That Guy wrote:
> "Puffin' Billy" <sorry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:f3amoo$2cjr$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
>
>
First one guy says I need beer and now you are accusing me of using
drugs. I'm just trying to stir up some debate about the series in this
dead, dead newsgroup. I guess it's pointless to post here.
So long, jerkass.
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