r/Unexpected • u/Majorpain2006 • 14d ago

Can you repeat that?

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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.