What Reminds you of Futurama: Fit the 3rd

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NOOOOOO
Also, I got told to fuck off because I shared the gif of that sequence as a comment under that post.

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Wait. Whut?

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The random playing of "Do the Hustle" in the grocery store...

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Currently playing around with an online calculator that allows you to compare the cost-of-living in two cities, and invites you to CHANGE PLACES after calculating each city-to-city comparison.

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Hearing that the 'fundamentals of the economy are strong' makes me think of the Mets manager saying 'Let's see some fundamentals! And not clown fundamentals!'

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Ah, "A Leela of Her Own"--an underrated gem, I say! (I have reason to quote Leela's "They're the beaniest" line far more often than one might imagine.)

Anyway: All the talk of sending Americans $1,000 checks to combat coronavirus has me thinking about "300 Big Boys" in a very general sense (and, though the original inspiration for that episode--the second Bush administration sending out stimulus checks early in his first term--was sort of swallowed up by 9/11, maybe our current national emergency will make the episode almost topical again...).

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OMG, it's such an obvious Futurama comparison that I completely missed it!

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Heh, it's also reminiscent of "Cold Warriors," one of the less atrocious better episodes of the new run, particularly this bit from Farnsworth (which I also quote with great frequency!):



I suppose you could also make the comparison to issue #11 of Futurama Comics, "The Cure for the Common Clod," written by none other than Patric Verrone.

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In that episode, as it is now, our future depends on the winners of the nerd search competition

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When I'm at work entering someone's billing information, every time I check the billing phone and billing email, in my head I then say "billing thong" in the Professor's voice, since it so perfectly matches the rhythm of "driving gloves, driving goggles, driving thong" from TMLH.

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I use gloves whilst driving in winter*. I too cannot help but adjust a pair of imaginary goggles after putting my gloves on, and having the Professor narrate the sequence in my head.
*The steering wheel is cold.

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Oh, Christ, I’m listening to one of my usual Pandora stations but using the new-ish “Discovery” feature, which “will surface artists and tracks that wouldn’t normally play on this station.” The first track it played—which is still playing as I type this post, because it’s a surprisingly long song!—is “Common People” by Williams Shatner, from his album Has Been (c. 2004).

It’s surprisingly (god help me)...not awful? Nowhere near as sublime as his rendition of “The Real Slim Shady” from “Where No Fan Has Gone Before,” but also not as much of a train wreck as I might have expected! It put a Futurama-adjacent smile on my face, at least.

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Just had reason to say, in a work meeting, “I think it’s a little pedantic, but he’s technically correct.” I managed to avoid following that up (out loud, anyway) with “the best kind of correct,” but I’m still inordinately proud of myself for sneaking that stealth Futurama reference into an otherwise soul-crushing meeting.

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Too bad you held back.  "The best kind of correct." is something promotion material might say; it suggests an aire of authority and a managerial capacity for evaluation.

She's right behind me, isn't she?

Unsure if that's my favorite of the season, but prossably not.

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Ah, "A Leela of Her Own"--an underrated gem, I say! (I have reason to quote Leela's "They're the beaniest" line far more often than one might imagine.)

Anyway: All the talk of sending Americans $1,000 checks to combat coronavirus has me thinking about "300 Big Boys" in a very general sense (and, though the original inspiration for that episode--the second Bush administration sending out stimulus checks early in his first term--was sort of swallowed up by 9/11, maybe our current national emergency will make the episode almost topical again...).

I mentioned 300 big boys earlier today, discussing how I can't predict what will happen economically, so I couldn't rule out what happened there.  I've thought about that before seriously, yet I don't expect that being likely in the short term.

Heh, it's also reminiscent of "Cold Warriors," one of the less atrocious better episodes of the new run, particularly this bit from Farnsworth (which I also quote with great frequency!):



I suppose you could also make the comparison to issue #11 of Futurama Comics, "The Cure for the Common Clod," written by none other than Patric Verrone.

I think I already mentioned elsewhere that I don't think it's a virus per se.... But unfortunately, if I'm correct, I have imagined the mechanics by which a "zombie"esque future might be in store.... Not so much the dead coming back necessarily (though that isn't ruled out), but one where people cannot die for some time, whether they wish to or not........

In that episode, as it is now, our future depends on the winners of the nerd search competition

Probs not....if I'm wrong, it's something humanity could live with, even if it knocked off 97% of the population....and if not this virus, somehow I don't think nature will throw in the towel for good.  I tried looking at the math a long time ago...long long time....and it's kind of expected with the global human population where it's at....significant gain between 1900 to 2000 then there is between 0000 to 1900...and I realized it didn't really scare me, since the numbers are so big, statistically, humanity would survive a global disease if only it was a small fraction that survived.  Our DNA already has the scars of such battles incorporated into it, and we are proof of the victories in those pasts.  This doesn't guarantee my personal survival, but I had a great fucking run...I'm glad for what I got, and now could be enough, or tomorrow, or 3 1/2 years from now, or 7. 

Maybe I'm wrong, but objectively I'm pretty okay with all of the outcomes.  And I know most people probably aren't...maybe they should be honest with themselves about what they really want and what it takes to get that...for me I learned asking was okay.

