MightyBooshFan91

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« Reply #680 on: 08-21-2009 21:29 »
« Last Edit on: 08-21-2009 21:30 »
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As for a Zapp's past episode, I'm not really for it (yet). You have to be careful with past episodes, because the audience normally already know how certain things turned out, so it's hard to justify doing them (coughStarWarsPrequelscough) frequently. I certainly wouldn't mind a Zapp's past episode, but they might want to hold off since there will already be a past episode involving the meeting of the Professor and Zoidberg (I also think that the Scruffy hiring will be a throwaway joke in this episode).
Really?, I was hoping for it to be a proper Scruffy origin episode...
Wouldn't that ruin the character of Scruffy?
Probably....but then he doesn't have a real character at the moment... Edit: Whoo Bending Unit! didn't notice that before oh and TOTP
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Svip

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Probably....but then he doesn't have a real character at the moment...
No, Scruffy is more of a joke. Cohen mention this a lot in the commentaries. He goes to specify that Scruffy is hard to put in, because every time they do, they'll have to slow down, because Scruffy does everything really slow. The whole joke about Scruffy is that we don't know who is other than being the janitor. He is a throwaway character, that you can just throw all sorts of odd jokes on, like Fry's "I never told anyone -- not even Scruffy!"
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Smarty

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I'm guessing that the Zoidberg/Professor episode will end with Scruffy casually walking in after its (past) events, asking for a job, and then getting hired (like three sentences).
You have destroyed my image of that episode. But it is probably what will happen.
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Otis P Jivefunk

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An AOI III would be awesome, and I'd be well up for Amy, Zoidberg and Hermes asking the questions this time around. That would rule! As for Scruffy, I don't want them to explain too much about him because that's not the point...
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Frisco17

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I could see that. They probably found him passed out in the basement clutching a Hustler.
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coldangel

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Missing the point of Scruffy much?
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Svip

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Does Scruffy even have a house or an appartment?
Fry both has his home and mobile number, so I guess the answer is yes.
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SpaceCase

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'Hustler' isn't a futuristic enough name. It would have to be 'Space Hustler' or something like that... "National Pornographic?" "Zero-G Jugs?""Zero-G Juggs?" Space Illustrated: Sexy Spacesuit Issue?"
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futz
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Don't mean to be grumpy but this is the news thread (just the facts ma'am). There are other threads for speculation, wishes, opinions, arguing, criticisms, etc.
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FistfulOAwesome

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Don't mean to be grumpy but this is the news thread (just the facts ma'am). There are other threads for speculation, wishes, opinions, arguing, criticisms, etc.
Don't know what to tell you, man. We used this board yesterday for discussion of Scruffy. A couple of 2 parter episodes might be nice. That's something they've never done till now.
Well, they've sort-of done some 2-parters. 101 and 102, 307 and 410, and 302 and 418. Not to forget that each chapter of the various films is shown as one-part out of four (although this doesn't really count, since that's like splitting up the LOTR Trilogy into 45-minute segments and calling it a mini-series, but it bears mentioning).
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coldangel

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I personally would prefer to have a series of episodes that (possibly) reference each other with a couple of throwaway lines but that overall can be watched and enjoyed without having to see the others. Unlike fully linear shows like Lost or 24 where if you miss one episode you don't have a clue what's going on.
I want a venture bros-esque story, not completley linear but still keeps episodes connected, also some cliffhangers.
I hate to be a prick (I don't really), but isn't that basically how Futurama already is?
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coldangel

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I would say a slight increase in the frequency of continuity incidences would be cool. Not enough to alienate new fans or bog the show down in its own mire of history, but just enough to create a greater sense of an ongoing world. It's already there to an extent, but their tendency to reset everything could be curtailed a bit.
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Svip

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Yeah, because scruffy the janitor is a background character.
I did not know that.
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