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Volksdragon

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Okay, in Mother's Day, the Planet Express crew have never heard of the wheel. But in The Problem with Popplers the circus cages are wheeled.  Also, in Parasites Lost, Leela says "A Holophonor? Only a few people in the universe can play that, and they can't play it well!" But in The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings, the children at the place Fry visits for lessons are playing Holophonors fairly well.
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futz
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Obviously the word "wheel" was lost to time while the actual object is still around. Below is an example of Middle English from about a thousand years ago (1000 A.D.). This is about how Fry sounds to the PE crew or anybody else fram around 3000 A.D. 
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futz
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Oh we have lots of things from 1000 AD we still use. For example: The French. But that would be it's own interesting thread not for the Futurama goofs and mysteries thread.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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What!?! You mean they cut out the scene where Leela removed the sign from around her neck which said 'I am wearing a lime green tank top'?!?
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transgender nerd under canada

DOOP Ubersecretary
 
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Originally posted by PazuzuJr: ^lol ^ ^Spam. Also, has nobody considered that the light reflected from Leela's tank top (as with any other object that Bender looks at) might be measured by sensors within his eyes (or another part) that do not plug into his visual matrix, but instead feed directly into his computerised brain, allowing him to analyse the light's wavelength and determine the colour without "seeing" it? Or would that be too high-tech and/or implausible for a science-fiction cartoon set a thousand years hence? In addition, Originally posted by PazuzuJr: ^lol ^ ^ Spam. Really. Spam. It's bad. Stop doing it.
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Decapodian

Liquid Emperor
 
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Originally posted by futz: Oh we have lots of things from 1000 AD we still use. For example: The French. They dont have French in the year 3000. Incidentally, how long does it take for a language to become a dead language and completely nonsensical to people? So French had to be extinct for a few hundrd years at least.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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Originally posted by Decapodian:
They dont have French in the year 3000. Sure they do. They just don't speak French.
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Decapodian

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Originally posted by Xanfor: Sure they do. They just don't speak French.
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I was talking about the language, not the people. Anyway, they never mention French people still being there. It's called the republic of French Stereotypes now
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ItsAHawkingHole
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Originally posted by Volksdragon: Well, there were loads of groundbreaking technology advances in the past thousand years. While that's also true in 3000, they still have recognizeable daily things from the 1990's like 7/11s and the Plymouth car company. It's almost like the show has a "Dark Ages", that is, a 1000-year hole in history that is rarely spoken about. I said rarely, not ever. Like renaming Uranus and the like. This could be brought on by the alien invasions. The 1000-year chronology might not mean 1000 more years of what's gone on in science and technology over, say, the past 150 years. Leela does say Fry is from the Stupid Ages, but I would think that, from 3000 looking back, the time period of 1600 - First Alien Invasion would be the First Renaissance, while what they live in is the Second.
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FuturamaPac

Professor

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Remember in the episode "the day the earth stood stupid", Leela asks "why would Fry be the most important person in the universe? Is it because he doesn't shower?" But in "I,Roommate" and "30% iron chef it's obvious he does. ???
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futz
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Just means that he doesn't shower enough, at least to Leela's thinking.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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No, no, no, Deca. Fry does take showers. He's just too embarrassed to admit it. At least until they both really needed to... Originally posted by coldangel_1:
When the screen goes blank at the end of 'The Sting', and Leela says "You could really use a shower", and Fry responds "Yeah, you too," or whatever, I immediately had a mental image that the two of them intended to shower together.
This is because I'm a perverted freak who should be whipped.
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futz
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Back to Bender-vision. It might not look/work right if the viewer is teetering on the edge of sobriety.
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FuturamaPac

Professor

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Yeah, and I watched it about ten times before I got the DVD for christmas and noticed...
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FuturamaPac

Professor

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Originally posted by PazuzuJr: I've got to watch that ep again now! how long is she nose-less? she's only noseless in that picture.
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