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00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable podcast number 97 july [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► twenty well [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► welcome back to another episode of the [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► incomparable i'm glenn fleischmann [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► substituting for Jason L who is [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► indisposed [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► he's been disposed of somewhere in the [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► Pacific Northwest right now and this [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► week we're talking about futurama the [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► animated TV series that has more lives [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► than any program I believe ever on [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► television to TV show that's one of the [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► geekiest most scientifically accurate [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► programs of fiction ever broadcast and i [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► have with me tonight three guests to [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► talk about the show and Enoch oh you [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► know and Enoch oh great guy that guy we [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► love him he's on many podcast you hear [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► him on macbreak weekly is that right [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► that's true on your mom the incomparable [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► here mon boy squeaking podcast and any [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► runs the celestial excuse me the [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► celestial waste of time saying sightron [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► selected you'll waste of time [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► a celestial waste of bandwidth because [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► this is located on the internet or [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► bandwidth this used to be a one-point [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► important no longer finance so thank you [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► Andy for joining us and also have been [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► but knee-deep Brittany of Boing Boing [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► the code wrangler they're responsible [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► for its back ND and welcome to the [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► incomparable I want to thank you and [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► Dean has recently completed watching [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► futurama back-to-front so he can talk in [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► depth about anything that we forgotten [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► how much more recently and i also have [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► Jonathan self who is a first timer on [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► the incomparable John is executive [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► editor at a funny publication that [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► writes about shiny objects that some [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► people buy that are aluminum and pretty [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► tight right my shiny metal Mac bite my [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► shiny metal that's right so thanks for [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► being on everybody and so the futurama [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► was funny it's a I want to think it was [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► an acquired taste that when I first [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► found out about the show I thought I was [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► the only one watching and it turned out [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► that was sort of true at one point you [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► know futurama has this crazy history of [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► being on the air it comes from for [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► listeners who don't know the show and [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► you'll have a chance to explore its has [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► had several seasons now those seasons [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► have broken up in a sort of ridiculous [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► way it was an outgrowth of some ways of [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► the simpsons is co-created by matt [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► groening a simpsons creator and one of [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► the longtime writers and showrunners [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► david cohen David X Cohen x not his real [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► middle name who came up with this notion [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► Matt back to it and they created this [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► spinoff show that was supposed to run [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► around the same time as the simpsons on [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► the Fox television network in the end [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► fox for some reason they had this [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► strange antipathy for the show it's not [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► that disrupted poorly but they like to [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► move it around a lot so it first aired [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► from 1999-2000 three on broadcast [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► television with any given week you [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► wouldn't know where you'd find it on the [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► what time would be on that week because [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► of football and other things then it was [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► in reruns from 2003-2007 on cartoon [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► network but it was did so well there [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► after a reboot of family guy [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► direct-to-dvd the Fox home television [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► network a different part of box that was [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► little clever 20th Century Fox [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► television portion i guess in the home [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► port heart commission for direct to DVD [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► movies that later within aired on Comedy [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► Central which they took over this [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► indication of the previously our [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► episodes and that's been on Comedy [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► Central since they did 26 new episodes [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► in 2010-2011 and the new season just [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► launched in middle of june with a two [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► back-to-back episodes in the season [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► premiere sort of crazy and i had the [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► opportunity for Boing Boing a few weeks [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► ago to talk to David X Cohen about the [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► show and and he you know he laughs it's [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► amazing laughs first here's the show has [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► not been continuously produced you know [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► since 9i tension is produced in fits and [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► starts but it's pretty amazing to [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► survive that long and its tribute I [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► think to the great great fan ship behind [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► it so anyway that's the that's what we [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► got to here now so this week we'll talk [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► the show more in-depth we like it's some [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► of our favorite episodes of new episodes [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► and in the future of futurama so and i [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► know that your big fan you you're one of [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► the folks who are advocating for [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► futurama seemed uncomfortable episode [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► what do you like about the show so much [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► have you been a fan from the beginning [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► yeah i mean you start off as a simpsons [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► fan and so you just hear the same team [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► that does the simpsons doing a new show [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► oh my god are you on board for that but [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► I really think that [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► futurama surpassed the simpsons probably [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► and that's not a slam against the [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► simpsons I think it's just because the [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► writers and approaches they get a break [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► and enforced break unfortunately but I i [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► think that they have had enough time to [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► really develop the characters time off [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► to explore other things and I do think [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► that they invest far far more in every [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► episode than any writing staff on any [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► other great animated series ever there [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► every to every time i'm at the end of a [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► really great episode [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► you're really aware of how they spurned [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► every opportunity to take a shortcut and [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► on so many other shows [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► they'll come up the they'll be an [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► interesting idea they lead off with and [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► then it sort of Peters out for five [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► minutes and they jump off and go into [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► something else I think the futurama it's [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► like they come with a really bizarre [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► idea that's really great Gilbert and [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► Sullivan style idea and then they sort [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► of like stop that part of the creative [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► meeting and they just sit around all day [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► and think about what are the [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► consequences of this like if if if [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► bender really was able to create a [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► 60-percent scaled-down virtudes [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► 60-percent scaled-down duplicates of [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► themselves at will [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► what would eventually happen based on [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► not only what we know about these [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► characters but also what we know about [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► science and they will play it out to the [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► very very very and I was watching a [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► bunch of episodes over the past two or [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► three days and it really occurred to me [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► that how many different times have we [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► witnessed different characters or maybe [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► the entire cast experiencing the [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► entirety of the universe's evolution [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► from start to finish [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► I was that I was watching one of my [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► favorite shows a clockwork origin and [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► once again here's another one where they [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► get to watch everything [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► from start to finish was looking at the [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► late Philip J fry in which they [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► refreshments the time machine that can [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► only move forward and they have to watch [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► the entire creation and death of the [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► universe three times they have a beloved [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► kind of OCD that said no no we can't [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► skip anything if they have a time [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► machine that only goes forward this is [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► the only way they can possibly get back [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► the science is wonderful but and the in [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► here again they're doing things in a [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► really difficult way I I loved a [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► clockwork origin because it starts off [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► the way that you would assume that a [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► very nerd geek oriented show would go [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► over we're going to talk about [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► protesters protesting the teaching of [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► evolution and you serve clasping your [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► hands are great they're going to really [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► stick it to those people who want [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► although textbooks rewritten to say that [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► you know that the universe was created [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► 600 they're going to really stick it to [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► them and by the end of the show they're [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► actually saying well actually there's a [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► possibility that creationism really [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► exists maybe we shouldn't actually [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► dismiss these people as idiots because [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► there is a way that evolution and [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► creationism can actually sit [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► side-by-side