The Goof Thread

[Reply #400 on:]

 

Originally posted by Benderillos:
If it is like Teral said wouldn't Bender holes in him later in the episode.

Farnsworth: It's Dolomite, baby!

 

Also if the robot devils pitchfork was hot enough to melt the floor wouldn't it melt Bender's eyes out. It happened before when bender jumped into lava to save Fry's dog.   

Nope. Carpets are scorched at much lower temperaturs than lava, a few hundred C's would do it, while lava is around 800-1200 C. Bender's eyes can withstand 100-200 C, as witnessed in "Fry and the Slurm Factory"

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In the episode where Fry, Leela, Amy, Zoidberg follow Beck in the Voltswagen hippy van a map is showed on the screen of the United States, but there is one state that is written in alien language does anyone know what it says.

[Reply #402 on:]

From the episode guide at tv.com:

Alien code: While following the bus on its way to San Francisco, they past through several states with odd names. One of them is written in Alien Code #1. Instead of staying named Utah, Utah has been changed to: "Human Farm." If you look hard in both The Simpsons and in Futurama, the crew takes many shots (at least 2) at Utah every season in both shows.

Hope that helps.

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I was watching "Jurassic Bark" and noticed that Robo Puppy's voice was very similar to Rudy's(George's Computer) from the "Jetsons". I was wondering if anyone else noticed that or is it just me.

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Originally posted by LayZ341:
I was watching "Jurassic Bark" and noticed that Robo Puppy's voice was very similar to Rudy's(George's Computer) from the "Jetsons". I was wondering if anyone else noticed that or is it just me.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of the voice actors was able to imitate the original voice (I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about) and then they possibly put it through a filter to add the metallic(?) effect.

[Reply #406 on:]

in frye and the slurm factory, bender zaps frye with the f ray to look inside his body.  Frye Yells 'Ow my sperm!' and then when bender does it again he says 'huh, it didnt hurt that time'.  Doesnt that mean frye is steril?  Then later in Insane in the Mainframe, frye is zapped with enough gamma rays to get his stomach boiling.  That would definately finish the job.  How then, does frye make himself his own grandfather?   

[Reply #407 on:]

Provided the actual testes themselves were unharmed they would continue to produce new sperm throughout his life. Am i the only one who ever turns out the Discovery Health channel??

[Reply #408 on:]

Maybe the F-Ray and the gamma rays made him only temporarily infertile. Either that or dark Wizards.

[Reply #409 on:]

In addition to what Venus said (I only get the regular Discovery Channel anyway), Parasites Lost aired between Fry and the Slurm Factory and Roswell That Ends Well.  The simple solution would be to assume the worms fixed Fry's groin while they were improving everything else about him. While Insane in the Mainframe aired after Parisites Lost, there is no proof he was completely sterilized on the conveyor belt.

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Originally posted by Guy:
This is the new thread to discuss all Futurama goofs rather than opening a new thread for each goof PEELers think of.
The fist one I can think of is in "When Aliens Attack," Earth's TV takes 1000 years to reach Omicron Persei 8. However, when the Omicronians contact Earth, they hear their voices seconds later on their TV. Shouldn't they only see themselves in 1000 years?

 yeah but most of the ships in futurama can travel at more than light speed and still send messages so t must be possible to send a quick message 

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Originally posted by lucaskowe:
  yeah but most of the ships in futurama can travel at more than light speed 

Nope, none of the ships travel faster than the speed of light, and hence they can still use regular electromagnetic communications.

The speed of light, now that's an entirely different story all together.

Welcome to PEEL. Enjoy it here.

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i was watching bender gets made on [as] tonight and noticed something a bit odd.  bender volunteers to burn down the ship during the scene where the robot mafia hijacks the planet express ship.  Don bot gives bender the go-ahead, and then the mobsters all get in their spaceship and fly off, leaving bender stranded on a ship he's supposed to destroy. 

[Reply #413 on:]

goofs are goofs
there are holes in everything, ive thought about that one 2, and i cant think of anything to explain that.

[Reply #414 on:]

In Devil's Hands, the window in Fry's room keeps moving. How odd

[Reply #415 on:]

 

Originally posted by Teral:
 Nope, none of the ships travel faster than the speed of light, and hence they can still use regular electromagnetic communications.

The speed of light, now that's an entirely different story all together.

Welcome to PEEL. Enjoy it here.

Yeah. The ships can only travel up to 99% of the speed of light

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This may have came up before, but, in Bendless Love, why doesn't the Beard magnet make Bender sing like a folk singa?

Oh, and by the way, nothing that carries matter (a ship for example) can (or ever will be able to) travel ANYWHERE NEAR the speed of light.

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Originally posted by Dan1248:
This may have came up before, but, in Bendless Love, why doesn't the Beard magnet make Bender sing like a folk singa?

The Beard Magnet is not affixed to Bender's forehead, which is where his brain unit is located (containing the inhibition chip that is affected by magnets). It is affixed to the chin. Therefore neither this, nor the magnetic bow tie from A Flight To Remember would affect his fine singing voice.

 

Oh, and by the way, nothing that carries matter (a ship for example) can (or ever will be able to) travel ANYWHERE NEAR the speed of light.

You're a genius! None of us knew that! Hey, you should email Albert Einstein and let him know that!

