Fry shaking a tralfamadorian

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Ok, So I'm pretty sure that I remember a scene in one of the earlier Futurama episodes where Fry grabbed the hand/head of a Tralfamadorian and shook it.  I just rewatched the first two seasons and couldn't find the scene.  Does anyone know what I am talking about?

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Doesn't seem familiar... According to Google, they're like little green stick thingies with a hand for a head? And one eye?

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That's what you get when  Kif, a mutant and a tree decide to make a baby together.

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That's what you get when  Kif, a mutant and a tree decide to make a baby together.

I do not wish to know what kind of fanart will be spawned by that post.... *shudder*

But to get serious:
The scene neither sounds familiar, nor did Google search deliver any appropriate results. Considering Futurama's rather nerdy and nitpicky fandom, such a scene would have shown up in some "collected gimmicks" list.

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That's what you get when  Kif, a mutant and a tree decide to make a baby together.

A treesome?...

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That's what you get when  Kif, a mutant and a tree decide to make a baby together.

I do not wish to know what kind of fanart will be spawned by that post.... *shudder*

* Beanoz4  waits for Freako to be un-banned

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Doesn't seem familiar... According to Google, they're like little green stick thingies with a hand for a head? And one eye?

They're creatures from Kurt Vonnegut's works. One version of them are like plungers with hands on top, with one eye in the middle of the palm; the other, no one is quite sure what they look like because they got themselves willingly euthanized by their own machines.

I can only recall one Vonnegut reference in Futurama, ever, and it wasn't them.

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What reference was that, Xanny? Now I'm curious.

BTW I found someone's depictions of what those look like. Doesn't seem familiar:

www.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAFfbjrrSEeQ&v=AFfbjrrSEeQ&gl=US

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There's at least one Far Side comic featuring aliens that have hand-like heads and get shaken by ignorant peoples.

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What reference was that, Xanny? Now I'm curious.

Vonnegut, chop chop, righty-ho!



Might have to squint to see it, mind you...

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There's at least one Far Side comic featuring aliens that have hand-like heads and get shaken by ignorant peoples.

Yes.  I clearly remember that one, but had no idea that it was based on a Vonnegut story.