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Talking Futurama - Time Keeps on Slippin' (Patreon)

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2022-02-14 05:00:03
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This month, we're covering one of the all-time fan-favorite episodes—and heck, it gave us Space Jam 2 two decades before Warner Bros. did! When a basketball game (with no stakes) against the villainous Globetrotters leads to existence-threatening time skips, Fry finds himself married to and divorced from Leela with no memories of how he got her to fall for him in the first place. Can he find out before this chronological menace sends everyone to their graves? And will Bender ever achieve his dream of becoming a Globetrotter? Cook up a batch of boat eggs and get ready for another great podcast!

Note: Hulu's Futurama reboot was announced three weeks after we recorded this episode. We'll talk all about it on this month's episode of Talk to the Audience!

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Dylan Mansfield

Re: Gilligan’s Island, there definitely were pitches for a movie reboot in the 1990s. There’s a story that Charlie Kaufman of all people pitched a version where the twist was that all the islanders slowly go insane and begin eating each other. Warner Bros. loved it, but creator Sherwood Schwartz thought it was disgusting and turned it down. James Gunn wanted to resurrect the concept years later with Kaufman, but Schwartz’s estate said no fun allowed and cut all plans.

Harry Thornton

Since you two were so surprised by the Space Jam reference, you didn't pick up on the second layer of reference going on there: Farnsworth wanting to make "Atomic Supermen" is also the goal of Bela Lugosi's character in Bride of the Monster, the lesser-known sci-fi film Ed Wood directed before the more famous Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Joe Hodgson

I definitely only knew the Harlem Globetrotters from the often played "When I grow up, I want to be a Harlem Globetrotter!" commercial and the Scooby Doo Movies. That was just part of summertime viewing on television and I know the Globetrotters made multiple appearances. None were as good as their appearance on TV Funhouse. I like the slightly jokey ending, but I do wish Bender whistling the Globetrotter theme didn't occur twice. It should have been reserved for the end. And I think it works for me because Fry spends a lot of this episode just being the worst potential romantic partner. I won't go so far as to say he's detestable, but I can just remember so many instances in high school where someone was hung up on a girl (I never encountered the inverse) who just wasn't interested and then every nice gesture they make towards that person is just a bid to get them to go out with them. As a viewer, I pity Fry throughout this episode, but I'm not rooting for him, and the ending is constructed well because it gives me a chance to laugh at his misfortune, but also makes me feel bad for him and I think that's the kind of conflict Ken Keeler thrives on with his writing.

Shaxbert

That final Sweet Georgia Brown whistle 1,000% works on me

JJMArtwork

The oddest celebrity sighting happened to me when I was studying in Florence Italy. Our school group arrived at a museum for a tour, and the guide told us the previously scheduled tour was late. It was the Harlem Globetrotters in full basketball gear. They join our group of 20 students. It was a fun experience and they were all very nice people.

Daran

Cool to hear Bob likes Jose on YouTube. Jose's Malcolm in the Middle retrospective was really good.

RWOB

Tugging my collar at the Dimaggio commentary stuff given recent events :D

Nick Grayson

You’ll probably correct it later in the episode and I hate being *that* guy but it was THUNDERball on UCB

glowstickjuice

I was so disconnected from basketball as a kid, I fully thought the Harlem Globetrotters were fictional until I was like 10. I only saw them on Scooby-Doo before this Futurama episode aired and then my parents explained they were real. I also love the detail that Ken Keeler doesn't give a shit about basketball and still came up with this. He's becoming my favorite writer as the podcast goes on.

Matty

Was this episode not shown on Adult swim as much? I swear I've seen every episode of the Fox run at least a dozen times but I have barely any memory of this episode.

Mark Lee Marcheschi

Perhaps people brought it up in the Bending in the Wind comment sections, I didn't get the dislike of hoe Bender was a sudden kissass of them since he does it say with Elsar, Calculon, and here. But I agree with that he should of had some line of excitement for them in act 1.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

The episode of the New Scooby Doo Movies with the Harlem Globetrotters is something I saw a lot as a kid, and I actually rewatched it on Halloween night in 2020 with a couple of friends - it is HILARIOUS. While most of those Scooby "movies" are inherently campy and kind of half-assed, this one had some truly bizarre moments - my favourite of which is a bit where one of the culprits they're following walks on their hands as they trail them, and it's pointed out by the gang, but it's never explained and I couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity of it. -- Incidentally, I didn't actually know any REAL information about the Globetrotters until this podcast, so thanks for the infotainment

Stephen C. Nedell

I was a graduate student at IU Bloomington (Russian Studies and Library Science, by the way--I'm extra edumacated), home of Bobby Knight, in the late 90s. And he was infamous on campus for being a thug and bully. At the time he was increasingly on thin ice with the administration for his terrible behavior. I personally felt that he was a pathetic hasbeen who hadn't won a championship or even gotten far in the playoffs for over a decade. He wasn't worth the drama. Finally administration told him he had one last chance and then he'd be fired. Not surprisingly within less than a month I think he assaulted a student (not a player) and was finally canned. What was extra glorious was the very next year the new coach (a person of color no less!) took the Hoosiers all the way to the NCAA Championship and just barely lost. That playoff also was the only time I have ever given the smallest damn about college basketball.

Mark Lee Marcheschi

And I just got a Facebook ad for the Harlem Globetrotters coming to my city, not a coincidence I think.