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I for one would like to know, in the recent Lrrr and Ndnd episode, how was Ndnd watching their current fake broadcasts from Earth when it had been previously established that Omicron Persei 8 receives broadcasts from 1000 years in the past? HUH? where is the long term continuity?!?
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 03:49 |
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Wandle Cax posted:I for one would like to know, in the recent Lrrr and Ndnd episode, how was Ndnd watching their current fake broadcasts from Earth when it had been previously established that Omicron Persei 8 receives broadcasts from 1000 years in the past? HUH? where is the long term continuity?!? They got themselves a sub-space TV transmitter when they recognised the superiority of Earth TV programming  .
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 03:56 |
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The speed of light was sped up in the future. Doy.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 04:10 |
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Aphrodite posted:The speed of light was sped up in the future.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 04:24 |
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This is the answer Farnsworth himself gave, in A Clone of my Own.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 05:15 |
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So, I was watching the episodes with a friend, and he said he didn't quite get why the Benders could only replicate themselves once. I said it was because doing ti twice would have meant doing two things. Then I realized what I said and realized how oddly brilliant that was as a plot device.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 05:21 |
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Stonefish posted:This is the answer Farnsworth himself gave, in A Clone of my Own.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 05:50 |
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I would just like to say this thread has become progressively less awesome with a distinct lack of quoting. As a lover of Futurama (and all things Groening) and a detester of Family Guy (and all things McFarlane), I had no problem at all with the new episodes. I've skimmed through the thread, I've seen a lot of "blah blah non sequitur" "blah blah lazy jokes". I despise Family Guy, I truly do, but it's not like they have a Monopoly on non sequitur jokes. The Simpsons had been doing them before Family Guy was a glint in McFarlanes underimaginative eye. It's just that Family Guy abused the practice to the extent it became associated only with them. The episodes were fine, I felt they fit into the format of the show and to the characters personalities in a way that wasn't unrealistic for the series. They weren't my favorite episodes, they weren't even my favorite new episodes. But I enjoyed them, and you should've too! Also. Nothing is impossible, not as long as you believe in it! That's what being a scientist is all about!
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 05:51 |
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IUG posted:This is the answer David X Cohen (I'm sure I spelt his name wrong) gave in a commentary too. Well, I'm not sure he said 'Doy'.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 06:02 |
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I hope we get to see more Captain Lance Starman this season.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 06:07 |
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Wandle Cax posted:I for one would like to know, in the recent Lrrr and Ndnd episode, how was Ndnd watching their current fake broadcasts from Earth when it had been previously established that Omicron Persei 8 receives broadcasts from 1000 years in the past? HUH? where is the long term continuity?!? That episode really bothered me because they changed the pronunciation of Ndnd. They say it "inda-inda" instead of "Ininda", the first D is almost silent in the earlier episodes. Unless I'm just deaf. 
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 06:12 |
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No, you're right. It used to be Ndunda and now it's UndaUnda.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 07:36 |
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LividLiquid posted:No, you're right. It used to be Ndunda and now it's UndaUnda.  My mother was a saint! 
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 07:39 |
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LividLiquid posted:Right, but that wasn't about television. Cohen reminded us that the speed of light had been sped up in regards to Omicron Persei 8 getting live TV. Ok, but well after that episode when that happened, Lrrr is seen watching Friends, in the later episode about valentine's day. Is it possible he was just watching a tape from his personal library...?
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 08:23 |
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My guess is the Omicronians can watch either "modern" programming from the year 300X with the sped up signal, or "classic" programming from the year 200X with the old-style transmission. Or it's just a cartoon about wacky aliens.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 08:32 |
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Wait, in the first episode Leela said they should form an airline because teleporters wouldn't be invented for another 15 years, but last season we saw the Professor had made a teleporter gun like it was nothing special. My immersion! 
