The Futurama Iceberg Explained 

I have to agree, and honestly it was pretty similar in the airforce to what you described about the navy

Oh yeah, I remember someone in the Navy telling me his Officer would divert the ship dozens of miles off-course by ordering the helmsman to turn the ship just so the sun wouldn't shine in his eyes when he had his morning coffee. All that fuel and time just so he never had to sit in another chair.

Dude I know! "Disconnected" is a perfect way to put it! I was in the army, I was a 19 kilo from 2003 to 2012 and I deployed to Iraq four times, and from my second deployment to my last appointment whenever we would leave Kuwait and go into Iraq, we'd always spend a month at fob Liberty to draw/sign for crew serve weapons and do maintenance on vehicles and stuff like that, basically everything we're going to need to run missions out of the post that we're going to be living and working out of for the next year, and fob Liberty is a super cushy post. They have a swimming pool, food courts with American fast food, massive Chow holes that serve gourmet cuisine, like that stuff is good! Internet, shower trailers, real toilets, at least one big PX, and after we finish doing what we have to do there us grunts that actually run combat missions and our company level commands go out to some shitty little post and the most dangerous areas of the country, while the battalion and brigade level of command and HQ soldiers stayed in the green zone living the cushy life, no running missions, no worries of mortars or rockets coming in, and there are guys who's when deployment is at places like fob Liberty! anyway, talk about being disconnected from your soldiers man... Once in a great while they'd come do a mandatory check-in on us and nit pick about how our uniforms are dirty or have blood stains, guys ain't shaved, how the food sucks, why don't we have a decent latrine for them to use, why are guys walking outside without their BDU/ACU tops on or covers on, blah blah blah, and the thing is these high high brass/enlisted dudes never had to do things like we did or love how we did bc when they were still young and coming up, it was peace time in the 80s n sht, and by the time Iraq happened, they were already so far up the COC that they didn't _have_ to do the things we did bc they're driving a desk or flying a filing cabinet, plus they're too old, and then we'd come back home and they'd give this year jerking speech to the families about the hardships "they faced", when in reality those guys would visit for half a day and just talk mad sht and then leave back to their single man trailers with AC and built-in latrines and their cinnabon and TV.

I think the better term they could’ve used would be that he had a full on mental breakdown which remained ongoing. PTSD doesn’t directly make you any more or less intelligent obviously, but it can trigger dormant schizophrenia or mental disorders like how PTSD caused by childhood trauma can later on in young adults

i have cptsd and yeah it doesn’t make you like zapp, he’s just drunk on power

My family used to watch it on the DVD bundles, made in the early 2000s before the movies, and Nibbler’s shadow was always there

@@drt1605 by literally showing a shadow. Absolute genius

That was my friend that proved it, but nice try 👌

@@joshj1953 nooo, no Josh, that was my friend who proved it, but nice try

@@Nathan-jt8zt Sorry Nathan, that was my friend that proved it, but nice try.👍🏾

Not necessarily he was already stealing from the suicide booth with the coin on the string

@@jgreen2877 Is it *really* stealing? I mean, the suicide booth failed to kill him every time. I think he is owed his money back. He paid for a service and the booth failed to deliver said service. Semantics, I know, but now I am just having fun with the idea.

@@samuelzuleger5134 to follow off of that he didn't know it wouldn't work at the time though

Actually in that episode the first thing he sees when he reboots again is Leela and he scans her as human which alluded to her being a mutant and not an alien.

@@jgreen2877 maybe so, but immediately before he got electrocuted he couldn't bend the bars because he cared about the law, if only somewhat

Yet later on he sees binary and gets scared enough to run out of the room. So, obviously he was just bullshiting.

Yeah, he also said “I think I saw a 2” which also wouldn’t be possible if he only ran off binary

I love the idea of Bender, a robot who you'd assume would know binary, only seems to know very limited conversational binary. That's hilarious lol

​@@wolfetteplays8894 Well he saw that in his dream. Him seeing a 2 in his dream doesnt nessecarily mean the 2 would exist outside of the dream. I see plenty of things in my dream that dont exist in the real world. Actually if anything i think it leans more towards the 2 not existing outside of the dream, since he was afraid of it. If 2 existed in his code, he probably wouldnt be scared of it in a dream. He probably wouldnt even mention it.

