Bender's Big Score Review Thread

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BBS had more than one job to do.  It had to try to satisfy the ultra picky long term fans AND it had to try to hook new people too.  That is a task that is at best difficult.  We all know the story, we have a lot of expectations .  New viewers may need to get the hook set by giving them a Fry/Leela relationship that isn't already at the level of TDHAIP.

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I have seen this expression on Leelas face before, I do not think it has anything to do with fry being in the background. I'm not that convinced in fact that she was deliberatly rubbing it in Fry's face any more than usual. In fact I think she just likes to show it off in general because deep down she can't believe how lucky she is!
I reckon some of us are reading to much into this because of dissapointment about the course of the F/L ship, in BBS.

[Reply #482 on:]

Hahahaha, too true. By the way, where have you seen that expression before?

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Originally posted by Futurama Llama:
Hahahaha, too true. By the way, where have you seen that expression before?

... After she had sex with Fry in "Anthology of Interest I".

[Reply #484 on:]

Ah.... so it is something of lust and villainy, I suppose.

[Reply #485 on:]

She also made that face in "Hell is other Robots" when she concocts her plan to get Bender back to normal. So I think it's either lust or villainy rather than both.

[Reply #486 on:]

I think it is both a lusty and villainous expression. She only had sex with Fry in "Anthology of Interest I" to keep his mouth shut about the murders.

[Reply #487 on:]

Wasn't she talking about sleaze in that moment, though?  That's kind of related to lust.... :P

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Originally posted by Frida Waterfall:
I think it is both a lusty and villainous expression. She only had sex with Fry in "Anthology of Interest I" to keep his mouth shut about the murders.

Good point.

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Originally posted by Frida Waterfall:

I think it is both a lusty and villainous expression. She only had sex with Fry in "Anthology of Interest I" to keep his mouth shut about the murders.

Impulsive Leela could have as easily killed Fry on the spot as she did everybody else who got in her way, but she decided to give Fry another incintive not to rat her out.

Of course I have always wondered what she did to Fry after she turn out the light and he screamed, then said "I really like it." 

[Reply #490 on:]

Haven't we all.

I think that AOI 1 presents some of the best evidence that she likes Fry alot more than she lets on. It also shows that she is alot more violent and seems to be just barely capable of contoling her anger. After all she was only "a little more impulsive, just a little."

[Reply #491 on:]

1/10th of a plausibility unit, Frisco...

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Oh by the way...

Did anyone else appart from me found especialy pointless and irritating and estupid the shot of Nudar drinking his big bum or whatever it was..

ITS COMPLETY POINTLESS EVEN FOR FUTURAMA.. is so pointless that they decided to waste time and money and resources in creating a shot that goes nowhere ..

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Originally posted by Javier Lopez:
Oh by the way...

Did anyone else appart from me found especialy pointless and irritating and estupid the shot of Nudar drinking his big bum or whatever it was..

ITS COMPLETY POINTLESS EVEN FOR FUTURAMA.. is so pointless that they decided to waste time and money and resources in creating a shot that goes nowhere ..

Erh? 

I take it you refer to this?

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That's from when he's guiding the deathstar ripoffs during the space fight, right?

I thought that shot was put in there to establish how at ease he was since, at least at that point in time, he was kicking major ass in the battle.

And if that's not the scene I'm thinking of then... I don't know.

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Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
That's from when he's guiding the deathstar ripoffs during the space fight, right?

Yup.

Er, uh... at least I... think so...

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Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
I thought that shot was put in there to establish how at ease he was since, at least at that point in time, he was kicking major ass in the battle.

Yeah, that's kinda the impression I got.

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I thought that it was making fun of the gamer's apparent love for the Big Gulp.

[Reply #498 on:]

And there was that pearl of a line in that scene:

"Yes!  Nailed the children's ship!"

[Reply #499 on:]

That seems like a very odd thing to complain about. A 2-second shot of an alien drinking?

