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Lost My Phone
Professor
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I noticed the first point you made almost immediately. The other two, though, I didn't notice. Nice finds!
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cyber_turnip
Urban Legend
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« Reply #3 on: 10-08-2013 23:19 »
« Last Edit on: 10-16-2013 16:54 »
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I wouldn't say any of these were "stolen", exactly. But Futurama did them first.
Anyway, South Park's "Pre-School" episode has the same joke about the Captain Pike wheelchair device from Star Trek as in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
In Futurama's, they get the person to beep once for guilty, or twice for innocent. They beep twice, to which Zapp responds "Double guilty!".
In South Park, they get the person to beep once for "yes" and twice for "no". They beep twice, to which the policeman responds "Yes, yes".
Trey Parker actually talks about becoming aware that Futurama did the same joke, afterwards, on the commentary for that one.
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ShinyMetal***
Professor
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Isn't there a Good Luck Charlie or whatever called "Future Drama"? I shamed my sister for watching it. Disney has gone down hill, it lost so many veiwers, including myself a few years ago, because of all the crap it plays now.
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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Family Guy stole "Pepperidge Farms Remembers' from the Futurama episode ' A Fishful of Dollars', I'm pretty sure.
Being the Family Guy hater that I am, I was not aware of that until now. I just looked it up on YouTube, and you're right. They definitely stole that from Futurama.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Again, it's a little presumptuous to accuse these other shows of stealing. Comedy in this medium often follows some pretty basic beats/formulas. Sometimes more than one comedy writer will come up with the same (or a very similar) joke - it happens in stand-up all the time. As terrible as I think Family Guy is, I DON'T think the writers spend all day watching other adult-oriented cartoons and picking out jokes to steal. In this most recent case, they were both doing a parody of the same commercial. As for the most recent Treehouse of Horror: The Simpsons had already done the "head attached to someone else's shoulders" bit way back in season 3. "Of all the *blank*s I've ever had, this one's the first" is a VERY rudimentary gag; make the audience think the line's going one way, turn it around at the end to something depreciating to the character. A lot of lines in BOTH The Simpsons and Futurama are constructed this way, it's inevitable that occasionally we'll get some near-identical ones due to the fact that these shows try to turn almost every line into a joke. The one about the mutants/freaks with the big mouth and big ears is the only one of these that looks as though it could've been air-lifted from Futurama directly, but again, if you told a bunch of comedy writers to come up with a list of funny material for mutants/freaks with exaggerated features, I'm sure more than one would come up with something along these lines. And, as QNF said, we've already got a thread for this. One that doesn't immediately jump to the conclusion that the writers for these other shows are thieves.
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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Isn't there a Good Luck Charlie or whatever called "Future Drama"?
So title references count as stealing jokes? Also, I've never even heard of that show, nor have I heard of any other kid shows of today.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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No, it's a good thread (despite the poor phrasing in the title). Unfortunately, it's a thread that already exists.
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Lost My Phone
Professor
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The Simpsons ripped off Futurama. There are people in it.
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Sayna
Crustacean
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"Over the Hedge" featured a coffee drugged squirrel going to extreme speed (the environment seemingly frozen from his POV), similar to Fry in THBB. It was also part of a "saving the day" showdown.
I haven't seen that but this one actually sounds like it counts. (Probably as a reference, not as "stealing".) And it took me the longest time to get the Star Trek wheelchair thing! I knew it had to be a reference because both South Park and Futurama did the same weird joke but I didn't watch Star Trek or know anyone who did. It bugged me for years.
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Inquisitor Hein
Liquid Emperor
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« Reply #20 on: 10-12-2013 13:01 »
« Last Edit on: 10-13-2013 01:54 »
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Found a clip from that scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-eMdMsMgCUBoth scenes featured the character suddenly sporting a calm/relaxed look, when going to hyperspeed. Could be a coincidence, but my guess is rather on the scriptwriters having seen the Futurama episode.
