Xanfor
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« on: 07-26-2011 17:05 »
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I don't know if we have a thread for this, but cursory searches show nothing. What am I, a mod? Anyway, this thread is for those of us who, back when we first saw the show, didn't quite pick up on everything, either because we started off in the wrong order, or because we missed a pivotal moment or two. For example, the first episode I ever saw was Hell is Other Robots. On a teensy-tiny portable black and white television screen. What did I not find out until watching numerous more episodes? - That Leela had one eye. I thought she just had really large ones, or wore enormous glasses. It wasn't until this came up explicitly in the dialogue nearly a season later that I realized it wasn't just a quirk of animation.
- How Fry came to the future. I knew right away that Fry was from the past, but I didn't know that how he got to the future was actually explained. Two series later, I got it.
- Why Zapp was always chasing after Leela. They hadn't even met each other before, how could...?
Thank you, Bender, that was most elucidating. So what did you not know in your early days that you do know know? What did you not know in your early days, but suddenly figured out all by yourself while the credits were rolling?
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Gorky
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When I was first getting into the show, most of the episodes I saw had no deliveries, and made no real reference to Planet Express ("Where the Buggalo Roam" and "A Leela of Her Own," specifically), so it wasn't until I bought the season one DVD (a few months after I saw Devil's Hands--which, again, makes no real reference to what the characters do for a living) that I found out that Fry, Leela, and Bender worked for an intergalactic delivery company. Cleared a lot of things up for me, I must say.
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futurefreak
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In Law and Oracle most recently was it? When Fry had to make the delivery for defrosted wang, a callback to I.C. Weiner. Now, I knew I.C. Weiner stood for either icy weiner or i see weiner (like I.P. Freely in Simpsons). Only just then though, when I saw that episode, did the lightbulb go on that the reason it stood for Icy Weiner was because it was a Cryogenics lab. 10 years. In the dark. I win the epic fail of the decade award for sure on that one!
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DannyJC13
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I find it ironic that hardly anyone knew how Fry came to the future and the thread title has 'Fridge' in it. Also, Randi, really?! but also
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DannyJC13
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I got them seperate.
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futurefreak
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Take it to the Stockroom you two I didn't realize that Clobberella was a parody of Barbarella until I read about it in one of these forums (HR maybe). I also never heard of Barbarella anyway, though.
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Bend-err
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Dean Farnsworth is the one with the eye test. Which is funnily named "Farnsworth Lantern Test". Fits with the stealing of the lantern later on in the episode, eh? And yes, David Farnsworth was a real Colonial Era counterfeiter. Wonder if we'll ever get other Farnsworths in the show: Charles S. Farnsworth - General in WW1 John Semer Farnsworth - Japanese Spy Bill and Viv Farnsworth - Australian rugby players.
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
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By the way, this is one thing I think has gone over everyone's heads (I don't see any references to it on the Infosphere or Tvtropes)
But is the sky of Trisol meant to be a reference to The Dark Crystal? Not only are there three suns, but they have similar colors to the same ones in the movie (a very large one, a small red one one, and a small yellow one, corresponding almost perfectly to the Great Sun, the Rose Sun and the Dying Sun, except there's a small yellow sun instead of a tiny purple one), but the skyline of Trisol looks very similar to Thra's.
It could be a coincidence I guess, but ever since I watched it, I always wondered if the three suns were a reference to Dark Crystal. Futurama's Shout Outs are sometimes subtle enough to count as Whisper Outs, after all.
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Frida Waterfall
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I must've watched "Jurassic Bark" a hundred times, and only a year or two ago I realized that Fry's picket sign says "Give me back my pet rock!". So worth it.
And yeah, that's the only one I can think of.
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Tachyon
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Agreed. I've never watched One Million Years BC but his outfit and pose look a lot like the DVD cover of the film.
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Duece-c
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Just watched Hell is Other Robots and the first time Leela sees the Devil she calls him a Build-a-bot...for a split second I thought how the hell did they know they were going to make a Toynami line 10 years later....d'oh.
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Duece-c
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Man I swear I heard otherwise...but you are most likely right....I am going to have to watch it again though!
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Welshy
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The joke of a bottle cap being hidden in a can of Slurm.
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