So.... assuming this is the place to discuss inconsistencies ....
In one scene of the latest episode, Leela is unable to slap Cubert because of her poor depth perception. Later, in the same episode.... In the escape from the NearDeathStar, Leela flawlessly flies around obstructions the security robots crash into.
So...she has depth perception when she needs it?
yours
#### i think the latest episode, when she tried to slap cubert, was the first time she lost the depth perception.
Hi Everyone i'm new to this newsgroup its mostly a gag, futurama is not to find goof-ups in but to enjoy and not worry about the litarary meaning of some things but you asked for it so here is my theory: In the case where she tried to slap cuthbert she and cuthbert were stationary and not moving. there she has lost depth perception in the way you loose it if you try to grab something within armlength while closing one eye and not moving arround but in the flight scene she was probably compensating for her lack of two eyes by a) the fact that the ship/hoverthingi/whateva was moving to allow looking at things from different angles, thus simulating depthperception b) perhaps she tilts her head from side to side so she sees things from a slightly different angle to simulate depth perception. (parrallax method) who knows who cares, just go on enjoy yours truly an addicted futurama junkie Dave
Are you sure? I remember a similar gag involving her depth perception in a previous episode. I think it was the one when Leela met Alcazar. -Serack
On 16 Apr 2000 15:07:52 GMT, [email] (Serack) wrote:
In the first episode, she tells Fry to stand still because she doesn't have good depth perception, then she jumps at him and gets trapped in the cyro tube.
--Larry
Yeah, that's it!
-Serack
I think the best explanation is that it's a comedy show and things are arbitrarily true when they add to the gag. This is part of the charm of the show and, while some things are consistent (since running gags are funny too), others are not.
In actuality, you've seen this before. Does anyone remember the show Sledgehammer? It's about a cop with a girl partner who likes his big gun so much he talks to it? There was an episode where, at the end, he was supposed to disarm a nuclear bomb but screws up and the whole city (New York, I believe) blows up. Next episode, things are back to normal... Also, in the Simpsons, how many last days of school have Bart and Lisa gone through? What about first days of school? Christmases? Valentine's Days? They're still 10 and 8, respectively. Maggie's always one year old. How is all this possible? Because it's a show that _deliberately_ throws out consistency in favour of comedy.
Ever see Get a Life? First off it's the funniest live action show I've ever seen, and my absolute favorite. Second nothing EVER followed continuity! Chris Elliott gets his head ripped off, but he's fine by the next episode. He gets stabbed to death, but he's fine the next episode. He grows a second mouth on the side of his stomach due to exposure to radioactive waste, and in the next episode he's FINE! I LOVE CHRIS ELLIOTT!
Sweepings Due to my controversial views on a comic strip, I have removed my old signature. Until I come up with a new signature, this will take it's place.
Also reminds me of another show on FOX that never had to good of a grasp on reality. Married: With Children. That show got real inconsistent real fast.
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Oh yeah, I remember that show...
You reminded me of another good example, South Park. How many times has Kenny gotten killed? How many episodes have there been?
An even better question: how many episodes has Kenny not gotten killed?
Lyle
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Once, that I remember. All through the show, you see close calls, expecting him to die -- electrocuted while changing a light bulb, perhaps. But he never dies. He actually survives through the whole show. "Dude, that's messed up."
It was actually the Christmas episode, I think.
Sunshine I remember when we were driving in your car Speed so fast, felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged I had a feeling that I could be someone
Yup, that was it, it was the first year Christmas show. At the end of the show, the other characters keep commenting that something seems unfinished, looking towards Kenny. Then the credits roll and Kenny screams 'Whoo-hoo!' and throws his arms up in triumph, since he didn't get killed. I figure it was Parker/Stone's X-mas gift to him, although they killed him at subsequent Christmas shows. I cna't remember any other occurrences though.
Now, does Kenny dying, coming back to life, and then sacrificing his life again in the movie count as him dying twice?
Lyle
But he didn't really come back to life, he just came back to Earth from Hell.
Sunshine I remember when we were driving in your car Speed so fast, felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged I had a feeling that I could be someone
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:01:26 -0400, "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" wrote:
My favorite one was when Chris bought a wheelbarrow full of bad shrimp. In the end, the neighbors cut his head off and kicked it around the alley. Somehow he recovered for the next show.
There were two different episodes that take place at the same time, the evening of the meteor shower. Kenny wasn't even in the show at the party, and didn't die in it. However, the next week they show him die in a parallel plot line. Does that count?
