Talk:Goobacks

goofts
get rid of all goofs from all episdoes. 1 no legit encyclopedia has a "goofs" section 2 most of the goofs are from people failing to realize that south park is a humorous show. not a scientific documentary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.12.135 (talk) 01:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The "no legit encyclopedia has it" is no valid argument. No other legit encyclopedia has hundreds of thousands contributors either, but that doesn't mean Wikipedia shouldn't keep working the way it does. The other point - "comedy show and not a scientific one"- is more valid though. But with movies and series - especially humorous ones- it is a little different, I think. People come to these Wiki pages for those snippets - like trivia (which I think shouldn't be removed), references and goofs. Because not everyone will understand every joke or pun, and there are times when it isn't sure wether something was a goof-up, a deliberate mistake, a reference or simply a silly joke. That's why we put this stuff up on Wiki. -92.226.195.216 (talk) 09:58, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The "no legit encyclopedia has it" argument isn't correct, but then neither are you. The reason so much "trivia" is removed is because most of it is speculation, content without cites for verification. If you can cite something, include it, if you can't, don't. See No original research. Alastairward (talk) 14:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

T:3
I removed the bracketed reference to Terminator 3 and the grandfather paradox on the basis that discussion of this belongs in the articles for Terminator 3, and, especially, the restricted action resolution section of the Grandfather paradox article. Reveilled 12:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Alien Nation (film)
I don't see it mentioned anywhere on this article... DrWho42 05:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Name of the Aliens
Despite the time-travel-goo on their backs leading to them being called Goobacks, I always thought it was actually a pun on "Go Back" more than anything...

Columbo2 21:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

No.. it's a joke about Wetbacks (Mexicans crossing the river and thus getting their backs wet before going into america) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.12.129 (talk) 16:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah he/she's right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.241.182.12 (talk) 22:41, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Mistake or more?
When Stan runs home to tell his parents about the man from the future, the reporter in the news says that the man is "from over 2 thousand years" in the future. But it is just a little over 1k years. Did the writers of the show change the date from 4045 to 3045 or is the anchorman just retarded? -92.226.195.216 (talk) 10:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No, it's for humorous effect. Unless I'm mistaken, each time there's a cut back to that reporter, he gives a date that's another thousand years further in the future, a la typical media hype. See Faux Fox News for reference. Ipso-De-Facto (talk) 00:52, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Uncited material
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 * When the "time border" gets wider and many "time immigrants" come through, it closely resembles a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
 * The appearance of the "time border", including the lightning storm immediately before its appearance and the growing blue sphere, closely resemble the special effects used to show characters arriving from the future in the Terminator films.
 * On the stretch of highway, there are signs featuring three silhouette figures of a future male, female and child running across the road. This is similar to such signs posted along the highways of southern California and the southwest informing motorists to watch out for illegal immigrants crossing the road.
 * In the news scene with the female reporter whom the boys watch at the woman's house, a hangar numbered "18" can be seen behind the fence. This is a reference to the Roswell UFO incident of 1947, when the remains of aliens and their spacecraft were supposedly flown to Wright Field (now the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) in Ohio and stored in "hangar 18".
 * The immigrants come through the portal covered in purple ectoplasmic goo, hence the name "goobacks". This is a reference to the American term "wetbacks", a slur for illegal Mexican immigrants who enter the US via swimming through the Rio Grande river.

Alastairward (talk) 14:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)