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Topic: Whoopsie-Daisy! (Goof thread V.2)
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PazuzuJr
Liquid Emperor
 
 Since: Oct 2006
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posted 03-14-2007 11:12 |
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oh - so it's just a split second kinda thing?[This message has been edited by PazuzuJr (edited 03-14-2007).]
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FuturamaPac
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 Since: Mar 2007
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posted 03-14-2007 11:33 |
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you got it, just a split second. Shame really, it would be funny if her nose was gone for longer!  [This message has been edited by FuturamaPac (edited 03-14-2007).]
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PazuzuJr
Liquid Emperor
Since: Oct 2006
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posted 03-14-2007 12:09 |
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Or even a whole episode... That would be really odd. Or what if they forgot Leela's eye?
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Xanfor
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Since: May 2006
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posted 03-15-2007 07:30 |
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They've done much worse than that...  ------------------
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
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Dave B
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Since: Dec 2005
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posted 03-15-2007 09:41 |
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Originally posted by Dave B:
My sister noticed this goof in the episode 'Fry and the Slurm Factory' when we were watching the Season 1 DVD box set:When Fry, Leela and Bender were escaping from the Queen here is the grab when Slurms and the girls ask to escape with them:  Then a little later when Slurms tells Bender that he only wants a small party when they get home here is the grab:  Notice the girls shoes are present in the first grab and then the girls shoes are gone in the second...
Anyone even notice the goof found by my sis? lol [This message has been edited by Dave B (edited 03-15-2007).]
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FuturamaPac
Professor
Since: Mar 2007
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posted 03-15-2007 10:12 |
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Of course we have! good find!
speaking of which, here's another one that a lot of you have seen, but if you havn't...
well you get the point.
from Crimes of the Hot, here's Bender's wooden shoes.
But when he's pushed over, they're gone...
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PazuzuJr
Liquid Emperor
Since: Oct 2006
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posted 03-15-2007 12:41 |
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Two disappearing shoes in a row... suspicious. I noiced the first one but not the second one. Good finds.
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FuturamaPac
Professor
Since: Mar 2007
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posted 03-15-2007 13:15 |
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Yeah... now I guess the professor's slippers will turn pink?
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Professor Zoidy
Liquid Emperor
Since: Aug 2005
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posted 03-15-2007 19:43 |
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Everyone knows they throw off their shoes after wearing them. Silly people, it's not a goof... 
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FuturamaPac
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 03-16-2007 03:35 |
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ohhhh... if you were a poppler i'd probably say up yours, but with all due respect, I follow the liquid emperors 
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power girl07
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Since: Jan 2007
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posted 03-16-2007 13:06 |
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Originally posted by ivan_fry:
Watching "Leela's Homeworld" earlier, Leela's parents put a note on Leela that is written in Alienese, and successfully convinced the guy at the Orphanarium that she was an alien. There is a goof, however, because she is wearing a name tag written in English.  See?
If the guy at the orphanage had Leela's full name, why didn't they track down her parents?
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FuturamaPac
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 03-16-2007 14:01 |
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That's a good point, but they said that Leela was an alien, not a mutant, and that there weren't any other one eyed alien on this planet. Either that or they just couldn't be bothered
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Sine Wave
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Since: Dec 2006
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posted 03-16-2007 20:02 |
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Well if she was left at an orphanarium most would assume her parents, if they aren't dead, wouldn't really want her back.
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ivan_fry
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Since: May 2006
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posted 03-16-2007 20:48 |
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Originally posted by power girl07:
If the guy at the orphanage had Leela's full name, why didn't they track down her parents?
You can see by the name tag that they DID know her full name!
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Sine Wave
Professor
Since: Dec 2006
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posted 03-16-2007 22:12 |
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Yes, which is what spurred the question you quoted.
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ivan_fry
Bending Unit
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posted 03-16-2007 23:24 |
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The way that girl07 wrote it suggests that "they didn't track down her parents so they mustn't have had her name".
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futz
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Since: Apr 2005
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posted 03-17-2007 14:47 |
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1. Many such oddities about Leela's heritage can always be answered by realizing that mutants are "not on the radar" in society. They do not appear to be in government or public records of any sort. Otherwise, many things that we've seen or heard in the show wouldn't happen that way.2. There is no mention of Leela being a human earthling so why would one assume it is a human earthling name? Where would you begin the search and how far would you go or spend to find out? 3. No way to know if the nametag was placed on Leela by the parents, temporary custodian, or some other 3rd party that just dropped off the basket. So the nametag wouldn't help in tracking her parents down because there is nothing to track. It might as well say Jane Doe. [This message has been edited by futz (edited 03-17-2007).]
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ivan_fry
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Since: May 2006
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posted 03-18-2007 00:17 |
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2. There is no mention of Leela being a human earthling so why would one assume it is a human earthling name?
Most likely because the top of the name tag says "HELLO!" on it.
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futz
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posted 03-18-2007 01:40 |
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So? Earth has lots of aliens. Many coming and going all the time. Any one or thing could just pick up some tags at the store.
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ivan_fry
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posted 03-18-2007 03:41 |
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Yes, but your first reaction to seeing a name tag written in English would be something along the lines of "holy crap! they're human!"
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PazuzuJr
Liquid Emperor
Since: Oct 2006
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posted 03-18-2007 05:36 |
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Not necessarily. you could just think that her parents, before abandoning her, went to a shop and bought a name tag so people would know her name. You can buy something written in another language. It doesn't make people think you're from that place, it makes you think they've been to that place and bought something.
