502 - Jurassic Bark

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When Fry is trying to get Seymour back from the museum and the two Scientists come out.  Did anyone notice that one of them looks EXACTLY like Hank Azaria's Scientist character from TV's Friends?
seems a little over-coincidental considering Hank Azaria's huge involvement in Matt Groening's The Simpsons! 

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You're probably right. That's not unusual.

In "Bicyclops Built for Two," most of the people in the "chat room" were staff for the show! They appear in many other episodes too.

Welcome to PEEL, JDHannan (Yes, I will beat you to it again, futurefreak.)!

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One of the scientists was named Ben Beeler, and one of the co-executive producers (and wirters) of Futurama is named Ken Keeler. Coincidence?

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Probably not, since they build in many references to their own lifes. (-> Adress of the Cyrogenic Lab in SP3K)

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*Bump*

When the Professor was extracting Seymour's DNA, the first time he pulls down on a rope.

Later, after Bender retrieves Seymour, the Professor pulls it down again, but this time its on a chain!

Explanations?

[Reply #5 on:]

Show spoiler

A wizard did it!

[Reply #6 on:]

Anything is possible if you can imagine it...

[Reply #7 on:]

Probably part of the tune up...?

[Reply #8 on:]

The rope shed its skin.

[Reply #9 on:]

It's obvious that the rope was really a string of mischivious nano-bots that like screwing with die-hard fans heads.

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Originally posted by Alliteration:
It's obvious that the rope was really a string of mischivious nano-bots that like screwing with die-hard fans heads.

or maybe it was just an animation error.


...either that or the Wizards.

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After he pulled the rope, it retracted into the ceiling, and the chain descended.

[Reply #12 on:]

The chain is better suited to stand high temperatures than the rope, so he changed it when he had a spare minute, why not?

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Thats so plausable I can't believe it!

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He pulled the rope one and broke it and while we weren't looking swapped it with a chain so it was stronger.

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Probably deliberate to annoy fans.

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Damn those wizards, damn them all to hell!

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Yeah, I think that was deliberate (kinda like the different ways to operate the What If Machine).

[Reply #18 on:]

Eric Kaplan: "Pssst, was it deliberate?"
Swinton Scott: "Just play along, like we did on the audio commentaries."

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sure, blame the wizards!