Gary Gygax in the Futurama movie?

[EricNoah]

It is a little anti-dwarf, isn't it? I seem to recall someone saying they were paddling a dwarf-skin cannoe at one point...

 

[Voadam]

All right, netflix top of my list as soon as I get home from work.

 

[Dykstrav]

It is a little anti-dwarf, isn't it? I seem to recall someone saying they were paddling a dwarf-skin cannoe at one point...

Yeah, Dwight described the party's dwarf-skin canoe rounding the bend when they saw the red dragon, and evocatively described the scent of dwarf urine in the first scene. They do seem to be hard on dwarves in Cornwood. But at least there are no elves.

So how long until someone starts working on d20 or GSL Cornwood?

 

[EricNoah]

GSL Cornwood - the ultimate Points of Light.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

Yeah, Dwight described the party's dwarf-skin canoe rounding the bend when they saw the red dragon, and evocatively described the scent of dwarf urine in the first scene. They do seem to be hard on dwarves in Cornwood.

And wasn't there a scene in Wipe Castle with a bbq'ed dwarf? Or was it a gnome?

 

[EricNoah]

I think they kind of mixed the D&D gnome and dwarf together.

 

[darjr]

I think they kind of mixed the D&D gnome and dwarf together.

Doesn't everybody?!?!

I mean, in the stew.

 

[Dykstrav]

I reckon the first step in GSL Cornwood would to be finish Appendix G: List of attacks. We've already seen the results for 3, 7, and 12... Only nine more entries to complete the table!

That'd be an awesome special feature or D&D Insider article.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

They also explain other math/physics jokes that even I didn't get, and I'm a graduate student in electrical engineering (my life revolves around calculus and statistics in an everyday sort of way).

Nothing quite like having a room full of physics grad students watching Futurama and hearing these lines:

Racetrack PA announcer: And the winner is number three, in a quantum finish.
Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!

Then laughing and then eyeing each other nervously because we know most people wouldn't get that joke.

 

[Dykstrav]

Then laughing and then eyeing each other nervously because we know most people wouldn't get that joke.

Futurama truly is a rare show. It gets pretty deep for its humor at times and picks from a wide variety of academic disciplines.

One of the things that I really enjoy about it is their treatment of society and politics, they include tons of jokes about these things. Like when Gerald Ford's head made a comment about voting... I've had to explain that one many times.

But alas, the ENWorld rules prohibit politics, so I'll just stop myself before I get started.