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Originally posted by Dan1248:
Oh, and by the way, nothing that carries matter (a ship for example) can (or ever will be able to) travel ANYWHERE NEAR the speed of light.

not quite true Dan.  Theoretically you should be able to get infinitely close to the speed of light, it would just take unbelievable amounts of energy.  Matter flowing out of the poles of quasars gets up to .99c by stealing energy from the quasar's magnetic field.

In Roswell that ends well Leela wears sunglasses to hide her huge eye, but then later on she's standing outside Mildred's house with no disguise at all, and the paper boy rides by.  I guess people are too tired to detect cyclopes in the early morning.

[Reply #419 on:]

there have also been theories from caltech where they have accelerated light particles through some inate gas mixture? and had it travel exponentially faster, i'm not really clear on this, but i'm sure someone here can further explain it

[Reply #420 on:]

i havent really read this thread through yet, so if it is what it says it is, then i got a goof to post, and if not, my apoligiez

in A Flight To Remember, bender takes off his bow-tie and says it is magnetic, i was made to believe all magnets screwed w/ his mind to make him a folk singer and why wasnt he folk singing the entire time he was wearing it?

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this mistake happens in many animated shows including bendin' in the wind (i think that is the name) and it is easy to understand but it still bothers me. whenever a '67 or earlier bus is drawn they always have the V shape on the nose but they show it as having one large bay window instead of the two smaller split windows. and they always show a sliding door instead of two swing out doors. i know a sliding door was optional on the early models but it is very rare.

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Originally posted by scumbagsteve976:
in A Flight To Remember, bender takes off his bow-tie and says it is magnetic, i was made to believe all magnets screwed w/ his mind to make him a folk singer and why wasnt he folk singing the entire time he was wearing it?

i had the same idea with Bender's magnetic beard. it seems it only effects them if it is magneted to the forehead (where his brain is)

[Reply #423 on:]

like offered by another poster, it seems it's implied that magnets only bother him when they're in the vicinity of his "head"

the bow tie and the goatee were both found under the chin...

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ah, that makes sense.

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here's a big goof that I dont think anyone's mentioned before.  In 'A tale of two santas', as Bender flies the sleigh around santa's death fortress right after the elf song, he flies in front of the moon.  The EARTH moon.  Oops!

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In Bendin' in the Wind the speedometer only goes up to 80, and it probably went even slower than that because of all the smoke pouring out of it. So how do they keep up with Beck's tour bus? By the time they'd get there Beck and co. would probably already be two states over.

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Well, maybe Beck told his driver to go slower... Maybe Santa's sleigh can go really fast?

[Reply #428 on:]

beck's a hippy type... he'd like to conserve fuel easy as that

[Reply #429 on:]

 

Originally posted by Kryten:
Well, they WERE on Mercury... it was probably hotter outside the car than it was inside.

WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

[Reply #430 on:]

Yea, I was kind of wondering about that Beck-mobile followed by the VW van as well, but I think that Beck just loves his groupies so much that he travelled really slow and even through tunnels instead of flying there.

@Nerdbeard:

Welcome to PEEL 

I hope you do realize that that quote of Kryten you posted is nearly 3 months old. I mean he still posts, and his point is still valid, but still it is really old information. 

Enjoy your stay here. Should you have any questions about this message board, its rules, behaviours and traditions check out the PEELers' FAQ. Many of your questions are covered in there for sure. 

[Reply #431 on:]

commentarys dude they explain it all

[Reply #432 on:]

this has probably been pointed out but in crimes of the hot  why didnt they freeze water from the ocean not get it from halleys comment

[Reply #433 on:]

water was too hot?  they needed to put an ice cube in it to cool it down!

[Reply #434 on:]

[Nixon]Because getting a giant freezer is a waste of  taxpayers money, ya overgrown hippie. People who aren't idiots use cheap wage slaves like that red-headed fellow, his one-eyed girlfriend and that piece of scrap metal.[/Nixon]

[Reply #435 on:]

in the episode i second that emotion bender flushes el cupa nebra into the sub sewer but in 300 big boys you see it again        

[Reply #436 on:]

Well, within that time frame, el cupa nibre has probably managed to climb back up and strike a deal with the mutants for peace. 

[Reply #437 on:]

 

Originally posted by hotrod zoidberg:
this has probably been pointed out but in crimes of the hot  why didnt they freeze water from the ocean not get it from halleys comment

Quite simple.

Freezers doesn't produce coldness, they simply remove the heat inside a closed area. Everytime you open a freezer, you let in heat which the engine then have to remove.

Anyway, if you took ocean water and froze it, all you would achieve was to transfer heat from one part of the planet (the ocean) to another part (the atmosphere). Once you dumped the ice into the oceans it would melt, cooling the water around it, The cold water would then absorb more heat from the atmosphere. The net result would be an increase of the Earths temperature. Although the circle of heat between the water, the freezer, the ice and the atmopshere would cancel eachother out, the electricity used to freeze the water would result in more greenhouse gases and excess heat at the powerplant.

[Reply #438 on:]

wow teral... you're a wealth of info!

not even being patronizing

[Reply #439 on:]

There's a reason he's called Helpy McHelphelp... and it's not just because his parents were lousy at picking names.