Futurama: The Complete Guide

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If they ever did a book similar to the Simpsons guides, which characters would you pick to be profiled for each ep?

These are my choices...

Space Pilot 3000: Smitty and URL
The Series Has Landed: Sal Shifty (the lazy guy)
I, Roommate: Hattie (the, whaddayacallit, landlady)
Love's Labors Lost in Space: Zapp Brannigan
Fear of a Bot Planet: Robot Elders
A Fishful of Dollars: Mom
My Three Suns: Elzar
A Big Piece of Garbage: Morbo
Hell is Other Robots: Beelzebot
A Flight to Remember: The Countess
Mars University: Guenter
Fry and the Slurm Factory: Slurms McKenzie
When Aliens Attack: Lrrr
I Second That Emotion: Mutants
Brannigan Begin Again: Kif Kroker
A Head in the Polls: Nixon
An Xmas Story: Santa
Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?: Edna
Put Your Head on My Shoulder: Veeek-torrrr...
The Lesser of Two Evils: Flexo
Raging Bender: Phnog
A Bicyclops Built for Two: Alcazar
How Hermes Requisitioned his Groove Back: Morgan Proctor
A Clone of My Own: Cubert
Bender Gets Made: Robot Mafia
The Deep South: Umbriel
The Problem with Popplers: Fishy Joe
Mothers' Day: Mom's Stooges
Anthology of Interest: none (I see these being formatted like THOH eps)
The Honking: Project Satan
War is the H-Word: "Lee Lemon"
The Cryonic Woman: Michelle
Parasites Lost: Scruffy
Amazon Women in the Mood: Femputer
Bendless Love: Angleynne
The Day the Earth Stood Stupid: THE HYPNOTOAD.....
That's Lobstertainment: Harold Zoid
The Birdbot of Icecatraz: Free Waterfall Sr.
Luck of the Fryrish: Yancy Fry
The Cyber House Rules: Adlai Atkinson
Insane in the Mainframe: Roberto
Bendin' in the Wind: Horrible Gelatinous Blob
Time Keeps on Slippin': Bubblegum Tate
I Dated A Robot: Nappster Geek

Comments, suggestions, and picks for Season 4 are welcome!

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i know this isn't contributing much, but this is a good topic idea 

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That just reminded me of how few episodes I've actually seen 

[Reply #3 on:]

Regarding "War is the H-word": Since Lee Lemon was just Leela in disguise, I think Henry Kissinger or "Hawkeye Pierce"-bot would be a better option. Otherwise, good choices all around.

I hope they make a guide some time in the future.

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That just reminded me of how many episodes I've seen and have recorded for easy future viewing. Hooray!

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Space Pilot 3000: Terry
The Series Has Landed: The Moon Redneck
I, Roommate: Hattie (the landlady)
Love's Labors Lost in Space: Zapp Brannigan
Fear of a Bot Planet: The Judge
A Fishful of Dollars: Mom
My Three Suns: The water guy with Brain's voice
A Big Piece of Garbage: Wernstrom
Hell is Other Robots: Beelzebot
A Flight to Remember: The Countess
Mars University: Dean Vernon
Fry and the Slurm Factory: Glurmo
When Aliens Attack: Lrrr
I Second That Emotion: Mutants
Brannigan Begin Again: DOOP President
A Head in the Polls: Nixon
An Xmas Story: Santa
Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?: Edna
Put Your Head on My Shoulder: Malfunctioning Eddie
The Lesser of Two Evils: Flexo
Raging Bender: Destructor
A Bicyclops Built for Two: Alcazar
How Hermes Requisitioned his Groove Back: Morgan Proctor
A Clone of My Own: Cubert
Bender Gets Made: Robot Mafia
The Deep South: Umbriel
The Problem with Popplers: Fishy Joe
Mothers' Day: Mom's sons
Anthology of Interest: NA
The Honking: Calculon
War is the H-Word: "Lee Lemon"
The Cryonic Woman: Pauly Shore
Parasites Lost: Worm King
Amazon Women in the Mood: Femputer
Bendless Love: Angleynne
The Day the Earth Stood Stupid: THE HYPNOTOAD
That's Lobstertainment: Harold Zoid
The Birdbot of Icecatraz: Free Waterfall Sr.
Luck of the Fryrish: Philip J. Fry II
The Cyber House Rules: Sally
Insane in the Mainframe: Roberto
Bendin' in the Wind: Horrible Gelatinous Blob
Time Keeps on Slippin': Globetrotter history
I Dated A Robot: Liubot