that is not only a [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► difficult thing to do [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► it's a risk keeping to do it really is [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► that idea that they always take the hard [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► way out and they make it so much better [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► for all that well I don't agree with [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► that too is where they see everything [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► through their conclusion they don't make [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► a cheap joke and right if and you know i [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► think another running joke in the show [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► is never agree is that the number of [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► times that Philip J fry dies he dies and [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► dies that he beat doctor who you know in [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► Doctor Who the current weather character [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► pains Rory Rory dies many times but I'm [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► afraid Philip fry has to hide don't know [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► how many times for real and fantasies in [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► you know with cloning and robots and [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► reassembly really is a thousand years [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► old so that was also he's also ancient [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► writings of thousands been frozen for a [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► thousand years i suppose in place should [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► be cap the you know for people who [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► haven't seen the shell there may be some [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► incompetent listeners the show [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► essentially follows Philip J fry is a [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► pizza delivery boy on the eve of the [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► terminal nem comes two thousand falls [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► into a cryogenic suspension chamber is [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► working in the year 3000 [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► and meets up with his many time [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► great-nephew dr. Farnsworth who is a mad [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► genius and runs delivery company and [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► hijinks ensue he falls in love so do you [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► just watch the entirety of the show [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► again the themes that emerged for you [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► from watching the whole thing from front [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► to back [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► yeah actually there are few things in [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► particular the way they the show changes [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► after its in cancelled and brought back [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► I and it like when they first come back [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► they take they they come back with think [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► season five numbers got weird to so i [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► think the four DVD movies or straight to [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► DVD movies i think are all supposedly [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► he's like 16 episodes of season 5 mm [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► technically well five on IMDb is the one [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► with Jurassic bark and the staying the [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► Farnsworth pair Farnsworth para box [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► those types of things on that season I [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► think technically that season four is [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► not once a season 5 says five on mtv [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► it's a little it's a little weird but no [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► but I don't you start to let that was [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► the last one of the farms work paradox [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► this was the last that was part of the [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► season was this 2003 yes one of the last [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► ones i realized i was looking at my [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► favorite episodes and several them come [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► from the end of the last broadcast run [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► and David Cohen said we talked recently [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► reminded me that the show is really [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► cancelled after season three and they [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► had so many episodes in the hopper that [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► the fourth season was bits and pieces of [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► everything that they hadn't yet aired so [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► a lot of good stuff showed up there but [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► they were just trying to be running it [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► out if you look at the production [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► numbers for those they're like third the [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► third season of production and they [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► aired and what was called the four [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► season and the season was mostly the [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► fourth season production like it's [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► really confusing especially when you're [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► trying to rip your dvds and then tag [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► them you have to try to figure out the [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► dvds have them in the production order [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► not in the running order so gets really [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► confusing when you're watching him from [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► the disk it goes from being kind of like [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► I jokes about the future [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► and things like that to this really [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► think II season all of a sudden it gets [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► very deep and it's talking about like I [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► you know fries dog and it's it's a very [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► emotional where his relation fries [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► relationship with Leela grows it grows a [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► lot and it changes quite a bit and then [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► it kind of it stops again there [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► we're not guiding a new Watchers to is [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► so Leela is the one I'd we first think [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► she's an alien the early seasons turns [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► out spoiler alert [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► Leela is actually a mutant from the [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► sewers underneath the city of New York [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► and she's the captain of the planet [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► express delivery ship that's one by one [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► by dr. Farnsworth and fries love [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► interest but she's always rejected and [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► partly because fries kind of an idiot he [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► sort of a homer simpson great idiot [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► within extreme streaks of cleverness and [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► persistence so that's part of the [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► running thing right is that this is a [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► the tension between whether they will [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► actually become a couple or not any more [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► of a slob and Homer Simpson actually so [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► he's got that going for him he goes from [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► just kind of being a slob and being [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► uninformed to kind of being an idiot and [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► and Homer Simpson kind of does the same [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► the same ah traversal there where he's [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► just he becomes the butt of the joke on [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► his own intelligence rather than his his [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► ignorance or his like misunderstanding [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► of situations and and it's a subtle [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► difference but it's it's kind of [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► disappointing i think to see him become [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► like such a brew basically wasn't the [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► problem in the simpsons to is that [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► homeowners intelligence varied from sub [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► Neanderthal to like almost normal for [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► episode episode and sometimes he came up [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► with a brilliant business ideas and [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► executed them at the same thing with fry [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► like if you look at the episode one of [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► my favorites the devil's hands are idle [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► playthings which fri does a deal with [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► the devil and compose this opera this [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► holographic opera but he has the ability [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► to compose an operating extra [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► intelligence just got the hands you like [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► wait a minute [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► he is such a sensitive soul and [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► intelligence to compose this you know [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► lyrical work and yet he can barely tie [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► his shoes remember to swallow it [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► listen I think he's more like Homer [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► Simpson without the without the ability [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► to get completely distracted and [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► unfocused disease easier basic guy in [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► his you know early to mid-twenties where [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► he hasn't found his life's goal yet he [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► hasn't found that drive and ambition I [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► don't think he's in he's a super idiot [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► he's just a little bit a bit of a [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► surface surface into let's just say but [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► but once he once he realized that [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► something has to be done [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► he's gonna work it out he's gonna get it [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► done we've seen so many feature on [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► episodes where he is absolutely [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► dedicated focused and devoted and yes [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► yes he has faithfully as a pair of lucky [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► pants that gets any situation but but [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► but but then you realize that the [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► writers actually like it appreciate that [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► because he's one in this episode in [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► which they need to evacuate the earth [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► there's an escape ship with a limited [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► number of seats on it [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► the government creates a machine that [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► will evaluate how valuable each person [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► is whether they're worthy of this thing [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► of it was to go in there [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► the professor's old old old man probably [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► die soon anyway brilliant brilliant [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► inventor pass your ticket delivery boy [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► nowhere no or no valuable skills past [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► here's your ticket [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► I like your pads his really major [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► accomplishments that are hugely [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► motivated by leela like him his love for [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► Leela like overcomes all these [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► ridiculous like I detriments that he has [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► he rearranges the stars for her he lets [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► her onto the spaceship there he he's in [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► he's in this in the sting he's going to [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► die basically because you know he throws [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► himself in front of this be [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► that's this while be that's coming at [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► them most of the things his when he's [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► really at its best [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► it's in the defense or in the wooing of [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► this counterpart character will hit the [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► things he's just so he's completely [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► selfless a lot of the time like he's [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► gets freaked out and does things but i [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► think it's it's a weird character in [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► that I'm that he's willing to always [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► write throw himself [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► whatever to do anything he gives up [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► there's an episode in which it's the one [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► with the spaceship gets a new [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► personality