Amazon Women in the Mood Capsule Submission

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Bender throwing away the pendant that he received in A Flight to Remember during Kiff's flashback? Fry and Zapp are chained up while Kiff, despite being against it, is loose during Snoo-Snoo?

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Amazon Women on the Moon -Title

Air Supply's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" -Kiff's song to Amy

Priceline.com ads -Zapp's singing (see comments)

The Kinks' "Lola" -Zapp's song about Leela (see comments)

Jurassic Park -Water shaking when Amazons are arriving to crash site

Return of the Jedi -Shot of captured group heading to Snoo-Snoo area similar to shot of the male heroes heading to Ewok Village

Sony -Sonya

The Wizard of Oz -A normal Fembot disguises herself as a huge Femputer and becomes the almighty being of the land.

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Zapp's singing is done in the style for ads for priceline.com. These ads feature spokesperson (and main Zapp spoof target) William Shatner singing a song while promoting an online site that helps people find the best prices for airlines, hotels, and groceries. Obviously, if you can't stand Shatner's cover of the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", then it's best to stay away from these ads.

The song that Zapp sings a la Shatner is Lola, a tune by the Kinks. What Zapp fails to realizes when singing this song is its message: the title person in the song is really a man who dresses up like a girl. While on the sci-fi subject, one of "Weird Al" Yankovic's best parodies (according to his fans) is a Lola spoof about the Empire Strikes Back, more specifically Luke's encounter with Yoda.

Tab is a diet soda that Coca-Cola made before it developed Diet Coke.

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Actually, the song was originally written (by Jim Steinman) for Bonnie Tyler, who sang the first and most familiar version in 1983. If Air Supply ever recorded the song it's news to me.

(There is a file labeled "Air Supply - Total Eclipse of the Heart" floating around Napster, but it seems to be mislabeled, as it sounds nothing like them.)

Also, the karaoke song Morbo sings is "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc., which was a dance hit in late 1979 and early 1980.

Also, Zapp sings the original lyric, "tastes like Coca-Cola." The Kinks' record label, Reprise, had the band change the words to "cherry cola," because BBC Radio had a ban on songs used as advertising , and would not have played the "Coca-Cola" version. The "cherry cola" take is the most familiar version of "Lola." (The BBC folks must have missed the transvestite theme, which would have probably have gotten it banned regardless.)

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There has been a really awful dance remix about a year ago, too.

The Kinks' rigorously deny that this song has anything to do with transvestites. I'm inclined to believe them since they wrote it and performed it. The reason most people think Lola is a man is because of the line: "... I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola." This line does not mean Lola is also a man. It means Lola is also glad that the singer is a man.

Paul

What about the line "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls"?

Or "Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man"?

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Andrew Levine wrote:

Could be reference to the modernizing of Women in the 70's. Or Lola was just a filthy mouthed whore. If the Band says it's not then well I'll go with their story, it's their song. Now S-E-X-X-Y by TMBG, that's all up in the air for interpretation since they never really pin down an official meaning for their songs.

TMBG said in their official "Factory Showroom" overview on the Elektra website that S-E-X-X-Y was their first ode to "getting it on." The specific details of the song are a bit sketchy, though - you never know with the Johns.

I think that it's pretty obvious that the Kinks intended "Lola" to sound like it was about a transvestite but have a clear double meaning, just so they could be funny and deny it in interviews.

Mike Zaite wrote: Now S-E-X-X-Y by TMBG, that's all up in the air for interpretation since they never really pin down an official meaning for their songs.

I read the theory somewhere that it was about someone with both male and female chromosomes, hence the XX and XY letter combinations in SEXXY. I think that they really don't put as much thought into writing their songs as people do interpereting them.

Doctor Worm wrote:

Yea that's one of the one's I've heard. That's what I like about them. It's kinda like Da-Daism in musical form.

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The next line is "it's a mixed up, jumbled up, shook up world except for Lola." Or something like that. Anyway, if you want to put a crossdressing theme in, the singer here is saying that Lola is the only one NOT crossdressing.

Could be she liked football? Or maybe used a lot of profanity?

Really, this has been discussed back and forth a million times. Check deja if you don't believe me. I've actually heard interviews where they deny it means transvestitism.

Paul

Yeah, right, just like the Beatles deny "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is about tripping out on LSD.

A little Side note to this. Has anyone noticed the sign in the intro next to the tube system that used to say "3-D Rules" In FAL-1. Now says something diffrent. But it's just to small to make it out on my tape. Anyone with the into, check it out and see if you can make anything of it.

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The restaurant resembling LAX.

Goof? Dr. Zoidberg's molted shell still has the eyeballs in place. (And if he's walking around in a towel, why is the shell at the meeting/dinner table instead of the bathroom or wherever he keeps his towels?)

