The Scruffy Thread

[Reply #40 on:]

 

Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
i think his full name is just 'Scruffy'

LOL

-Oooh… A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa! Let's get the hell out of here already. Screw history!-

[Reply #41 on:]

I  think he's the janitor at Planet Express, that's what I saw him as. Anywho I like him because he's the most random character on the show!

[Reply #42 on:]

Fry: "Who are you?"
Scruffy: "Scruffy. The janitor."

You thought correct.

Ehh, Scruffy's okay, as long as they don't overdo him. He's better in those 3-4 second blurps, rather than lengty dialogue, "Futurestock" almost overdid it.

[Reply #43 on:]

i just got 2 new comics, #5 and the first crossover one, and Scruffy appears quite a bit in those two.

Spoiler warning! Click to show/hide!

he saves the PE crew in Comic #5 by telling Fry the answer to the question on the quiz show. in the crossover he goes into the Simpsons Comic with the rest of them and teams up with none other than Willie.

[Reply #44 on:]

also, in the second part of the crossover ep there's a little joke about his obscurity... the front and back covers show all the characters and are almost identical, except that scrufft isn't in the front one. The comic's bar-code is placed over where he ought to be standing. He's only there on the back of the issue!

[Reply #45 on:]

scruffy said. Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.

[Reply #46 on:]

 

Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
i just got 2 new comics, #5 and the first crossover one, and Scruffy appears quite a bit in those two.

Spoiler warning! Click to show/hide!

he saves the PE crew in Comic #5 by telling Fry the answer to the question on the quiz show. in the crossover he goes into the Simpsons Comic with the rest of them and teams up with none other than Willie.

He has a major part in Comics #10 too. To majpr a role, they overdo it, and the story wasn't that good to begin with. Scruffy's major role, only worsens it.

[Reply #47 on:]

Does anyone think he looks suspiciously like the robot Janitor in the wax robot museum? (Mother's day)Maybe thats a robotised version?

[Reply #48 on:]

He also looks suspiciously like the guy wheeling the Beastie Boys onstage in "Hell is Other Robots".

[Reply #49 on:]

And the guy buffing Bender in "A Fishfull Of Dollars".

[Reply #50 on:]

im sure that is Scruffy in both 'Hell Is Other Robots' and 'A Fishfull of Dollars'.

I also think they have overdone him in the comics. It better not be like that for the rest of the show.

[Reply #51 on:]

Scruffy was in Hell is other bots, at the begining of the epsidoe when he brought in the Beastle Boys!

[Reply #52 on:]

Yeah, we just said that, dumbass.

[Reply #53 on:]

 

Originally posted by Teral:
And the guy buffing Bender in "A Fishfull Of Dollars".

Didn't he have brown hair, Then..?

[Reply #54 on:]

He did, I think. Watch Scruffy in AoI 1. The color of his hair and his cap switch from scene to scene.

[Reply #55 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nurdbot:
 Didn't he have brown hair, Then..?

Probably, I can't remember. Just goes to show how stressful and demanding a janitors work is.

Don't confuse not caring with not knowing!

[Reply #56 on:]

Scruff!  Scruff!  Scruff!!  Scruff!

Is it my imagination or has the Scruffmeister consistently referred to himself in the third person throughout the entire show (except when identifying himself, which necessitates linking a pronoun to a noun)?

[Reply #57 on:]

[Scruffy]Scruffy referres to himself only in the third person, people.[/Scruffy]

I'm watching you. Yes, YOU!

[Reply #58 on:]

Scruffy's name may be repeated sonorously as a mantra to enter a deep meditative state where profound secrets of the universe are strewn before you like a thousand tiny stars.

[Reply #59 on:]

All I know is: if there's "Zero-G Jugs" magazines at this Scruffy-vana, I'll give it a try.

[Reply #60 on:]

Scruffy's rolling out a large pill.

[Reply #61 on:]

 

Originally posted by Chanukah Zombie:
Scruffy's name may be repeated sonorously as a mantra to enter a deep meditative state where profound secrets of the universe are strewn before you like a thousand tiny stars.

CZ, ya' gotta remember to breathe! Those stars are yer brain cells dyin'.

[Reply #62 on:]

I find Scruffy hilarious.  I hope he gets used more in the remaining episodes or at least have one more line to remember him by.

[Reply #63 on:]

Yeah like:

Scruffy goin' home now..*Walks into path of Hover-Car*

[Reply #64 on:]

As long it's not something like.

[scruffy]Scruffy's gonna leave the building, people...[/scruffy]

I'm watching you. Yes, YOU!

[Reply #65 on:]

Scruffy made his debut in Fishful Of Dollars as noted here and in the season one dvd commentary.

