Talking Futurama - A Bicyclops Built for Two
Added 2019-12-20 08:00:01 +0000 UTCIt's time for the surprise crossover of the 31st century! When Leela is catfished online by a seeming cyclops, she soon finds herself playing the Peg Bundy to an unworthy Al, making the Katey Sagal prophecy come true! Can Fry stop their upcoming wedding before this schemer's sick dreams come true? And has Bender finally stolen enough? Pull your decaying No Ma'am t-shirts out of storage and get ready to find out why Futurama and podcasts go together like a horse and carriage!
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What's weird is that both Katey Sagal and Billy West were in their mid-40s when Futurama began, and playing adult characters 20 years younger.
Bob Mackey
2020-01-05 02:32:29 +0000 UTCThe biggest problem I had with Futurama was casting Katey Segal so soon after the end of Married With Children. She was so closely identified as Peg Bundy that I just couldn't hear past that voice as a love interest for a 20 something Fry. By casting Peg's voice, Leela seemed like she could be his Mom's age. So this episode committed the capital offence of shoving that fact in my face. Futurama became the Bender & Zoidberg show for me. Couldn't care less for Moonlighting trope that was Leela/Fry.
James Babbo
2020-01-03 05:51:17 +0000 UTC"Al, let's have sex!" "Eh, no, Peg." (toilet flush)
2019-12-29 20:02:29 +0000 UTCI knew the laugh track was a sitcom trope they were doing, but Leela’s getup and the style of comedy? Wasn’t aware it was referencing anything so specific
Alex Irish
2019-12-22 02:59:04 +0000 UTCI have to wonder what the heck you thought was going on during the Married with Children parody scenes
nina matsumoto
2019-12-22 01:44:13 +0000 UTCI also stan for the hilarious parody in Marge in Chains, coupled with the great line, “watch Fox and be damned for all eternity”
Alex Irish
2019-12-21 23:45:45 +0000 UTCMy first exposure to Katey Segal WAS Futurama, so I had no idea she was Peg on Married with Children. The reference went right over my head back in 2000, so now the parody is way funnier knowing this information. Now I have to check out the series, and what better way to start than with the two-parter that aired with The Simpsons premier. I’ve also known her through Recess and the Disney Channel movie Smart House. She rules!
Alex Irish
2019-12-21 23:43:32 +0000 UTCRegarding the alien women: the fourth one, the purple-ish thing with the weird tentacles and claws, is modeled after H.P. Lovecraft's "Great Race of Yith" from the story "The Shadow out of Time.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Race_of_Yith They are an ancient alien race who were able to time travel via mind transfer across great distances of the universe.
Andrew Bouvier
2019-12-21 03:41:01 +0000 UTCAs Henry mentions, the internet portions of this episode are weird to watch knowing that Rich Moore's gonna take a LOT of the same ideas into Ralph Breaks the Internet. Good on Henry for also pointing out its resemblance to Ready Player One as well, sans the incessant mention of every "geek film" ever. That "90s version of the internet" Bob describes is very much the concept of Second Life, which has not coincidentally declined considerably after all the mid-2000s hyper.
Harry Thornton
2019-12-21 02:04:27 +0000 UTCThere was an episode of the competitive SFX make-up show "Face Off" where the contestants had to make a character based on a mythical creature assigned to them, and the woman who got "cyclops" made a space alien with 15 eyes. The judges were baffled, and she argued she was technically correct because "cyclops" literally means "circle-eyed," but they were not impressed.
nina matsumoto
2019-12-21 01:08:32 +0000 UTCHenry you did remember correctly the episode is called “a flush of his own” in married with children where Al buys his favorite toilet “A FERGUSON” and sits on it in the middle of the living room which is playing on a type of humor that’s almost extinct in comedy now and that’s the depiction through sound or sight or reference to toilets, bathrooms etc You were never supposed to bring it up, that’s Why in All in the Family one of the best gags that gets so much audience reaction is hearing the toilet flush You just weren’t supposed to ever bring that up (like cartoon asses) And the Married With Children Podcast is amazing I’ve been a patron and a fan since they started and their Facebook profile is awesome with a great community and I have even guest starred on an episode “The Gas Station Show” wonderful expierence!
Tyler the Destroyer
2019-12-20 23:01:22 +0000 UTCI don’t know that Alcazar has a computer to access the internet on that planet. He probably just uses the ones at the library
AllTheTrophies
2019-12-20 19:54:53 +0000 UTCFor some reason I thought last week's Talking Futurama was the last episode of the Part 1 (despite it clearly being episode 8... the end of the podcast just made me think it was over then, idk) so I was OVERJOYED to see this posted very early this morning. This is an excellent episode and I'm glad Leela gets to be the focus for once, while Fry and Bender still get some stupidly funny stuff to do. I still think fondly of the actual origin of Leela, but I guess we'll see how I feel once we inevitably revisit it for the podcast sometime down the line. Great episode as always!
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2019-12-20 18:36:53 +0000 UTCYou remembered correctly Henry. Behold the Ferguson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2YRDzpTL4 Also fun fact, the two families on the show Bundy and Rhoades where named after King Kong Bundy(who eventually appeared on the show) and The American Dream Dusty Rhodes.
Alex Forsyth
2019-12-20 17:49:45 +0000 UTCDeep Space Homer is the episode in which there is a parody of Married with Children with a toilet next to the sofa 🛋
Alistair Shand
2019-12-20 17:09:15 +0000 UTC