In the very first demo cartoon, the fat kid (now know as Cartam) gets killed, but his name was Kenny.
Of course, the first Xmas episode which has already been mentioned.
--Larry
Belly Bombers wrote:
I think YOU'VE been exposed to too much radioactive waste. It's interfered with your ability to tell a good comedian from a talentless hack. . . .
Chris Elliot : Talent : : Las Vegas : Spirituality
Deacon ate a baby:
Yes. The whole "extra mouths" and "delicious filth-spitting pet alien" gags are so damned cliche.
You may not be fond of his humor, and yes he *is* a wildly anticharismatic oddman, but he's definitely novel. I'd bet a pound to a penny he'd be considered a comic legend if he hadn't gone and done something silly like not die yet.
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Chris Elliott takes after his brilliant (and peculiar) father, so anything to keep the lineage going is fine with me!
On 23 Apr 2000 14:32:58 GMT, [email] (Janet F Caires-Lesgold) wrote:
If you check out alt.binaries.radio.oldtime for a while, you'll probably see some Bob and Ray shows posted.
I first heard of Bob and Ray when they did commercials for a bank in the late seventies. They were great ads and I wanted to find out who they were.
--Larry
Larry F wrote:
Just look for what dying did for Andy Kaufman. All you have to do is piss enough people off and die, and you get a movie bio! Next: Chris Farley. In coming years, the multiuntalented Chris Eliot, the whining David Spade, the weaselly Rick Moranis, and the stylistically-tone-deaf Martin Short. . . . (they can't die soon enough to suit me, let's get to work on those movies!!!)
All of 'em put together wouldn't be worthy of fetching Denis Leary's cigarettes or de-linting Bill Hicks's black clothes. . . . And speaking of Hicks, why no movie about HIM? If Jim Morrison had been a stand-up comedian instead of a musician/poet, he would've been Bill Hicks. . . .
Janet F Caires-Lesgold ate a baby:
I must conclude that Bob and Ray invented weirdness. Everything previously thought to be weird was merely idiosyncratic.
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Anybody have a Chocolate Wobbly in their Easter basket? ;)
Janet F Caires-Lesgold wrote:
How in the hell did uber-macho Sam Elliot ever have a wimp of a kid like Chris Elliot? You'd think Sam would've KILLED him when he was growing up! ("Get your ass out of bed and mow the lawn, you little panty-waist!!!" "Aw, Dad, I want to watch 'Time Tunnel'!")
Note: the preceding post contains SARCASM.
'Lee Ballou will getcha for that one! ;)
My favorite Wally Ballou interview was with a man that fixed the broken filaments in lightbulbs. He spent ten minutes describing in minute detail how he spun his magic, only to come crashing down when Wally pointed out that a new lightbulb cost only a few cents. Many comedians owe a great debt to Bob & Ray, I was lucky enough to hear them weekday afternoons for years on WOR radio, also the home at the time of equally huge giants of the entertainment world, Jean Shepherd & Long John Nebel.
In article , Dean Humphries wrote:
some of my favorite Bob & Ray routines include the "Mr. Science" sketches, in which Bob played Little Jimmy Schwab, and how all the experiments ended in disaster
"Gosh all hemlock, Mr. Science! The experiment isn't working! You wouldn't be trying to slip the old rubber peach to me just because I'm a gullible child, would you, Mr. Science?"
Man, that last one has me with ideas of Farnsworth teaching Cubert about scientific principles :0
"This is Bob Elliot saying 'Write If You Find Work' "
"And this is Ray Goulding saying 'Hang By Your Thumbs' "
That just brought a big smile on my face!
Words to live by!
Deacon [email] : Sucking : : Fish : Swimming
ZING! Damn, I'm smooth!
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Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality ate a baby:
Yes, but that next episode started off with "Five years earlier... " and then had some completely unrelated story unfold. Great cliffhanger, that.
In alt.tv.futurama, [email] writes:
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At the helm of a ship she can rely on instruments to gauge distances. Two eyes are no advantage for depth perception beyond a hundred meters or so anyway, which would be a common situation in a space ship.
mikey
Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.futurama: 15-Apr-100 Leela's extra-sensory depth.. [email] (408*)
You sound like Q-bert. Maybe this can be justified by the fact that security systems are made such that perfect calculations in their movements would result in one crashing into them... And thusly by flying like crap she succeded in avoidng them... Then again the robots did complain about their poor handling abilities... Then again I don't care.