# Your Favorite Futurama Moment **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155 "2006-11-05T04:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/161 "2006-11-08T09:08:07Z")
[QUOTE=Joools] During the basketball game vs the Harlem Globetrotters: Fry: Put me in! Put me in! I want to show Leela my skills! Farnsworth: Will said skills pay the bills? [/QUOTE] Was that the same episode where the professor created a team of genetically mutated basketball players? Where they were having a huddle and the guy with the ball cannon in his chest concentrated so much he shot the spider player to pieces? 😃 Last Futurama laugh I had was last night during the Pharoah episode, the Egyptian-esque aliens describe how they came to Earth to learn pyramid building and space travel from the Egyptians 😛 Best ever laugh I had was watched with a fellow Trek fan in the office (which made it even better), hearing the “Amok Time” music played as the “Decapodian national anthem” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/162 "2006-11-08T13:38:53Z")
From **Brannigan Begins Again** Your neutralness, it’s a beige alert. If I don’t survive, tell my wife… ‘hello’. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/163 "2006-11-08T19:36:43Z")
I loved the whole “what if life was more like video games” segment from the Tales of Interest episode. Leela: Oh my God, Fry’s dead Fry: No, it’s OK, I had another guy. Space Invader #1: What are your attack orders sir? Space Invader #2: Increase speed, drop down, reverse direction. Space Invader: Have you _smelled_ Donkey Kong’s loincloth lately? Zoidberg: Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/164 "2006-11-08T22:40:08Z")
When Lila and Fry were stranded on the Moon, they found a “Moon ranch” under a dome. When they asked for oxygen the farmer retorted: “Oxygen don’t grow on trees ya’know.” The dome was full of trees! Also what struck me funny was the lettering on the pizza box when Fry was delivering pizza, “Don’t tip the delivery boy!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/165 "2006-11-08T23:02:06Z")
Not really a gag, just a cool reference. In the episode where Leela is tricked into marrying a shapeshifter posing as the only other member of her species left in the universe, one of his other wives is one of HP Lovecraft’s [Great Race of Yith.](http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/Yithian.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/166 "2006-11-08T23:21:50Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] When Lila and Fry were stranded on the Moon, they found a “Moon ranch” under a dome. When they asked for oxygen the farmer retorted: “Oxygen don’t grow on trees ya’know.” The dome was full of trees![/QUOTE From the same scene, regarding nightfall on the moon– Farmer: “Yep! Drops down to minus 173.” Fry: “Fahrenheit or Celsius?” Farmer: “First one, then t’other.” ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/167 "2006-11-09T01:16:26Z")
I checked Maurice LaMarche’s IMDB and it says that **Futurama: Bender’s Big Score** is in post production. Speaking of him, I loved his delivery in one of the **Tales of Interest** “You’ve Watched it, you can’t UNWATCH it!” Such great delivery. And from the episode where they got superpowers; “Here’s something you MAY or May not find interesting,” cut to Leela’s parents in a cage. Great show. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/168 "2006-11-09T05:15:06Z")
I love all of the professors useless/overly complicated inventions. They are just wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![JacksonRoykirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@JacksonRoykirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksonRoykirk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/169 "2006-11-09T06:01:37Z")
[QUOTE=Surbey] I love all of the professors useless/overly complicated inventions. They are just wonderful. [/QUOTE] Professor Farnsworth (after switching off the What-If machine): So, that’s what would have happened if I had invented the Fing-Longer. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/170 "2006-11-09T06:16:09Z")
**The Problem with Popplers** Pop a… Poppler in your mouth, When you come to Fishy Joe’s, What they’re made of is a mystery, Where they come from, no one knows. You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em, You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em, And if you promise not to sue us, You can shove one up your nose. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/171 "2006-11-09T06:49:29Z")
I like Leela’s, um, sunglass. ---