that with the sigourney [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► weaver's voice love and rocket fuel [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► lovin [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► love and I'm in little rock and there's [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► a bit of course we're recreating part of [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► the scene from 2001 and disabling how [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► and they're floating in this airless [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► space and space suits pushing out cans [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► of slur much are like memory core units [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► and popping them open and uh Lila's [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► oxygen tank was empty and fri without [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► telling your pops is chosen to her so [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► that he might die so she can let me just [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► and there's a thousand incidents like [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► that in the show but yeah I'm i think we [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► should talk favorite episodes before we [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► get too far along i think we've [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► introduced some of the basic concepts [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► and characters of the show and John I [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► think we've pointed at you lease so i [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► think you should come up what's one of [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► your favorite episodes of this program [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► well you mentioned film or a second ago [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► and the main voice that he does is [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► Hermes Conrad who is the rasta [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► bureaucrat who sort of runs the office [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► and those all the paperwork and [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► everything and he's definitely one of my [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► favorite characters and there's an [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► episode called how hermes requisition to [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► his groove back and that you know the [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► the title the title alone is great [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► because it makes you think of the the [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► movie how stella got her groove back [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► but it's it's just this really fun [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► episode with you know him and he's so [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► excited about being a beer creditors you [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► know that the whole society so [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► bureaucratic and they have numbers and [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► you know you you get promoted your [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► number gets lower and and i just love [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► the beginning of the episode that they [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► have these you know pneumatic tubes and [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► he says I look it's a letter from the [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► central bureaucracy and it says [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► attention Hermes Conrad you're about to [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► receive a letter from the central [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► bureaucracy and then he gets the letter [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► from the central bureaucracy eh you know [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► it's just this whole thing and it's very [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► it's very Brazil like in the whole this [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► this whole thing comes together and I [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► you know fri has an affair with the [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► bureaucrat who comes to inspect the [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► office and then bender finds out so to [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► cover her tracks she removes benders [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► brain which is in his entire personality [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► fits on a three-and-a-half inch floppy [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► disk [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► and she puts it in the tube and it [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► disappears and they have to go find it [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► and it's just just this great thing [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► where he goes and he has to sort this [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► entire gigantic inbox master inbox pile [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► in four minutes and it turns into this [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► big song and dance routine he's doing [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► the scar number and there's lindo wing [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► and everything and it's just one of my [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► favorites and and the best part is I you [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► know near the end he finishes everything [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► and the the number one bureaucrat who's [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► number 1 point 0 something like yeah you [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► know you finished you did a great job [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► but you finish with two seconds to spare [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► and a good bureaucrat never finishes [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► anything early so I'm demoting you [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► something like that and it's just one of [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► what one of my favorite as hermes is [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► just such a great character and that's [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► that 16 in my mind I really haven't [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► explained vendor to listeners who are [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► not don't know the show and maybe you [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► should take a crack at what what is [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► bender who is bender bender is a robot [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► designed to bend girders he's like a [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► manufacturing or construction robot but [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► he in the very first episode he's going [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► to go commit suicide with I he tries to [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► get a double suicide and suicide [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► telephone booth it's a suicide booth [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► that shaped exactly like a telephone [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► booth and fries trying to place a call [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► so they are he's there to go commit [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► suicide and I he and fri wind-up sort of [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► intertwined and becoming good friends [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► because they decide not or fri sort of [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► help spender decide not to commit [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► suicide and and they later on a bender [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► ah electrocute is antenna on a broken [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► light bulb and his programming is all [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► change so he has a lot more free will [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► then the other robots and he cannot he [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► can be lazy and not be totally committed [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► to his programming [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► yeah he's the he's got a lot of the best [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► taglines the show like my shiny metal [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► ass [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► of course [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► smoke cigars alcohol is necessary to his [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► proper functioning naturally so Andy [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► tell me tell me sir what is one of your [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► favorite episodes of futurama I gotta go [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► back to something I mentioned during [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► winter that others episode you're [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► talking you're talking about we are [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► favorite nerdy TV shows [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► previously on being comfortable i love [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► the God fellows episode so much hit real [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► it really is one of my favorite episodes [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► of television [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► full stop what happens is that a bender [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► gets shot into space irretrievably but [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► he's leaving these leaving the [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► university's just completely stranded [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► and the the premises that there are like [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► microbes that like circling his body and [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► as has happened so often the show [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► features a vendor course gets to witness [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► the entire rise and fall of an entire [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► new civilization as these tiny tiny [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► microscopic beings go through evolution [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► on his chest plate and of course they're [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► worshipping Him as a god because he is [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► their entire planet and he has faced and [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► he can actually say okay now you're [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► gonna want to grow crops and been free [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► for how to bring me some beer and it and [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► as is going to happen they they become [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► into two different factions of society [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► disagreeing on how to please bender [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► bender because he's bored starts off by [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► being the God but also starts off by [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► being stopping the angry god saying all [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► well okay I guess I can see if you're [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► praying to me to save your kid okay i'll [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► try to save your kid how about if i hope [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► i get if i put more water here to give [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► you something to give you make your [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► crops flourish and of course you want [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► some flooding out the entire village [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► gets to see everybody died and there are [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► wars on his chest and he's trying to [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► stop and try to help things and finding [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► himself in these increasingly futile [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► situations and the Beast story [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► what a wonderful b-story fri showing the [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► sort of care for his friends that is a [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► that is a constant for his character he [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► knows that his friend is gamma rays you [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► must be out there somewhere so we [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► conduct this huge huge search to try to [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► find bender and get him back though but [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► at the end of bender story he's now it [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► is the entire civilization on his honors [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► on the robot or so has died out killed [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► each other [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► he's actually a lot sadder than you [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► imagined he would be given me such a [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► selfish individual and he winds up at [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► the end of the universe to this sort of [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► sentient cloud of whatever the fill in [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► the blank and the subtext is that this [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► could be this cloud is could actually be [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► the god of our universe [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► when do you see a show like this [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► actually any show period that tries to [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► tackle a spiritual topic without making [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► it endlessly dreary like touched by an [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► angel or any other intentionally [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► uplifting or spiritual or God oriented [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► show i love the early shows including [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► this one they have sometimes you know [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► there's there's always the A&B story [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► thing like that's a traditional sitcom [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► or short story on works a lot of [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► different kinds of the theatre and [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► television we've got a main stories the [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► a story that's kind of thing you're [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► supposed to be paying attention to them [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► often subsidiary characters have Abby [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► story if you're really lucky that could [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► be a sea story with even like less going [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► on and futurama sometimes that ad in [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► East or either episodes i can think of [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► where I'm you know also held Allah [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► subway into one of my favorite episodes [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► is the one in which frys all 