Jokes You No Understand

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Are there any jokes or gags in the show that to this day you still don't understand? (And maybe they could be explained to you by another member)

On a side note: If this thread is a copy of another then I will officially give up creating threads - FOREVER! 

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This thread kind of already exists...

[Reply #2 on:]

Danny that's the thread for something you didn't notice at one point.
This is for jokes you don't  understand..

[Reply #3 on:]

Same thing. The other thread explains them for you.

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This is completely different   Anyway, I didn't and still don't understand the gag in 'Lethal Inspection' with the guy in the center square insulting Hermes and a red cross appears on his desk (I'm sure it's some sort of game show in America but I'm not sure...)

[Reply #5 on:]

Hollywood Squares.

[Reply #6 on:]

Same thing. The other thread explains them for you.

That thread is for things you didn't get or notice until later.

This thread is for things you still don't get.

[Reply #7 on:]

"But Calculon, I thought you were..."
"EGYPTIAN?"

What does that mean?

[Reply #8 on:]

SGB, that's joke's meant to be utterly random and nonsensical. There isn't really much more to it than that.

Anyway, a lot of "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" went straight over my head, because I've never seen Star Trek before.

[Reply #9 on:]

I guess it went right over my head because I'm so used to more smart humor, other than random lines like Family Guy.

[Reply #10 on:]

You have to remember: it was All My Circuits that had that random line, not Futurama

[Reply #11 on:]

True, but I sorta expect more out of the show in general.

[Reply #12 on:]

It was a sudden, overdramatic plot twist common to such soap operas.

You'd probably have to be a robot to fully understand the context.

[Reply #13 on:]

I'd imagine so.....

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Anyway, a lot of "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" went straight over my head, because I've never seen Star Trek before.

Same here. The episode still works for me, though, since I can at least relate to the idea of being a rabid fan of a sci-fi show and feeling like the characters therein are your friends because you don't have any real friends. Fry's devotion to Star Trek, and his reasoning behind it, is just spot-on and really endearing.

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For a better understanding of "Star Trek" without having to wach the classic series, I recommend "Galaxy Quest".

[Reply #16 on:]

'Where No Fan Has Gone Before' certainly unlocks a great deal of its secrets when you actually start watching 'Star Trek'.

But I'd be happy to explain any specific moments that went over your head from it.

[Reply #17 on:]

True, but I sorta expect more out of the show in general.

It's not made by bloody angels...

[Reply #18 on:]

I don't know, I guess it's kinda funny. I'll let it pass.

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This is far from a joke but could someone explain to me the 'Schrödinger's cat' thing in 'Law and Oracle' (I've tried looking on Wikipedia and I sort of understand it...)

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It's a theory, or rather a criticism of quantum mechanics, whereby it poses a scenario in which a cat is placed in a box with some poison. It applies rules of quantum mechanics to every day items which basically means that whilst the box is closed and you can't know of the cat's well-being, the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Not that it could potentially be alive or dead, but it is literally both alive and dead at the same time, existing in two states. As I said, it's more of a criticism of quantum mechanics than an actual theory stating that the cat exists in two states.
And the cat and the box are just examples - it can be applied to anything. Until I look in my biscuit tin, I have to assume that all the biscuits have been eaten and all of the biscuits have been left for me.

'Law and Oracle', very lazily, crammed Schrodinger into the episode to say "Look, we're doing a science joke!" without actually doing anything interesting with it. I hated that joke although I adore the episode as a whole.

I'm sure someone can explain it better than I have, anyway.

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It's a theory, or rather a criticism of quantum mechanics, whereby it poses a scenario in which a cat is placed in a box with some poison. It applies rules of quantum mechanics to every day items which basically means that whilst the box is closed and you can't know of the cat's well-being, the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Not that it could potentially be alive or dead, but it is literally both alive and dead at the same time, existing in two states. As I said, it's more of a criticism of quantum mechanics than an actual theory stating that the cat exists in two states.
And the cat and the box are just examples - it can be applied to anything. Until I look in my biscuit tin, I have to assume that all the biscuits have been eaten and all of the biscuits have been left for me.

'Law and Oracle', very lazily, crammed Schrodinger into the episode to say "Look, we're doing a science joke!" without actually doing anything interesting with it. I hated that joke although I adore the episode as a whole.

I'm sure someone can explain it better than I have, anyway.

Thank you so much (I also agree that the joke didn't really work at that moment in the episode) but yeah, that is a really interesting theory...

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So, let's say if this theory is true, and then somehow time travel is invented, and then multiple timelines exist, how many cats would there be and in what state?

[Reply #23 on:]

So, let's say if this theory is true, and then somehow time travel is invented, and then multiple timelines exist, how many cats would there be and in what state?

I'm sure you know time travel is possible, well, not exactly. The faster you go, the faster time goes around you. But nothing is faster than the speed of light.

[Reply #24 on:]

What about that particle they just recently discovered?

[Reply #25 on:]

WHAT?! PM me a link or something. I want to talk down my science teacher!

[Reply #26 on:]

Eh, type it in on Google. "Particle faster than light" or something.

[Reply #27 on:]

Does this make time travel possible?

[Reply #28 on:]

Ask.

[Reply #29 on:]

If you want to get picky, we're technically travelling through time right now. Forwards through time at a rate of 1 second for every second relevant to us.

[Reply #30 on:]

Alright then, how about at a rate of 1 week per second?

[Reply #31 on:]

You are all presupposing that time itself exists. For people discussing such serious science, you have an awful lot of faith in something for which there is no conclusive evidence.

[Reply #32 on:]

What if we don't exist at all. Everything is nothing.

[Reply #33 on:]

Well, I;m not going to argue, after all: I'm 13.


@DannyJC13: I can touch myself, that's how I know I exist.

[Reply #34 on:]

What if we don't exist at all. Everything is nothing.

And it was such a promising illusion, too....

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@DannyJC13: I can touch myself

At night?

[Reply #36 on:]

All the time, and my homework helps!

[Reply #37 on:]

Your homework helps to touch you at night?!

 

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I don't get Fry's joke about being the "Tighty (or possibly "Tidy") Bowl Man"? It's from 'A Clockwork Origin'.

Ah, never mind, it's Ty-D-Bol, some commercial(s) from the 70s about a small guy in a boat, which is inside a toilet.

Strangely, the guy in the commercial died 12 days before 'A Clockwork Origin' aired.

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Whenever I read the title of this topic, all I can think of is that annoying "Y U No guy".

Fixitfixitfixitfixitfixit!!