Review for 'A Bycyclops Built For Two'

In my opinion, the best episode of the season. Recently, there haven't been that many character-driven episodes, just ones for laughs. This reversed that. Even though it was a bit dramatic, it had some wonderful jokes as well. The Internet scene was downright ROFLing, and the cyclops looking for the missile with the telescope was a nice accomplishment of making a joke out of the destruction of an entire race. Grade: A

missile

I'm not saying you didn't get this, but the joke was that having only one eye seriously degrades your depth perception. So when the cyclops was asked "how far away", he said something like "a million miles", and then of course the missile immediately strikes. They've used this joke (lack of depth perception) with Leela a time or two.

Also, when they did the bit about the mole people being jealous of the Cyclops' vision, I thought of the saying, "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king." Does anyone know where that's from?

I'm not really,

John Smith

I know it's an old quote from some important figure in history, I just can't seem to remember which one.

DJ MaNiAk

"The only reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

On 21 Mar 2000 05:08:59 GMT, [email] (DJ MaNiAk) wrote:

Yeah, I think your right. I keep wanting to say it was Samual Clemins, but I really dont know for sure.

[email] wrote: :On 21 Mar 2000 05:08:59 GMT, [email] (DJ MaNiAk) :wrote:

:Yeah, I think your right. I keep wanting to say it was Samual :Clemins, but I really dont know for sure.

H.G. Wells, from his 1904 short story "In the Country of the Blind."

Al Wesolowsky wrote:

Even earlier; it was contained in _Adagia_, by Desiderius Erasmus (ca. 1466-1536), though in Latin ("In regione caecorum rex est luscus."). Yet even that book was a treatise on already-existing adages, or proverbs, of "the ancients".

I'd have to go upstairs to find my copy of the story and find what attribution Wells used when he used the quote at the beginning of the story where he demonstrated the opposite, as in his story the one-eyed man was _not_ king.

<I'm not saying you didn't get this, but the joke was that having only one eye seriously degrades your depth perception. So when the cyclops was asked "how far away", he said something like "a million miles", and then of course the missile immediately strikes.>

I know, the main reason why it was so hilarious. Kudos to the voice acting, even the way he said "trillion" made it all the more amusing.

"Stand still damit! I don't have good depth perseption!"

Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?

Frink: (with sarcasm detector) Are you kidding me? This baby is right off the charts, mm-hai.

CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.