Talking Futurama - Where No Fan Has Gone Before (With Andrew Jupin)
Added 2023-09-11 04:00:01 +0000 UTCJourney back with us to the year 2002, when one short-lived sci-fi TV series paid homage to another short-lived TV series! That's right, this month we're looking at the Futurama episode that reunited the entire Star Trek cast—except James Doohan (sick/disgruntled) and DeForest Kelley (dead)—for an all-star tribute to the classic TV show that shaped and warped so many minds.
And We Hate Movies' Andrew Jupin (check out the We Hate Movies Patreon for their Star Trek podcast series, The Nexus) is along for the ride to help us identify the many, many Trek references housed within this 22-minute chunk of television. So sit back and listen in as we celebrate this Star Trek reunion that's way more entertaining that a 1992 CD-ROM adventure game!
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This is one of the best homage style episodes ever produced because it's immensely entertaining for fans of the property being paid homage without alienating the non-fans. I've never watched a minute of Star Trek content in my life, it and James Bond are probably two of my biggest pop culture blind spots, but I love this episode. And it certainly helps that a lot of Star Trek can be absorbed by osmosis since so many references to it exist in other media, many of which I had encountered before this episode without knowing they were a reference to Star Trek.
Joe Hodgson
2023-09-19 16:38:14 +0000 UTCThanks a bunch!
Bob Mackey
2023-09-16 19:34:24 +0000 UTCI cannot believe I've listened to every Futurama podcast you guys have put out since last month. I guess I'll move to KOTH or Mission Hill now. 🤷
Larry Jester
2023-09-15 23:00:53 +0000 UTCCompletely caught up with the entirety of the free feed, seems right to start up the Patreon subscription for this episode. Show is great, gents!
WCW Worldwide
2023-09-15 16:31:14 +0000 UTCGoing to use this episode to show off probably my best find in the 10 years or so I've been archiving old TV recordings, a PAL UMATIC first generation recording of William Shatner singing Rocket Man. Unless someone finds the original master tape this is as good as it will ever look https://archive.org/details/william-shatner-rocket-man
Rhys
2023-09-15 01:22:06 +0000 UTCDenny Crane, 'nuf said! “Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.” -Shatner kills it in every role
mavrick
2023-09-12 21:38:55 +0000 UTCProbably worth mentioning that David Goodman was President of the WGA and head of the current negotiating committee as well.
Geoff Tock
2023-09-12 21:27:58 +0000 UTCIs Layne Stanley an original creation like Rickey Rouse or Monald Muck?
SlothIsLegend
2023-09-12 20:18:21 +0000 UTCGreat episode with great guest. I will note that for years I thought 'Mary Sue' was a reference to a sincere Star Trek fan character, which was not the case - it was written as a parody of those exact types of horrible self-insert stories. Ironic that the term would become synonymous with the exact thing it was goofing on.
Sean Riley
2023-09-12 20:03:52 +0000 UTCNow it's Abstract Homer's time to shine! As a born-and-bred Welshman, seeing Wales and even hearing the Welsh language in the show in the early 2000s was wild. Also, as someone who can speak some basic Welsh, I want to specifically give David Herman props for his not-awful pronunciation of something that probably looked like gibberish to him in the script. He even managed to hit the "ch" sound in "chwil"!
abstract homer
2023-09-12 17:19:08 +0000 UTCI’ve never seen Detours, obviously, but the three Robot Chicken Star Wars specials that were actually made were pretty good. Or, they’re at least more consistent than the family guy Star Wars spoofs, which were clearly being made out of obligation after the first one.
Lockerus
2023-09-12 15:12:54 +0000 UTCP.S. Love the podcast! 😁
To Boldly Joe... Moore - he,him
2023-09-12 10:23:41 +0000 UTCThis episode is a perfect example for how to laugh WITH a franchise and its fanbase rather than AT it. 🙂
To Boldly Joe... Moore - he,him
2023-09-12 10:22:52 +0000 UTCI'm not a major fan of Star Trek, so I'm just going to say: DSN > TNG (It holds up better too!)