300 big [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► boys is the one in which fri decides to [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► drink three hundred cups of coffee [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► there's a it's a play on george w bush's [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► rebate early this administration the [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► Nixon who is president of course in the [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► future mix-ins had had a jar he decides [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► to take a show windfall from one of the [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► inept captains of the dupe was that [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► Brannigan that branding a voice [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► originally intended to be voiced by phil [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► hartman we passed away but but still [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► very well for a comple done so Zapp [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► Brannigan defeat some space spiders and [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► take all their booty other gems [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► tapestries and so Nixon issues a [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► three-hundred-dollar of rebate to [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► everybody and prices i'm gonna buy three [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► cups of coffee and across the episode he [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► does it so in that episode I love this [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► because there's a romance going on [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► between kids at brannigans [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► second-in-command is long-suffering [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► amphibian the second-in-command and a [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► one and A me who's one of the [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► explore express employees who's the [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► daughter of the richest man think in the [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► galaxy owns most of Mars and they have a [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► romance brewing fries try to do [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► something for Leela there's a whale [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► involved everyone's got different things [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► going on bend the professor uses stem [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► cells to look young and falls in love [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► you've got i think four or five [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► different romance is going on you guys [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► enjoyed trying to figure out what the [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► secret of life is our happiness and at [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► one point hermes has bought his son [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► these you know [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► bamboo still boots and they get stuck on [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► these boots that take them running [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► through town and the whole thing is [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► crazy set of different plots and it [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► comes together at the end they're all in [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► one place at this reception where [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► they're showing off all the booty from [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► the space spiders that they've stolen [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► and Hermes comes in sets fire to the [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► tapestry lights on fire but the windfall [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► is destroyed everything is burned up [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► everyone's life is in danger and fri [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► drinks his 300th cup of coffee and i [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► think is one of the most beautiful [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► moments across all the series of the [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► show where this the haha music starts [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► and fri his consciousness expands and [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► time slows down any very competently and [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► serenely he looks out the window and [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► there's a hummingbird you can see it [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► swing and slowly flapping and he takes [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► everybody out of the fire take small [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► outside they have no idea what happened [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► but I mean I I really think I don't know [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► if there was a G and H and I plot in [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► that and they pulled it together it was [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► hilarious and it was beautiful and I [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► think it's something that maybe you need [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► the the lack of limitations animation to [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► pull that off could you do that in and a [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► series in which you had actual physical [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► factors where you wouldn't this would be [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► enough time to make everything happen so [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► perfectly [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► it is interesting you mentioned that [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► episode was based off of [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► ah the bush rebate I I hadn't really [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► thought about that I find I've been [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► watching these so much later and I was [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► like nine when the show started [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► so what are you 14 known [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► Dean is a young yeah you're making us [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► all feel really able to on so yeah I [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► guess we never really i don't know what [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► it's never come up before but I'm no [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► one's rs200 that is so dependent is [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► podcast hello [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► a gentleman never asks a lady never [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► tells though I i I've actually been [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► kinda disappointed and then the new ones [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► because they rely I mean I'm so I was [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► going to mention this when you were [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► talking about God fellows on where [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► they're making this really beautiful [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► poignant I point there and it's and it's [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► relevant to a lot of different things [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► today and but it's not really about any [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► particular on any particular instance or [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► any particular thing in present day and [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► I feel like the new episodes really very [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► heavily rely on current things going on [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► like yo wila the davinci code [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► proposition infinity proposition [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► infinity is a good right that mean [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► that's that play on the California [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► Proposition about legalizing or banning [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► or in validating a same-sex marriage [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► right they made that relatively quickly [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► after proposition 8 right question [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► finity being a outside [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► that's a joke with the you know they [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► don't shy from was asking David about [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► this when i did the interview and said [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► you know you could they seem to actually [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► willing to address and engage political [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► controversy because like all good [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► parodies it's through the lens of [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► something that's so ridiculous they can [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► get away with it where maybe hitting it [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► directly i would be seen as much too [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► controversial for you know comedy [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► programming or something besides like a [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► late night stand-up comics right the [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► early episodes that that approach these [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► kinds of issues like a big piece of [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► garbage where a a giant ball of garbage [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► that at some point shortly i think it's [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► like 2,000 I don't like the 2200 or [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► something like that they shot all the [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► garbage from New York into space and now [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► in the year 3000 it's coming back and [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► it's going to crush it's going to crush [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► the city it crushed the world they're [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► approaching that issue in in this [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► ah very broad sense and you know what is [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► what is it going to be like in the in so [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► far in [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► future and I think that proposition [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► infinity is kind of a little too close [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► to that and it's a little too close to [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► its own issue and I I clockwork orange [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► origin to where they're having these [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► issues where it's about robots but as [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► you know a thousand years in the future [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► maybe they should have even gotten [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► further beyond that at this point you [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► know robots have been around for quite a [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► while and they might be able to move [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► beyond it somehow and have some sort of [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► even bigger issue [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► yes I'm of age as well too although it's [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► it's sort of hilarious a current affairs [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► are realized you know you look at the [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► some of the most common guest actors on [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► the guest voices of the show include al [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► gore the runner sure that's the case not [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► his one of his children was it was an [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► assistant on the show I know if she [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► still is for a period of time and that [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► certainly helped but I'm he's you know [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► he likes they did a cartoon bit for his [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► inconvenient truth there's a cartoon [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► bumper that they did for it but he's [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► always on you know he's always on [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► talking about being the Emperor of Mars [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► and global warming inventing the [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► internet and it makes fun of himself [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► pretty tremendously on the show and it [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► says in some fairly ki episode so there [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► is a there's a tendency to have a you [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► know just like having algo around as a [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► guest voice to have a sense of [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► contemporary politics there's another [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► issue the show I think that I'm it [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► brings people back again and again as [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► you know we like individual episodes [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► there's ones will does we call out i [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► think there's a complexity to the show [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► that the detail attention they take 22 [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► at most times I was remembering how to [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► look this up because I remember that [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► from the very first episode they design [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► multiple languages to be using the show [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► and one is a simple substitution cipher [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► so it's just every letter in Latin is [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► substitute with the lab the Latin [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► alphabet is substituted with a symbol [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► but there is also an alphabet that I [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► think they waited for people i remember [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► reading a david cone back years ago [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► talking about this they put it in there [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► and they figured that people would [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► freeze frame their VCRs at the time and [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► then later they're dvrs and dvds and [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► sort out how to decode this [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► like an alphabet if I it's a wikipedia [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► says it's a modular edition code with [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► the next letter is given by the [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► summation