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Thanks to the Talking Simpsons Network hitting its $15000 goal, Talking Futurama is now a regular monthly thing! And we're kicking off this newest run of the miniseries with the horniest installment of the show to date. Listen in as we explore the importance of good fundamentals in women's basketball, learn about the classic dirty (and extremely offensive) joke this episode is based on, and discuss the wonderful Bea Arthur. All this and more in our in-depth podcast all about the Emmy-losing premiere of Futurama's third production season!

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Declan Kennedy

Side-note, my wife is American and when she asked me how to pronounce the Australian city "Cairns" correctly I told her to say it how Americans say Cannes

Max Winters

“Zog is just Bender”. The antenna on his crown really gives it away.

Patrick McClafferty

Wonder if the flying a bistro line is a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference

Angel Young

As a woman listener, when you two got to the sex talk, I laughed so hard. Probably a commentary on how unless you study intercourse or sexual health, we are made to pretend we know all about sex to get by because it's still a very taboo topic in 2021. Without going too much into it for Henry, women give birth out of that same place they do snou snou and that all you need to know. 🤣😂🤣😂 Also based on context clues with the more horny episodes, I think Zapp is smaller than Fry but not by much.

SomeBloke

They're definitely trying to have their cake and eat it too, but I sometimes wonder if they dialed up the "women be shopping" jokes as part of a deliberate Star Trek parody, with contemporary bad standup observations taking the place of 1960s versions of gender essentialism that were always cropping up in those scripts. With the presence of Zapp and the plot point about a giant computer running the civilization that I swear was in every other episode of the original series, the whole episode is kind of an extended riff on the usual way those episodes went, with death by snoo-snoo being the ultimate reversal on the usual "Kirk seduces the guest star of the week" beat. Granted, as you point out this is such typical SF plotting I might be reading too much into it.

count

On Paper Mario chat, there was actually a really good indie game called Bug Fables which is hugely inspired by TTYD and I highly recommend it! I was expecting it to be mechanically sound but without much to grab onto beyond that like a lot of indie homage titles can unfortunately end up, but the writing and characters are really fun too. I think it's on Switch and Steam.

Tyler

Affleck's girlfriend was Ana De Armas, the star of Knives Out

Paul

I never put it together that they hired Dorothy to play the Wizard of Oz til now.

is marcy still burning

I feel the need to say this just so no one's mixed up, Aaron Ehazs is NOT one of the co-creators of Avatar, he was just a writer. He's also apparently a sexist creep who lead a toxic workplace at Riot games and his new studio Wonderstrum. You did cover this in the mission hill episode he wrote but got the details mixed up bringing him up here. I just don't want anyone conflating Ehazs' actions with the actual Avatar duo.

ToonJay723

I remember when I first watched Futurama on Netflix in 2011, and they had the episodes in production order. Years later they changed it to broadcast order and the same with Hulu. They had it right the first time, and then they decided to screw it up.

OceanMan

I was disappointed that they didn’t do a callback to Love’s Labours Lost In Space during Zapp’s performance of Lola by having him pronounce the word champagne like “sham-pag-un” again

Joe Hodgson

This is such a fantastically, quotable, episode of Futurama. Listening to this made me quite nostalgic for my college years when Futurama quotes were aplenty among my friends and I. This episode especially is just such a real "joke factory" and the material toes the line of cringe, similar to all of the vegetarian jokes in the poppler episode, only this time it makes sure not to really cross any lines. This one is definitely less interested in being mean to anyone other than Zap and Fry as I get the sense that a room of male writers were at least fearful of angering an entire gender. They apparently had little concern for vegetarians though. I'm very much looking forward to this once-a-month treat going forward!

crystalhearts

Oh man. This episode is funny but it is so... aggressively a journey into what a bunch of 90s writers room men thought about sex and gender.

Andrew Bouvier

At the start you mentioned how Nibbler ate a scuba diver... It was a blind man... The ball has sunglasses and one of those canes that the blind/seeing impaired use.

Adam Voyde

Crotch Pounding Foley would be a great gimmick name if any of Cactus Jack's kids follow him into wrestling. Here all week.

John Harrison

Maybe it's the degenerate in me talking but I always thought the Amazonians were lesbians whose only use for males were for breeding stock, and practiced infanticide on male new borns. That's part of the 'horror' of their society.

Casey Holmes

In 2004 when I was in college I picked up "Has Been" by William Shatner thinking it would be great for a goof and found a shockingly good album. The amount of talent on it is absurd and Henry Rollins tells a really funny story on one of his speaking albums about it.

Sabrina

I never hear that William Shatner performance until now and now I am obsessed. I rewound it... several times to listen to it again. I could look up the actual performance but something about hearing you guys react to it makes it even funnier.

DrKarate

I think y'all had blinders on with the bowsette thing, that who trend was at least 50% hornier

ShyRanger

Hey Bob, sorry but I gotta disagree with you on something. You said everyone like Thousand Year Door the most, and I actually do not I still like the first Paper Mario the most. I say this as someone who's beaten but at least 20 times, including multiple 100% playthroughs. While TTYD has a better story and characters, I dislike that it's battle system has SO much luck to it. Your characters can get hit by random falling things, even confused, and it's all about luck, punishing you for nothing. Also maybe it's just because it's a disk-based game but the loading time between rooms is noticeably larger so time is more wasted. These two factors make it so, while I still love TTYD, I basically have to force and commit myself to replaying it, whereas I literally can just play and beat the first Paper Mario on impulse whenever I want.

Dave Dalrymple

I remember that ReBOOT did a parody of Shatner's "Rocket Man" back in 1995 (long before the show entered its dark and gritty phase.)

notsmohqe

Henry i gotta ask why you think the Kinks song “Lola” is “transphobic”? it doesn’t read that way at all to me and, if anything, promotes the idea of gender fluidity. “Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. / It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world except for Lola.” if you have reasons, please share

bakarina

"so amy what do you want to do now" *whisper* "djj mm ehe ehe ehe achu aschu h he hj j chu chaw gammon petit he hj"