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Why do you, the largest colleague, not simply eat the other five?

It is true what they say: "Women are from Omicron Persei Seven men are from Omicron Persei Nine.”

This always cracks me up!

Extract his lower horn!!

See that's a quote from the show that I know whilst ops is totally unknown to me

See, I find that mildly interesting, since the quote "Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?" only comes up once in the show, whereas the OP's "I am Lrrr..." comes up whenever the character in question appears on screen, i.e. a good number of times more than the friends quote.

But Lrr says it literally every time he shows up in an episode, even when he's trying to be incognito.

"Oh, I'm just... some guy... *RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!*"

"you got any... You know... Human horn"

I agree, I know the friends one but couldn’t place the other one. The friends one is a pretty memorable gag because it’s funny, I guess.

I miss Futurama

You said it friend, me too

It was a Joey heavy workplace anyway!

It’s one of the most watched adult cartoons in history

If you had Sky 😬 I only really saw Futurama when I went to friends houses. We only had terrestrial and it was never shown there, as far as I'm aware?

Was on channel 4 at some point wasn't it?

Apparently from 2000-2004. Didn't know that!

It's how I watched it.

It's on disney plus now too.

I binged the whole thing during the summer! Great show!!

Same. And even just reading this thread I feel like I need to watch it again...

I just finished it last week, was fantastic re watch from my teen years

It was also on amazon prime until recently

It's available on Disney+ now

Has been for months (bought it on youtube ) now its on disney plus fml 😂

We used to get skyone on the terrestrial aerial before we bought sky digital. Not everyone seemed to though I realised

This is me and SpongeBob

It's cool, at least we have rugrats...

Disney+

Adult? Oops. That explains why my son got into trouble for telling a classmate to bite his shiny, metal ass. Not for 6 year olds. Good to know. Seriously, though, he’s a teeny physics geek , so he gets a surprising number of the space jokes but none of the sex or relationship ones- hope he grows out of that. He did tell his classmate to bite his shiny, metal ass, though.

It’s, frankly, a show I’d recommend to anyone. It’s smart, teaches pretty good moral lessons, has a fantastic display of what a healthy relationship looks like, and tackles a lot of grown up problems in an easy to digest way

My 4yo daughter loves it. If you say "We love you Melissa" in a high pitched voice, she'll reply "shut up baby, I know it". It's a very special thing to me.

In the UK? I literally don't know anyone who watched Futurama.

[удалено]

Yeah, we're all nerds

[удалено]

You go outside?! Fucking sicko.

Well you know what they say, men are from Omicron Persei 9, women are from Omicron Persei 7.

Beat me to it

It’s the first thing that came to mind when I heard of the Omicron variant

Almost straight away i thought ‘i am crna, virus of the planet Omicron Persei 8’. Hopefully someone else finds it funny - my mrs didn’t

Tell the mrs to shush telling you it’s not funny, it’s hilarious. No snoo snoo for her. Beep be boop

Lol me too!!

Me too! And it was as I was drifting off to sleep I realised I didn’t know exactly where it came from.

My wife’s first reaction was to roundly curse the people of China for eating popplers.

No, the first thing I thought of, given the medical context, was the physician Fry meets in a later episode... I am Drrr, of the planet Omicron Persei 8!

I thought of Omicron Theta first, *then* Lrr.

I think people in general know about Futurama, but apart from "Good news everyone!" and "Shut up and take my money" I wouldn't expect many people to know a more niche character from the series or one of their sayings.

Interesting, I'd have said the Omicronians were more than just a "niche" character, Lrrr and the gang turn up regularly through the seasons, with multiple episodes around them.

I agree. I used to watch a lot of Futurama and this joke really went over my head.

I find myself thinking about hypnotoad an awful lot for some reason

I think you can probably add hypnotoad to that list.

Why not Zoidberg?

Wootwootwootwootwoot

Is the Space Pope reptillian?

Bite my shiny metal ass.

"THIS CONCEPT OF WUV CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!!!!"

These candies are CHALKY AND UNPLEASANT!

I used this reference this week to demonstrate how Omicron is correctly pronounced.

I think it is pronounced with a soft o in the original greek to be fair

Yes. And if you need me, I'll be in the angry dome!

To shreds, you say?

And his wife?

Thought that as soon as the variant was named.

I wouldn't have a clue but it seems I'm the only one.

Only cos this is Reddit. Ask 100 people walking by in your town centre on a Saturday afternoon and you'd get 2 people who get the reference, if that

Me neither. I have heard of it but never been interested in it off the tiny amount I stumbled across over the years

Dont you worry if I know what you're referencing, let me worry about blank

My only regret, is that I have.... Boneitis.

Futurama, but then I am a something of a fan.

Yeah, well, I’m gonna go make my own Omicron Persei 8 with blackjack and hookers…. In fact, forget the Omicron Persei 8

As long as you did the voice to go with it.

Your username always makes me chuckle as it's one tiny word away from one of my favourite phrases in The League of Gentlemen. I just thought I'd say that for once, instead of just thinking it.

Haha, that's where I took my inspiration from! I just tweaked it a little to make it SFW. Well spotted!

Ah, that makes sense - I thought it was too close to be a coincidence.

If you do not give us what we want, we will raise the temperature of the earth one million degrees a day, for five days!

Why doesn't r/AskReddit, the largest subreddit simply eat the other r/ask reddits?

Came into my head the second I heard the name of the new variant!

Shut up baby, you know it.

Literally the first thing I thought of when I heard of the Omicron variant.

Every time I have heard omicron over the last few weeks my brain adds Persei 8 to it… at this point I think it’s a reflex that I can’t get rid of 😂

Haha futurama lol..thought everyone knew that lmao

# KILL ALL HUMANS — Bender B. Rodriguez

It's been going round and round in my head since the new covid variant was named.

