• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    My favourite bit is this one from a different episode:

    Fry: What’s the matter compressor?

    Professor Farnsworth: Nothing’s the matter, Fry, now that I’ve turbo-charged the matter compressor.

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      I’m partial to the joke in this episode:

      [Plunging the ship deep into the ocean]

      “How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take?”

      “Well it’s a space ship, so somewhere between zero and one.”

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        I always think back to this one:

        Leela: “that guy’s turning this place into some sort of ‘business’”

        Professor: “this isn’t a business, I’ve always thought of it more as a source of cheap labor … like a family”

        I don’t know why I like it so much. I could see the punchline coming but how the exchange got there makes me smile every time.

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            lol, it’s not just the quote that gets me with the “headache with pictures” … it’s Leela saying something like, “you mean an idea?”

            and then Fry with the weird nod reply

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              Yup. The whole exchange is fantastic. I do the head-nod part with my partner a lot if I struggle to explain something and she gives me a better phrasing for it (and vice versa).

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        13 days ago

        One of my favorites was from Bender: “Oh, but you can, but you might have to ‘metaphorically’ make a deal with the ‘devil’. And by ‘devil’, I mean Robot Devil, and by ‘metaphorically’, I mean get your coat.”

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        These here are some Yankees!

        How did a city with such a great airport end up at the bottom of the ocean?

        I was living in Georgia when this aired, so it really hit home. My favorite episode by far.

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    I feel like Fry didn’t try hard enough. There definitely still were options, avenues to explore. By running away he just outed himself for how vanilla he is in bed.

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    Reminds me of Red Dwarf:

    Lister (or maybe it was Rimmer): That’s a mermaid? Shouldn’t it be a woman on top and fish on bottom?

    Cat: No, that’s the stupid way round!

    Danny John-Jules absolutely crushed that role

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      HOLLY: Alright! What’s happening, dudes?

      CAT: We’re having a really nice time. I’m dating Marilyn Monroe and also I have another girlfriend who’s a mermaid. She’s half woman, half fish. (He starts licking and kissing a photograph then turns round.) It’s Miranda, my girlfriend.

      As she comes out of the water we see the top half of her is a fish, the bottom half is a woman.

      HOLLY: Somehow I’d imagined she’d be a woman on top and a fish on the bottom.

      CAT: No! That’s a stupid way round. (He sticks out his tongue briefly and grins and waves.)

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    Umbriel: This here’s a volcanic vent. The water comes out at over 4000 degrees.

    Fry: No Kidding…

    Umbriel: Did it just get colder?