The extreme goats exhibit being sponsered by Mountain Dew?
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2001 -Hal-like computer running the ship -Shot of computer looking at the crew's lips -Brain Room a la the microchip room
Two Princes -Song playing on the Planet Express ship radio
Friends -Show the two aliens are watching
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A common practice that some people do when watching television is take part in a drinking game. Usually, these games people watching the TV and taking a sip (usually beer) whenever a certain incident happens on screen (i.e take a sip whenever Bender's drinking an alcoholic beverage). Obviously, you'd be wasted if the rule tells you drink whenever the robot is on screen, as he's the star of the episode (and show).
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 04:07:02 GMT, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
2001 was itself making a reference. Daisy was programmed into one of the first computers to synthesize voice in the late 1960s. When 2001 came out it was very cutting edge. It was one of the first demonstrations that a computer could make recognizable speech.
Yup. Good call. I remember seeing a bit on that during a show on PBS called "HAL's Legacy", which was based on a book by the same title and covered the state of AI.
My post seems to have been mangled a quite a bit from the one I wanted to send. :( I'm sure the error was on my end, so this is what I had intended to say the first time around:
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Extreme Elk. It was a reference to the Mt. Dew commercial where a guy endures a male horn ramming ritual to protect his Mountain Dew.
Garbage was being used to produce the heart shaped boxes of candy.
The heart candy was made of Bone Meal and Earwig Wax
Freeze Frames
Welcome to Romantic Milwaukee. Birthplace of Beer Goggles.
2001 - "Daisy, Daisy" song sung by Bender was a great play on HAL's death from 2001. I loved the way they made it seem to playful on the show!
Tron - "inside the computer" visualization when Bender's and the Planet Express Ship's programs were merging.
(A fantastic set up to deliver my favorite line of the show:
Bender's head, looking at a pair of vacuum tubes: "Tubes?! You're older than you said you were!" :)
Did anyone notice the # days that had passed since the last attack byOmicon Persi 9? 247 days. If this show had aired on the date it was originally scheduled for, would that have coincided with the "When Aliens Attack" episode?
Also, I though Sigourney Weaver did an outstanding job with the voice. Her laughs/cries were so good that it didn't really seem like acting, it seemed real. =========================
As well the first scene of the Planet Express ship flying through the Asteroid field very much resembles the intro movie of the action shooter Descent II released in '96 where the material defender is docking on Valhalla Tower. Same camera perspective and almost the same ship movement.
These type pf games have exploded in the past few years, with the net an all, re the Buffy bra-strap game, Real World crying/yelling, etc.
A couple of other things I noticed: The lovey bears in the beginning, where Amy mentions something about them kissing (I think), is a take-off on the Hallmark kissing bears that have magnets in their mouths, so they stick together. And when Leela is disconnecting the ships Carbonated memory circuits, she mentions that she won free admission to Six Flags. Six Flags is a chain of amusement parks in the States, and in the spring and summer months, Coca-Cola runs a promotion where you get $5 off admission if you bring an empty specially marked can with you, I don't know if they ever did a free admission thing though, I don't drink Coke.
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:17:58 GMT, Lyle McDonald wrote:
I think they were also the basis for "Fluffy and Uranus", the two sickeningly sweet stuffed bears on Duckman. At least they were treated with the unspeakable brutality such cuteness deserves.
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:06:18 GMT, [email] (Ken) wrote:
I remember my parents had two little toy "scotty dogs" that had magnets in them. You placed them near each other on a smooth flat surface and they would slide together and kiss. I think I saw them advertised in old comic books too. That was in the mid 1960's.
I rewatched the show and I think you're right. It happens during the retreat from the Omicrons, right? What is this from? I want to include it in the capsule I'm compiling: http://www.io.com/~tomg/4ACV03.html
Shields & Yarnell were a male-female comedy team who showed up quite a lot on the Sullivan show in late 60's-70's. Did a lot of mime-type stuff, as I recall. No connection to outer space, cartoons or anything related to Futurama. In other words, Fry's reference is completely out of left field, one of the reasons we love the show so much!
actually, there is a Sci-Fi angle to this - the female half of Shields and Yarnell did the actual body work for the character of Dot Matrix (the C3PO parody voiced by Joan Rivers) in _Spaceballs_ .
A couple of em that I forgot to mention on my first posting:
goofs:
When Bender is sitting on outside on the ship's wing on a picnic sheet (right word in that context) it is moving as if there was air in space
When the ship has dropped the oxygen and gravity level to zero Bender 'swims' out of the room. Since there's no air and no gravity there's nothing that could give him a trajectory cause he does not use the walls as the other two do.
Since I've already got a working template from the AoI2 capsule we just put together, I've starting collecting all of these comments and organizing them into a more coherent document. I'll try and post it later, along with unresolved questions that need clarification. That seems to work pretty well for some things. Right now I'm too pissed about the "NO season 5 news" to do any useful work. (Hell, it can be argued that there hasn't even been a season 4! GRRR!)