Thoughts on 4ACV02 Leela's Homeworld...

[Reply #40 on:]

i agree with allen. It was very misguided of them to rather let her shoot them then tell the truth. Obviously she would have unmasked them after she shot them and then realized what she had done and that would have been bad. Anyway, this is my new fave ep. i have already watched it 4 times and love it more with every viewing. The montage at the end was adorable and i desperatly want to know the name of that song so that i can burn a cd of it. oh, and i loved the Leela/Fry interaction, it filled my insides with hot chocolate and fuzzy kittens.

[Reply #41 on:]

To Xenomorph: You can find it in Space Pilot 3000. I've never seen it, but been told it's there when Fry falls into the freezer.

[Reply #42 on:]

I though it was an average with not too many laughs but more solid storyline. It was more episode that mirrored Luck of the Fryish in discovering the past of a main character.

Also did anyone else notice Zoidberg seemed to be MIA or am I wrong.

[Reply #43 on:]

i saw zoidberg. briefly. you can see the top of his head at the orphanarium when bender stands up and yells that the picture is crooked.

[Reply #44 on:]

Oh yeah your right slightly under the basketball ring. Well he doesn't talk. Right?

[Reply #45 on:]

nope. zoidy is silent

[Reply #46 on:]

 

Originally posted by homerjaysimpson:
I took me a half an hour to scan one of a script page so everyone can read it good,so it will be monday tell you guys get to see it whole. Sorry.

But I can type it up now, if you guys are ready?

Why don't you just type out all the jokes that got cut? I vaguely recall something along the lines of "dumping toxic waste is a victimless crime--like punching someone in the nose in the dark!". That's pretty funny...is there anything else good?

[Reply #47 on:]

That joke might have been cut because it was straight out of the simpsons.  (I think it was like, "stealing is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark").

[Reply #48 on:]

D'oh. I knew I heard a joke like that SOMEWHERE. I just checked through the old Leela's Homeworld threads and didn't see that line posted anywhere...I guess I subconsciously mixed up homerjay's old posts and that Simpsons quote. Yeah I'm an idiot.

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Originally posted by BumbleBeeTheta:
The ending was very heartfelt and I felt like crying, hugging my mom and dad, etc.

Next time you feel like that....go hug your mom & dad. It will teach them something important. Parents can never get enough education about what's important.   

[Reply #50 on:]

I thought it was a good ep, but I liked last week's better. For those wondering about Nibbler in Ep. 1, I snagged this screencap off an MPEG I had on my HD. I'll grab a clearer DVD cap later. Anyway, it's a quick shot just as Fry falls backward into the cryotube.

[Reply #51 on:]

That's quite a shadow! 

[Reply #52 on:]

The song is called "Baby Love Child" on the "Made in USA" album by Pizzicato Five, an old Japanese pop group.

 

Originally posted by Venus:
i desperatly want to know the name of that song so that i can burn a cd of it.

[Reply #53 on:]

Aw, I can't wait to see it! I will when it has gotten to a special website from which I download my new Futurama episodes. That means sometime this week. Can someone please tell me if Fry and Leela got any closer to eachother this episode? Just with a Yes or No.

[Reply #54 on:]

Liked it quite some, not top notch, not just medium. Still I think they should've kept this ep for like the 3rd last of the series or so. I sort of think they'll ignore her parents in future episodes (in the bunch of 3ACVX for sure). What's this with FOX changing the order all the time for no coherent reason anyway ?

Another geeky joke added, well done! (The "There is no way of knowing how long it will take. It can take an hour or a million years." DING!)

Good jokes included, like it   

"Like all of us, especially him!"

(now copy and paste to CGEF, forgot to set the link there yesterday, now it looks like no one was interested ...)

[Reply #55 on:]

This episode was pretty good, but something about it didn't smack right.  The ending seemed a little forced, and Leela's parents' logic seemed a bit flawed.  Maybe it's because I didn't think Leela's past would end up that way, or maybe it's just too much new information.  I didn't like the bracelet.  Was that ever mentioned or seen before?  I know she wasn't wearing it in "Mother's Day".  My question is: what happened to Leela's ring (from "Space Pilot 3000")?  That would've had more connectivity to the entire series (and it's what I used in my fan fic).  Oh well, it was a pretty good story aside from certain, questionable plot holes and story jumps.

Edited to remove annying smilies.

[Reply #56 on:]

Lots of great humour - I'm just so very disappointed that Leela is a hot, sexy mutant babe instead of a hot, sexy alien babe.

Good ep.  It could have been great if Leela didn't turn out to be a mutant.  I'm really disappointed with that.  I'm afraid to think where the story line will go from here.

