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dimension_8

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« on: 05-24-2004 07:23 »

I think this thread is in the right place...

Anyway, why do the mutants persistantly live in the sewers when there is a perfectly good city underground, which is bigger, doesn't have waste being flushed down it 24/7 and is already nicely developed?
Why not live in Old New York?
Rhodan

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« Reply #1 on: 05-24-2004 08:01 »

They are not allowed to surface, unless they have secial passes as is seen in LH and LTH.
dimension_8

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« Reply #2 on: 05-24-2004 08:03 »
« Last Edit on: 05-24-2004 08:03 »

No I mean in Old New york as in underneath New New york? I think that thats not really the surface.

edit: Hooray I'm a Bending unit!
Rhodan

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« Reply #3 on: 05-24-2004 08:05 »

Oh sorry for my mistake but I think that in LOTF there is one mutant in Old New York.
David A

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« Reply #4 on: 05-24-2004 08:27 »

 
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Originally posted by Rhodan:
Oh sorry for my mistake but I think that in LOTF there is one mutant in Old New York.

Yeah, in the sewer.
Sal

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« Reply #5 on: 05-24-2004 11:30 »

yeah but when fry is in the sewer he says somthing like "in my time this would all have been a lunch-in at the met" meaing it was somwhere in Old New York.

interesting?  :)
JDHannan

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« Reply #6 on: 05-24-2004 14:52 »

they live in the sewers because thats where they get all their stuff, is from being flushed down the toilet.  There isnt anymore stuff in Old New York
dimension_8

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« Reply #7 on: 05-24-2004 14:57 »

Well maybe they wouldn't be mutants if they didn't live around toxic waste all the time. If they lived in old new york, then later generations could live on the surface and they could get all the stuff they wanted.
scooty puff snr

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« Reply #8 on: 05-25-2004 02:43 »

Maybe the Hobo's and Robo's have taken over old New York.
Grim

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« Reply #9 on: 05-25-2004 03:46 »

My dvds are out in the garage so someone will correct me on the details, but in a deleted scene fo the Luck of the Fryrish, Leela's wrist-thiny reads a high amount of  some radiation or something, to which fry replys "Thats just superstition", prehaps old new york is less inhabitable than the sewers beneath it?
El Scorcho

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« Reply #10 on: 05-25-2004 07:23 »

Or possibly the property prices in old new York are too high for those cheap mutants
Digital Dragon

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« Reply #11 on: 05-25-2004 17:14 »

Maybe they find Old New York creepy.
loseroftheweek

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« Reply #12 on: 05-25-2004 19:39 »

There is mutant mutants in Old New York and they are too afriad of them. Amagin whet they would look like...
Alliteration

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« Reply #13 on: 05-25-2004 20:01 »

Psshhh, thats just a sub-urban legend.
Ozor Mox

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« Reply #14 on: 05-26-2004 10:20 »

Apparently tramps live in Old New York as well (LOTF).
Dannilicious

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« Reply #15 on: 05-26-2004 10:55 »

Hmm, very true, I never thought of that. In the Luck of the Fryish they showed a mutant living in the sewers of Old New York, but not actually in the city. And the city is completley abandoned, but there are all the old possesions of the people who used to live there still there...why don't the people of the sewers just go and take them? I mean, if they prize guitar strings, dead fish and dead birds, than I think entire record collections, houses and furniture, and railroad tracks, all seen in The Luck of the Fryish in Old New York, would be like a treasure to them...
Young_and_Angry

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« Reply #16 on: 05-28-2004 21:47 »
« Last Edit on: 05-28-2004 21:47 »

Yeah. Then they could use the B-train, making local stops at where ever the hell they feel like and watch for the closing doors, bing-boo.  :D
If I was a mutant, I'd rob the old places of Old new York! So why can't they? Or do they need a "Surface, yet is below the surface" pass that is un-obtainable since Old New York is un inhabited. I love being complicated.  :rolleyes: 
M0le

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« Reply #17 on: 05-29-2004 01:07 »
« Last Edit on: 05-29-2004 01:07 »

Maybe they actually like living in the sewers rather than in a long-dead persons bed in a long-dead persons house. Maybe they like the sewers, they seemed to have affection for it in 'I Second that Emotion' and 'Leela's Homeworld'.
tom123

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« Reply #18 on: 05-29-2004 11:05 »

Maybe they don't know about it?
canned eggs

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« Reply #19 on: 05-29-2004 14:08 »

 
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Originally posted by Sal:
yeah but when fry is in the sewer he says somthing like "in my time this would all have been a lunch-in at the met" meaing it was somwhere in Old New York.

interesting?   :)

He says what now?
Sal

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« Reply #20 on: 05-29-2004 15:17 »

he says somthing to do with the fact that they are in a New New York Sewer, but in his time it was part of Old Ney York.

