Talk:Professor Farnsworth

message: If this section has a reference to a random genus of snake named after the character, I feel like at least as notable (certainly more relevant to popular culture) is the introductory segment to the podcast The Scathing Atheist (nearly 600 episodes now), which serves as a cross-promotion vehicle for groups, causes, and other podcasts, recording some variation of Hi I'm so and so from such and such group, "and We DID in fact evolve from filthy monkey men" -- from the titular character to this wikipedia article -- the segment is referred to by the hosts as "The Farnsworth Quote".  Granted the show apparently isn't popular enough for there to be a wikipedia page created for it yet (although maybe I would be the type of person who isn't directly involved in the show but knows enough to write an article about it), but then the guy who named the snake species doens't have his own wikipedia page either, so i think in terms of relevant influence on popular culture, this tidbit would be warranted to add to the "Legacy" section.  76.174.113.253 (talk) 04:40, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Legacy section

message: Sidebox shows 168, text shows 161. I'm inclined to believe the 161 given the reference to the Near Death Star, but I don't know for sure. Can anyone confirm? I'll change it to 161 since that's what is implied in the article and on a couple other websites. But if someone could check and confirm it from the DVDs that would be cool.--Tonytnnt 07:13, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age 

message: It might be worth it to put his inventions on a seperate page. There are a lot, and it would allow to have images for most of them. AncientNova 20:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: John or Jane - You're responding to a post that is a year and a half old. That page has been created (as List of fictional devices in Futurama) and deleted (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional devices in Futurama) since then. I don't recommend recreating it unless you can address the issues from the deletion discussion. Stardust8212 12:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seperate Invention Page? 

message: In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_That_Ends_Well , Fry did his grandmother, then became his own grandfather.  How does this affect his familial relationship with Prof Farnsworth?--Xlegiofalco 03:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It makes him a direct ancestor as well as a great uncle. That's about it. -- Digital Watches 07:35, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roswell That ends well 

message: There are some items that appear in the List of Farnsworth Inventions and in the List of Futurama Gadgets with different information. I think it would be better to remove the gadgets invented by Farnsworth from this page and add them into the List of Gadgets. And this List of Gadgets would be divided into Farnsworth gadgets and non-Farnsworth gadgets. Bender22 02:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicates 

message: Are you sure that the death clock is a parody of the clocks circling around the internet? I know that the death clock was intruduced in Robert A. Heinleins first short story "Lifeline" Where the doctor "Pinerõ" invents a death clock (and there might be other, even earlier references?) However, since Heinlein is considered one of the founding fathers of science fiction, how can we be sure that this is not a parody of that? johan_h 20:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Clock? 

message: Shouldn't the Parabox count as an invention? Adamsandberg 14:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Farnsworth Parabox 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Super Duper Symmetric String Theory.jpg

message: As 'A Roswell that ends well' explains, Fry is his own father.  This makes Farnsworth actually a direct descendant of Fry (as also noted on this page).  We also know that Fry lacks the Delta brainwave due to a genetic trait.  But since Farnsworth is a direct descendant of Fry, should this not give him the same genetic trait?
Weyen Drote 17:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fry's condition is supposed to be nearly unique in the universe, according to the Nibblonians. Also, Farnsworth was made stupid by the Brainspawn, which proves that he does not share Fry's condition. -- Lilwik 02:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should lack the Delta brainwave? 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Prof. Farnsworth.jpg

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message: I am interviewing Billy West, voice of Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, next Thursday, November 15.  If you have questions for West, leave them on my talk page. --David Shankbone 22:45, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Would you like to ask [[Billy West]] a question?

message: Wouldn't the Professor's birthdate on the page (2158) make him around 900? I think there's a mistake there. Also, if he was 161, wouldn't he have been taken away at 160 as explained in A Clone of My Own?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.181.36.142 (talk) 07:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate

message: What accent does the Professor speak? It doesn't really sound like General American... Siúnrá (talk) 23:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a pretty generic American accent, it's just that he's really old. DP76764 (Talk) 01:50, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accent 

message: The inventor of the television - is a see also link too obvious?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.7.127.253 (talk) 06:31, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's already referenced in the Character History section so a See Also link is unnecessary. Stardust8212 14:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philo T Farnsworth 

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]]