Is this a ghost newsgroup? Normally there's lots of posts right after the broadcast of a new Futurama, but this time I've seen two or three relating to it. Hello? Anybody there?
I was laughing out loud almost right the way through - Comrade Greeting Card had me in stitches. Just shows that you can never trust technology. And as for the sight of a naked Mom and Farnsworth - eep. Is this part of a campaign to get Futurama moved to a more suitable timeslot?
Well, I'll use this as an opportunity for macro-DYNs for the Mothers' Day episode, not my usual irrelevant points nobody else would care to notice. Here goes... :-)
* Loads of familiar robots in the crowds. Everyone from Fatbot to the robot preacher, not forgetting Calculon, one of the robotic saxophones from 1ACV02, the policebot, the Crushinator and Destructor, just to name a few. And Monique and a Hookerbot 5000 talking to Clamps - I really don't want to know what's going on there.
* Bender seems to hang out with a pretty famous bunch of robots - either that or the robots depicted in wax form were the prototypes of more popular designs.
* The toddler robot being held by its mother (?) appears to have leaked coolant over her shoulder. I guess that's just one of the reasons why robots prefer to leave the production of new robots to Mom's Friendly Robot Company.
* The world's greatest robot artist? Poor Aaron - I guess his abstract style never really caught on with other robots. More information at http://www.scinetphotos.com/aaron.html - complete with example output.
* The new kitchen area in the Planet Express lounge. They had it installed last week, but it looks like it's going to be a regular feature. Time to update floorplans, methinks. :-)
* The tiny cleaning robot carrying a banner. Can anyone read it? It's just below the resolution of this 'ere MPEG. :-/
* Are they sheets of hand-written calculations being burned by the robots? If they are, then they must be showing their mathematical superiority over the humans. Can YOU do complex differential calculus in your head?
* A suicide booth right next to the ATM? A sensible, and convenient, place to put it, no doubt. Has Mom's Friendly Robot Company bought Stop 'n' Drop? Or are Mom's Friendly Artificial Intelligence Chips in everything now, from suicide booths to bedroom lamps?
* Was that Quantum soup in the Campbell's-like tin? Yummy - although I hear Primeval Soup is better value, and doesn't suffer from collapsing wavefunctions. Just don't leave an open can in the fridge for too long...
* Morbo and Linda (?) are being robbed by their own studio cameras. It took me a while to notice, but I bet everyone else spotted it immediately.
* The wheel a forgotten technology? Various robots use them - although presumably Mom managed to patent it under a different name, and thanks to some smart, expensive lawyers managed to get the courts to disregard all prior art. Kind of like Microsoft and mail-merge, symbolic links and so on - you can patent anything if you can get the wording right. I hope Fry is ready for the legal battles.
* Exactly whose corsets are they lying on the floor? Farnsworth's? Eeep. Perhaps it would be best not to ask.
* Albino gorillas are incredibly rare, at least in the 20th/21st centuries. Apparently there's only one albino gorilla in captivity - a specimen imaginatively named 'Snowflake'. Either Farnsworth did some genetic engineering, or 'novelty' animals are more common in the 31st century.
That's enough for now, and remember - FILE DELETION IS MURDER!
Adam Foster