Ratraccoon

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« #80 : 09-04-2010 03:29 »
« : 09-04-2010 15:54 »
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Um, what?
1. Most people have heard of both Brown University and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
2. Just because someone mentions that The Simpsons has made fun of Brown University in the past doesn't mean that that's the only reason he or she recognizes it.
3. Just because someone didn't think that "Brown University" was named after the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case doesn't mean that he or she has never heard of the case.
4. Although I can't say for sure, I really think that if the writers had thought that naming a mutant sewage-treatment vocational school "Brown University" would be perceived as a reference to either the Supreme Court case or a skin tone, they would have scrapped the name immediately.
5. Lambasting other people for allegedly being ignorant while misspelling "college" is pretty rich.
Whoa calm down speedracer! I never said that you never heard of Brown vs. Board of Education the key words here are "that never heard of Brown University". I was implying that you and HipNoJoe have either heard both or only have heard of Brown University. (I had got the impression that you heard of both and HipNoJoe only heard of one and at the very least not know the name of the case.) Plus both of you were insisting it was not a racial related joke so of course I'm going to get the impression that at least one of you might not know. Secondly most people who don't live in Rhode Island or in the nearby area have heard of Brown University. #16 isn't all that high of a rating of top colleges. Thirdly part of the reason for my explanation was to point out the irony of the joke which I was not offended by in any way but was rather amused. Fourthly if at least some of the writers went to Harvard then they should have been intelligent enough realize that some people might interpret the joke as being a reference to the court case and that some people might get offended by it enough to decide if it's better if the idea was scraped. It's highly preposterous that they wouldn't given that they probably spent weeks writing that script. Fifthly unless you know the writers personally don't go around insisting that they are very sensitive people and would never ever do something intentionally that would offend people... No wait they would! Because many of the season 6 episodes spoofed some of today's controversial issues so I guess it wouldn't be above them to spoof issues that were controversial in the past. Lastly hey I'm only human and a lot people posting something on a message board of a fandom don't do that much scrutinizing of what they wrote. (Which you obviously do due to the huge stick up your butt.) Plus when I type fast I don't spend that much time pondering if I spelled a word right while I'm typing it, spelling errors and typos are bound to happen.
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speedracer
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« #92 : 09-04-2010 14:21 »
« : 09-04-2010 14:38 »
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Tedward

Professor

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« #101 : 09-04-2010 18:35 »
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I understand what you're saying, but as has been said, that third aspect (the civil rights one) of the name was probably unintentional. It's great that you are making these connections about the joke and the plight of the mutants in general; I just find it unlikely, as speedracer and others seem to as well, that that was the intention. No, you are correct in that we can't speak for the writers, but I never got the impression that the mutants were meant to always represent, or represent in this episode, one specific group from history. They were (until now, I suppose) a Futurama version of a lower class, and maybe that's all they needed to be for story purposes (much like the show's robots, which have been sporadically been treated as members of some sort of caste but most of the time are just robots, not especially different from other characters). Further connections are probably just coincidences.
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aikidough
Poppler

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« #110 : 09-05-2010 16:53 »
« : 09-05-2010 16:56 »
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At the end of the episode during the pary. were fry and leela doing the bender from pharaoh to remember?
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