Talking Futurama - The Luck of the Fryrish With Karen Chu

My fiancé noticed that the spaceman drawing is attributed “Phillip Fry Age 20”.

I think the “Space Hook” line might be a secret joke. I’ve seen this episode dozens of times and I ALWAYS think he’s going to say that Kareem has the Sky Hook but Philip Fry has the *Fry* hook, to rhyme, but instead he goes with Space Hook. (“The Robot? That’s similar to mine!” is also one of my favorite little jokes in the whole series.)

Robert Flaxman

My first encounter with Breakfast Club was a 1989 airing on Fox. Because it was on broadcast, it was heavily edited. I never really paid much attention to the differences between the edited an raw versions, thus I'd totally forgotten there was even a pot scene in the film, but the one edit I could never forget was the poor dub over of "eat my socks" uttered by Judd Nelson toward Paul Gleason, the principal. What spicy naughtiness were they covering up? Why "eat my shorts," of course. In only a matter of months this same phrase would be prime time gold for the Fox network and adorn a bajillion shirts (no doubt heckling that rascally Saddam Hussein) before 1990 came to an end. Also like Bob, I attended Catholic school where I can attest the film is rather popular with theology teachers (Groundhog Day is another one). It does raise a lot of moral/social issues and even does a reasonably good job of broaching the issue of suicide, plus it's something that kids will actually sit through, so I guess it's not THAT surprising. I mean, my mom taught theology and I've seen the sorts of teen issues tapes actual Catholic groups put out, so consider yourself lucky. I could never convince her to give Dogma a go, but in hindsight, she may have been right about that one.

Ron Sterling

I read somewhere that Greoning named Bender after John Bender from the Breakfast Club as he was the real "bad boy" of the movie. I do like that movie but when you watch it as an adult teen issues feel so less revelent and little after you grown up and have more important issues like when to pay rent or what career path you want to move too. Oh no detention on a saturday ? how aweful.

They still do them music ads but it all kid pop hits now

Cossover

Watching this episode for the first time hit me in the feels pretty hard. Like Fry, I had a contentious relationship with my brother. I was the smart, well-behaved one while my older brother was the troublemaker who didn't really try in school. He was notorious for the way he'd bully and pick on me. Meanwhile for much of our childhood he watched relatives heap praise on me for getting good grades. When this episode aired I was in college while he had joined the navy. We didn't really talk that often, much less see each other. It reminded me that I did care about this person I shared a tiny, tiny room with for 17 years, even if he did call nearly everything I liked "gay".

PurpleComet

No is the only acceptable answer to "Is Pepsi okay?" I also only ever saw The Breakfast Club on TBS. For a long time I thought it and Three o'clock High were the same movie due to how often they got played and never sitting through and watching the entire thing.

Alex Forsyth

My most vivid memory of The Breakfast Club was from when I saw it on broadcast TV some time in the mid-late 80s. Instead of "hot beef injection," the line was censored to "hot love affection." I groaned audibly.

hrhomer

Only tangentially related to this episode but I was meant to see Simple Minds open for Rick Astley at a local music festival called Camp Bestival in 2018. I’ve been going to camp bestival since I was a very young kid and it’s great. We didn’t get to s ee Simple Plan OR Rick Astley because the festival was cancelled due to weather concerns. I did get to see Clean Bandit on the first non cancelled date though.

I was in Las Vegas when it rained lightly for 2 minutes. The became a post apocalyptic ghost town and we rode the New York New York roller coaster like 5 times because there was no line.

Mets fan time to shine! Since their historic 120-loss inaugural 1962 season, and sharing the town with the far more accomplished Yankees, the air of loveable loserdom has surrounded the NY Mets franchise. While they have some highlights in their franchise history, they are most likely to be subjected to jokes of this nature in media. Both a Met player leaning into a pitch to win a game and the fan reaction of "this is the happiest day of my life" feel really on point. However, this joke has taken on extra significance upon this recent viewing. For, on April 8 of this year, the Mets defeated the Miami Marlins when the slumping Michael Conforto leaned his elbow over the plate to allow it to be struck by the pitch, forcing in the winning run. The home plate umpire would later admit he should have called the pitch a strike, but it was too late, his call was final, and the Mets fulfilled the most meaningless entry of "Futurama Predicted It."

Scott Scallion

Also, should we decide to have a second kid, we are agreed that There Will Be Drugs™

Byron Lagrone

My wife didn't have epidurals during the birth of our son, so this is literally a very different birth scene than the only one I have personal experience with XD

Byron Lagrone