[HN Gopher] All Futurama Opening Quotes
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All Futurama Opening Quotes
Author : melector
Score : 172 points
Date : 2021-03-18 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| gravyboat wrote:
| I think this is the first webpage I've seen that doesn't load at
| all without AMP. Pretty concerning that developers are going down
| this route.
| standardUser wrote:
| These are more clever than I remember, and I'm amazed at how many
| I don't remember at all.
|
| Favorite so far: "Not The Episode With The Dead Dog"
| sixothree wrote:
| I won't watch that episode. I think the opening quote was apt.
| pentagrama wrote:
| I'm not sure that the episode with the dead dog opening quote
| _is_ the episode with the dead dog (a spoiler), maybe was a
| previous one and because it was somewhat controversial this
| is a joke about it.
|
| Can anyone confirm?
|
| The two possible jokes works but are different, for me a pun
| of a previous episode is so much funny.
| outerspace wrote:
| Watched that episode with the dead dog once. Almost cried.
| Never watched it again.
| tombert wrote:
| "Luck of the Fryish" has always been a favorite of mine. Not
| quite as tear-jerking as Jurassic Bark, but still a little
| sad with a somewhat somber ending.
| DoomHotel wrote:
| Just hearing the song that closed that episode makes me want
| to cry.
| goda90 wrote:
| Multiple Futurama episodes got tears out of me. I think it's
| a normal and natural thing to be touched by a piece of media
| to the point of tears. I've watched them again in fact.
| haodemon wrote:
| That's why I love Futurama - it respects intelligence of its
| audience. Rewatching all seasons every couple of years only
| showed that the show grows with you.
| whoisjuan wrote:
| Futurama is great! I wish it would have gotten more popular but I
| guess most masterpieces aren't appreciated on their time.
|
| I can confidently say that some of best tv writing I have seen is
| from Futurama. Totally recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.
| fumar wrote:
| I watched the first four seasons. I should rewatch the show
| including the later ones.
| orblivion wrote:
| My understanding is that the Episode 111 quote is the only
| instance of "not sure if" on the show, and it was in reference to
| the Internet meme, not the other way around.
|
| So that one is probably my favorite.
| the_af wrote:
| How I loved Futurama! Much like with the Simpsons, it will
| helpfully provide a quote for _anything_ , and its hyper focus on
| scifi and adventure made it more interesting to me.
|
| Though I'm a fan of the first "age", before the movie(s) and
| cancellation. I heard bad things about the later seasons, and
| don't want to taint my memories of the show by watching them.
| krylon wrote:
| Futurama gave me the kind of unfortunate habit of starting with
| the German equivalent of "Good news, everyone..." when telling
| users about something bad.
|
| People who did not know Futurama found it puzzling, but it was
| just so funny I could not resist.
|
| Also, I think the "second age" of Futurama was as good as the
| first one. I loved the series finale.
| dfinninger wrote:
| I rewatched the whole thing last year. It's one of the few
| shows that I can really rewatch the whole thing start to
| finish. I like the series more as it goes on.
|
| IMDB ratings seem to agree with your sentiment (7ish out of 10
| opposed to the 8ish of earlier seasons). But watching through
| the series start to finish I didn't notice any drop in how much
| enjoyment I derived from the show. I definitely don't think it
| will taint your memory.
|
| And as another sibling post said, the send-off episode always
| tugs at my heart.
|
| I'd recommend finishing the series if you enjoyed the earlier
| seasons.
| the_af wrote:
| Will do! Thanks everyone, you and the rest of the commenters,
| for changing my mind :)
| atomicnumber3 wrote:
| As someone who watched them first in college about.... 7 years
| ago, I thought all the seasons were consistently good. There's
| really not many episodes I'll skip if shuffling.
| linkdd wrote:
| The final was just amazingly beautiful, I'd recommend you watch
| it anyways :)
| jerf wrote:
| The average may have trended down, but the variance went up,
| and some of the best episodes are in the later seasons.
|
| I'd suggest looking at episode ratings or something and cherry-
| picking. It definitely was not some sort of total tanking or
| anything.
|
| In fact, I'd call it the only case I've ever seen of trying to
| "bring the band back together" that _largely_ succeeded. Not
| 100%, no, but they did much better than average.
|
| That said, when the show ended for the last time, I was
| satisfied.
| bullfightonmars wrote:
| Through multiple watches, I've come to really like Bender's Big
| Score and The Beast with a Billion Backs. They are very
| different than the normal 22 minute episodes, but they have a
| lot of depth that you don't normally get in regular episodes.
|
| The later seasons have few worthwhile episodes, notably:
|
| * S6 - EP7 - The Late Philip J. Fry * S7 - EP26 - Meanwhile
| (Series Finale)
|
| That said, I agree with you, most of my favorite episodes are
| from the first four seasons.
| MikeLumos wrote:
| Oh yes, The Late Philip J. Fry is about the forward time
| machine, what a masterpiece! Probably my favorite episode in
| the whole series.
