Menelaus
Crustacean
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« on: 09-27-2006 16:25 »
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I would like to open this topic by saying that I am too lazy to go find out if it already exists and if it does could you direct me to it. Also, I don't think this fits into the wierd scene forum so here goes:
Our calculus teacher was absent today, so we watched Good Will Hunting. In one of the scenes Will (Matt Damon) and his friends are at a bar near Harvard. When Will sees a stuck up Harvard student messing with some girl he goes over and shows him up, and the girl gives him her number. Later, they pass a diner and see the student through the window. Will asks the kid if he likes apples and when he says yeah Will slams the napkin with the girls number on the window saying, "I got her number, how do you like them apples?" Clearly this relates to the scene from Mars University. So what other jokes do I not get because they are references to movies I haven't seen? Well, if you have any such info please present it here to inform us all.
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Tim B
Bending Unit
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For anyone who's not a Star Trek geek: When Fry asks Walter Koenig to say "Nuclear Wessels" in the episode "Where No Fan has Gone Before", he's refering to Star Trek IV the Voyage Home where Koenig's character, Chekov, and Uhura are trying to locate a nuclear powered ship(they need photons from the nuclear reactor). Chekov:"Excuse me, sir, can you direct me to the naval base in Alameda? It's vere they keep the nuclear wessels. Nuclear wessels." Kirk: "Team Two, Kirk here." Chekov: "Admiral, we have found the nuclear wessel." He keeps refering to "Nuclear Wessels" throughout the movie. It's hilarious. A cool little tidbit. The nuclear wessel they find is the aircraft carrier the Enterprise.
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H. G. Blob
Professor
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Well, I think most people know The Matrix reference in "A Clown of My Own". That's about the only one I know. My job is done.
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Crash_7
Professor
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Let's not forget the "2001" references in "The Sting" and "Godfellas".
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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Flexo was also a 'Mirror, Mirror' reference.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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"Crimes Of The Hot"
Farnsworth: "Oh my, one billion robots killed. The Jedi will feel this!"
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Dave B
Urban Legend
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« Reply #11 on: 09-29-2006 09:59 »
« Last Edit on: 09-29-2006 09:59 »
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lol and the most obvious reference in Futurama: The whole 'The Wizard Of Oz' reference in AOI 2 And a joke quote of this reference from the episode: "We've been skipping for hours! I have to step aside and take the Wiz"
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Actually, in 'When Aliens Attack', it's not just his helmet - the whole scene with the DOOP fleet attacking the Omicronians is a direct copy of the rebel attack on the Death Star in Star Wars - right down to the camera angles as the fleet approaches, the enemy gun turrets tracking the ships, and the high-speed shots of craft zipping through trenches. I love that bit.
Not a movie reference, but the fiddling part of 'Hell is Other Robots' is a reference to the song 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'.
Parasites Lost - 'The Fantastic Voyage'.
WMIbaCiL - Fry and Zoidberg's deathmatch seems to be a take on one of those Klingon deathmatches that Star Trek folk keep getting involved in. I'm not a Trekkie so I'm not sure.
Mars University - A thousand different inane college comedies from the 80s... Like Revenge of the Nerds and such.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Okay. Like I said I'm no Trekkie. But there you go.
No point in getting into the whole Zapp Brannigan/Nimbus thing being a direct parody of Kirk and the Enterprise. I guess the Trek references are too numerous and obvious to get into.
War is the H Word - obvious M*A*S*H reference with the whole field hospital segment, the incoming wounded, the PA voice (like Radar), and of course the irreverent and maudlin robot Hawkeye.
Bender stealing the cigar in Three Hundered Big Boys was a lot like Mission Impossible.
Although based on real events, references made to Watergate in A Head in the Polls could also be said to have been derived from the film 'Nixon', starring Anthony Hopkins. Most notably "What the expletive deleted!?" Also, Billy West says that he bases his Nixon impersonation more on Hopkins in that movie than the actual Nixon.
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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Don't forget the 'Pink Panther'-like song that played while they were breaking into the Watergate.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Haha, yeah.
Raging Bender - Rocky / other boxing movies.
RtEW - kind of like Back to the Future, except it's his gandmother that has the hots for him instead of his mother.
Certain scenes in The Deep South are reminiscent to the film 'The Abyss', especially when Fry sees the mermaid and nobody believes him.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Ah, thankyou. I've not seen the film, but I suppose the reference was obvious from the title. Derr!
Oh yeah - WMIbaCiL - Zoidberg's mating season is the same as the Vulcan Pon Farr or whatever they call it, right?
The Honking - squillion Dracula references.
Anthology of Interest segment where Bender is really big - References The Iron Giant in the first half, and then when he's fighting Zoidberg it's clearly a Godzilla homage, specifically the VS series.
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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Being sent out to a remote mansion in a faraway nation. Villiage folk warning them off. Ghostly images appearing. The mysterious threat following them back to the city. A quest to destroy 'the original' are all classic bits from the original Dracula. But yeah, they've thrown in aspects of all those old Hammer horror flicks too.
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BrVin
Crustacean
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War is the H-word, is a lot like starship troopers.
the table where Bender is turned into a human in Anthology of interest 2 is the same as the table in Frankenstein
the Mars University episode is based on the movie "Animal house"
and also; a LOT of the episode titles are parodies of movie titles: Amazon women in the mood - amazon women on the moon Godfellas - Goodfellas Fry and the slurm factory - Charlie and the choclate factory parasites lost - paradise lost the cyber house rules - the cider house rules teenage mutant leela hurdles - duh! etc
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coldangel
DOOP Secretary
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In Leela's Homeworld (I think, although it might have been I Second That Emotion) the sewer mutants are shown to worship an unexploded Cobalt nuclear missile. This is lifted directly from the second Planet of the Apes movie - 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes', right down to the shape and the omega symbol on the missile. In the film it was also a race of subterranean mutants who were worshipping the bomb.
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