Jokes you didnt get,

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Ok cool

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Originally posted by Teral:
Exactly that. Fry won the draw to chose weapon by guessing what animal the king where thinking of. The thing is these draws are usually done by a coin-toss or another way that would exclude cheating. Having to guess what animal a person is thinking of, and then trust him when he say which person won is a bit stupid, especially in a fight to the death.

For a long time actually, I thought I was missing something there because Fry never actually mentions any sort of animal before the High Priest guy says that line. But now I realise it's just supposed to be a joke in its own right. Hooray! 

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Originally posted by Teral:
Exactly that. Fry won the draw to chose weapon by guessing what animal the king where thinking of. The thing is these draws are usually done by a coin-toss or another way that would exclude cheating. Having to guess what animal a person is thinking of, and then trust him when he say which person won is a bit stupid, especially in a fight to the death.

I always thought he was thinking of 'lobster' and that the joke was that Zoidy didn't think of it. That makes sense too though.

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maybe this isn't exactly on-topic, but in The Deep South, when the prof sprays himself with the fish pheromones, what does zoidberg say?

it sounds like "I'm soaring to you!" or "I'm soooo in to you!" but i'm not sure which. it's funny either way, though.

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It's "I'm sooo into you!"

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It's definitely "I'm sooo into you" and it's one of the funniest lines in that episode

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The joke I don't get may not count as a joke, but I still don't get it.  What does the title "Hell is other robots" mean? 

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There's a Sartre(sp) quote that says "Hell is other people", so naturally, in Robot Hell...

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Isn't it ironic that this, out of all posts, has the most replies?

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To quote Bender, "It´s not ironic, it´s just mean".

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If, by ironic, you mean in the Alanis Morisette sense, then definitely. 

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what's so darn funny about richard 'tricky dick' nixon? In the audio commentaries they mention its funny, but how?

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I have a question... it may not fit totally into the topic, but I didn't want to start a new thread-
What is the Chinese insult, swear, whatever that Amy always uses and what's its English translation?

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Originally posted by SurGun:
what's so darn funny about richard 'tricky dick' nixon? In the audio commentaries they mention its funny, but how?

Could you be more specific?

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what is the joke about the "hip joint"? i've seen mentioned that there's a joke about it - what is it? is it supposed to look like a hip joint or something?

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It gets its name because it's a joint (place) that's hip (cool).  But it happens to share its name with a part of the body.  It's supposed to be one of those slow realization jokes.

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It's hardly a slow realisation joke, more of a pun...

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Originally posted by SurGun:
what's so darn funny about richard 'tricky dick' nixon? In the audio commentaries they mention its funny, but how?

because nixon was a fraud so therefore tricked people.

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Originally posted by SurGun:
what's so darn funny about richard 'tricky dick' nixon? In the audio commentaries they mention its funny, but how?

Well, just look at him and listen to him! He's got a funny face, funny hair, a funny voice...

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I did not get when Prof says "Choke on that Casaltiy" in Roswell that ends well
and as it is an american show there are a lot of jokes i do not get in general.

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It's basically a time-travel joke as I see it.  Causality is the relation between cause and effect. It states that distinct causes have distinct effects. Farnsworth had until then been very careful not to change anything in the past, because if would have effects in the future. After destroying Roswell Airbase they've just made a gigantic amount of changes to the past, and it should have serious consequences for the future. Farnsworth shout "choke on that casuality" as a way of saying "take that time-line".

Ofcourse in the end nothing change about the future.

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Originally posted by 3/4 of a Jesus:
I have a question... it may not fit totally into the topic, but I didn't want to start a new thread-
What is the Chinese insult, swear, whatever that Amy always uses and what's its English translation?

In one of the commentaries,  John Dimaggio repeats is as "I'll break your arm!"  Of course, I'm sure different episodes have different swears.

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Wasn't it "I'll punch you in the..." something or other? In the "The Series Has Landed" commentary, I think.

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i just remembered that i don't understand this. in the day the earth stood stupid what do the following things mean:

"zoidy wanna buy on margin!"
"lets join a reform party!" (i don't know what a reform party is...i can guess, but a reform for what?)

and why are these things stupid? there could have been other things they said in that scene i don't get but i don't rememeber.

thanks for the hip joint, yeah more of a pun. then again, i didn't do human biol, maybe that's why it's not so funny...

