"Roswell That Ends Well" Stuff

=v= Here are a few more random remarks ... (*** spoilers ***)

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    ... the episode starts on September 21st, 3002?

... Zoidberg apparently has a number of redundant organs?

... they had a "Hard Croon" cafe because rock didn't exist yet?

    ... the "Zoidberg skull" drawn next to the "Roswell That
        Ends Well" graffiti on the missile?

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=v= Enos is based on Gomer Pyle, except that he says "gadzooks" instead of "golly."

=v= Fry pushing Enos out of the way of the jeep is from the "City on the Edge of Forever" episode of _Star_Trek_.

=v= The hot-to-trot ancestor reminds me of _Back_to_the_Future_ (where nothing came between Marty and his Calvins).

=v= The graffiti on the missile ... _Independence_Day_, right? (I have a Cubert-like observation about how Jeff Goldblum, with the clock ticking while trying to save the Earth by uploading a virus to the alien computers, took the time to either puzzle out their graphics display format or upload the Wingdings font, all so that they'd see human skulls on their screens, which would hardly be frightening to them, now would it? But that's neither here nor there.)

=v= Bender's head being buried since 1947 reminds me of Marvin the Paranoid Android. Marvin ultimately lived three(?) times as long as the universe, what with all the time-travelling that humans put him through.

=v= Enos' sargeant yells "Enos" the way that Superintendent Chalmers yells "Seymour" in _The_Simpsons_. (I was gonna say it was another Gomer Pyle reference, but to me it really sounds a whole lot more like Chalmers' yell.)

=v= There might be others for folks who watch _Roswell_ on the WB. I didn't notice anything that reminded me of _The_X-Files_, though.

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=v= The pizza they fed Zoidberg had no anchovies. Poor guy.

=v= Does anyone recognize that blurry lights photo that was supposedly of Harry Truman? I think it's famous UFO arcana, but I can't quite place it.

    <_Jym_>

The reflection in the professor's eyes while they are time travelling is a reference to 2001, at the end when Dave becomes teh star child. That's how I read it anyhow.

Lyle

"Jym Dyer" wrote in message news:[email]...

Yeah. R.I.P. Frank.

Speaking of that missle, what was the point?

Back to the Future, due to the fact that they didn't see it coming first and have to let it happen.

More like what happened to Data, except they found his head at the end of the story, not the begining.

"Hundsfurtz" wrote in message news:[email]...

"Roswell that ends well" is actually a book, i saw it when i did a google for the episode

=v= Somebody in the German newsgroup (de.tv.futurama) says that the title comes from a commercial host-your-own-mystery game. <_Jym_>

lol

wacky germans

"Jym Dyer" wrote in message news:[email]...

"Ben Stevens" schrieb

So wacky it's the first thing you find when you try Google. ;)

Nope, it's not - the first time was in 1ACV09, when the Robot Devil handed Bender a brochure that had 'Hell is Other Robots' (the episode's title) written on it.

"Jym Dyer" wrote in message news:[email]...

That's a good episode. Almost as good as "Darmok and Jalad (at Tanagra)" (Next Generation)

"The first thousand years were the worst. The second thousand were the worst, too." On Magrathaea, remember? For more info, ask on alt.fan.douglas-adams.

Yes. Highlighed very well in Simpsons 3F18 (S07E21) 22 Short Films About Springfield.

He probably already ate them before it hit the glass. He HAD eaten Fry's anchovies by that date, right?

*Michael Notforyou*

Hundsfurtz wrote...

The episode is a two-parter titled "Time's Arrow."

On 10 Dec 2001 15:57:34 -0800, Jym Dyer wrote:

Enos is also the name of the deputy in "Dukes of Hazzard"

But Captain Kirk didn't bag Joan Collins.

There was a similar ST:TNG episode involving Data's head found in a San Francisco archeological dig. The plot involved Mark Twain and Thomas Edison from the 19th century.

"Hundsfurtz" wrote in message news:[email]...

You don't think that maybe Superintendent Chalmers yelling at Principal Skinner all the time could be a reference to Gomer Pyle? A double redirected reference, as it were?

=v= I do think that could be so, though Pyle is yelled at with a downward emphasis ("PY-yull"), whereas "See-MORE" and "Een-OS" go in the other direction. Both are more like an old radio show than Gomer Pyle, at least to my ears. <_Jym_>

Three times? Nope, thirty-seven times! Remember this bit from the last episode of 'So long, and thanks for all the fish':

Anyway, I really think that this was a very-direct reference to Star Trek TNG's episode "Time's Arrow", where not only they find Data's head after 500 years of being buried in San Francisco, but also they re-attach the 500-year old head to his body... and it works!

Read you later, Leandro.

The alarm sound in the ship is the sound from the old star trek series.

=v= Okay, I watched some more, so here's some more stuff!

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=================== ... the 48-star American flag at Roswell Air Base?

    ... the Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket when they fed
        Zoidberg?

... Mildred has the Ten Commandments on the wall?

    ... the conspiracy nut's photo of the Planet Express ship,
        which has that trademark Groening overbite, came out
        looking like the Loch Ness Monster, which has the same
        overbite?

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=v= When the jeeps arrived to find Zoidberg, all we saw were their headlights, just like in _The_X-Files_?

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=v= This time I noticed the resemblance between the graffiti Zoidberg on the missile and the classic Kilroy doodle.

=v= When the _Star_Trek_ red alert sounds came on, Leela told everyone to fasten their seatbelts. I thought this was pretty funny, because there are no seatbelts in _Star_Trek_. At one point somebody asked the producers why there were no seatbelts, and they answered it was because then the actors couldn't fall out of their chairs.

    <_Jym_>

I'm pretty sure it's the Marfa Lights. Or maybe the Lubbock Lights.

Robert

<< I'm pretty sure it's the Marfa Lights. Or maybe the Lubbock Lights. >>

It's the Lubbock Lights. The second is, of course, the infamous surgeon's photo of Nessie from 1934 (since proven false).

Another BTTF reference--the diner Fry and Enos went into was the Hill Valley diner where Marty McFly found his father in 1955. It was a dance studio in 1985, and an antique shop in 2015.

Robert

"Robert Teague" wrote in message news:VjbS7.32369$[email]...

Ummm, I do believe it was an 80's cafe in 2015.

<< Ummm, I do believe it was an 80's cafe in 2015. >>

And probably on the spot of the saloon in 1885.

In alt.tv.futurama, on the "[3ACV19] "Roswell That Ends Well" Stuff" thread, Jym Dyer wrote:

If you're going to nit-pick about that, you might as well comment on the improbability of (a) the aliens running computer hardware that is binary-compatible with our own and (b) the aliens running an OS similar enough to our own that Goldblum could write a virus exploiting it.

And you just know that, weeks before the invasion, the aliens' IT department sent an e-mail about not running programs coming from an unknown source ...

"Benjamin Robinson" wrote in message news:[email]...

You know, that's one thing in the novelization that made sense. It wasn't really a virus, they just reverse engineered the *signal* which turned shields off, and used the captured ship to broadcast it to the mother vessel.

"Benjamin Robinson" wrote in message news:[email]...

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Benjamin Robinson wrote:

When I first saw that I assumed they were saying that *our* computer

technology was based on *theirs*. Quite a neat explanation, really.

Boldra