"Puffin' Billy" <sorry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> At the end of “Anthology of Interest I”, Professor Farnsworth is seen
> sitting alone in front of the What-If machine as he says, “So that’s
what
> would have happened if I had invented the Fing-Longer. A man can dream
> though, a man can dream.”
>
> The suggestion here, as I see it, is that the entire Futurama storyline
is
> contained totally within the confines of the What-If machine from the
> point of view of Professor Hubert Farnsworth. The key point being that
> Farnsworth is in the room alone with no one else around at the end of
the
> episode.
>
> Think about it. As you all know, the What-If machine shows you what the
> world would be like if you pose it a what-if scenario. During the
> preceding ****tions of this episode, Bender, Leela and Fry pose their
> questions to the device and in each instance the professor uses a
> Fing-Longer to activate it. However, the end clearly shows him sitting
by
> himself contemplating what would have happened if he had invented the
> Fing-Longer! The contraption has shown him a scenario that included all
of
> the Planet Express crew and their questions to the machine. The
Professor
> views alternate scenarios involving these characters but in the end the
> characters were never there.
>
> The Professor’s invention shows tales that are “out of series canon” so
> the ending seemingly proves my point that what Farnsworth has just
viewed
> is not “series reality”. The only thing that is real is the solitary
> figure of Hubert Farnsworth in an empty room. Fry, Leela and all the
rest
> are only creations of the apparatus.
>
>
>
> Comments?
Yeah. There's a reason crystal meth is illegal. Doing too much of it can
cause you to hyper-analyze or over-speculate so much your brain starts to
self-destruct.
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