Word Games: As seen at the 1939 world's fair Of course the word games was going to be Futurama themed. Better wordplay and jokes have yet to be seen on any other show. From creating two whole new languages just for background jokes to some very grammatically correct jokes, Futurama did it all. Add to that a likeable cast of characters, an unapologetically sociopathic robot and you have comedy gold. For example: Greeting Card: Come, Comrade Bender! We must take to the streets! Bender: Um, is this the boring, peaceful kind of taking to the streets? Greeting Card: No! The kind with looting and maybe starting a few fires! Bender: Yes! In your face, Gandhi! Mom: Yes, you've discovered my floating genetic engineering facility. Our experiments would be illegal on Earth, but up here, I'm above the law. [Laughs] Larry: Nice pun, Mother. [gets slapped] Mom: It's not a pun, it's a play on words! So, in this very very loose sense of the phrase word games, you will find some jokes and some entirely theme based rounds, with the whole thing not to be taken very seriously, much like Futurama. And if you don’t like the theme, well, then you can bite my shiny metal ass.
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Word Games: As seen at the 1939 world's fair
Of course the word games was going to be Futurama themed. Better wordplay and jokes have yet to be seen on any other show. From creating two whole new languages just for background jokes to some very grammatically correct jokes, Futurama did it all. Add to that a likeable cast of characters, an unapologetically sociopathic robot and you have comedy gold. For example: Greeting Card: Come, Comrade Bender! We must take to the streets! Bender: Um, is this the boring, peaceful kind of taking to the streets? Greeting Card: No! The kind with looting and maybe starting a few fires! Bender: Yes! In your face, Gandhi!
Mom: Yes, you've discovered my floating genetic engineering facility. Our experiments would be illegal on Earth, but up here, I'm above the law. [Laughs] Larry: Nice pun, Mother. [gets slapped] Mom: It's not a pun, it's a play on words!
So, in this very very loose sense of the phrase word games, you will find some jokes and some entirely theme based rounds, with the whole thing not to be taken very seriously, much like Futurama. And if you don’t like the theme, well, then you can bite my shiny metal ass.
Pyramids
Bender: Citizens of me! The cruelty of the old Pharaoh is a thing of the past! [crowd cheers] Bender: Let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land! [crowd cheers, then is confused]
_ I am Lurr, ruler of the planet _Persei 8
__ Telegraph Office
___ The organic equivalent of rust
____ To bring into order/classify
_____ Where Nell Trent lives. What the Dickens, eh?
______ A common name for a carnivorous mammal in subfamily Lutrinae
_______ A group of annoying lightning scarred orphans
________ For the last time, Homer Thompson, the federal Witness Protection programme ______ you!
_________ Football, cricket, tennis are all examples of _______ sports.
________ Literally "one who stands before", "protector", "guardian"
_______ An exam that has lost its amatuer status?
______ What’s the magic word?
_____ Commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés
____ A small Aperture, not a Portal.
___ Fish eggs
__ A drop of golden sun
_ is not equal to ma^2 or mb^2
_ The scarlet letter
__ jacta est?
___ The opposite of a friend
____ by comparison, All else
_____ Part of a flower
______ How do you like them?
_______ Somewhere between friendzoned and complete stranger
________ A piece of furniture in which an infant is placed to prevent selfharm
___ _____ Where sleuths live. Yes, I cheated a little.
______ One third of a good comedy along with trains and automobiles
_____ Black boxes containing sarcastic orange cats
____ Caused by a right angle between the sun and the moon
___ Halfgoat god of the forest
__ 150 __! How many __ can the ship withstand? Well it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between 0 and 1.