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futz
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posted 03-18-2007 11:31 |
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Uh hmm, uh hmm, English is already the Earth's standard language for business and technology.
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Professor Zoidy
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posted 03-18-2007 15:26 |
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Perhaps the owner of the Orphanarium was simply too lazy to look for her parents, or just didn't care. That, and they probably thought it to be from some other planet, and since she was the only one with one ey he'd seen, he probably figured the planet to be destroyed.
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ivan_fry
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Since: May 2006
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posted 03-19-2007 04:28 |
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Originally posted by PazuzuJr:
Not necessarily. you could just think that her parents, before abandoning her, went to a shop and bought a name tag so people would know her name. You can buy something written in another language. It doesn't make people think you're from that place, it makes you think they've been to that place and bought something.
Ok, you make a valid point about how you can buy things in other languages, but explain how the aliens knew that "Hello!" is the right greeting to use in English? (Bare in mind it appears we're assuming these aliens ARE NOT English speaking)
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Xanfor
Urban Legend
Since: May 2006
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posted 03-19-2007 07:29 |
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All aliens speak English. Haven't you seen 'Star Trek'?
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futz
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posted 03-19-2007 07:42 |
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Yes, and they all look like humans except for some bumps or wrinkles on their faces.
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Decapodian
Liquid Emperor
Since: Nov 2006
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posted 03-20-2007 02:57 |
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The 5 basic rules of Star Trek:1) All aliens speak English
2) Aliens are always humanoid looking creatures.
3) All planets have breathable air
4)All planets have roughly the same gravity as Earth
5)The only aliens that dont speak English are Klingons but even Klingon language is based on the same principles as English.
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Xanfor
Urban Legend
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posted 03-20-2007 07:18 |
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You're forgetting the ladies with beehive haircuts, you are. Beehive haircuts...
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PazuzuJr
Liquid Emperor
Since: Oct 2006
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posted 03-20-2007 11:53 |
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quote:
Originally posted by ivan_fry:
Ok, you make a valid point about how you can buy things in other languages, but explain how the aliens knew that "Hello!" is the right greeting to use in English? (Bare in mind it appears we're assuming these aliens ARE NOT English speaking)
I'm not german speaking - i still know Guten Tag is hello.
I'm not French speaking - I still know Bonjour is Hello.
I'm not italian speaking - I still know ciao is hello.
I'm not spanish speaking. i still know hola is hello...
Leela's parents could've not been english speaking but they'd still know 'Hello' means (hello in alienese).
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stripperbot
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Since: Jan 2007
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posted 03-20-2007 22:06 |
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I'm too lazy to search the thread, so I don't know if this has been posted, but in The Farnsworth Parabox, after the blue Zoidberg knocks down all the boxes containing the universes, why didn't the group just look for the box that wasn't marked? They had labeled all the other boxes with "Universe #whatever". The universe they were looking for would have had no mark.
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ivan_fry
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posted 03-21-2007 05:05 |
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Originally posted by Xanfor:
All aliens speak English. Haven't you seen 'Star Trek'?
But that's still a pretty lousy excuse, ok, I now making aliens speak English in television shows is done for pure convenience, but I've been taking this whole thing LITERALLY, and the literal meaning is that it's impossible for aliens to know english...unless they spy on us.
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futz
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posted 03-21-2007 13:21 |
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If the aliens are within about 100 light years they can recieve our early radio broadcasts, at about 60 light years they would be getting early TV broadcasts. If they know/remember that technology and don't live under water, etc. If SETI were to pick up such signals linguists would be hot on the heels of mathematicians. EM broadcasts may have more to do with Roswell happening when it did than A-bombs. Which might be a clue to where they are from.I wondered about the parabox thing too but I think one of the numbered open paraboxes fell on the parabox containing our universe effectively swallowing it.
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Xanfor
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posted 03-22-2007 06:47 |
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Originally posted by ivan_fry:But that's still a pretty lousy excuse, ok, I now making aliens speak English in television shows is done for pure convenience, but I've been taking this whole thing LITERALLY, and the literal meaning is that it's impossible for aliens to know english...unless they spy on us.
'Futurama' is parody of bad Ψ-Φ. That's the point, you see.
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FuturamaPac
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 03-22-2007 11:32 |
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Oh man, missing shoes, alien languages and now Matt Groening being lazy, he couldn't be bothered to draw Bender's door handle or some of the lines on his mouth!
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PazuzuJr
Liquid Emperor
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posted 03-22-2007 12:13 |
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Weird. I didn't read the post before the pic and it took me ages to realise bender's mouth was not half there. Where do you get these? Or do you just watch every frame grab indivdually?
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FuturamaPac
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posted 03-22-2007 12:27 |
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hehe, fortunately enough, I was watching Love's Labour's Lost in Space earlier, and noticed Bender's mouth. When I looked at the grab, I noticed his door handle was missing too.
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milksong
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posted 03-22-2007 19:01 |
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maybe it's because we're seeing his face in semi-profile, so that the other part of his mouth is on the other side of his head?
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futz
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posted 03-22-2007 19:09 |
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I always thought of Bender's teeth more like a LCD panel than individual parts that would have to bend weirdly.
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Decapodian
Liquid Emperor
Since: Nov 2006
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posted 03-23-2007 02:12 |
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What part of LLLIS is that image in?
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ivan_fry
Bending Unit
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posted 03-23-2007 03:21 |
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^Looks like the part where they find out Nibbler poops dark matter. quote:
Originally posted by milksong:
maybe it's because we're seeing his face in semi-profile, so that the other part of his mouth is on the other side of his head?
Um...no. He has horizontal lines on his mouth that are visible from every angle.
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