It's the little things...

[Reply #80 on:]

Maybe it's had too many cookies? You might need to delete your cookies.

Ro-ro-rotate your owl robot

Has Bender done anything like that before this moment? How does robot movement work? We need more robot body gags! Like this:


(ugh, couldn't find a gif, have a screenie instead)


That was a friggin brilliant moment how all (except his legs) stayed dead still while everything moved all around him

[Reply #81 on:]

Don't you mean Bender's feet?

Otherwise known as Stompy and Clampy.

[Reply #82 on:]

Ro-ro-rotate your owl robot

Ahh, Mom's magical bending unit. It looks like he has a rotating track attached to his shoulder cone or neck and another one on his crotch plate.


This one was begging to be made:



A couple of tidbits from the commentary:

o They built the ship interior in 3D just for this shot.
o Bender's body was a separate (2D)layer referred to as a "held cell". As TLF mentions, upper Bender is totally frozen.
o Fry, Leela and the Professor are 2D(hand drawn)
o Bender's legs(and feet) are 3D(computer model)

Notice how well-synced the 2D bodies are with their 3D modeled chairs despite the fact they're all over the screen with a constantly changing camera angle. It looks like Leela is holding on to a hand-drawn control yoke. That would've been tough to sync up had it been 3D.

The funeral scene from The Sting is full of lots of nice little touches, but this has to be my favourite part:

"This makes me the oldest member of my family..."

I'm also a fan of Bender's veil.  

EDIT: Dangit, BOTP.

"Oh, who will make Bender waffles just the way he likes them now?"

[Reply #83 on:]

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT! <3

... and I may have mentioned it cause I remembered it from listening to the commentary xD

Watched the ITWGY today - Frys "cellphone telephone" has 'Walking on Sunshine' as its ringtone. Total attention to detail win.

[Reply #84 on:]

That's pretty neat.

And I noticed something in "31st Century Fox":



Fry almost shoots a baby.

[Reply #85 on:]

Hey, like I said it was begging to be made It's like a flight simulator on a rampage. Yeah, I love the "cellphone telephone" bit. Didn't he sing that in the original run somewhere? The bouncing balls one, I think.


Yeah, Fry's aim can be pretty bad. Or is that just with big red buttons?

[Reply #86 on:]

I thought the one thing Fry had was good aim. From the video games and whatnot.

[Reply #87 on:]

The only thing Fry had good aim with was his grandma

"You stink, loser!"

I guess it depends on the episode. He did do ok against those invaders. You know, from space.

[Reply #88 on:]

And lets be honest; hitting a fast-moving fox while riding a spaceship that moves faster than light isn't particularly easy.

[Reply #89 on:]

Ok so in the Bots and the Bees Ben goes from a baby robot to a teen robot in 13 days of being left on so why has Tinny Tim remained the same size throughout the run of the show?

[Reply #90 on:]

Tinny Tim can't afford the optional growth plug-in.

[Reply #91 on:]

Or he just wasn't born. He was built.

[Reply #92 on:]

S'right. A built-to-last model giving you and yours endless child-abuse jokes for many seasons to come. Tinny Tim by MomCorp(growth plug-in not included)

Fine kick, sir. But I'm actually here to deliver your cut from the cigar heist.

[Reply #93 on:]

You flatter me, kind goon. But I'm only programmed to sell oil-ade and write in cute backwards letters like on the sign here.

[Reply #94 on:]

I love the hat, crooked bow-tie and bent-up glasses

I'm staring into your soul, why not?

[Reply #95 on:]

nice

[Reply #96 on:]

Ok so in the Bots and the Bees Ben goes from a baby robot to a teen robot in 13 days of being left on so why has Tinny Tim remained the same size throughout the run of the show?

Malnutrition from lack of booze?

[Reply #97 on:]

I'm surprised that no one said that the simple answer is that Tinny Tim just gets shut off at night therefore he can't grow.

[Reply #98 on:]

Callback?..or am I just looking too hard?

[Reply #99 on:]

Is that a tortilla near those golfclubs? ~(*o*)~

Wow, they match almost perfectely!