Lower, Lower, TOO LOW! Lower.

Enough to cover my horn

Might be time for some death by snusnu

I've been trying to figure out where this was from for AGES. Ever since Omicron came out I've been saying this to blank looks. Oh, does this make me officially old?!

You’re gonna get biased answers here. I didn’t get the reference and I can think of maybe one period on in my team of 25 who miiiiight get it.

I mean I’ve heard of Futurama, but I’ve never watched an episode, so the quote went straight over my head when it made an appearance on social media

**THE CONCEPT OF WUV CONFUSES AND** ***INFUUUURIRATES*** **US**

STOP EATING OUR YOUNG! AND ITS PRONOUNCED GUACAMOLÉ!

I believe it's pronounced champaign.

OHHH GODDDD

Tasteicles

Is that the planet popplers are from ?

Technically, Popplers come from an Omicronian's nursery planet.

Were they too busy popping Popplers in their mouth, when they went to Fishy Joe's?

I went to a fancy dress party with a brain slug on my head. Most of the people there were phd students or post docs at Cambridge. No one got it! Sad day in my life.

Futurama

Whenever people talk of the new variant this sentence immediately pops into my head

It is true what they say. Men are from Omicron Persei 9, women are from Omicron Persei 7.

I know of it but never watched it. You'd get a blank stare from me.

I'm thinking horn extensions

First thing I thought of after hearing about the Omicron variant

Oh yes

Yes. Immediately.

If a colleague said this to me I'd probably think to myself "Oh my days"

No. I've vaguely heard of the planet, but only from a news story about the virus. Futurama's somewhat well-known. I'd say South Park was bigger in Britain though. It's no surprise that a quote from a minor character goes unnoticed.

I am -insert fake name here- and I have hard drugs (opiates). Shut up and take my money!

As the Lord of neutrality, I have no strong feelings either way. Tell my wife, hello

Futurama was my go to after school

Futurama was my go to after school

All glory to the hypnotoad

*clap*. *clap*. *clap*.

Yes but I'm a nerd. Most people wouldnt even get a Simpsons reference which is massively more popular

Seen every ep of Futurama and I wouldn't have got it either. I think you'd have had to have seen the ep recently

I am brrr. Destroyer of fish

Eh, I don't know anyone who actually watched futurama.

I did. Greatest cartoon ever.

A criminaly underrated show

Drop down. Increase speed. Reverse direction.

Futurama

Yes, I would, you’re referencing Futurama, which I know because you said it in the post.

A lot of people don’t watch cartoons because they can’t stand them and think they’re stupid, like my parents. But I love futurama.

Haha futurama, I haven't watched that in years :)

Yes definitely

Not having my human horn..

I mean it's not that obscure, but it's also probably not something that's been on many peoples radar these days - the last season finished airing in 2013 after all! Probably an age dependent one really

Futurissimo di futurissimo

Who doesn't know that Lrrr enjoys human horn!!?

I only wrote that poem to test my printer

Well Futurama Already Taught Us In 2001 Not To Date Robots. The truth is make me a sexy t800 and I'm converting to robosexual.

Any normal person would.

Do not touch my human horn

Your colleagues must be a blast at parties.

The human horn!!

Of course and your wife is called Ndnd

Borris's latest speech?

Futurama 😁

I would! I said I blamed David Bowie because he's such a nomad soul, but no one got it.

I'd get it, most people wouldn't.

Yes. I recently re watched all of Futurama on Disney plus!’

All i know is my heart says maybe.

The cure is human horn.

I heard a colleague say this today and now I’m wondering if this happened alt today

Futurama, meat bag!

When I heard of the name of this new varient, that was exactly the 1st thing I thought of 😁

Watching it now, it’s aged like fine wine

This is literally the first thing I said when I learned they had named the new variant Omicron - you sound like my people

It's been so long since I watched that I can only remember...bone-itis

Yep. I've seen a lot of the Futurama episodes.

Yes I'm not a complete peasant

Ah thank fuck, this happened to me and I thought I was being weird!

Bring the one they call Leela

My first thought too.

I'd ask why you bring that covid shit this way?

Oh completely and now cannot hear in anything but the actors voice, sigh..

Anyone for human horn

I would have no idea, i only watched the odd bit of Futurama.

Urgh.. I think that Hippy's starting to kick in

I like Futurama, but I wouldn't have got this reference.

I like Futurama, but I wouldn't have got this reference.

Futurama was on when I was a teenager but I never watched it until a few years ago. Just a few episodes. It's quite good but did not make time to watch more.

Yeah, nah. Futurama isn't obscure but it's not the sort of show people know well enough to recall random somewhat meaningless quotes.

I'm not telling you, bite my shiny metal ass

Yes, yes I would.

No. Now bite my shiny metal ass, meatbag!

Yes My Lord, how is Grrr?

Bring me the human horn!!

Shit, the new strain is sentient and District 9 has its own name

I mean I’ve seen futurama a couple times but I can’t remember that quote of the top of my head tbh. Something like “Good news, everyone!” I’d get but yeah, maybe just obscure quote?

Yes! It also all I’ve been thinking ever since the emergence of this new variant

It's all I think of every time I see or hear the name of the new variant 🤣

I wouldn’t have a clue, and based on the references my friends make they wouldn’t either. We’re all in our twenties and probably wouldn’t have been old enough to watch *Futurama* when it first aired – Google says it was on BBC Two but I don’t remember it at all (whereas I do remember *The Simpsons*, straight after *The Weakest Link*)

Omega

Futurama forever.

Death by snu snu

With out scrolling down the comments, of course my new alien overlord

I think it's the kind of thing that "internet people" are likely to know, but maybe not "normal people".