of all previous letters plus [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► the current letter but i believe it also [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► has code inside it so you can't just [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► it's not just substitution and they also [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► use other languages and there's an [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► episode in which they wander in to a [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► robot mitzvah and it's the in Hebrew it [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► says today I am a robot of course in a [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► manner because why wouldn't it be and [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► why they're hosting the robots and spin [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► them around but there are other details [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► you'll notice when you watch the show [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► you you say oh wow they're really paying [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► attention to this and making this [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► universe and making a consistent yeah [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► like when they laid that that episode in [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► which there's a body swap machine in [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► which you can spot bodies with somebody [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► else but only if that person had never [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► been body swapped before and so hot [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► hijinks ensue as well as the crew went [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► up like trick each other because they [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► want to do stuff and treat each other [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► again too [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► I don't want to i want to be a better [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► response let me be the one of the guys [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► body and so the solution to it of course [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► professor figures out a mathematical [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► equation to determine how many bodies [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► would how many swaps would it take to in [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► to put everybody back where they belong [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► involving fewer than X number of people [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► who've never been spot before and [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► there's the the formula that the [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► calculation and the proof is on screen [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► for maybe all of like a second and a [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► half but it turns out that yes that is [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► actually absolutely correct because one [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► of the writers on that show has a [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► doctorate mathematics we actually proved [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► this theorem to the satisfaction of [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► everybody in the writers room because [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► this is the sort of show where someone [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► as good as AI excuse me [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► clearly you're doing arrest of some [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► algorithm there when the other [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► scientists and span space nuts in the [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► and David Cone was getting doing a PhD [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► in mathematics when he got tapped for [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► the simpsons and Anna you know leave [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► akadema there was a first season episode [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► in which of fries gets a little bit [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► homesick and when he finds out that you [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► can actually take tourist flights to the [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► moon [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► so this is great i could actually be [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► where like Apollo 11 landed and of [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► course you land there finally they go [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► there and it turns out to be more like [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► up the [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► like a disney world theme park you're on [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► the moon but it's like a disney world [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► version of the Moon and they wind up [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► just sort of like breaking out of the [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► the place actually go to the lunar [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► surface and they actually come upon the [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► Apollo 11 landing site and I i remember [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► reading a story about this that in the [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► in the episode you actually see the the [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► the descent stage and the ascent stage [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► both together on the on the surface of [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► the Moon and of course any nerd would [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► know that actually it's only the descent [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► states that would be bad [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► that was left there really get leaked [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► the crew went back into the ascent stage [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► within took off and rica and redock with [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► the command module and so I remember [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► reading that there's actually a [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► last-minute addition was like a plaque [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► that they think they have time to [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► reanimate the entire thing be enough [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► time to put in like a little plaque on [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► the things that a sense stage were [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► restored hereby by bike bike by a [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► unified by generous grant from the [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► nitpickers of America [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► yeah I think I mean there's the other [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► running element of the show is this the [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► number of them of things that are so [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► unpleasant beyond the pale that you're [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► surprised you'd ever see them on [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► television and they try to make them [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► funny like bender is so incredibly [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► amoral I think someone of the DVD [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► commentaries that when they shot the [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► episode well as other robots which is [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► one of the great things in Helena those [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► are the robots which was in this and 9th [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► episode was the first season that's [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► right introduces a robot devil is a [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► terrific character occurs but later the [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► robot devil spins wheel and a fourth [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► season has a list of every robot on the [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► show and you realize there are hundreds [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► of thought out characters hundred [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► thought-out robots not to mention human [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► characters and aliens who appear but the [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► that I think it was hellas other robots [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► because there's a bit in it where Leela [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► and fry get tired of bender his wrist [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► experienced a religious conversion has [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► now become incredibly straight-laced in [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► dollars drinking mineral oil instead of [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► alcohol experience and they sort of miss [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► his evening pouring sand and insanity is [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► a moral behavior so they [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► get them off the straight and narrow and [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► I think it's from the DVD commentary [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► where they mentioned yeah we had a staff [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► member who wouldn't work on this show [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► she had moral objections to it she just [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► found it you know too vile and they had [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► to essentially supported her in that [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► decision but I mean can you think of [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► that fellow's it's like that I'm the [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► number of things that are just like i [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► like the robot or uh Santa Claus the [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► evil Santa Claus the future suicide [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► booth what do you think about the fact [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► that they push the envelope on kind of [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► acceptable things by wrapping them in [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► this way [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► yeah there's a just last week with was [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► one of the new season episodes in which [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► every time friday associate take my hand [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► Leland some disaster happens and [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► farewell to her as a little bit out [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► there the last the last season she [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► rescuing her off of a doomed planet to [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► take my hand Leela and takes the hand [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► and then rise up ripping off her arm of [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► the socket and then like 10 seconds [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► later his own arm gets ripped off by the [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► socket as well last seen the two ripped [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► up arms swirly in space with pretty [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► music playing and that we do we want to [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► switch is lovely [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► exactly sweet lovely but yeah well let's [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► talk about you really should talk about [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► the new season is I'm you know one of [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► the things David said interview so [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► they're going to i think there's just [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► asked acknowledgement and we look so we [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► could talk about this bit is I thought [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► season I think it's number six the 26 [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► episodes that were aired in 2010-2011 I [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► felt they were weak compared to the [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► first for broadcast seasons I I felt [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► like I didn't feel that richness of [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► multiple plot elements the interval i [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► thought some of them with a very thin [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► idea and extended and some I quite like [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► there was something i thought were [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► terrific like the creationism [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► evolutionism a revolution parody that [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► made a sort of rethink aspects of it [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► when presented that light but do you [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► think that as anyone think that that was [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► the case of the first or do you think [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► know the last two in effective season [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► the 2010-2011 episodes were as strong as [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► the first four I think that it's [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► interesting because like you're looking [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► at this show about a guy who's frozen in [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► time for a thousand years and then he [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► comes back to life and then the show is [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► sort of stopped and comes back to life [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► when fried comes back to life it's like [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► this oh my god everything is you know [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► look at all these wonderful things out [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► here and and I have to take full [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► advantage of it and in the new seasons [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► I feel like they're they they're also [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► trying to take full advantage of their [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► there we given time I guess and trying [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► to like create almost cram as much in [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► there as possible i'm like it's much [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► faster paced they're bringing back like [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► lots and lots of characters in for even [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► like small parts like Zapp Brannigan [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► appears for like a minute or two in the [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► latest episode here where he's on he's [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► piloting this this spaceship and he's [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► just kind of thrown into it all mouse [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► and they they're forcing these jokes and [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► making