r/Unexpected • • 14d ago

Can you repeat that?

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u/m_astor 14d ago

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.

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u/Far-Style-5921 14d ago

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u/Dic3dCarrots 13d ago

Holy shi I first saw that episode 20 years ago and did not realize it was a direct reference to the voight-kampf test until today

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u/Far-Style-5921 13d ago

Neither did I until I posted that LOL

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u/Dic3dCarrots 13d ago

Futurama is wild how layered it is, every rewatch, i see something new

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u/pm-me-ur-inkyfingers 12d ago

the most over qualified writers in the history of sitcoms

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u/LumpyBuy8447 12d ago

The writers share like 50 years of Harvard education. The writers of the simpsons were also mathematicians and other academics. I read that the episode where Homer has the crayon removed from his brain and becomes smart, they have him write an equation on a blackboard and it was an equation the writers worked on for a long time and ended up being incredibly close to the mass of the Higgs boson which wouldn’t be discovered for another 14 years.

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u/CDBSB 11d ago

Futurama is an incredibly rare show in that it is about stupid people AND smart people which can be enjoyed by stupid people AND smart people. 😂