Talk:Tralfamadore

"or fatal dream"
Is there a source for the claim that "or fatal dream" is a recurring concept in Vonnegut's works? It seems like a random anagram of a random word that someone might have put here as a joke.
 * Good point - it was put in by an anonymous IP without sourcing, so I've removed it until it can be backed up. Interesting idea, though. - DavidWBrooks 20:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Writing a paper on this now. I think Martin Coleman in "The Meaninglessness of Coming Unstuck in Time" explains the relation of the anagram to at least Slaughterhouse-Five, and possibly other works.

picture needed
This article should have a picture to illustrate the subject in question. One can be found at, but I am unsure how to license it. I request that somone be able to add it as soon as possible. --Zenoseiya (talk) 02:05, 22 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The problem, as I see it, is that there is no "official" picture of how they look. In fact, as the article itself points out, the way that they look changes from book to book.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.74.57.100 (talk) 17:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Reference
Am I mistaken or is Tralfamadore mentioned in the movie Martian Child?

Tralfamadorians in non-Vonnegut works
I am absolutely sure that I read/watched/saw something not by Vonnegut that had Tralfamadorians in it. I seem to remember that their heads were like a hand holding an eye. I've tried to track this down, obviously unsuccessfully. Anyone know anything about this? I'm not talking about a video game, but a cartoon on TV or animated movie or a comic book (hence the head appearance memory). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.116.183 (talk) 02:50, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

It may have been the brief sci-fi sequence in Monty Python's Life of Brian, when our hero is being chased to the top of a tower, falls and lands in a passing UFO?