Andrew O.
2023-09-11 22:33:01 +0000 UTCRevisiting this as an adult who has seen LOADS more Star Trek than I had as a kid, I did find it kind of odd that Fry is such a TOS fan compared to TOS since he was born in 74 and would've been 12-13 when TNG started. Of course the reason he loves TOS is just because of the older Gen X writers working through their own nerdom of the original show. That being said, it's a GREAT episode, even with Shatner still not being a very good voice actor. It's a real shame they weren't able to get James Doohan, and if it's only because of his agent, that's a damn shame (but I do have to wonder if it was related to health concerns).
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2023-09-11 20:30:05 +0000 UTCDid anyone watch Star Trek Continues on You Tube, its actually really great and Kirk is played by Vic Mignogna, Edward from Fullmetal Alchemists
Michael Branson
2023-09-11 20:05:56 +0000 UTCSince he was missing from the episode, I have to brag that I was fortunate enough to meet James Doohan briefly in real life. When I was a senior in high-school, I went to see "Star Trek Generations" on opening night. My whole family were huge Star Trek fans, which at the time was TOS and TNG on top of the movies. I went with my mother, my twin brother, and another friend name Shawn. For the special occasion, we had purchased tickets to see the film at a prestige movie theater in Phoenix called the Cine Capri which used to show 70mm revival prints of films (for instance, I saw a revival of Lawrence of Arabia there) as well as new releases. It only had one screen as I recall. My brother and I like to sit in the very front row of any movie we attended at the time so we could stretch our legs out, but my mother and Shawn opted to sit more towards the middle of the theater. When my brother and I got to the front, we saw two seats right at the center had masking tape across them. No big deal, I figured the seats were broken or something, it was a classic theater after all, and my bother and I sat on each side of the "broken seats." The theater eventually completely filled, and right before the previews were to start, the manager came to the front and said he has a big surprise for us, and JAMES DOOHAN came out and they broke the tape and he and his handler sat right next to me and my brother for a few minutes! James right next to me! I remember hearing Shawn scream "NO!" from the middle of the theater when I shook James Doohan's hand. He was so nice! Looked exactly like he did from the movie. He said he hoped we enjoyed the movie, and that he had more stops to make, and he left right before they started the movie. I have no idea why he was in Phoenix for the premier (as far as I know he had no connection to the city), or how many theaters he was going to that day (we were at the late showing), but it is something I'll always remember. I did notice that he was missing the end of his right middle finger, which I later learned he lost as part of the D-Day invasion on Juno Beach. What an amazing man!
Bryan Field
2023-09-11 18:21:21 +0000 UTCThe ship that launches out the Trek episodes and movies to Omega-3 is the Eagle Transporter from another cult sci-fi series, Gerry Anderson's Space:1999 from the UK. It and Anderson's other shows were never popular in America, so it's a fairly deep cut by US nerd culture standards. But they're still worth looking into, if just for their influence on the stuff you two enjoy: They were very popular and influential in Japan, and Hideaki Anno in particular is a huge fan of his work. References are peppered all over Evangelion as shown in this great YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB12HNNDDcc There's an added layer to the "Khan knows who Chekov is" goof that surprised me: They gave the Wrath of Khan script to a few people for fact-checking, including Walter Koenig. He knew he wasn't in the episode with Khan, but just didn't tell them to correct it because he wanted to act in a scene with Ricardo Montalban. It's a real get, because (if I'm not mistaken) he's the only one of the TOS cast who appears alongside him onscreen in Wrath of Khan, for everyone else it's just through video screens.
Harry Thornton
2023-09-11 14:31:33 +0000 UTCAlso need mark hamill with what the hell is going on face for rocket man
Cossover
2023-09-11 12:32:43 +0000 UTC
