Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles........

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Hello, i'm new to the forum but should be pretty regular so get used to me!

anyways, i did some searching and there has been alot of talk about this episode but i didn't run across what i noticed so i'm gonna post it. I probably just didn't see it and someone has probably already pointed this out but...

In TMLH, when the professor gets younger, he looks nothing like his clone Cubert. I thought the only difference in them is that Cuberts nose looks different because he was left in his first tube for to long. Hummm?!?!

[#1 :]

I don't remember if this question ever came up or not... that was like... 5 or 6 years ago, right?

Anyways... He (Cubert) was squished up in his first test tube... so I suspect it's possible that more than just his nose got messed up... possibly his frame too.  Other than that, there's also the nature vs. nurture argument... Cubert spent the first 13 some odd years of his life stuck in a big tube getting fat off all that high protein cloning feed.  Hope that helps with the question.

[#2 :]

No! A wizard did it.

[#3 :]

 

Originally posted by hobbitboy:
No! A wizard did it.

PFT!
Oh, puh-leeze.
Wizards have been getting a bad rap ever since that whole 'gate of Kerash' debacle...   

One word: Epigenetics.

[#4 :]

haha... i like the explanations... the 1st and 3rd ones actually do sound pretty good...

[#5 :]

 

Originally posted by hobbitboy:
No! A wizard did it.

Tim: "Sure, blame the wizards."

[#6 :]

Spacecase, you and your vocabulary. 

[#7 :]

Spacecase, you and your vocabulary. 

[*SC wakes up*]
[*Sknorf!*]
[*Raises hand*]
Present!
[*Looks around nervously*]
Wha'd I miss?

Me and my vocabulary what?

[#8 :]

I think she was refering to your use of the word "Epigenetics."

[#9 :]

epige-wha?

[#10 :]

epige-wha?

I'm sorry; were you not paying attention? 

One word: Epigenetics.

What? Me? Sarcastic? NAAHH!
 

[#11 :]

Idk. He's first a lot older, then a good deal younger than Cubert, so you can't really tell, but now that I think about it, he really doesn't look much like Cubert, even without the nose.

[#12 :]

Just because they share identical DNA, does not mean that they would appear to be identical at all stages of their lives...

[#13 :]

Originally posted by hobbitboy:
No! A wizard did it.

PFT!
Oh, puh-leeze.
Wizards have been getting a bad rap ever since that whole 'gate of Kerash' debacle...  

One word: Epigenetics.

How come space case knows all these long words?

[#14 :]

Cubert doesn't wear glasses either.

[#15 :]

It could be that Cubert lives around 150 years after the proffeser was 12. Alot can change in 150 years.

[#16 :]

Cubert is a clone.  That doesn't mean Cubert would look like Farnsworth when he gets older one day.  Clones don't always have to look like their predessesor. 

[#17 :]

Also, in this episode Bender gets smaller and gets ears when they've shown him being "born" with the nipple on the beer bottle and the machine turning his graduation tassle and throwing the hat in the air, supposedly seconds after he was "born" and programmed.  I figured Bender was full-size when "born," yet they show him as smaller and smaller, and eventually a disc.

[#18 :]

Well obviously he's going back through the previous versions of Bending robots.

[#19 :]

Also

Also - you've disturbed a vintage thread that has been aging in the cellar for more than a year. You owe me thirty-five dollars.

[#20 :]

Oooh I love that vintage thread smell, that bookay. But seriously the poster brings up a good point. The scene at the fountain of aging is funny but the writers play fast and loose with Benders actual time line.
With this Cubert clone thing, I vaguely remember a British Mini-series where the central character cloned himself and I think the child looked quite dissimilar to the "father".
I guess the chaos theory could explain why many cloned objects will vary in appearance to the original.

[#21 :]

Get it from Zoidberg.

[#22 :]

... I guess the chaos theory could explain why many cloned objects will vary in appearance to the original.

[*Sigh*]

One word: Epigenetics.

I'll just... ooze... back out under the door now...

[#23 :]

One word: Epigenetics.

I love it when you talk dirty.

[#24 :]

I love it when you talk dirty.

Cold One, you need a better dictionary.
I'll just... ooze... back out under the door now...

[#25 :]

Nah, basically anything scientific said by a lady gets me hot.

[#26 :]

Nah, basically anything scientific said by a lady gets me hot.

[*Sigh*]

   

Down boy.
I'll just... ooze... back out under the door now...

[#27 :]

You know you love it.

[#28 :]

You know you love it.

Hosing you down with a 2-inch fire-line, filled with freezing water? You bet'cha!
Otherwise 'yer outta luck.

[#29 :]

Sarah, is that you?

[#30 :]

Sarah, is that you?

      

[#31 :]

I think he meant Sarah Palin. On the basis that you said "You bet'cha!"
 

[#32 :]

So anyone who says "you bet'cha" on the Internet in Sarah Palin? Oh god! I just said it!

[#33 :]

HOCKEY MOM!!!!1!!1

[#34 :]

No, I swear I didn't mean it! I was only saying you be- Oh no, I'm not falling for that one again...

[#35 :]

I think he meant Sarah Palin. On the basis that you said "You bet'cha!"
 

Correct coldy. I love obscure references. I use them whenever possible. Until Sarah brought it back into usage, I hadn't heard the phrase for about 25 years.

So phony...I mean folksy.

[#36 :]

'Obscure' in the sense that every two-bit comedian has been referencing her ad-nauseam for last couple of years and everybody is sick to death of hearing about her?

But yes, I'll agree. Phony. And horrid. I mean... I would have sex with her, but only so I could yell afterward: "Bitch you just been fucked by a left-wing liberal! Burn!" and then run away across the tundra.

[#37 :]

I guess we have very few two-bit comedians that read these posts. In that way that phrase is obscure

[#38 :]

I think that, on a less scientific basis, that the animators may have been a bit aprehensive to depict Farnsworth anywhere near identical to Cubert - maybe because it could confuse the audience (hey, it might) or they just felt it was more fun to play up the stubby nerd idea in a different way.

As the episodes suggest, Cubert and Farnsworth are a little more different than Farnsworth would like - a stab at how cloning doesn't always go to plan maybe? [/Zoiberg]

[#39 :]

Cubert's nose was squished against the cloning tube; this physical difference is explained in A Clone of my Own. Give him a Farnsworth beak nose and he could easily be identical to Farnsworth as a kid... since I don't think we ever saw Farnsworth at that age.