Isn't abusing electricity his job? I missed the episode as it was on tuesdays ,at the same time at DS9. But I agree that in the preview the 'jacking on' joke was a little less then acceptable.
Obscure reference Jo-Hanna missed:
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia", Charlie Daniels song. The whole thing about fiddle contest and winning a gold fiddle.
What happened to Nibbler(?) when Leela and Fry fell down the slide?
Didn't anyone else think the whole business with the mob planet odd? It seemed like it would be significent to the episode, and then it only amounted to a single joke!
Nibbler didn't fall through the trap door like the others. He must have wandered off somewhere.
Jo-Hanna mentioned something about those moth like creatures...they looked familiar to me. And since those rings shoot out of their tails, it reminded me of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. In it there are creatures that look just like the ones in the episode.
The carnival that Fry and Leela went too was an old abandoned one...and Fry seems to remember it and why it closed down (the flum ride).....sooooooooo......is this a carnival from the 20th century? At first I was thinking, if it is then why is it still around in New New York (since they built over the old New York)? But then they said they were in New Jersey....so......only New York was built over? Not any other place...? Wouldn't that be weird....I mean here is NJ .... and then all of a sudden there is a huge wall and you have to climb up to New New York since they built OVER (literally OVER the city) New York? Anyone get what I am saying about how it'd look?
I find it hard to believe that the carnival survived the alien invasion....
Then again, it IS in New Jersey, and the alien invaders probably took one look and said "oh, it's already wasted"
My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) The satanic robot that abducts Bender detaches Bender's arm, but Bender's arm is inexplicably reattached after he plummets to a lower level in the next scene.
2) Leela can only be behind Fry on the slide, considering it is big enough for one individual at a time. However, Leela and Fry are side by side at one point during their duet.
In the previous episode, a news clip downloaded off the Internet suggests that New York at some point filled New Jersey up with their superfolous garbage.... I guess the garbage was put up around the amusment park.
In the pilot Bender's attenae gets caught in a light socket, thus short-circuting him and allowing him to defy his programing and be "free." Why wasn't he hooked then?
It was hard to tell, but the "Good Book 3.0" program the preacher tires tog ive Bender looks to be a 3.5" Diskette.... sure to be beyond obsolete in the 31st century.
Finally, Bender sprouts a headphone jack in this episode, allowing him to connect to the electricty-drug.
Cute moment... the Beastie Boy-head "scratches" on what looks to be a hard-disk drive.
Possibly a Simpsons reference, Bender falls through the glass roof in the Temple of Robotology much the same way Homer did in "Homer the Great" (2F09). In the category of "Did you notice?" A sign in the Temple of Robotolgy says:
10 sin
20 goto hell
Also, when bender was putting the fish on the spaceship, the Robotolgy symbol (To be reffered to as "The Resistor") disappears from his chest.
>It was hard to tell, but the "Good Book 3.0" program the preacher tires to give Bender looks to be a 3.5" Diskette.... sure to be beyond obsolete in the 31st century.>
True, but most religions don't worry about being up-to-date. The standered text of Baptists is from the time of Shakespear (The King James Version of the Bible); and in 1992 or so, the Pope finally said that the Earth goes around the Sun.
Man! I missed this one, was waiting in line for Star Wars and forgot to set my VCR to tape it! I guess I catch it in the summer. :-(
~Amos
Great song!
Bender : Don't blame me, blame my upbringing!
Devil : Please stop singing while I'm singing!
Amos - Get a life!
Joel - I caught it too. Isn't it great to know that the ORIGINAL version of BASIC (none of these MS corruptions) will survive till the 31st century?
When is Futurama gonna do a Microsoft joke?
ScottN:
I do have a life just a really dull one.
BTW I had a great time hanging out with my friends while waiting in line, it was like a big party.
BACK to Futurama:
The symbol they welded on Bender was a resistor, if you didn't know.
(I borrowed a tape from a friend!)
~Amos
Amos, I was just ragging on you... I believe in the nitpicker's prime directive - forgot to put the smiley on it. No offense intended!
Actually if it was the original version of BASIC one would expect it to be:
10 SIN
20 GOTO 30
30 HELL
Amos, as for the symbol on Bender's chest being a resistor, didn't I say that? And for the record, Bender's abuse of electricity, as was mentioned several times in the show was referred as jacking on, in the show.
Oops! Sorry Joel!
I guess I read over your post and missed it.
~Amos
If Robotology's symbol is a resistor, does that mean their philosophy is "Resistance is futile"?
Oops, you're right Joel, about the syntax!
Isn't abusing electricity his job?
I missed the episode as it was on tuesdays ,at the same time at DS9. But I agree that in the preview the 'jacking on' joke was a little less then acceptable.
in basic don't forget the classic
10 print "I'am going crazy"
20 goto 10
If only they could get that one to the Borg…
I guess this episode does answer the question of "does Bender have a replicator inside?" At the beginning we see Bender fill a cup with beer by pressing on his antennae.
Bender gives up drinking, but in I, Roommate it was said that Bender has to drink.
Dan R.: New New York may be built over old New York, but that doesn't mean that there would be a wall that goes straight up. In the pilot we see a number of buildings get knocked down. The outskirts of New New York may be built at ground level and slopes up to be over some of the taller old New York buildings. (Possibly the cryogenics building Fry was in could have been on the outskirts of old New York and was preserved when New New York was being built.)
Brian: The garbage in New Jersey may have been recycled by the time of the 30th Century.
[zap] ouch that hurt![zap zap] dear god my legs! [zpazapzapzapzapzap] stop you are killing me! [zap] [thud]
When Fry is standing under the millennium clock, the word millennium was spelled wrong on the clock with only one N.
Dan Castellanata (Homer Simpson) was a guest voice in this one - who did he play?
Did anyone else find it difficult to hear the lyrics of the hell song?
Chris--Dan played the voice of the robot Devil.
Well he hid his voice quite well, I went back through the episode and couldn't tell which one he was.
I'll admit, its been a little while since I've seen this episode, but.... isn't the line
"Please stop sinning while I'm singing" said by the Robot Devil as Bender tries to take his wallet?
The whole singing part, was it maybe a spoof of a section of Jeff Waynes musical version of War of the Worlds, with the preacher Nathaniel?
Binary logic with only Heaven or Hell?
Great Line
Professor: Why couldn't he join a more mainstream religion like Voodoo or Oprahism?