meisterPOOP

Professor

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Not a bad episode, but nothing really sparks me as terrific.
It kind of had 'Anthology of Interest' feel to it, excluding the actual 'What If Machine.'
I give it a 6/10.
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Boxy Robot

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All the Presidents' HeadsAfter a re watch, I enjoyed this episode more. I guess I was just expecting a lot from the plot and the build up in the first act. I still think there are many better episodes in this half season but I don't dislike this one. I guess I laughed at more jokes that I may have missed when I was anticipating the pay off... Anyhow, this episode has (Like I've mentioned) many great jokes that are mostly found in the second act, while the third act has nothing much to offer other than the final gag. (One thing I noticed is that the last two minutes when they traveled back to change what happened, they only spent three seconds there (Or so it seems) yet they managed to relive the twenty four hours in the past  ) Score: 7.0/10.0
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LorenzoDuke

Crustacean

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Not a bad episode, but nothing really sparks me as terrific.
It kind of had 'Anthology of Interest' feel to it, excluding the actual 'What If Machine.'
In other words, it had a ludicrous and unbelievable (within the context of the show) plot but no framing device to excuse it.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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I suppose we should be thankful that they didn't try to work a Sarah Palin reference into the Paul Revere material. The episode got one of the most fundamental parts of the Paul Revere story messed up (thank you very much, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) -- Revere didn't receive the lantern signal, he was the one who ordered it to be set up. But, the episode did include a real-life Farnsworth as the villain. One sort of makes up for the other, historical-accuracy wise.
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futurefreak

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BTW Smitty came back after his early retirement from ep. 16 Law and Oracle. Just an interesting note.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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You could get back five minutes before you left. Back in time for "stuff."
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DannyJC13

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Um, yes he could... He wouldn't of existed when they got back to the British Version of NNY. The Professor might not have existed. And have you seen 'The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime' and 'The Why of Fry'? The Universe would have ceased to exist. For current reasons unknown.
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Svip

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Um, yes he could... He wouldn't of existed when they got back to the British Version of NNY. The Professor might not have existed. And have you seen 'The Un-Freeze of a Lifetime' and 'The Why of Fry'? The Universe would have ceased to exist. For current reasons unknown.
Didn't his ancestor fight commies in the American Revolution? With that gone, who is to emulate him? What are the chances the British Empire would even use Nevada for nuclear tests? They have that Australian waste land too! So much to speculate, so little time.
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AprilAero
Poppler

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Any thing that involves time travel makes for an interesting story.
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DannyJC13

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Wise first post. I think.  Didn't his ancestor fight commies in the American Revolution? With that gone, who is to emulate him? What are the chances the British Empire would even use Nevada for nuclear tests? They have that Australian waste land too! So much to speculate, so little time.
Yes exactly! Lots of things shouldn't have existed...
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Juliet

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This is my late review. I LOVE IT. Could not stop laughing all the way through to the British crew. I know their accents are not good but it makes me laugh hehe. and Bender said "Bollocks" made me spat me drink out with laugher. funniest episode so far.
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Fnord
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And of course, Philo Farnsworth invented television, and a nuclear fusion device. (Thanks, Wikipedia!) (Did anyone catch the name of the other "famous" Farnsworth?)
(Yes, I respond to my own posts.) This was Dean Farnsworth, who doesn't have an article at Wikipedia (even though the Farnsworth Lantern Test does). I've also been reading a Tim Leary biography, and ran across another Farnsworth: Dana L. Farnsworth was the director of Health Services at Harvard University, while Leary was doing his mushroom experiments. Farnsworth voiced the opinion that psychedelics like mescaline could be dangerous, and he eventually arranged it so that any psychedelics could only be given to him, not any of the other faculty. David Farnsworth was a real counterfeiter, btw. Wikipedia also lists the following Farnsworths: - Bill Farnsworth, Australian rugby league footballer (brother of Viv)
- Charles S. Farnsworth, American general in World War I, Chief of Infantry
- E. Allan Farnsworth, American legal scholar
- Elizabeth Farnsworth, correspondent and former anchor at the PBS NewsHour
- Elon Farnsworth Michigan Attorney General
- Elon J. Farnsworth, United States (Union) cavalry commander in the American Civil War
- John Semer Farnsworth, A US Navy Officer convicted of spying for Japan from 1932–1934
- Kyle Farnsworth, an American baseball player for the Tampa Bay Rays
- Richard Farnsworth, American actor
- Viv Farnsworth, Australian rugby league footballer (brother of Bill)
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Bend-err

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Yeah, I posted about that here on Wednesday.
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Otis P Jivefunk

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Exactly, I don't buy that it's all down to the shorter run time, it's time management and they don't seem to be able to do it properly in a lot of these new eps...
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Otis P Jivefunk

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I kinda expect it in Family Guy though, I mean they seem to find the time to show full songs with real life footage of musicians playing them within their eps rather than tell the story. Not that I dislike Family Guy, but still  ...
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DannyJC13

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So I was seeing how many Jars I could read in the Museum, so far: Abe Lincoln Grover Cleveland Bill Clinton William Taft Jimmy Carter Benjamin Harrison James Madison Ronald Reagan Andrew Jackson Warren Harding Bob Meyers Sharon Anders Manoi (?) Jeffrey Perez Andi Ta(?)or (Probably Taylor) Millard Fillmore Rutherford B. Hayes Franklin Pierce Herbert Hoover Calvin Coolidge Ulysses Grant Chester A. Arthur Dwight D. Eisenhower Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Ashlee Douglas Zoe Washburne Liz Mansen Tyler Barnette Bob Glass Lee Tucker Simon Lee Amelia Pond George Washington Alan Krum Summer Maher Susan Cohu Inara Serra Adam Touvey Gerald Ford Ruby Lyman Henry Kissinger Alex Hoshi Bob Dole Martin Van Buren Walter Mondale George H. W. Bush George W. Bush James Polk Harry Truman Ron Brook Gray Jones John Smith Oscar Chang Owen Harper John Farrell Lisa Gessner Louis Vern Phil Lewis Tom Herman Chad Brown Indira Cha Steven Greene There are probably more, but that's as many as I got before I became bored. 
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futurefreak

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So all the Farnsworths in the beginning are apparently actual historical figures. The origin of this episode is that I was talking with Josh (Weinstein) who is a history buff, we wanted to do an episode that is in the alternative history vein of science fiction. We started looking for historical figures who had the same last name as one of our characters, we thought that might be a good (hook) for the episode...and we were looking for Frys and Farnsworths and we suddenly discovered this figure David Farnsworth, an actual counterfeiter from the Revolutionary War, who was executed for counterfeiting to try to bring down the Revolution.
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