totalnerd undercanada

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« #80 : 07-03-2013 19:37 »
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"Did you just say Hello?"
"Nah, I said 'Allo, but close enough!"
But the apostrophe still means you're not pronouncing the H.
So Americans pronounce the H in Hello, but Brits don't. Americans don't pronounce the H in herbs, but Brits do.
-sigh- Brits say "Hello". I (mis)quoted the movie Labyrinth, because the conversation reminded me of it.
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My Manwich

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« #85 : 07-04-2013 18:05 »
« : 07-04-2013 18:08 »
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I just noticed that the Earth was rotating the wrong way.
Kind of makes sense due to "That Darn Katz!", but they've switched it around so many times since then I don't know if it's a goof or not.
I meant that the Earth was rotating from East to West instead of West to East. Since that "Darn Katz" the Earth is supposed to be rotating from West to East but the first clip of the Earth in this episode has the Earth rotating from East to West.
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totalnerd undercanada

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« #88 : 07-04-2013 19:07 »
« : 07-04-2013 19:10 by totalnerduk »
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I just noticed that the Earth was rotating the wrong way.
Kind of makes sense due to "That Darn Katz!", but they've switched it around so many times since then I don't know if it's a goof or not.
The next time we see the Earth rotating after the events of TDK is in TDVC (right at the end), and it appears to be rotating in the same direction as at the end of TDK. We see it rotating again, near the beginning of ACO. It's going in the "new" direction. In LN, we see a tiny snapshot of it, with a small rotation observable between frames. This seems to be in the "new" direction. It's clearly going in the new direction in TFHS, and in Neutopia it's not possible to determine. Benderama seems to show rotation in the new direction. It's hard to tell though. TSOTC doesn't show any observable rotation, neither does CW. It's hard to tell, again, but AFTA does show what seems to be "new direction" rotation for a second. It's impossible in D3012 to tell, and in TBE, it's going in the new direction. In VMV, it's impossible to tell, and in Naturama, it's going in the new direction. That's the entirety of S6 & S7A. I might have missed a few shots, but it appears to have been treated with reasonable consistency that since the events of TDK, the Earth's rotation has been reversed. It's also possible that I might have gotten some of these wrong, since they're only onscreen for between a few frames and the better part of a couple of seconds. But in TTT, it's definitely shown going in the "old" (ie: the current) direction, near the beginning of the episode. I'd say that this is a goof, since it doesn't seem to have been switched around in the meantime. If it's been switched in other media than the cartoon (eg: the comics), that's non-canon. Since that "Darn Katz" the Earth is supposed to be rotating from West to East but the first clip of the Earth in this episode has the Earth rotating from East to West.
As others have pointed out, this is backwards. The Earth currently rotates west to east. The eastern hemisphere of the Earth slips under the terminator (the line between day and night) before the western hemisphere as the planet spins eastward in space. In TDK, the Earth's rotation is reversed, so that it spins east to west, and in the goof you spotted, the Earth is rotating west to east (spinning eastward instead of westward).
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Not4You2Know
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« #94 : 07-24-2013 14:15 »
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If you people weren't so ovverly ciritical and judgemental about these new episodes these past few years.....it probably would've got renewed.
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Inquisitor Hein
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« #101 : 12-29-2013 22:19 »
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I saw E.T. as a kid. And I must admit that Alien really scared me out by that time. Of course, it now lost all of it's scaryness for me. Right now, the little guy just brings up memories of a really unpleasant cinema visit  Okay, now back to topic: I liked that one moment of Fry laying out the SOS message: He was shown as simple, but not stupid. And that simplicity enabled him to have an idea more complicated thinkers would not even get, but that is working (after all, it was the only successful passed message between Earth and Omicron Persei 8). The "so simple it's brillant" theme can form some really good jokes and plots. More of those actions would have fitted Fry in the last season well. At least much better than "Something goes bad, so I just gonna cry and do nothing, except maybe kill myself".
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Monster_Robot_Maniac

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« #102 : 12-29-2013 22:49 »
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I can see how under-appreciation for E.T. may have led to dislike for this episode; especially from the younger crowd, seeing as they might not recognize what's parody and what's original. However, I think most of the dislike come from aforementioned lesser jokes ( In my opinion, the poop jokes were simply annoying, but the marijuana jokes were truly unfunny). I think that's the same reason for most of 2-D Blacktop's dislike, but that's a different subject. The "so simple it's brillant" theme can form some really good jokes and plots. More of those actions would have fitted Fry in the last season well. At least much better than "Something goes bad, so I just gonna cry and do nothing, except maybe kill myself".
I've noticed the newer run didn't have that many 'Simple' gags, which are something the FOX run seemed to have lots of. There were alot more straight-up jokes in the CC run, whereas the FOX run had more, such as this one, that for some would need a little thinking to find the funny in. On that not, this joke seemed very similar to one in 'Obsoletely Fabulous', where bender uses rocks (?) to write a very long help singal on the shore of an island.
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Tachyon

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« #104 : 12-29-2013 23:15 »
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I disliked it immensely. And I've never seen E.T. * Tachy ducks behind Snrub's flame shield
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« #106 : 12-29-2013 23:29 »
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I didn't like it. And I have seen E.T. once. The parody wasn't done so well and it just wasn't very interesting storyline with worn out subjects. The ending, however, was the worst part. Even good Bender-plot doesn't help much. I wonder what the difference in ratings for this episode, or really any episode that pokes fun at another show or movie, would be between someone/a group who had seen the parodied material and someone/a group who hadn't seen the parodied material before viewing the episode?
Well, I'm pretty sure people who have seen parodied material, would generally rate better, but E.T. is so well-known that I don't think it matters.
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SolidSnake

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« #112 : 12-30-2013 17:17 »
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I agree, it SORT OF felt like an episode of Futurama.
Meanwhile I do think that Scooby Doo segment DID in fact feel a little bit like an actual scooby doo episode. Just if you take out some of the crappy adult jokes, the plot actually moves in the same direction, as do a couple of the jokes/character personas.
But hey, like I've said 3 times now, I'm more forgiveful when it comes to the non-canon things they do. Hence why I actually enjoyed this. It was a direct parody that was handled in a pretty okay way.
But T, was canon sadly. I just hated the overall plot of it. A couple of jokes made me chuckle, but alot of the others just sucked. Badly. At first, I thought it was decent, since I haven't watched much Futurama until it returned with the final season. But after watching other good/great episodes, I can safely say this sucked for Futurama's Standards. It was still decent TV, but it sucked for futurama standards.
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DannyJC13

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« #114 : 11-16-2014 21:10 »
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After rewatching this well-over a year later: The use of the word "turd" in Futurama doesn't work for me, it feels too...forced, I guess? "Poop" is more Futurama-y, and definitely a word Fry is more likely to use. The bicycles powered by love still leaves a sour taste in my mouth, just, ugh, why... I feel slightly better about it after reading this on the Infosphere: Jrrr tells Fry that their flying bicycle is powered by love. In "Three Hundred Big Boys", which is also the sixteenth episode of its season, Kif gives Amy a watch that he says is powered by love. I guess if they can have watches powered by love in the future, they can have bicycles powered by love, too. But even so, why would Omicronians use them? I get the joke: they're big, tough, violent, murdering aliens who ride around on little bicycles powered by love, but again, feels too forced. I enjoyed Bender noticing the fleem and then just casually putting it in his chest compartment, I must have forgotten about that part. 
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