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purple elephants ?

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UPDATED: Monday, April 26, 2004 13:57
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:17 AM

ok ive been a member of this site since very early january,04 and this week i got my region 2 dvd box of firefly(duh).anyway i wanted to know "where and when was purple elephants mentioned ? " or is this a fan made quote?

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:21 AM

KNIBBLET

River says it to Mal. Being that it's a River quote ... you have to wonder what it really means.

Could Purple Elephants be a code name for some sort of war ship? Could there be a purple cast to the sky behind some office towers (filled with blue-handed bastages) somewhere?

Could purple elephants flying be River's little joke to herself about someone getting beaten up and bruised?

Everything River says is important. Pay attention to everything she says and does ... you'll be glad you did.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:30 AM

RHUTTNER

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Originally posted by STICKS:
ok ive been a member of this site since very early january,04 and this week i got my region 2 dvd box of firefly(duh).anyway i wanted to know "where and when was purple elephants mentioned ? " or is this a fan made quote?

Its from the script "Dead or Alive" which was never filmed. You can read it here http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:31 AM

DELIA

I think, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, that it's from the unfilmed episode Dead or Alive. The script is on this site somewhere, but you won't find it on the DVD's.

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Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:41 AM

RKLENSETH

I think Purple Elephants refer to the Alliance especially since "Dead and Alive" revolved a lot around Alliance people.

I think the quote is something of the nature that Purple Elephants are flying or some such which could mean that the Alliance officer was going use Serenity for the manhunt.

I would have really liked to see this script filmed. It looked like it would have been a good episodes. I heard on the OB that "Dead and Alive" was a fan script that everyone thinks is an actual Firefly script but it does seem like a good script nonetheless.

My favorite quote in there is when Mal say, "It's not that I don't trust you but I don't trust you."

I can imagine Mal saying that.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

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Monday, April 26, 2004 12:58 AM

STICKS

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Originally posted by STICKS:
ok ive been a member of this site since very early january,04 and this week i got my region 2 dvd box of firefly(duh).anyway i wanted to know "where and when was purple elephants mentioned ? " or is this a fan made quote?

Its from the script "Dead or Alive" which was never filmed. You can read it here http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

thanks for clearing that up,its such an excellent quote.

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Monday, April 26, 2004 1:59 AM

DEBBIEBUK1

Also Kaylee calls the Alliance guys "purple bellies" in Bushwacked I think (when they all get taken off Serenity for those wonderful interviews), not sure if that has any connection with River's "purple elephants are flying". Bits of the Alliance costume look a bit purply to me.

"Your husband?" Fight with him too.

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Monday, April 26, 2004 7:00 AM

LISSA

ok, i could swear i saw that quote in one of the eps...maybe i'm just insane, but i'm almost sure! i guess i just have to go back and watch them all, listening for that lol.

~lissa, spwhore

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Monday, April 26, 2004 1:57 PM

LJOSALF

Purple elephants flying = sly reference to Disney's Dumbo. You know, carnival/circus atmosphere....Get it?

Ljosalf

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

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