If he was really using 0 1 2 this is known as a trinary system. Or rather it’s -1 0 1. it’s a less fast but more efficient system the soviets worked with a bit. Unfortunately it’s hard to use so never really caught on but it exists!

IIRC he reverts to a CD-ROM containing the schematics needed to build him.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good joke

But season 6 he was born a toddler

That's definitely the bending software installation disk.

@@Britishvrgtagthat was the best bender origin we got

My thoughts exactly

Exactly, Bender's pre-programmed memories are just stock footage.

That makes sense.

Not to mention how many times they went mucking around with time jumps, time travel, etc. They could have hopped to an entirely different universe with a different back story.

Bravo

I think 9 guy lived It was Hutch Waterfall who got killed by the leach

@@xaviar10 yeah, 9 lived. Cause an episode after the movie had 9 ran a survaillance supply shop.

Nobody swore to avenge the waterfall that Lrr ate, did they? Unless I missed it. It's Free Waterfall Jr., I think. He says this is not happening... And no one swears to avenge him.

@@foxxie_gal87 they didn’t. They probably didn’t have the idea for the Waterfall’s story or that he was so preachy, even the rest of his family didn’t like him

@@xaviar10 I guess I haven’t seen Into the Wild Green Yonder in a while Lol.

Also when Fry gets frozen in the first place, we see a Medieval style period about halfway between the future and the past. It could possibly take place then

What I was thinking during it, I think this makes more sense because nothing in the future hints at disenchantment making sense

@@dongojangle106 which doesn't make sense, as after old New York is destroyed, a forest grows, then becomes a midevel period, then more trees and then new NYC. But if all that happened, forests and other civilizations, then how did old NYC survive?

@@fryloc359 and also under new new york as sewers

There’s more of a Universe A, B, and C situation. Fry, Bender, and Farnsworth disappear from Universe A, accidentally skip over Universe B, then end up in Universe C, killing the original. That means Universe B has the Fry, Bender, and Farnsworth skip over universe C and go to the next one, universe D, etc etc continuing into infinity. Uh but that’s not relevant to OP’s comment lol

Heck, an episode had Leela mutate more and grow more tentacles on her body

I always thought his mouth was horizontal until he spoke or opened it, then it swapped to vertical

@@connorlenihan2015 it is but in the scene where he's a teenager and surfing, he opens his mouth horizontally whereas later on it's vertical when he speaks

My daughter and I have watched futurama a bazillion times since she was like 3, but a lot of times it's just on in the background and we're just listening. She was like 10 and we were actually watching it and she noticed Nibbler's eye in the trashcan. We had to go back and see if he was in the pilot and sure enough he was. My mind was blown

The Episode That Shall Not Be Named

I agree. There's both an overarching storyline, but it can be subverted at any time for comedy. One of the best animated shows imo

Agreed

When you can hop between universes, you get a bit of leeway with continuity. Can we prove the continuity/backstory is from the existing universe the current episode is set in? And how would ever even know?

I think the shock rebooted him. In the episode "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz," Bender is damaged and rebooted. When he reboots, he is surrounded by penguins and thus follows penguin programming. When Bender got shocked, he was in the Hall of Criminals in the Head Museum. Thus, he would reboot as a criminal. As far as the suicide booths, Bender units always have a back up...since Bender doesn't have one, and is thus, technically, mortal, he may have a fear or hatred of death and, by extension, the suicide booths. The only way he could get at them was by ripping them off. Either that, or its a silly gig in a cartoon sit-com that had low prospects of making it.

Well it is implied he's killing himself because he found out the girders he's been bending have been used to make suicide booths. Could be that he's ripping them off not out of greed or love of crime, but because he doesn't want to endorse the suicide booths by giving them money

Zapp: I want the music from the 80s! Kif: Which "80s" sir? Zapp: There's only one 80s to me.

I always thought how it's a joke about how characters in sci-fi always listen to music from the 20th or early 21st century, because apparently no new music gets made for hundreds of years

Welcome!