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I don't get the joke when in the second episode, Leela and Bender are talking about how rich AMY is and Amy says, "We're not that rich" and Leela says "Oh yeah, what sorority do you belong to?" and AMy replies"... Cappa Cappa(sp?) Wong"

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For "Zoidy wanna buy on margin" line, I don't know a lot about the stock market, but from what I know, buying on margin is incredibly risky and generally will take your money.

The U.S. Reform Party has a stigma of being full of wackos.  Former presidental candidate H. Ross Perot, former pro-rassler/Gov'r of Minnesoeta Jesse Ventura, and uber-conservative/supposed racist Pat Buchanan are all Reform Party members.

@D12D...the joke is that Amy's parents either a)bought Amy a sorority for herself or b) donated enough money to the university to have a sorority named after them.

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Kappa Kappa Wong. A sorority is a chiefly social organization of women students at a college or university, usually designated by Greek letters. Kappa is a greek letter. However, they're so rich they have their own house. Kappa Kappa Wong.

When everyone was turned idiotic, they said stupid stuff. Hermes thought that if he couldn't see others, he must be invisible (duh), amy wanted to buy internet stock (dot com bubble burst, so buying internet stock is pretty dumb), zoidberg wanted to buy on margin (this means buying stock on credit, so buying with money you don't have. Buying on margin was one of the reasons the great depression happened), the professor wants to play the lottery (which is pretty dumb, since you're basically wasting your money) and they all wanted to join the reform party because reform parties never win and are full of loonies.

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Thanks

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Originally posted by boxie:
It's hardly a slow realisation joke, more of a pun...

Well excuse me.  But I thought some people mentioned that it took them a while to get the double meaning.

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ahh, thankyou golf slaves....

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WHERE NO FAN HAS GONE BEFORE-
that thing was loa-ded!!! I can explain anything anyone wants- and then some - but I may sound NER-ish!!!!!!!

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Two jokes i didn't get.

Kif: 40,000 lines of basic.
and
Bender: Tubes! You're older then you said you were!

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It's actually 4 million lines of Basic. Basic is a programming language, but Basic isn't wellsuited for programming shapes and objects, so writing a holoshed program in Basic would be a gigantic undertaking and result in a monstrously complicated and bloated program.

Radio tubes was the forerunner for transistors, which in turn was the forerunner for the integrated circuits of today. Meaning radio tubes is a very old technology. Since the PE ship used radio tubes in it's systems it must be a very old ship, but, being a woman (  ), she probably lied herself younger.

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Leela: oh how interesting(Zoidberg)! Please do go on!

Sorry Teral it was meant to be a quote.

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Not much to add, Kif made a stupid choice when he selected, probably the worst programming language to write his holoshed programs in, and the PE ship was caught lying about her age.

Edit: ahh, gotcha! 

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I was watching Episode 2, The Series has Landed and one joke that still goes over my head is,

Leela: What Sorority do you belong to?
Amy: Kappa Kappa Wong

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*looks half-way up the page* there's your answer

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Ah, I posted without reading. 

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casual hello,

Thanks a lot for all the great hints here,
but there are still some things that are purple
haze for me as non us citizen with lousy english.
So maybe you can waste your time on me:

Insane in the Mainframe
Fry: Let me guess, he thinks he's Lincoln
robot2013?: Well, he's supposed to,
 Problem is, he's got multiple personalities
 All of them Lincoln

I don't know too much about american presidents,
was Lincoln kind of a 'Twoface'?
and that leads to
A Head in the Polls
Was Washington a heavy boozer?
Bender: Same reason you hocked your teeth.
Washington: Ah, Booze money.

That would be the president questions, i don't
want to explain me the whole presidential losers
section.

But another thing in A Tale of two Santas.
They read out the children x-mas letters on their
way to santa.
You choked him with a chestnut last year, and
he's beginning to smell a lot like x-mas if you
know what i mean!
so this kid had to live a whole year with his dead grandpa in his room, is that right?
i find that offensive,

naa, i'm just kiddin
anyway thanks for somebodies help!

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Its funny cos he needs a coffin to bury his grandad. Its the kind of humour that good old bender would appreciate!!!