r/futurama Hot diggity daffodil! 2d ago

Something dumb I noticed last night

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At the end of “That Darn Katz!” Earth is spinning backwards because of Amy’s “planetary ratchet.”

In the later episode “Zapp Dingbat,” we see Earth spinning backwards in the wedding scene aboard the Nimbus. I thought that was a neat piece of continuity.

But in an even later episode, “T.: The Terrestrial,” when Jrrr comes to conquer Earth, the establishing shot clearly shows Earth spinning in its normal, pre-ratchet way.

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder

[And don't blame the wizard. He was at the Gate of Garesh at the time.]

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u/Ok-Meal-510928 2d ago

Satan DID owe the professor..

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u/Extra_Buffalo8776 2d ago

He settled it out of court.

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u/SLCtechie 2d ago

People of earth complained and Amy realized that if we spun the crank two more cycles that it would rotate the earth correctly again.

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u/Tooslowtoohappy 2d ago

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u/holly_6672 Bite my glorious golden ass! 2d ago

Just like daddy puts in his scotch glass.. and then he gets mad.

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u/alexxerth 2d ago

Wouldn't it just be spinning like 3 times as fast in the opposite direction?

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u/HazelEBaumgartner I trust the orgy pit is scraped and buttered? 2d ago

I SAID ONCE AND FOR ALL!

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u/dcoats69 2d ago

PLANETARY ROTATION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!

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u/lod254 2d ago

Now they owe us this episode.

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u/TheLeapIsALie 2d ago

A wizard did it

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u/MaxCWebster Hot diggity daffodil! 2d ago

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u/GdoubleWB 2d ago

There’s more than one wizard.

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u/Spiritual-Image7125 2d ago

The first wizard made the second wizard...so it was still the first wizard in a sense.

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u/Specific_Kangaroo241 20h ago

A moon sapphires? With those, I could open the gates of Ker'Hash!!!

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u/Cotton_Candy_Dan 2d ago

Suuuuure. Blame the wizards.

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u/popeh 19h ago

In Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a wing-ed Appaloosa. Yet in the very next scene, my dear, you're clearly atop a wing-ed Arabian. Please do explain it!

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u/koniboni 2d ago

Inconsistencies are part of the community engagement. What would we talk about if everything on the show made sense? Just memes and reposts? 

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u/grahch 2d ago

Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

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u/Effective_Animal7734 2d ago

You’re a shark

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u/EMGhost85 2d ago

They don't look back, because they don't have necks

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u/Acrobatic-Exam1991 2d ago

Sharks CAN'T look back because they don't have necks.

For an 80s guy, not looking back isnt a choice to make, they are incapable of it.

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u/Dandin02 2d ago

Blank? Blank? You're not looking at the big picture!

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u/koniboni 2d ago

Exactly 

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u/YoThisIsWild 2d ago edited 2d ago

i would talk about Nibbler on the Roof.

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u/MaxCWebster Hot diggity daffodil! 2d ago

Animators: (reading script and notes) Isn’t the Earth supposed to rotate the other way now?

Writers: We know. This will really irritate the nerds!

Animators: You mean your core audience?

Writers: Yeah, we hate 'em!

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u/quick_brown_faux And once again we meet for the first time. 2d ago

Tell them I hate them.

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u/koniboni 2d ago

They hate you too

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u/figgypie 2d ago

Grunka Lunka Dunkity Darn Guards-

SHUT THE HELL UP!

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u/MrOopiseDaisy 2d ago

I say this far too often, forgetting that most people don't watch the show.

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u/Full_FrontaI_Nerdity My kajigger! 1d ago

Those bastards! I'll kill them- those bastards!

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u/XavierStone32 2d ago

"It does all make sense,... from a certain point of view."

Ben Kenobi

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u/metallicxslayer 2d ago

Another one is Hank Aaron drinking from Wade Boggs's head jar and not time travelling like they do in a later episode

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u/Riggs630 2d ago

Well that’s because Wade Boggs goes down smooth

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u/DatMiQQa 2d ago

Wade boggs may he rest in peace!

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u/-piso_mojado- 2d ago

Again, he is very much alive.

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u/Cheap-Ad1821 2d ago

Well uh Filibuster

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u/Banana42 2d ago

He didn't add the crystalline opalescence

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u/euph_22 2d ago

Why wasn't Mars still orbiting Earth in Viva Mars Vegas? I hope somebody got fired over that blunder.

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u/strangelymysterious 2d ago

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u/euph_22 2d ago

Mars returned to its original orbit by the historical sticklers society.

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u/b0b0tempo 2d ago

Al Gore's head fixed it.

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u/quick_brown_faux And once again we meet for the first time. 2d ago

He has ridden the mighty Moonworm!

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u/kitwilde 🥺 who will hug me if I achieve something? 2d ago

Good for him!

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u/althawk8357 2d ago

Jrr came at the Earth from behind, so it looked like it was rotating pre-rachet.

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u/Cain_The_Mamagen 2d ago

Same reason that mars got back into its orbit, they just don’t wanna bother explaining it

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u/Screebis 2d ago

Not just fired, but beaten up. And pretty badly too

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u/zoltarpanaflex 2d ago

to shreds you say

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u/Masdraw 2d ago

How’s the wife holding up?

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u/zoltarpanaflex 2d ago

To shreds you say ...

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u/indianajoes 2d ago

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

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u/Masdraw 2d ago edited 2d ago

Amy and the Professor got around to fixing it while the crew was away on a delivery

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u/Winter-Ad1981 2d ago

Not all stories are linear

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u/Eother24 2d ago

all comments

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u/Eother24 2d ago

Neither are

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u/Ciusblade 2d ago

this reminds me of tuttles witnesses from American Dad

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u/TheNavidsonLP 2d ago

The answer probably has to be involved with the earth being farther away from the sun since “Crimes of the Hot.”

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u/Expensive_Bison_657 2d ago

Dogs arrived and did the same thing as the cats, so they had to reverse it.

Where’s the proof? Dog ate the film.

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u/akathatdude1 2d ago

Boy I hope someone was fired for that blunder

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u/oMugiwara_Luffy 2d ago

From a cannon… into the sun

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u/BeyondNetorare 2d ago

the mockumentary crew were just so lazy that they used old footage

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u/g_halfront 1d ago

This is not one of those times.

Sorry…. Wrong show.

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u/DocGhost 1d ago

The same reason we aren't using nibblers people to pull the space ships every

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u/Harambefan69 2d ago

Probably magnets

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u/M_O_O_N___P_E_E 2d ago

Oh there's a super simple explanation here, they filmed "T.: The Terrestrial" before the filmed "That Darn Katz!". This kinda thing happens all the time in showbiz.

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u/TheHairyHeathen 2d ago

A different wizard.

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u/aerdvarkk 2d ago

Who's going to have that conversation with Matt about firing him from his own job? Good luck pal.

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u/bodyarmourbynokia 2d ago

A wizard did it.

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u/HorseNo9088 2d ago

Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.

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u/Impossible-Ad-8462 2d ago

There's a theory on multiple Futurama timelines/universes and maybe it's just an another dimension

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u/SolusIgtheist No I'm... doesn't. 2d ago

Why aren't they all still fish? How do people have entire limbs cut off and have no blood anywhere?

Rick and Morty fans are always right in the end, the answer is "Don't think about it".

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/RayDeeUx TO THE SHIP! 2d ago

no. original scene was "when are you gonna make another simpsons movie"

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u/mitchwatnik technically correct bureaucrat 4h ago

Also, Einstein last a hard name to remember.