Leela's Homeworld Capsule Submission

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the eagle on Hermes's Federal badge is hold a folder labeled "To Be Filed"? the orphanage offers expresso to the orphans?

Refs.

Free Willy 3 -Bender dumping the film's star

Bob's Big Boy -Big Mutant Boy's

Starbucks -The coffee chain has it's own branch in the underground world.

Comments

The Truman Show is a 1998 Peter Weir film starring Jim Carrey. The film tells the tale of a man (played by Carrey) who has no idea that he's the star of a 24-hour television show and that his whole life (with the exception of him) is completely scripted. However, as some strange events happen (from a "star" falling from the sky to his "dad" (who supposedly died) appearing on a bus), the guy gets closer to realizing his fake life and tries to escape it, despite the matters of show's director (played by Oscar nominee Ed Harris).

Joe Klemm

Joe Klemm wrote:

The pedestrian crossing sign in the sewers had an image of a person with two heads and three legs?

The leg sewer mutant was wearing a Boston Red Socks baseball hat?

Fry was lifting his shirt at Space Mardi Gra?

Leela's father's mouth was rotated 90 degrees so that it opened horizontally instead of vertically?

Wasn't this a Shoney's Big Boy reference?

Bed Bath & Beyond

Big & Tall Men's Store

+ Freeze Frame Fun

Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium

Wall of Fame Induction No Really Loud Snoring

Hall of Fame Orphan Alumni awardees"

Often Seen in the Background of News Spots

Diligent Flosser

Has Tasted Every McDonalds Sandwich

Successfully Switched from Heroin to Methadone

Shop signs in sewers:

Big & Strange Men's Store Bed Bath & Beneath Bob's Big Mutant Boy Starbucks

billboard in sewers: Head Reduction Surgery

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 03:13:38 GMT, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

"Big Boy" was franchised, but unlike most franchised restaurants, the owner often put their name in too. "Bob's" was big (ahem) on the west coast.

Alan Hamilton wrote:

Gotcha. I know the Shoney's Big Boy looked just like the character in the sewer (except for the third arm), complete with a red & white overalls, a plate with a hamburger, and a large cowlick.

I loved the fact that Starbucks was the only store that wasn't "mutated."

In Rochester, NY, the restaurants were called TJ's Big Boy.

"Tom Georgoulias" wrote in message news:[email]...

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 03:46:00 GMT, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

That's definitely the same guy. A long time ago, they used to have a Big Boy's comic book. $.10 or free to customers. I still have a couple of them buried in my storage.

--Larry

For what it's worth, I threw the comments from this thread into my capsule template and posted it here:

http://www.io.com/~tomg/4ACV02.html

Assuming I have more time in the next few days or on the weekend, I'll try and spruce up the content a bit more. As always, suggestions and contributions are welcome.

The apparent meaning of leela's full name has *got* to go in. (It's not me who spotted this, but I forget where I read it first. Some web page.)

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On 21 Feb 2002 03:12:45 GMT, [email] (Matthew Miller) wrote:

Wow! good spot.

Leela is also Swedish (?) for purple.

--Larry

No, it's not. "lila" is the spelling of the swedish word for purple. The pronunciation is the same however.

//Ms.Spears

"Ms.Spears" schrieb

It also works in german.

In french as well, as though if one were to be pedantic, they could say that since in french Lilas is the same as the english Lilac, it's not really purple, but we probably don't want to go there... ;-)

In article , [email] says...

"Arthur Dent?" it said.

Arthur nodded helplessly.

"Arthur Philip Dent?" pursued the alien in a kind of efficient yap.

"Er ... er ... yes ... er ... er," confirmed Arthur.

"You're a jerk," repeated the alien, "a complete asshole."

"Er ..."

The creature nodded to itself, made a peculiar alien tick on its clipboard and turned briskly back towards the ship.

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:21:17 -0500, "K.os" wrote:

First the Swedish, then the Germans and now the French! How far does this conspiracy go? What else are they hiding?

--Larry

I added almost all of the comments in these threads, except for those about the translation of "leela" to other languages.

http://www.io.com/~tomg/4ACV02.html

If you plan watch "Alien From LA", a fine motion picture, and don't want the surprise ending partially revealed. Then this is you spoiler warning.

I was just re-watching "Leela's Home World" and thought of this:

First, Leela's parents have had no problem getting to the surface repeatedly to help her out. Leela, Bender, Fry and Nibbler all got out somehow in "I Second That Emotion". In the First XMas show, the mutant catches the tossed slipper. In luck of the Fryish, Fry chats with a mutant in the ruins of old New York. And so on.

Yet when the mutants decide to release Leela, Fry and Bender, they need to find some way to get to the surface.

I think this may be a reference to "Alien From LA". Kathy Ireland goes to an underground civilization to find her father. She was not an "orphan", but she is trying to get to know her father.

She turns out not to be an alien, but her voice is so annoying, she may be a mutant.

During the dramatic, final escape scene, a scientist reveals his top secret machine designed to reach the surface, a cobbled together balloon. They are likewise told they can never come back tot he underground world.

MST3K gave the movie the treatment, naturally, I loaned that tape out, so I can double check the details.

--Larry

Ref:

Skin Deep

kinda obscure, but that glow-in-the-dark nose gag references a really bad 80's Blake Edwards movie called "Skin Deep." It was John Ritter's (Jack from Three's Company) brief shining moment. The movie was totally unremarkable except for a duelling glow-in-the-dark condom scene.

I could be wrong, "Skin Deep" probably wasn't the first flick with glow-in-the-dark gags...But I sure do feel unclean for remembering it.

Saturn

In article , [email] says...

So much about tastes. I found the movie really entertaining because of it's partly cunning dialogues (especially John and his psychologist) and the scene with the condoms was quite dull, IMO.

However, being no native speaker I've never found the real meaning of the phrase 'skin deep', could anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.

Moon wrote in message news:...

It's from a saying that claims "beauty is only skin deep"

http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/59200.html

Saturn

e.g., not very deep ... shallow ... etc.

Moon wrote in message ...

        Shallow and superficial, lacking substance. "Beauty is only
skin-deep" is one common English (US) expression using the term, meaning
that there's more to a person than just appearance. This can be applied to
_anything_, really. Even mechanical devices, i.e., cars. (An ugly car can be
an excellent machine; a pretty car might be a mechanical dog.)
        Does the expression have any sort of translatable significance
(wierd or otherwise), in your native tongue, Moon? And/or is there an
expression with the same meaning?

tt Robert

The opening theme cartoon is:

Van Beuren Studio, "In a Cartoon Studio", 1931. This cartoon is also known as "Making 'Em Move"