# Turanga Futurama *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Feb 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *26 Feb 2002, 14:20* > Nutria wrote: > 3. Hey! Did anybody see "Futurama" two weeks ago? Leela's first > name turns out to be Turanga. Turangalila (pronounced Turanga Leela) is > the name of a 10-movement symphony by Olivier Messiaen (an absolutely WILD > piece of music, but hardly standard repertoire; a cult classic, so to > speak). I was astounded at this allusion. It can't be a coincidence. I > wonder if "turangalila" appears in any context other than as the title of > Messiaen's "hindu symphony." I've never heard of it, if so. Messiaen on > Futurama? Amazing. (No musical quotes on the show, however. Still, my jaw > dropt!) Well I'm glad someone besides me is watching "Futurama"! :) I had no idea of Turangalila (amazing catch, Nutria!). I had a vague association with the movie . . . hmm, what was it? "Fried Green Tomatoes"? Where the old woman, telling about her tomboyish youth, gave the nom-de-tomboy "Tarawanda" (or something like that) for herself, or it was her rallying cry, which was then taken up by the younger woman when she had some difficulty in a parking lot (iirc). =mantis= ---