S05E05 - Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch - (Amy's calendar) HELP!

Hi!

Yesterday, I was watching the episode on DVD with commentary on, and there is a scene with Amy and Leela in a bar discussing thing like motherhood and Kif. Then, Amy shows her calendar and the issue is:

In the commentary, David X. Cohen says that there were 31 jokes written for that calendar; 30 good ones and 1 bad. First of all, two are blanks and secondly, to my best effort I could only make out these (three of them I could not see in full):

Bimonthly Dimple Rotation Yoga Rave Girlicure Baby Shower Shop Drop (?) Lunch With Molly Trash Molly With Tina Trash Tina With Molly Find New Friends Pony Aerobics Cuteness Trainer 10P... / Wang... / C... (???) Recharge Bra Extreme Aromatherapy Fini$h Thesis Buy Stock Adopt All Puppies Pity Party For The Less Popular Green Shirt Day New F... / Annou... / Today... (???) Hang With Walter Koenig Tolstoy Seminar *empty* Neutron Croquet Search Couple For Spare Millions Do Something For Myself Hair-T... / Olym... (???) Benefit For Divorced Princesses Snub All Dark-Haired Boys *empty* Rearrange Teddy Bears, Promote Mr. Fluffy

"AL" wrote in message news:...

Here's my attempts at explaining them. Remember Amy is a _shallow_ person.

Cute people have dimples.

Do you know what a rave is? Hardly the environment for meditation.

"Shop 'till you drop" was a common expression in the 1980s. It means buy lots of stuff until you die.

Tina and Molly catch on.

Rich girls have ponies.

Would you really expect Amy to have read _War and Peace_?

I thought it was "Search couch ...", from the graphic guide at www.lelazone.com.

As if she's been helping the poor.

As if she'd help the poor.

-- Christopher Heckman

=v= There is much to imagine here. Presumably this bra has a different function from her spray-on bikini.

=v= This sounds like it would be an interesting episode, except they've already done a "Trouble With Tribbles" parody. <_Jym_>

They have? Which episode is that?

=v= My bad. They only parodied the title ("The Problem With Popplers"). <_Jym_>

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:01:12 -0500, Proginoskes wrote (in message ):

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I don't think that's the joke. What's happening here seems to be that Amy plans to hang out with Walter Koenig before a seminar which is NOT about Chekhov. In other words, she's trying, but she's missed a crucial detail...

I think this may have been the "bad joke" to which David Cohen was referring in the commentary. I'd call it a conceptual joke, or a meta-joke, or an anti-joke -- the joke being that they didn't use the obvious joke. Or maybe I've been thinking about this way too much...?

Note for Oliver Beene fans: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian dramatist and physician before entering Starfleet Academy. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was pretty much a contemporary of Chekhov and was the author of War And Peace. ;-)

RAB

Thank you for all this extra information! It is much appreciated ... unexpected but highly appreciated.

The thing is that I really wanted for you to help in filling in the missing pieces, i.e. see below.

10P... / Wang... / C... (???)
New F... / Annou... / Today... (???)
Hair-T... / Olym... (???)

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:17:16 +0100, "AL" wrote:

Maybe "New Fad Announced Today"? That would seem to fit with Amy's desire to be hip...

Well, the second word is obviously "Olympics", and the first could be just about anything, but is clearly hair-related. Could be "Hair-Teasing Olympics", but basically anything that a shallow person like Amy might find important, combined with Olympic competition.

"David Litchman" wrote in message news:[email]...

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Why Olympics? Mt Olympus is an actual location on Mars. (And in Greece, the sporting event was named for it.)

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:59:21 -0600, "Kay Archer" wrote:

Because there's no "Mt." before it.

"AL" wrote in message news:bvqdbg$uf8lm$[email]...

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This one may be "10PM Wang Chung" from Wang Chung's-"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" That's just a guess. And it would be an 80's refrence which they like a lot.

"AL" wrote in message news:...

This must be Saturday the 13th.

New ? Announced Today

Hair Olympics

New Fiance Announced Today?

"Proginoskes" wrote in message news:[email]...

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