anyway the lengths of wire joke was the best ever. EVER! so much waiting, so much pay off

EDIT: Sorry for the o. That's how you reserve posts.

I loved this episode. These new ones are awsome, some of the best, or maybe it's just that we haven't had episodes....

"Good news everyone! I'm still technically alive!"

Edit: Moved speculations on the box here: http://http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/3-000366/#t2

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Originally posted by Venus:
i predicted that the parallel Leela and Fry would be married, but when they first walked into frame and neither of them was wearing a ring i thought i was wrong. How dare they toy with me like that!

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hehe, they threw us off w/the diamond scrunchie. hey, were they (the parallel fry & leela) referring to a particular ep were they when they talked about their first date?

at first i thought the the boxes were just portals. but that can't be right. i hope that they actually refer to the fact that they have the universe sitting in their lounge. i still don't really understand how that's possible. but that's probably just me ANYWAY very funny ep i am so sad there are only six left now

I loved the start, with Farnsworth calling for various deities and evil incarnations to help him, while the PE staff mostæy didn't care.

The various universes were fun, and the parallel staff were too. Loved the hippie universe.

I dunno, it might just be the FOX brains airing it out of order, but the Fry/Leela stuff is starting to get tiresome. This is the 4th episode in a row with their off again-off again relationship playing a major part in the show. "Three Hundred Big Boys" better be a laffer (with two f's) without any shipper overtones or undercurrent.

Didn't "I Dated A Robot" say there only were 2 parallel universes?

Okay, giving characters: 8/10.

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I am not under stress damnit!

I didn't notice any cute references, aside from "Universe 420," of course. The Professor does say "lengths of wire" again, though.

By the way, it gets around the Professor's statement in "I Dated a Robot" about there being only two universes, since they actually create all the others. But is the cowboy universe also in the box...?

It had some great science fiction-y ideas, like how each universe was created simultaneously in the opposite universe, and how they ended up with a box containing their own universe. The ideas are actually nothing new, but still fun.

But the coin-flipping explanation was silly, since there were tons of differences that couldn't be explained that way, and since when does everyone flip coins to make decisions? I think it would have worked better if they said there were just minor differences everywhere that could lead to major differences, but did not try explaining the differences.

And again we hear of a way that Leela could have fallen in love with Fry if only things had happened a little differently. I think "Time Keeps on Slippin'" should have been the last word on that subject, though I wouldn't have minded if they just hadn't explained how parallel Fry and Leela got together, and this time it wasn't a major part of the episode. Still annoying though.

It was kind of strange seeing Leela right back to rejecting Fry after last week's episode, but they were shown out of order. Also, she did seem to be rejecting him just out of habit, and she does agree to go out with him at the end. That was a sweet moment, really.

Universe 1729?

Loved how the looked inside different boxes though.

Farnsworth: "This universe is full of womens. I'll save that for later."
(Leela runs by with an octopus stuck on her head)

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Originally posted by Teral:
Yeah, Hermes pausing for a couple of seconds before deciding not to blow everybody out of the airlock was funny.

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Anyone else notice Hermes seems to be turning... evil?
Apart from the delay at not ejecting everybody, he also did the thing with the gun (Use it to shoot those guys...)

interesting facts:
...we already saw PE crew clones

...space effect was used in "Godfellas"

and music in "The Sting"

...Farnsworth is hippie again ("Teenage Mutant Leela's hurdles" )

...Hippie gives Farnswoth a flower like Fry gave flower to Leela in "The Why Of Fry"

...Its second time Leela has octopus on her head ("Leela's homeworld)

Zoidberg (or the two zoidbergs) were especially funny in this episode. "Stop squirting me with ink Zodberg! Put on some pants Zoidberg!" And then when the pink Zoidberg was praying to the blue one... oh crazy Zoidberg...

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Originally posted by mdgirish:
And I think they are focusing on Fry and Leela because it is nearly the end, and they will get together at the end.

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Yeah, but they didn't know that when they wrote episodes. The episodes are written in early 2001, and at that point a renewal was still higly likely. At any rate 4 shippy episodes within 7 episodes is still overkill. I start to miss the arch free episodes. Such as "The Bird Bot Of Ice-catraz" and "The Problem With Popplers".

@ OC: I don't know, I have big expectations of "Three Hundred Big Boys". That episode sound like pure, arch free fun.

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Originally posted by Venus:
when they wrote season 4 they DID suspect that they were gonna be taken out. They have stated so in several interviews. That's why they did Devil's hands when they did, and it appears that these other shippy eps are lead-ins to this last one.

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But they still had to leave it open-ended enough to give them a reasonable place to start if the show got renewed. They only had a suspicion, so they were betting on both horses. And with "The Devils Hands..." only 3 eps down the road, it sounds like a lead in. It's just too massive the way FOX airs the episodes.

Maybe I'm just overtired (4 Am here).

And as Venus said, they did suspect that Fox was going to cancel the show. I have a feeling even when they were renewing Futurama, they didn't have good attitudes towards the staff. Still, it was good thinking on their part, and I am glad things will wrap up at the end. (I hope anyway)

I didn't think it was too shippy though. Sure, there was the whole alternate Fry/Leela marriage thing, but it's not like it was the focus of the episode.

The Zoidbergs were good. Lengths of wire were awesome. I liked it when Fry was occupied by the tangled up christmas lights. Concept of a universe that differs only by coin-flips was funny. I'll flatly list off other things that I liked, when I watch the episode again. But overall, I classify it as "good".

Great one liners ("Help, Satan! You owe me" ) and sight gags (Leela with the octopus box on her head) Good plotline and the parallel crew was great, especially Zoidberg. Even our Zoidy gets the crappy end of the stick in another universe, when blue zoidy didn't let him have his turn as king. Funnier and less dramatic than the last couple of eps, the shippy angle was handled with a little more restraint, which is a good thing. It was nice to see Leela finally agree to go out with Fry at the end.

It was weird how Leela was so willing to shoot anyone trying to look in the box.