I believe he finally got a name in Parasites Lost.

Fry: "Aren't you gonna put out the fire?"
Scruffy: "No."
Fry: "Why?"
Scruffy: "Schedulin' conflict."

LOL

-cs

["It's toe tappingly tragic."]

"It's toe tappingly tragic."

[Reply #66 on:]

 

Originally posted by Gocad:
As long it's not something like.

[scruffy]Scruffy's gonna leave the building, people...[/scruffy]

worst. line. ever.

i have to agree with you on that one.

[Reply #67 on:]

"Scruffy" is not his real name, of course, it's just a nickname.  After all, what mother would actually name her son "Scruffy"?  What, then, is his real name?  As I'm sure must be obvious to all by now, it is none other than I. C. Weiner.   

[Reply #68 on:]

 

Originally posted by Gocad:
[Scruffy]Scruffy referres to himself only in the third person, people.[/Scruffy]

Actually, I just noticed that Scruffy says, "Lemme know how that turns out" at the baby shower in "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch."  "Lemme" is "let me," so I guess that blows that theory.  On the other hand, "me" is not the same thing as "I," so maybe that part's still true.  To the best of my knowledge, he's never once said "I."   

[Reply #69 on:]

I hope I'm not breaking any taboos by posting thrice in a row but has it ever occured to anyone else that Scruffy is exactly what Fry would have become had he never been brought to the future?  In more than one sense, we can say that he is "Fry without a future."  Feedback? 

[Reply #70 on:]

Hmmm...That is a good theory. Give this man a Mod-Ship.

[Reply #71 on:]

 

Originally posted by Chanukah Zombie:
I hope I'm not breaking any taboos by posting thrice in a row but has it ever occured to anyone else that Scruffy is exactly what Fry would have become had he never been brought to the future?  In more than one sense, we can say that he is "Fry without a future."  Feedback? 

I think that Scruffy is smarter than Fry. Much smarter.
 

I'm watching you. Yes, YOU!

[Reply #72 on:]

Almost everyone's smarter than Fry.  Besides, Fry is cooler and doesn't speak in the third person. Scruffy's just sort of... there.

[Reply #73 on:]

Have a look at Futurama Comics #5 and you'll know that Scruffy is very much smarter than fry, and teaches fry quite a lot.

[Reply #74 on:]

 

Originally posted by Kristi:
No, less Scruffy! He's too boring and unfunny.

Give up your foolish and doomed to fail crusade, Kristi... 

I'm watching you. Yes, YOU!

[Reply #75 on:]

 

Originally posted by Kristi:
Almost everyone's smarter than Fry.    Besides, Fry is cooler and doesn't speak in the third person. Scruffy's just sort of... there.

In my experience, all else being equal, refering to yourself in the third person usually makes you cooler, not the other way around.   

But all else is not equal.  Fry is the protagonist and no one is going to steal his thunder.  Moreover, as I pointed out in another thread, I'm not at all convinced that Fry is stupid. 

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Originally posted by Chanukah Zombie:
 In my experience, all else being equal, refering to yourself in the third person usually makes you cooler, not the other way around.   

But some people might think that you have a serious problem when you refer to yourself in third person.

Gocad does however agree with you, CZ.

[Reply #77 on:]

 

Originally posted by Chriswell:
Scruffy made his debut in Fishful Of Dollars as noted here and in the season one dvd commentary.

I believe he finally got a name in Parasites Lost.

Fry: "Aren't you gonna put out the fire?"
Scruffy: "No."
Fry: "Why?"
Scruffy: "Schedulin' conflict."

LOL

-cs

His name is mentioned first in AOI I:

Leela: "Who are you?"
Scruffy: "Scruffy, the janitor."
Leela: "I've never seen you before."
Scruffy: "I've never seen you before neither."

This is also his first speaking apperance.

[Reply #78 on:]

Scruffy played the Manwitch in Leela's dream about the Wizard of Oz in AoI.  Maybe that's why in later episodes there are jokes about a Manwich (sloppy Joe), so that people who didn't get the earlier joke the first time around would get it retroactively.     Again, more pop culture references.  The 1960s TV show "Bewitched" convinced America that a male witch is called a "warlock" (historical hogwash) and so now no one can think of a witch without thinking of a female.  At any rate, at least we learn that Scruffy and Leela share the same shoe size!     

[Reply #79 on:]

 

Originally posted by Teral:
He has a major part in Comics #10 too. To majpr a role, they overdo it, and the story wasn't that good to begin with. Scruffy's major role, only worsens it.

Was #10 the curling (swurling, whatever they called it) issue? The curling issue sucked. It was basically a lame parody of an obscure 'sport'. Scruffy was right out of character.