What reminds you of Futurama?

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Today I was at a restaurant and one of the things on the menu was Jamaican Jerk Chicken, I laughed because it reminded me of Hermes.

TOTPD!!!!!!!!!go me, go me.....
                    

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there is a street near me called leela ln, and in the neighborhood its in , all the streets are peoples names( thomas dr, kate ln) an i think its funny because i didnt think leela was a real name

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Originally posted by ratm9200:
an i think its funny because i didnt think leela was a real name

Sure it is.
From my 1980's baby name book:

Leila (arabic)
"Dark as night"
variations:
Layla, Leela, Leelah, Leilah, Lela, Lelah, Leland, Lelia, Leyla

So concludes this issue of "nuggets of Wisdom by Venus" Thank you and goodnight!

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Venus: Oh wow, cool! I never thought to look up the meaning of any characters' names... very appropriate.

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My TV reminds me to watch at least one episode (like One-A-Day vitamins) of Futurama every day, to keep my sanity in check. 

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There's a Chinese restaurant near where I live called "Furama". The pronunciation is just like "Futurama" without the "tu" as well.

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Originally posted by Frymeister:
TOTPD

What does that stand for? 

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It's top of the page someting it seems like a big thing here as everyone does it in every forum

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Top Of The Page Dance.

Read the PEELers' FAQ. http://www.thefryhole.alltoons.co.uk/peelfaq.php

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I thought it was the name of an episode...

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Hallo there! A new poster here, writing from the Netherlands.

"Futurama" is my favourite animation series... And there is something that really reminds me of it: A monumental piece of music written by Olivier Messiaen (and one of my favourite musical works). Its name? "The Turangalîla Symphony", written between 1946 and 1948, and premiered on December 12th 1949.

Well, it appears that this symphony is the source for the name of our beloved cyclops, so of course it will remind me of "Futurama"  But there is more. Reading the liner notes of my CD, written by the late Olivier Messiaen himself, we see the following:

   

Olivier Messiaen:
"Turangalîla" (pronounced Toor - ahn - gu - lee - lah, with the last two syllables accented and lengthened) is a word in Sanskrit. As with all words from ancient oriental languages, its meaning is very rich. "Lîla" literally means play -but play in the sense of the divine action upon the cosmos, the play of creation, of destruction, of reconstruction, the play of life and death. "Lîla" is also Love. "Turanga": This is time that runs, like a galloping horse; this is time that flows, like sand in an hourglass. "Turanga" is movement and rhythm. "Turangalîla" therefore means all at once love song, hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death.

The Turangalîla Symphony is a love song. It is a hymn to joy. Not the calmly euphoric joy of some good man of the 17th century, but joy as it may be conceived by someone who has glimpsed it only in the midst of sadness.

To all the "shippers" out there, it might be interesting to check the names of the 10 movements of this symphony (which is over an hour long):

1. Introduction.
2. Love song 1.
3. Turangalîla 1.
4. Love song 2.
5. Joy of the stars' blood.
6. Garden of Love's sleep.
7. Turangalîla 2.
8. Development of Love.
9. Turangalîla 3.
10. Finale.

So, it could be said that the series ended around movement 8 or thereabouts   

Sorry if my very first post in this forum is boring or non-interesting... I just thought about sharing something about a not too well known composition and its relationship to our beloved series     

All the best,

JoseB

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That's cool JoseB, i've never gotten to listen to the Turangalila symphonies but i've wanted too for a while.

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Last week me and some friends wantet to rent a car.But we havent orderet it, so we tried our luck and asked directly there... The guy at the rental station went to the back checked something and returned with the words "good news everyone" ...funny :-)

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Awww that's great!  Was his boss some kind of malfunctioning robot? 

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Originally posted by Venus:
That's cool JoseB, i've never gotten to listen to the Turangalila symphonies but i've wanted too for a while.

Oh, well, it should not be too hard to find it in any minimally good CD store, or (alternatively) in any minimally well-stocked library where you can also take out CDs. I think you can get it from amazon.com as well.

The version of the "Turangalîla symphony" I have was recorded in 1991, and was published by Deutsche Grammophon. Conductor Myung-Whun Chung, solists Yvonne Loriod (piano) and Jeanne Loriod (ondes Martenot), with the Orchestra of the Bastille Opera.

And, to apologise for the temporary hijacking of this thread, I will go back on topic and say that at work we have a janitor guy who I am convinced must be some kind of ancestor of Scruffy    Not only he looks a lot like him, he is also equally lazy     The first time I met him I almost did a double-take! XD XD

JoseB

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It certainly seems like a description of Leela, the staff and creators of this show are true geniouses. (sp?)

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I'd never have thought they would put so much effort into a character's name. 
I guess only 0,00001% of all viewers know that one about Leela.

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Today, I was playing my football game, and the other team reminded me of the mutants Farnsworth made in "Time keeps on Slipping".  The only thing was that they won and one of their players didn't get blasted by a cannon coming out of their player's chest.  It was scary.

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Originally posted by JoseB:
Hallo there! A new poster here, writing from the Netherlands.

"Futurama" is my favourite animation series... And there is something that really reminds me of it: A monumental piece of music written by Olivier Messiaen (and one of my favourite musical works). Its name? "The Turangalîla Symphony", written between 1946 and 1948, and premiered on December 12th 1949.

