transgender nerd under canada
DOOP Ubersecretary
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I can't be the only one to notice this:
The suits are designed to look like old-timey diving suits. Back before the advent of certain mid-20th Century materials and techniques were invented, diving suits were constructed of wood, leather, brass, rubber, and cotton. They had a particular look to them - that puffy, globular, person-made-of-stacked-blobs look. Much of Futurama's general look and feel is modelled after things from the "pulp sci-fi" era of the 40's, 50's, and early 60's (including the look and colour scheme of the PX ship). Back then, people assumed we'd be wearing things similar to diving suits to explore other planets, and illustrations of that sort of pressure suit would grace the covers of novels and pulp magazines from that era. Then, of course, NASA invented actual space suits that didn't look much like diving suits, and ruined a good couple of decades of speculative fiction in the process. Stay-Puft's limbs, on the other hand, are made of stacked marshmallows. Therefore they co-incidentally recall the look of old-timey diving suits. So, no. It's not a Ghostbusters reference. It's a classic pulp sci-fi reference, and you should probably go read a bunch of classic pulp sci-fi if you want to truly appreciate the dozens of similar references scattered throughout the series.
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MeatablePie
Professor
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Now that you mention it, UL.
I just got hit with some nostalgia, even though people my age don't even know what VHS tapes are.
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MeatablePie
Professor
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It stands for "Virus-holding sin tape".
That goes some way to explaining why most of the VHS tapes from our era will be damaged by the second coming of Jesus.
No need to worry then...
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KurtPikachu2001
Urban Legend
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« Reply #529 on: 01-05-2014 21:54 »
« Last Edit on: 01-05-2014 22:23 »
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Come to think of it, since American Dad did a Breaking Bad spoof, why didn't Futurama do one? Maybe one where Leela and Bender sell fake IDs and they have the Armienian Mob after them? Leela and Bender have to make a trade for them or something like that? Farnsworth wants to try to get the goods on whoever it is who's selling the fake IDs totally unaware it's Leela and Bender. Maybe Fry or Scruffy would get captured by the Mob at the end. Leela and Bender BOTH get arrested and Hermes and Amy get them out. See? Isn't it better to get in trouble along with someone else? Or maybe one where Farnsworth has a rich old girlfriend who showers everyone with gifts, and then dumps him for a younger man who wants her money and the Crew have to think of a way to get the money for themselves? What about one with Fry being Little Red Riding Hood and he has to deliver some goods to Great Nephew's house? The Robot Devil could've been the Big Bad Wolf. Any of these would have been way better than LATGS. How about this one I wrote in this thread? http://www.peelified.com/Futurama-Forum-6/Topic-24678-0-Create_Good_Futurama_Epis.html
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SolidSnake
Professor
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If Futurama was to do a Breaking Bad spoof, I could totally see another Bender+Hermes episode working for that.
And Kurt, I understand you hate LATGS. Some of us, don't though. So please, please stop referring to things being better than it. Trying not to sound like I'm defending it, cause I'm not a particular fan of the episode. But I mean we get it: You don't like the ep. It should be done with now.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Come to think of it, since American Dad did a Breaking Bad spoof, why didn't Futurama do one? Maybe one where Leela and Bender sell fake IDs...
So, not only are you suggesting that they do a full-blown parody episode - which is already unoriginal in itself - it should also rip off a parody that another show has already done?
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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Kurt's trolling is becoming worst by the day; maybe it's time he retired.
Also, I agree with Beamer that it wouldn't make sense for Futurama to do a parody of a show when another show has already done exactly the same thing.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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[...] it wouldn't make sense for Futurama to do a parody of a show when another show has already done exactly the same thing.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockParodies
It's not just that, it's the fact that American Dad's Breaking Bad parody already substituted crystal meth with fake IDs. There are countless ways to tweak the parody accordingly (especially in the Futurama universe, where such possibilities are always limitless), and yet someone else's parody was suggested verbatim. Creatively, parodies are already a bit of a tired concept, but that is beyond lazy.
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Lambda
Bending Unit
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I am dumbstruck by the amount of idiocy radiating from the idea that an unused opening for a crappy move would somehow be related to Futurama.
Yeah, I hate it when I'm about to do a crappy move and the opening I put so much effort into making gets ununsed. To stay on-topic: (may have been covered already) from volume 7 commentaries: Apparantly, Fun on a bun was one of DXC's highlights of season 7, and it had been on the backburner for some time because they couldn't figure out what the Fry/Leela story would be about. Also, in Free Will Hunting, they noted (animation goofs?) that the flags in the courtroom weren't Earthican, and the ending was Matt's favourite part.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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...But the ending of Free Will Hunting is among the worst in the series...
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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I know - I still I couldn't resist, though. I actually like the ending to Free Will Hunting. It made me laugh, at least, despite (or maybe due to) how abrupt it was. But the episode itself is incredibly flawed, regardless of its final moments.
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Quantum Neutrino Field
Liquid Emperor
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It was even said in commentary that they just needed to end Butterjunk Effect somehow leading to that cop-out ending (which wasn't the worst part of episode imo, it was very funny at least). Their getting used to writing Futurama in a movie format may have influenced this, as they had to think up much bigger plots to fit the length of a film. In most cases, it seems this 'think big' mindset was carried over to the regular seasons' episodes.
Movies might be partly behind that trend and it definitely was one of the problems in the new run.
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MeatablePie
Professor
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I found Season 6A the blandest of the seasons, I know it was about evolution and what not which I found fitting to the show.
Season 6B was the most diarrhea-inducing season, can't argue with that.
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Monster_Robot_Maniac
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #551 on: 01-08-2014 02:54 »
« Last Edit on: 01-08-2014 02:56 »
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6B is actually my favorite sub-season of the new run. It had it's share of recurring problems, such as way too many modern day references (in one case, an episode long one... ) and too much uncertainty to Fry and Leela's relationship (Fry am the Egg Man), but I liked alot of the episodes' stories, and I found alot of them to be pretty funny. There are only three episodes from the subseason I really didn't like, (Yo Leela Leela, Fry am the egg man, and All the presidents' heads), and all the rest were either sub par or great for me. As a side note, my favorite episode from the subseason was Mobius Dick. Flame Shield activated.I can't even remember how The Butterjunk Effect ended.
It basically ended with Fry shedding his butterfly body and looking completely normal, red jacket and all.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Other than Möbius Dick, Reincarnation and Law and Oracle, I thought 6B was pretty mediocre the whole way through. Nothing else really stood out.
I will say, though, that the absolute best and worst of season 6 for me both reside in 6A, which I guess makes 6B the more consistent half-season, at least.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Read the website. I don't mind parodies if they're integrated seamlessly into the plot at hand, though I firmly believe the parody in question needs to actually make sense, and remain enjoyable to those who don't possess any understanding/knowledge of the source material.
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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I don't really hate parodies; I've actually enjoyed a few in the past. I don't think that Kurt's Breaking Bad parody idea makes any sense, though, considering that he only thinks that Futurama should have done one because American Dad did. I don't watch Breaking Bad, so I don't know anything about it. However, I suppose that it would be possible for Futurama to do a BB parody without ripping off AD, though.
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Niec Doge
Crustacean
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such futurama. so cancelled.
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