Great Episode.
One Comment:
I'm still laughing at "iZac" the robot barender.
It occurs to me that Futurama has the edge that the Simpsons has lost in recent years… but that's just me.
I loved iZac as well. They better be careful, though, cause Apple's gotten sue-happy lately.
I'm really surprised that there hasn't been controversy over any of the various ethnic types they've had on the show.
It's always good to see Zapp Brannigan again!
Great episode!
Bender is funny as always. And it's good to see Lela and Fry growing closer. I've been hoping those 2 would get together.
This episode was filmed on location.
I believe Hermes' wife was named La Barbara. I wonder if that was meant as a play on Barbarella?
I'm surprised that Bender didn't use his famous pick-up line, "Hey, sexy mama. Wanna kill humans."
My dad loved Leela's sunglass.
Bender was wearing a magnetic bow tie, but in The Series Has Landed it was revealed that magnets mess him up and he sings folk songs.
Probably LaBarbara is meant as a joke about names such as "LaWanda" or "LaToya." You get the picture.
I loved christening the Titanic with Leo's head!
I suppose it's too much to hope for that Zapp Brannigan's escape pod got sucked in with the Countess.
Although I'm not Oriental(Indian), Amy's parents are JUST LIKE MINE. Must be an Asian thing.
Mars University looks promising.
For those of you perhaps too young to remember, Isaac was the bartender for the ship on a show called "The Love Boat." i-Zac had the same hair and mustache (and mannerisms) as Ted Lange had in that series.
"I'm just like Hermes! I'm just like Hermes! I'm just like Hermes! I'm just--aaaaaagh!"
Your a limbo champ?
Does anyone else think that Hermes is just a little too fat to fit under the door?
Even sucking in his stomach, I doubt that he can be skinnier than Dr. Zoidberg's claw.
Maybe he adjusts it? Or maybe he wears really baggy clothes.
But isn't Hermes head bigger than Zoidberg's claw, or is he really a pinhead with a lot of hair?
Does it really matter anyway? Let's just say he's a semi-shapeshifter(sorta like half an Odo) and be done with it. It IS the 30th century, ya know. :)
Well, if it's the 30th century then he's probably half Durlan.
Futurama's "A Flight to Remember":
My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) Not truly a "nit-pick," but the landlord of the apartment whose TV connection was disrupted by Bender's antenna appeared in this episode apparently as a love interest to the elderly scientist.
2) At the conclusion Bender enters the escape pod through the door. There would be no problem with this, except there in the midst of space. Factually, everyone ought to have been struggling not to be sucked out.
...except there in... = ...except [they are] in... Typo.
That is blown out, not sucked out. It is a common mistake.
Comets are seen whizzing by in all directions with tails following them. I believe the visible tail of a comet always extends away from the sun when the comets are in a solar system, so the tails should have pointed the same direction.
The door of the escape pod lifts up, but when Bender enters he closes it like a normal door.
At one point, Bender shows his new lady that his tie isn't even real, it's magnetic. Remember that in the episode on the moon, we learn Bender turns into a folk singer when magnets are used on him.
Then again, this is just a cartoon show, that frequently breaks rules like that. Like how people are walking around on the deck of the ship when it's flying in space, and not freezing or asphyxiating. In this show, you just gotta let things like that slide I guess.
Man, Hermes is wearing a speedo under all that.
The deck of the ship is covered by a see-through dome, Spornan.
Whups. 30 lashes with a semi-moist macaroni.
The hinging door on the escape pod must be the inner door of the airlock, otherwise wouldn't all the air inside be sucked out.
I don't remember, but the proper way for airlock doors to work is:
Inner Airlock Door: opens inward for safety reasons (if outer door is open or busted, air pressure will hold the door closed).
Outer Airlock Door: opens either way. Generally outward, for real estate reasons. I personally think they should open inward for the same reason as Inner doors.
Slight correction to my immediately preceding post:
Inner Airlock door: opens towards area of greater pressure (assuming a breach).
That is, in space vehicles, inner airlocks should open inward (air pressure holds it closed in case of fault with outer door).
In underwater vehicles, inner airlocks should open outward (water pressure will hold door closed in case of fault with outer door).
So what do you do for an airlock on a vehical that can travel underwater and in outer space?
rattle, rattle, rattle, KA-BOOM!
The sound you have just heard is ScottN's brains exploding.
Would the weight of the Countess actually matter to the attempts of the crew to get the escape pod away from the black-ish hole-ish thingy? I thought it was mass that counted in space, and she clearly didn't mass all that much.
Nevertheless, a truly funny episode! (Thanks, John!)
A changeling!