Some things that may have been overlooked in the capsules1ACV06-capsule

I mailed this quite some time ago to [email] of the Futurama Chronicles but I haven't gotten any response. As well, our darn newsserver can't get this ng and it's so damn annoying to have to browse the incredible number of threads in this ng on a crappy Deja news interface so please bear with me in case it's been already mentioned.

I've been very interested in the capsules since most of them also contain the scripts so that us germans can read some of the words we didn't understand acustically. Well, I've got additions to some of those capsules so please tell me what you think:

1ACV06: a joke did't get appreciated

IMO the joke about the TV wasn't realized in the capsule so here's my 2 cents on it.

----- Bender: Hey, get a load of this pathetic 20th century TV. Fry: What's wrong with it? Bender: Well, aside from causing eye cancer, these things had a lousy, low-definition picture. Amy: That's true. One a TV like this I bet you couldn't even make out my obscene tatoo. Amy rolls up her sleeve, and everyone leans over to read what's written on her arm. They all giggle, and Leela says it's cute, but all we can see on Amy's arm is a greyish blur. -----

And that exactly IS the joke!! We just see a greyish blur cause in the year 2000 we are all using such a low-definition picture TV to watch Futurama so we just can't see it!

1ACV13: additional reference

"There's something rotten on the planet Wormulon." Most likely this is a reference to the famous Masterpiece 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare in which Marcellus, an officer to the King says "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark". (Act I, Scene IV). There may be several versions around coz I'm quite sure I've also read "There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.".

2ACV09: reference to 2001

When Bender presses the button to enter the Internet Fry says "Oh my God, it's full of ads". This should be a refernece to what Dave Bowman says in the Arthur C. Clarke's novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" when he enters the stargate (no, NOT the crappy one of Roland Emmerich): "Oh my God, it's full of stars". This is underlined by the very same music 'Thus spoke Zarathrusta' by Richard Strauss.

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pardon me if i missed something here, what "capsules" are you referring to?

speak for yourself, pal. some germans also know how to speak, read, write and understand the english language:-)

well, since i don't really know what these "capsules" are that you're referring to, i agree with what you wrote about the first 2 episodes (i.e. 1ACV06 & 1ACV13), though i do think they were quite obvious. the joke about the tatoo was enough to let me smile (i wasn't exactly rolling on the floor then), the hamlet reference is also fairly obvious, but that's not really enough to get a big laugh...

as to the "oh my god, it's full of ads" comment in 2ACV09, i don't think this is ultimately a reference to "2001". supposing it is (i don't know, because i didn't see the movie "2001"), the joke works another way too: i mean, surfing the internet today means virtually getting attacked by ads - every bloody website has them. when was the last time you viewed a website without ads...

matthias

Memory capsules. They contain memory RNA distilled from tissue samples cloned from dozens of people who saw the episode in question suspended in an inert glucose solution. They're available for 4 to 5 bucks apiece from Sneed Biotechnologies. Very helpful for those who have missed an episode and don't want to wait until it airs again.

Or, he might have been referring to the "episode capsule" texts available at www.frcr.com and a few other sites. No way to know for sure.

It WAS a 2001 reference; that much is almost universally agreed upon. This is a sci-fi parody show we're dealing with, remember? Also, for the record, 2001 was a book as well.

In article , "M.Schweinoch" writes:

Why, they're anti-pressure capsules, available in convenient suppository form!

Well, there's my website, it doesn't have any ads... I wont post the URL here, cuz that would be an ad in itself.. :)

waldo

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There are other 2001 references in Futurama as well. In Lesser of Two Evils, S02E11, when Amy, Fry and Zoidberg are going to Europa, there is a monolith orbiting the moon with an "Out of Order" sign taped to it.

waldo

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