_ Mr. I._.Freely
_ Pirate yes
__ Grammatical conjunction / electrical gate
___ Perform repeatedly in an aquatic vehicle albeit gently.
____ The liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer
_____ Deliver (a punch)
______ Facilitated by the pituitary gland
_______ Hakuna Matata?
________ No, I don’t have an unhealthy obsession
___ ____ In layman terms, exhibition of paintings.Yes, another little cheat.
____ __ What a sailor on the skin could exclaim. Sorry.
_____ KHAAAAAAAAN!
____ Melt, defrost
___ Head covering or tipping instrument
__ about 2.47 acres.
_ Preparation _ or Chocolate Ice cream
Hermes-isms
Bender: We're going to fight to legalize it right here. Hermes: Ya mon! Ya got to legalize it! Amy: We're talking about robosexual marriage. Hermes: We're talkin' about lots of stuff. One of the running gags through the show, Hermes' basic catchphrase is 'Sweet [something] of [some place]!'. The 'something' and the 'some place' usually rhyme. For example: Sweet dodo of Lesotho! For the below examples, I’ve kept the something to be some animal. Try filling the blanks and then saying them in a heavy Jamaican accent, mon. Bonus points for making one on your own.
Farnsworth: As a scientist, I can assure you that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkeymen. Changing only one letter at a time, get from the starting word to the end word. For example: break bread tread trend 1.Change GOOD to KILL 2. Change PLANET to GRAYER 3. Change CRAB to LEEK 4. NURSE to TIGER
5. SAND to BULL 6. GRAPE to WRATH
Ditloids
Example: 6=W of H the E => Six Wives of Henry the Eighth
1. 1=DitLoID
2. 206 = B in the HB
3. 8 = B in a B
4. 29028 = H of E in F
5. 1=LN
6. 13 = BD
7. 5 = L in a L
8. 2 = OEPN
9. 26 = M in a M
10. 4 = H of the A
Word Meanings
1. recalcitrant a) to have foreknowledge of events
2. abjure b) a difficult situation
3. prescient c) subject to whim, fickle
4. teetotaler d) lofty, pompous language
5. harangue e) person who practices complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages
6. capricious f) to reject, renounce
7. zenith g) unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words
8. quagmire h) defiant, unapologetic
9. ineffable i) the highest point, culminating point
10. grandiloquence j) a ranting speech
Spoonerisms
Example: Once Dr. Spooner raised a toast to Her Royal Highness, Queen Victoria, and proclaimed: "Three cheers for our queer old dean!" You see what happened here right? Dear old Queen was replaced with Queer old Dean. Try these out. Note: The above image is not a spoonerism, I just put it in because it was funny. However, #1 below is from Futurama.
1. You know what’s the best part about the summers? Everyone is tetty much protally fitshaced.
2. During World War I he reassured his students, "When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out."
3. I like driving about the city in a wellboiled icicle. 4. Mr. Orange don’t tattle. His zips are lipped. 5. Mr. Fahrenheit was travelling at the lead of spite, to make a supersonic man outta
you. 6. You know what I really like? Sitting around at home chipping the flannel on TV. That’s
the pun fart of my time there. 7. The bowel feast stopped and licked its jowls, before settling in a nosy little cook. 8. He picked up the space of aids from the floor. He realized he had just tasted two
worms on Hearts. Hearts in Atlantis. 9. Booker read the sign. “ The shoving leopard leads the lamb away from the false one”,
it said. Huh. 10. You know, that’s why I killed her. She kept pit nicking me about stuff like nicking my
pose.
Wannabe Linguistic puzzle round
The alien languages (Alienese 1 and 2) in Futurama are set of background jokes, appearing in the background throughout the length of the show. The intention of these alien languages was for its viewers to discover how they work and then decipher them, feats at which its fanbase have excelled. Technically, they are not 'languages' per se, but a ciphered form of English, or more precisely, Latin characters, since not all of their 'translations' are in English. The translation of some phrases and sentences in Alienese 1 have been given. Using these, translate the phrases that follow. For a meatier challenge, try the Alienese 2 puzzles.
Alienese 1: Examples:
1.Translation: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
2.Translation: Six of the women quietly died
3.Translation: We could jeopardize six of the gunboats
4.Translation: Quickly pack the box with five dozen modern jugs
Now, translate:
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4.
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6.
Alienese 2: Examples:
1. Translation: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
2.Translation: Six of the women quietly died
3.Translation: We could jeopardize six of the gunboats
4.Translation: Quickly pack the box with five dozen modern jugs
