Well the second episode was ok it was'nt as good as the first. My Nit for this one is how did they concive this idea of clear domes. Any little space debris should crack those domes or shatter them. You would think they would use metal or somthing. But then again this is the future it could be some type of improved bullet proof glass

Two Words: Transparent Aluminum

I suppose that is possible in the future with altering chemical structure and all.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) There is no medium of gravity through which the shotgun's bullets may travel.
2) There is no oxygen to feed the fire that is ignited by the spark caused by the clashing of two separate apparatuses of metal that consequently launches the shotgun's bullets.
3) What exactly do you harvest on the moon?

Rocks

D. Stuart--

(1)There is gravity on the moon; it's 1/6 that of earth. There's no atmosphere and, consequently, no wind resistance. A shot fired on the moon, allowing for slight variations in gravity due to masscons would go in a dead straight line to its target.
(2) Bullets don't need an atmosphere to work. Gunpowder contains an oxidizing agent mixed in it. Modern weapons don't require a spark; you're thinking of a flintlock.
(3) Remember that the farm was inside a pressurized dome. Also, there was a scene with Leela and Fry milking giant bugs. This is a dairy farm.

Bender yells out a great line a couple times in this epidose "I'll build my own theme-park, with (names sin-full vices, infact forget the the theme-park." (later he says the same in regards to the Lunar Excursion Module.) Problem is he yells this while on the moon's surface. There being on oxygen on the moon, his yelling is futile.
Leela says the Moon Landing site is lost, with spaceships and a colony on the moon I imagine it'd be easy to find it. I suppose no one puts forth any effort in the year 3000.
Finally, I wonder why the module is still there (the LEM) Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin should have departed in it centuries ago leaving only the landing struts.

Brian--I guess you missed the joke in the episode. When Leela and Fry get inside the LEM, you can see a sticker next to her head that reads "This spaceship returned to the Moon by the Historical Sticklers Society."

I suppose Bender's yelling could be a radio signal from his antenna; we're just hearing it as if we had a receiver.

Actually, Brian, oxygen is irrelevant to whether or not sound travels on the moon. It's the lack of an ATMOSPHERE that is the actual nit.

Guess I did miss it, I forget the Simpsons/Groeing soemitmes do weird things like that in the B/G.


Ehh oxygen, atmosphere... one goes with the other. I got it right by association.

Just in case anyone is wondering, the sign behind Bender when Fry takes the magnet off of him says: TASTY HUMAN BURGERS. This sign is also seen in the opening titles in every episode.

Maybe Bender sends out some sort of charged
particles that vibrate the eardrums, or interact
directly with the nerve connections to the eardrum?

At the theme park, I believe, it is said that no one knows why man went to the moon, but they imagine it had something to do with whaling. The problem is that in the pilot episode we see living heads from the 20th century. Why not ask them?

The Crushinator rules!!! Secon funniest part of the episode, the first being Bender's chant ("I'll start my own theme park..."). Could become the most quotable Futurama phrase, surpassing "Let's get 24th century on their [bottoms]"

Keith, do you have a degree in FUNgenering? Didn't think so! Thats why the heads where not asked!

;-)

Leela: I may not have a degree in FUNgeneering, but I do have lots of severed heads in jars that I talk to and I learn the most amazing things from them. ;-) ;-);-)

I would expect that they would think we went to the moon for the cheese. (Hmmmm, moon cheese, yum.)

Why didn't the whalers look like Makah Indians?

We're Whalers On The Moon!

Regarding the last part of Keith's comment (which I will not edit or delete):
First of all, the Makah have not been the only participants in the history of whaling.

Second of all, it is possible that this episode was produced a long time before the Makah whale hunt became a widely known issue outside the circles of activists.

My third point: In my opinion, as far as humor goes, anything in the human experience is a legitimate target. While I don't think portraying the whalers as Makah is all that funny, obviously not everybody will agree with me on that. After all, there are plenty of cartoons that I find funny, while others don't. The question is: is the potential backlash worth a 2-second chuckle (or the two-minute fit of uncontrollable laughter)? Frankly, I do not think people are ready yet to laugh about this subject.

And last, if anybody wishes to reply to Keith's comment, remember the following:

Ask yourself if you can be civil and respect the other person's viewpoints even if you disagree strongly. If you cannot, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM POSTING. Flaming and insulting does not benefit the Makah, does not help the gray whales, and is not as fun as it seems. And another thing: don't light a candle next to a paper bag. Especially a paper bag that contains important papers. On the plus side, the smoke alarm in my apartment is in good working order :-)

With light-heartedness and good cheer, but without a fire extinguisher,
Jo-Hanna

Jo-Hanna: I'm sorry if my comment stepped over the line. It was meant to humorous, if a bit sarcastic. I considered mentioning other nations currently involved in whaling, but wasn't certain which they were and didn't want to label a non-whaling group as whalers. I guess we in the Northwest have been aware of the Makah situation longer than the rest of you. I suppose my feelings on the subject may have clouded my judgement.