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Yeah, I don't know. That's really nitpicking.

[Reply #501 on:]

I knew Lars was Fry, because of the subtle hints.

[Reply #502 on:]

Yeap thats the shot and i hate it...

Cant believe somebody actually thought of putting that free shot there and someone else aproved, someone else drawed it, someone else coloured it and someone else put sound and whatever..

i hate it!

 

Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
I thought that shot was put in there to establish how at ease he was since, at least at that point in time, he was kicking major ass in the battle.

In that case they fail.. i allready got the impresion when seeing the three of them playing...

 

Originally posted by Bender'sRevenge:
And there was that pearl of a line in that scene:

"Yes!  Nailed the children's ship!"

Indeed...dont get me wrong..the scene is great.. what i cant stand is the final 2 second close-up

 

Originally posted by NastyInThePasty:
That seems like a very odd thing to complain about. A 2-second shot of an alien drinking?

Originally posted by km73:
Yeah, I don't know. That's really nitpicking.

Yeah it is...is kinda like the dot-matrix printing scene in Leela`s homeworld..escept that laster far longer.

Dont know..it gets my nerves..maybe its the overexposure they give to those three ....things ..that the last thing i wanted to see was yet another free close up of Nudar

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It's a funny sight gag, nothing wrong with that.

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Originally posted by jerkberg:
It's a funny sight gag, nothing wrong with that.

Except that i hate it 
 

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Originally posted by Frisco17:
She also made that face in "Hell is other Robots" when she concocts her plan to get Bender back to normal. So I think it's either lust or villainy rather than both.

This one isn't Lusty, its scheming, the key difference is that the mouth is open to reveal the teeth. In the one with Lars the mouth is closed as though she is savouring something, at the same time the eye suggests scheming but maybe just in the naughty in the bedroom sense!
   

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Well, the start was a little shakey but instantly we returned to Futurama territory.

I think they did a pretty damn good job. They had too, because I bet they weren't hoping that Simpsons Movie was going to finance them. Woooo!

[Reply #507 on:]

Simpsons movie was terrible. This was far superior.

[Reply #508 on:]

Javier:

 

Originally posted by SonicPanther:
I thought that it was making fun of the gamer's apparent love for the Big Gulp.

[Reply #509 on:]

Ah... look at us, analyzing a cartoon cyclops to determine whether that look is lust, villainy, or both.

I love it. 

[Reply #510 on:]

Yes....that's why we're looking.....sure. (Shifty eyes)

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Originally posted by Frisco17:
Yes....that's why we're looking.....sure. (Shifty eyes)

Since we're discussing Leela, shouldn't that be "shifty eye"? 

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Originally posted by SonicPanther:
I thought that it was making fun of the gamer's apparent love for the Big Gulp.

 

Dont know anything about Big Gulp and still doesnt work even with that.....whatever it is

[Reply #513 on:]

It's a large sized soda that 7-11 stores sell. I've seen quite a few parodies of gamers that always have a Big Gulp next to them. Apparently gamers all love Big Gulps (but I'm not sure where that idea came from).

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Random musing.

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I wonder how the amount of times Fry died effected the Death Clocks earlier results?

[Reply #515 on:]

The only time that I can remember Fry dying is Lars. Which is technically not Fry.

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LOL me too.. I guess we will never know. Unless the writer's let us in on it!

 

Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
 Impulsive Leela could have as easily killed Fry on the spot as she did everybody else who got in her way, but she decided to give Fry another incintive not to rat her out.

Of course I have always wondered what she did to Fry after she turn out the light and he screamed, then said "I really like it."   

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Originally posted by Frisco17:
The only time that I can remember Fry dying is Lars. Which is technically not Fry.

Didn't a version of him technically die in "The Why of Fry," though?

[Reply #518 on:]

No. He was sent to another universe but that's about it.

[Reply #519 on:]

There is a Fry that fades out of existence after choosing to send himself to the future, though.