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Action Jacktion
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I think it's just a coincidence. Fry time traveled, but then he changed history so that he didn't time travel. He shouldn't have a memory of it because it didn't really happen to him.
Also, he makes the comment after having his memory erased, not after time traveling.
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SpaceCase
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by Chanukah Zombie: No, wait a minute, I do remember seeing something in a PBS special about the world around you looking red if you travel forward in time and blue if you travel backward.
Or maybe it was the opposite.
Anyway, it was Carl Sagan's Cosmos or an episode of Nova or something like that. This was a while ago but I distinctly remember them tinting the screen red and then blue in the demonstration. The demo showed a guy riding around in a (hypothetical) automobile or motorcycle at FTL speeds. I think the idea was first posited by Einstein. Or maybe Bose. I was a kid at the time but the point is this: there really is such a concept; it's more than a cigar in this case.
Oh, PBS is Public Broadcasting (Channel 13 in NYC). It's the nerd station here. At least those who can't afford cable. I remember that! It was 'Cosmos'. Somebody was riding a motor-scooter around an Italian village, where the speed of light had been reduced to 50 KPH, or so, by municipal order! It was an explanation of the Doppler effect on EM-radiation emitted by sources moving at relativistic velocities. If the source is approaching you, the wavelength of the incident radiation is compressed; shifting its color towards the blue end of the spectrum. If the source is receeding, the wavelength is stretched out; shifting its color towards the red. The only time-travel effect that might be involved is the time-dilation of bodies moving at significant fractions of the speed of light. I forget if this was according to General, or Special Relativity. <GAWD, I need a bigger life!>
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Chanukah Zombie
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by totalnerduk: Frys comment in this case is not related to the time travel incident. He says "taste purple" meaning that something has just given him a scrambled signal, he isn't describing a taste or a colour, it's the effect of the memory blank. He knows something happened, but not what. Think of the flashy thingys from Men In Black (red in the first, blue in the second) and you'll notice that theres yet another possible reference.
It's a cigar. Trust me. Oh, forgive me. You're right, TNUK. I had lost track of the thread's start. I was talking mainly about the blue-red thingy in Roswell. As for the "taste of purple," I'm compelled to agree with you. It was most likely random, absurdist humor. If it had any special meaning, it could be this: the vestige of Leela's memory (the only thing that made him come back to the future) left a vague impression on him. It was not comprehensible to him as anything more than a color. Less than a color, it was the flavor of a color. I wonder what purple tastes like?
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Chanukah Zombie
Bending Unit
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In "A Bicyclops Built for Two," Alkazar wakes up in bed next to Leela after sleeping with her the night before. He immediately chokes on something, clears his throat and spits something out. I don't want to corrupt any of the younger crowd here, but we have an expression in America called "tasting pink." That usually results in the kind of expectorant behavior we saw then. I wonder if that's anything like "tasting purple"? For those who haven't yet had the pleasure, your oral hygienist will explain it all to you when you're old enough.
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Grim
Professor
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U people read to much into this... Homer calls purple a fruit, does that make him a time traveller? The button on my garage door controller is purple! Oh god! its from the future...
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transgender nerd under canada
DOOP Ubersecretary
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Originally posted by Chanukah Zombie: You're right, TNUK. They all say that, eventually. I agree with grim. Too much symbolistic interpretation is bad for you.
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Allen
Professor
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Sir! Yes Sir! I don't know why, but had the strangest urge to post that. Anyway, might as well post something worthwhile. I wish you could smell and taste colors. Life would be a hell of a lot more interesting if we could.
At the risk of repeating something already said, I think the line was there for weirdness sake and not for much else. Just Fry being good old lovable Fry. Damn that Nibbler for erasing his memories.
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Gocad
Space Pope
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Originally posted by totalnerduk: RTEW ? ? ? Qapla'
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SamuelXDiamond
Rectum Favourist
Urban Legend
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Tasting colours, you say? Why not ask a 'coloured gustation' synaesthete what that's like? http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/ Or just do a Google search on synaesthesia. It's an interesting 'condition' which means that two of your senses are cross-wired. If you are a synaestete, you may not even know as it would be completely natural to you. The most common form is interpreting words or letters as having an inate colour. I may be confusing my cigars with apples, but maybe Fry has this condition (on top of a buncha others). Or maybe the writers just threw it in because it was funny.
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