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