[Reply #57 on:]

That episode was craptacular....   Not quite as bad as "Luck of the Fry-rish", but mighty close...  Strange when an show involving mutants and aliens plays more on drama than comedy.... 

"I dunno, I have a lot of great memories of that place...BZZTT...and now they're gone!"

[Reply #58 on:]

^ Next in line to be sacked

[Reply #59 on:]

Here is a whole seen cut out:

[Reply #60 on:]

Heh, that's pretty funny.  I wish they had kept that in the show.

[Reply #61 on:]

Well, I didn't find it all that funny. I agree with those who said Luck of the Fryrish was a better job balancing humor and drama. I did like this ep, mind you... and I'd like it even more if I was a Fry/Leela shipper, with how it fits in my analysis of that... anyway.
Her parents did seem pretty stupid, didn't they? What got me was they've been watching her her entire life, so how can it not be perfectly clear that she wants to know them more than anything else? She says it all the time! But no, they'd rather have her shoot them, that wouldn't be traumatic at all. 
Uh... because lots of newbies who aren't me will ask it anyway... right... because I'm just generally out of it, actually... can someone expand on the earlier clues to this that were mentioned?
...I still use too meny ellipses... don't I...

[Reply #62 on:]

Funny how tastes run around here...  I can't recall a single joke from "Luck of the Fry-rish", or "Leela's Homeworld", and yet for some strange reason, these episodes seem to be favorites around here...

Oh well, c'est la vie, eh?

[Reply #63 on:]

 

Originally posted by LordKev:
That episode was craptacular....   Not quite as bad as "Luck of the Fry-rish", but mighty close...  Strange when an show involving mutants and aliens plays more on drama than comedy.... 

I'm sure you'll enjoy the Glutton Bowl this thursday, LordKev.

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Originally posted by LordKev:
Funny how tastes run around here...  I can't recall a single joke from "Luck of the Fry-rish", or "Leela's Homeworld", and yet for some strange reason, these episodes seem to be favorites around here...

Maybe that should tell you something.  Something along the lines of "cut back on the Nutrasweet and America's Funniest Home Injuries."

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From Cinescape, Matt Groening:
Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. That is an idea that makes network executives quake in fear.  You don't have to dumb things down for the least educated or the most easily offended member of the audience.  They can handle wit and sophistication and references to  movies and theater that they haven't encountered yet, and it will not hurt them

[Reply #66 on:]

I think this was a great ep. Not the funniest, but then again you don't always need humor to make it a good ep.

[Reply #67 on:]

 

Originally posted by Moonside:
can someone expand on the earlier clues to this that were mentioned?

In the top left corner:


It's from "I second that Emotion".

[Reply #68 on:]

Hmmm...it's hard to see in that picture, but does Leela's mother have an arm? If so, huge continuity error. This show has no forethought at all, what a bunch of crap.

[Reply #69 on:]

Wow, they were way less worried about being seen back then. She's looking right in their direction! I wonder when they got so paranoid. 

[Reply #70 on:]

It looks like the arm stops just before the hand, so you can't tell if it's a tenticle or not.

I think the real question here is how Leela didn't seem them standing right there and how come they didn't do anything to save her from the mutants the first time?

Eh.  Still a really good episode. 

[Reply #71 on:]

meh, i don't give a damn about how many mistakes these guys make...I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES THIS SHOW SO UNIQUE (HEAR THAT, FOX???? THAT WAS A HINT!!!!!)

[Reply #72 on:]

Well at any rate, it is flesh colored. What crap!

[Reply #73 on:]

We should club them and eat their bones!

[Reply #74 on:]

fishyjoe was kidding.  get a hold of yourselves

Fry"yo yo Bizender, wha'd up?"

[Reply #75 on:]

meh, would you rather have a really good quality show where the writers happen to keep forgetting to have things all connected, or some POS show designed only to boost ratings?

[Reply #76 on:]

I know he was kidding.

::sulks off::

[Reply #77 on:]

First-time poster, but fan from day one.

SPOILERS


To paraphrase Lrrr of Omicron Persei 8:

"This new plot twist angers and confuses us.  Leela won our hearts as a single-eyed female alien, and a single-eyed female alien shall she remain!"

As far as I'm concerned, Leela's parents *are* mutants, so the sludge wouldn't change any of them, but they're *alien* mutants.  They just don't know it, because they themselves were left on Earth shortly after being born.

The quest for homeworld continues!

"How far away is it?"
"A billion miles?"
BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

[Reply #78 on:]

"I'm sure you'll enjoy the Glutton Bowl this thursday, LordKev."

Now, now, was that called for?  I'll watch Futurama *credits* before I watch nearly anything else FOX airs (love that 3rd last credit :-)

[Reply #79 on:]

@ homerjaysimpson

I'm new here. may I asked you a question? Where did you get the script from?