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Zoidburg using his claws as film clappers when making the Magnificent Three? Valet parking tip is $2 at the premiere of the Magnificent Three? the Jar Jar Binks (or what looks like him) head at the Oscar ceremony?

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Harold Lloyd -Harold Zoid

Calvin Klein -Calvin Klone

FDR -Harold Zoid as a wheelchair-bound president

Andy Warhol -Calcaulan painting in the style of the artist

Goofs: Two weeks (as hinted by how long Fry and Leela were stuck in the tar pits), is not enough time for a film to released, win at the Golden Globes, be nominated for an Oscar, and win the award (The time between nominations and the ceremony may change in the future, but the film would have to be eligible for next year's awards).

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The joke about Calculan winning the Golden Globe makes fun of an infamous incident that caused the Golden Globe Awards to be the laughing stock of the awards ceremony circuit for a many years. In 1982, the Best Female Newcomer award went to Pia Zadora for a film that was so awful, that she didn't deserve the award in the first place. However, through bribery by her husband at the time, she was able to get her hand on the award, thus proving to be a major embarrassment for the Hollywood Foreign Press.

The crack about Marissa Tormei (sp?) refers to the 1993 Oscar ceremony. At that ceremony, she was the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Joe Pesci's girlfriend in the film My Cousin Vinny. However, there is a urban legend going that she wasn't the name that was in the envelope. Instead, it is believed that Jack Palance, the person presenting the award, ignored the name in the envelope and announced Tormei (sp?), who was the only American lady to be nominated in the Supporting Actress category that year, as the winner.

where do you guys come up with this stuff from so fast? are you just trivia buffs who have all these societal happenings on tap just ready to pull out whenecer an episode airs? not ranting...just amazed at the rapidity of these types of posts.

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<< where do you guys come up with this stuff from so fast? are you just trivia buffs who have all these societal happenings on tap just ready to pull out whenecer an episode airs? not ranting...just amazed at the rapidity of these types of posts. >>

Ding. That's me. A trivia buff who knows a lot of stuff and is ready to comment on it if needed.

Joe Klemm

Joe Klemm wrote:

Don't forget the total lack of smog, gun toting children, and abandoned ruins in L.A. or the fact that the Hollywood sign is now whole again. I love it when the writers don't bother to watch the shows they make.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:38:39 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

The Planet Express ship flies over a desert wasteland and as they go over a hill, it's Hollywood on the other side. I think the sign was partially visible in "The Cryonic Women". However, the part that was visible said "hood".

--Larry

Larry F wrote:

How do you get HOOD from HOLLYWOOD with out removing the OLLYW and Relocating the H. Plus the Chinese Theater was totaly diffrent too.

"Mike Zaite" wrote in message news:[email]...

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Relocating the H.

You know, given the Futurama team's normal attention to detail, any defense of these differences between tonight and the Cryonic Woman is pretty weak. But then the overall quality makes me wonder if they weren't smoking crack when they put this one together. Bad episode, bad! And altogether unexpected...they can't all be home runs, but I really hope this is just an extreme anomaly.

I haven't examined the alleged inconsistencies personally, but if true the odd thing is that according to frcr.com both of these episodes had the same director, Mark Ervin. In fact, they were the only two episodes this season that were handled by the same director.

Eric S. ([email]) schrieb ...

"Cryonic Women" was from the second (production) season, 2ACV19 I think. Los Angeles was totally rebuilt between the seasons, that's the only explanation.

It was the work of wizards(?).

DGH

"doug holverson" wrote in message news:B6C25922.538C2%[email]...

SPACE WIZARDS!

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 04:00:48 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

The sign was altered from "HOLLYWOOD" to "HOLLYHOOD" and then a building blocked "HOLLY". This is entirely conjecture on my part, the rest of the sign was never shown in the episode.

I will have to rewind the tape and take a look at the Chinese Theater. The sign with all the owners names looked the same. I remember seeing 'Ghadaffi' (sp?) on it last time as well.

--Larry

The deserted wasteland must be "the Valley."

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:43:53 -0800, petben wrote:

In "The Cryonic Woman", Fry goes over the crest of a hill and ends up in front of the Chinese Theater. I stayed in a hotel right behind that theater last summer. Based on the direction Fry came from, the hill he climbed over would be about where I-100 (or something like that) is and the wasteland would be the general area of what is now Universal City. From the hotel, we went about 2 miles north and just west of the freeway to get to Universal's front entrance.

I'm not from LA, so I may be a bit off. However, the LA Subway was just opening a new terminal right near the theater, and La Brea Dr (gateway to the La Brea Tar Pits) was a couple of blocks west. It does seem to fit together pretty well.

--Larry

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

Wallace & Gromit's A Close Shave - A Close Shaving

Star Tours (the ride) - the bus

so is zoidberg supposed to be jewish?

That's kinda the joke. Shellfish is not Kosher. So its funny that he has a Jewish accent.

I thought he was supposed to be a giant mud bug.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 04:06:03 GMT, ben-plot wrote:

Oy vey! Is he Jewish!

--Larry

On 26 Feb 2001 01:41:54 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

Right beside costume designer Edith Head. Get it? Jar? Head? Ahh, the hell with it...

On 26 Feb 2001 01:41:54 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

I was expecting a "Sweeney Todd" ref to the barber scene.

There's a remark about writing being categorized as a minor technical award. In cartoons there are two camps, writers and animators. Currently for the Emmys(tm)(r)(c) the awards for the animated shows are given at the technical awards which are judged by a small blue ribbon panel and the winners are announced ahead of time. The animators prefer this as they want to be voted by their colleagues. The writers would rather have a larger body of the TV academy vote for the animated series along with the other prime time tv shows.

http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?15075

Also notice how Bender is an "executive producer". In tv that's just a writer that's been around long enough.

See http://www.snopes2.com/movies/actors/tomei.htm

The other academy members were jealous because they consider a comedy role is never deserving of an Oscar(r)(tm)(c) (Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda was another unexpected winner). Top marks for the y3k writers for having those two official tabulators behind stage.