up?

Yeah, he said that there "were like ten interesting things in this scene" and the first one he said was the human broth.

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Sure.

You're up early

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Didn't David X say that in the commentary at the same time other interesting things came up?

Yeah, he said that there "were like ten interesting things in this scene" and the first one he said was the human broth.

I don't wanna get all smart ass, but I knew it.

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Who other than me in this chatroom can read Alienese?

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  Who other than me in this chatroom can read Alienese?

Read it? I can't even speak it!


But then I didn't even realise that this was a chatroom, so there you go.

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But then I didn't even realise that this was a chatroom, so there you go.

Whoops, I meant Buletin Board.

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No, seriously; I wouldn't be surprised is some of the long-time members of this site (who now are mostly found in the Off Topic threads) used to be able to read Alien Language #1 on sight but there's not much evidence that anyone here has kept the skill alive. Although Zanfor does use a bit of it in his 42-piece Xannichelliaceae note.

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Who can speak alienese?

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   Who can speak alienese?

Speak it? I can't even pronounce it!





Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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I can read it, but it takes me a while, and if anyone can actually speak alienese, I would like to hear it

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Who can speak alienese?

Alieneseians?

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Who can speak alienese?

Alieneseians?

Alienese is a language on Futurama that occasionally crops up in several episodes such as the first one and Parisites lost. Has that cleared it up?
I reckon Nibbler speaks alienese but no-one knows what it sounds like so they just dismiss it as gobbledeegook.

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Who can speak alienese?

Alieneseians?

Alienese is a language on Futurama that occasionally crops up in several episodes such as the first one and Parisites lost. Has that cleared it up?
I reckon Nibbler speaks alienese but no-one knows what it sounds like so they just dismiss it as gobbledeegook.

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• Your post is evidently baised on the (incorrect) assumption that;
• Anyone interested enough in Futurama to visit this forum doesn't already know "alienese" is a sight gag, and is not a spoken language.
• T'would seem my post wasn't quite blatant enough.

As your profile says that you're relatively new, and that you're twelve-
TWELVE? When I was twelve, I could hardly spell 'computer', much less use one.
So I'll save the ritual humiliation for another time...

There are supposed to be three alien alphabets from the show. The first two have been de-kafoobled translated into their English equivalents, but the third...
The only examples of this third alphabet are supposed to be on Leela's bracelet from "Leela's Homeworld."
Hardly enough for a decryption.
Does anyone know if there have been any subsequent sightings of this alleged third alphabet.

And in the off chance that no one has beaten me to it:
[Hermes]
Welcome 'ta P.E.E.L. Numbah' Nine Mon!
[/Hermes]

We're a rowdy bunch, but we've had all our shots.
Leave your shoes by the door, put a quarter in the slot, light some incense, and c'mon in.
P.E.E.L: A more vile hive of nerds and geekery, you will not find!

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   As your profile says that you're relatively new, and that you're twelve-
   TWELVE? When I was twelve, I could hardly spell 'computer', much less use one.
   So I'll save the ritual humiliation for another time...

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   P.E.E.L: A more vile hive of nerds and geekery, you will not find!

Good Grief! When I was twelve our family went to see this cool newly released movie that everyone was talking about called Star Wars.

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Good Grief! When I was twelve our family went to see this cool newly released movie that everyone was talking about called Star Wars.

[Hattie]
Y'young... what'cha call it... whippersnapper!
[/Hattie]

As I recall, when I was twelve, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were going mano-y-mano over the comparative merits of A.C. versus D.C. electrical power distribution networks. George won out, by the way...
Such a nice young man, he was...

Y'know; about the same time that James Clerk Maxwell was disentangling the wave equation...

Er, or was it Michael Faraday cobbling together his voltaic pile...?

Maybe it was that Musschenbroek fellow with those strange jars. 

It all seems to blur together after a while...

If you believe any of the foregoing, I have this bridge between San Francisco and Marin County you might like to buy...

But to the topic at hand:
I know that I can not, and (I believe I may say without fear of being disproven) neither Mr's Edison, Westinghouse, Maxwell, Faraday, nor Herr Musschenbroek could in their wildest dreams speak alienese.
I'll just ooze back out under the door now...

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I'll just ooze back out under the door now...

Yeah you do that.

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I saw the Human Broth scene, myself! 

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Yeah you do that.

You haven't been paying attention.

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I was twelve once, what exactly is human broth, I wouldnt drink something called human broth, unlees influenced by money, but it would have to be a lot, just a thought for the day, with that being said im going to bring it up a notch, BAM!

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What exactly are Girl Guide cookies?

I always thought that Fururama is portrayed from the view point of a regular thirty-first century person, and as (most of) the viewing audiance can't read alien then neither can most of the humans we see on-screen. Alien adverts (and graffiti) seem to be for the benefit of those few aliens who reside on earth (e.g. Zoidberg, Elzar, Morbo, HGB, etc).

Thus (as I see it) the 'joke' is that most humans who dine there probably consume it unawares because they can't read what it is called.

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IDK. I always thought of the alieniese as another inside joke with everyone on the planet except Fry. It seems odd that all the aliens on Earth would speak the same language. To me, alienese seems like English signs in a city like Berlin. German is the predominant language, but if you have signs in an other language, make it in English, a language that many people, even not native speaker, can understand.

$.02

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I haven't seen any signs of the alleged third alphabet. 4th Movie Hopefully!

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im too lazy to work the 3rd language out

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im too lazy to work the 3rd language out

What, English?

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She's Australian Shinybutt