Well, it appears that this symphony is the source for the name of our beloved cyclops, so of course it will remind me of "Futurama"    But there is more. Reading the liner notes of my CD, written by the late Olivier Messiaen himself, we see the following:

   To all the "shippers" out there, it might be interesting to check the names of the 10 movements of this symphony (which is over an hour long):

1. Introduction.
2. Love song 1.
3. Turangalîla 1.
4. Love song 2.
5. Joy of the stars' blood.
6. Garden of Love's sleep.
7. Turangalîla 2.
8. Development of Love.
9. Turangalîla 3.
10. Finale.

So, it could be said that the series ended around movement 8 or thereabouts     

Sorry if my very first post in this forum is boring or non-interesting... I just thought about sharing something about a not too well known composition and its relationship to our beloved series     

All the best,

JoseB

JoseB -- thanks for sharing this (and it is VERY interesting, especially as I read that Matt Groening is a big-time music collector).

I'm a music lover too and will give this work a listen. 

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Originally posted by Futurama_Hil:
It certainly seems like a description of Leela, the staff and creators of this show are true geniouses. (sp?)

^^Second that emotion!^^   


In So. Calif. we have a chain of electronics stores called Fry's. Whenever I drive by one I think the logo should read "Philip J. Fry's". 

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Saw the incredible video for LP's "Points of Authority (which sadly, the video's version sounds much worse than the one on the album) and the guys in the band only had heads. I laughed, since it reminds me of heads in jars. (btw, if you haven't seen this video, try to, it's amazing.)

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When ever I see a picture a Richard Nixion I always think "big cyborg maniac"

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Everything reminds me of futurama, and I try and link it into every conversation, to such an extent that my friends have nearly resorted to killing me, which brings up another very good point, does anyone know who to defend themselves against some people who are very mad and annoyed??

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*Sniff, Sniff*

Every little thing seems to remind me of Futurama.



 

Sorry if this joke has been done already.

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I don't get it. I think my eyes are warped from being at the cvomputer for 12 hours.....   

EDIT: it is my brain that is warped. I get it now after 5 minutes of staring at the screen going huh? Yay!

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Originally posted by starone:
When ever I see a picture a Richard Nixion I always think "big cyborg maniac"

Who doesn't think that when seeing him?

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I think Pitt is getting it from RTEW. I could be wrong, though.

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That's what I was thinking of too.

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Rover wins a cookie.  If you think I'm supplying it tho, you're DEAD wrong.

Anyway, my old lego-ship collection I have set up in my den, they're all space ships, so they really make me rememeber Futurama

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What?!?  You're not giving me a cookie? You bastard! Only joking, only joking  . There's this one song in Animal Crossing that always reminds me of Futurama. I think it's because I got that song on the day of the last episode. 

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My town theme in Animal Crossing reminded me of Futurama. Largely because I changed it to the first part of the Opening theme - but that's not the point, erm, I think...

(Although now it just reminds me of the months of neglect and torment I've subjected on my poor polygonal inhabitants...)

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The thing that reminds me most about futurama is the PEEL nightclub in melbourne. Thats right. I can actually go to the "real" PEEL.   

Note: thanks to alexvilagosh for reminding me that there was a PEEL nighclub. Now all i need is a pic.

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I get razzed for constantly making references to Futurama with my friends, many of whom never watch the show.
But who needs friends? Am I right?

Anyway, what reminds me of Futurama chiefly is the vast array of awful things of TV, most of which are so awful that i am nearly moved to tears after being subjected to them. But Futurama shines like a beacon, a last vestige of greatness in a sea of refuse.

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I was reminded of Futurama when I read the cast list for Jak 2 (great game, incidently), and saw that Phil LaMarr and Dave Herman provided a bunch of voices.

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Theres a TS where I work named Therese ("Ter-ess" ).  Someone was calling her name down the hall the other day and I thought they said Tress, which reminded me of Tress McNeil, which remind me of Futurama.

[Little Kid From Space Pilot 3000]That story stunk, loser![/LKFSP3K]

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Originally posted by Tropic of Fry:
I get razzed for constantly making references to Futurama with my friends, many of whom never watch the show.
But who needs friends? Am I right?

Anyway, what reminds me of Futurama chiefly is the vast array of awful things of TV, most of which are so awful that i am nearly moved to tears after being subjected to them. But Futurama shines like a beacon, a last vestige of greatness in a sea of refuse.

*slaps knee*
Oh yeah, hes right....

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
I was reminded of Futurama when I read the cast list for Jak 2 (great game, incidently), and saw that Phil LaMarr and Dave Herman provided a bunch of voices.

A similar thing with two games for me; most recently KOTOR, which had Maurice LaMarche among others; and in Full Throttle, which I replayed recently, one of the biker chicks is voiced by Tress MacNeille and the voice is identical to her voice for Mom. 

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I visited a relative and they gave me a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer -- made me think of Bender wanting to buy Pabst Blue Robot beer (forget name of episode).

Which brought a  to my heart...

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This week, some of the words on our spelling list in L.A. are "requisition," "jerked," "futuristic," and "freezer." No joke. I was laughing so hard when our teacher gave us the list. Then she made me read it to the class, to try and figure out what was so funny.

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Originally posted by moonbus69:
I visited a relative and they gave me a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer -- made me think of Bender wanting to buy Pabst Blue Robot beer (forget name of episode).

Which brought a    to my heart...

I bought a twelve pack of PBR the other day.  I wanted to complain about the metal shavings making my throat all bloody, but there was no one around who looked like they were going to say "Waaah! Baby wants a Zima!"