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Xanfor
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The easy answer to this is that Neutopia takes place after Benderama, meaning there might still be a few duplicate Benders about somewhere.
That makes sense, right?
No?
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Fry should have got Michelle back for the Calendar, I'm sure the episode quality would skyrocket with her involved! ...
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« Reply #6 on: 06-27-2011 02:23 »
« Last Edit on: 06-27-2011 02:43 by totalnerduk »
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The easy answer to this is that Neutopia takes place after Benderama, meaning there might still be a few duplicate Benders about somewhere.
That makes sense, right?
No?
No, no no. There are six girls in the segment where they actually shoot the calender. Two outfits/shots for each makes twelve months. Or it could be a six-month calendar. The more egregious and larger fail is the calendar supposedly being printed up and sold to enough people over 24 hours to generate enough revenue to pay the mortgage on the PX building. Who the hell is buying those things? How much are they paying for them? If they charged eleven dollars each, they'd need to sell a million in order to get the money assuming the calendar was printed at no cost. If they made a dollar profit on each, which is a much more reasonable estimate, they sold eleven million copies. In twenty-four hours. That's beyond incredible. I think the mortgage figure really ought to have been more reasonable. Let's say, five hundred thousand dollars left to pay. Fry should have got Michelle back for the Calendar, I'm sure the episode quality would skyrocket with her involved! ...
As for this, Otis, I'd hit you with a rolled up newspaper and call you a bad puppy, but I don't think that's quite harsh enough. Plus, I don't have a newspaper.
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Xanfor
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There are six girls in the segment where they actually shoot the calender. Two outfits/shots for each makes twelve months. Or it could be a six-month calender. That makes more sense. I've never actually had one of those calendars.
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futurefreak
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The calendar might do one pic for every two months, like Leela as January/February, Fry as March/April, etc...
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Tachyon
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The calendar might do one pic for every two months, like Leela as January/February, Fry as March/April, etc...
That's probably the unstated idea the writer's had in mind, Randi. I wonder which'll show up first: an official Futurama merchandise calendar based on the Neutopia ep, or a similiar but somewhat less tame one on certain fan sites?
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DannyJC13
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Oh I forgot about the annual Futurama merch calendar...
We get the art from last Year's US Calendar on our current calendar... So: Art 1 = 2010 US Art 2 = 2011 US Art 1 = 2011 UK Art 3 = 2012 US Art 2 = 2012 UK
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Otis P Jivefunk
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How do they do that?
I thought it was quite obvious from the point you made. To elaborate, many years ago I bought the US Calendar because it came out earlier than the UK Calendar and I didn't want to wait any longer. The following year I repeated this process and so on it continued, however, one year I was considering waiting a little longer for the UK version as it would ultimately be more convenient ordering from the country I live in. My mouse was hovering over the Pre-Order button and I'd almost purchased it. In the end though I opted to stick to the US version so that I didn’t have to wait the extra time... Later that year I was in HMV and I saw the UK Futurama Calendar that I'd nearly purchased some months before. I looked at the back of it for the hell of it only to discover that the pictures presented were the same ones I already had on the previous years US Calendar! I couldn’t believe it was being passed off as new in the UK as if we’re all some kind of idiots... To think that earlier in that year I'd seriously considered waiting the little extra to get the UK version, the one that I'd almost parted with my cash for. Imagine my absolute horror, my anger and despair, my extreme disappointment if I’d have found that it was just last years US Calendar that I already owned repacked with a new front cover, with absolutely no warning or reason presented to me before making the purchase... It would have been the wrong front cover in connection with the pictures inside and an entirely misleading and unexplained prospect. That's how it would be a royal ass-fuck for UK customers, it would feel much the same way, and my poor wallet would be crying. Sure I could have sent it back, but the pain would still linger for several days after taking a hard and forceful blow to my confidence in the UK market for Futurama products, if not longer... I look back now with relief that I never made that fateful mistake and I’m glad that I’m an impatient person and therefore didn’t have the time to wait any longer when I felt it was unnecessary. As a result I have the true authentic versions of the calendars as they were meant to be presented to folk of this world. The UK version is just a false representation of the original product. I hope that explains things in clearer detail for you...
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The more egregious and larger fail is the calendar supposedly being printed up and sold to enough people over 24 hours to generate enough revenue to pay the mortgage on the PX building. Who the hell is buying those things? How much are they paying for them?
If they charged eleven dollars each, they'd need to sell a million in order to get the money assuming the calendar was printed at no cost. If they made a dollar profit on each, which is a much more reasonable estimate, they sold eleven million copies. In twenty-four hours. That's beyond incredible. I think the mortgage figure really ought to have been more reasonable. Let's say, five hundred thousand dollars left to pay.
That's the joke, isn't it?
Unless you're pointing out that it was a failed joke, I don't see what you're getting at.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Do you know who else would be great for the Calendar? Petunia! I can't believe no one else thought of her before ...
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Inquisitor Hein
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So, what gives? Did the calendar work? Did they not realise there were not enough people to finish it when taking the photos? Are there less months in the future?
Maybe they reused the ship's personality from "Love and Rockets", which would label the ship as "female"...enough for one more month;) (Sorry, could not resist that one;))
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