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« #442 : 01-17-2014 17:20 »
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I noticed a thing while watching Fry and the Slurm Factory. Specifically, in the scene where Leela and the Professor are playing 3D chess. First off, 3 dimensional chess is a classic of Star Trek, but I'm focusing on the letters and words on it. The Professor's letter tray has almost all the letters needed for FUTURAMA except for one a, and the top platform has ONE and EYE crossing each other. Lastly, the second platform to the top has MATT on it.
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« #445 : 01-17-2014 17:45 »
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I'm disappointed in all of you (except Quantum Neutrino Field). And you call yourselves nerds. The holographic chess that Fry and Bender play in "Brannigan, Begin Again" is referencing Star Wars. Three-dimensional chess, on the other hand, is from Star Trek, and is referenced in "Fry and the Slurm Factory" in the scene where Leela and the Professor are seen playing 3-D Scrabble.  
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Inquisitor Hein
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« #452 : 02-03-2014 09:47 »
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I just rewatched "Meanwhile" today, and I have to say, for a chick who clearly never wears a bra, Leela's breasts really aged well. Not much sagging. How unfair.
Not quite, young Padawan. In the first Futurama comic, Bender wants to prove that the X-Ray googles he purchased are working, by telling Leela that she wears a bra. To which she replies that she alway does (indirectly hinting that those proof does not count, because she considers herself wearing a bra something obvious that anyone could guess). Also, in 2-D Blacktop, Farnsworth said "...when you upgrade your bazooms". So, Leela got at least one boob job. (Regarding the possibilities of genetical engineering, it might possibly have been done without implants. I am pretty sure that someone offering cosmetic surgery - but leaving the women still the right to say "Yes, they are real"- would earn big time).
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« #460 : 03-15-2014 22:31 »
« : 03-16-2014 00:00 by PopcornWithExtraMotorOil »
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Someone may have already posted this, but Nibbler's age in "I Second That Emotion" is incorrect. They say he is five, but we know he existed since 1999, when he pushed Fry into the cryogenic freezer--now he could have time traveled, but Nibbler also didn't remember events Fry mentioned when he went back to 1999, which means that 3000 Fry was part of 1999 Nibbler's future, AKA 3000 Nibbler's present. TL;DR (it was a short post, shame on you): Nibbler isn't actually five. Edit: Also, Mom's thought mosquito thing makes a cameo in Brannigan, Begin Again:   Kind of, now that I see them side by side they're not too similar. Oh, but there's a Neptunian there. That counts for something. Also someone from My Three Suns, if I remember what the water guys look like. And a robot elder from the anti-human planet. Edit: hey, another one. Brannigan, Begin Again.  The right engine is on the left side, and the left engine is on the right side.
The view of the engines is looking back toward the stern: from the pilot's point of view (i.e. looking forward) the engine labels are correct.
Edit: Oh I can't stop.  One of the books is named "2984"—parodying "1984", a science fiction story about the horrifying future.
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« #461 : 03-15-2014 23:54 »
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The right engine is on the left side, and the left engine is on the right side.
The view of the engines is looking back toward the stern: from the pilot's point of view (i.e. looking forward) the engine labels are correct.
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« #463 : 03-16-2014 01:01 »
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Nibbler's age in "I Second That Emotion" is incorrect. They say he is five
Well, they say he is five if he is anything like the common tree, as the vet who is still a little woozy from the morning's gazelle kick suggests. The characters simply assume that this is true, and a joke is made about Fry's apparent difficulty counting to five (with some ironic foreshadowing, perhaps, given the initial implication that there are innumerable age rings).
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« #464 : 03-16-2014 01:33 »
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Well, they say he is five if he is anything like the common tree, as the vet who is still a little woozy from the morning's gazelle kick suggests. The characters simply assume that this is true, and a joke is made about Fry's apparent difficulty counting to five (with some ironic foreshadowing, perhaps, given the initial implication that there are innumerable age rings).
Withdrawn.
The right engine is on the left side, and the left engine is on the right side.
The view of the engines is looking back toward the stern: from the pilot's point of view (i.e. looking forward) the engine labels are correct.
Noted. Something else, not really an Easter egg, but something I found odd/lazy.  In "Bender Gets Made", there are frames throughout Elzar's restaurant, but they're always empty. Okay, I'm done for a while.
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« #473 : 06-29-2014 09:40 »
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In "Bender Gets Made", there are frames throughout Elzar's restaurant, but they're always empty. Okay, I'm done for a while.
A tad late, but so what: Those frames probably function as ornaments, not picture holders. At least in our time more common in high class restaurants than big pitures.
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« #474 : 09-28-2014 16:25 »
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Season 02, Episode 03: A Head in the Polls Original Air Date: December 12, 1999 Act II: My body loved me and I turned its back on it. Bender: Eh, I've had it up to here with this place.   Bender's antenna rises as he says "up to here." I always thought this joke was simply referring to his new stature, but it turns out they also added a visual aid to the joke. Also, this episode aired almost 15 years ago and I'm still just now noticing stuff. Good show, Futurama. Good show.
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winna

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« #477 : 10-11-2014 02:23 »
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Is that her real name? I'm betting it is. John Fucking Zoidberg has been around for a long time, and he has no reason to call Mom anything other than her real name...
His name is just John Zoidberg. You're probably new here at Peel, but we generally refrain from using curse words on this message board because some of our members are younger individuals. Thanks for your response to the query though.  Nibbler's age in "I Second That Emotion" is incorrect. They say he is five
Well, they say he is five if he is anything like the common tree, as the vet who is still a little woozy from the morning's gazelle kick suggests. The characters simply assume that this is true, and a joke is made about Fry's apparent difficulty counting to five (with some ironic foreshadowing, perhaps, given the initial implication that there are innumerable age rings).
I agree with your last point. I've often posited that Fry is actually not nearly as ignorant as people assume, and that in reality he's actually a genius who often subterfuges whatever problem the crew is having at the time with the simplest of actions. Essentially, the characters around Fry are more concerned with their own specific individualities and attachments to the material world, where as Fry, understanding truth on a much higher level and scale than most people on the planet generally lives carefree from day to day. There are moments where he seems specifically concerned with things, almost in a selfish manner, but I would contend that he does this in order to fit in with the people around him, and that although he cares about Leela, it's precisely because she has such a low estimation of herself that he loves her enough to dedicate himself to her in order to prove that she's wrong. Again, he has a higher understanding of truth to reality and less attachment to things in the material than most.
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