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 11:54 |
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I didn't like the first one until the third act. The tired Men vs. Women thing was beyond terrible in Wild Green Yonder and it's beyond terrible here. "Men hate women, and women LOVE shopping!" is not a funny joke and the first half of the episode is pretty much that writ large. It gets a lot better after the rock alien neuters them. Still kinda goofy, but the main thrust of the episode no longer feels as much like a lazy standup routine at open mic night.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 12:14 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:Also, the equation shown by the professor in the second episode is completely wrong. God, I feel like such a sperg for noticing that. It is a bit surprising, though, because back when everyone got mind-swapped, one of the writers invented and proved a loving mathematical theorem just for that episode. Blarg Blargety fucked around with this message at Jun 26, 2011 around 12:19 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I hope we get to see more Captain Lance Starman this season. I'm hoping for more "Transcredible Exploits of Zapp Brannigan". 
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| # ? Jun 26, 2011 13:19 |
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I liked both episodes, the second was definitely the better of the two though.
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 03:12 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:Wait, in the first episode Leela said they should form an airline because teleporters wouldn't be invented for another 15 years, but last season we saw the Professor had made a teleporter gun like it was nothing special. Well that's because last season teleporters were no big thing, but this season...shut up!
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 03:28 |
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I just re-watched Benderama and laughed really hard at Fry lamenting his hangover by comparing it to having a "head full of Dig-Dugs."
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 16:15 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Well that's because last season teleporters were no big thing, but this season...shut up! You could just fan-wank it away by saying that was only a local transporter, only moving things a few yards, not inter-stellar.
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 17:00 |
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Or that dude was a liar!
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 17:54 |
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Sugar Blaster posted:I just re-watched Benderama and laughed really hard at Fry lamenting his hangover by comparing it to having a "head full of Dig-Dugs."
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 18:47 |
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If teleporters won't be invented for 15 years, why was the Other Rock Guy teleporting all over the place? Also I choose to believe Brannigan shot the Other Rock Guy with a teleporter gun  .
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 19:18 |
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The Other Rock Guy was a magic rock guy, not a teleporter. They're completely different things.
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 19:21 |
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Borax kid seems to think our rock alien friend is dead.
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 19:22 |
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Speaking of the Borax Kid, I love how Fry just matter-of-factly goes "Hello good sir!" or something when a meteor just popped through the ceiling, snapped the nose off the Planet Express Ship, and disgorged a smooth talking crystal man.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Speaking of the Borax Kid, I love how Fry just matter-of-factly goes "Hello good sir!" or something when a meteor just popped through the ceiling, snapped the nose off the Planet Express Ship, and disgorged a smooth talking crystal man. Jamaican?!?!? I thought you were some kind of outer space potato man.
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SeXReX posted:Jamaican?!?!? I thought you were some kind of outer space potato man.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:If teleporters won't be invented for 15 years, why was the Other Rock Guy teleporting all over the place? Also I choose to believe Brannigan shot the Other Rock Guy with a teleporter gun I choose to believe what I was PROGRAMMED to believe!
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SeXReX posted:Jamaican?!?!? I thought you were some kind of outer space potato man. I've mentioned it before, but I love that even though Fry knows that he is in the future, knows that there are aliens, knows that aliens live on earth etc.... he still thinks of Morbo as "The TV Monster."
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| # ? Jun 28, 2011 03:02 |
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Coleman posted:I choose to believe what I was PROGRAMMED to believe! Who cares what you're programmed for. If someone programmed you to jump off a bridge would you do it?
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Fishylungs posted:Who cares what you're programmed for. If someone programmed you to jump off a bridge would you do it? I'd have to check my programming. ... Yup!
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Coleman posted:I'd have to check my programming. ... Yup! It seems you aren't operating with your full mental...uh....mind?
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Android Blues posted:Still kinda goofy, but the main thrust of the episode no longer feels as much like a lazy standup routine at open mic night. 
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| # ? Jun 28, 2011 05:57 |
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Blarg Blargety posted:Also, the equation shown by the professor in the second episode is completely wrong.
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indigi posted:Oh, dip! Cherry... CHERRY! ... Mule, crud.
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Martytoof posted:And what's the deal with airline food? They give you two choices but they're always out of one! ...By the way we're out of both choices-
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