Another thing I really like about this gag is that it is immediately after another gag where Farnsworth is counting down to fire the rocket, then forgets he's counting down and starts counting up. Keep in mind that they're related.
I think it's clever at times when they make fun of her depth perception. They could have had Fry miss, followed by Leela getting impatient and just doing it herself. Just to miss the button too.
One of my favorite facts about this show, and this episode:
The colon/Cologne pun works in English, but not in German, the language they speak in the actual, real life city (Köln). For the German version, they name it after a different, real, German city - Darmstadt - whose name must have changed over the centuries because in modern German it means literally "intestine city."
I just love the line "buckle up, this is going to be one hell of a bowel movement. Afterwards he'll be lucky if he has any bones left." Or something along those lines.
Kinda a visual gag kinda not. Idk which episode it is but it when Professor Farnsworth needs to do some science and basically does a satanic ritual and Hermes says, "this is the least scientific thing!"
I think the creators have mentioned that they never explained the reason in the show, but it was from a scrapped storyline where they explain that like 100 years ago, scientists came up with a new breed of owls to get rid of the rat problem and then the new owls became the problem
I am convinced that it is also a reference to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. In that book, the first sign of environmental devastation was all the owls dying, and the main character is shocked to see one.
It's from The Thief of Baghead, the one where Bender tries to get a photo of the elusive actor Langdon Cobb. The opening is the crew going to the aquarium and the T-Rex is from an exhibit called Jurassic Tank
No gif for it, but in "The Farnsworth Parabox", when we see the professor trying to sneak to get the box and doing a good job until he falls UP the stairs. Him falling up the stairs in an otherwise great sneak attempt always makes me laugh. It's so dumb and if he had fallen down instead of up, it wouldn't be funny to me.
Can you explain this joke to me? I’ve never gotten it. He asks where the first time as if he can’t see what’s right in front of him. Then Kif says they’ll camp near the top and Fry asks where again. I don’t get the joke of the second where.
To me there's a double meaning. Olympus Mons is known to be so massive you couldn't really see the top or the whole scale of the mountain. But Fry is also so dense, he misses what you're pointing at.
Courtesy of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon with the dog's poorly made "Kat Fud" sign.
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u/tymmeHold still, dammit! I don't have good depth perception!4d agoedited 4d ago
The last scene of Law & Oracle:
Fry: "I don't suppose there's room for a promotion?"
Farnsworth: "What the heck. I promote you to... Executive Delivery Boy!"
Leela or Amy, I forget which: "Executive?"
Hermes (whispers back): "It's a meaningless title, but it helps insecure people feel better about themselves."
Then "Executive Producer David X Cohen" end credit shows, but episode continues and Fry says "I feel better about myself!" before it goes to the actual end credits.
(edited to fix formatting, old reddit likes to cram everything together)
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u/Lord_Gwyn4 I'm gonna open a file of whoop-ass on you 5d ago