Talking Futurama - A Taste of Freedom
Added 2023-03-13 04:00:01 +0000 UTCThis month, we're talking about a topic that's never tedious: freedom of speech. Wait, where are you going? Futurama tackles the always relevant topic of flag respecting when proud immigrant Dr. Zoidberg devours a flag to show his love for the planet Earth. Little does he know, this act will land him in hot water—which is pretty appropriate for a weird lobster man. Listen in for our thoughts on this early '00s treatment of the topic, and learn plenty of depressing information about the history of flag desecration laws!
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Finally, someone who can acknowledge that the US has already lost its race against China. China's benevolent and peaceful influence on the world will only be a good one, unlike the United States.
Jim Sung
2023-03-30 04:21:56 +0000 UTC"id also like to express my indifference for that particular show"
Sean Riley
2023-03-23 19:23:50 +0000 UTCI'm also part of the club
nina matsumoto
2023-03-20 17:45:07 +0000 UTCThank God their are other people who don't give a shit about The Last of Us. Bless you Bob
Burt Stanton
2023-03-20 15:11:34 +0000 UTCCould not for the life of me remember this episode until I started watching it, and afterwards I certainly understand why this was not one I revisited very often (even though I always love Billy West's Nixon voice)
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2023-03-19 22:03:13 +0000 UTCAlso not a favorite episode in my book, but I still say "freedom, freedom, freedom oi!" every 4th of July.
T
2023-03-15 21:20:50 +0000 UTCTechnically, Dallas to Fort Worth IS around the world if you take the long way...
Andrew O.
2023-03-15 17:37:33 +0000 UTCI always associate Charleston Chew with my grandparents' freezer. They would keep a bag of the mini ones in there sometimes sort of hidden away. Unfortunately for my grandparents, they had 9 kids who all procreated multiple times so we grandkids got into all of their snacks. My Nana would actively try to hide her sweets and if we found them they were gone - even if no one really liked them like the Charleston Chews. I just remember being surprised every time I tried to eat one of those chewy monstrosities at how difficult they were to eat. Like painfully difficult. How could a tiny candy bar take so long to consume? And how do people actually eat the standard sized bar? That would take me an entire afternoon. Despite that somewhat nostalgic memory, I have no desire to eat a Charleston Chew today, though I could definitely go for one of the sugar-topped blueberry muffins my Nana tried in vain to keep hidden from us.
Joe Hodgson
2023-03-15 14:42:05 +0000 UTCI like Stargate 1 pretty good, might be the best Emmerich/Devlin movie there is. Can’t speak to the other Stargate content though. - Henry
Talking Simpsons
2023-03-15 04:28:26 +0000 UTCI can't be the only one who likes the stargate movie,right?
Nathanial Miller
2023-03-14 19:58:10 +0000 UTCone joke that im surprised bob missed - "im no good at being a slave, im thinking about going to graduate school", which is a very futurama-style bitter phd gag
Sean Riley
2023-03-14 19:43:09 +0000 UTCRe: Porky busting out of the drum, I don't know if subversion was the intention but that's a good theory. Bosko, Buddy, and Beans would do their respective, "So long, Folks!" for the black-and-white Looney Tunes as well, and some generic court jester would do the sign-off for a year or so's worth of color Merrie Melodies. Porky graced the end title for all the Looney Tunes produced between 1937-45 (except for when Bugs did the drum signoff in HARE TONIC and BASEBALL BUGS; I think it was supposed to be a joke in the former that Porky caught Rabbititus, and Treg Brown didn't get the memo and added it to the latter, too). Axing Porky from thereon was probably the one single *poor* creative decision made of Warner cartoons in 1945.
Thad Komorowski
2023-03-14 14:46:31 +0000 UTCThey are also almost always staged with actual gay performers. Same goes for the similarly named Bait Buddies.
Thad Komorowski
2023-03-14 12:55:06 +0000 UTCMy man, do you think that's a good article? That has got to be the worst cheerleading non-journalism I've ever seen. Clinton chose Tim Kaine as a VP to reassure anti-abortion people. That speaks louder than some comments during a debate.
