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Talking Futurama - Roswell That Ends Well with Nina Matsumoto (Patreon)

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2022-07-11 04:01:01
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After four years of podcasting about Futurama, we've finally reached what may be its greatest episode of all time. (But please don't go anywhere.) And to celebrate the occasion, we welcome back friend/wife of the show, Nina Matsumoto! In this Back to the Future-style adventure, the Planet Express crew finds themselves stuck in 1947 within the sleepy desert town of Roswell, New Mexico—and with only 24 hours to make it back to the 31st Century. Will they escape, or be forced to live in a pre-microwave era? And what are the ramifications of Fry doing the nasty in the pasty? Listen in to find out, and learn important facts about Jim Nabors!

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PETER AVANZINO

As a director on Futurama (though not the director of this excellent episode) I think I have something of value to add to this discussion. You should warm your pizza up in a cast iron pan over low heat. It just takes 5 minutes or so, and it really crisps the pizza up while warming it. We’ve even started doing this with the fresh pizza before eating it, as well as doing it the next day. Give it a try.

Tyler

I already know Jim Nabors is Way Cool. What fact could be more important than that?

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Having not seen Deep Space Nine, I always associated this episode partly with TOS' "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" where the crew accidentally travels back through time and is spotted by the government, and spends the episode trying to correct the paradoxes/timeline changes before going back to the present. I'm sure it still served as SOME inspiration, but obviously this borrows heavily from Little Green Men (and the TNG episode as well). -- The first time I watched this episode I couldn't believe that they went *there* with Fry and his grandmother, and I love just how flippant Farnsworth becomes with damaging the timeline after that point. Plus, there's just so many good and memorable bits in this episode, even aside from this, such as the "then don't not do it" and "existing is basically all I do" that it MIGHT be my favourite or at least most-quoted single episode of the show. Like Nina, I hadn't really considered what IS my favourite episode before, but this is easily in the top 5.

Joe Hodgson

I am in agreement that this is the best episode of Futurama. The shocking nature of the twist was definitely a "I can't believe they did that!" moment upon the first viewing. It's why I always associate it with a fellow 2001 episode of South Park, "Scott Tenorman Must Die." Both episodes feature a big "Holy shit" moment in them with lasting repercussions, but this episode is far better than the South Park one because it holds up on repeat viewings while the Scott Tenorman twist is severely diluted. I totally understand why David Cohen, and I think others, swore off doing more time travel episodes after this one, a rule they obviously broke repeatedly, because it's hard to top this. It's just such a clever, and humorous, application of time travel (even if one could argue it's just an escalation of Marty and his mother from BTTF) and this episode is still my go-to Futurama episode if I just feel like watching an episode. And you're all doing it wrong. The best way to prepare popcorn is with a stove top popcorn popper. Just toss it on a burner, throw in some vegetable oil, add the kernels, and you have freshly popped popcorn that comes out at the right consistency and texture in about 3 minutes. I barely use my microwave as a result. And as someone who formerly had one of those over-the-range microwave you mount above your stove, I will say they're nice while they work, but fucking suck when they break. I went through 4 of them in my old condo and have thus sworn them off forever because installing them is such a pain in the ass. I now have a dedicated on-the-wall cabinet to stuff a cheap, countertop, microwave into and it's perfect.

Dave Dalrymple

As the first movie shows, there's not just one Bender in the past...

Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo

I am one of those retro freaks who has an old TV. Connecting it to a modern TV really hurts my eyes due these old systems not being meant to be played on a giant 60 inch TV. Also, when I was a kid. I loved "The Stupids" it was goofy fun that was better than it should have been. This episode felt like a personal attack, haha. What I really wanted to say was stovetop popcorn is amazing. I suggest cooking it in coconut oil. Then covering the popcorn in Ghee (clarified butter) and tossing it in a mix of salt, turmeric, and cayenne pepper. It's basically movie theater popcorn at that point. Finger lickin' good as Enis would say.

Daran

A large percentage of homes in my dad's town in NE Pennsylvania are Sears Kit Houses. His is a modified Albion-style home. His garage is also built out of retired Lehigh Valley Railroad boxcars.

Blandon

Star Wars Rebels gets into some time travel shenanigans, mostly to explain why the Jedi Ezra wasn't part of the Rebellion.

