Leela's Basket In 4ACV01

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Did anyone catch the basket that Leela give to Kif on tonight's repeat? She said that the basket was the one that was in the ophanage as a child.

Kind of odd that the episode, if Fox have not messed it up, would've been followed by "Leela's Homeworld" next (At least CN is doing it when they get to their first full go-around after airing the fifth season episodes). 

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Oh... cool 

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What's most amazing is how she knew that was her basket. In "Leela's Homeworld" we see that warden Vogel just tosses the basket into a big pile of other baskets. Finding the real one would be neigh on impossible. Either Leela is just in denial (possible, but not likely) or Vogel lied to her (much more likely).

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Regardless, Teral, it was still "her" basket.
In spirit, if not fact.

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There is still explanation with Warden Vogul´s photographic memory...

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I was gonna say "script logic," but photographic memory explains it too.

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I find it kinda strange that she'd just give something away that carried so much sentimental value to her...

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Yeah, but they were in reality her children, genetically speaking, so she had some obligation...

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Originally posted by El Zilcho:
I was gonna say "script logic," but photographic memory explains it too.

and wizards.

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But there's a difference between remembering a basket and finding said basket several years later. It would be at least 13-15 years before Leela would even start to be interested in her own past, and by extention the basket. The basket would then be either stored with hundreds of other baskets, or thrown out.

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Originally posted by Teral:
But there's a difference between remembering a basket and finding said basket several years later. It would be at least 13-15 years before Leela would even start to be interested in her own past, and by extention the basket. The basket would then be either stored with hundreds of other baskets, or thrown out.

Teral, you're a literalist, aren't you?
 
It's not that Leela actually retieved that individual, exact basket: It's what the basket meant to her.
As the genetic mother of Kif's children, she felt some kinship, some connection to them. Therefore she gave Kif and Amy 'her' basket, and all that it stood for.
Whether or not it was the exact basket Leela was found in on the orphanarium doorstep, it still meant a great deal to her.
It ain't the gift: It's what the gift means.
Besides, in a thousand years, they may have a way of tracking such things. Trace DNA analysis, maybe?
I'll get off my soapbox now...

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Originally posted by SpaceCase:
 Teral, you're a literalist, aren't you?
   

When it comes to nitpicking, very much. 

Good point though about it being Leela's basket, figuratively speaking.

Then again she does say "it's the basket my parents left me in at the Orphanarium."

Okay, the evidence support both sides, so I'll shut up now.

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Originally posted by Cube_166:
 

Originally posted by El Zilcho:
I was gonna say "script logic," but photographic memory explains it too.

And wizards.

Dark Wizard: Sure, blame the wizards.

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Originally posted by Teral:
 When it comes to nitpicking, very much.   

When it comes to "hard science fiction" I'm with you bruddah!
Hard Science Fiction = more science, less fiction
Futurama is not "hard science fiction," it's science-fiction humor. Humor doesn't stand up well to rigorous analysis, so I (at least) am willing to give Futurama more latitude for the sake of the laughs.


 

Good point though about it being Leela's basket, figuratively speaking.

Then again she does say "it's the basket my parents left me in at the Orphanarium."

Okay, the evidence support both sides, so I'll shut up now.

It means Leela believes the basket to be the one her parents left in at the orphanarium: Regardless of whether, in fact, it is or not.

I take it this means we agree to meet somewhere in the middle? Or at least recognize each others point?
I'll take what I can get...