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I would love a Futurama complete guide but I think it will be a while before it availible. I think that when Futurama finnishes after about the 8th season they will make a complete guide book of all of the episodes ever.

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For starters I will be generous and count Kif and Zapp among main characters, which will be profiled more extensively in the beginning of the book.

Otherwise:

Space Pilot 3000: Smitty/URL
The Series has Landed: Sal
I, Roommate: Calculon
Loves Labour Lost in Space: DOOP
Fear of a Bot Planet: Robot Elders
A Fishful of Dollars: Mom
My Three Suns: Emperor Bont
A Big Piece of Garbage: Mayor Poppenmeyer
Hell is other Robots: Beelzebot
A Flight to Remember: Leo&Inez Wong
Mars University: Guenter
Fry & the Slurm Factory: Slurms McKenzie
When Aliens Attack: Lrrr
I Second that Emotion: Mutants
Brannigan Begin Again: DOOP President
A Head in the Polls: Morbo
Xmas Story: Evil Santa
Why Must I be a Chrustacean in Love: Edna
Put Your Head on my Shoulder: Malfunctioning Eddie
Lesser of Two Evils: Flexo
Raging Bender: Phnog
A Bicyclops Built for Two: Alcazar
How Hermes Requested His Groove Back: Morgan Proctor or Number 1.0 (havent really decided yet)
A Clone of My Own: Cubert
The Deep South: Umbrielle
Bender Gets Made: Robot Mafia
The Problem With Popplers: FishyJoe
Mothers Day: Moms sons
Anhology of Interst I: None
The Honking: Haven't seen it yet
War is the H-word: Nixon
The Cryonic Woman: Michelle
Parasites Lost: Scruffy
Amazon Women in the Mood: Femputer
Bendless Love: See The Honking
The Day Earth Stood Stupid: Niblonians
That's Lobstertainment: Harold Zoid
The Birdbots of Ice-catraz: Free Waterfall Sr.
The Luck of the Fryish: Yancy Fry (Phillips J.'s brother)
The Cyberhouse Rules: Adlai Atkinson
Insane in the Mainframe: Roberto
Bending in the Wind: See The Honking
Time Keeps on Slipping: Bubblegum Tate
I Dated a Robot: See The Honking

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This is already being done. Look over here:  http://www.geocities.com/shadowstar_freakboy/futuramaguide.html  Some dude is already making the Complete Futurama Guide online A La the Springfield Shopper. And the drawings of the characters have a weird kiddie look to them.

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Yeah, some guy at Say ARGGGHHH!! is doing one too.

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UPDATE FOR SEASON 4:

Roswell That Ends Well: Enos Fry
A Tale of Two Santas: Kwanzaabot
Antholgy of Interest II: N/A
Love and Rocket: The Planet Express Ship
Leela's Homeworld: The Turangas
Where the Buggalo Roam: Betsy
A Pharoah To Remember: The head slave guy
Godfellas: The Monks
FutureStock: That Guy
A Leela of her Own: The Sigmoids
The 30% Iron Chef: Helmut Sparkle
Where No Fan has Gone Before: Melllvar

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Kiddie look! I'll kill you!!!! [lunges at Just Chris, but falls off cliff behind him]

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Leela's Homeworld: The Turangas

Don't you mean "The Leelas"?