Getting back to light-heartedness and good cheer:

Do you suppose those giant insects they were milking were the Luna Ticks?

( looking for something to throw at KAM. )
Jo-Hanna, you still got that fire handy?

'Fraid not. I may not have a fire extinguisher, but I do have a bucket that can be filled with water. Over and over again.

Please try not to throw stuff at KAM. Somebody has to pick up the stuff, you know :-)

With light-heartedness, good cheer, a good breakfast, yada yada yogurt.

Jo-Hanna

Cows Became Extinct Like The Dodo Or The Anchovy... That's Why They're Milking Bugs And The Reason Maybe For Human Burgers... So "Where's The Beef?" And "Got Milk?" Comes To Mind... I Read It On A Futurama Site Somewhere... Hmmmmmm... This Is From Memory...

I think this is the third time this episode is aired. But I just noticed that the cartoon shown on the screen during the opening sequence is a Porky Pig. Can't guess which one.

Fry says that he can't get used to things in the 31st century. The show is set in the year 3000, the last year of the 30th century.

Nova had a show on the space program and one of the vintage clips a reporter referred to the Lunar lander as "the bug". First Fry and Leela are milking bugs, then they hide in one.

I loved it when the farmer took off his helmet and started jumping on it, and then he started suffocating!

The color of the text on Fry's "I'm with •••••• -- on the Moon" t-shirt changes during the whole "magnet on Bender's head scene".

It's a mood shirt.

Did y'all catch the "Dukes of Hazzard" tribute in the car chase scene, with them 'gators in the crater?

Y'all come back now, y'heah?

I don't know why they've skipped this episode in Australia. They screened eps 1 and 3 for the premiere and the next week showed ep 4.

Well, I'd just to like to congratulate Channel 7 Australia for showing this episode after A Fishful of Dollars, having gone ep 1, then 3-6, and letting us see the introduction to the characters we've now already seen several times. Well done. Well done indeed.

Fry says that he can't get used to things in the 31st century. The show is set in the year 3000, the last year of the 30th century.

That's the same argument as the year 2000 being last year of 20th century, beginning of 21st? It's not a real nit until we all finally agree, right? So it could be a nit or could not, depending on your opinion (I happen to believe Fry was right, and that right now we're in the 21st century).

99 years do not make a century.

The year 1 to 100 was the 1st century.
101-200 was the 2nd century.
201-300 = 3rd century.
continue on up until you reach
1901-2000 = 20th century
2001-2100 = 21st century
continue on up until you reach
2901-3000 = 30th century
3001-3100 = 31st century

Unless there is an extra year in there that I have somehow missed, this is accurate. Centuries begin with years ending in 1 and end in years ending with 0.

The same with millennia.
1-1000 = 1st millennium
1001-2000 = 2nd millennium
2001-3000 = 3rd millennium
3001-4000 = 4th millennium

Well, I decided to celebrate the century that began in 1900 and ended in 1999, and the millenium that began in 1000 and ended in 1999.

Next year, I'll celebrate the century beginning in 1901 and ending in 2000 and the millenium from 1001 to 2000.

And, since I love a good party, the year after that, I'll celebrate the century beginning in 1902 and ending in 2001, and the millenium beginning in 1002 and ending in 2001.

You get the idea. It's all arbitrary.

The century rules on Futurama are a little diffrent than the real century rules. At the begining of 2000, Fry says here's to another lousy millenium. Therefore, (as far as Futurama is concerned) The third millenium began in 2000. Therefore, as far as Fry is concerned, the 31st century began on Jan 1, 3000. BTW, from "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love" (2ACV05) the show has been in the year 3001.

Fry is a doofus. If he thought it was the 11th century would that mean that as far as Futurama is concerned it is the 11th century?

Thank you Millennium Boy, on your fruitless quest to attempt to educate the forces of stupidity (Homo sapiens). Hopefully you can avoid my fate as a bitter, disappointed wreck who thinks C. M. Kornbluth had a good idea towards the end of The Marching Morons.

Another (futile) argument is that it is the 20th century because it ends with the year twenty hundred (2000). But then, expecting the human race to have the intelligence of a lobotomized monkey is too much to expect.

2000, 3000 - people celebrate then because it's when the numbers change. It's like when your mum says "Kids, look at the odometer the numbers are changing" and it clicks over to 90,000km or whatever.
How do you know that, by 3000, they haven't made an official ruling on when the millennium is, given so much hoo-hah around 2000 about the correct end of the millennium?

In the audio commentary the guys admit that they find it a bit worrying that the farmer has a shotgun inside a dome.

Also it's mentioned that they put the preservation society plate on the LEM because they forgot at first that the LEM would have taken off.

I CAN sympathise with Amy at the grab machine trying to retrieve the spaceship keys. I've seen so many people trying to win from those things. It would probably be cheaper for them to buy the cuddly toys outright from a shop.

Isn't Futurama the best series on DVD right now? I can't get enough of it. It's so great. I can't wait to have all the episodes!