Futurama 4/30 Dan T's comments - sort of good
Dan Tropea
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1) The best scene was the openning credits when on the large screen they
showed "A Trip to the Moon". The first SF movie ever. What a ways we
have come.
2) TV chef. Ok who were they making fun of? I don't watch cooking shows
so i wonder if it was anyone real they were poking fun at.
3) The gangsters. Well the clamp joke was getting old by the 3rd time.
The gangster leader just lacked the humor that the Simpson's gangster
has. Hope we don't see them again.
4) Bitaly. Cute joke. It was also nice seeing the crippled robot boy
again. Most have been made for the cuteness factor and to make money for
oil.
5) The heist. Well the steering was fun. Plus when Leela being blind
grabbed her pet's antenna instead of the stick. Other then that it
wasn't that funny.
6) Also wasn't Leela at all curious about Bender smoking a cigar? The
heist involved cigars and he was smoking one.
Overall a few cute scenes. Like Fry's comment about thinking her eye
patch was cool and the openning credits was nice.
Fen Phen
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> 2) TV chef. Ok who were they making fun of? I don't watch cooking shows
> so i wonder if it was anyone real they were poking fun at.
There is a guy on TV who acts like that, but I don't remember his name. I
saw him once within the last season, and I remember going "Hey, that's like
the chef on Futurama!" but I don't remember anymore.
> 4) Bitaly. Cute joke. It was also nice seeing the crippled robot boy
> again. Most have been made for the cuteness factor and to make money for
> oil.
I thought they were going to go to Little Neptune (it was in Season 1 where
they go get the Neptunian slugs and Fry almost gets conned out of his
lungs).
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Mike Zaite
> Well this was a sort of good episode.
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> 1) The best scene was the openning credits when on the large screen they
> showed "A Trip to the Moon". The first SF movie ever. What a ways we
> have come.
That wasn't "le voyage à la lune" that was some cartoon. it looked like
Saturn.
Go back and watch either "le voyage à la lune" or Episode 12 of "From the
Earth to the Moon" Again, Because their cool.
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> 2) TV chef. Ok who were they making fun of? I don't watch cooking shows
> so i wonder if it was anyone real they were poking fun at.
Well he's based on noted TV chef Emerl. But he also represents MG's Cynical
opinion of Celebrities attitudes in general like Krusty the Clown.
> 3) The gangsters. Well the clamp joke was getting old by the 3rd time.
> The gangster leader just lacked the humor that the Simpson's gangster
> has. Hope we don't see them again.
Or let's hope they adjust them a little. Fat Tony was much funnier than Don
Bot
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Well, sort of.
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Mmm, smores...
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> 1) The best scene was the openning credits when on the large screen they
> showed "A Trip to the Moon". The first SF movie ever. What a ways we
> have come.
The scene with the rocket ship crashing into the moon was also parodied in
1ACV02. Good ol' Craterface, always good for a laugh...
>
> 2) TV chef. Ok who were they making fun of? I don't watch cooking shows
> so i wonder if it was anyone real they were poking fun at.
Emeril Lagasse. In 1ACV07, he was saying "Kick it up a notch," like the
real Emeril, but here they changed it to "Knock it up a notch" for
who-knows-what reason. Emeril must have some dead-sexy lawyers.
>
> 3) The gangsters. Well the clamp joke was getting old by the 3rd time.
> The gangster leader just lacked the humor that the Simpson's gangster
> has. Hope we don't see them again.
Oooh, you'll see them again. You'll see them again.
>
> 4) Bitaly. Cute joke. It was also nice seeing the crippled robot boy
> again. Most have been made for the cuteness factor and to make money for
> oil.
Dickens urchins are always good for a laugh! Impoverished, are you? HAHA!
Lookit the poor little kid! Haha! Make fun of his Dickens accent!
>
> 5) The heist. Well the steering was fun. Plus when Leela being blind
> grabbed her pet's antenna instead of the stick. Other then that it
> wasn't that funny.
>
> 6) Also wasn't Leela at all curious about Bender smoking a cigar? The
> heist involved cigars and he was smoking one.
Yes, cigars always mean that they're Zubins from a Zubin cigar heist, and
not just that cigar that Bender always has.
>
> Overall a few cute scenes. Like Fry's comment about thinking her eye
> patch was cool and the openning credits was nice.
Yeah, we haven't seen the opening credits before! Pure originality there!
I am not being sarcastic anywhere in this post.
Quiet Desperation
> > showed "A Trip to the Moon". The first SF movie ever. What a ways we
> > have come.
Yeah. Modern television Skiffy is almost as scientifically accurate.
Rev. Matt Keeley
>Well this was a sort of good episode.
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>showed "A Trip to the Moon". The first SF movie ever. What a ways we
>have come.
a cartoon. Not sure what the cartoon was, I'm not as knowledgable about
old cartoons.
>3) The gangsters. Well the clamp joke was getting old by the 3rd time.
>The gangster leader just lacked the humor that the Simpson's gangster
>has. Hope we don't see them again.
>
I liked the Clamp joke! Humor is BEST when it is run into the ground so far
it comes out in china! Clamp! Clamp! Clamp!!