like I don't you know just kind [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► of pushing things a little too far and [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► maybe you know if they relaxed a little [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► bit they kind of be able to i get back [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► to where they were back into their [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► stride a little bit ok what do you think [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► John you would you be as big a fan of [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► the earlier later once you have a funny [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► and substantial differences between them [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► yet the you know the those first four [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► five seasons whatever you want to call [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► them [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► I'm had a have a different feel to them [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► they felt a little bit richer and and in [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► some ways moments there was a lot of [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► sweetness to some of them like you know [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► we talked about that devil's hands are [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► idle playthings and the sting and then [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► one of the other ones like the look of [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► the frying fish which is about the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► history of you know fri thinking that [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► his brother stole his identity and in [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► all things he wanted to do and you get [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► these flashbacks and it's it was you [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► know some really sweet stuff where you [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► see like the emotion around around fri [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► and that stuff seems like it's either [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► missing or forced in the in that last [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► season and the first to that that aired [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► last week I thought the first one where [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► bender has has a kid was pretty strong [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► the bots and the bees and then the one [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► after that that the one with the arms [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► totally off into space that what kind of [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► left me cold I just never really felt [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► like you got going [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► so it feels more like these [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► the previous season then starting with [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► this that they're kind of hit or miss [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► and that the other ones maybe it's a [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► nostalgia thing you know because they [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► were so long ago already those other [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► ones seem like classic and they seem [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► like there's so much richness and then [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► we can go back and watch them over and [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► over again whereas those that last batch [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► they really don't they don't feel quite [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► as I mean there's still fun to watch but [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► they don't feel like they're quite the [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► same its kind of intermittent or you get [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► some episodes that are good and some [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► that are really not very memorable and I [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► felt like the older ones you know [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► they're there wasn't a lot of throwaway [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► it's probably you know you probably have [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► lots of really good ideas at the [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► beginning and lots of stuff to put in [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► and you get to a point where where your [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► maybe forcing a little bit [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► well you know it felt like I agree with [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► you that I thought there was that thing [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► the saying at the outset that I think [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► this is has the most heart of any almost [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► any show I mean you see this in some [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► long-running sitcoms we're even if the [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► show is sort of farcical or nonsensical [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► they figure out a way to have a [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► relationship or a kind of sensibility [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► and friendship at the middle that makes [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► it work and you know their shows like [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► mash that are in other words ridiculous [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► parts but it really was kind of a strong [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► Center show and it's hard to think of an [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► animated show that that could be [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► anywhere near the silicates are a few [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► that have that much are and you do the [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► relationship like no one of another of [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► my favorite episodes would be when I [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► think i mentioned before is the devil's [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► hands are idle playthings and in that [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► that was a thought that might be the [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► last episode as with so many times [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► David Cohen said that Ken Keeler is one [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► of the main writers for sho kin is [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► written all of the finale episodes of [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► futurama is up to four now [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► corporate last episodes of the show and [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► the devil's hands are idle playthings i [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► think was partially intended to be the [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► end of the broadcast run and there's [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► this beautiful thing where you know even [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► though it's sort of you know heat fries [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► stupid and the whole thing is ridiculous [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► is that you know he has this great love [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► for Leela she doesn't always believed [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► interested herself and she's not sure [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► she's in love with him partly because [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► he's an idiot that comes up again and [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► again but probably because she's not [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► sure she trusts the way the intensity of [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► the sincerity realism that he [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► as per business goes on over seasons and [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► in that episode you know II he it's a [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► great series of oh Henry swaps [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► essentially one of my favorite things [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► about it is that they actually define [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► over and over again people call things [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► ironic which are not and keep getting [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► called out that's not ironic is ironic [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► then finally when the final scenes [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► something ironic actually happens and [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► vendor speeds a dictionary definition [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► says now that's ironic that they should [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► teach in english classes but but there [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► is this that thing there's a love story [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► that's very strong and sort of sustained [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► and then later episodes it just seems to [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► be kind of an element fries always [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► pursuing Leela but whatever i'm david [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► said in an interview again that they [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► were intending I mean I think there's [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► some awareness of this on the show staff [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► because he said this season is going to [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► be more like the early seasons we're [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► gonna sort of go back and they'll be a [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► long arc over 2012 and 2013 which is [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► centered around kind of finally [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► resolving the leela fri relationship and [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► I don't know how that will materialize [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► we've got 24 more episodes to work with [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► that on [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► i am going to happen will prosecute that [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► 22 strongly only because there's so many [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► shows I can't get into because there are [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► deep profound season-long arcsight I [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► can't get into Game of Thrones I can't [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► get into so many of the shows because i [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► feel as though if I start now I've got a [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► lot of work ahead of me get caught up [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► and then I'm sort of obligated to watch [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► the rest of them I do like the fact that [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► futurama exist you can dip into almost [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► any individual episode and pretty much [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► get it it's true they have I mean they [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► have some mythology but not the same [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► kind of thing as any other show there's [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► not really too much of an arc you know a [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► season-long are queer fri discovers you [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► know the order of human beings were all [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► invented another planet but but there [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► you know there are there are [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► consistencies others and you know i was [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► looking through wikipedia 4 episode [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► descriptions they talk about [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► non-canonical episode was sort of [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► cracked me up because you know what is [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► canonical and a cartoon universe in [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► which anything can change but I mean [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► there are things like nibbler the Lila's [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► little istock Pat turning out to be one [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► of the Masters of the Universe very much [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► like the Masters on a [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► ah no ah in the Green Lantern's the [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► people the blue man who control the the [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► safety of the university's little [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► incredibly adorable creatures are in [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► fact the ones who who make everything [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► work in that and keep the universal [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► falling apart from john i know your [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► music made and what do you think about [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► the music on the show I I've always [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► loved it to UW noticed is that something [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► that that strikes you how they use music [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► as an element across the seasons [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► yeah I i mean III like yeah especially [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► an animated shows the music and the sort [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► of musical numbers a lot of them go over [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► the top like you know something like the [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► Simpsons family Guy do a good job with [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► it but in vitro my eye I really do like [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► it you know i mention that first episode [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► with the with with Hermes doing his [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► little little scar song and it's funny [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► that you mention and now I'm drawing a [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► blank to think of other musical examples [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► from the show that that I can actually [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► think of any right now but you but it is [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► it does seem like such a big part of the [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► of the show and the devil's hands are [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► idle playthings is one of the ones i [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► think of the most because that there was [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► almost a musical they had songs every [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► few minutes culminating with with price [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► opera his hollow opera for Leela right [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► he learns to play the the holophone