**Author:** ![shizaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@shizaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shizaru)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/172 "2006-11-09T06:57:00Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] “Death by snoo-snoo!” That scene had me laughing so hard, tears were coming out of my eyes. “I’d always imagined … well, hoped … it would end this way.” [/QUOTE] Haha, in that same episode when Kif starts crying and Zap says “What? Are you gay?!” The Grunka lunka song: - Asking questions in school is good way to learn If you try that stuff here you might get your legs broke We once found a body face down in the slurm It could easily happen again to you folks So keep your head down and keep your mouth shut Grunka lunka, lunka dunkitty dut!" \* ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/173 "2006-11-09T15:30:22Z")
[QUOTE=JacksonRoykirk] Professor Farnsworth (after switching off the What-If machine): So, that’s what would have happened if I had invented the Fing-Longer. [/QUOTE] A man can dream, though. A man can dream. I like the scene where the Professor is summoned to the University for what he thinks is a disciplinary hearing but is really a surprise birthday party. He starts out by swearing, “If I go down, you’ll all go down with me!” and starts accusing all the deans of improprieties. Then they tell him it’s a birthday party, and after he finds out, he goes right back to his accusations. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/174 "2006-11-09T15:53:32Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Not really a gag, just a cool reference. In the episode where Leela is tricked into marrying a shapeshifter posing as the only other member of her species left in the universe, one of his other wives is one of HP Lovecraft’s [Great Race of Yith.](http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/Yithian.jpg) [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, this episode also has Leela saying “AL!” in her Peg Bundy voice. I love cross references like that. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/175 "2006-11-09T16:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=TJdude825] I like Leela’s, um, sunglass. [/QUOTE] I like when she gets two eyes, and throws a way a giant box labeled “Leela’s Monacles” (she looks really odd with two eyes, though). From the same episode, “The Cyberhouse Rules”: “I was just out getting one of my Hawiian shirts toned down…” ---
**Author:** ![JacksonRoykirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@JacksonRoykirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksonRoykirk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/176 "2006-11-09T20:45:18Z")
“Jurassic Bark” was on Adult Swim again. I promised myself I wasn’t going to sit through it again. The only damn thing that makes me cry to watch. Me, a crusty 49 year old, too damn old for cartoons. So naturally I had to TiVo it. Then I watched the ending over and over from when Fry said, “He forgot me a long, long time ago.” Listening to the song and watching Seymour waitiing in vain in front of the pizzeria. Damn show, manipulating my emotions. Of course our dogs never forget us. The shortest separation seems like an eternity to them. Then I erased it. Until the next time it’s on. Then I’ll promise myself again I’m not gonna watch it. And set my TiVo again. That’s one damn powerful episode and I can’t break its grip on me. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![JacksonRoykirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@JacksonRoykirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacksonRoykirk)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/177 "2006-11-09T20:49:14Z")
Indeed, you can’t unwatch it. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/178 "2006-11-09T21:27:58Z")
Fry: So, while you’re on the probulator, tell me what brings you to the future. Man: Oh, well, I wanted to meet Shakespeare and I figured that time was cyclical. Fry: Nope, straight line. [Probulator beeps] Ah! the probulator’s done. Man: Oh, that wasn’t so bad. Fry: Oh, wait, it hasn’t started yet. [Beep. The man screams] Okay, it’s about to start. [Beep. The man screams harder] and Fry: So, there’s an infinite number of parallel universes? Professor: No, just the two. Fry: Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/179 "2006-11-09T21:29:39Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] I like the scene where the Professor is summoned to the University for what he thinks is a disciplinary hearing but is really a surprise birthday party. He starts out by swearing, “If I go down, you’ll all go down with me!” and starts accusing all the deans of improprieties. Then they tell him it’s a birthday party, and after he finds out, he goes right back to his accusations. [/QUOTE] I know all about your department of pool boys studies! ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-futurama-moment/379155/180 "2006-11-09T21:49:56Z")
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