And for the Day the Earth Stood Stupid,I would profile Nibbler.

~Bummin'~

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You really do need to frequent the recheck/weird scenes more often

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Originally posted by Kryten:
UPDATE FOR SEASON 4:

Where the Buggalo Roam: Betsy

Since Betsy can't talk, I'd choose the Martian Chief

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You mean Sitting Wind.

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No, I think he is thinking of Singing Wind (you know, Sitting Wind's cousin)

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I just say Say Arrgh!'s pathetic attempt to make guide pages... and I laugh! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!

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Originally posted by BNLbum:
 Don't you mean "The Leelas"?

Leela was her last name? Or wasn't it?

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Yeah, Leela is her last name. Touronga Leela, duh!

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But, as has been discussed elsewhere, Turanga (US official FOX site)/Turunga (UK official FOX site) is the family name--which is what I think Koekwaus meant.

EDIT: Found the discussion: one of Teral's messages--#17 from top--in this thread.

ANOTHER EDIT: Teral provides a link to The Leela Zone's Leela biography, with little gems like her parents' given names and the symphony after which Leela herself is named (!!!). Check it! 

Everybody and their mother is doing an Episode Guide, but of the ones I've seen, Say Argh! is the best-looking.

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Why'd they have to name her that. Every time I hear Turunga, I immediately think of Toronga Park Zoo here in Sydney.

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*BUMP*

Season five:

Crimes of the Hot: Werrrrnstrom!
Jurassic Bark: Seymour
The Route of All Evil: Dwight Conrad
A Taste of Freedom: Old Man Waterfall
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch: Midwife
Less Than Hero: The Zookeeper
Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles: Heather
The Why of Fry: Chas (the mayor's aide)
The Sting: Space Bees
The Farnsworth Parabox: Alternate crew
Three Hundred Big Boys: The whale biologist
Spanish Fry: Bigfoot
Bend Her: Barbados Slim
Obsoletely Fabulous: Robot 1X
Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV: Calculon
The Devil's Hands are Idol Playthings: Hedonismbot

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I think 'The Honking' should have Uncle Vladimir (If that's how you spell it!) because he never really had much in it.

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Did the Simpsons guides list the episodes in production or airing order?

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Did the Simpsons guides list the episodes in production or airing order?

Airing order. the same order is used on the DVDs.

Production order would be better for futurama IMO

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I prefer the production order, so here's an ACV list (ignoring Teral's Zapp and Kif rule):

Season 1:
Space Pilot 3000: Smitty/URL
The Series has Landed: Sal
I, Roommate: Hattie
Loves Labour Lost in Space: Zapp Brannigan
Fear of a Bot Planet: Robot Elders
A Fishful of Dollars: Mom
My Three Suns: Elzar
A Big Piece of Garbage: Mayor Poopenmeyer
Hell is other Robots: The Robot Devil
A Flight to Remember: Leo & Inez Wong
Mars University: Gunther
When Aliens Attack: Lrrr & Ndnd
Fry & the Slurm Factory: Slurms McKenzie

Season 2
I Second that Emotion: Mutants
Brannigan Begin Again: DOOP President
A Head in the Polls: Morbo
Xmas Story: Evil Santa
Why Must I be a Chrustacean in Love: Edna
Lesser of Two Evils: Flexo
Put Your Head on my Shoulder: Malfunctioning Eddie
Raging Bender: Phnog
A Bicyclops Built for Two: Alcazar
A Clone of My Own: Cubert
How Hermes Requested His Groove Back: Morgan Proctor
The Deep South: Umbriel
Bender Gets Made: Robot Mafia
The Problem With Popplers: Fishy Joe
Mothers Day: Mom's sons
Anthology of Interest I: N/A
War is the H-word: Nixon
The Honking: Project Satan
The Cryonic Woman: Michelle

