Season 6 Goofs - SPOILERS ALERT

[Reply #400 on:]

Surely you don't doubt the Murderator's ability to impart the killing wheel with a little 4-D rotation when required? Oh, ye of little faith!

[Reply #401 on:]

Ouch... didn't notice that before, but the first frame definitely seems like the sort of thing they should have caught. Damn.

[Reply #402 on:]

I don't think anyone pointed this out (apologies if someone did) but it looks like one of the frames right after Zoidberg ducks from the Murderator is off. If you slow it down to 1/16 speed there is one frame where Zoidberg has two sets of arms, one of which is going through his head. Whoops!

[Reply #403 on:]

Going to look for that and... Yes, animation goof/error. Nice notice, futurefreak.

[Reply #404 on:]

Perhaps it's another one of Dr Zoidberg's botched operations, this time on himself, but the reason we didn't know about it was because that happened in a parallel universe and what you don't see is the Parabox just off the corner of the frame. I'm not talking about the parallel universe in which Dr Zoidberg is purple, this is another one, yes ...

[Reply #405 on:]

Wow that goof is just so bad.

[Reply #406 on:]

Reminds me of the goof with the Slurm Queen's behindus being in front of the sign at the awards ceremony. Unsurprising given the lower animation budget, and the fact that those look like copy-pasted computer-drawn components. I think we're seeing just how far computers have to go to completely replace traditional animation methods.

[Reply #407 on:]

Hey Otis I said you guys were right! I replayed the scene and saw what you meant with the Murderator.

The only reason I caught that Zoidberg glitch is because I was trying to slow down the Murderator scene!

[Reply #408 on:]

Continuity goof, Farnsworth looked like he actually had a gut when he returned to human form, but in TPOB he clearly had almost nothing around his stomach area.

[Reply #409 on:]

I thought it was just a joke that he had almost nothing around his stomach area in TPOB? ...

[Reply #410 on:]

I thought it was just a joke that he had almost nothing around his stomach area in TPOB? ...

[Reply #411 on:]

Farnsworth`s plan in TPOB was to get some meat on his bones. This image just shows the plan was successfully completed. So..great continuity

[Reply #412 on:]

Small jokes like the no gut in TPOB I just ignore...

[Reply #413 on:]

Farnsworth usually has the gut. In POB it was a joke that served to advance the plot.

[Reply #414 on:]

tnuk's right, it's pretty obvious by looking at him (dressed or un-dressed) that he has a pot-belly. If anything, the joke in TPOB was a lapse in continuity, especially considering that I'm pretty sure they drew Farnsworth with his pot-belly when he had his shirt on, and then drew him with only skin and bones when he lifted his shirt. It was an allowable lapse, though. Like tnuk said, it advances the plot.

[Reply #415 on:]

Besides, who could forget this...

[Reply #416 on:]

*Shudder* I get it!

[Reply #417 on:]

I'm wondering if that's how the Prof's mom is going to look in a future episode! 

I actually thought he looked like a sweet old lady (with his clothes on), and I really wish they had done him as a female to begin with (sometimes.)   I actually think being female would make no difference to his personality, and it does bother me that in so many animated comedies, female characters are almost always used as "straight women" to male comic foils.

That's just me though.  : )

[Reply #418 on:]

Men are just more stupider...

[Reply #419 on:]

As I said in the 'Thoughts On' thread:

Also, Zapp launched an effing Universe to Universe Missle into the saran wrap, and it caused a tiny explosion... Either a stupid error, or that missile would of done naff all to Yivo in TBWABB...

[Reply #420 on:]

It could just be a different kind of missile that looks similar to the UUM...

[Reply #421 on:]

You mean exactly identical to the UUM.

[Reply #422 on:]

Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Either way, it doesn't really matter, they could easily be different missiles but the animators just used the same design on this one as the UUM; it's not necessarily a "goof".

Or at least not an important one.

[Reply #423 on:]

Maybe the saran wrap cushioned the explosion somewhat and caused it to make less impact. I mean, the joke was deliberately ridiculous to begin with which made it more funny...

[Reply #424 on:]

You mean exactly identical to the UUM.

Missiles can look the same and have different warheads, dummy.

[Reply #425 on:]

I asked Aimee Steinberger (Animation artist and costume designer on Futurama):

'Do you ever see an animation goof in #Futurama and get annoyed that you can't change it?'

She said:

'yes. Yes. Sometimes due to time or budget, we just can't fix everything. Mostly the show looks great, though.'

So they do pick up on a lot of things, but not everything...

[Reply #426 on:]

I feel like the Zoidberg arm thing probably wouldn't have taken much time to fix - it's not like someone drew it wrong, it's just a glitch in some program or somesuch. But okay. Thanks for asking, Danny.

[Reply #427 on:]

'yes. Yes. Sometimes due to time or budget, we just can't fix everything. Mostly the show looks great, though.'

They've had most of 6B sitting on a shelf done and finished for months according to David X Cohen, so they've had plenty of time to fix things. All I can assume is it's budget related, but as most of these things are so small and only a few seconds at most then I don't see that being such a big issue either ...

[Reply #428 on:]

Here's one I noticed while re-watching "Cold Warriors"...

[Reply #429 on:]

Dr Zoidberg and Leela share a close moment...

[Reply #430 on:]

I'll give the animators that one, that is hard to catch.

[Reply #431 on:]

  You let them get away with everything

But seriously, I agree with ya...I only caught it as I just happened to pause the episode at that particular moment...

[Reply #432 on:]

Glad you pointed it out though, looks like this ep had more shippy moments than we first realised ...

[Reply #433 on:]

Glad you pointed it out though, looks like this ep had more shippy moments than we first realised ...

Serious laugh-out-loud there.

That one's hard, it took me about three seconds to figure out what the problem was. It doesn't bug me as much as the Zoidberg arm one. Interesting catch though.

[Reply #434 on:]

When a goof actually makes me pause and think about it, like when something is obviously miscoloured or when there's a continuity error, it can annoy me incredibly, because it takes me out of the moment. Most goofs, however, like simple animation misses, don't annoy me one bit. They are difficult to spot, and easy to ignore. Still fun to look for them or see them listed here, but they certainly don't annoy me. I can't see a significant increase in the worse types of goofs during this season compared to TOS, and so I don't mind the lesser ones.

[Reply #435 on:]

The interior colour of PE in Universe 1 annoyed me... It's blue like twice then red for the rest of the episode... And before Leela gets in the parabox the Universe A PE wall turns blue in a single frame.

[Reply #436 on:]

Never noticed those, DannyJC13. I guess if any ep is gonna have colouring issues though, it's an ep where the colours are meant to be different to usual ...

[Reply #437 on:]

Bet you didn't know Leela's mutant eye could do that.
Amy appears to be grossed out.

[Reply #438 on:]

Oh, now I have to go rewatch Parabox just to see if I even notice.

[Reply #439 on:]

Oh, now I have to go rewatch Parabox just to see if I even notice.

I did, it heavily irritated me.

Also, something that pissed me off in Cold Warriors, when Fry mentions being frozen for a 1000 years Bender says: 'Really?! You learn something dumb everyday.'

He SAW and TOUCHED Fry when he was frozen in BBS, at least twice!