Jokes you didnt get,

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

He sure would,
i get it, but living next to your dead grandpa
seemed a level above the usual bender humor,


but maybe not..

[Reply #561 on:]

 

Originally posted by afeastisafeast:
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'?

No, you're reading too much into it.  The joke had to do with the cliché of mental patients who think that they're famous historical personages.  The Lincoln robot thinks he's Lincoln, but that isn't why he's institutionalized.  He's institutionalized because he has multiple personalities.

 

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.

No, Washington wasn't known for drinking, but he did have wooden teeth.  The joke here is that he sold his teeth, just like Bender sold his body.  Bender isn't really the sort of guy you'd expect to have something in common with George Washington.

 

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!

Did you have a question about that, or what?

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Originally posted by David A:
 Did you have a question about that, or what?

not really,
no more coffins and dead grandpas,
the only thing that comes to my mind is:
Zoidberg: Bender, you said winkwink out loud.
Bender: No, i didn't (raise middlefinger?)

whats winkwink, it is another language problem,
me and my dictionary,

thats all, i'm not gonna post anything for the next decade.

[Reply #563 on:]

People sometimes wink, when they are trying to put a message out to someone else who is there, without alerting others.  The joke here is that Bender actually said wink wink rather than doing the action.  Hence him also saying "raise middle finger" rather than doing it.

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Originally posted by davierocks:
People sometimes wink, when they are trying to put a message out to someone else who is there, without alerting others.  The joke here is that Bender actually said wink wink rather than doing the action.  Hence him also saying "raise middle finger" rather than doing it.

So its blinking,
alright, dumb question,
sorry

thanks for help and patience

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Originally posted by davierocks:
People sometimes wink, when they are trying to put a message out to someone else who is there, without alerting others.  The joke here is that Bender actually said wink wink rather than doing the action.  Hence him also saying "raise middle finger" rather than doing it.

What he said. I'd been scratching my head trying to think of a way to describe the winking action. It's a subtle motion from one person to another.

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I hope this hasn't come up before, but It'd take a looong time to go through all the posts on this thread so here goes:

What's the deal with the bricks falling out of Bender in Space Pilot 3000 and Bending In The Wind? I was never completely certain what that was soposed to represent...

[Reply #567 on:]

Bender is literally "shitting a brick" ie. he's scared.

[Reply #568 on:]

 

Originally posted by davierocks:
People sometimes wink, when they are trying to put a message out to someone else who is there, without alerting others.  The joke here is that Bender actually said wink wink rather than doing the action.  Hence him also saying "raise middle finger" rather than doing it.

i always thought it was a little joke on internet slang. since you can't wink on the internet or IM, you might type *wink*.

i would say that bender is actually saying the phrase *wink*wink*

[Reply #569 on:]

Sure you can wink on the Internet, through the magic of smileys: 

[Reply #570 on:]

Why is Coolio's face on a coin?

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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
Why is Coolio's face on a coin?

To honor him, after he was a guest voice and did a good job. Plus, it's quite funny to put a rap star in a place we think is reserved for the highly honored.
I would say presidents, but then they made those stupid Sacajawhea dollars nobody ever used.

[Reply #572 on:]

Also Susan B. Anthony dollars, and Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin are on paper money.

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Originally posted by Teral:
Bender is literally "shitting a brick" ie. he's scared.

Not in Bendin' In The Wind. He's scared when he does it in Space Pilot 3K, but in BITW, he's...sick?

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I can see putting Ben Franklin on the 100 dollar bill, after all he did invent the telephone and the computer.

I thought Alexander Hamilton was president?

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Ben Franklin invented the computer? And the telephone?

 

Originally posted by Mouse On Venus:
 Not in Bendin' In The Wind. He's scared when he does it in Space Pilot 3K, but in BITW, he's...sick?

Yeah, those fat-free potato chips can wreck havoc on your digestive system. At least the ones I tried did.

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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
I can see putting Ben Franklin on the 100 dollar bill, after all he did invent the telephone and the computer.

I thought Alexander Hamilton was president?

I think the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and the computer was invented by Konrad Zuse.
Franklin was the guy who invented the lightning conductor.

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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004:
I can see putting Ben Franklin on the 100 dollar bill, after all he did invent the telephone and the computer.

What the hell?

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.  Charles Babbage invented the computer.  (Well, that one kind of depends on your definition of computer, but it wasn't Franklin.)

Ben Franklin invented bifocals, proved that lightning was electricity, and came up with the idea of daylight savings time; and all of that was just in his spare time.

 

I thought Alexander Hamilton was president?

He was the first Secretary of the Treasury.

The really sad thing about this is that, according to your profile, you live in Philadelphia.

[Reply #578 on:]

All my life
giggity giggity giggity

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Anyone has any ideas why all the people in the audio commentary of the episode '300 Big boys' why they all laugh when Matt Groening says that le Grand Cigar as a Peter Tosh album.

[Reply #580 on:]

No Clue.  As is everything else.

[Reply #581 on:]

a few pages back, there was a question about what the joke is in relation to "the bible is the real good news" in the farnsworth parabox. i was in the book store the other day and i saw a book titled "good news bible." i didn't bother to look what was in it, i assumed it was a version of the bible, but anyway, no one has mentioned that, so maybe the joke was referring to the book.