Season 3:
Amazon Women in the Mood: Femputer
Parasites Lost: Scruffy
A Tale of Two Santas: The Hyperchicken
The Luck of the Fryish: Yancy Fry Jr.
The Birdbots of Ice-catraz: Free Waterfall Sr.
Bendless Love: Angylene
The Day Earth Stood Stupid: The Nibblonians
That's Lobstertainment: Harold Zoid
The Cyberhouse Rules: Adlai Atkinson
Where the Buggalo Roam: Singing Wind (or Mixmaster Festus, perhaps?  )
Insane in the Mainframe: Roberto
The Route of All Evil: Dwight Conrad
Bending in the Wind: Horrible Gelatenous Blob (I had a lot of trouble with this one.  )
Time Keeps on Slipping: Bubblegum Tate
I Dated a Robot: The movie narrator
A Leela of her Own: The Cygnoids
A Pharoah To Remember: The high priest guy with the beak
Antholgy of Interest II: N/A
Roswell That Ends Well: Enos Fry
Godfellas: "God"
FutureStock: Steve "That Guy" Castle
The 30% Iron Chef: Helmut Sparkle

Season 4:
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch: Kif Kroker
Leela's Homeworld: The Turangas
Love and Rocket: The Planet Express Ship
Less Than Hero: The Zookeeper
A Taste of Freedom: Old Man Waterfall
Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV: Calculon
Jurassic Bark: Seymour
Crimes of the Hot: Ogden Wernstrom
Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles: Heather
The Why of Fry: The Brain Spawn
Where No Fan has Gone Before: Melllvar
The Sting: Space Bees
Bend Her: Barbados Slim
Obsoletely Fabulous: Robot 1X
The Farnsworth Parabox: Universe 1 Crew
Three Hundred Big Boys: Judge Whitey
Spanish Fry: Bigfoot
The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings: Hedonismbot

 Although sadly I wasn't able to fit Tinny Tim in anywhere. 

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How did this thread reappear for no reason? And anyway, I finished MY complete guide already! Oh wait, I didn't do the extras though. Aw man, there's always a catch.

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Originally posted by Shadowstar:
How did this thread reappear for no reason?

 Kryten bumped it to add his Season 5 selections.

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This is a good thread idea...n-e-crap...
Spanish Fry: NdNd or Ranger Park the park Ranger 

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I put Lrrr and NdNd together since they nearly always do stuff together when they appear.

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Tweeked and altered to fit a more knowledgable mind:

 

Originally posted by Teral:

Space Pilot 3000: Smitty/URL
The Series has Landed: Sal
I, Roommate: Calculon
Loves Labour Lost in Space: DOOP
Fear of a Bot Planet: Robot Elders
A Fishful of Dollars: Mom
My Three Suns: Gorgak
A Big Piece of Garbage: Mayor Poppenmeyer
Hell is other Robots: Beelzebot
A Flight to Remember: Leo&Inez Wong
Mars University: Guenter
Fry & the Slurm Factory: Slurms McKenzie
When Aliens Attack: Lrrr
I Second that Emotion: Raoul, Dwayne, Violet
Brannigan Begin Again: Neutral Leader (Neutral comedy, woooo)
A Head in the Polls: Morbo
Xmas Story: Evil Santa
Why Must I be a Chrustacean in Love: Edna
Put Your Head on my Shoulder: Malfunctioning Eddie
Lesser of Two Evils: Flexo
Raging Bender: Phnog
A Bicyclops Built for Two: Alcazar
How Hermes Requested His Groove Back: Number 1.0
A Clone of My Own: Cubert
The Deep South: Umbriel
Bender Gets Made: Robot Mafia
The Problem With Popplers: FishyJoe
Mothers Day: Moms sons
Anhology of Interest I: None
The Honking: Project Satan
War is the H-word: Nixon
The Cryonic Woman: Michelle
Parasites Lost: Scruffy
Amazon Women in the Mood: Femputer
Bendless Love: Angleyne
The Day Earth Stood Stupid: Niblonians
That's Lobstertainment: Harold Zoid
The Birdbots of Ice-catraz: Free Waterfall Sr.
The Luck of the Fryish: Yancy Fry (Phillips J.'s brother)
The Cyberhouse Rules: Adlai Atkinson
Insane in the Mainframe: Roberto
Bending in the Wind: HG Blob
Time Keeps on Slipping: Bubblegum Tate
I Dated a Robot: Lucy Liu-bot

