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[Reply #640 on:]

The Honking is such a strange ep. Still love it though.

[Reply #641 on:]

The Honking is my second favorite episode

well before the new season cause The Late Philip J. fry took the first place so now the Honking is the third one... I guess

[Reply #642 on:]

hmm, i never knew that some considered 'the honking' out of canon. i love that episode, as it is only one of two episodes that feature gypsy-bot.

[Reply #643 on:]

I thought I should tell you all.  On the Infosphere in the episodes section, there's some promotional pictures of Ghosts in the Machine and storyboards, too. 

[Reply #644 on:]

They are the ones from this thread Kurt... ALL of them...

Also, neat.

[Reply #645 on:]

Awww.

[Reply #646 on:]

Not really meant to be posted here, but in the Honking Hermes says that the last ghost died however many years ago, then Bender replies with the last HUMAN ghost, yet in Proposition Infinity there is a (presumably) a human ghost in the crowd? (With the Horse)

[Reply #647 on:]

The last human ghost in the castle is perhaps what they meant. Either that, or The Honking isn't canon.

[Reply #648 on:]

Honking Hermes.

Its probably not a human ghost.  IIRC it was just your average floating amorphous blob type ghost.  Maybe that's what a shape shifter ghost looks like.

[Reply #649 on:]

Well it did have the ability to keep the Horse afloat within itself.

[Reply #650 on:]

The last human ghost in the castle is perhaps what they meant. Either that, or The Honking isn't canon.

I don't recall that ghost looking very human, and even if it was that wouldn't make Honking non-cannon, it would just make Hermes wrong. I doubt he would have meant just within the castle.

[Reply #651 on:]

Hermes and Bender seem to be in agreement on it, like it's something they both know. I'd say it's likely that they meant the last human ghost in the castle. Although, The Honking's canonicity is still doubtful, as the treatment of "dead" robots (and robot death in general) has been vastly different in other episodes.

[Reply #652 on:]

They didn't mean the last human ghost in the castle, that would be bizarre writing.

They'd have written the line to be something like "The last ghost in this castle died hundreds of years ago" or something similar.

Also, of course it's canon. It's an episode and it doesn't specifically happen out of canon -therefore it's canon -bad continuity or not.

[Reply #653 on:]

But remember, this happened in Futurama Universe #1; Bender, Fry, and the Professor travelled forwards to Universe #3, which means the episodes before that no longer apply.

[Reply #654 on:]

They didn't mean the last human ghost in the castle, that would be bizarre writing.

I always thought that's what that line meant...though I am admittedly bizarre in my own right.

Also:

But remember, this happened in Futurama Universe #1; Bender, Fry, and the Professor travelled forwards to Universe #3, which means the episodes before that no longer apply.

I don't really see it that way. Because Fry can still find Leela at the Cavern on the Green in Universe 3--same as he would have found her there in Universe 1, had he not gotten in the time machine in the first place--I assume that everything leading up to that particular point occurred in Universe 3 the exact same way it occurred in Universe 1. I don't see TLPJF as a throwing-away of all that was once canon; I think that would be kind of sucky.

I know people debated this a whole lot when the episode initially aired, and I mostly stayed out of those discussions because it was all too science-y for my puny human brain--but I never really thought that the writers meant to invalidate the preceding 72-plus episodes by having Farnsworth and Bender and Fry travel through time. The only thing they changed in Universe 3 was Eleanor Roosevelt's existence, the ramifications of which I doubt would be felt in the year 2999, when the series begins. Butterfly effect my ass!

[Reply #655 on:]

They didn't mean the last human ghost in the castle, that would be bizarre writing.

I always thought that's what that line meant...though I am admittedly bizarre in my own right.

I always thought it meant the last ghost in the castle too, because I thought it would have been even more bizarre that the last human ghost died hundreds of years ago, despite the fact that humans still die in the year 3000 (or 3001 if you want to be really nit-picky about years).

[Reply #656 on:]

Hm, humans die in the year 3000?
But they don't really die, since they live longer than 160 years and are brought to the death star when they reach this age.. but humans still can die by accidents. On the other side, i think brains can be saved even after a human died (Prof.:"..they saved Hitler's brain.." so there don't be any ghosts because they can't grow?

[Reply #657 on:]

Next picture from the Countdown to Futurama, this time from "Law and Oracle". This looks interesting.

[Reply #658 on:]

The Police HQ? Sweet!

