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I remember that episode well! Such a funny show.

by RUG3Y 11y ago

mortenjorck 11y ago
If you will indulge a classic HN tangential thought, this has me suddenly wondering about the sociological phenomenon of mentally reading things in a voice you associate with the text. There's something about the way Futurama is written and produced that seems to make it a particularly potent example (you've probably seen the Farnsworth "now you're reading this in my voice" meme), and this transrcipt excerpt works particularly well. I wonder why that is?
- mgkimsal 11y ago
  I just tried reading that in your voice, but it didn't work out so well...
- theoh 11y ago
  I'm prepared to entertain the possibility that it's due to some kind of dynamics of a collective unconscious that is shared across "individuals". Not very philosophically correct by materialist standards but impossible to rule out!
- vorg 11y ago
  A few times I've read out a text aloud, then listened to the recording and it's been different. Remember that movie audition scene in the "Mulholland Drive" movie? Sometimes a single comma or exclamation mark in the written text can change that "inner voice" for a whole dialog!
- yaw 11y ago
  Character design done well? The visual design was done in a way to make these characters very distinctive & memorable, possibly the same applies to the auditory aspects? Matt Groening: The secret of designing cartoon characters — and I’m giving away this secret now to all of you out there — is: you make a character that you can tell who it is in silhouette. I learned this from watching Mickey Mouse as a kid. You can tell Mickey Mouse from a mile away…those two big ears. Same thing with Popeye, same thing with Batman. And so, if you look at the Simpsons, they’re all identifiable in silhouette. Bart with the picket fence hair, Marge with the beehive, and Homer with the two little hairs, and all the rest. So…I think about hair quite a lot. Source: http://austinkleon.com/2007/08/28/silhouettes-and-profiles/ http://austinkleon.com/2007/08/28/silhouettes-and-profiles/

I remember that episode well! Such a funny show.

by RUG3Y 11y ago

I remember that episode well! Such a funny show.

If you will indulge a classic HN tangential thought, this has me suddenly wondering about the sociological phenomenon of mentally reading things in a voice you associate with the text. There's something about the way Futurama is written and produced that seems to make it a particularly potent example (you've probably seen the Farnsworth "now you're reading this in my voice" meme), and this transrcipt excerpt works particularly well. I wonder why that is?

mgkimsal 11y ago
I just tried reading that in your voice, but it didn't work out so well...
theoh 11y ago
I'm prepared to entertain the possibility that it's due to some kind of dynamics of a collective unconscious that is shared across "individuals". Not very philosophically correct by materialist standards but impossible to rule out!
vorg 11y ago
A few times I've read out a text aloud, then listened to the recording and it's been different. Remember that movie audition scene in the "Mulholland Drive" movie? Sometimes a single comma or exclamation mark in the written text can change that "inner voice" for a whole dialog!
yaw 11y ago
Character design done well? The visual design was done in a way to make these characters very distinctive & memorable, possibly the same applies to the auditory aspects? Matt Groening: The secret of designing cartoon characters — and I’m giving away this secret now to all of you out there — is: you make a character that you can tell who it is in silhouette. I learned this from watching Mickey Mouse as a kid. You can tell Mickey Mouse from a mile away…those two big ears. Same thing with Popeye, same thing with Batman. And so, if you look at the Simpsons, they’re all identifiable in silhouette. Bart with the picket fence hair, Marge with the beehive, and Homer with the two little hairs, and all the rest. So…I think about hair quite a lot. Source: http://austinkleon.com/2007/08/28/silhouettes-and-profiles/ http://austinkleon.com/2007/08/28/silhouettes-and-profiles/