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Futurama - S02E08 - Raging Bender. The crew go to a movie theatre and vote for what Calculon should do next. The result: Tedious Paperwork

I would suggest learning that it's pointless to test for something you can't fix. You'll waste much less time and energy.

Your provider won't care even a Tiny Iota about your results. If you show that their network is fine, they'll ignore you. Even if you prove their network is not fine and all the packets are routed though a Sinclair ZX80 in Clive's basement they'll still ignore you. If you're really lucky, you might get a nice, polite "Fuck you very much, We're not fixing it."

Knowledge is knowing that they have 3000ms latency between nodes. Wisdom is knowing that the only thing you can do is vote with your wallet.

http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/2acv06.shtml

Teacher: Good morning, class. I trust you've all prepared for today's final exam.
Fry: Uh, excuse me? I missed a few lectures. Uh, what subject is this?
Teacher: Ancient Egyptian algebra.
[She points to the blackboard, revealing it is filled with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Fry gasps.]
Fry: What a nightmare!
Teacher: Mister Fry, are those your underpants? [Fry looks down and sees he is wearing only his briefs. He stands up and the whole class laughs and points. He gasps.] Young man, I think it's time you learned a lesson about Lightspeed brand briefs.
[She pulls down a poster showing the briefs.]
Announcer: (voice-over) Lightspeed fits today's active lifestyle. Whether you're on the job ... [Fry suddenly appears in a company meeting wearing just Lightspeeds.] ... or having fun. [He sits with a woman on a bed.] Lightspeed briefs, style and comfort for the discriminating crotch.

[Like an advertisement, a pair of lightspeeds appear in front of a flashing background.]

[Cut to: Fry's Bedroom. The dream ends and Fry suddenly wakes up.]

Futurama Madhouse

Wernstrom: "Ladies and gentlemen, my Killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."

• Fry: Go after him, Leela!
• [Leela pushes the throttle forward. The engines struggle.]
• Leela: It's no use. We were going full speed when we fired him so he's going even faster than that.
• Fry: You mean we can never catch up to him? Not even if we rub the engine with cheetah blood?
• Leela: I don't know how to say this, Fry, but Bender is doomed to drift through space ... forever.

Thank you Futurama:

just like this liquid gets into this egg. Fishful of dollars

Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and written in the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!

(link)

Thank you very much! I posted that video and also a 30-minute video of the comic reading and Q&A at http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/

Fry: Married? Jenny can't get married! Leela: Why not? It's clever, it's unexpected. Fry: But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared. [Lrrr crackles onto the screen.] Lrrr [on TV]: Attention, McNeal. Your unexpected marriage plan scares us. You stole our hearts as a single female lawyer, and so shall you remain -- or else! Fry: You see? TV audiences don't want anything original. They wanna see the same thing they've seen a thousand times before. http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/1acv12 .shtml

• break rules and take risks...check
• independent...check
• anti-social...suck it
• suspicious...who wants to know?
• jealous...check...but not as jealous as you
• morose...check
• deemed less attractive to women...posting on /. on Fri night...check

Part of me wants to think this is a good thing. That consumers don't deserve to have products shoved down their throats and be saturated by advertisement all day long. This part of me also thinks that if companies could, they would advertise directly into our dreams ala that one Futarama episode: http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/1acv06 .shtml

Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes, covering him and Leela in yolk.] Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.

Allthough the other part of me thinks that you get what you deserve. If you aren't smart enough to make your own purchasing decisions and are easily swayed by ANY marketing, be it on the Television, Radio, directly in your brian, or some hobo on the subway telling you how bad ass the new PSP is; then as a fool, you deserve to be parted with your money.

Fry: This company's on the fast track to the "It" list. Blast back kudos all around!
That Guy: I'll handle this, Fry. You get back to the farm, shift some paradigms, revolutionise outside the box.
Fry: Don't you worry about Planet Express. Let me worry about "blank".

To be fair, I didn't have the quote down quite right. It took me a while to find it

Bender: Whoa, what an awful dream. Ones and zeros everywhere. And I thought I saw a two.

Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.

For some more context, here is a fanfic (not by any means canon Futurama)

http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/fanfic/the_fry _borg-3.shtml

Here is a quote (which I remember from one of the episodes listed in the parent)

"They are an intelligent race of brains. They seek to learn all knowledge in the universe, then destroy it so they will know everything and do not have to learn anything new."

So, it would seem that Google has become the giant brains.

-- dejavudeux (posting anon since I cannot remember my password right now)

You seem to have "a serious case of old."

Futurama was (almost) Right!

Excellent Futurama reference!

smooth wombat is of course referring to episode 1ACV07 (http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/1acv0 7.shtml) where Fry tags along with Bender and Leela to "Little Neptune". Bender hopes to purchase a fresh Neptunian slug for his next culinary masterpiece.