"Puffin' Billy" <sorry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> That Guy wrote:
>> "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.
>
> 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.
ROFL Chill dude, I'm just yankin' yer chain. Sorry if it wasn't funny, it
was meant to be.
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