Talking Futurama - The Series Has Landed
Added 2018-03-16 07:00:01 +0000 UTCFuturama lays more groundwork for the rest of the series with its second episode ever! Fry is once again a fish out of water when his first destination as a delivery boy is one he dreamed of as a kid, but now exists as a tacky tourist trap. Along the way, he meets Hermes, Zoidberg, and The Crushinator, and encounters NASA history first-hand while trying not to die. All this, and more of the "will they, won't they" stuff between Fry and Leela that kept fans hanging on for years. Listen now, and remember: The moon shall rise again!
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Tom Kenny was in that Tonight, Tonight music video! You can’t bring up that music video and leave that fact out.
Mickey
2025-03-11 16:14:38 +0000 UTCThis touches a bit on what my overarching problem that eventually burned me out on Futurama, which is essentially that the series is very good, but thinks it is way waaay better than it is. All those "unearned" moments trying too hard to tug at your heart strings with characters that aren't sufficiently humanized the rest of the time, but also you'll begin to notice scenes ending off with pauses or the camera hanging on to a character after they told a joke as if to leave room for laughter when it wasn't really that funny.
Dylan Martin
2018-04-20 22:19:12 +0000 UTCWhat I'm sure you guys didn't know was that when this aired in 1999, it was actually in the middle of Passover, so that "Next Year in Jerusalem" was even funnier for those of us who had just said it during the holiday etc. I recall watching it in a bowling alley on a Sunday evening that year, and paying far more attention to the tiny TV hanging above the lane than the actual game I was playing with people I haven't seen or spoken to since then, basically. I've watched that episode far more recently.
Jeremy F
2018-03-20 03:35:45 +0000 UTCthat was the best part of the episode. 'we're whalers on the' *click* - cant believe it didnt get a mention
mavrick
2018-03-19 20:17:01 +0000 UTCThe Simpsons made a joke about it in a crossover episode: <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/homer-simpson-the-simpsons-bart-no3ZmJdqxIo5W" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://giphy.com/gifs/homer-simpson-the-simpsons-bart-no3ZmJdqxIo5W</a>
Brian Rude
2018-03-19 18:20:17 +0000 UTCIs it too obvious to mention "the moon shall rise again" has another, far more literal interpretation? They're so good at packing in multiple layers.
Mike Wasson
2018-03-19 17:28:04 +0000 UTCStory time! The Lunar Rover ride is a reference to Autopia, where you "drive" yourself around and you have a Metal bar in the middle (Im not sure if this was mentioned or not), but it originally opened with out the metal bar so you could pass other people (or ram them). Enter Bob Gurr, the imagineer behind Autopia, Disneyland Monorail and Kongfontation at Universal Studios Florida and countless others. He told this story at either a D23 or at a Destination D (A more parks focused D23, much smaller though) On opening day, Walt Disney had Bob Gurr babysit 2 children of an actress Walt was trying to get a contract with. So Bob took the boys over to Autopia and they got in the “police car” that they had to help with pacing of the ride. The two boys spot a smaller man driving with an eye patch and yell out “git Him!” Ram that mans bumper and he goes over the curb into the grass. The man they ran off the road was none other than Sammy Davis Jr.
Niko Wells
2018-03-19 14:18:56 +0000 UTCGood point!
Bob Mackey
2018-03-18 19:28:18 +0000 UTCWhen you guys mentioned the Gender-Neutral Pac-Person game, my first thought went to Ms. Pac Man, since the reason she was named "Ms." was because it was considered the most PC name to give her.
ShyRanger
2018-03-18 07:33:01 +0000 UTCMatt is way too loud in this compared to Hank and Bob.
Joseph Rush
2018-03-18 03:01:12 +0000 UTCNot for nothing, but Phil Lamar wasn't the voice of Kaldor/Aqualad in Young Justice, but it was instead Khary Payton, who is best known as Cyborg in the 2003 Teen Titans show.
PNB
2018-03-17 12:26:00 +0000 UTCBTW, has anyone pointed out that Bender has essentially the same head, eyes, and mouth construction/placement as Homer?
Thad Komorowski
2018-03-17 04:57:29 +0000 UTCI'm revisiting the show now and still can't put my finger on why I can't get into it. Maybe it'll come to me while you guys do your analysis. I think the point that it's more "pure" Groening might be it but I'm not so sure... BTW, "Baby Bottleneck" and "Little Buck Cheeser" are *NOT* public domain, so, ahem, not sure what kind of deal was arranged with Time Warner to include low-rez second clips of them....
Thad Komorowski
2018-03-17 04:53:51 +0000 UTCPlease tell me who I need to kill to get that rendition of the beauracract song as my ringtone tia
Ace
2018-03-16 23:56:45 +0000 UTCI remember being home from college and walking into the local Blockbuster Video to rent a game and they had this episode playing on the main television in the center of the store. This was just after the first DVD set was released. For that simple reason, this episode will always be inexplicably linked to Blockbuster Video in my brain. It may have even been the last time I rented something from Blockbuster.
Joe Hodgson
2018-03-16 20:37:31 +0000 UTCI don't know about you, but every station in my area at the time loved using the clip of Fry's "Yeah! Crank up the radio!" in promo spots.
DrawnCoyote
2018-03-16 20:30:49 +0000 UTCSeconded. But for real though, I think the comedy central run has some full on hilarious episodes. but then again, I actually love the "movies" so, I guess I should be ashamed of myself... I'm a futurama apologist
Andrew Giachetti
2018-03-16 17:58:42 +0000 UTCHard disagree about there being no stand out episodes in the comedy central run, I think some of the best straight sci-fi episodes happened during that run (The Late Philip J Fry, The Prisoner of Benda, Benderama, Meanwhile) and some other really fun character driven episodes like Proposition Infinity, Stench and Stenchibility, and Near-Death Wish. I also really love the three parters they did with different animation styles. Yeah, there are some that aren't going to be listed on a series top 10 list but the constant insistence (not just from you guys but others as well) that the comedy central run is lesser is wrong, in my opinion. The movies are definitely lacking overall (Bender's Game is meh) but I pin that more on the format (long form story telling vs more compact episode story telling) and I agree with Chris when he said that the multiple stops and starts in production probably caused a bunch of inconsistencies in plotting and tone. Love the series and I'm looking forward to you guys eventually covering all of Futurama in the far, far flung year of 3000. Farewell from the world of tomorrow!
Nicholas Basile
2018-03-16 16:01:31 +0000 UTCCannot say thank you enough. Going to Enjoy every moment of this episode
Codeaholic
2018-03-16 14:32:50 +0000 UTCalso really enjoying the chip tune version of hermes bureaucrat song
Andrew Giachetti
2018-03-16 12:46:08 +0000 UTCHands up, who sings the whaler song all the time?
Andrew Giachetti
2018-03-16 11:46:42 +0000 UTC