Clamp!
>5) The heist. Well the steering was fun. Plus when Leela being blind
>grabbed her pet's antenna instead of the stick. Other then that it
>wasn't that funny.
>
Eh, it was OK... seen better, though. About the best use of Nibbler I've
seen though, so far, was this episode. Mainly torturing it.
I _really_ hate Nibbler.
>6) Also wasn't Leela at all curious about Bender smoking a cigar? The
>heist involved cigars and he was smoking one.
>
Well, Bender's ALWAYS smoking cigars. Although if the Zubans are as
potent as Bender said they were, she probably should have noticed, like
you said.
Matt
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Mark D. McKean
tro...@webtv.net (Dan Tropea) wrote:
> 2) TV chef. Ok who were they making fun of? I don't watch cooking shows
> so i wonder if it was anyone real they were poking fun at.
Emeril Lagasse...the second coolest cook on TV. (The coolest, of course,
is Alton Brown.) I'd say Groening watches Emeril a *lot*...they had his
show and act down cold.
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Joseph Nebus
>On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:45:33 -0400 (EDT), Dan Tropea said:
[ Spoiler space snipped because it's only the opening "public
domain cartoon" scene we're talking about ]
>>1) The best scene was the openning credits when on the large screen they
>>showed "A Trip to the Moon". The first SF movie ever. What a ways we
>>have come.
>That's not "A Trip to the Moon"... I've seen clips from same, and it wasn't
>a cartoon. Not sure what the cartoon was, I'm not as knowledgable about
>old cartoons.
I was on the far side of the apartment when this came on, so
didn't get a clear view of it. Was the scene of several planets,
in particular Saturn (upper left corner), the Earth (approximately
center), and a crescent Moon (upper right corner), gathered around
one another? (That's what I thought I saw, but it was too quick for
me.)
If it was, then the clip is probably from a surreal Betty Boop
cartoon "Betty Boop's Ups and Downs," in which economic conditions
get so bad that the Earth has to put itself up for sale. Saturn
wins the auction, and sees what happens if he takes away the Earth's
gravity.
If I saw the scene wrong, of course, then anything might be
possible.
Joseph Nebus
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* "Mark D. McKean" <qpa...@iwaynet.net> wrote:
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| In article <26415-39...@storefull-233.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
| tro...@webtv.net (Dan Tropea) wrote:
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| > 2) TV chef. Ok who were they making fun of? I don't watch cooking shows
| > so i wonder if it was anyone real they were poking fun at.
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| Emeril Lagasse...the second coolest cook on TV. (The coolest, of course,
| is Alton Brown.)
You forgot the swedish chef (bork bork bork), didn't you?
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Bryan Lambert
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>Or The Iron Chef!
You mean all four Iron Chefs. Morimoto. Kobe. Sakai. Kenichi.
(Not even counting past IC's, of course).
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And what the hell is this mumbo-jumbo:
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Futuerama is The Simpsons set in the future. It's a crashing bore with
with those insipid pop culture references that have made the Simpsons so
unwatchable in the past 10 years.
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Did I write this post? I can't remember.
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I forgot as well.
Maybe it's that wicked crossposting WebTV'er, Dan Tropea
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> # 43. Not Janet Reno! Hasta la vista, Elian!!
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Subject: Goodbye :-)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:05:45 -0500
If I have any integrity at all, I must leave. I welcome others
to do so as well if they refuse to be led by a group of
unthinking drones that are stuck in such a mindnumbingly
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<bryn...@minn.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 May 2000 09:47:14 -0700, Mr. ?
> <khideky...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
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> >Or The Iron Chef!
>
> You mean all four Iron Chefs. Morimoto. Kobe. Sakai. Kenichi.
>
> (Not even counting past IC's, of course).
>
Well, as the show stopped production in Japan last year or so, they're
ALL past IC's ^_^
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>In article <4u9ugs4sp3pj26mhd...@4ax.com>, Bryan Lambert
><bryn...@minn.net> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 02 May 2000 09:47:14 -0700, Mr. ?
>> <khideky...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> >Or The Iron Chef!
>>
>> You mean all four Iron Chefs. Morimoto. Kobe. Sakai. Kenichi.
>>
>> (Not even counting past IC's, of course).
>>
>Well, as the show stopped production in Japan last year or so, they're
>ALL past IC's ^_^
But they keep filming the occasional special (such as Morimoto vs.
Bobby Flay in New York a scant month ago), so they're only "past"
until the next special.
Bryan "Nyah." Lambert
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Buh?
Mark D. McKean
<lars...@candleweb.no> wrote:
> * "Mark D. McKean" <qpa...@iwaynet.net> wrote:
> |
> | Emeril Lagasse...the second coolest cook on TV. (The coolest, of
> | course,
> | is Alton Brown.)
>
> You forgot the swedish chef (bork bork bork), didn't you?
I was speaking specifically of TV cooks with shows in current
production. The Swedish Chef, while quite cool, is long out of
circulation. (It's also questionable as to whether he ever actually
*cooked* anything...)