Bendin' In the Wind Capsule Submission

No review here, though the Cylon and Garfunkle joke was hillarious.

S P O I L E R

S P A C E

DYN's

the sea serpant body in the waters by NNYC at the beginning? Utah's name in 3000 is made up of the alien language? Magnets cost $32 at Fisherman's Worf?

Refs.

Blowin' In the Wind -Title

Olean Potato Chips -Bender crapping bricks after eating fat free potato chips.

Moby Dick -Mobil Dick (with the great while whale with wings spoofing Mobil's Pagasus)

Patch Adams -Patchquart Adams

Deadheads -Planet Express crew travelling around town to see Bender in concert.

Battlestar Galactica -Cylon and Garfunkle

Star Trek: The Next Generation -Fisherman's Worf

Comments

Jefferson Starship was one of many names of a rock band that has been around from the 1960's to the 1980's. First known as Jefferson Airplane, the band scored big hits with "White Rabbit" and "Don't You Want Somebody to Love". Years later, the band changed their name to Jefferson Starship, with the band then dropping the Jefferson in the 1980's, when they made such hits as "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".

The futuristic state name for Nevada is a crack at what happened in the state during the Cold War. During this time, the deserts of Nevada was the home of a few nuclear tests in which nuclear bombs were detonated.

Joe Klemm

don't forget

Id:aho

I believe it's "Patchcord Adams".

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DGH

On 22 Apr 2001 23:41:24 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

While wearing homemade tie dyes, and driving a VW mini bus with beads and a peace sign logo in the front and a glass "time shifting device" under the passenger's seat. Plus, selling "love beads" in the parking lot and crashing in someone else's hotel room. About the only thing they missed was some broke people begging for free tickets and someone selling "kind veggie burritos" in the parking lot.

Ah, those were the days . . .

--Larry

Larry F wrote:

The Bong caught me totally off guard. Hilarious.

• Joe Klemm wrote:

Spoiler:

Simon and Garfunkle, maybe?

San Francisco's Fisherman's Warf, maybe?

-Jan

Jan Schaumann wrote:

I would have thought that would be pretty obvious.I would think that most people would get the Simon and Garfunkle part but be confused with the Battlestar Galactica bit seeing as how it's a fairly esoteric reference

Again verry good at finding the mundane side of the refrence. Your grasp of the obvious astounds even me. The point is it's spelled Worf like Michael Dorn's character from Star Trek TNG and DS9.

Well, I deserve it - that's what I get when I try to be a smart-ass without having watched the show. ;-)

Now, after Fox showed Futurama again at 11:30 pm (whohoo!), I actually saw it and of course these were so dammn obvious.

Anyway, another thing I think worth mentioning:

When the robots are pissed off that Bender can actually move and all, they come closer to the stage; one of these broken robots has no legs and crawl just on his torso and arms just like the Terminator. It even makes the same noise, I think.

-Jan

Jan Schaumann wrote in message news:[email]...

This was obviously the Futurama writers mixing a place with something from Star Trek. The joke isn't that it's the Fisherman's Wharf, because that exists today and isn't all too funny. Calling it Fisherman's Worf is an allusion to Star Trek the Next Generation.

Pagasus)

Tinsmither wrote:

Man there's probably only 3 people who would have noticed that. Incredible the kinda stuff they hide in that show.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 04:01:48 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller ratio. How many hubcaps did the van lose? I did see one go flying off.

In article ,

Yes, we call that "The Dennis Miller Ratio".

Paul

"Joe Klemm" wrote in message news:[email]...

I think that this was a reference to the chips made with 'Olestra' fat substitute thingamajig.. one of the side affects of this thing was hard black stools.. which in Bender resulted in bricks..

Pagasus)

Also, a reference to 'Mobil One' oil.. the design and the name are both obviously this..

RSN

Olestra has a required warning on all products that includes the phrase "anal leakage." I'd rather be fat!

The side effect I heard it had was diarrhea. This was I imagine why Bender crapped a bunch of bricks instead of the single brick he dropped in the first episode.

=v= "Led Zeppelin" is also the name of a band from that era. :^)

=v= A few more DYNs.

... that Fry swiped the headband from the hippie skeleton?

... that Leela wears a camisole? (I had her figured for the sports bra type.)

... that Fry's microbus went down Lombard Street, just like the "Lisa Log" did in _The_Simpsons_ this season.

  ... that they forgot to have rollerskating nuns, Critical Mass
      bikers, antique trolleys and cable cars, and other things
      that might make you realize it's San Francisco?  (The "I
      <Heart> Men" button was a nice touch, though.)

I also noticed the green VW Beetle from _Bullitt_, so I guess I'm one of the 3, though they updated it to a "new Beetle." <_Jym_>

P.S.: I thought that some bodyless robots would follow Bender around. You know, "dead heads."