In the penguin episode, there are at least 2 references to the 'puffin twins', once when Leela is cleaning up some penguins and when done tells them to 'stay away from those puffin twins' and another reference when the hunters get near the pengiun pack and they decide their only hope is to stand still. Bender chimes in (in pengiun talk) and says 'that's puffin talk'. Anyone shed some light on this reference?
Time for more alcohol input..............
Puffin are a type of penguin. In french, what you call penguins are called manchots and what you call puffins are actually called pengouin (pretty close to penguin...) Just type puffin in any search engine to see pictures. Hope this helps.
Peace, *-) K.os
"K.os" wrote:
Puffin are a type of auk. They are in the order Chardriiformes family Alcidae. Where as Penguins are in the order Sphenisciformes family Spheniscidae. Puffins live in the northern hemisphere, Penguins in the southern. They fill a similar niche but are very different birds.
Thanks Cliffie, but what has this got to do with the significance of the twins and why they should be stayed away from?
One of the twins is an evil twin and you can't even tell them apart. Plus the evil one refuses to play fair by growing a goatee so that you can tell them apart.
DGH
BTW- Is Maynard T. Gibbs Gilligan's evil twin?
doug holverson wrote in article ...
Krebs, Maynard G. Krebs...
That was Bender and Flexo Dougie my boy I'm still waiting to hear about the "puffin twins" reference and it's meaning.
No real meaning, just a goofy and slightly evocative throw away line.
DGH
Alcidae.
Puffins
similar
Holy cow. How do you know that? I mean did you look it up or did you just know all about penguins and puffins? (I thought a puffin ws jump a big ass fat penguin or something.)
I guess I'm just the Fry of this time period.
Forever Man wrote:
I have a thick old �1961 Taxonomy book titled "Birds Of The World: A Survey Of The 27 Orders And 155 Families" that I picked up at a garage sale for like $1.00 to use as set design that happens to be in a stack arms length from my computer. I'll probably never get another chance to use it to reference anything so I figured what the hell.