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Nixorbo
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Originally posted by BrainSluggo: The giant missile hidden in the stained-glass window of the church Fry goes to. That's gotta be a "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" reference
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Teral
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Where did Bender get the quarter with Coolio from. We've never seen a door on his back before.
Bender do have an impressive gravitation. After all the ballistic missiles worked perfectly.
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Allen
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Originally posted by Chump: Also also: Bender was gonna have sex with the torpedo later? You were surprised? This is the guy that has the weirdest relationships. ie the ship, the Crushinater to name a few.
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Delta-V
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Originally posted by Chump: Sound no, but obviously the shrimpkins developed something (ie they cannot hear, only sense vibrations that result from the displacement of them speaking). Also teral, the door wasn't on the back, his head was turned around.
Nope, the door was definitely in the back. The village was on his front side, because the unbelievers were on his ass. So he musta pulled the coin out of... Maybe the torpedo is small, but when the gravity lock is realeased, it expands. I base that solely on the fact that if a person were released into space with no suit they would expand and explode. Perhaps they make the torpedos smaller so they won't rapidly expand and fill up the tube, get stuck, and blow themselves up. People wouldn't explode in space. The atmospheric pressure inside isn't great enough. Not to say it wouldn't hurt like hell. You could survive brief exposure to vacuum, but you'd be all black and blue from broken capillaries under the skin. There's a pre-med major around here that could probably fill in all the gory details.
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meisterPOOP
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Expell, PE atmosphere into space.
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Nixorbo
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So they're elven nanites?
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Torquemada
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The coin came from the same place the bricks come from, his ass. Sound doesn't travel through vacuum but it will travel through the matter that Bender is made of. We never see tears before but it doesn't mean they are not there. We have never seen them that close before. The little people don't breathe, they feed off background radiation levels of space. The missiles were guided, the bombs were magnetic. The scenes etched into Bender's chest were removed by Bender because he wanted to be benevolent to his subjects and the pictures showed him being mean to humans. What you should be worried about is the fact that the Planet Express ship couldn't catch him up when it doesn't travel faster than the speed of ligh but instead moves the universe around it, as established quite early on. You people ask the stupidest questions and ignore the big problems in the world.
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BrainSluggo
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Since we're being royally boned for new episodes or even reruns lately, I thought I'd revive this a bit...
Does anyone have any ideas where Godfellas came from? It's not the first plot involving someone waking up with hordes of little people living on him...
Of course there's Gulliver's Travels, but I'm wondering if there's another, more science-fictiony source that covers the "deity" angle.
A couple of years back in the DC superhero comic JLA, a malevolent magical being kept his only rival amongst the Good Guys--The Spectre, a selectively-gigantic ghostly entity--out of the picture with a pre-emptive strike that put him in some sort of coma. In order to prevent The Spectre's superhero buddies from reviving him, the villian places a society of tiny but intelligent lifeforms on The Spectre's enormous form. If The Spectre moved, they would be killed.
One of The Spectre's teammates uses his own magical powers to--heh heh--accelerate time in a localized area--hee hee hee--so that the lifeforms evolve and eventually become extinct in what seems, to them, to be billions of years, but to the rest of the universe is actually a matter of days.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha! ..oh, wait, you're serious! Let me laugh even harder! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" --Bender
What really makes me wonder if the writers are readin' too many funnybooks is the fact that the lifeforms eventually kill each other off using "nuclear" weapons made from the undefined ectoplasmic wizzle The Spectre is composed of--just as the Shrimpkins use Bender's "atomic pile" to destroy all life on their Lord.
Anyone got any other possible sources?
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Nixorbo
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Well, from the initial descriptions, I was picturing Star Trek V, but it really wasn't like it at all.
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Teral
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Originally posted by Nixorbo: Well, from the initial descriptions, I was picturing Star Trek V, but it really wasn't like it at all. Let's all say a prayer of thanks for that. BrainSluggo's post made me think of the TNG ep "Evolution" (nanites) or the V'ger ep "Blink of an eye" (fast paced technological development, and the inhabitants spoke directly with their "god" ). But that's rather me doing associations than genuine inspirationsources for the Futurama writers.
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Kryten
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Originally posted by BrainSluggo: Since we're being royally boned for new episodes or even reruns lately, I thought I'd revive this a bit...
Does anyone have any ideas where Godfellas came from? It's not the first plot involving someone waking up with hordes of little people living on him...
Of course there's Gulliver's Travels, but I'm wondering if there's another, more science-fictiony source that covers the "deity" angle.
A couple of years back in the DC superhero comic JLA, a malevolent magical being kept his only rival amongst the Good Guys--The Spectre, a selectively-gigantic ghostly entity--out of the picture with a pre-emptive strike that put him in some sort of coma. In order to prevent The Spectre's superhero buddies from reviving him, the villian places a society of tiny but intelligent lifeforms on The Spectre's enormous form. If The Spectre moved, they would be killed.
One of The Spectre's teammates uses his own magical powers to--heh heh--accelerate time in a localized area--hee hee hee--so that the lifeforms evolve and eventually become extinct in what seems, to them, to be billions of years, but to the rest of the universe is actually a matter of days.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha! ..oh, wait, you're serious! Let me laugh even harder! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" --Bender
What really makes me wonder if the writers are readin' too many funnybooks is the fact that the lifeforms eventually kill each other off using "nuclear" weapons made from the undefined ectoplasmic wizzle The Spectre is composed of--just as the Shrimpkins use Bender's "atomic pile" to destroy all life on their Lord.
Heh. I own that one. It's the same issue where the heroes defeat an evil blue monster by merging it with a good pink monster to create a benign purple monster. Yes, those words I just said made perfect sense, didn't they?
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Teral
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Not really a nit, more an observation. Fry doesn't seem to have much of a beard growing. First they spend several days getting to the monestary, and afterwards he sits in front of the telescope for 3 days, yet he has only a faint shade of a beard.
Also when Fry have been at the telescope for 3 days, there is a pizza box next to him, with one slice in it. Who delivered that pizza?
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Erdrik
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Land a massive heavy ship in who knows how deep snow?! Could cause avalanches ect... the place Probably has a law to prevent this. Not to mention there wasn't a whole lotta room to land in... untill the end when Bender landed. Where'd that clearing come from anyway...
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