"When the Wrong Credits are Aired"

Actual title: When Aliens Attack subtitle: ==PROUDLY MADE ON EARTH==

Fox goofed. Instead of airing the closing credits for this episode, Fox aired the credits for AABF19 E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt), the Simpsons episode which aired tonight.

= Previous Episodes =
 - Leela and Amy's swimsuits are same as [1ACV10]
 - Fry delivers Pizza _and_ Lobrau beer [1ACV01]
 - Fry saves the planet as only a 20th century slob could [1ACV08]
 - Hermes easily swipes his clothes off to reveal an outfit that is
   appropriate for the occasion [swimsuit cf. olympic limbo outfit]
   [1ACV10]
 - the PE ship beeps in reverse as Calculon's half-brother beeped
   [1ACV03]
 - long-legged spider robot appears
   -- in Little Neptune [1ACV07]
   -- in the Church of Robotology [1ACV09]
 - #9 man appears
   -- in Little Neptune [1ACV07]
   -- at the Titanic Christening [1ACV10]
 - Moon U man appears
   -- at Luna Park in [1ACV03]
 - Square root-2 News anchorwoman [1ACV08]
 - a high resolution TV gag [cf. Amy's obscene tatoo]
 - Zoidberg claw gags [a pile of deflated volleyballs
                       cf. can't grasp a round glass, etc.]
 - spray-on bikini [cf. spray-on toupe]
 - Bender says "Cheese it!" [1ACV11]
 - recurring Zapp Brannigan gags:
     Bloody triumph over the Pacifists of the Gandhi Nebula

= 9 Months in the Future = This episode takes place on Labor Day, which is still an observed work holiday in the year 3000. This establishes that Fry has been in the future for 9 months, and may give us a clue as to whether or not time will pass by on the show [IOW, will we always be in the year 3000 or will time pass]. btw, I'm sure someone will soon determine what day the first Monday in September 3000 falls on.

= Minutiae =
 - The female alien wears clothing but the male does not.
 - The alien's television is oval and quite small.  It also has rabbit
   ear antennae.
 - Fry is covered with bedsores?
 - The alien shoots his television as Elvis Presley is rumored to have
  done [with the Simpsons has also parodied].
 - A Slurm truck [a hovercraft] has left Earth to join the battle
   and is destroyed.
 - Morbo is missing.  I attibute this to the fact that since Lrrr's
   voice [the main alien] is very similar to Morbo's, it makes sense
   not to have the two play off of each other in the same scene.
 - The winning lotto number was 4.  [I wonder what the odds are?]
 - Zapp Brannigan is a 25 star general!
 - The Hubble Telescope looks strikingly similar to the alien
   mothership.
 - Amy says Zidiot instead of idiot, similar to saying G'uh instead
   of D'uh.
 - The aliens attach an old uhf antenna to their ship to receive
   the SFL episode.

= Pop Culture = "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" [book] - Women are from Omicron Persei 7, and men are from Omicron Persei 9

= Meta Reference = - Fry says "This is HDTV, its got better resolution than the real world" [Fry's 'real world' is _not_ high resolution]

= Theme Lyrics to SFL =
  Opening:
      "Single female lawyer fightin' for her client,
       wearing sexy mini-skirts and bein' self-reliant."
  Closing:
      "Single female lawyer havin' lots of sex,
       ... [interupted] "

= Monuments at Monument Beach = - Randy's Donuts is a monument?

= Memorable moments = "What in the name of Bob Marley's ghost!" "Bite my red hot glowing ass!" "I'll never survive in here, I'm too pretty!" The tiny toy sized alien ship blows up Fry's sandcastle. "Anyone without a ship should fire wildly into the air!" "Well, it took an hour to write, I thought I'd take an hour to read." Crazy Bender's Discount Stereos

= Goofs = - Bender's red hot glowing ass didn't melt his lounge chair. - The Statue of Liberty should be holding a laser pistol or a section of pnuematic tubing.

