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EvoAngeL
Probably my fav show of all time. Love the easter eggs and cleverness. Hope there is more to come in the future!
ManInTheBox21
personal generic Futurama comment: It's like, how much more brilliant can this show be? The answer is none. None more brilliant.
purplechemist
Groening’s team’s maths nerdery is well documented https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_and_Their_Mathematical_Secrets
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smashpro1
S6E5, The Duh-Vinci Code.
virusmagnus
Good one!
claymore666
Well there is like a combined total of 50 years of Harvard schooling between the writers or something stupidly high.
NauticalOtter
NotExistor
What are these, captions for ants?
CapProminent
Meanwhile I thought the calculator was going to say 2+2=4-1=3 quick math.
CamilStPierre
Shit 3 futurama posts in a row! Today is a good day
YourWeirdErection
The simpsons and subsequently Futurama both made great use of mathematics for humor. Check out this book if your interested (book in reply).
YourWeirdErection
http://a.co/1LUFjk0
Liferuler2001
+1 for Futurama :)
HaraDaya
Watched the first 2 Futurama seasons as a teen, liked it. Rewatched it a year ago and the new seasons, didn't like it.
smashpro1
The Comedy Central seasons had more dud episodes than the others, but there were still some gems in there.
Twichy
+1 for Ti-84 silver
TheBlackVan
Got me through algebra.
cobragrunt
Mine got stolen when they robbed my apartment. My football, ipod dock, calculator, and every bag of chips...
TheBlackVan
What kinda sick Fuck steals another man's chips?!
cobragrunt
One who was high enough to sit and use another man's kitchen knife to saw through cheap bedroom doors.
TheBlackVan
It's a burglary not a robbery. A burglary is a crime against property. A robbery is a crime against a person. I get these mixed up, too.
cobragrunt
That is the specific crime yes. But being robbed also means having property stolen.
metalsonic27
You do know some people f the writers on that show had three Ph.D.s,seven masters degrees,and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard
buenogur
IceWeaselX
"You do know some people f the writers on that show..." Thank goodness, they're reproducing. The future has hope.
Armignoni
No wait... thass not what he said
nullpotato
50 years at Harvard is like two Post-Docs though.
patrickcoyneud
Think of how much they could have changed the world but instead wrote a great cartoon show
InsufferablePedant
breadedfishstrip
So what you're saying is that they were NEEEEEEEEERDS
HeresTomWithTheWeather
Thanks BuzzFeed
metalsonic27
TimmyDans
That explains why Fry is his own grandfather.
Donnicton
The ultimate Legacy
breadedfishstrip
He did do the nasty in the pasty
JeffGodofBiscuits
didn't the Simpsons solve the higgs boson?
TheExpertBlackGuy
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derju
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Hutchy01
It kinda solved Fermat's last theorem.
SecretlyThreeDucksInAManSuit
It was a near miss, they didn't solve it but they had mathematicians going bananas for a while.
IRatetits
Seeing as how they have the same creators, I wouldn't be surprised.
frenchfries013
labmonkey4life
And they proved that God doesn't exist
NauticalOtter
Derrrr I'm Leonardo I dont know the mass of the Higgs boson
ausernamewhat
The Simpsons did everything first.
CityYeti
I know they predicted a donut shaped universe
Glappo
No they didn't. Stephen Hawking did, in that episode with him in.
breadedfishstrip
Actually in that episode it's Homer that comes up with it, Hawkings is just commenting on it
myotherusernameismyotherusername
He doesn't just comment on it, he says he's going to steal the idea.
Bundacious
No, Homer invented the donut shaped universe!!!!
youngandrichandfullofsugar
The 3 Torus toplogical model (basically a donut) came about in the 80s. The writers probably knew and were making a really nerdy joke.
Wasindear
You can't solve a boson, it's like saying you can solve a car... or any object.
comnakr
rubik's cube, puzzle?
Wasindear
I concede that yes indeed puzzles are objects that can be solved. I got a 7x7x7 one recently.
itwasbuilticame
I solved OP's mom last night.
MostAwkwardPenguinInNYC
Ayyyyy
SgtThunderfistMD
What about a puzzle?
Wasindear
You got me there you nerd
Lurkingoff
Didn't they create a mathematical theorem for the episode where they could swap minds and bodies?
vonkeswick
Yup, the writer of that episode holds a PhD in applied mathematics!
GiantSquanchy
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Futurama.
JustAnEightStoryTallCrustaceanFromThePaleolithicEra
I️ like how this has become a joke for shows like rick and Morty but this show actually requires some background knowledge
SeraphSnake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J65GNFfL94c
FromDenmarkWithHate
You know they did, so why do you ask?
1TrueKingInTheNorth
You're the first and only person to ever know about that thing that happenedyears ago or bring it up. Wow you're so smart, thank God for you
pogdestroyer
you must have a lot of friends dude, jeez
Pimparoo3
No need to be a dick
dmax12
Most of the writers held PhDs. They did all sorts of BS like that.
NeilTysonsAstrophysics
Well I’m sure they have a BS if they held PhDs
eetsumkaus
at least now they get paid to write BS!
xj4low
January 1st in the year 3000 is also a Tuesday. Pilot show they ran into a museum to hide and it was free that day.
Robbann
i feel like i saw that in Stargate once aswell. probably one of the earlier seasons
solarshado
Yup. Great episode. I wanna say second or third season.
Tarelgeth
Yeah it's a really old concept and a really simple equation. All they did was formalize it.
Rogahar
I love how most writers would be all "Maybe we should simplify this episode's plot" but Futurama's were all "fuck it we'll figure this out."
Duendes
Gotta use those Physics & Math degrees
TheAmazingPencil
Certificates are made out of suprisingly good drawing paper. Too bad they're coloured yellow
Duendes
BTW FYI https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/34xwir/til_that_the_writing_staff_of_futurama_held_three/
Enohpoxas
They did in fact do just exactly that.
BurnShadow
It’s called Keebler’s Theorem. Basically, no matter how much you switch up a set of elements, where no two elements can switch with (1/?)
Tunisia
Keeler's.
BurnShadow
I’m just now checking this, and I see I was caught by the horror that is autocorrect. Apparently my phone wants cookies.
BurnShadow
each other twice, you can return it to normal by adding no more than two extra elements. (2/2)
IgnacioP
ok, i know what you meant, the theory sounds so complicated but its actually quite simple
AncientPostNecromancer
And was the first real provable theorem ever created just to be used as a plot in a tv show.
moshthun
I feel stupid reading this.
SusanAlam
thats science for you
JMcDank
FlowVector
Set theory is murder. It doesn't help that reading about it, it feels like it should be so simple
starburns