"Fear Of A Bot Planet" FAQ add-on?

after catching the re-run of "Fear Of A Bot Planet" last night, I noticed something interesting.

In the scene where Leela and Fry were being tried by the Mac Plus judge, and he froze in the middle of judgement, the robots and Fry started yelling out ways to un-freeze him ("Yank the cord! Type alt-control delete!").

well, as it so happens, I recently bought myself a Mac, and was finally looking at this CD-ROM called the "1997 Mac Advocacy CD-ROM". On it was a series of commercials Apple had done over the years for the Macintosh.

One of the commercials featured a man at some convention making a presentation using a PC laptop when - sure enough - it suddenly freezes. And then everyone in the audience starts yelling out different ways to unfreeze it!

I found this to be too much of a coincidence to let this pass by. What do you all think?

BTW, this CD-ROM is a great one to seek out, as it has a full copy of the "1984" commercial. Too bad the "Lemmings" commercial isn't on here :)

SPIFFY!

Another possible reference...

When Leela and Fry first set foot on Chapek 9 Fry looks into Leela's helmet and mentions how stuipid they look. This is probably stretching things too far but the reflection in Leela's helmet sort of looks like those characters in many canadian animated shorts... again Im probably digging too deep... =)

Benderr the Robot

"Benderr" wrote:

B> the reflection in Leela's helmet sort of looks like B> those characters in many canadian animated shorts

How do Canadians animate their shorts? I know the English stuff weasels into their shorts. Do the Canadians do the same thing?

Canadians animate our shorts with beavers. =)

Benderr

Jeffster wrote in message ...

I wouldn't say it was a coincidence. I think it would be the natural tendency for a group of computer savvy people (or robots) to offer up whatever options they could think of in a time of computer crisis. If anything, the scene from the episode mimicked real life. No great coincidence, but a good read on the technologically advanced segment of society.

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