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Otis P Jivefunk
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Good old Scruffy. Should be interesting to get to know a little bit more about him, but hopefully only a little bit. Less is more...
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DannyJC13
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Wow, the Crushinator has put on some weight...
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Great art, thanx for sharing that giclee ...
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DannyJC13
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« Reply #328 on: 08-12-2011 01:35 »
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CGEF just put this on Twitter: 'Tonight's episode also features a song called 'Eggman' by Australian artist @eliwolfe who released his self titled debut LP in Sept 2010.'Could be in a montage or an emotional scene? Here's a snippet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5izfpqjdL0
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Bend-err
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That song sounds too happy for an emotional scene. Probably just a montage.
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DannyJC13
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So I just noticed the A.V. Club's review for 'Fry Am the Egg Man' had this image on it... ..... Tip of the Zoidberg?
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Gorky
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« Reply #335 on: 08-12-2011 19:47 »
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Comedy Central put up the preview for "The Tip of the Zoidberg." Hmmm...I can't tell if I liked that or not. I do know that the cricking sound Leela's spine kept making made me faintly ill.
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DannyJC13
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alas, our first image from 'totz'.
Comedy central put up the preview for "The Tip of the Zoidberg."
BUURRRRN.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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« Reply #341 on: 08-12-2011 19:56 »
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Two whole minutes! Awwwwww ... @Gorky, interesting you say? Double awwwwww ...
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Gorky
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The preview I posted is a two-minute clip from the episode, Danny.
Yes I know...
Please tell me I'm not being crazy and that you had originally responded to Otis by describing the preview storyboard that the CC Insider posted a few months ago. If I made up an entire post, I think I need to take a vacation from PEEL.
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DannyJC13
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« Reply #343 on: 08-12-2011 19:59 »
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No I did, but then I realised that it wasn't those previews you posted. Or did I....? Also, Otis, there is a pic of the clip on the Infosphere, here:
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Gorky
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Stop messing with my head, man!
Otis: If it's any consolation, usually Aki or one of those other technologically-inclined people posts a UK-friendly version of the preview clip at some point during the week. I only wish that I was remotely savvy when it comes to junk like that.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Hope so! Technology is a harsh mistress. Oh, and thanx for the pic, DannyJC13. Good to see the owls back!...
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futurefreak
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You are quite the formidable twitter stalker. A Twitstalk if you will.
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Svip
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Comedy Central put up the preview for "The Tip of the Zoidberg."
Hmmm...I can't tell if I liked that or not. I do know that the cricking sound Leela's spine kept making made me faintly ill. I dunno, I like the fact that we get to see Zoidberg performing more of his terrible doctor skills. It's been a while if you ask me. All right, all right, spare me your life story!
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Gorky
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Svip: I thought Fry's progression from Simpson's jaundice to Garfield whatever to Muppet gangrene was kind of...blah. I think that's what bothered me most (that and, I suppose, the fact that they're testing the boundaries of the show's own cartoony-ness by allowing Leela's body to be sliced in half and Hermes' spine to be removed without too many adverse effects. Then again, Hermes was beheaded in BBS and it wasn't treated as the most traumatic thing in the world, so it's entirely possible I'm overreacting).
I do think the clip was funny, I suppose; I just felt like it was trying a little too hard. I'll just have to reserve further judgment until the episode airs, I guess, but I still have high hopes for this one.
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I agree with Gorky on this. The clip is acceptable, but it seems that since BBS the writers have went ahead and let the show be cartoonier than it was before. It's also been a long time problem for me that the writers pick and choose when they want Zoidberg to be a terrible surgeon. He's always been a bad M.D., but his surgical skills are either competent or horrifying depending on an episode's needs. As Gorky said, here they went over the top to justify that roving trait. To speak about a specific concern in the clip itself: The cartooniness would be easier to accept if Leela was in more pain from her botched surgery or Fry was in less pain from his diagnosis. You go from Fry very realistically screaming in pain from the needles being driven in to his skin to Leela barely reacting at all to her being split in half. It's needlessly confusing to what kind of pain is tolerable in the future (they could have had her at least do a quick scream before they cut to the Hermes part/her aftermath).
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« Reply #353 on: 08-13-2011 17:16 »
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Maybe Zoidberg doped her up on some painkillers? I don't mind a bit of cartooniness. It is a cartoon we're watching after all - so long as it serves the story and they don't go overboard with it. We've seen a lot of cartoonish elements in the show before already, like in the honking with Bender turning into a werecar and getting Fry stuck inside his chest compartment and in I second that emotion where he flushes his torso down a toilet. I don't mind it at all - it can be quite funny when it's done well (although perhaps that clip was pushing it a bit). The clip looks promising enough. It seems like the flashbacks will be grounded with the crew getting fed up with Zoidberg's incompetence and demanding an explanation for his employment from the professor, which I think will work well.
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« Reply #356 on: 08-13-2011 18:30 »
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Nice to get a good dose of Zoidberg humor. I'll be looking forward to this one. But, the cricking sound Leela's spine kept making made me faintly ill.
Indeed.... Alternate link
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Thanx! ... On one hand I quite liked Dr Zoidberg's medical mishaps, on the other it got a little too silly/wacky...
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Gorky
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I don't mind a bit of cartooniness. It is a cartoon we're watching after all - so long as it serves the story and they don't go overboard with it. We've seen a lot of cartoonish elements in the show before already, like in the honking with Bender turning into a werecar and getting Fry stuck inside his chest compartment and in I second that emotion where he flushes his torso down a toilet. I don't mind it at all - it can be quite funny when it's done well (although perhaps that clip was pushing it a bit). But I think there's a difference between the way the show plays with basic laws of the physical universe (tweaking the dimensions of Bender's chest cavity, for example), and its portrayal of pain and violence. I don't mind cartoonish-ness of the first variety--it's the second kind that kind of pisses me off. We are meant to sympathize with these characters and perhaps relate to them, all while suspending our disbelief to a certain extent. But when Leela can be sliced in half and Hermes can have his spine completely removed , things have crossed over into Wacky Cartoon Country, and it becomes a lot harder to care about the characters, or to accept the universe in which they live as "real." This attitude toward pain and violence and mortality and such is by no means new--Fry is dismembered plenty in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", for example--but I still have never been too fond of it.
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