When I'm at work entering someone's billing information, every time I check the billing phone and billing email, in my head I then say "billing thong" in the Professor's voice, since it so perfectly matches the rhythm of "driving gloves, driving goggles, driving thong" from TMLH.

Is it bad that I know what that abbreviation stands for, or worse that I had to think about it for a second to know?

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Just recently realized that pretty much every time I chop onions--and subsequently begin sobbing uncontrollably--I am reminded of the following bit from "Fun on a Bun":

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Oh, Christ, I’m listening to one of my usual Pandora stations but using the new-ish “Discovery” feature, which “will surface artists and tracks that wouldn’t normally play on this station.” The first track it played—which is still playing as I type this post, because it’s a surprisingly long song!—is “Common People” by Williams Shatner, from his album Has Been (c. 2004).

It's a cover of a song by a British band called Pulp.  The original version appears on their 1995 album Different Class.

Another song from the same album, "Disco 2000," reminds me of Futurama, but only because I keep changing it to "Disco 3000" in my head.

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Now all I can think of is Space Disco 3000.

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I was playing Hitman today, and this was my target's name:

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You probably won't find him on McPluto

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A virtual YouTuber asks her fans to show her their filthy rooms, and then gets strangely excited by the results.

Dirty boy!  Dirty boy!

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A while ago when a coworker informed me that "Our team primarily uses G-Chat to communicate," my first thought was to respond "That is how you communicate" a la "Reincarnation" and then we'd all share a quick, hearty anime laugh.

And, while I'm thinking about the same segment of that episode, I'll say that in the video game X-Men Legends, every time I pick up any Weakness Analyzer item--which occurs fairly frequently--I say to myself, "I have analyzed the aliens' movements enemy's weakness with this Movement Weakness Analyzer."

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The refrigerator in my new home is an Amana brand (as prominently displayed on the freezer door), which of course reminds me of one of my favorite, nonsensical bits from "Neutopia" in which Leela apparently forgot(?) that Amana here is a refrigerator.

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Found while browsing around on Dark Roasted Blend, this link I wound up visiting reminds me of Obsoletely Fabulous, if not in a direct way. Analog calculators and computers of various sorts are cool, but I never imagined that this technology existed, and had been used to solve partial differential equations.

In 1936 Soviet scientist Lukyanov built an analog water computer

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I recently read a book for school that featured a character named “Three-Fingered Jack,” and I am only slightly ashamed (read: not ashamed at all) to admit that I mentally replaced that name with “Congo Jack” every time I encountered it.

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The YouTube algorithm recommended this to me a while ago.

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That's great...and now I have an urge to retune my wind chimes

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Today I read a critical analysis of a novel that apparently features a character known as the Zookeeper, whose mischievous deeds (as described by this critic) certainly made them seem like the deadliest animal of all.

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That's great!

Was it authored by a critic using the nom de plume I.C. Wiener?

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The random playing of "Do the Hustle" in the grocery store...

I also experienced the random song-playing at the grocery store the other day. They tend to play a lot of 70's and 80's music, so I got to hear "Karma Chameleon" (or "Coma Chameleon" if Bender sings it), followed by "Don't You Forget About Me." Nothing like experiencing the mood dissonance of "Rebirth" followed by the right-in-the-feels gut punch of "Luck of the Fryrish."

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Yesterday I overheard someone saying, "You gotta do what you gotta do," and I immediately thought of this:



I find that attitude just as distasteful in real life as it was in the show.

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That's why it's funny.

* winna gives a thumbs up and a frown.

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There's currently this ridiculous series of commercials for Jimmy John's that features Brad Garrett as a mafioso-type who adds a superfluous 's' to most of his words and reminds me alots of thats guys Sal.

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I'm watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Guess who instantly recognised Katey Segal's voice?

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In the Star Trek TNG episode ‘Evolution’, the computer malfunctions and behaves erratically. In a moment of great tension, Picard orders the computer to perform a critical task… and it starts reciting chess moves.

Reminded me immediately of Big Blue’s attempt to be helpful in that Anthology of Interest episode.

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That episode isn't ringing a bell, though I'm certain I've seen it. imdb synopsis: "Wesley's latest science project escapes the lab, threatening the Enterprise and an eminent scientist's life-long project."

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It’s the one where a scientist is trying to study a rare type of binary system stellar explosion. Westley’s science project involves nanobots, which get into the enterprise computer and cause glitches.

It is part of the “Wesley is a genius” series of tng shows… I always think of it as the episode where a genius (the scientist) calls Westley a “wunderkind”, similar to the Traveller’s comparison of him to Mozart.

Also, watching it again, the nanobots storyline comes quite close to the storyline for the life form in “home soil” from the previous season (which is a better episode, one of the best imho).

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Ack, just realized I called the chess computer doing the cameo on Futurama Big Blue instead of Deep Blue. I blame the fact that I had The Big Blue (the movie) on my mind after reading about freediving in the news.

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What did they do with Wesley's nanobots at the end of the episode?  I forget.

I always thought that they would have been a good solution to the Borg.  Just feed them to the nanobots.

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The nanobots evolve into intelligence / consciousness over the course of the show. There is a parley to cease hostilities between humans and bots, with Data as the intermediary, and (in like 2 hours of in-story time) the scientist arranges for them to be settled on some remote planet of their own.