Angelyne

Poppler

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« on: 08-15-2012 18:44 »
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I'm sorry if this has already been posted but I couldn't find anything about it. Earlier today, I was re-watching the episodes 'Less than hero' and 'Crimes of the hot' and I noticed something; Since Leela is apparently the only one-eyed person on Earth (Other than her parents) wouldn't they have figured out that she was Cloberella? Also, later in the episode she rips off her clothes, then her Cloberella outfit and then she has her black pants and white tank top on. How could she be wearing pants underneath, since the legs are bare? In 'Crimes of the hot', near the end the robots are all rejecting gas, which then turns into flames. Leela then says that 'One lazy or polite robot is holding it in', which turns out to be Bender. When he finally starts rejecting, they show that the flames he ejects are blue. Since his were the only ones that were blue, wouldn't they have known that Bender was the one 'holding it in'? 
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AlexH

Crustacean

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bender burps orange flames. the logical assumption would be he also farts orange flames.
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futurefreak

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Well - I've been here nearly 12 years and never figured that out Angelyne. So good job making us all look like fools (or just me, heh).
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futurefreak

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Hey that is a REALLY good point though. 10,000 Quatloos goes to the new guy!
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Diabedo

Crustacean

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So I'm watching a "Leela of her Own" and noticed that Hank Aaron the 24th drank some of the Wade Bogg juice from his jar and didn't go back in time. What's up with that?
The episode was made around ten years prior and with it being such a small scene from such an unmemorable episode, the writers obviously forgot about it...
In "A Big Piece of Garbage", Ron Popeil claims to have invented the technology to keep human heads alive in jars. So maybe Wade Boggs was in a "Ronco Head Jar" filled with H2OGfat and not one supported by Crystalline Opal to create a time stasis bubble. So no time traveling while enjoying Wade Boggs.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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The Professor still owns Bender when he's fired, he just doesn't have to pay him.
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Diabedo

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How exactly does the Professor own Bender?
I think he means how did the Professor obtain ownership of Bender? He didn't purchase him. Bender was a job deserter just like Fry and Leela. But I suppose that the Professor does indeed have ownership or some registration of him, the Professor had to agree to benders license agreement in the episode "Overclockwise"(6ACV25). But still how? Lol
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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Property laws in the future operate in accordance with the highly evolved, time-tested rule of "finders keepers losers weepers."
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Diabedo

Crustacean

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Well the very first time we see Bender he is in line waiting for use of a suicide booth. He said that he can't stand to live anymore cuz the girders he was employeed to bend were for suicide booths. So I guess Bender true owner is the Suicide Booth Company.
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Xanfor

DOOP Secretary

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Electronic devices can choose to stop working for their owners whenever they want.
Proof: Every computer I've ever owned.
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Inquisitor Hein
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« Reply #20 on: 09-07-2012 17:36 »
« Last Edit on: 09-07-2012 19:05 »
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About Leela's mask: I think the IWGY commentary mentions how ridiculous it's for the only human cyclops to wear such a thing (they forgot Leelas parents. Yet, as the remained in the sewers by that time, they probably did not count). (On a slightly OT note: Think of the new Green lantern movie what you want: But the scene where he was told by his girlfriend that ANYONE will recognise him with that kind of mask was just priceless  )
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Diabedo

Crustacean

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I agree with spira, it is the rule of funny with the mask.
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PhoffiFozz
Crustacean

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Am I the only die hard fan to admit and not care that the whole series doesn't make one lick of sense??? None of it does... It's just insanely funny. I mean how can anyone argue that something with Bender doesn't make sense? The whole idea of Bender doesn't make sense. But he's still wonderfully funny.
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The Sophisticated Shut In

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I've always thought it does a very good job of maintaining at least some degree of plausibility, with the glaring exception of Farewell to Arms. It seems like they even go to great lengths sometimes to keep things Futurama-realistic, like coming up with a real theorem for Prisoner of Benda. Even though much of it is extremely far-fetched, there's almost always an attempt to keep things from seeming too insane and impossible.
I don't have too much of a problem with AFTA. The arm-ripping was no more gory than Fry and Zoidberg's fight in Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love? - I was surprised so many people took issue with it, to be honest. I did wonder about the planets passing each other, and whether the gravity would work like that . . . but frankly I'm not smart enough to argue with it, and it worked for the episode, so who cares? I found The Butterjunk Effect far harder to swallow. Most of the episode was fine, but the ending just felt . . . lazy. It was the only time I've ever felt that with Futurama. Even an episode like Yo Leela Leela (which I found so-so, at best) had a coherent structure. You felt like it was going somewhere. The orphans' hero-worship of Leela set her up for a nice gag, where she's almost begging to be punished and have her guilt assuaged, but everything turned out great and the orphans don't care that she lied. 300 Big Boys played with the trope when Bender mentions that his story kind of petered out without him learning anything, but in fact, the episode does come together in quite a neat way. The Butterjunk Effect didn't. It just felt sloppy. The costumes in Less Than Hero were clearly part of the joke though. In the tradition of all great superheroes, none of the three was particularly well-disguised. It was one of the things that made their scene with Mayor Poopenmeyer so funny.
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Eternium

Professor

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I actually tough that a solar flare was the thing supposed to happen December 2012(IF anything was going to happen anyway) Also, I believe there might be a slim change paralel universe excist as well as foreward time travel  But I'm a bit of a Fantasist/optimist....
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AllEggsIn1Basket

Professor

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But planets have acted strangely before in the series. After Vergon-6 was destroyed, Leela comments that some of the animals survived. You know, by clinging to debris with no atmosphere or air to breathe. There's cartoon magic throughout the series so planets blowing up, having close shaves as they pass one another, being attacked by flying brains- it's all acceptable and enjoyable.
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Cho Lum Kin
Poppler

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« Reply #37 on: 04-02-2013 17:05 »
« Last Edit on: 04-02-2013 17:26 »
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I agree with the OP. The same can be said as her disguise in the feminist group in The Wild Green Yonder. It is so obvious it is Leela. Doesn't make sense.
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PhoffiFozz
Crustacean

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I don't believe "A Farewell to Arms" was any more far-fetched than anything else they've done the series.
Although I agree that it is great that they try to explain things in the show, the whole point of the show to me is that it is so unrealistic that it is funny.
There have been several things that haven't been explained or have been lazily explained in the past, AFTA is not the first time.
AllEggsIn1Basket sums it up beautifully...
"But planets have acted strangely before in the series. After Vergon-6 was destroyed, Leela comments that some of the animals survived. You know, by clinging to debris with no atmosphere or air to breathe. There's cartoon magic throughout the series so planets blowing up, having close shaves as they pass one another, being attacked by flying brains- it's all acceptable and enjoyable."
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