Fry's Attitude toward Robots
   In 1ACV05 Fry compares a planet inhabited by robots to a
   warehouse inhabited by boxes.  In this episode, Fry attempts
   to suggest that the robots be sent as a first wave attack.

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Dave Sweatt Futurama Chronicles http://futurama.simplenet.com

He could have enrolled in a Summer Semester, especially since they are traditionally "light material" due to the shorter time frame.

Larry F wrote in message ... Fry had been at planet express for over two months when they finally

In article , [email] wrote:

September 7th.

In article , [email] (Eric Sansoni) wrote:

According to my trusy Linux machine, it's the 1st. Of course it's possible the Gergorian calendar could have been modified due to the second coming of Jesus...

Brian

A computer getting the date wrong? Unthinkable!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the location of my reference: http://www.mnsinc.com/utopia/Calendar/Year_Correlations.html

There are only 14 different possible date patterns for any year, 7 for leap years and 7 for standard years. They don't repeat in order, naturally, but in a fixed cycle of 28. Each leap year is used once in the cycle, and each regular year is used thrice. Every 28 years, we restart the same exact 28-year pattern of dates all over again.

By extension, the calendar for 3000 should be identical to the 1992 calendar, because 1992 + (36 * 28) = 3000. Like every 4th year, this happens to be a leap year, the only form of leap year in which the first Monday in September falls on the 7th of the month.

We don't have as much to look forward to as you might have thought. Once you're 28, you've pretty much seen it all. The good news is, you don't need to buy a new VCR in 2000. Just set the year on yours to 1972. There's no need to worry about accidentally recording old episodes of All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, unless of course you tape the Nick at Nite channel by mistake.

"You never know when an old calendar is going to come in handy. Sure it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?" -Homer Simpson

(Bite your tongue, Homer, remember you're selling new Simpsons calendars every year...)

-Eric S. ([email] or [email] or [email])

	"I've been wasting my life.  I'm going to do what I always dreamed of.
	 I'm going to write that sitcom about the sassy robot!"
	  -Matt Groening creates Futurama?

Eric Sansoni wrote in article ...

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BZZZZZTTTT! Thanks for playing, here's a copy of our home game! Ever since 1582 when Pope Gregory reformed the calendar, there have been no leap days in years divisible by 100, except those also divisible by 400. This means the "14 different years" don't repeat in a cycle of 28 years but rather a cycle of 400 years: 1600 is a leap year, same as 2000, 2400, and 2800. 1700 is not a leap year, the same as 2100, 2500, and 2900. 1800 is the same as 2200, 2600, and 3000 (also 1997.)

Steve

ps check your reference (above) for 1997 and you'll find Labor day was on Monday

Steve Vernon wrote in article ...

Monday the 1st

Hey, Steve, thanks for the correction, I see you're right. The web site is correct, I just didn't notice that 1900 and 2100 deviated from the expected pattern when I interpreted their data.

It can't be correct to say the cycle repeats every 400 years, because 400 is not divisible by 28. It looks like the 100-mults are simply treated as exceptions to the cycle. From the charts it looks like the cycle stays consistent every 28, with the exception you stated that on every multiple of 100 (that isn't also a multiple of 4), if a leap year occurs, February 29th is deleted. In other words, given the site's numbering scheme of 0-13, you subtract 7 to get the actual calendar (calendars 0-6 are identical to calendars 7-13 except that 7-13 have February 29th added). Hence my reasoning was correct except that I wasn't aware of the leap year exception for the multiples of 100 as you pointed out.

These numbers are a little off, 1800 is the "2" calendar, while 1997 and 3000 use the "3" for example. You can't go by a pattern of 400. I tried mapping the numbers for each 100-mult year 20 in a row, and still no pattern emerges. I think the only way is to use the 28-year cycle and simply make the leap year "Pope Gregory" exception on the dates with multiples of 100 (but not also a mult of 4).

