lol...I think...

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was there ever anything in futurama that you could tell was supposed to be funny, but you didn't quite get it?  Here you can post anything you didn't get, and someone can answer it.  you can also post any questions about a joke or detail.

I know there were a few but i can only remember one:  in AoI1, the giant bender said to fry when he first lands on earth, "I'm Bender and I need a BIG serial!"  What does that mean?

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Originally posted by Bovinatron:
in AoI1, the giant bender said to fry when he first lands on earth, "I'm Bender and I need a BIG serial!"  What does that mean?

I thought he meant "big cereal"

Ainoth

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Yea.  Big cereal.  It was a take off of a commercial but I don't remember which one.


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Yeah.  I meant to say serial/cereal.  It sounded to me like a spoof on a commercial.

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Yep, it's an old commercial for Honeycombs. See, there were these kids in a treehouse, and apparently, they were part of a club dedicated to eating Honeycombs... anyway, some character, say, a pirate, would invade the clubhouse, and he'd say, "I'm a BIIIIIG pirate and I need a BIIIIIG cereal!" And the kids would offer him Honeycombs, which is big (yeah yeah yeah)and not small (no no no), and all would be well...

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Originally posted by Kryten:
Yep, it's an old commercial for Honeycombs. See, there were these kids in a treehouse, and apparently, they were part of a club dedicated to eating Honeycombs... anyway, some character, say, a pirate, would invade the clubhouse, and he'd say, "I'm a BIIIIIG pirate and I need a BIIIIIG cereal!" And the kids would offer him Honeycombs, which is big (yeah yeah yeah)and not small (no no no), and all would be well...

hmm...never knew that...thanx for telling us kryten 

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Hmmmmmm ever wonde rif you watch TOO MUCH tv Kryten? 

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Oh he knows, alright.
We never let him forget it.

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Yeah, I used to watch too much TV... of course, now that I have a job and internet access, not so much...

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Originally posted by Kryten:
Yeah, I used to watch too much TV... of course, now that I have internet access, not so much...

yeah the internet has sucked me into its black hole, too... 

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You mean theres somthing other then the internet out there?  NO!!! I refuse to believe it! 

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what about in the first episode when Fry says "wow! a million years" surely he isn't that stupid...

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Fry has said lots of things more stupid than that like thinking america isn't part of the world.

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Originally posted by iliketowankalot:
Fry has said lots of things more stupid than that like thinking america isn't part of the world.

you mean it is part of the world? 

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No but it will become part of the world sometime between now and the year 3000.

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U better not be counting me as one of those sad losers

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Originally posted by iliketowankalot:
U better not be counting me as one of those sad losers

yeah that goes for me too! hmm...you better not look at the number of posts i have... 

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I can see you're getting a real good education...

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In a clone of my own,  they kept bringing up Leela's boots... i don't know what the point was

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It just means shes got big feet, and bender knows this annoys Leela so he keeps bringing it up like her having sex with zap.

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Originally posted by iliketowankalot:
It just means shes got big feet, and bender knows this annoys Leela so he keeps bringing it up like her having sex with zap.

hmm...how would you know this iliketowankalot? 

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Originally posted by futurefreak:
yeah the internet has sucked me into its black hole, too...   

NO SHIT! HA!

 

Originally posted by futurefreak:

yeah that goes for me too! hmm...you better not look
                                   at the number of posts i have...

HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! HOO HOO HOO HEE HEE!! *pant* *pant*.......AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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On the topic of seemingly unexplainable jokes, Trey "South Park" Parker once said in an interview that his favourite audience reaction is not "haha, that was really witty" but rather "where the hell did THAT come from?".
It took me a while to get used to that sort of humour, but now I'm glad to see Futurama occasionally subscribes to it as well.

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Two things:

I didn't get what Bender said in War is the H Word in the end to make the bomb go off (acustically)???

And when they sing the birthday song for Nibbler, Fry adds "and you smell like one, too". What's funny about that?

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Okay, for the last time, Bender said "Antiquing", which means to go shopping for antiques (something Bender would never do).

And Fry was just singing the last line of a popular juvenile parody of "The Birthday Song":

Happy Birthday to you
You live in the zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too...

Hilarious, isn't it?

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You see, Kryten knows a lot about antiquing, because it's his hobby.  Aint that right, kryten? yeah, every sunday he drives to a bunch of little towns in New Jersey, searching for antique malls.  He calls it a "junk hunt."

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Originally posted by Kryten:
And Fry was just singing the last line of a popular juvenile parody of "The Birthday Song":

Happy Birthday to you
You live in the zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too...

The big question: Do they have to pay the copyright holders for that, or is it fair use (because it's a parody, even if it's not an original one)?

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Yep, it's parody, so it's protected. That's the way it works, which is why Robert Smigel could do that "Backstreet Boys" parody on last Saturday's SNL without worrying about lawsuits.

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it was hella funny when eminem jumped on top of elton john and started licking him.

or the "lover" skit (or "luva")

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I'm not sure which disgusts me more, Bovinatron...the fact that you enjoyed the Lova skit or that you used the word "hella"...

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You both disgust me!

The skit in question was horrible.  That scary lady, she's gross.  Nothing she's a part of can ever be anything other than disgusting

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Originally posted by Kryten:
Yep, it's parody, so it's protected. That's the way it works, which is why Robert Smigel could do that "Backstreet Boys" parody on last Saturday's SNL without worrying about lawsuits.

Yeah, but after the Scientologists, the two old ladies who wrote "Happy Birthday" have the scariest lawyers in the world (eToys briefly held that position, but scary lawyers tend to stop working for you when you run out of money).

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Sorry I'm just a dumb German who didn't know that there is actually a verb for...well, antiquing!

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Originally posted by Mona:
Sorry I'm just a dumb German who didn't know that there is actually a verb for...well, antiquing!

German? get 'em! haha jk...i'm actually a little german too, but i'm all american 

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Originally posted by payn:
Yeah, but after the Scientologists, the two old ladies who wrote "Happy Birthday" have the scariest lawyers in the world ...

I think you mean Scientologists have the sexiest lawyers in the world.  Or is that the sexiest members in the world?  No wait, its most amusing members

no offense to Tom

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As a dedicated Scientologist/Tom Cruise fan, I just want to make it clear that Scientology was NOT a factor in his seperation with long-time wife Nichole Kidman. Though there were many factors that lead to their untimely breakup, disputes over religion was not one of them.

Thank you.

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Your not a Scientologist
just because you passed out those recruitment flyers at Battlefield Earth that doesnt mean your official

dont make a mockery of religion man

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Battlefield Earth? You actually went within 500 feet of a theater showing that? I've lost all respect for you...

Nah, I'm kiddin', you're okay.

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i dont mind your religion/sect affiliations, but could we please keep scientology out of the on topic boards ?

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Originally posted by [-mArc-]:
i dont mind your religion/sect affiliations, but could we please keep scientology out of the on topic boards ?

Sure thing, nothing personal.