[Reply #582 on:]

I thought that "the bible is the real good news" line was just deliberately ironic, as the Professor tells Hermes that his grandma can go to hell about a minute afterwards. 

[Reply #583 on:]

We already solved out the mystery of that Bible joke, thank you. 

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i didnt get when they tried to stop bender from eating and going to the bathroom at the same time in AOI2 (im a delivery boy now!)

[Reply #585 on:]

Didn't your mother ever tell you not to eat and go to the bathroom at the same time?

No?

Duh. It's simple. You might drop precious food in the toilet bowl and be unable to retrive it.

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that, and it's gross.

btw, mouse, i didn't remember anyone mentioning that book, so it wasn't "solved."

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Come to think of it:  .
It's simply disgusting.
Imagine sitting on the toilet and eating your sandwich, or searching in your excrements for a snack you dropped.

*I'm hungry, gonna go to the toilet, right now*

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Originally posted by Sm@ Cpt. Libido:
Anyone has any ideas why all the people in the audio commentary of the episode '300 Big boys' why they all laugh when Matt Groening says that le Grand Cigar as a Peter Tosh album.

No-one has any ideas about this then. Probably no-one from the U.S will have heard the audio commentary because it is not out yet. (AHAHAHAHAHAHA) but someone must know who Peter Tosh is and why le Grand Cigar compared to that is so funny to everyone else in the Audio Commentary room.

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Originally posted by Sm@ Cpt. Libido:
 No-one has any ideas about this then. Probably no-one from the U.S will have heard the audio commentary because it is not out yet. (AHAHAHAHAHAHA) but someone must know who Peter Tosh is and why le Grand Cigar compared to that is so funny to everyone else in the Audio Commentary room.

Sounds like a pot joke to me. (Peter Tosh is a reggae artist. Think Bob Marley.) One of his albums is titled "Legalize It."

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Nevermind read it on the first page! Sorry!

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Originally posted by marla_singer:
btw, mouse, i didn't remember anyone mentioning that book, so it wasn't "solved."

Read page 13 of this thread.

Here's a more challenging question: in The 30% Iron Chef, Bender said he personalised everyone's meals, e.g. he baked Amy a pony because she was cute. However, did anyone catch how everyone else's meals were personalised?

[Reply #592 on:]

All I remember was that Leela had a couple of eye-balls on her plate, and Farnsworth a collection of guts (probably because he stores organs in boxes, or something).

[Reply #593 on:]

Hermes has a brain (possibly because of his accounting skills), and fry has a piece of one of those big ancient roman pillars. Possibly a reference from him being from 2000.

[Reply #594 on:]

i seem to remember hermes getting a plate of jerk, well, everything. i think it's a jamaican reference, but i'm not sure.

 

Originally posted by hypknowtoad:
Sounds like a pot joke to me. (Peter Tosh is a reggae artist. Think Bob Marley.) One of his albums is titled "Legalize It."

yep, it is. i own a copy of this record. the cover in question, if you're interested (excuse the surrounding desk junk)

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"no more hanging wires"

?

[Reply #596 on:]

 

Originally posted by Sm@ Cpt. Libido:
 No-one has any ideas about this then. Probably no-one from the U.S will have heard the audio commentary because it is not out yet. (AHAHAHAHAHAHA)

It's out in Australia, that I know for sure. So I've seen it.

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oh, and something i didn't get. technically not a joke, but...

when i watch episodes with commentaries, i always put on the "english for the hearing impaired" subtitles so i can follow dialogue.

whenever zoidberg does his "woopwoopwoop" sideways scuttling walk, the subtitles come up saying

|IMITATES THREE STOOGES|

does anyone get this reference?

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The Three Stooges was an American comedy trio back in the 30's, 40's and 50's. They primarily focused on slapstick, as far as I know. One of the Stooges, Curly, had the "woopwoopwoop" sound as one of his trademarks. In the link Curly is the fat, bald guy.

 

Originally posted by Heavenly Stench:
"no more hanging wires"

?

 

Originally posted by ThreeDLou:
In Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway plays film legend and adoptive psychotic Joan Crawford.  In a scene where Joan's daughter, Christina is being chastised because the bathroom isn't "clean enough", Joan notices that some of Christina's dresses are hung with wire hangers (apparently they damage clothing, I don't know, I live in a box).  So, Joan yells this and simultaeously beats Christina.  It's the way Ms. Dunaway says the line though, it's creepy and completely off her rocker crazy.

Good Movie, check it out for a bit of life from a mind warped actress.

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Originally posted by Teral:
The Three Stooges was an American comedy trio back in the 30's, 40's and 50's. They primarily focused on slapstick, as far as I know. One of the characters, Curly, had the "woopwoopwoop" sound as one of his trademarks.

well, that's a pity. one of my favourte things about zoidberg was his "woopwoopwoop" noise -- i thought it was a completely random noise, which was what made it so funny. is this a deliberate reference? or do you think the subtitling people just used it as a comparative thing (rather than "ZOIDBERG: woopwoopwoop...", which just looks odd)