The Goof Thread

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
Something I noticed when watching 'Mothers Day', I'm not sure if it's already been pointed out. In the scenes of Mom and Professor Farnsworth in their pasts. Mom throws a picture of him at the wall, after he walked out on her, and since then she hasn't seen him for about 70 years. Yet the photo was of Professor Farnsworth as an old man, without hair. But if she hasn't seen him for all that time, how can this be?

Actually, Otis - that had already been mentioned near the top of Page 7:

 

Originally posted by Rocketboy:
I'm not sure if anyone posted this yet, but on Mother's Day Mom had a picture of the professor and it was supposed to be 70 years ago. But he looked the same!! we even saw him look differint when he broke up with her!! COME ON PEOPLE!!!!!

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OOooooops, sorry, my bad. I'll have a look back at what came of it.

[Reply #282 on:]

She probably clipped the picture from a newspaper, or something.

[Reply #283 on:]

A bit off topic of me saying this but why would she clip out his picture if she hates him so?

[Reply #284 on:]

a thousand years in the future, it is possible that you can update a picture automatically.  It just shows you what that person looks like right now.

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Here's couple, I can't remember if they've ever been pointed out before:

In "I Dated A Robot," the pupils in the Lucy Liu-bot's eyes are square during the whole epsiode -- as they should be -- until there is a close-up on her as she lays dying in Fry's arms. Then the pupil's become circular -- as sign that she really had feelings for Fry?

Also in "Fry and the Slurm Factory," after Bender is mutilated by the can machine, there are numerous scens afterwards where the holes is not visible when it should be. Then, to make matters worse, the hole reappears at the end of the pisode when Fry drinks the Slurm pouring out of Bender's body.

Again, the Lucy-Liu thing might mave appeared before, but I can't remember.

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Xmas story- Pine trees revealed to be extinct. However:
ABOG- Fry: Pine needles!
Professor: Excactly.
How would he know what that smells like? Also:
Obseletely Fabulous: ...Emmits a fresh pine scent.
Again, how would she know what they smell like?
There's also another few other references somewhere too.

Edit: Also I've noticed in luck of the fryrish that when bender is getting the safe open, the second time you see the shelf there's a Bart Simpson doll on it.

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i'm new here, so if anybody noticed those goofs before, don't mind spitting on me   

-In "Love's Labour's Lost in Space", they are supposed to rescue two animals of each kind. Nevertheless, they only take ONE of each kind to the ship. (you know what I mean?)

-Okay, this MIGHT be a little obvious and I am quite sure that somebody mentioned it, but in "The Cryonic Woman", Michele appears to have brown hair- while in "Space Pilot 3000", it was black.
-Not a goof, just interesting: In the same episode (shortly before the PE ship lands in LA), there's a (theatre??) with some kind of... "stary" broadway before its entrance. (Sorry, I know this is a horrible sentence-I suck). One of the stars has Morbo written on it.

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Originally posted by Cass:
-Not a goof, just interesting: In the same episode (shortly before the PE ship lands in LA), there's a (theatre??) with some kind of... "stary" broadway before its entrance. (Sorry, I know this is a horrible sentence-I suck). One of the stars has Morbo written on it.

That's Mann's Chinese Theater and the Walk of Fame.  Morbo is a TV personality, so it's not unreasonable that he would have a star with his name on it.

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Originally posted by Cass:
-Okay, this MIGHT be a little obvious and I am quite sure that somebody mentioned it, but in "The Cryonic Woman", Michele appears to have brown hair- while in "Space Pilot 3000", it was black.

I wouldn't call that a goof, just "woman dying her hair". Brown is probably her natural color, black the color she use on special occasions.

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okay, good point.
@David A: Thank you (shame on me), I just didn't know what that thing was supposed to be... walk of fame... should have known that, sorry

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Nah, you're from Germany; I wouldn't have expected you to know what it was.     If you watch a lot of American movies and TV shows you might have seen it before, though.

Welcome to PEEL, by the way.   

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I'm not sure about this, but in "Parasites Lost" there may be one goof.

When Fry holds out his hand, Leela takes it with her left hand. But when they cut to Fry's chest, you can see Leela's hand. The point of all this? You can see her wrist-thingy. It's supposed to be on her right hand only, but in that quick scene, you can see it on her left.
Don't know if this is good, so can someone please check it, so I will know I'm not crazy.
Also, if this was mentioned before, I apologize.

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They also reversed it in Space Pilot 3000 - the first scene where they call attention to it, actually, when she calls for backup.  I'm almost positive that this instance has been mentioned before, since it was brought up on the commentary, but I thought'd point out the animators weren't all that consisteny.

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In "Raging Bender" how does Bender get a drill through his head? The Clearcutter doesn't have a drill! Is it hidden?

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I have something that I made a whole thread about but since on one has spoken on it ill say it here...

In the episode 'Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles' whenever Leela and Fry are racing with her freinds, when they fly past the cinema, to the very left you can see El Chubaneebray, who bender flushed to the sub sewer, how odd...

[Reply #296 on:]

Maybe it's one of his children.

EDIT: It looks like someone already made that suggestion on another thread.  Great minds thinks alike, I guess.

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i thought it was just a statue. it doesn't move.

[Reply #298 on:]

We noticed El Chubinibre there a long time ago... you can see him running across in another episode as well, Leela's Homeworld I believe...

