Kel Varnsen

What's the futurerama link? Because I Remember reading an interview with Matt Groening (I think it was for a simpsons/futurrama comic) where he talked about how crossing over those two worlds was difficult at least for the comic. His work around was that futurama was the real world in the 30th century, while Simpsons was a 20th century fictional cartoon. Plus the other way doesn't really work, because it has been established that Futurama is a show that people on the Simpsons. Millhouse has a Bender doll.

Along the same lines what was the deal with people not being able to have babies? I am not sure they ever really explained that. Also this is a little one but it always bugged me dating back to season 1. How the hell did a spoiled big city rich girl like Sun ever learn about gardening and natural medicine?

I watched it. I found it amusing but not hilarious. I also thought the songs were funnier than the non-song parts of the show. It's interesting the last show I remember with this concept (comedians applying their lives to develop their material) was Seinfeld. Considering the number of stand-up types who get shows, I am surprised this type of show doesn't come up more often.

But if two people are talking in english and then one of them wants to use a phrase or saying from another language (like say fiesta or capisce or je ne sais quoi or something equivalent in alien from another planet) the translators always know to let those phrases through and not force them to be translated into english.

Which will always work, unless you have to say something dramatic in your own language, then there is some sort of magical override feature.

I was thinking about it and I would kind of like to see Will Ferrel, although it would be with one gigantic if. I would only want to see him if it was Jerry actually having a sincere conversation with Jerry. No Will doing bits, no funny voices, no showing up in a speedo or that sort of thing.

Well Comdex happened before Christmas, then when Gordon got home he was sleeping on the couch next to the christmas tree. The famous apple commercial was a post super-bowl commercial which means it happened in January.

Scrubs even made a joke about that. In one of the clips shows JD's voice over says something like how when he looks back on his life that Fray song starts playing. Then How to Save a Life starts, but JD's voice over interrupts with "no not that Fray song' and a different song of theirs starts. For me a big recent one is anytime I hear Pumped Up Kicks I always think of the climax of the Season 1 Homeland finale.

Speaking of TV and computers and schematics, if you are some kind of SWAT team guy (or something along those lines) and you need information on a building (any building) all it takes is a few mouse clicks and you have fully up to date 3D models of the entire structure (whether it is publicly or privately owned). While in real life half the time building owners aren't even sure if they still have paper copies of building drawings anywhere.

I can do better than that, I hate Monty Python.

I haven't seen the episode you are talking about, but breaking up collections totally makes sense to me. I mean whether it is post cards, stamps or comic books there are a lot of collectors out there. Most of them are typically looking for very specific items (that one card they have always wanted) and are usually willing to pay top dollar for it. Most collectors aren't willing to pay top dollar for every card as part of a big set, especially if they only need one or two. Of course like they have said before, breaking things up and listing everything separately takes time, so it is just a matter of figuring out if the payoff is worth the time.

There is an even stronger link in the second season of Raising Hope, where Patty the Daytime Hooker shows up and says she is from Camden County.

I will always have a sort of soft spot for the X-men movies. Even though some of them were really bad, it really was the proof of concept that showed that comic book super hero movies (especially ones with characters that weren't household names like batman and superman) could make good movies and make a ton of money. The success of that movie basically changed the movie business. Plus you are totally right some of the casting was amazing.I say this having not seen Days of Future Past yet, but I would hate for Fox to lose the rights to the X-men because then I would assume a reboot would have to recast Magneto, the professor and wolverine.

I see your point but it still seems like dumping to me. Hell by 2016 Marvel will have released 12 movies. By then people will probably already be talking about Avengers 3.

That's awesome. If this show does some how make it to a second season there needs to be a Tom Anderson/Hank Hill type character show up.

Maybe not over the whole theatrical run of the movie, but a bad late March snow storm in the eastern US and eastern Canada could easily keep enough people home to effect the opening weekend box office.

On the other hand dumping it into March, rather than having it set up to be a summer block buster could say something about how much faith they have in the movie. People, especially young people have less free time in March compared to in the summer. Plus even in March there is a significant portion of north america where the weather is still shitty, to the point where that could have an effect on how much they make.

Although looking back on that it kind of made sense. I mean those other three guys were so dependent on Hank for just about everything they needed to function in their lives (especially Dale and Bill) that I can totally see when it came time for him to buy a house, they would move right next to him. Plus Hank hated change so much I could totally see that he would be totally fine with living next to the same people he grew up with.

I do wonder though, if Cameron had nothing, how exactly was she able to afford to attend that college/university where Joe found here in the pilot? Or was she just showing up at the classes and listening to the lectures without actually being a student? I am not sure how readily available credit cards were, but if Cameron was making $40,000 a year in 1983 (about $95,000 in today's dollars) then I assume she could walk into just about any bank, show them her paycheque and get set up with a credit card pretty quickly. Especially if she set up an account with them. And especially if she could get her friend John Bosworth to vouch for her that she was the head of the software division.

But is it ok because the coders will have the freedom to make an online version of bee keeper simulator.

I sort of got that. I just think it was funny that her big speech about no one is in charge is basically followed up with a "meet your new boss" scene.

Here is the article I mentioned about Marvel's CEO. It talks about how cheap he is, he wanted to serve just potato chips at the premiere of Iron Man. That said he did completely turn the company around so he must be doing some things right. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-marvel-became-envy-scourge-720363

As far as money goes, did they ever say how much Cameron was paid by Cardiff to write the BIOS for the Giant? If it was the kind of thing that only a few people could have done (and it was obviously vital to the project) she could have potentially been paid pretty well for a short amount of work. And it is not like she has any real expenses. As far as the other coders, I wonder how much help they are going to be for Mutiny when their best ideas were the moon phase program and the bee keeping simulator.

Actually Feige's boss at Marvel is the one in charge of it all. And like an above poster mentioned, he is crazy cheap. I was reading an article a few weeks ago about him and he is super budget conscious, all business, doesn't care about comics and is one of the largest single shareholders of Disney stock. I believe he is also on record as saying that everyone on camera who is not named Robert Downey Jr is replaceable.

That one is pretty bad, and shows how TV writers aren't so good when it comes to science. I mean humans and Chimps aren't able to procreate together and we share something like 98% of the same DNA. But yet on TV humans and people from other planets are able to reproduce together.