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All Futurama Opening Quotes
- standardUser 6y agoThese are more clever than I remember, and I'm amazed at how many I don't remember at all. Favorite so far: "Not The Episode With The Dead Dog"
- sixothree 6y agoI won't watch that episode. I think the opening quote was apt.
- pentagrama 6y agoI'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.
- rycomb 6y agoIt seems that it's from "Stench and Stenchibility", from the last season of the show... so, much later than "Jurassic Bark".
- pentagrama 6y agoThanks! It's a great meta-joke then.
- sixothree 6y agoI 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.
- outerspace 6y agoWatched that episode with the dead dog once. Almost cried. Never watched it again.
- goda90 6y agoMultiple Futurama episodes got tears out of me. I think it's a normal and natural thing to be touched by a piece of media to the point of tears. I've watched them again in fact.
- derekp7 6y agoOnce per season they had the tear-jerker episode.
- DoomHotel 6y agoJust hearing the song that closed that episode makes me want to cry.
- tombert 6y ago"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.
- dr_zoidberg 6y agoOf the tear-jerker episodes, I really like "The Late Phillip J Fry". Most people tend to take it into account in the series continuity.
- akhilcacharya 6y agoIt’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...
- cooperadymas 6y agoPeople 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.
- haodemon 6y agoThat's why I love Futurama – it respects intelligence of its audience. Rewatching all seasons every couple of years only showed that the show grows with you.
- the_af 6y agoHow 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.
- atomicnumber3 6y agoAs someone who watched them first in college about.... 7 years ago, I thought all the seasons were consistently good. There's really not many episodes I'll skip if shuffling.
- linkdd 6y agoThe final was just amazingly beautiful, I'd recommend you watch it anyways :)
- jerf 6y agoThe average may have trended down, but the variance went up, and some of the best episodes are in the later seasons. I'd suggest looking at episode ratings or something and cherry-picking. It definitely was not some sort of total tanking or anything. In fact, I'd call it the only case I've ever seen of trying to "bring the band back together" that largely succeeded. Not 100%, no, but they did much better than average. That said, when the show ended for the last time, I was satisfied.
- bullfightonmars 6y agoThrough multiple watches, I've come to really like Bender's Big Score and The Beast with a Billion Backs. They are very different than the normal 22 minute episodes, but they have a lot of depth that you don't normally get in regular episodes. The later seasons have few worthwhile episodes, notably: * S6 - EP7 - The Late Philip J. Fry * S7 - EP26 - Meanwhile (Series Finale) That said, I agree with you, most of my favorite episodes are from the first four seasons.
- MikeLumos 6y ago
- soperj 6y agoHas anyone figured out what episode 72 actually says?
- sixothree 6y agoThanks for watching, Futurama slave army!
- mikestew 6y agohttps://static.wikia.nocookie.net/enfuturama/images/d/da/740px-Alien_decoder_Futurama.svg.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/740?cb=20130805223309 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/enfuturama/images/d/da/740...
- gbrown_ 6y agoWhilst another commenter has answered this you may enjoy this list of "Alienese" appearances and the translations https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_alien_language_sightings#Season_5.2Ffilms https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_alien_language_sightings#S...
- monocasa 6y agohttps://alienese.moxievillelabs.com/ https://alienese.moxievillelabs.com/ Here's a translator
- WaitWaitWha 6y ago12345607890A31B2C4D,07E1F93G306H37i039Gj! thanks for watching, futurama slave army!
- zoid_ 6y agoYou seem malnourished. Are you suffering from internal parasites?
- Theory5 6y ago"Uhh, is there a human doctor around?" "Young lady, I am an expert on humans. Now pick a mouth, open it, and say [Zoidberg Noises]." "Ahem, [bad attempt at copying zoidberg noises]" "WHAT?! My mother was a saint. Now GET OUT!"
- gostsamo 6y agoAll the quotes are in pictures with the alt text being only the number of the episode. Online accessibility at its best.
- linkdd 6y agoThe joy of Hackernews is that there is always someone to complain.
- athrowaway3z 6y agoAnd 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.
- jodrellblank 6y ago> In Comments: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Diti 6y agoConsidering the nickname of the person you replied to, this user does expect to be banned at some point.
- thatguy0900 6y agoThink you could say the op was against this rule as well
- gostsamo 6y agoYou are pissed at me and it is part of the reason why I did it. I can duplicate the effort of the webmaster, send the alt texts, and maybe they will be cool and incorporate them in the post for the next reader. Or maybe they will say: "yeah, bro" and will promptly forget about me and my complains. On the other side, someone will be pissed at me because they feel guilt for something that they have nothing to do with. Yet, next time when they post a picture, they will try to avoid feeling bad by adding a simple picture description in their post. I will pay for this with a few down votes, but sometimes we have to take responsibility for our not so bright sides.
- bob1029 6y agoIn college, we actually did the "Drink when you see the robot" game with that episode on a fairly regular basis. They intentionally made a ton of scenes with Bender entering/exiting frame such that anyone seriously following the rule would be hammered before the episode was over.
- PhillyG 6y agoThat's awesome
- whycombagator 6y ago“Please rise for the futurama theme song” - Ep 41
- nharada 6y agoI recently learned this song is mostly sampled, I had no idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoq5-bLYM5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoq5-bLYM5Q
- nadavami 6y agoThis is awesome, thanks for the interesting rabbit hole!
