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totalnerd undercanada

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« #1 : 06-21-2012 19:43 »
« : 06-21-2012 19:52 by totalnerduk »
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Something I noticed: whenever Bev's "milk" button is displayed, her "Walrus Juice" button vanishes from the bottom of her selection menu. We clearly see that the milk button pops in between two of the Slurm options, and that the buttons move apart to accommodate it.
So why does Walrus Juice just vanish? Is it perhaps because the animators produced a model with a set number of buttons and didn't feel like producing a variant Bev, for when she was lactating? I think that's it. But it's kinda jarring. It feels like something that they should have caught in production and fixed.
Robot reproduction also has a major problem.
If programming and functions are passed down from mother to son, and expansion slots can be limited to one, then what the hell is the use of most baby robots? When Bev's second child grows up, he's going to have no policeman programming or functionality. He's also (presumably) going to have only one expansion slot. We see that robots derive their physical appearance mainly from their father. So he's not going to be any use as a vending machine either.
If robots reproduce in order to meet demand that factories can't cope with, then surely the robots that result ought to have some functionality? The factory robots that produce first-generation robots like Bender pass on specific programming by design. But out there in the world that those robots enter, the majority of fembots seem to be strippers, floozybots, storage or dispensing units, and novelty items. So their programming is preserved and passed on. Industrial units like Bender are going to become rarer and rarer as the world fills up with second, third and fourth-generation robots. Especially if the offspring can be produced without a second expansion slot, meaning that they can only be upgraded at the cost of their memory.
Plus, who owns these robots? Mom? The parents? The owners of the parents? If they're independant citizens, how does filling demand in this manner earn anybody a profit, seeing as how they're going to be mostly useless?
The episode in some ways raised more questions than it answered with regard to robot sex.
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MuchAdo

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« #2 : 06-21-2012 19:54 »
« : 06-22-2012 03:28 »
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Some what before they watch that film... Zoidberg blinks and his eyes are white. I always notice that. Also Cubert is never around.. even when the world is ending. Neither Morris or Munda... but it's a 21 minute show now... so I understand that... I guess. Still... a background shot with them somewhere would have been nice. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a... magic television or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Seriously... I actually think it's just the camera angle that's making the T.V. look different in both those shots. My question about those pics: Where did that green poster in the background vanish to in those shots? Zoomed in... we should still see it's corner.. I believe.
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MuchAdo

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« #4 : 06-22-2012 03:26 »
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i just realized what happened with Fry's shoes during "A Farewell to Arms" when he offers to walk Leela across the puddle. doesn't really matter though 'cause it was still 1 of my favorite scenes from that terrible episode
also saw Hermes' belly button disappear right before my eyes lol
Speaking of his buttons... the two on his dress shirt popped off (as always) in one of the new one's. But that has always happened.. lol... it's like gloves popping off characters hands and then back on in the next scene.... in every cartoon.... ever... with animated gloved hands.
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totalnerd undercanada

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« #15 : 06-24-2012 14:54 »
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Amy seems like enough of a socialite I can see her wanting to be part of both. She seems to have been a spoiled enough little rich girl that I can see her getting her way. I mean, she had all those ponies.
Occam's Razor is one of those things that doesn't always work. Just like a screwdriver or a hammer, it has applications it works well for, and applications where it can be frustrating to try to use. Usually, things follow the simplest explanation... but sometimes they get crazy complicated. Oh, and when we figure something out according to the simplest possible principles, we usually find that there is an underlying complexity to it, or it evolves complexity. Examples of this are Newtonian physics and the cellular exceptions to darwinian evolution (such as mitochondria). Which, when you think about it, is the simplest explanation for why some things are a little harder to understand - the simplest explanation is not always right. Just the one with the highest probability of being correct when all other unknowns are equal. There's always the chance of something slightly more complicated going on.
With all of that said, I do think it's a continuity error. Perhaps at one point the writers had intended Amy to have been in more sororities than typically would be possible, but they've never brought it up until now.
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Tastes Like Fry

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« #38 : 09-02-2012 15:13 »
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futz, that is a disturbing thought >< And I don't think anything was removed if the picture of sausage Leela is holding/eating is anything to go by. ... I would normally provide the picture but I didn't have one of the Fry sausage and google isn't giving me anything really relevant despite trying several search phrases. Funny how 'Leela eating Fry' brings up this:
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Tachyon

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« #39 : 09-02-2012 15:58 »
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Hopefully the mammal mulcher not only sausage-ized the meat but also removed bones, fur, bugs, underwear etc.
That's one reason I don't eat sausage... Funny how 'Leela eating Fry' brings up this:
I just love that drawing!
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