Whats the deal with owls?

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Hey whats the deal with owls?

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Owls are futuristic, man. Now leave me alone.

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I mean whats the deal though?

owls in mouseholes at night
owls at the sidewalk cafe in the daytime
owls in the owl traps

owls owls owls.  at least cows they talk about as being extinct.  I need more owl info!

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Owls have replaced rats as the vermin of choice in the city.

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and they are around in the daytime as well?

how come they look like pidgeons in the "bendless love" security tape?

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Maybe the Prof. did some kind of experiment where he mixed pigeon and owl DNA. So far we only saw that kind in his building. I think.

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uh...owls in Futurama? freaky... 

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It's all part of the joke. The first thing that pops into your mind is What the hell is up witht he owls. And you kinda laugh at the joke that owls are pest out of all of the animals they could have chosen.

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yea and they are pretty cute

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Especially because owls are birds of prey.

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I can think in an explanation;

Since there are no more trash in New New York (or, at least, not so much like there´s today) the rats came out of the sewers, famine, adn begin attacking the people (and the pigeons as well). So, some cientist (like our dear Professor) created a race of super-owls that can live in cities. The owls ate all the rats, and begin living (and spreading) by all the big cities of the world.

Well, it´s just a theory... 

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Originally posted by FrysGIRL:
It's all part of the joke. The first thing that pops into your mind is What the hell is up witht he owls. And you kinda laugh at the joke that owls are pest out of all of the animals they could have chosen.

oh i see...hahahahaha (well you get the picture  )

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Blast from the past: look! It's mine and Velour's first posts. Damn we are cool.

Man, I can't believe I've pissed away a whole year on this board. Time really flies when you are a nerd.

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The owls are the new pigeons of New New York, the new feathered rats if you will. And, as shown in Seinfeld, they still have a 'deal' with the humans when it comes to flying out of the way.

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Originally posted by FishyJoe:
Blast from the past: look! It's mine and Velour's first posts. Damn we are cool.

Man, I can't believe I've pissed away a whole year on this board. Time really flies when you are a nerd.

And you and Velour still keep the same characteristic humour  It's funny sometimes to take a look at the past.

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Funnier than a fart in the bath?

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owls owls owns you!

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Originally posted by totalnerduk:
Funnier than a fart in the bath?

only one way to find out...
            

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Funny, in the commentaries on the DVD Matt Groening and David Cohen (I think it's matt and David) talks about owls too. Matt asks if the fans (us, woohooo) understands the joke about owls being the vermin of NNY, and David assures him that we do get it.

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I thought I saw an owl in the park today but I think it was a hawk.  They look amazingly alike, except I think owls are fatter.

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Their bodies are squatter too, and they also have their eyes together and in front, unlike eagles' eyes on either side of the head. Come to think of it, eagles are nothing like owls, at least not the ones I've seen. Stop messing with my head!

Obligatory Futurama owl pic:

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If owls are such a big problem in NNY, why don't they simply import some Bolivian tree lizards. That should do the trick (just keep a few Chinese needle snakes handy for later).

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And some of those snake-eating gorillas.

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And one of those gorilla-eating spiders (trust me, one is enough).

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No need for a gorilla eating spider.  Come winter, all the gorillas will freeze anyway.

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I heard that it was a reference to a movie, but of course I can't remember which movie or what the significance is.
Pretty useless post, eh?

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erm... but they still have rats in sewers?
as seen on "Leela's homeworld"

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Well, yeah, in the sewers. The owls OWN the upper world, baby!

Actually, a rat appears in the (Anti-)Chrysler building in "The Honking." Of course, that's probably Detroit--which, given the funky geography of "Futurama," may be part of Russia now--so the Owl Problem may be exclusive to the Eastern Seaboard. 

Question: I'm doing some research for my fanfic, and I need to know if there's been any scenes of owls IN FLIGHT. Cellery has a pic of one flying in an earlier post, but is that from an episode, or is it a fanart? I can't recall seeing them fly at any time... If they really fly in the future, I gotta come up with a different joke.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
No need for a gorilla eating spider.  Come winter, all the gorillas will freeze anyway.

[disjointed muttering] how about a Moderator-eating-spider then?[/disjointed muttering]

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Originally posted by BrainSluggo:
Question: I'm doing some research for my fanfic, and I need to know if there's been any scenes of owls IN FLIGHT. Cellery has a pic of one flying in an earlier post, but is that from an episode, or is it a fanart? I can't recall seeing them fly at any time... If they really fly in the future, I gotta come up with a different joke.

Cellery's owl is from the episode "Mothers Day". It appears just before the scene where Mom's sons come to visit the PE crew.

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Crap! Crap! Crap!
Thanks!

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Originally posted by Teral:
Funny, in the commentaries on the DVD Matt Groening and David Cohen (I think it's matt and David) talks about owls too. Matt asks if the fans (us, woohooo) understands the joke about owls being the vermin of NNY, and David assures him that we do get it.

wait! I don't "get" anything.  Stupid David X Cohen and his harvard crew.

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Probably training right now at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in Tampa.

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Probably the owl joke is that they were endangered once, and now are a pest??

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What episodes are owls in?

cellery has a frame grab from "Mothers Day" and I know that there is an owl caught in a spiders web inside Fry's and Bender's apartment in the Hermes episode.

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and fry is attracting owls by leaving food around in episode 3
better owls than cockroaches

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Originally posted by Otis P Jivefunk:
What episodes are owls in?

cellery has a frame grab from "Mothers Day" and I know that there is an owl caught in a spiders web inside Fry's and Bender's apartment in the Hermes episode.

Fry tosses his muffin to a trio of owls in "Parasites Lost." Even though the owls are vermin, they're drawn pretty cutely.

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what's the deal with this thread? it was started over a year ago and it's still here, and still hasn't got past it's first page yet

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Fishy revived it to mark his 1 year "anniversary" at PEEL, and the rest of us jumped on it like starved voltures at a zebra carcass. Generated a nice little discuss about owls, I think.

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There is a billboard about owls in the opening sequence, how does it go?