Here's an old joke from which the writers surely found inspiration:

Three guys get stranded in a jungle in a plane crash. As they try to find help, they're captured by some mean-looking natives. The natives take the men to their village and tie them up. The leader of the tribe indicates to the men that they have two choices for tresspassing: death, or Unga Bunga. The first guy says, "I don't wanna die," so the chief yells, "UNGA BUNGA!" and 20 large natives tie him down and sodomize him. The second guy, after watching the gruesome spectacle, decides that it is better than death, so he chooses Unga Bunga. The third guy believes Unga Bunga is worse than death, so he chooses death.

The chief yells, "DEATH! ...BY UNGA BUNGA!"

They're eyeball shells.

On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 04:36:49 GMT, Rich Bunnell wrote:

You mean scleral shells.

Not really, I was just making a stupid comment. They really exist??

On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:46:52 GMT, Rich Bunnell wrote:

Scleral shells are kind of like full-eyeball contact lenses, used primarily for cinematic makeup effects. Penn and Teller featured them in their book "Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends"...

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DYN there are cavemen in the new Nintendo game "Banjo-Tooie" called the UNGA BUNGA?

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Did you know "Unga Bunga" originated with *Captain Caveman* back in the 1960-70s?

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I wonder if that game shares the same source code with Crash Bandicoot?

Now THAT was a good cartoon!

Paul

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:46:46 -0500, "Ground Control" wrote:

Ubangi? Ubetcha!

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How about during the Jurrassic Park spoof scene, when the Amazon Women were approaching, Lela looked in the puddle. When the puddle water shook, Lela's relfection had two eyes! Anyone else catch this?

-Fraggler?

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DGH

Fraggler? wrote:

Yea I caught it, and caged it for those who didn't. http://users.nowonline.net/~drz/lpreview.jpg

On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 01:44:16 GMT, Mike Zaite wrote:

Now the big question:

Is this an intentional visual joke? A little reward for the observant? Or is Leela drawn with two eyes (at least sometimes) and then changed?

--Larry

Larry F wrote:

I think it's a "Watch 'Cyberhouse Rules' Later this season" Freeze Frame gag.

Reminds me of when I was drawing Polly Phemus (http://showcase.netins.net/web/flexia/index1.html) back in the '80s, I'd draw the eye in last because, otherwise, having *that* staring up at me from paper sometimes creeped me out. Usually the eye(s) are what a cartoonist or illustrator will draw first on a person's face.

DGH

Pun intended?            ^^^^^^^^^^^

DGH

When Bemder was tied up on the wall, like all the other males, his arms are restrained...and yet he pulls one free in order to thump on his genital-less crotch, then putting his arm back in the shackles?

This post on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:17:36 GMT would probably sound more commanding if Gene Poole, G.D.I. wasn't wearing the Yummy Sushi Pajamas:

Better -- Bender has notches near his wrists for easy chaining.

And -- Women's Basketball. Just as implied, fundamentals but no dunking. But I wouldn't be as sexist if the Head of Pat Summitt (TN Coach) was around. :)

So why can't women dunk?

BTW- You're making me think of Iowa high school girl's basketball. Six girls on the court and a stupid double dribble rule that end up with a technical foul every minute or two. I've been avoiding high school sports since nineteen-seventy-something, so I'm not sure if they still do that.

DGH

On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:17:36 GMT, "Gene Poole, G.D.I." wrote:

They did a similar routine on "Police Squad". A women is trying to untie her hands behind her back. She then takes one hand out in front, wipes her forehead and then puts her hand back to continue struggling.

--Larry

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Didja notice Zapp finally got the word "Champagne" right?

On 05 Feb 2001 01:49:23 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

I was hoping for a "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" reference when the computer gave the answer 42.

Zikron the Insistent wrote:

42? when was that? But I noticed a oblique one in there. When Zapp says "It's built like a steak house but it handles like a bistro." It's directly a reference to a car commercial but I forget for what car. But it Kinda makes you think of Slartibartfast's Bistromath Ship from "Life, the Universe and Everything".

Plus...the temple's smoking nipples were reminiscent of the "Fem Bots" in Austin Powers.

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On 05 Feb 2001 01:49:23 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

Also, the "it sickens me" from one of the other characters is from an outake of Shatner arguing with a director. See http://www.tvparty.com/emannoun.html .

On 07 Feb 2001 04:38:22 GMT, [email] (Andrashar) wrote:

The Palme d'Or (or Golden Palm) is the name of the award for best motion picture at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Palme Velue is the name of the award for best adult motion picture at the Vivid Film Festival

Joe Klemm schrieb:

- Nibbler pukes out Sunglasses and a stick blinds use. Who has he eaten?

- What is written on the sign at the warderobe? "Palm D'Orbit Coat Check - 25c Suecharge Each Sleeve over 9" (?)

- nobody is disturbed by Zapps cigarette smoke, but when he mentions "Cola" everyone complains...?

• The shell catalog is from "J. Crab"

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Ozan Ayy�ce wrote:

It wasn't the Cola it was the Shatnering (It's like singing only not at all).