Talking Futurama - Love's Labours Lost In Space
Added 2018-03-30 07:01:00 +0000 UTCThe glorious Zapp Brannigan and his put-upon lackey Kif finally make their grand debut on this, the fourth episode of Futurama! After Fry and the gang are tasked with rescuing animals from the doomed planet Virgon 6, they're intercepted by the famous Brannigan and punished for violating the edicts of DOOP. Along the way, we learn the best way to disable killbots, the many mysteries of steam pipes, as well as the virtues of velour. All this, and the introduction of Nibbler, too! Pour yourself a tall glass of sham-pagg-en and get ready for another great episode!
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I didn't make a video, I'm not that talented: <a href="https://twitter.com/BouvOnTheMove/status/968554890611056640" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BouvOnTheMove/status/968554890611056640</a>
Andrew Bouvier
2018-04-10 16:28:08 +0000 UTCBeing the weakest episode in a season of Futurama is like being the least talented Harlem Globetrotter.
Andrew Gillies
2018-04-08 22:10:48 +0000 UTCI'd say Dee Bradley Baker is Frank Welker's heir apparent as the go-to animal guy in animation. He's pretty freaking good too.
Hjels
2018-04-08 12:39:03 +0000 UTCI got too excited about the newsradio talk since I have begun to watch the series again.
Anita
2018-04-06 19:25:41 +0000 UTCI can't believe Matt thinks this is one of the weakest episodes of season 1. I think it's one of the best, easily top 3. It's just great pacing and I get a lot of laughs out of each act. The only weakness I see in this episode, which you guys pretty much acknowledged as well, is that the Zapp scenes are just so funny that it makes the rest seem dull by comparison even though I think they're all pretty strong in their own right.
Joe Hodgson
2018-04-03 19:27:11 +0000 UTCIn episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
pdschmidty
2018-04-03 18:42:42 +0000 UTCVergon 6 always reminded me strongly of the Sea of Monsters in Yellow Submarine, and I felt so vindicated when years later Josh Weinstein professed his love for that movie in an article. Besides the obvious parody in the intro to Bender’s Game, I wonder if other details throughout the series that remind me of Yellow Submarine were also directly inspired.
lightningkraken
2018-04-02 13:14:12 +0000 UTCWow, I never expected a Jackie Puppet reference on the Talking Simpsons network. My favorite Jackie Puppet bit was probably when a young Conan O'Brien, about a year into his late night career, came on the Howard Stern Show and was mercilessly harassed by a jealous Jackie Puppet: <a href="https://youtu.be/qCarh-OLUt8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qCarh-OLUt8</a> Howard is pretty much on the nose in this clip about Tom Snyder, though. If you guys ever do the Nerdator episode of Freakazoid for What a Cartoon, there's a spot-on Tom Snyder parody in it.
Adam Fitch
2018-04-02 01:16:27 +0000 UTCDoes anyone know if the hollow planet reference in this episode was based off the Star Trek episode, "For the world is hollow and i have touched the sky?" My internet search skills have failed me.
Jeremy Hopkins
2018-04-01 15:15:49 +0000 UTC"No good, it's full of steam" is my absolute favorite line from this episode. I think it's Fry's total surprise that the steam vent would be full of steam.
Scott Rothman
2018-04-01 06:14:03 +0000 UTCAfter I made a friend in Ireland and learned that "windy" was another term for fart, I became somewhat disappointed with the windy shrimp.
David Winn
2018-04-01 01:45:25 +0000 UTCCan someone link the Futurama/Steamed Hams meme that was created? I can't find it on youtube.
PurpleComet
2018-04-01 00:31:28 +0000 UTCWe actually kind of know how many people Zapp sacrificed to the killbots. In a deleted scene after Zapp mentions the preset kill limit Bender says "Oh I can fix that, and resets one of the killbots. That killbot had a 6 digit counter that read 999999. The death total in that battle had to be AT LEAST in the billions. Also my favorite joke from Leela's dream of Fry's funeral from The Sting is that one of Fry's lovers at the funeral is the radiator he thought was a radiator woman from the radiator planet.
Alex Forsyth
2018-03-31 03:22:11 +0000 UTCMuch like rewatching Treehouse of Horror episodes after watching the films and Twilight Zone episodes they were parodying, rewatching Futurama for the first time since I've seen every episode of Star Trek TOS makes them even more enjoyable than I remembered.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2018-03-30 23:00:33 +0000 UTCto be fair, a lot of the deification of kirk came from later series. DS9 and VOY both have positively glowing things to say about him, and the first TNG movie was mostly about how great kirk was
Matt Bixler! Hello!
2018-03-30 20:25:24 +0000 UTCOh snap, you guys mentioned my Steamed Hams/Steam Pipe shitpost. Glad you liked it! I've got another one I made months ago for A Fishfull of Dollars that I'll post when you get to that in a couple weeks.
Andrew Bouvier
2018-03-30 16:47:30 +0000 UTCI think H E N E R Y is remembering the meme version of Kirk a little more than the actual version of Kirk.
Sarah Richards
2018-03-30 10:41:27 +0000 UTCI just started reading a collection of 50's sci-fi stories edited by Robert Heinlein when he was in his 20s, so Matt's comment at the end was a little spooky, but he's not wrong that a lot of Futurama episodes really follow the template of that era of science fiction.
Sadie Carter
2018-03-30 10:05:23 +0000 UTC
