# Futurama: Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences (8/26) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699 "2010-08-27T18:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/21 "2010-08-28T02:08:19Z")
hee hee. The standoff was at ‘white planes, NY’ Which had a bunch of white planes floating around. Perhaps I’m easily amused… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/22 "2010-08-28T02:11:39Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > Indeed, but earlier episodes showed Lrrr watching TV shows broadcast on Earth 1000 years earlier. Ah, but when those shows were originally broadcast, the speed of light was at its original rate. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/23 "2010-08-28T02:14:49Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > How did the episode end? Comedy Central keeps running a minute or two over (the DVR cut off when they found Fry). > > Fun & Funny ep, probably my biggest laugh was the silliest (paraphrasing): “Oothermerferm or what?” > > Also liked howthe Dr’s ad was seamelssly integrated into the episode so the ending was a perfect resolution without being a cheat. Fry was in the shower working on his comic book again: LizardGuy “Say goodbye to your forehead because I’m going to shoot you in it.” DeliveryBoyMan “Not if I leap in front of your deathray, and i AM going to do that.” (Leaps in front of deathray) LG “I didn’t shoot yet , as usual your delivery arrived too soon” (meteor comes in through window and crushes LG) Leela “Oh, DeliveryBoyMan, you saved me by random chance.” DBM “Don’t thank random-chance. Thank my meteor-wishing power…with your lips.” (Back in real life) (Leela kisses Fry’s cheek) Leela “Good ending…not great.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/24 "2010-08-28T02:18:35Z")
For the sake of sheer pedantry, when the speed of light was increased, the TV signals would have travelled faster at that point, meaning they still would have arrived earlier than after 1000 years. Yes, I have no life. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/25 "2010-08-28T03:29:26Z")
If I ever dress up for a comic convention, I now know what costume I’m going to wear. I’ll dress as Bender dressed as Leela. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/26 "2010-08-28T04:23:16Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > They actually changed pronunciations of it from previous eps. > > The best I can do phonetically is the older episodes pronounced it “IN-dunh-duh” and in this episode they were saying “IN-duh IN-duh”. They were separating the “Nds” more than they were in the other eps. I don’t remember hearing her name at all before. Do you happen to remember which episode it might have been? In my head, I’ve been pronouncing it “NUD-NUD” (for lack of any more precise description). ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/27 "2010-08-28T05:41:46Z")
Erth. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/28 "2010-08-28T06:21:02Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > > > They actually changed pronunciations of it from previous eps. > > > > The best I can do phonetically is the older episodes pronounced it “IN-dunh-duh” and in this episode they were saying “IN-duh IN-duh”. They were separating the “Nds” more than they were in the other eps. > > I don’t remember hearing her name at all before. Do you happen to remember which episode it might have been? > > In my head, I’ve been pronouncing it “NUD-NUD” (for lack of any more precise description). I’m pretty sure her name was said in every episode she appeared in previously. They were “When Aliens Attack,” The Problem With Popplers," “Spanish Fry,” “Anthology of Interest II,” and “Love and Rockets.” She was also in “The Beast With A Billion Backs.” And I clearly recall her name as being pronounced “In-dunh-duh” in these earlier episodes. Lots of great gags in this episode. Great cameo of Sergio Aragones critiquing Fry’s comic book. “It stinks. But I do love the little doodles you drew in the margins.” I liked the Mork & Mindy callback when Fry calls Orson Welles. “Dork calling Orson. Dork calling Orson.” The sign at the Head Museum: “Cheech and Chong now on sale in our Head Shop.” And did anyone catch Frank Welker’s head on the shelf above Orson Welles’s? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/29 "2010-08-28T07:16:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I don’t remember hearing her name at all before. Do you happen to remember which episode it might have been? > > In my head, I’ve been pronouncing it “NUD-NUD” (for lack of any more precise description). It has been said on a few occassions, the one that I can think of off the top of my head without research is from “Spanish Fry”. Recalling Jackie Gleason, Lrrr says, “One of these days, Ndhndh, BANG! ZOOM! Straight to the Third Moon of Omicron Persei 8!!!” ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/30 "2010-08-28T07:51:38Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I also liked the subtle callback to the Orson Welles [commercial script rant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_TFyk2GJo&feature=related) also parodied brilliantly in the PatB episode [Yes, Always](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXEC8kcbqc&feature=related) Orson also introduced himself as “celebrated Paul Masson wine spokesman” or some such. That was a reference to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s) commercial that he showed up drunk to. Also the line about Zapp Brannigan being disgusted by taking direction came from [this voice-over session](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMV1bwXyi54&feature=related) by William Shatner, where he torments a producer who dared to make a suggestion abut how he should read. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/31 "2010-08-28T13:59:33Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > For the sake of sheer pedantry, when the speed of light was increased, the TV signals would have travelled faster at that point, meaning they still would have arrived earlier than after 1000 years. > > Yes, I have no life. Yes but these were old TV signals. They go under the speed limit and have their turn signals on constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/32 "2010-08-28T14:30:59Z")
Cheech and Chong on sale in the head shop ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/33 "2010-08-28T14:53:20Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Cheech and Chong > on sale in the head shop Pssst. Post #28. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/34 "2010-08-28T15:24:16Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I also liked the subtle callback to the Orson Welles [commercial script rant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_TFyk2GJo&feature=related) also parodied brilliantly in the PatB episode [Yes, Always](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXEC8kcbqc&feature=related) Actually, this is one of my complaints about Futurama. Their cultural references are often 20 or 30 years out of date. ETA: The Cheech and Chong thing is another example. And Sergio Aragones for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/35 "2010-08-28T19:09:56Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Actually, this is one of my complaints about Futurama. Their cultural references are often 20 or 30 years out of date. There was an iPhone out 20 years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/36 "2010-08-28T20:00:21Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Actually, this is one of my complaints about Futurama. Their cultural references are often 20 or 30 years out of date. Better something well-established with some substance to it rather than, say references to something current that will be forgotten by next season. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/37 "2010-08-28T20:43:04Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Better something well-established with some substance to it rather than, say references to something current that will be forgotten by next season. Like Ally McBeal? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/38 "2010-08-28T21:15:23Z")
At the time of “When Aliens Attack”, _Ally McBeal_ had been on for two years and would run for three more. How current do you want your references? _South Park_ has overdone it a bit, referencing flash-in-the-pan celebrities and such, and it would be a shame for the new _Futurama_ episodes to follow suit. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/39 "2010-08-28T21:26:39Z")
My question goes to Ally McBeal being “of substance.” 😃 > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > At the time of “When Aliens Attack”, _Ally McBeal_ had been on for two years and would run for three more. How current do you want your references? _South Park_ has overdone it a bit, referencing flash-in-the-pan celebrities and such, and it would be a shame for the new _Futurama_ episodes to follow suit. Warner Brothers cartoons were constantly referencing then-current catch phrases and celebrities, and everybody still loves those. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699/40 "2010-08-29T00:29:56Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > > [@MacTech](#): > > > > I also liked the subtle callback to the Orson Welles [commercial script rant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_TFyk2GJo&feature=related) also parodied brilliantly in the PatB episode [Yes, Always](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXEC8kcbqc&feature=related) > > Actually, this is one of my complaints about Futurama. Their cultural references are often 20 or 30 years out of date. > > ETA: The Cheech and Chong thing is another example. And Sergio Aragones for that matter. Sergio Aragones has had an influence on MAD readers for almost 50 years. He’s an institution. I was enjoying his “Drawn Out Dramas” and larger format sketches since I was in elementary school. As for Cheech and Chong, they reunited and went on tour and have a couple of new projects in the works. I’d give Futurama a pass on mentioning them, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-lrrreconcilable-ndndifferences-8-26/551699.md?page=3)