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Inquisitor Hein
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I saw the first episode, live. Did you?
Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.
Yep, animators nowadays aren't what they used to be. I my time, they were able to draw the "Battle for Minas Tirith" for a live cartoon, with much more detail than in the Jackson movie. Also, they had to walk 20 miles to the studio. And it was uphill BOTH ways. And there was snow even in the summer. And they were happy when being attacked by wolves, which meant they would not have to bother with bears...
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Gorky
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And we have evidence from "Amazon Women in the Mood" suggesting that Zapp likes it real hard. Seriously, though, "hot sex with Zapp" is a disturbing enough image; to describe the sex as "hard" is far too filthy for my tastes...as both a viewer and a lover, I suppose.
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Frisco17
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Finally got a chance to see this one yesterday. It's easily the strongest episode yet from this season. I loved the shark aliens and the interactions between Zapp and Kif were fantastic as always. I also liked Fry and Bender spending half the episode goofing off with Leela's dad, culminating in Fry catching every possible disease from the sewer water. All in all I was impressed.
9/10
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Gorky
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Uh, yeah. So the Zapper seems a little out of character with going for the older woman, but wasn't the ulterior motive for this being so he could trick other aliens into war? Or it could be that he's lowered his standards. I didn't see any evidence of an ulterior motive, though I suppose it was an interesting and perhaps intentional coincidence that Zapp scheduled the wedding on the same day as the already-determined peace treaty-signing. However, merely hiring Munda on as his translator would have been security enough that he could trick the Carcarons into declaring war on Earth; moreover, if Zapp didn't truly love Munda, I think he would have been more amenable to Leela's attempts to seduce him. Gross as it all is, I think it makes sense that Zapp would honestly fall for Munda. She's smart (like Leela), feisty (like Leela), exotic-looking (like Leela)--but, unlike Leela, she's willing to have sex with him. I can certainly understand Zapp's attraction to her, even though his nonchalance about the wedding being called off is kind of at odds with his earlier declarations of ostensibly sincere love. I think that's more a consequence of how jam-packed this episode is, though, and not an indication that Zapp's reasons for marrying Munda were impure.
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Frisco17
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Add to that the fact that Munda now hates him as much as Leela does after finding out what he was planning to do with the treaty. So the one thing that she had going for her over Leela, based on your theory, is gone and he gave up.
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futurefreak
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I never thought of that, TastesLikeFry. Interesting. I would have to rewatch it again and see where I come up with that theory (which isn't likely to happen for a while since I don't get my recorded copies anymore ) Also, we already know Zapp has an alien/mutant fetish (The Lesser of Two Evils is but one early example).
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Javier Lopez
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I liked it ... really really liked. This episode fels more like good old Futurama... and has little downs.. It had couple of unespected twists .. sci-fi jokes .. the characters were all at their good selfs (even Leela was pure Leela and Fry was good old Fry and not overly stupid).. maybe the episode could do with a bit more professor or Zoid but its ok as it is.. Also the Cantina setting sold me up
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DannyJC13
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« Reply #138 on: 07-19-2012 17:49 »
« Last Edit on: 07-19-2012 17:54 »
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I've tweeted Eric Rogers about it, the writer of this episode. *edit* Sorry to burst your bubble everyone, but Fry doesn't say "I love you." "Nope. Sorry, but that wasn't the intent, even if it looks that way."
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Professor Zoidy
Urban Legend
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We'll just be forever in denial, Danny. Foreeeevvvveeeerrrrrrr. * Professor Zoidy goes to a corner and rocks back and forth Fry totally said I love you.
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SolidSnake
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Yes because Fry has never in the history of this show said "I love you" to Leela. Not once.
Umm he said it in "Parasites Lost".
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Gorky
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And in "The Sting," and in "Into the Wild Green Yonder," and in "Rebirth," and in "The Late Philip J. Fry"... ...I think Spacedal was being sarcastic, SolidSnake.
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sparkybarky
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« Reply #151 on: 07-23-2012 21:16 »
« Last Edit on: 07-23-2012 21:40 »
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Does anyone what was the name of song that played when Maurice surfed the Nimbus?
Mashak, I liked it, too. That song didn't sound familiar, so I assumed it was something that the composer created just for that episode. It was very surf guitar-ish. For something similar and dreamy, try "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny. Or get some Dick Dale, the king of surf guitar. He's an amazing musician. Edit: Sorry, Mashak, I misread that. I thought you meant the end scene's score. I think Morris surfing the controls for the Nimbus was like an uptempo surf guitar song, right? I'll have to re-watch to verify. Also (I know I'm very late to this conversation), I have never understood why some people take it personally that someone else doesn't like what s/he likes, or are somehow shaken up by this information. I'm referring to these silly statements that longtime fans--you know, the "real" ones--would never find this episode funny or good. Just reading this (I guess pretty much finished) thread in its entirety, I see the wide gamut of people's responses. The moral of the story: personal tastes are completely subjective. One can argue about the merits of Dostoyevksy but I still ain't gonna read "War and Peace." And I fancy that what Fry said to Leela was so sexy and X-rated that that's why their dialogue was not audible.
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Gorky
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One can argue about the merits of Dostoyevksy but I still ain't gonna read "War and Peace." And when people tell me Tolstoy's great, that doesn't make me wanna read The Brothers Karamazov!
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Xanfor
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One can argue about the merits of Dostoyevksy but I still ain't gonna read "War and Peace."
Read it! Read it read it read it read it!
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Tachyon
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Like with Doctor Zhivago?
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Gorky
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I don't know if you'd want to see Russian dudes shirtless; I'd imagine they have chests furrier than a Siberian husky, to combat the crazy-cold temperatures in their home and native land.
Also, I've never read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky--let alone seen a man's bare chest--so I really shouldn't be talkin'.
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