[Reply #299 on:]

I read about him being in TMLH but I've never spotted him....have to try pausing the scene I guess....

Also when do you see EC in Leela's Homeworld....?

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When the camera shot goes down to the sewers, you see EC chasing the leg guy.... ..I think..

C'mon Gleno! Duh! 

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Originally posted by catindisguise:
When the camera shot goes down to the sewers, you see EC chasing the leg guy.... ..I think..

Yeah, I recall that happening. Either that or we're both imagining the same thing 

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Wasn't that 300 Big Boys?

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I just watched TMLH the other night and I'll be damned if I didn't see El Chubanebray....heh
He does move though he's not just a statue like somebody else said....howe did I miss that....?!?!?!

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[Melllvar]It was meeeeeeeeee![/m]

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What's that supposed to mean?

[Reply #306 on:]

I said it was a satue.

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Originally posted by Hedonism Bot:
Wasn't that 300 Big Boys?

Yeah, you're right.

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The Day the Earht Stood Stupid

I think thats the name of the episode, when Fry runs into the Libary and gets trapped in the books, they are all really still in the Libary. So when Fry writes his own book even if Fry and leela got out of it wouldn't the Big Brain still be in the Libary thinking he had flown away

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"Libary" ^^

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lol... the irony... the day the earth stood stupid... then libary... is this situational or verbal irony? 

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I don't know about that, but on the Season 3 cover art, That Guy's hair is orange when it should be gray. Has anybody else said/noticed that?

[Reply #312 on:]

How come nibbler has a diaper, a litter box, and goes on walks?

[Reply #313 on:]

Because Leela wants to be extra careful about the dark matter?

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Originally posted by Dr.Jerkbird:
The Day the Earht Stood Stupid

I think thats the name of the episode, when Fry runs into the Libary and gets trapped in the books, they are all really still in the Libary. So when Fry writes his own book even if Fry and leela got out of it wouldn't the Big Brain still be in the Libary thinking he had flown away

I think I get what you're saying ... Fry never was actually crushed under the bookcase, but he had started writing his own (that wasn't shown, because it was meant to be a surprise).  Fry wrote that he had been crushed, and the brain picked up on that, and Leela perceived it to be true, because she was trapped in the brain's power, as both she and Fry were in 'Moby Dick', 'Tom Sawyer', and 'Pride and Prejudice'.  Fry also wrote in what the brain did, and he acted on that, possibly because he was so wrapped up in what he was doing to Leela.  I hope that makes sense.

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Don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet, but in "Insane in the Mainframe", when Roberto stabs Fry, it goes through the can of oil. Wouldn't Roberto eventually end up stabbing Fry in the chest, even if it isn't deep enough to kill him?

Ok. I have another one, and since double posting is not good: In "The Deep South", Fry says he is staying with Umbriel. Leela then replies "What about us?" Now, was that "us", as in Fry and herself, or "us" as in Planet Express?

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Originally posted by Goldfish:
Xmas story- Pine trees revealed to be extinct. However:
ABOG- Fry: Pine needles!
Professor: Excactly.
How would he know what that smells like? Also:
Obseletely Fabulous: ...Emmits a fresh pine scent.
Again, how would she know what they smell like?
There's also another few other references somewhere too.

mabye its because they had smell-a-vision and mabye there was pine scent in some old movie. unless smell-a-vision wasnt invented then.

and also when roberto stabs that can of oil in frys pocket wouldnt the can spark and ignite the oil becuase im pretty sure motor oil is flammable.

and and also why would fry even need that oil seeing he ate those anchovies that are supposed to permanantly lubricate a robot forever

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Pine trees may be extinct, but those car air fresheners will exist until the end of time. (as a product, I mean, not individually)

I'm pretty sure that just stabbing a metal can won't make it spark, except perhaps in movies.

Fry doesn't know that anchovies permanently lubricate robots... and he's kind of not a robot, so he doesn't 'need' any sort of oil at all.   

 

Originally posted by Pataloca:
Don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet, but in "Insane in the Mainframe", when Roberto stabs Fry, it goes through the can of oil. Wouldn't Roberto eventually end up stabbing Fry in the chest, even if it isn't deep enough to kill him?

Ok. I have another one, and since double posting is not good: In "The Deep South", Fry says he is staying with Umbriel. Leela then replies "What about us?" Now, was that "us", as in Fry and herself, or "us" as in Planet Express?

It may stab Fry, but it wouldn't make much of a difference in the end, as it wasn't feeling Roberto's knife cutt his arm that snapped Fry out of it, but seeing the blood, which would be mixed in with oil and not visible in the possible chest wound.  Unless you are commenting that there is no stab wound on Fry when the knife is pulled away, but I can't remember the specifics of the scene enough to comment on that, so I'll chalk it up to the magics of SkinTanium Armor. 

Regarding the Deep South, it's likely that Leela ment 'us' as in the PE crew, seeing as the Fry/Leela romantic relationship wasn't that big of a focus on the show at that point, but it's just as open to interpretation as everything else. Only the writers really know for sure (and even then...).

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The Goof Thread? Isn't this the Goof Forum? 

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Originally posted by Ranadok:
I'm pretty sure that just stabbing a metal can won't make it spark, except perhaps in movies.

i dunno, it worked with my deodorant can.