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Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by spondyl »

athrowaway3z wrote: post #13
gostsamo wrote: post #6

All the quotes are in pictures with the alt text being only the number of the episode. Online accessibility at its best.

And why do tell us, should somebody who is donating their time making something silly, jump through some hoops to live up to your standards? Please send the web master a list of every alt text before you try and make it someone else's problem or complain about it.

The commenter, as I understand it, is blind so they can't contribute alt text because they can't see the image in the first place.

Not defending the tone or comments but it's important context

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by bitwize »

derekp7 wrote: post #87
craftinator wrote: post #80

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It made my heart happy that this comment was so quickly made.

At the time I watched SNL whenever I remembered, but not regularly enough. However this one commercial spoof has stuck out with me, and I see it referenced all the time. Almost as if it was constantly reused. So how did this one-time event (well, plus reruns and now internet memes) stick in our collective conscience? Same with Douglass Adams -- I ran across it due to "Adams" being at the beginning of the alphabet, bu…

HFB had meme-like qualities even back then, to the point where it was referenced in a completely different skit (Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer).

I think it has to do with the increasingly dire warnings for what is marketed as a children's toy, culminating in the one about not taunting it with deliberately unstated, therefore presumably very grave, consequences for taunting it. The humor is in what is left unsaid, where your imagination takes over.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by spfzero »

the_af wrote: post #3

How I loved Futurama! Much like with the Simpsons, it will helpfully provide a quote for anything , and its hyper focus on scifi and adventure made it more interesting to me. Though I'm a fan of the first "age", before the movie(s) and cancellation. I heard bad things about the later seasons, and don't want to taint my memories of the show by watching them.

Loved the first four seasons, but the rest were still Futurama. If you really enjoy it, you’ll enjoy all of it.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by spfzero »

modeless wrote: post #52

I always found the Scary Door intros pretty great as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oGJTUpbpA

I still to this day refer to Twilight Zone as Scary Door. All of my friends and family knows what I mean whether they’ve ever watched Futurama or not, surprisingly.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by akhilcacharya »

tombert wrote: post #73
outerspace wrote: post #12

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Watched that episode with the dead dog once. Almost cried. Never watched it again.

"Luck of the Fryish" has always been a favorite of mine. Not quite as tear-jerking as Jurassic Bark, but still a little sad with a somewhat somber ending.

It’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by cooperadymas »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #95
tombert wrote: post #73

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"Luck of the Fryish" has always been a favorite of mine. Not quite as tear-jerking as Jurassic Bark, but still a little sad with a somewhat somber ending.

It’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...

People frequently show more affection in movies to animals than to humans. The Walking Dead spent years graphically and brutally killing humans both dead and undead and no one flinched. Then one episode the starving protagonists killed a pack of feral dogs for food and suddenly there were tears shed.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by the_af »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #95
tombert wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Luck of the Fryish" has always been a favorite of mine. Not quite as tear-jerking as Jurassic Bark, but still a little sad with a somewhat somber ending.

It’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...

Luck of the Fryish... if that's the one with the Simple Minds song, it definitely affected me!

Don't you forget about me...

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by tombert »

the_af wrote: post #97
akhilcacharya wrote: post #95

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It’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...

Luck of the Fryish... if that's the one with the Simple Minds song, it definitely affected me! Don't you forget about me...

Yep! It's the one where Fry remembers the seven-leaf-clover. I thought the scene with Yancy naming his son Phillip since his brother went missing was one of the best scenes in the series.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by sixothree »

pentagrama wrote: post #79
sixothree wrote: post #7

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I won't watch that episode. I think the opening quote was apt.

I'm not sure that the episode with the dead dog opening quote _is_ the episode with the dead dog (a spoiler), maybe was a previous one and because it was somewhat controversial this is a joke about it. Can anyone confirm? The two possible jokes works but are different, for me a pun of a previous episode is so much funny.

I mean to say - I won't watch the episode with the dead dog. So they fact they recognize that and added as meta info later was interesting.

Re: All Futurama Opening Quotes

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Post by akhilcacharya »

the_af wrote: post #97
akhilcacharya wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...

Luck of the Fryish... if that's the one with the Simple Minds song, it definitely affected me! Don't you forget about me...

That's my favorite episode, personally!
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