- modeless 6y agoWow, what an amazing breakdown video visualization. I see there are a bunch of these, for e.g. Daft Punk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwOpRh-IfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwOpRh-IfI, Britney Spears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXUodk-pVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXUodk-pVo, Fatboy Slim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaQyVRndMA&list=PLmsQco5tySyz-21X81egPr78XLUdJ57uk&index=35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaQyVRndMA&list=PLmsQco5tyS...
- plantain 6y agoHow have they reverse engineered these?
- icegreentea2 6y agoNot sure exactly how it was done in this case, but the first sample (the "amen break" - you can look it up) is one of the most sampled tracks ever. There are documentaries about it. I imagine that many people who work with samples and production and deconstructing would develop an ear for it. Similar for rapper's delight too I imagine.
- gravyboat 6y agoI think this is the first webpage I've seen that doesn't load at all without AMP. Pretty concerning that developers are going down this route.
- whoisjuan 6y agoFuturama is great! I wish it would have gotten more popular but I guess most masterpieces aren’t appreciated on their time. I can confidently say that some of best tv writing I have seen is from Futurama. Totally recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.
- fumar 6y agoI watched the first four seasons. I should rewatch the show including the later ones.
- orblivion 6y agoMy understanding is that the Episode 111 quote is the only instance of "not sure if" on the show, and it was in reference to the Internet meme, not the other way around. So that one is probably my favorite.
- jackewiehose 6y agoYes, I remember the meme was already a thing when that episode came out.
- Svip 6y agoThere is also a list of opening cartoons: https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_opening_cartoons https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_opening_cartoons I used to be able to know these captions by heart, and knew the episode by caption alone. Can't do that anymore. And here is a list with some additional trivia: https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions
- joshstrange 6y agoNow I want the same thing for Bob's Burgers, the store next door and the pest control truck. Last I checked it gets posted on the episode discussion thread on reddit but something like this would be really cool.
- ghostpepper 6y agoI had no idea there was a running gag like this on Bob's Burgers. Time for a re-watch!
- hirundo 6y agoEpisode 76 is "0100100001101001". I had to check. It's ascii for "Hi".
- fumblebee 6y agoFor the crossover Simpsons episode: “A show out of ideas teams up with a show out of episodes”. Pure gold. Even if the newer Simpsons episodes are (imho) grade-A garbage, it’s strangely comforting that the writers are self-aware and self-deprecating enough to come up and stick with this.
- Svip 6y agoThere was also a caption at the end of that episode: https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions#Specials https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions#Special...
- willis936 6y agoAll the pictures are of the same frame of the TV turn-on animation. I wonder if someone did this by hand or wrote a script to detect the start of the animation and capture the image a specific number of frames after that timestamp.
- modeless 6y agoI always found the Scary Door intros pretty great as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oGJTUpbpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oGJTUpbpA
- tra3 6y agoI know it's a parody of Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone, but it always made me think of the "Lost room" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830361/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830361/)
- spfzero 6y agoI 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.
- Larrikin 6y agoI don't see any information regarding it, but I'm guessing this was a weekend project implementing similar ML as the skip intro button on Plex, Netflix, etc
- p1mrx 6y agoI guess "Nobody doesn't like molten boron" was before the opening quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghD5SHuR9mk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghD5SHuR9mk
- Tarsul 6y agoimo the best episode (outside of the sad ones) is A Bicyclops Built for Two (S02E13), the gags are the best here and storyline is great too. second best is The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (S04E18).
- KineticLensman 6y agoPeople who like these could do worse than take a look at Ubik by Philip K Dick [0]. Each chapter starts with an advert expounding the virtues of the wonder substance Ubik, which can be used as beer, shaving foam, kitchen cleaner, coffee, hairspray, antiperspirant and others. Each ad has a great little caveat: "Safe when taken as directed", "Avoid prolonged use", "Entirely safe when used as directed", "Safe when used in a conscientious programme of bodily hygiene", "Do not exceed recommended dosage", "Do not exceed recommended portion at any one meal" etc etc [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik
- bitwize 6y agoDo not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
- craftinator 6y agoIt made my heart happy that this comment was so quickly made.
- derekp7 6y agoAt 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, but it also seems that most geeks have consumed it also.
- bitwize 6y agoHFB 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.
- tzs 6y agoSpeaking of Futurama, those who like both it and Harry Potter might enjoy this short story, the only Futurama/HP crossover story I've ever come across [1]. [1] https://www.fanfiction.net/Futurama-and-Harry-Potter-Crossovers/109/224/ https://www.fanfiction.net/Futurama-and-Harry-Potter-Crossov...
- ModernMech 6y agoI wonder why episode 96 has the message 100. Is the numbering off?
- majewsky 6y agoThere were four direct-to-DVD movies between the Fox era and the Comedy Central era. I suppose they are counting those as four episodes (even though they were later cut up for broadcasting into a full season of over a dozen episodes).
- chiph 6y ago> The show that watches back Well, that was prescient, given how smart TVs send screen content data back to the manufacturers these days.
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- m463 6y agoanother one including text: https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions ...and including the unincluded: https://theinfosphere.org/Unused_Title_Captions https://theinfosphere.org/Unused_Title_Captions