|
| There was also an amazing song:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1drY3A418
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| Original that it parodies for those not familiar:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYvtRmgA4o
| modeless wrote:
| I always found the Scary Door intros pretty great as well:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oGJTUpbpA
| tra3 wrote:
| I know it's a parody of Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone, but
| it always made me think of the "Lost room"
| (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830361/)
| soperj wrote:
| Has anyone figured out what episode 72 actually says?
| sixothree wrote:
| Thanks for watching, Futurama slave army!
| mikestew wrote:
| https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/enfuturama/images/d/da/740...
| gbrown_ wrote:
| Whilst another commenter has answered this you may enjoy this
| list of "Alienese" appearances and the translations
| https://theinfosphere.org/List_of_alien_language_sightings#S...
| monocasa wrote:
| https://alienese.moxievillelabs.com/
|
| Here's a translator
| WaitWaitWha wrote:
| 12345607890A31B2C4D,07E1F93G306H37i039Gj! thanks
| for watching, futurama slave army!
| Svip wrote:
| There is also a list of opening cartoons:
| https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_opening_cartoons
|
| I used to be able to know these captions by heart, and knew the
| episode by caption alone. Can't do that anymore.
|
| And here is a list with some additional trivia:
| https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions
| zoid_ wrote:
| You seem malnourished. Are you suffering from internal parasites?
| Theory5 wrote:
| "Uhh, is there a human doctor around?"
|
| "Young lady, I am an expert on humans. Now pick a mouth, open
| it, and say [Zoidberg Noises]."
|
| "Ahem, [bad attempt at copying zoidberg noises]"
|
| "WHAT?! My mother was a saint. Now GET OUT!"
| gostsamo wrote:
| All the quotes are in pictures with the alt text being only the
| number of the episode. Online accessibility at its best.
| tantalor wrote:
| The original episodes do not caption the text either. It's not
| like anything is lost by living up to that standard here.
| m_myers wrote:
| I'm currently behind a corporate firewall which blocks Imgur.
| Not being very familiar with Futurama, I thought the entire
| joke was that the quote for episode 1 was "Episode 1", the
| quote for episode 2 was "Episode 2", and so on.
| linkdd wrote:
| The joy of Hackernews is that there is always someone to
| complain.
| thatguy0900 wrote:
| https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions here is a
| list with just the text
| athrowaway3z wrote:
| And why do tell us, should somebody who is donating their time
| making something silly, jump through some hoops to live up to
| your standards?
|
| Please send the web master a list of every alt text before you
| try and make it someone else's problem or complain about it.
| [deleted]
| jodrellblank wrote:
| > In Comments: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious
| conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate.
| Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
|
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| thatguy0900 wrote:
| Think you could say the op was against this rule as well
| Diti wrote:
| Considering the nickname of the person you replied to, this
| user does expect to be banned at some point.
| gostsamo wrote:
| You are pissed at me and it is part of the reason why I did
| it. I can duplicate the effort of the webmaster, send the alt
| texts, and maybe they will be cool and incorporate them in
| the post for the next reader. Or maybe they will say: "yeah,
| bro" and will promptly forget about me and my complains. On
| the other side, someone will be pissed at me because they
| feel guilt for something that they have nothing to do with.
| Yet, next time when they post a picture, they will try to
| avoid feeling bad by adding a simple picture description in
| their post. I will pay for this with a few down votes, but
| sometimes we have to take responsibility for our not so
| bright sides.
| cambalache wrote:
| You are giving yourself way too much importance. Rest
| assured that the rest of the world does not share that
| sentiment.
| tra3 wrote:
| Since it's hosted on GitHub, the blog is available as a git
| repo [0]. I'd check with the author to see if he'd accept a PR
| and then it's possible to contribute alts you desire.
|
| [0]:
| https://github.com/theabbie/theabbie.github.io/blob/master/b...
| kodah wrote:
| This is not the way to get people on board with accessibility.
| Open a PR and fix the issue or come up with ways to make
| accessibility an easier branch to reach or more common
| knowledge.
| gostsamo wrote:
| It is a bit funny that you are complaining from the style of
| my complaining. Not offering a better way to do it brings the
| discussion to my level, which is a bit sad.
|
| Anyways, the reason that such situations piss me so much is
| because of the sucker punch that they feel like. You click on
| something that is text, it can't be anything but text, yet
| someone has converted it to a picture to make it pop up
| easier in social media which by the way excludes me from the
| fun that I expected to share.
| dooglius wrote:
| I see from your profile that you are blind, so you're
| likely missing some context here. The "Opening Quotes" are
| more aptly described as title cards that appear at the end
| of each opening. Generally, the title cards are the
| Futurama logo with short gag-lines, although it's not
| entirely text as there are often visual elements as well.
| The images are video screengrabs of each title card, rather
| than something the author created.
| gostsamo wrote:
| Yep, someone else mentioned it as well. On the other
| side, the author has bothered to enumerate each and every
| one of the pictures with a caption, just the text is
| totally useless from a11y perspective.