With this in mind it would be easy to write a computer program to tell you which calendar to use for any given year (simply store the array of 28 starting with 0, 1, 2, 10..., divide your year by 28 and use the remainder to reference the array, remembering to subtract from the result 7 if your original number fits the Pope Gregory exception).

Although strangely I now notice this site's 19th century seems to skip many years in the cycle, making a 28-cycle calculation starting at 1901 down incorrect according to this. However the 28-year cycle calculation gets the correct result up to 3,000...

This is correct, 1997 and 3000 use the same calendar.

What was Pope Gregory on, anyway?

"Ah, there's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Yes, science has it all." -Principal Seymour Skinner

-Eric S. ([email] or [email] or [email])

	"I've been wasting my life.  I'm going to do what I always dreamed of.
	 I'm going to write that sitcom about the sassy robot!"
	  -Matt Groening creates Futurama?

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:33:13 GMT, [email] (Eric Sansoni) wrote:

Jan 1 falls on the same calendar day every 400 years, the cycle will repeat every 400 years.

400 *365 --------- 146000 <<Note that this is the exact number of unsuccessfully human hunts + 97 (There are 97 leap years in 400 years) for a total of 146097 days ------- 146097

Since 146097 is divisible by 7, Jan 1 will be on the same day every 400 years.

There is also a 28 year cycle which will only need to be adjusted the three non-leep years every 400 years. On the web sight, notice that in 1902,1930,1958,1986,2014 etc Jan 1 is Wed.

"Being a mad scientist is about doing bad things to good people with science!" --Dr. Chromedome

--Larry

The MS Visual Basic 6.0 date functions prove that 9/1/3000 will indeed fall on a Monday.

Steve Cross

Steve Cross wrote:

tschenz:~ > cal 9 3000

   September 3000
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1  2  3  4  5  6

Jens :)

Look, there is an easy solution. Don't worry about some horrible mathematical equation. We know that January 1, 3000 is a Tuesday (because the head museum is free on Tuesday). There is only one possible calendar non-leap year (because no year divisible by 100 is a leap year) calendar for which January 1 falls on Tuesday, and that is the same calendar that will be used in 2002:

September 1: Sunday 2: Monday 3: Tuesday 4: Wednesday 5: Thursday 6: Friday 7: Saturday.

Thank you very much, and goodnight.

~CR

(except for those which are also divisible by 400)

--brian

Fry was defrosted on Dec 31 2999 - remember, they escaped on the spaceship right at the turn of the millenium - which was a Tuesday, so Jan 01 was a Wednesday.

September 1: Monday 2: Tuesday 3: Wednesday 4: Thursday 5: Friday 6: Saturday 7: Sunday

(Annoyed grunt)!

[email] wrote in article ...

determine what day the first Monday in September 3000 falls on.

Monday, September 1st, 3000

Steve

"[email]" pointed out: << Fox goofed. Instead of airing the closing credits for this episode, Fox aired the credits for AABF19 E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt), the Simpsons episode which aired tonight. >>

Which I noticed immediately when I tried to see if Maurice LaMarche was the voice of Lrrrr. Anyone know for sure if he did that or not?

<< = Memorable moments = "What in the name of Bob Marley's ghost!" "Bite my red hot glowing ass!" "I'll never survive in here, I'm too pretty!" The tiny toy sized alien ship blows up Fry's sandcastle. "Anyone without a ship should fire wildly into the air!" "Well, it took an hour to write, I thought I'd take an hour to read." >>

How could you leave out Brannigan's line about how "the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!" ;)

TPE

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[email] wrote:

Did the donut on the beach actually say "Randy's", 'cause there seems to be many of these donut shops in California.

They used this perspective illusion once before, the 'planet' that splatted against the ships windshield in, um, an earlier episode who's name and plot escapes me at the moment.

Considering I find Zoidberg to be the funniest character on the show, I'd include his 'preparing to scuttle' bit on the beach in the 'memorable moments' list.

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