Talking Futurama - Where the Buggalo Roam

Buddy, buddy, buddy nobody cares what you think of their marriage or you think references to it are repetitive--they're just nice people on a podcast. Bob is lucky he found not only someone who cares but also someone who is willing to help with his dreams too. They seem really lovely. So what if he name-drops something about her--it's not like she doesn't work hard to help support the pod too.

Adam Azzalino

Sorry for this late answer. I wrote this comment a little bit drunk so I was really embarrassed. That's why I didn't look at your answer until now. It was a stupid comment and didn't deserve your elaborated answer. But thats the good thing with parasoical relationships, you can't fuck them up.

Kurono

Hi there, sorry you feel that way and sorry for the frequent references. I can explain: since the pandemic, it's been much much harder for Bob and I to see each other (or do much of anything). Bob's days are mostly filled with working, watching media with me remotely, and visiting me very occasionally. We miss each other dearly and naturally, I'm on his mind a lot, and he will bring me up if something reminds him of me. In this case, there's a plot about dating an asian woman and meeting her parents, so I don't think it's a stretch for him to bring up his personal experience with me. Since I also studied animation and worked for Simpsons Comics, I may come up in WAC and Talking Simpsons frequently. Sorry in advance for that. Also, because they deal with Japanese animation studios a lot, they come to me with questions about the language and/or culture so I get shout outs for that. They're just crediting me for my help. I want to point out that Henry brings up his spouse a lot, too. I think maybe you don't notice as much because he doesn't use his name. As mine and Bob's life situation gets better and normalizes (as in, we're actually living together), I think maybe references to me might die down? But for now, I'm in his thoughts a lot, as you can get why with our prolonged separation. I ask you to bear with it for now--we are all doing the best we can during COVID times. Thank you for reading all this; I hope you understand.

nina matsumoto

Jebus. I hate to be that guy, but is it possible to make a podcast episode once without mentioning Nina. Hearing this podcast use to be escapism for me, but it turns more and more to a window to a life I really want to life but I never will to.

Kurono

let people smoke. that’s it, that’s the sentence

notsmohqe

The earthquake thing sounds like a reference to For Whom the Bell Tolls, where to get past censors, Hemingway described orgasms as “earth moving.” That could be a pure coincidence, but it’s a funny part of the book and an author who would’ve been inescapable for the Futurama writers growing up.

CMatt

I want the "Let people be cool and smoke in Fiction" T-shirt

Ryan Oliver

Pretty crazy that this podcast episode was uploaded on Indigenous People's day.

PurpleComet

Similar to the Popplers episode and Penguins episode, this didn't age well socially/politically but there were so many great funny memorable jokes. I definitely realized I watched more Futurama than I thought cause I could remember many of the gags Bob/Henry were cataloging through. Though I will say I don't agree that this started a new wave of "Wuss Kif" cause he was ultimately a wuss even in his first appearance complaining about Zapp. I really liked the direction they took with him and Amy cause it's probably the most healthy relationship in all of Futurama. Also I did get a chuckle when Bob realized he was being a bit too harsh looking at his surroundings, heh

SilkiePJ

Was Singing Wind a fart joke?

Dylan

Kif being a tough cowboy who has feelings but writes them in his journal is just Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2. Way to be original, Rockstar.

Lockerus

This is a weaker episode, and yet it still demonstrates how a poor episode of Futurama still has value because there are just so many jokes! Every line you captured for this episode is terrific and illustrates that aspect of the show. I actually never really read the ending the way you guys did before, but I also didn't listen to the commentary. I thought the reveal at the end was a joke at both parties' expense in that the natives didn't realize what they had was so valuable, and the Wongs weren't either and passed down the story of their deception as a form of boasting. It just felt like it played into the both sides this episode was trying to play.

Joe Hodgson

RJ Reynolds is Winston-Salem, they are competitors to Marlboro -- Philip Morris is the Marlboro side of things. The book Barbarians at the Gate is painful to read but talks about rich corporate culture in that space :/

Byron Lagrone

The crying native martian reference was the first reference I got after watching this in syndication when I was 8 and I felt incredibly smart

I'm surprised you guys didn't realise that the line about aging backwards is also accidental foreshadowing for the events of Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles, which has a scene where Amy's parents are annoyed at her for now being fat and... yeah, I'm not defending that part. The sad thing is, the Bonanza theme lyrics I remember aren't the ones you heard on MST3K, but the ones in the infamous Rob Reiner film North sung by Dan Ackroyd and Reba McIntyre, as these rich Texan parents who wanna fatten up Elijah Wood. The sad thing is, I have seen the film in full and it is indeed as bad as Roger Ebert said it was. But speaking of obscure lyrics to popular theme tunes, there are actually "official" lyrics to the Alexander Courage STAR TREK theme, written by Gene Roddenberry but never intended to be used on the show, they were written just so he could get extra royalties on the music.

Harry Thornton