Roswell That Ends Well: Enos Fry
A Tale of Two Santas: Hayam and Balthazar (the two Neptunians)
Antholgy of Interest II: N/A
Love and Rocket: The Planet Express Ship
Leela's Homeworld: Turanga Morris & Munda
Where the Buggalo Roam: cheif Singing Wind
A Pharoah To Remember: the slave driver
Godfellas: "God"
FutureStock: That Guy
A Leela of her Own: Pappa and mamma Cygnoid
The 30% Iron Chef: Elzar
Where No Fan has Gone Before: Melllvar

Crimes of the Hot: Al Gore's head
Jurassic Bark: Seymour Asses (the dog)
The Route of All Evil: Dwight Conrad
A Taste of Freedom: Old Man Waterfall
Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch: Evil Holoshed characters
Less Than Hero: LEG-MUTANT!!!!
Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles: Heather
The Why of Fry: Chaz
The Sting: Space Bees
The Farnsworth Parabox: Universe A PE crew
Three Hundred Big Boys:[/b9 The whale biologist
Spanish Fry: Ranger Park, the park ranger
Bend Her: Barbados Slim
Obsoletely Fabulous: Weeeeernstrom!
Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV: president of the Network/Execu-bots
The Devil's Hands are Idol Playthings: Hedonismbot

 

Originally posted by Mouse on Venus:
ignoring Teral's Zapp and Kif rule

You can't ignore it, it's a rule. That's the very definiton of unignorability.

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Fine, breaking it then. 

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*bump*

Okay, here's a further question for people whose time, just like Fry's, is worthless. Which of the character's quotes would you put in the speech bubble above their picture? (remember that, like The Simpsons guides, the quote doesn't have to be from the episode they're profiled with)

I'll just do the first seasons worth for now.

Season 1:
1ACV01: Smitty/URL "He's picking his nose, get him!"/"I'm gonna get 24th century on his ass!"
1ACV02: Sal "What do I look like, a guy who's not lazy?"
1ACV03: Hattie "Enough talk! It's time for action! I move that everyone come to my apartment to snuggle my cat!"
1ACV04: Zapp Brannigan "Amateur hour's over. Let me show you why they call me 'The Velour Fog'."
1ACV04: Robot Elders "Elders: execute function Ctrl+Shift+Kill"/"Silence! I concur!"
1ACV06: Mom "Jam a bastard in it you crap!"
1ACV07: Elzar "Hey, look at this crowd! You guys gotta try the pasta. It's got a real nice profit margin. BAM!"
1ACV08: Mayor Poopenmeyer "Garbage ball, huh? I gotta be sure this isn't another scientific fraud like global warming or second hand smoke."
1ACV09: The Robot Devil "Hell is full of 10 year olds who wanted exactly the same thing."
1ACV10: Leo & Inez Wong "This your boyfriend? I have instant dislike of him!"/"He too scrawny to father grandchildren!"
1ACV11: Gunther "Hey, you like bananas? How d'you like them bananas?"
1ACV12: Lrrr & Ndnd "If McNeal wishes to be taken seriously, why doesn't she simply tear the judge's head off?"/"It is true what they say: women are from Omicron Persei 7 and men are from Omicron Persei 9."
1ACV13: Slurms McKenzie "Whimmy wham wham wuzzle!"

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I have nothing better to do, so I'll come up with some quotes here. I'll do the second series. Make note that they might not all be perfect.