Same, it doesn’t make me turn over to look because I can already see what’s happening in my head haha

Hey, me too! I'm glad to see others do it too. I have probably rewatched the series over 100x as a result. I used to watch South Park like this, but nothing is as good as Futurama. I play it as background for more than just sleeping. I'll actually watch it sometimes and pause it when I get up.

@@erict3728 I've used a couple, too. Alien, Rick and Morty, and the classic Winnie the Pooh are the only other ones I've used a couple times. Futurama's still #1!

I just started using futurama to fall asleep to last week! I’ve already finished and restarted the series twice, and yet I’m still somehow seeing things I’ve never seen before.

Anyone care to share their favorite seasons to start as they go to bed and their least favorites? My favorite is season 1 and I also like the extended/movie season(6 I think). I least like the later seasons like 7 and beyond(not that I don't like them, I just like the early ones better)

I always thought it was the sound of microwave plasma. Stick a lit match in the microwave and cover with a glass make sure you put something under to allow airflow and you too can make plasma lol the sound is awesome. lol found a vid of it on RU-vid so you dont have to try ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l0u8Vtf2GoQ.html

For real. When they try too hard to tie down every loose end it kills the magic

I hope it would instead mock those people. "Tie up loose ends? F you, have some more!"

welp

he also scammed the suicide booth before he got shocked

Scooty Puff Jr. SUUUUUUUCKS!

There's no such thing as twos

damn dog, it was huge news a couple months ago, along with a whole thing about whether or not hulu was gonna recast John DiMaggio (Bender, among a lot of others). a little surprising you only just found out

@@quinnmarchese6313 I'm bad at keeping up with news lmao, especially about shows for some reason

@@starcomet8312 i think it's coming out in 2023, no?

Been watching it on repeat since I was 6

Well, at least you guys missed the while #bendergate fallout, but it's ok, it's been resolved and it is now #benderisgreat

Yeah, otherwise Adventure Time is also set in this same universe lol

Agreed. Ruins the "magic" of cartoons not having to make 100% sense. Heck, even if Nibbler pushing fry was added later, I wouldn't care.

And here I thought I was special lol. Met my wife about 8 years ago, and kinda stopped watching it so often after we moved in together.

@@englishmuffin5274 Glad to know there are more of us out there. 😎

My ex-wife cannot watch this episode either. She was crying her eyes out when she watched it with me. I watched it with my kids and she walked in on us. She immediately walked out because she could not watch it again.

Same. It gets me every time :'(

It could have been hoisted up as the company still existed and the building was still in use?

I just assume it’s one of the only buildings left untouched during that time

I asked this a few days ago lol. Why did they build a new new york on top of the old one but not over the cryo building?

@@ASMR_Junkie they did build over the old cryo building they go to Old New York in game of tones where the ship is parked on top of it.

The big question i have is how did old new york survive, even though there were forests and other civilizations built on top of it?

nice pfp lol

Glad you’ve enjoyed it!

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Rick and morty sometimes hits right.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

For years! I never meet people into futurama IRL

I'm really curious to what that would've sounded like and what they said no to

@@Solid_Hank He said it was really bad and flat and glad it was lost.

And Phil Hartman was supposed to be the voice of Zap Brannigan. 🙁

literally same everytime i hear the omicron variant brought up, my mind immediately fills it in with Persei 8

It’s so good for some reason

Hope you enjoyed it!

@@10KProductions I did! Great job

you're gonna have to point to an episode where characters dont know about dogs, lmao, i've seen the show so many times and just don't think thats an explicit thing, they just dont talk about dogs a lot

It wasn’t that they didn’t know about dogs. They didn’t know what 2000s dogs were like, except that they existed

Also, isn't everyone afraid of Santa Clause who is trying to kill them?

No, he meant no death by natural causes. Old age, disease (as long as you get medical care), yeti-ism, etc. You can still die from being crushed or stabbed or stung by a giant space wasp.

Not to mention the anthology of interest where the hypothetical human Bender ends up dying of natural causes

Guys guys. It's specifically NATURAL death that can't happen. You don't die of old age, or disease. Only something ELSE killing you. Like Santa, the giant bees or getting hit by a spaceship.

@@eminakostic3406 killing is natural though