| [deleted]
| jayparth wrote:
| It does suck that you can't read them, but they haven't
| converted them to pictures. Instead they're screenshots of
| the opening screens which have commonly have slight
| differences in presentation. As a person who can see I
| quite liked seeing how the title card text evolved as the
| show progressed.
|
| But yea, it does suck that there is no accessible alt text.
| [deleted]
| kodah wrote:
| I sent an email to Abhishek because the repository their
| website is in seems to be closed source. I've offered to
| send a patch via email if they can forward me the code.
|
| My email is listed on my profile if you'd like to
| collaborate.
|
| Edit: Abhishek has agreed to share the source for
| modification.
| gostsamo wrote:
| Thanks! I'd be glad to join.
|
| Edit: However, I can't find your email. Not sure why, but
| in your profile there is only some quote and "Can be
| reached on Freenode". Is the email kodah \at
| freenode.net?
| kodah wrote:
| <Email removed>
| joshstrange wrote:
| Now I want the same thing for Bob's Burgers, the store next door
| and the pest control truck. Last I checked it gets posted on the
| episode discussion thread on reddit but something like this would
| be really cool.
| ghostpepper wrote:
| I had no idea there was a running gag like this on Bob's
| Burgers. Time for a re-watch!
| hirundo wrote:
| Episode 76 is "0100100001101001". I had to check. It's ascii for
| "Hi".
| Larrikin wrote:
| I don't see any information regarding it, but I'm guessing this
| was a weekend project implementing similar ML as the skip intro
| button on Plex, Netflix, etc
| fumblebee wrote:
| For the crossover Simpsons episode:
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| "A show out of ideas teams up with a show out of episodes".
|
| Pure gold. Even if the newer Simpsons episodes are (imho) grade-A
| garbage, it's strangely comforting that the writers are self-
| aware and self-deprecating enough to come up and stick with this.
| Svip wrote:
| There was also a caption at the end of that episode:
| https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions#Special...
| willis936 wrote:
| All the pictures are of the same frame of the TV turn-on
| animation. I wonder if someone did this by hand or wrote a script
| to detect the start of the animation and capture the image a
| specific number of frames after that timestamp.
| tzs wrote:
| Speaking of Futurama, those who like both it and Harry Potter
| might enjoy this short story, the only Futurama/HP crossover
| story I've ever come across [1].
|
| [1] https://www.fanfiction.net/Futurama-and-Harry-Potter-
| Crossov...
| p1mrx wrote:
| I guess "Nobody doesn't like molten boron" was _before_ the
| opening quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghD5SHuR9mk
| bob1029 wrote:
| In college, we actually did the "Drink when you see the robot"
| game with that episode on a fairly regular basis.
|
| They intentionally made a ton of scenes with Bender
| entering/exiting frame such that anyone seriously following the
| rule would be hammered before the episode was over.
| PhillyG wrote:
| That's awesome
| whycombagator wrote:
| "Please rise for the futurama theme song" - Ep 41
| nharada wrote:
| I recently learned this song is mostly sampled, I had no idea:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoq5-bLYM5Q
| plantain wrote:
| How have they reverse engineered these?
| modeless wrote:
| Wow, what an amazing breakdown video visualization. I see
| there are a bunch of these, for e.g. Daft Punk
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwOpRh-IfI, Britney Spears
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXUodk-pVo, Fatboy Slim http
| s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaQyVRndMA&list=PLmsQco5tyS...
| nadavami wrote:
| This is awesome, thanks for the interesting rabbit hole!
| Tarsul wrote:
| imo the best episode (outside of the sad ones) is A Bicyclops
| Built for Two (S02E13), the gags are the best here and storyline
| is great too. second best is The Devil's Hands Are Idle
| Playthings (S04E18).
| ModernMech wrote:
| I wonder why episode 96 has the message 100. Is the numbering
| off?
| majewsky wrote:
| There were four direct-to-DVD movies between the Fox era and
| the Comedy Central era. I suppose they are counting those as
| four episodes (even though they were later cut up for
| broadcasting into a full season of over a dozen episodes).
| KineticLensman wrote:
| People who like these could do worse than take a look at Ubik by
| Philip K Dick [0]. Each chapter starts with an advert expounding
| the virtues of the wonder substance Ubik, which can be used as
| beer, shaving foam, kitchen cleaner, coffee, hairspray,
| antiperspirant and others. Each ad has a great little caveat:
| "Safe when taken as directed", "Avoid prolonged use", "Entirely
| safe when used as directed", "Safe when used in a conscientious
| programme of bodily hygiene", "Do not exceed recommended dosage",
| "Do not exceed recommended portion at any one meal" etc etc
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik
| bitwize wrote:
| Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
| craftinator wrote:
| It made my heart happy that this comment was so quickly made.
| chiph wrote:
| > The show that watches back
|
| Well, that was prescient, given how smart TVs send screen content
| data back to the manufacturers these days.
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