Talking Futurama - The 30% Iron Chef
Added 2022-10-10 04:00:04 +0000 UTCWe've reached the end of Futurama production season three! ...Even though this one landed at the end of broadcast season four. (Long before this point, we stopped asking questions about Fox's air order.) Discover the secret of cilantro and how well this episode nails its source material on this weeks PODCASTUUUUU!
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When Gus said he was able to get a dinner reservation when he was a senator, I took that to mean he was a senator in the same alternate timeline where he was able to get a reservation, not in this timeline where he is neither a senator nor able to get a reservation
Gavi Raab
2022-10-20 15:46:58 +0000 UTCExcited to listen to this, incredible to think Emril had his own sitcom, did anyone watch that stuff. Do you think Elzar comes back in the re-boot?
Matt Fish
2022-10-18 20:36:12 +0000 UTCBob thinks haggis is just a plate of guts? Lol
YancySr
2022-10-13 17:56:19 +0000 UTCI didn't even write in my notes that "Mortron" was a pun on "Morton," because I thought it was too obvious and I didn't want to be tedious (plus I think we've seen that label before). So when Henry said it was a reference to Lew Morton (which it also is), I stuck to my guns on not being tedious. #MortonGate
Bob Mackey
2022-10-13 04:21:27 +0000 UTCI think we were just confused because Henry said it's a reference to Lew Morton
nina matsumoto
2022-10-13 03:43:36 +0000 UTCThe strong nuclear force is one of the four fundamental forces (along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak nuclear force). Atomic nuclei are made of positively charged protons and neutral neutrons. Since the protons all have the same charge, they would naturally repell each other and blow the atom apart. The strong force is what counteracts this and holds it together.
Blandon
2022-10-12 15:41:13 +0000 UTCYou guys mentioning Kif made me realize how much I've missed him so I'm excited to see the next episode.
littleterr0r
2022-10-12 04:15:57 +0000 UTCJustice for Bob’s opinion about Ratatouille, which I share. It was a bad movie then, and it’s a bad movie now.
Krystal
2022-10-12 01:30:32 +0000 UTCAs someone who's spent a lot of time in Eugene, Oregon that was definitely my favorite joke of the show.
littleterr0r
2022-10-12 00:56:28 +0000 UTCI had TOTALLY forgotten about Dave Herman's third act Japanese caricature voice and just... WOW. It's disappointing when the show dips into racist crap like this, as it was with Billy West playing Amy's dad and the questionable depiction of the native Martians in "Where the Buggalo Roam," but at least it's mostly contained to the end of the episode here
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2022-10-11 20:59:59 +0000 UTCAh yes, Bender: the Sanji of the Planet Express crew...
Graeme Black Robinson
2022-10-11 17:40:54 +0000 UTCIt was one of those times where I didn't explain the joke because it seemed very obvious. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2022-10-10 23:57:55 +0000 UTCI think it’s a twofer
Peter Hanneman
2022-10-10 21:36:01 +0000 UTCI think a potential origin of helmut spargel’s name is former German chancellor helmut kohl whose last name means cabbage. Spargel is the German word for asparagus. As mentioned elsewhere, Wolfgang puck seems to be the inspiration.
Peter Hanneman
2022-10-10 21:35:44 +0000 UTCThe label is a clear parody of Morton Salt too
nina matsumoto
2022-10-10 21:33:59 +0000 UTCI thought mortron salt was just literally a reference to "Morton Salt" with the famous Salt Girl mascot
Micah
2022-10-10 21:16:34 +0000 UTCThis episode is the perfect example for how even subpar Futurama in this era is still pretty damn entertaining. Even the comically low stakes B plot has plenty of laughs in it. The entire A plot is all about just subverting expectations with its jokes to the point that the first time I watched it I was just waiting for the joke when Farnsworth announced the secret ingredient was water, "Water and...?!"
Joe Hodgson
2022-10-10 20:05:28 +0000 UTC