Grayson Walsh

Y’all ended up uploading this on my birthday and I could not asked for a better gift for my big 21st with one of my favorite episodes got my futurama shirt all ready to enjoy such a great episode thank y’all so much

Kat Heagberg

My favorite podcast covering what IS objectively the best episode of Futurama (not my personal absolute favorite, but I admit it is the best) and a Nina appearance to boot? What a fabulous start to the week!

Graeme Black Robinson

I admit I haven't rewatched this in a while, but is Enos ever referred to as Enos Fry? Isn't it possible that he's Fry's maternal grandfather, which would explain the Yancy inconsistency? After all, in typical cartoon fashion, Fry's mom looks just like him and therefore Enos. Also, hearing you mention Michaels Ian Black and Showalter has me hoping that you'll eventually cover their highly underrated show Stella for a What a Cartoon April Fool's episode one day. Also, thank you Nina for standing up for Mystery Men. Great movie. And a less-problematic (arguably?) "master of accents" performance from Hank Azaria

Andrew Bouvier

I can't be 100% sure, but I THINK Enos's order of a "pie with a fried egg on it" is a slight reference to how in northern New England, especially Vermont, it's actually tradition to serve warm apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese on it. There's even one of those silly, superfluous state "laws" about it: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/DOCS/2000/ACTS/ACT015.HTM

Drew Frisbie

This is hands down my favorite episode, for most episodes I do a quick rewatch to jog my memory but for this one it was not needed, I’ve watched this episode so many times it’s singed in my brain! So glad it’s finally been covered!

littleterr0r

Nina, your dad should go to the annual UFO Festival in McMinnville, Oregon. I went one year and it was out of this world! https://ufofest.com/

John-Charles Holmes

Another excellent episode! However— for how much you guys go deep into EVERY joke in an episode, I'm surprised none of y'all caught (or at least mentioned/explained) the "pick up the pieces/take five" gag in the first act. The last time I watched this episode, my fiance was in the room who had actually never seen it before. When Leela delivered that line, she started chuckling and I had to pause and ask what was so funny. She has somewhat of a background in jazz piano and she explained to me that both Pick Up the Pieces and Take Five are common jazz standards and Leela just prattling them off was one of those "if you know, you know" kind of jokes. Considering Futurama is truly fires off a joke every second its on screen, I wasn't surprised to hear that there was a quick snippet of casual musical wordplay that I had missed after all the years of rewatching.

Kevin Mayo

Great podcast! All the Star Trek discussion makes me want to see Nina lead a Talking Trek spinoff.

Rhomega

For a long time, I missed the clues that Enos was gay. He's asking about dating women because he sees it more of a social obligation than something he actually wants to do, and would rather just stay single for a while. He looks at the next picture of the calendar because he's curious about what the other calendar pictures are.

SomeBloke

I have to respectfully disagree with Henry’s new timeline theory. In “The Day the Earth Stood Stupid” from slightly earlier in this same production season (possibly because they knew this was coming), it was already established that Fry singularly lacks a delta brain wave, which is later established as being the product of his temporal paradox descent. This suggests a closed timeline in which Fry was always going to become his own grandfather, which he already was. This is also consistent with later time travel episodes that also feature closed loops (and of course in one later episode we find out the entire universe resets - meaning time itself is one big loop). I think the writers favored this version of time travel because it’s screwier to get your head around initially, *but* has a certain mathematical logic to it similar to cyclic structures.

Devin Hoffarth

So a thought occurs and it just came to me now: if we assume this to be a closed timeloop scenario (which it is why else would Nibbler have sent Fry to the future if Fry hadn't always had his anti-brain brainwaves) then Fry's dad at some point SHOULD have mentioned that his own father died in an atomic blast. You'd think Fry would have heard this and seen his grandpa get blown away by an A-bomb and start to think something was up. I mean he IS an idiot so he might've just forgot or not thought about it so that's always a possibility. Good podcast! That Nina guest is real great! Ya ought to marry her and raise a Parrot together!

Seth Short

I think the name you're looking for at 1:23:10 in regards to the architecture/design is "Googie".

trasparenti

This is a great episode for many many reasons but one underrated factor is that it includes some of my all-time favorite Farnsworth exclamations: the "wooo" when they're looking at the ovens and "wheeee!" when they find Bender's head always make me laugh out loud