Hampus Bystrom
2023-03-14 08:39:22 +0000 UTCEvery time I come back home to America I do have a bit of counterculture shock in seeing all the flags. But despite the quantity of flags found in the US, we don’t actually have the biggest (only coming in at number 14 on the list) I saw the North Korean flag in Kaesong about 13 years ago (when it was the largest in the world) and it was hilariously large a huge flag on a huge tower surrounded by Potemkin villages but now that flag is only number five on the list. The Middle East and Central Asian states have gone whole hog on this particular dick measuring contest.
John Harrison
2023-03-14 07:05:38 +0000 UTCI hate to do this here, because I know it’s not your podcast (which I really enjoy!) is about, but that was a cheap shot against HRC’s take on abortion in 2016. We had not seen a major nominee take the stand she took on abortion rights, and to call it weak or mealy mouthed is revisionist or selective at best. https://www.vogue.com/article/hillary-clinton-roe-v-wade-third-debate/amp
John Halski
2023-03-14 01:11:12 +0000 UTCAs a gay, I've only ever seen Bait Bus, which I never liked because the title was literal: they'd bring a guy on with the promise of a sexy lady but then a man would do the sex thing on him. Did the straight version also... you know, override consent in a gross way? I know it's all a show, but that aspect always made me feel gross. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify my feelings about the Bait Bus, podcast!
Drew Mackie
2023-03-13 22:32:43 +0000 UTCTexan here, just to add a layer of funny to the "Dallas to Fort Worth" gag in the protest song. Dallas and Fort Worth are basically the same city. They are RIGHT Next to each other.
Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
2023-03-13 21:48:24 +0000 UTCYooo I was at that Retronauts panel! There was a booth at the con that was selling that hat so they were fucking everywhere.
Aidan fleming
2023-03-13 20:48:17 +0000 UTCWow, this where I learn that Broseph Joe Brody was on a naked dating show.
Paddy O'Rourke
2023-03-13 20:07:13 +0000 UTCWhile Lobsters Go Home as a pun on Munsters Go Home sounds correct, given the theme of the episode it also works as reference to the infamous anti-American slogan "Yankee Go Home". It's also the source for the name of the 1967 Disney comedy "Monkeys, Go Home!", only notable for being the company's first film released after Walt's death. You guys should watch the Netflix documentary "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" to get the full story on the Bob Ross fiasco: His children are NOT at fault here, his son Steve Ross actually fought to keep his name and likeness in court, but sadly lost. It was the Kowalskis, the scumbag husband and wife, who (allegedly) manipulated a dying Ross to sign off all the rights to them, along with a whole bunch of other shady stuff. It's sad that such a pleasant man got wrapped up in all this exploitative dealing.
Harry Thornton
2023-03-13 13:59:48 +0000 UTCI haven't commented in a while, but I simply have to chime in on the whole Charleston chew conversation (this is also one of my favorite episodes so I am very happy its being covered). I always find it it weird when Henry and Bob (and others) talk about Charleston Chews as some kind of esoteric, old timey candy, because I am a little bit younger than you guys, but charleston chews were a big deal when I was growing up in the 90s and remain one of my favorite candies. I grew up in a small town outside of Philly, so maybe that has to do with the old candies we had around, but every summer our day care would spend every day with good weather at the local community pool, since we could walk there. That pool had a snack bar, and the biggest selling treat hands down were the frozen charleston chews. That was easily the number one hit with the day care kids for multiple years until they redid the snack bar and stopped carrying them, which was a dark day. We also had three flavors, which I am not sure if people even now charleston chews come in different flavors, but we had classic "vanilla" (at least we called it that), chocolate, and strawberry (which was my favorite). Everyone once in a while I'll pick up a pack of mini charleston chews and chuck them in the freezer. That's the real secret to unlocking the candy. They will still fuck your teeth up something awful, so tread carefully, but I say its worth it on a really hot day. They still make the different flavors it seems: https://shop.tootsie.com/Charleston-Chew/c/TootsieRoll@CharlestonChew
Andrew Giachetti
2023-03-13 12:39:01 +0000 UTCSome people don’t like the politics, I am patron because of the politics!
Saya Clarke
2023-03-13 12:22:00 +0000 UTCShout out for Rubicon - I *loved* that show, but I guess you can’t beat zombies. Well, you can, but not in the ratings. I still joke that they cancelled the show b/c it was too close to the truth: a tiny supranational cabal of rich private actors, controlling military conflicts worldwide for their own economic and political gain. Lol.
Jessica S
2023-03-13 05:32:34 +0000 UTC
