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Leela : Didn't you have ads in the 21st century? Fry : Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games.
by IvyMike 5y ago
Leela : Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?
Fry : Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
- beebeepka 5y agoWe all had commercials in our dreams, but you don't see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low, low prices.
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- Milner08 5y agoThis is exactly what came to mind when I read the title. Now I need to go and watch Futurama again..
- naoru 5y agoSeems like it was a subliminal ad for Futurama then.
- accountofme 5y agonah, that was the hypnotoad....
- azekai 5y agoThe hypnotoad isn't subliminal, it obvious and total mental domination. All hail the hypnotoad!
- hangonhn 5y agoI never appreciated Futurama when I was younger. At the time it felt like worse Simpsons but in the future. But later on I realized it’s a really good critique of our contemporary society disguised as the future looking back on us with Fry standing in for the audience. Some of the jokes are funny because they’re so biting.
- canadianfella 5y agoBiting?
- spywaregorilla 5y agoThe simpsons was pretty on spot too, but it was easier to just laugh at homer if the satire was over your head
- THJr 5y agoI remember an interview they did with some of the writers, and they were talking about how they included certain items (eg. room-size computers) to be silly and anachronistic, but others (eg. dvd players) to help relate things to current times. They said that when they were writing the final seasons, the team couldn't tell which items in the earliest seasons were supposed to be relatable and which were supposed to be silly.
- BurningFrog 5y agoWell, a critique of society 2 decades ago.
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- kadoban 5y agoA _lot_ of sci-fi in general is social commentary and/or recreational sociology. By moving the setting to an unfamiliar one, you can make parallels to back to _familiar_ societies in a way that allows the audience to see them with a new eye. It's a nice trick to get around familiarity blindness and sidestep some biases.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoThank god that at least google, fb, amazon etc. are trying so hard to improve our advertising experience as much as possible. Where would we be if the ads directed at us were not so personalized....
- spacemark 5y agoPlease tell me this comment is satire... honestly can't tell these days.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoThat comment was satire.
- laurent92 5y agoTurns out Google’s AI is directed towards advertisers to guess how to make them pew the money the most inefficiently possible ;) Seriously those ads are inefficient for the immense majority of small shop owners.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoFry always forgets movie product placement, manufactured consent, and manufactured insecurities.