or I [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► think it's not always like a recorder [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► basically but it projects Holograms and [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► he could only do it when he has the [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► devil's hands [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► yeah that's right because he needs he [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► has stupid fingers apparently no [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► surprise [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► so you know I think we've cycled through [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► quite a bit about the show what what if [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► we will be missed in this program we [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► were watching and obviously all of us at [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► some extent for I don't know how many [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► episodes of shows had no hundred and [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► twenty or something we're getting up [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► there between those seasons and you know [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► it's something that I look forward to i [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► try to watch HD episode comes out what [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► would still strikes interview about you [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► know why we're staying well we stick [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► with the show even though it's doesn't [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► have you know our episode of a series [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► long plots and things like that what [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► brings us back to watch this again and [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► again I mean it touches on so many [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► ah different things that references [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► startrack references [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► ah the twilight zone it's it and it's [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► and it's these deep references that you [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► can't you kind of need to know what's [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► going on where they're referencing very [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► specific twilight zone episodes or [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► something like that and it touches these [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► little things where like yeah I've spent [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► all this time going back and and looking [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► at these different shows and and and [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► trying to find out more about specific [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► things and you see it all reflected in [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► the show where you know just because you [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► understand these other these other [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► things and it's kind of like oh you know [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► they get it to they they are also on the [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► same wavelength and they've also spent [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► this time finding out about these [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► different weird little corners of things [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► I and appreciating them i think it's [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► rich with illusion right as if you're if [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► you're a geek [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► you can watch the show and everything [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► seems to be no there's a reference to [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► omega man there's Logan's Run there's [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► that episode there's to serve man and [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► then they even have the parody the show [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► with it and he was the name of the [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► shower now you'll notice the is it the [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► the closing door the parody of twilight [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► zone the scary Dory necessary to write [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► like imagine the world in which there's [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► a guy no week has been my balls you [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► can't read the thing and you know it's [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► just everything is everything is like [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► that yeah I'm so Andy interrupted you [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► before I'm sorry no I was just going to [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► say that I think that it's the reason [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► why keep watching us because they keep [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► that level quality way way way way up [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► they keep finding little nooks and [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► crannies wish to put extra little jokes [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► and they're not just clever witty [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► sayings but also if there's a corner of [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► the frame in which they can put in a [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► keychain that's a souvenir keychain but [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► Lela has from her trip to the moon [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► saying i'm with stupid on the moon and [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► you do have to sort of like we're [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► watching on TV is it wait whether what I [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► just missed your scroll back in your DVR [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► in order to get the joke it's it's not [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► all about just catch phrases and [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► pop-culture references and it also just [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► comes down to the fact [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► that they have well-defined characters [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► each one in that cast and they have [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► never decided to weaken that that sort [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► of formula never weekend that sauce they [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► so this is true i think of almost every [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► single said comments out there [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► eventually the producers and the writers [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► they get just sort of into a punch the [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► clock sort of mechanism where they no [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► longer understand why this line is [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► appropriate for this character but this [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► other character would never say it [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► they don't understand what the relations [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► are between these characters they're all [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► just about by the final episode by the [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► final season of seinfeld and friends [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► these are a cast these are five [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► characters who get together every once [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► in a while who don't like each other but [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► they only get it to the only get [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► together so they can they can like [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► launches fingers at each other and yeah [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► you don't understand why they keep doing [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► this why they keep meeting at a coffee [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► shop every single day just to insult [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► each other about someone are really some [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► profoundly painful moments from their [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► lives you know what why do I keep coming [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► here publicizes comment about the show [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► that way before I can't watch friends [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► anymore it so it's absolutely true but [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► with futurama not not every character is [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► designed to have designed to be this [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► really deep involved character but it is [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► always about fri who profoundly cares [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► about his friends [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► Leela who's responsible but it's also [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► kinda kinda weird herself [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► hermes who's the bureaucrat who can [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► figure out an analytical way to get [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► things done [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► the professor who was absolutely dotty [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► but creative and a fantastically mad [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► science way and then why not [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► Evan why not zoidberg that was a burger [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► mean arrived there I things I [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► environment last now things are at [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► everything is heading Zoidberg yeah i [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► mean it that significant that's a good [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► to stick the distinction why one of [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► things i hate's there's such a link to a [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► whole episode of why it's family guy [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► because at that hour talking everybody [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► trying to interrupt but one that one of [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► the running one running things on the [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► family guy is that everybody hates that [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► the daughter Meg and they don't give [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► nobody ever explains why they hate him [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► later but always just nothing but hatred [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► and incredibly caustic abuse order all [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► the time [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► Lloyd berg has that may [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► grow on futurama but somehow they write [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► it so cleverly they just feel like well [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► he's a kind of a stupid Lobster guy who [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► if you get your arm cut off one up so [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► your leg back on this place is kind of [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► stupid [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► he's always horrible smelly monster too [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► and he's it's always like yeah he says [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► he's a doctor but he doesn't understand [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► the human anatomy and he's but what kind [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► of girl are you your mouth [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► no your other mom yeah their first [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► appearance he's no he's trippin because [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► he's a sad sack and occasionally has his [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► moments of victory that's the thing is [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► occasionally he comes through and where [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► has no who's enjoyed bugs in charge now [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► but yeah that's the out i'll tell you [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► that the funny thing i think about [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► futurama is my wife is not a [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► science-fiction fan futurama is the only [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► science fiction that she tolerates she [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► loves the show we watched much of it [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► lately because we don't have actual [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► broadcast television anymore so we have [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► to go through you know buying itunes and [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► netflix and so forth to watch it more [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► but but it's it's a show i think the [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► characters like soy burger like the fact [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► that there's so much in the show that's [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► just you know they are the things that [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► are conventional but it doesn't have [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► that because doesn't take itself [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► seriously I think that's why she enjoys [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► it more so she doesn't necessarily get [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► the layers of science fiction illusion [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► because she didn't read sci-fi but she [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► the show's fun it's interesting and they [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► have characterization so it succeeds [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► there yet even though I you know I love [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► the major characters that some of the [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► minor characters i think or what makes [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► the show good because if you have if you [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► have you no more both alien newscaster [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► in there for a few seconds i'm talking [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► about about how the earth is doomed and [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► then you have his pepe sidekick you know [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► laughing it off the core you know [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► Calculon who is the robot soap opera [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► star you know people like that and then [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► of course you know you can't forget [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► lower from Omicron Persei 8 out like [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► those people you know they they can be [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► an episode for a few minutes and they [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► can kind of make they can make or break [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► it for me and you know i love bender [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► alone fry and Zoidberg but the little [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► people mix-ins head you know and like if [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► they go to the head museum and you know [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► that just the stuff they can do with all [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► the little side characters it it's what [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► can make or break [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► episode four me a lot of the time and [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► that's when keep it going as if you [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► throw in some of those it's it's like [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► any other animated show we have all [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► these little side characters and you [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► know they get their moment in the Sun [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► but that there's just such a weird [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► creepy and bizarre characters on here [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► because there are so many aliens and you [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► know with it being a thousand years in [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► the future you can pretty pretty much do [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► anything you want [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► I'm kind of like the fact that they [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► don't make any default choice in the [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► show it like nothing works the way that [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► it should now so we know when they like [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► the bungalow i love the bungalow that [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► suddenly they go to Mars it turns out [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► Mars and a half of Mars is a ranch owned [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► by anyone's family and is you know this [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► is the wrong place right that's really [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► what happened it's and of course so the [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► cattle people reading giant bugs sort of [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► ladybug like things that are marked like [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► cattle it's like nothing is certain [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► studies nothing is normal it's more like [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► they never take the easy choice of just [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► saying okay we're going to make it a [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► parking meter [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► this is gonna be a parking meter that [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► talks or there's the running gag that [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► nibbler when nibbler takes a number to [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► that he poops dark matter and that's [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► what they used to fuel the ship and one [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► of my favorite throwaway lines of as a [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► prize that walking nibbler he lands a [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► steamer and the police come to write [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► about for a citation they say pick that [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► up basis but it weighs as much as 200 [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► songs and this little little clever bits [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► like that you know you never just [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► nothing is ever quite what it seems the [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► robots have robots to help them out of [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► the greeting cards the greeting cards [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► have a chip in them that that mom of [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► moms robots can mom the evil mother [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► there she cannot activate a switch and [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► greeting cards along with all the other [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► robots on the planet must do her bidding [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► it's just that there's never was never a [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► default basic easy choice made in the [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► show maybe that's the theme of the show [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► they don't make the easy choices [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► well let's not forget the real reason we [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► all watch futurama hypnotoad rear [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► hypnotoad if the new I knew that was [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► coming it had to be said deed is under [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► his power boat is the greatest throwaway [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► character that didn't get thrown away of [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► all let's just let's just replay what [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► just happened here one person set up a [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► line the second person knew exactly what [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► he was talking about [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► bye-bye making a sound effect a [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► third-person recognize the sound effect [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► and I'm to hypnotize to speak [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► oh it was it's a great fit the best part [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► is on the notes of DVD extra one of the [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► early season dvds is everybody where [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► everyone loves hypnotoad and it's david [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► described as 22 minutes of show 45 [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► minutes of payoff it's just tiptoed [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► staring with some various dialogue and [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► so for that comes we have to watch the [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► whole thing only you can fast-forward [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► through you missed some of the dialogue [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► but the most popular show on television [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► everybody loves hypnotoad but that's not [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► all that's what's great about the show [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► is like they can throw in the thing [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► that's the most absurd thing in the [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► world that you have these little [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► romantic situations it it doesn't isn't [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► funny you know one thing we didn't talk [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► about how sort of hilarious but she'll [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► like this the voice talent I mean they [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► have some of the best voice talent any [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► show that's ever been assembled I think [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► you got Billy West whose do the original [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► who are was original Stimpy and then had [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► to rent after John quickly Lucy was cut [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► from Ren Stimpy show John Billy West is [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► done you know hundred million voices [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► plus the long run the Howard Stern Show [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► and he's got his own band these [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► fascinating guy really naughty fell out [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► but he's one of the best voice talents [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► you got film are the green lantern and [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► samurai Jack's voice and Trust McNeil [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► who is the voice of a million million [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► women on the show and on any damage so I [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► think you listen to their stress [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► somewhere [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► um maybe five anybody have favorite [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► voices from the show the Eagle like [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► that's what I really listening for like [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► frank welker or someone like that it's [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► it's it's if it's one it has to be [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► sapper and again but we do that all the [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► dominoes will fall over like a house of [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► cards it's really wet right he's doing [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► exactly and again right hey guess what [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► you can you're right you could totally [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► hear Phil Hartman voice doing that [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► character [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► it's best ship you to write to him when [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► up you know it's funny to you get [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► Katie's the galleries of major you know [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► she's a major sitcom star and she she's [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► doing one voice in the show and she's [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► been involved all along Lauren Tom who [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► does a lot of animation voice but she [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► comes in and does a nice with anyone and [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► a few other voices for it some kind of [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► just a or john dimaggio so here's the [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► thing you find out when you actually are [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► in the room with john dimaggio the role [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► of bender which you think of as absurd [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► larger-than-life ridiculous thing it was [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► written for john dimaggio that was not a [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► joke he is bender he is the flash [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► version of vendor so the episode of [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► futurama in which bender is reverting to [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► the term investor says I've discovered a [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► way to reverse internal the process and [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► what demon arrival of returns bender [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► from a in this fantasy scene from a [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► robot into a human that's pretty much [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► what happened the other way around to [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► make john dimaggio into vendor not much [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► doubt there's a there's a great video on [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► YouTube where this Comic Con has [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► collected a bunch of voice actors from [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► different TV shows including Billy West [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► and John DiMaggio and I handful of other [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► people and they go they have they have [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► the script of the first Star Wars movie [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► of episode 4 and they're going through [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► descriptive episode 4 with each of the [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► voice actors doing different voices and [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► in each different scene they change all [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► the voices so they're doing and they're [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► doing the ender there don't appear right [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► it's it's amazing they do fri the design [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► berg they then it and it's the whole [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► movie so it's like an hour and a half [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► and it will just go I'll just blow your [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► mind it's it's unbelievable that is [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► perfect [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► well gentlemen I think we've reached the [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► end of the time it's time to put our [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► quarters on the string into the suicide [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► booth and and sign off so any any final [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► any parting words anyone good news [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► everybody it's time to go to sleep [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► let's go [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► I'll conclude on hulu the broadcast day [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► whenever you're listening to the show by [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► thank you everyone thank you Andy [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► anarkali broken the curse and we've been [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► on a podcast together [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► longmate sale we've broken one curse and [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► started a new like I got Dean it's well [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► past your bedtime and i think i think [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► it's time to brush your teeth thanks for [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► being on the shaft thanks for having me [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► pleasure i know your love for the [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► hypnotoad true at all and john hope will [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► be back on the copper for future [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► episodes of things that are not futurama [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► thanks for being with us if you have [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► people and all be on again it'll it'll [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► happen and thank you dear listeners tell [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► us what you like about futurama in the [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► comments and the speed back i'm glenn [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► fleischmann thank you for listening to [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► this episode of the incomparable [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]