[Reply #100 on:]

Is that a tortilla near those golfclubs? ~(*o*)~

It came with the nacho cheese by the hockey stick

Nachos: The anytime, anywhere snack.

[Reply #101 on:]

Wow, nice find!

[Reply #102 on:]

So, I'm looking just hard enough

[Reply #103 on:]

Ok so in the Bots and the Bees Ben goes from a baby robot to a teen robot in 13 days of being left on so why has Tinny Tim remained the same size throughout the run of the show?

Tinny Tim is the intended size for a Tinny Tim bot. Might as well ask why a rabbit is not as big as a horse.

[Reply #104 on:]

Just to clarify, "little" refers to the subtle details of the show not the physical size of the characters.

...not that I mind discussing Tinny Tim, Pocket Pal, Nibbler, Cubert, Kif's parents or even Zapp's little teeny-weeny-greeny for that matter

Also, joke trumps any sense of logic in an animated comedy. Therefore:

Big Tinny Tim = not as funny
Tiny Tinny Tim = much funnier
(unless he's actually big and the "tiny" is meant to be ironic)

(Hey, I think I just created a new character: Tonight at Madison Cube Garden - Tiny Tinny Tim vs Destructor!)

[Reply #105 on:]

And that is what happens when you pause less than hero at the wrong/right moment
... Oh god why

[Reply #106 on:]

You mean the missing left shoulder? I blame cartoon universe physics: All characters are extremely rubbery when required. Here's the --/right moment:






THERE's Waldo

[Reply #107 on:]

How about during "A Clockwork Origin" when Bender finds the spring and turns it into something else with goggly eyes and then later on at the Robot museum for a split second you can see the goggly eyed thing as part of robot evolution.

I also noticed in the same episode that right before they show the picture above that there was also a cave painting of Amy and Leela in their torn outfits.  

[Reply #108 on:]

I'll tell you what I just noticed: Your frame doesn't exist!

Where the hulk did you find that? Here's the best I could do:



The funniest part is that the PlanEx ladies are dressed exactly the same at this fancy do.



BTW, I love what's above the museum's entrance doors:

"FOUNDED 8:15 AM"

[Reply #109 on:]

Google images.  I forgot what I typed in the search engine though.

[Reply #110 on:]

Looks like MG released a background cell. Cool.

[Reply #111 on:]

Wow, that Caveman bot did an awesome trompe l'oiel by painting himself in as if he's standing there painting.

[Reply #112 on:]

Oooo, way to class up the joint AEI1B Never heard that term before but now I definitely have to work it into a conversation some day
(yes, I had to look it up )

[Reply #113 on:]

Looks like MG released a background cell. Cool.

Do you have sauce on this?

[Reply #114 on:]

Nah, just a guess. His name's in the corner.

[Reply #115 on:]

As mentioned earlier, with Ben, I noticed something very interesting. In the scene at night, where Ben is crying, he only has one tooth. After we cut to Bender bending, we see he now has two teeth. It must've just switched to midnight. Ben is now two. He seems to grow a year older everyday.

[Reply #116 on:]

The math appears to be correct!

[Reply #117 on:]

This isn't really catching a mistake or something funny--and I wish I knew how to make GIFs to show what I'm talking about better. In "Love and Rocket," after Leela has given Fry CPR, she's helping him walk. When they're talking to Bender, I was just struck by what a simple but awesome touch it is, for her to straighten him up when he's drooping. No doubt from passing out and being oxygen-starved:

[Reply #118 on:]

Nuance! That's what I'm talkin bout!(and sometimes the tentacle). Nice find Sparkybarky:



You know it's well animated when you can feel a character's weight.

While I was at it, decided to make one of a moment that Matt Groening pointed out in the commentary(Roswell That Ends Well). It kinda needs the salt shaker foley but works nonetheless:



From a moment of resignation to a moment of hope. Also, for those who may not know, her reflection is entirely drawn separately as if there was a second character to animate(there's no magic "reflection" button in 2D animation )

Also, just noticed something I never saw before. Her pink neck thingy is one of those see-through fashion dealies. I have one just like it in blue.

[Reply #119 on:]

Funny how her reflection magically appears out of nowhere.