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fat_boz

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well a bit backwards but i find when at work announcing on the microphone i sound more and more like brannigan.. very cheesy lol!
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John Pannozzi

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See http://web.archive.org/web/20000520002717/www.pettifogger.com/futurama/whoswho.htm Anyway, I think Amy is a bit like Maggie Simpson, because they are both cute, younger (Amy younger than Leela and Maggie younger than Lisa) female characters with unclear personalities (Maggie's true personality is unknown as she's just a baby but she's gonna grow up to smart, Amy's personality has changed several times, in WAA she didn't seem to mind being called a harlot but in AWITM she hated sexist men, all that can be said about Amy's personality for sure is that she's smart when it comes to engineering and technical stuff, that she likes sex, cute stuff, bisque, shopping and Buggalo and dislikes her parents, wealth and coffee) that were orignally going to be major characters (Maggie was an important player in the shorts on the Tracey Ullman show, Amy was prob'ly created to be a more major character than she ultimately became) but in most episodes they mostly stay in the background and sometimes don't even appear at all, much to the dismay of their many fans (Amy is most popular Futurama female character next to Leela, and Maggie has a good amounts of fans).
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VoVat

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Matt Groening has said that Fry was based on himself when he was young. In a larger sense, though, Fry is basically the everyman character.
Some of the characters seem to fit archetypal roles. I don't remember everything I learned in school about archetypes, but Bender is sort of a Trickster character, and the Professor could possibly be considered a Wise Old Man.
Many of the characters also fit, and at the same time, parody typical sci-fi roles: mad scientist (Professor Farnsworth), robot with human intelligence (Bender), weird alien (Zoidberg), heroic space captain (Zapp), etc.
Zoidberg has a lot of contradictions to his character. He's a doctor, but a lobster isn't exactly a creature that is well-suited to performing surgery. (In fact, "lobster" used to be used as a slang term for a bungler, which fits Zoidberg pretty well.) He's also a shellfish with a Jewish accent.
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EvilLunch

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Nibbler- The White Rabbit[seems to have caused Alice's transportation] Philip- Alice[is sent to a new world] Leela- Cheshire[a sort of guide to Alice] Amy- the Caterpillar[obtuse and self-satisfied] Zoidberg- the Mock-turtle[sad sort of fellow, forced to be someone who he is not] Hermes Conrad- the Dodo[leads the ever-bureaucratic-seeming Caucus race] Hubert- The Mad Hatter[for obvious reasons] Bender- The March Hare[as mad as the Hatter, but always at counterpoint with him] Mom- The Queen of Hearts[for even MORE obvious reasons..] Ignar, Walt and Larry- Card Soldiers[it follows naturally] Zapp and Kif- Pepper and Pig[This is a stretch.. but Pepper is constantly making the baby Pig sneeze with its spices and then shouting at Pig when he cries because of it. Seems like the proper cyclical relationship..] And many other things could follow as well, like.. the Popplers could be MomeRaths, El Chupanibre could be the Jabberwocky.. and so on. Kinda cool ^.^
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EvilLunch

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You can mirror almost any show to Alice in Wonderland. It works well with anime, too[as evidenced by a picture recently put up in Boobs Guns and Cosplay that also appears in my sister's deck of Tenchi cards].
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« Reply #22 on: 06-07-2004 22:26 »
« Last Edit on: 06-07-2004 22:26 »
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Originally posted by Coilette: If you think about it Futurama is similar to Red Dwarf I made a topic that listed a lot of similarities between Fry and Lister. But I really don't think any of the other characters are specifically comparable, except Zapp sees himself being like Ace Rimmer (even though he isn't).
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DDie

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Originally posted by John Pannozzi: Bender reminds me quite a bit of Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from MST3K.
Zapp reminds me a little of Johnny Bravo.
Leela is a bit like Bongo, the 1-eared rabbit in Life in Hell.
Futurama=Simpsons
Fry=Homer Leela=Marge or Lisa Bender=Bart Amy=Maggie or Edna K. Mom=Burns Walt, Larry and Ignar=Smithers, Lenny and Carl Morbo and Linda=Kent and Scott Zoidy=Dr. Nick the Professy=Abe or Frink I agree with some but not all: Zoidy = Gil, Milhouse Bender = Bart or Nelson
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Y_L_B

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Originally posted by redskirts:Also: Am I really young to not have seen Gilligan's Island, or is it repeated on television? It's repeated on TV, on TV Land.  And I really like your comparisons, EL!
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