2ACV01: Raoul, Dwayne, Violet I'm not too sure on this...
2ACV02: Neutral Leader "If I die, tell my wife, 'hello'."
2ACV03: Morbo "All humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo!"
2ACV04: Evil Santa "I'm dreaming of a red Xmas!"
2ACV05: Edna "Well, first I woke up, and I brushed my teeth, and I had some toast, and then I went to the store to buy some fish..."
2ACV06: Flexo "I'll be alright. Heh heh heh, I'm just yankin' your chain. I'm dying."
2ACV07: Malfunctioning Eddie "Hi, I'm Malfunctioning Eddie! I'm malfunctioning so badly, I'm practically GIVING these hovercars away!"
2ACV08: Phnog "Hope you like girl hell! I'll be in boy hell, much nicer."
2ACV09: Alcazar No idea, I can't think of any good one-liners from him.
2ACV10: Cubert "Well, if it isn't stretchpants, nopants, and ... idiot!"
2ACV11: Number 1.0 wouldn't Morgan be better? she was more important to the story. Anyway, "You were 2 seconds early, so I'm demoting you. A good beaurocrat never finishes early."
2ACV12: Umbriel "There's [something] Stadium, the coca-cola bottling plant, the - the airport..."
2ACV13: Robot Mafia "Here's a little somethin for ya. It's money." / "You think I should use the clamps? Which I use at every possible opportunity I can? You're a freaking genious, you idiot!"
2ACV14: Mom's sons "That man is going to touch Mommy?"
2ACV15: Fishy Joe "I've got a restaurant on every planet in the known universe! Well, except McPluto."
2ACV16: None No quote I suppose
2ACV17: Project Satan "What misery? I love killin' people! Running 'em over until their organs squish out like chunky mustard!"
2ACV18: Nixon "I'll sell childrens' organs to zoos for meat, and break into people's houses and wreck up the place! Muahahahaha!"
2ACV19: Michelle "Fry, when we get back to the hole, we're going to have a long, boring discussion about our relationship!"

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Space Pilot 3000: Panucci.  "Come on!!!"

Smitty and URL show up a lot.  They can get theirs anytime.

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Sure, why not. I have a few minutes to kill .... there I killed them, now let's try this:


Space Pilot 3000: Smitty/URL "Kepp your big nose out of this, eyeball!/It's a stone cold shame."
The Series has Landed: Sal "What do I look like, a guy who isn't lazy?"
I, Roommate: Calculon "That's so bad I think you gave me cancer!"
Loves Labour Lost in Space: DOOP n/a
Fear of a Bot Planet: Robot Elders "Silence!"
A Fishful of Dollars: Mom "Jerkwad robots make me sick to my stomach"
My Three Suns: Gorgak "I will try to be a forceful and effective administrator."
A Big Piece of Garbage: Mayor Poppenmeyer "You people aren't Santa, how dare you lie in front of Jesus"
Hell is other Robots: Beelzebot "How ironic."
A Flight to Remember: Leo&Inez Wong "Hey! You call her grandma now!/Call me grandma like crazy! All the time!"
Mars University: Guenter "How do you like them bananas?"
Fry & the Slurm Factory: Slurms McKenzie "Party on dudues! I'm gonnago lie down." or "Whimmy wham wham wozzle"
When Aliens Attack: Lrrr "This concept of wuv confuses and infuriates me!"


All for now, the rest tomorrow ... maybe.

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I would love to see a book like this in print!

-cris

[Reply #38 on:]

For Raoul, Dwayne and Violet, I suggest the "How do you know it is not you who are the mutants?/Puh-lease Dwayne, have ya looked in the mirror?" line.

[Reply #39 on:]

Well, I tell you what kimncris, check out the link Just Chris made up there and you're not far off. It's got a very authentic feel, even with those cute Paint drawings of the characters and it's really good.