Anyone else catch the Cowboy Bebop reference?

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Episode 4, when

*HUGE SPOILER*










Scooter dies, you can send his ad out that says "See you, Space Cowboy".

[judy~ bday today]

whats cowboy bebop?

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Originally posted by Mika~:

whats cowboy bebop?

It's an anime about bounty hunters in space, and at the end of each episode there's a little subtitle that says "See you, Space Cowboy", which is an option for Scooter's ad you can leave. One of the guards then references anime while looking at it.

[Darth Cannabis]

I have to say thou I only see the cowboy bepop reference itself as an earlier refernece. In other words whenever pointing out a refrence you go with the OLDEST one.
That being said, I see cowboy bepops refrence as a refrence to something else.

Another good example. is people who try to point out the last of the V8 found in wastleland 2 to as refrence to a 1983 videogame, wheras I see the 1983 videogame, as simply a reefrece to the car in Mad Max, a movie made in 1979. That is and forever will be the car refrenced as the last of the great V8's.

Likewise, I always saw the comboy bebop mention as a refrence to either Steve Miller Band, or to a musical artist actually known as the space cowboy.

The truth is the entire situation of Scooters death is a much older refrence in general, and anyone mentioning the cowboy bebop aspect is simply too young to actually undertand the ORINGINAL reference.

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Originally posted by Darth Cannabis:

I have to say thou I only see the cowboy bepop reference itself as an earlier refernece. In other words whenever pointing out a refrence you go with the OLDEST one.
That being said, I see cowboy bepops refrence as a refrence to something else.

Another good example. is people who try to point out the last of the V8 found in wastleland 2 to as refrence to a 1983 videogame, wheras I see the 1983 videogame, as simply a reefrece to the car in Mad Max, a movie made in 1979. That is and forever will be the car refrenced as the last of the great V8's.

Likewise, I always saw the comboy bebop mention as a refrence to either Steve Miller Band, or to a musical artist actually known as the space cowboy.

The truth is the entire situation of Scooters death is a much older refrence in general, and anyone mentioning the cowboy bebop aspect is simply too young to actually undertand the ORINGINAL reference.

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Pretty sure they were talking about Cowboy Bebop, because one of them also mentioned anime.

[Power of Seven]

The phrase is almost definitely a reference to Cowboy Bebop. Even one of the NPCs later asks if it's some kind of anime thing. At the end of every single episode, Cowboy Bebop ended with the phrase: "See you next time, space cowboy." The anime was also a science-fiction show that had many serious moments, so it wouldn't be inappropriate.

The one thing that I did notice was that Scooter rode the rocket at the very end (when he yells "Catch a ride!") exactly like how Major T. J. "King" Kong rode the nuclear bomb in the film Dr. Strangelove. Major Kong rode the bomb just like a cowboy also. I doubt that these similarities are coincidental.

[Z3r0point]

Yeah, I got the Cowboy Bebop reference. Such a bittersweet moment. I was torn between choosing that and Scooter's trademark "Catch a riiiiiiide!", but "See you, Space Cowboy," came as such a surprise and it seemed so fitting I had to go with that.

RIP Scooter.

[VonStreed]

Only 12.7% chose to send off Scooter as a space cowboy?! What abunch of losers! ;p

[WeAct OnImpulse]

these are the kind of spoilers which is why I bought this game/experience in a flash