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ShinyMetal***
Professor
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Isn't there a Good Luck Charlie or whatever called "Future Drama"?
So title references count as stealing jokes?
Also, I've never even heard of that show, nor have I heard of any other kid shows of today.
You obviously dont have any young siblings then, do you? Or atleast any that live with you. My sister likes all that crap. Anyway, I really think (hope) that Futurama jokes are original, so far they are.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Again, I'm sure that no writers for ANY show sit around watching other shows making lists of jokes to steal. But accidentally coming up with a joke someone else has already done? That shit happens all the time.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Matt and Trey even made a note of it in the DVD commentary - they talked about how proud they were of that joke, and how it wasn't until after it aired that they found out Futurama had done it.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #28 on: 10-16-2013 14:48 »
« Last Edit on: 10-16-2013 14:50 »
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THE FUTURAMA WRITER'S ROOM, NOVEMBER 9, 1998: (David X. Cohen runs in) DAVID X COHEN: Guys! I just saw the BEST joke EVER on that show we used to work on, The Simpsons!!! KEN KEELER: What is it, Darpid? DAVID X COHEN: I SAID NOT TO CALL ME THAT. (David X Cohen stares at Ken Keeler until he shrinks an inch.) J STEWART BURNS: Now I have a tumour. DAVID X COHEN: Anyway, Homer was talking about how he'd never get back to sleep, and then he fell asleep instantly! ... THE OTHER WRITERS: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA AAA!!!! (Laughter ensues for 47 minutes) PAT VERRONE: Oh boy, we've gotta steal that, like we do with all of our material! J STEWART BURNS: Wait, I know! You know that episode we were working on, A Fishful of Dollars? Let's put it in there! PAT VERRONE: But Burnsie, that episode's scheduled to air in a few months, and that would really throw our schedule out, what with the re-recording, additional lip synching and editing an episode we've already finished... DAVID X COHEN: LISTEN TO THE MAN. WE HAVE TO STEAL THIS BRILLIANT JOKE. PAT VERRONE: But... But what if somebody notices? DAVID X COHEN: NOBODY WILL NOTICE. GET IT DONE, MOTHERFUCKER. (David X Cohen picks up a harpoon, throwing it at Pat Verrone. It narrowly misses, and through causality or something, Stum is born, to expose the Futurama writers once and for all as the frauds they are. Also, J Stewart Burns' tumour became Caroline Premish. The end.)
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cyber_turnip
Urban Legend
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Yeah, I think South Park's Pre-School was more coincidental than ripping off Futurama's joke.
I wouldn't say any of these were "stolen", exactly. But Futurama did them first.
Anyway, South Park's "Pre-School" episode has the same joke about the Captain Pike wheelchair device from Star Trek as in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
Trey Parker actually talks about becoming aware that Futurama did the same joke, afterwards, on the commentary for that one.
Matt and Trey even made a note of it in the DVD commentary - they talked about how proud they were of that joke, and how it wasn't until after it aired that they found out Futurama had done it.
Trey Parker actually talks about becoming aware that Futurama did the same joke, afterwards, on the commentary for that one.
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #38 on: 10-23-2013 03:09 »
« Last Edit on: 10-23-2013 03:11 »
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I met a woman called Amy the other day. SHE'S RIPPING OFF FUTURAMA!!! As a parody, Futurama obviously has to pick on already existing plots/themes and give them a humorous twist. Yet, the "actors in space" premise was too similar. In that case, the word "stealing" is imhO applicable for Futurama.
Seems like a pretty organic idea given that the premise originated out of the desire to get the cast of Star Trek in to do an episode that was essentially an homage to Star Trek. They couldn't have them run into the actual characters, since the shows are set at different times and Futurama has already acknowledged Star Trek as being a tv show, so getting them all to play themselves was the only option. Hence the whole "sci-fi actors in an actual sci-fi storyline" thing. The rest of that episode's storyline existed entirely as a canvas for Star Trek references.
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