I wonder if Colleen will make an appearence?

[Reply #659 on:]

Next picture from the Countdown to Futurama, this time from "Law and Oracle". This looks interesting.

Boring. The word you meant to use was boring.

[Reply #660 on:]

Next picture from the Countdown to Futurama, this time from "Law and Oracle". This looks interesting.

Boring. The word you meant to use was boring.

I don't think it's boring... =l

But remember, this happened in Futurama Universe #1; Bender, Fry, and the Professor travelled forwards to Universe #3, which means the episodes before that no longer apply.

Yes it does... It's still the same Universe, only difference is Eleanor Roosevelt and the original Fry, Bender and Professor are dead....

[Reply #661 on:]

Future Crimes Divison, huh...so it's like Minority Report?

[Reply #662 on:]

Future Crimes Divison, huh...so it's like Minority Report?

I was just thinking that. It must be a Minority Report parody, with "seers" who predict crimes. That would explain "Oracle" in the title...

In which case, this episode just got a lot more interesting...

[Reply #663 on:]

I wonder if Colleen will make an appearence?

The toon character might appear but since Brittany Murphy died it's doubtful it would be a speaking role.

[Reply #664 on:]

minority report was an awesome movie, so i'm gonna be looking forward to this one.

[Reply #665 on:]

I wonder if Colleen will make an appearence?

The toon character might appear but since Brittany Murphy died it's doubtful it would be a speaking role.

She died?! Oh wow... =L

[Reply #666 on:]

Sad and strange story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6173499-504083.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-05-24/entertainment/brittany.murphy.husband.dead_1_british-screenwriter-simon-monjack-sharon-murphy-hollywood-hills-home?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ

[Reply #667 on:]

Sad and strange story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6173499-504083.html

Sad and strange indeed.

Anyway, here's the next image, also from "Law and Oracle".

[Reply #668 on:]

Looks like Fry is going to be a classic delivery boy again...

Btw, why do you link the pictures from imgur? You can do that directly from the comedy central server.

[Reply #669 on:]

Looks like Fry is going to be a classic delivery boy again...

Btw, why do you link the pictures from imgur? You can do that directly from the comedy central server.

Sorry about that, didn't know. I've relinked it to the CC server now.

Looks like Terry and Ipgee from Applied Cryogenics will be returning.

[Reply #670 on:]

YES! MY WISH HAS COME TRUE! MORE APPLIED CRYOGENICS!

WOOOOOOOOOO!

[Reply #671 on:]

woot! that's all I have to say to this

EDIT: why is Fry saying: every weeks for ten years? I dont get it...

[Reply #672 on:]

EDIT: why is Fry saying: every weeks for ten years? I dont get it...

I think he means back in the 20th Century when he worked for Panucci's.

[Reply #673 on:]

But remember, this happened in Futurama Universe #1; Bender, Fry, and the Professor travelled forwards to Universe #3, which means the episodes before that no longer apply.

No. No, no. NO NO NO!

Oh dear God, No!.



Click this. Read it all.

[Reply #674 on:]

Yeah, all it means is that everyone is now a duck.

So it turns out that we've been misspelling Ipji's name (not actually Ipgee) also seems like Lou's name was forgotten by the production staff, that came from a sketch in special features right?

[Reply #675 on:]

Yeah, all it means is that everyone is now a duck.

The only way to prove it though, is to weigh them against a witch.

[Reply #676 on:]

So what you're saying is that there's a new universe created after the last one and that we're not sure which time paradoxes will be created if they travel sideways in time relative to the forward time machine?

[Reply #677 on:]

Yeah, all it means is that everyone is now a duck.

The only way to prove it though, is to weigh them against a witch.

Try me!

But remember, this happened in Futurama Universe #1; Bender, Fry, and the Professor travelled forwards to Universe #3, which means the episodes before that no longer apply.

That has got to be the stupidest thing I've read on here in a long time.  Explain to me the very simple question:  How do they then crush Bender, Fry and Farnsworth if the prior episodes no longer applied?  What you are suggesting is that Fry should never have arrived in the 31st century in this 'universe #3' as you call it.

[Reply #678 on:]

So what you're saying is that there's a new universe created after the last one and that we're not sure which time paradoxes will be created if they travel sideways in time relative to the forward time machine?

No, winna. I think you know what I'm saying. Please don't make me say anything else about it. It's becoming quite tedious.

[Reply #679 on:]

I just wanted to see the wrong gif posted again.