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Juliet
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« Reply #3 on: 02-21-2002 20:04 »
« Last Edit on: 02-21-2002 20:04 »
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Teral
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"A Flight To Remember" was a pretty good parody (no comments about the quality of the parody target). The trekkie in me like the "Amok Time" part of "Why Must I be...", and Shatneresque parts of Zapp. The spoofing of "Animal House" in "Mars University" was cool too, especially the ending. Spoiler for some people: The homage/parody of 2001:A Space Odyssey in "Love&Rocket" was great. I'd rank that among my three fave "rip-offs" of Futurama so far. So many of the shows scenes just hit spot on, I think. The Brain-room, the lipreading in the shower, the HAL-like interface, the Daisy song, "I'm afraid I can't do that, Leela" . I loved that part of the show.
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Nurdbot
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I liked A flight to Remember'.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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In my opinion the best ever parody of a film that Futurama has done is "Parasites Lost". It's a superb parody of the film "Fantastic Voyage" but with added comedy.
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FishyJoe
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Originally posted by VelourFog: jeff, how can you say love and rocket wasn't very parody heavy when you told me you hadn't seen 2001?
Because I'm an idiot, that's why. Rethinking it, I guess Love & Rocket did have a good amount of parodyness. But still, I have a feeling the story came first, and the parody came later. (they already have a story about the ship's personality, so they might as well do some HAL related gags). With the other episodes, it seems more like a case of the writers saying "hey, why don't we just do a parody of Willy Wonka/Titanic/whatever?" and then writing an episode about it. Of course, I'm just speculating here, and whenever you "speculate" you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me". But whatever.
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Werner Peeters
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My favourite ripoff if actually the Popeye song for the Popplers commercial Bender and Fry are singing in "The Problem with Popplers". I must restrain myself from humming that tune on an almost daily basis, or I drive everybody else here nuts.
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Citizen77
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With all the great parodies mentioned, the execs at Fox must be brain dead and stupid for not seeing great TV in this show!
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meisterPOOP
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Originally posted by McGrady: Like fox execs even watch futurama... or get any of the jokes. Betcha' they've seen them all, even the one's not aired yet. Uh, how many unaired episodes are there?
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Teral
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Yeah it was nice, but I personally like the homage to M.A.S.H. better. iHawk was brilliant. "This isn't war, this is moider"
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Teral
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« Reply #32 on: 02-28-2002 18:12 »
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It might be completely unintentional, but the part of "The Deep South" were the ship groans under the heavy pressure, instantly made me think of "Das Boot". The small bit about Independence Day with Zoidy in "Roswell, That Ends Well" was hillarious. "A buffet! Oh, if only I had my vallet with me." "Uhhmm, it's free."
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Nixorbo
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Originally posted by Teral: The small bit about Independence Day with Zoidy in "Roswell, That Ends Well" was hillarious.
"A buffet! Oh, if only I had my vallet with me." "Uhhmm, it's free."
I'm not catching the similarity. The only ID:4 parody I can think of offhand is in the beginning of "When Aliens Attck," with the assault on Monument Beach.
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Nixorbo
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Yeah, I guess so. Seems a bit of a stretch to me, still.
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Teral
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Yeah, come to think of it, it might be a bit thin. Besides as I recall it, it was Dr Okkun, not the alien that slammed against the glass in ID4. Originally the bit also made me think of a small part of "Aliens", where the space marines finds the laboratory, with the face-thingies in jars. One of the marines take a closer look at what he thinks is a dead alien, and suddenly it moves against him, scaring the s*** out of him. Now that's a stretch-and-a-half.
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