Talking Futurama - Godfellas
Added 2022-08-08 04:01:01 +0000 UTCBender becomes a god this month as we explore an extremely notable episode of Futurama that tackles the always-relevant topic of religion. When Bender finds himself launched into space, a collision with an asteroid causes a tiny civilization to start growing on his chest (and ass), leading him to become the all-powerful deity of a Shrimpkin society. But when his direct intervention leads to disaster, we all learn a thing or two about the dangers of playing god. Listen in for important theological discussions, as well as instructions on how to cook and eat your shoes using only a clothes dryer!
Comments
Something I only now noticed about the ending: God DOES save the monks. By Bender learning that "you can't count on God for jack", Bender sets out to "rescue" the monks. Had Bender not learned that lesson from God, the trio might have left them for dead. The final line of God repeating that "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" isn't just them reiterating the line, but reinforcing it with Bender's action.
Alex "spyda_k" McG
2022-08-17 02:46:42 +0000 UTCThis isn't one of my favourite episodes, maybe in part because Bender is not my favourite character, and this focuses so heavily on him without Fry and Leela for quite some time, but it does have some DAMN good jokes in it, and I appreciate the frank approach to religion it more or less lands without coming across like Twitter discourse.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2022-08-15 20:52:22 +0000 UTCI only know how to use a rotary phone because my best friend's family had one in their kitchen. For a long time too, anytime I had to call home from their house I needed someone to remind how to work the thing. There was a certain charm to using it, but if I had to deal with that phone every time I wanted to make a call back then I probably would have thrown it through a wall.
Joe Hodgson
2022-08-10 20:21:42 +0000 UTC...or if they are going near the speed of light, which would maybe lead to a weird impossible sitiation that bender is going faster than the speed of light. as hermes would say, ' that just raises further questions!' but its fun to think about
Sean Riley
2022-08-09 20:31:18 +0000 UTCone of my all time favorite episodes, i love how it has a secret physics thought experiment in it. my interpretation (i am a scientist but NOT a physicist) is that there isnt really a "top speed" for a self propelling spacecraft in a vacuum, and since bender isnt accelarating initially, the planet express ship would catch up to him eventually, but he actually kind of screws up his chances of being found by decelerating by throwing the swag, so they wouldve spaceballs-ed right past him.
Sean Riley
2022-08-09 20:24:48 +0000 UTCI remember owning one of those you rent it from Bell rotary you could kill someone hitting them in the head with it phones. After that my mom refused to pay for touch tone and we had "pulse" where you flip a switch on the phone and it pretends to be a rotary phone. You could flip to touch tone after you called a company that used it for their automated service but it didn't work 1/2 the time. My mom had pulse until Bell discontinued thr service.
Alex Forsyth
2022-08-08 17:53:14 +0000 UTCSpaceballs is better than all of those movies
Bob Mackey
2022-08-08 16:25:19 +0000 UTCI think it's fair to say five is the "infamously bad" Star Trek film, even if it has serious competition for the actual worst slot when you look at the whole franchise. It's like how there are a bunch of films worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space but that's still a go-to example for worst movie.
SomeBloke
2022-08-08 15:11:18 +0000 UTCFine, 5 is the worst OG cast film. I won’t defend Nemesis or Into Darkness (both very bad), but I like Insurrection. It’s a big budget version of a silly adventure ep of TNG with jokes that make me laugh, or Data doing cool android stuff. And I like F. Murray Abraham as the facelift addicted villain. It’s all in good fun. - Henry
Talking Simpsons
2022-08-08 15:05:17 +0000 UTCCorrect
Ron Sterling
2022-08-08 13:33:55 +0000 UTCStar Trek 5 the worst Star Trek movie!? Not while Star Treks 9, 10, and 12 exist!
Paul
2022-08-08 13:15:03 +0000 UTCI don't blame you guys for making this mistake, it was a huge misreport, but the blue macaws seen in Blue Sky's Rio are not extinct: They've gone extinct in the wild, but there are still surviving macaws in captivity, about 97 in total. Still an unfortunate situation, but they are not totally extinct.
Harry Thornton
2022-08-08 07:49:07 +0000 UTC