In Episode 201, I Second That Emotion.
canned eggs

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« Reply #21 on: 05-29-2004 15:48 »

Oh, "All this was probably once a charity luncheon for the Met."  I think he means the feces.  Because they're in a sewer...
Shaucker

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« Reply #22 on: 05-29-2004 19:59 »

no, Leela says they're under Park Avenue, where there is NOW a very ritzy area near the Met, as in Museum of Art
canned eggs

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« Reply #23 on: 05-29-2004 20:24 »

Fry's not referring to his time.  The joke is that he's impressed by the ritziness of Park avenue sewage.
scooty puff snr

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« Reply #24 on: 06-03-2004 23:46 »

on the commentary of i second that emotion Poor David gets painted into a corner on this topic and it is left that some parts of old new york are above the sewers and some are below. Not that that makes sense either.
Ozor Mox

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« Reply #25 on: 06-04-2004 07:21 »

That depended on the episode didn't it? In ISTE the sewers were directly beneath New New York, and in LOTF Old New York was directly beneath.
Digital Dragon

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« Reply #26 on: 06-04-2004 16:13 »

I's possible that the sewers could wind above and below Old New York. It's also interesting to note that in LOTF that mutant remained in the sewer even while talking to Fry, suggesting the mutants do have some sort of deep seated reluctance to enter the ruins of Old New York.
Alliteration

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« Reply #27 on: 06-04-2004 16:54 »

I bet they all used to live there. Or they mutated from people who lived there, whatever.
Unknown

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« Reply #28 on: 06-05-2004 00:18 »

It could be different in different boroughs.  Sewers could be below Old Brooklyn, Queens, etc. and above Old Manhattan.
David A

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« Reply #29 on: 06-05-2004 07:13 »

 
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Originally posted by Digital Dragon:
...suggesting the mutants do have some sort of deep seated reluctance to enter the ruins of Old New York.

Fear of El Chupanibre, perhaps?
dimension_8

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« Reply #30 on: 06-05-2004 11:32 »

El Chupanibre lives in the sewers doesn't he? (Or was it the sub-sewers?)
David A

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« Reply #31 on: 06-05-2004 11:41 »

Probably, but maybe they think that he lives in the ruins.
Digital Dragon

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« Reply #32 on: 06-05-2004 18:03 »
« Last Edit on: 06-05-2004 18:03 »

Maybe it's fear of the ghosts of long dead newyorkers, the mutants do seem fairly superstitious.
Jicannon

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« Reply #33 on: 06-25-2004 00:31 »

Maybe because of the giant alligators living in the sewers
mpbx3003

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« Reply #34 on: 06-25-2004 00:47 »
« Last Edit on: 06-25-2004 00:47 »

maybe the record collections are mutant's kryptonite,but the effect wears off if you've been on the surface for years...
i mean who would want to live near 'Sports?'
darthmonkey32

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« Reply #35 on: 06-25-2004 12:31 »

 those are crococodiles
crazy nibbler

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« Reply #36 on: 06-25-2004 16:20 »
« Last Edit on: 06-25-2004 16:20 »

   
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Originally posted by Jicannon:
Maybe because of the giant alligators living in the sewers

yeah im with you on that.  ;)
and according to darthmonkey32 its crocodiles.  :D
Jicannon

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« Reply #37 on: 07-12-2004 16:11 »

oh...well alligators would have been better  :(
Lrrrr

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« Reply #38 on: 07-16-2004 04:15 »

i think its because they like getting free stuff (ex. guitars, guitar strings, drugs, ext.)
Idan_Aharoni

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« Reply #39 on: 07-16-2004 09:52 »

But non-mutant bums do live in Old New York... Just check LOTF where the hobo was sleeping on Bender after they reached their final stop.
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