Notes on "The Honking"

S03E01 The HonkingliveNov 9, 20004 days later30 posts by 20 posters
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Andrew Levine

DYN: ...When Leela welds Bender to the wall of his apartment, all the pictures on the walls are pictures of cars (a bit of foreshadowing, perhaps)?

References:

"The Howling" (1980 film) --The title

"The Wolf Man" (1941 Lon Chaney film) --The Gypsy woman is taken from this werewolf film (and probably a dozen others, but this one is the most famous)

"Christine" -- Driverless car running over people, like in the Stephen King Novel and John Carpenter film. "Christine" was a 1958 Plymouth Fury, and the first werecar we see was red, like the car in the film (even though no actual red Furies were produced that year).

"Foundation" and "Robot" novels, by Isaac Asimov -- Calculon's claim of being much older than he really is, as well as having been all the great acting robots of history, is similar to the long-lived robot R. Daneel Olivaw (cf. "Foundation and Earth"). Not a definite reference, but a possibility.

Incorrectly regarded as a goof: Calculon says he was David Duchovny, although he was just an assembly robot in 2019. Most likely that he had his appearance upgraded to Duchovny's some time later (as he says he does every few decades), to replace the human Duchovny.

My grade: B+/A-.

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Tim SniderAndrew Levine

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Duchovny.

Ya know, I could've SWORN Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were Jar Heads in the Series Premere. Can anyone confirm this? If so, Calculon did some time recently floating in formaldehyde....or whatever Ron Popiel fills those jars with....

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Sure I can. :) It's not very high quality but I think they're recognizable: http://www.kreidi.de/other/Scully+Mulder.jpg

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Fraggler?Tim Snider

Yeah, he was! Maybe David Duchovny had his head transferred to a jar just after 2019, at which point Calculon upgraded himself and replaced him for a few decades (the public never being the wiser.)

It's farfetched, but so is Calculon being David Duchovny in the first place.

-Fraggler?

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Michael ZaiteFraggler?

Fraggler? wrote:

It's so crazy it makes perfect Futurama sense. I'll accept this explanation.

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

In message , [email] (Andrew Levine) wrote:

See also "Requiem for Methuselah" from the original Star Trek series.

(Beware -- 30 year old spoiler ahead)

Kirk and Crew discover a man who is 5000 years old, and who had been (among others) Methuselah, Alexander the Great, Brahms, and Da Vinci.

Cheers, Will

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The scene in the lawyers office with the nere-do-well nephew who doesn't know the value of a dollar....that's from the famous Volkswagon commercial where the guy only gets a dollar.

jsl151

Pkmnsnap2Andrew Levine

More DYN: ...That that noise following Bender in the haunted house was the Windows Startup Chimes? ...the winged toasters and microsoft logo holograms chasing Bender? ..they couldn't of had the steering wheel of Hitler's car? (Bart smashed that years ago on The Simpsons.)

Michael ZaitePkmnsnap2

Pkmnsnap2 wrote:

Except that in Futurama's reality like ours, The Simpsons is just a cartoon show.

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

Pkmnsnap2 ate a baby:

Yeah, but Simpsons is just a TV show.

In the Futurama continuum i mean.

Nothing is true - EVERYTHING MUST GO! - Crazy Hassan's Clearinghouse of Delights

Hello 1,2,3,4...*tap* *tap* *tap* Is this thing on?

Either I already said that, or Im going to have to have a word with my ISP about their news server.

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
LarryMichael Zaite

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:47:39 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

You're getting some feedback, turn down the monitors on stage.

TEST! TEST! FREEBIRD! TEST! TEST! Ahh, that's better.

Your ISP isn't the problem, it's his ISP that's not replicating properly. You're definitely coming through on Earthlink.

--Larry

Michael ZaiteLarry

Larry F wrote:

Oh sorry. Im deaf to feed back. Or actualy not deaf. My ears ring all the time so I can't tell what's outside my head and what's inside. Nigel says we may have a lawsuit against Marshall due to neligence on acount of their amps being to loud.

Ahh Usenet how I loathe thee so. Unreliable as a ball in an improbability field on a good day.

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

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Why do I get the feeling you're not joking? I've been expecting to see copyright notices on your posts for some time now.

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Reference to Magnolia?

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The Honking is reference to "Christine" (?). This was a movie in the 80s, where a (red?) car was "living" and very jealous. It loved his owner and killed gilrs who wanted to get involved with the owner. That car killed also a man who dropped a cigarette onto the driver's seat. It even could repair itself.

Does anyone remember that movie?

Hey, I mentioned it in the first post in the thread! :)

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Jan SchaumannAndreas R.

[Christine reference]

Hohohold it there a second, mister. What about "The Shining" (d'uh - see the reference of the title)? That's a pretty darn good one. And "the Green Mile" wasn't too bad either.

-Jan

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Fraggler?Jan Schaumann

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

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I think the title "The Honking" was intended to parody "The Howling", another werewolf movie. The general premise of the entire episode parellels "The Howling" quite a bit, but not so much "The Shining".

Although I did think it was meant to parody "The Shining" at first, then I saw the episode.

-Fraggler?

www.reality-syndicate.com
Michael ZaiteJan Schaumann

Jan Schaumann wrote:

And "Shawshank Redemption" And "Satand by Me" But most of his Throwaway "Horror" films suck pretty bad. And then there's that X-files Episode....ugh.

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
petbenJan Schaumann

The Shawshank Redemption comes to mind as well as Stand By Me.

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Michael Zaitepetben

petben wrote:

Yea to me to. : P

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
NeoLudditeAndrew Levine

In article , [email] (Andrew Levine) wrote:

"The Car" Starring James "Mr. Striesand" Brolin as yhe sheriff of a small town being tormented by Satan in the guise of a evil car. In fact one of the werecars in this episode was almost an exact copy of the "The Car" (not the original one that is destroyed at the end).

Coincidentaly, "The Car" aired on one of the local Phila. stations the week before the Futurama version.

Scratch the surface of a cynic and you'll find a dead optimist.
NeoLudditeAndrew Levine

In article , [email] (Andrew Levine) wrote:

The portrait in the dining room was labeled Commodore LXIV (which equals 64). Commodore 64 was a personal computer back in the day (late 70's early 80's ?)

When the fortune teller bot was reading the story of the Were-car, at the bottom of the front cover it said "For Windows 98"

Careful. We don't want to learn from this. - Calvin & Hobbes

AFAIK, the first C64 is from '82. I got mine in the early '90s. But by that time Commodore had already stopped the production...

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Andreas R.NeoLuddite

The guy who inherits the money, has a shirt that says "TRaSh-80". TRS-80 was a computer sold by radio shack (or tandy, how that shop was called in germany).

Jan SchaumannNeoLuddite
  • "NeoLuddite" wrote:

Wasn't there another Windows-reference somewhere? I seem to remember something like that... hold on, I remember: Bender gets chased by ghosts, some of them were flying "Windows" (the logo), I think.

-Jan

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On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:12:04 -0500, "Jan Schaumann" wrote:

And the ominous chord that played was The Microsoft Sound.WAV from Windows 95.

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