Professor Freaksworth

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Hallo there, this is the first topic I start in this forum 

Anyway, here goes a question that has been bugging me for a while (or perhaps not    ).

In "The Farnsworth Parabox", do you think that the character of "Professor Freaksworth" has been influenced (name-wise at the very least) by Gilbert Shelton's "Freak Brothers"? 

Both the Freak Brothers and Prof. Freaksworth are (or appear to be), within certain limits, a similar sort of hippy druggy characters 

What do you think?

JoseB

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Maybe

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Now that you mention it, i wouldn't be surprised  if that was the reference... i mean, a lot of folks from Futurama crew ARE comic book fanboys...

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I dunno, "freak" is a pretty common word in hippie lingo.  I think it's more likely that both names are independently making reference to that.

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Wouldn't it have been better if his name had been "Professor Funksworth"... cause he's Funkay!

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  He is prettyu funky. I'm working on a script where Futurama go back to (or believe they are the 70's. I do really like the name Professor Freaksworth  Your'll under stand if you have visited non-Futurama boards....

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Welcome to PEEL, JoseB! You have good taste in avatars, as that's one of mine  .

Although I wouldn't be surprised to find that this was a reference to the aforementioned comic, it's more than likely that "Freak" is just a usage of the 60s slang.

Now watch me eat my words on Nov 17th when the S4 DVDs come out and the Audio Commentaries prove me totally wrong  . And I will eat them, oh yes. With mustard. And lettuce.

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I think it was just from hippie slang because the joke was about the professuer and his hippy hatred not a modern reference

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Originally posted by SamuelXDiamond:
Now watch me eat my words on Nov 17th when the S4 DVDs come out and the Audio Commentaries prove me totally wrong   . And I will eat them, oh yes. With mustard. And lettuce.

You can make it into a hamburger, I'll bring buns and the beef!