I Dated a Robot! Capsule Submission

S03E15 I Dated a RobotliveMay 13, 2001, 8:50 PM ET1 hours before it aired9 posts by 7 posters
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Joe Klemm

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Fry uses a Mac-formatted robot to download a copy of Lucy Lui? According to the marque, Charlie's Angels III was released in 2007?

Refs.

Twilight Zone -The part of the spooky door where the gremlin is on the wing of a plane refers to the classic "Captain Kirk sees gremlin" episode.

Jurassic Park -Jurassic Kiddie Park

Lens Crafters -Hand Crafters

Napster -Nappster

Scooby-Doo -Nappster head almost getting away with kidnapping if it "weren't for those meddling adults"

City Slickers II -Subtitle for Charlie's Angel's III refers to the subtitle for this film

Joe Klemm

LarryJoe Klemm

On 14 May 2001 00:50:45 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

There was a Twilight Zone episode (I think) and a segment in the movie (I'm certain), where there's a monster on the wing of the plane and only one passenger can see it. The entire Scary Door segment was an montage of twilight Zone episodes.

Here's another one:

Firesign Theater - I Think We're All Bozo's on this Bus When Lucy's voice changes whenever she says Fry's name, or any other customer words. In The Future Fair (A fair for all, but no fare to anybody) the president robot kept doing that.

Pres: Hi there, what is your name. Clem: Uh, Clem Pres: Hello 'Uh, Clem'. Always nice to see you 'Uh Clem'.

--Larry

Michael ZaiteJoe Klemm

Joe Klemm wrote:

Written By: Eric Kaplan

Other Head's I was able to make out in Nappster. Ceech Marin, Harrison Ford, Pamela Anderson, George Michael, Madelen Albright. There were others but A VHS tape only has so much resolution in the wide shots.

There was no Swastika on Hitler, even though they existed as a sigil of protection long before Nazis, like the mustache style Hitler only made them look bad.

The Professor's computer says AOL in FAL2 when they were going on the net to find Nappster.

The Bowl of alphabet soup in "The Scary Door" intro reads "WATCH OUT"

Truman Era propaganda educational films -The whole "I Dated A Robot" video shown to Fry.

Star Trek Newsgroups -The Kirk/Picard argument is still going strong.

Questions brought out

Why does Fry loose so many limbs?

Were Robot celebrity copies partly responsible for the 1st alien attack? Or was that image simply used as a scare tactic ala. "Practice good eating habits Johnny, or die in a crucible of red commie nuclear flame for being a bad American." Kinda stuff from Propaganda Education films.

Were the robot copies synth skinned or hologram overlays? It appeared to be holograms due to the glowy blue aura.

Was that Cuthulu (the "being of incomprehensible horror") who won the eBay auction for the Milkyway galaxy?

Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 "...Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small baby chick would beat
Alan HamiltonJoe Klemm

"All in the Family" Bender does Archie Bunker.

"The Scary Door" had several TZs mooshed together "The Scary Door" credits and narration parodied the 4th/5th season opening credits. Man gets everything he wants in Heaven but is really in Hell parodies "A Nice Place to Visit", and the bearded man looks like Sebastian Cabot, who appeared in that episode. Gremlin on the wing parodies the oft-parodied "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". Man becoming Hitler parodies "The Man in the Bottle", where a man wished he was a world leader. I can't place the bug-disguised-as-woman -- it looks more like an "Outer Limits" or "Night Gallery".

Freeze-frame fun on the Scary Door credits: Turtle on its back Ace playing card with winking eye for a suit Burning Big Mac Golf ball with Groucho glasses Alphabet soup spelling out "watch out" Spinning door

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MoonAlan Hamilton

In article , [email] says...

Can't place it either other than that Bender used this exact same bug disguise when he threatened one of the cryo guys in 'The Cryonice Woman'.

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Alex CainJoe Klemm

If only we were that lucky. Unfortunately due to the box office the "first" one did, it's a pretty good bet that the next one will be out by the end of 2002, or at the very least Winter-Spring 2003.

That's "Terror at 20,000 feet," one of the top five Twilight Zone episodes ever made, and on the top three in terms of popularity, I believe. The writing is excellent and the acting is good.

...complete with T-Rex. *heh*

...but do they craft them in an hour?

Well DUH.

I was disappointed that there was no passing reference to Don Knotts.

Chris 'Coz' CostelloAlex Cain

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They also nailed the techie kid (Shawn Fanning) with the older CEO (Hank Barry) quite nicely.

Later, COZ

NP: Frank Zappa, _Live in New York_

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MoonJoe Klemm

In article , [email] says...

Did you notice the gestures Dr. Zoidberg is using e.g. when he looks at the Lucy at the Hydrant and say "looks like you're retaining water" (15:58)? I think I've seen these in an R&B video clip, maybe one of Destiny's Child?

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Michael ZaiteMoon

Moon wrote:

It's the whole "I dismiss your opinion or existance" Finger snaping.arm across the body thing. Also used as a QED to end an argument/statement. Used by women with the R&B Rap hiphop type personality.

Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 "...Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans... and pants to match. The monkey clown horrible karate round and yummy like cute small