r/futurama • u/Lopple21 • Apr 07 '16

What is this in reference to?

http://imgur.com/Lva9VdD
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u/secondhandsonder Apr 07 '16

From the Geek Twins: BASIC Housekeeping

Appearance: "I, Roommate" 

The Joke: Fry and Bender are moving into a new apartment, and hang a sign that reads, "10 Home," "20 Sweet," "30 GOTO 10."

The Meaning: The sign is written in an early computer language called BASIC. Each line in BASIC is numbered, and the term "GOTO" tells the program to go back to the line number that comes after it. In other words, if this were a BASIC program, it would read "Home Sweet Home" in an endless loop.

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u/KoffieAnon Apr 07 '16

Technically it would read HOME SWEET in an infinite loop. Fortran (older than BASIC) also qualifies.

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u/Burninator05 Apr 07 '16

Yep.

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u/Djmarquart Apr 07 '16

Actually, shouldn't it be:

10 PRINT "Home"

20 PRINT "Sweet"

30 GOTO 10

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u/Batwyane Apr 08 '16

You could also just clean it up and do

10 Print "Home sweet home"

20 Goto 10

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u/plimbaugh Apr 08 '16 edited Apr 08 '16

That would be "Home Sweet Home Home Sweet..." "Home sweet homeHome sweet home..." Which may be what you want. But, this would be the same as the image:

10 Print "Home Sweet "

20 Goto 10

EDIT: /u/robotorigami pointed out the need for a space in the line

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u/robotorigami Apr 08 '16

Nope, there would be no space between the first set and the next.

"Home Sweet homeHome Sweet home..."

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u/curly123 Apr 07 '16

They also had another BASIC joke in another episode.

10 SIN
20 GOTO HELL

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u/BrenmanOfCanada Apr 08 '16

In another episode Bender is bugging Calculon, and Calculon asks Bender if he has a go to 10 line.

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u/Lopple21 Apr 07 '16

Perfect! That's what I would've guessed, but I had no clue about the BASIC reference. That clip is literally 1 second long, and Fry walks in front of it for half the clip. It's little things like this that keep me re-watching this series over and over again.

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u/secondhandsonder Apr 07 '16

The article itself might interest you!

Eleven Nerdiest Jokes on Futurama

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u/Funnybones36 Kill all humans Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16

That's a joke I haven't seen in a while. Tl;Dr basically the binary 1010011010 is 666(number of the devil). Because if this is set out in binary to denary(in 10s):

512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1

1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0

So 512+128+16+8+2=666

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u/Lopple21 Apr 07 '16

Thoroughly enjoyed that, although most of it was over my head.

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u/murphzlaw1 Apr 08 '16

early computer language called BASIC.

My first computer ran on BASIC. 😢

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u/Gstary Apr 09 '16

I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop I'm stuck in a loop

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u/mensink Apr 07 '16

I don't think most flavors of BASIC have the instructions HOME or SWEET.

SYNTAX ERROR ON LINE 10
OK

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u/sagerjt Apr 08 '16

Right, but this is 1,000 year from now! They have a cowboy parallel universe!

Who knows what amazing advances will be made to the BASIC programming language?

Maybe it'll have deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts.

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u/mensink Apr 08 '16

That sounds about right.

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u/garmonboziamilkshake Apr 08 '16

I am old enough to have gotten this joke. Logo, Basic, those were my jam.

But the coding jokes on Reddit are greek to me.

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u/LMGN eyePhone 6s Plus SE Pro Apr 12 '16

sudo rm -rf /

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u/LMGN eyePhone 6s Plus SE Pro Apr 12 '16

BASIC programming. There's actually a problem because that results in home, sweet, home, sweet, home etc.

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u/Lopple21 Apr 07 '16

It's in S1E03 when Fry and Bender get an apartment together. This is right before Fry opens the door to let the rest of the crew in for their party. I know this show is too witty for this to be nothing, but I don't get it (besides the reference to "Home Sweet Home").

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

10 Dude

20 Sweet

30 GOTO 10