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Hey, what is going on everybody out there in podcast world? I am
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Dando, of course, and I am just here with a quick message to
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let you all know that since we gave you an episode of four Finger discount
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earlier in the week, the usual Thursday show is Nellingham be here. We
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gave you the Will Washington review of US Summer four two back on Monday.
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So instead of giving you another episode of four Finger Discounts today, we thought
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we give you something extra special, a little bonus Patreon podcast. We thought
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we chug out an episode of our beloved Tales of Future Ama podcast that you
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reviews that we've done, including all the movie Guide podcasts as well. But
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we're almost at the end out of season two a Futurama, so I'm going
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to throw you out there today an episode called Raging Bender, where Bender becomes
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the professional wrestler, one that I hold very near and dear to my heart.
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I absolutely love this episode, so I hope you enjoy a review of
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Raging Bender. But yes, if you want to support us, you can
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give you guys a heads up. That's why you are not getting an episode
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normally Patreon exclusive review of Raging Bender from Tales of Futurama. Thank you all
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of you. I hope you enjoy our review of Raging Bender and stay tuned
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for next week when we return to our usual programming here on the four Finger
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discoun Network. See you, guys, I'm going to open a file you
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Bender. Do you know who that was? Right? The Mask Unit?
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You knocked them out cold, John. I'm the commissioner of our commit roll
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by Fighting. I'm a Kannasura jerks who pick fights in movie theaters and you're
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the biggest I've ever said. You should see me at funerals, kid.
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I want you in the Ultimate Robot Fighting League. Ultimate robot fighting sounds pleasant
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road do it? Good news everyone, I'm back baby, Welcome to Tales
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of Futuramaware. This week we are going to view a viewing an episode that
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really hit home for me as a wrestling fan of I've always absolutely adored this
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episode of Futurama. It is a raging bender. I am Dando and I
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am guy not as much of a wrestling connoisseur as my man Dando, but
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still had a bit of a blast with this episode because, oh look,
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anytime the robots a big in the hell out of one another, it's generally
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gonna be a good time. Robot Wars was one of my favorite shows as
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a kid. Had It was hosted by the guy who used to be on
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Red Dwarf, and it was a Craig. Charles Craig. That's the one.
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Yeah, Yeah, what a show fucking robot was. It was just
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it was so fun. It was so ridiculous. You think that, I
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mean, they're still doing it. I think it's just called like bot Wars
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now or something that thing on Netflix or something the other day. But it's
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so absurd, but alway, still love. The most was just the absolute
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disdain from the kids once they've had their robots destroyed, like either they were
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like so sad or just really angry. I'm always curious about the kind of
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kid who would create a fighting robot. I had a friend who used to
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do robot wars here in Jeelan. They said, there's like a little tournament
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that used to do and I'm thinking his name was Robert. Robert Stott was
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his name. I said, Robert, how long in between fights? He
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goes, oh, no, a couple of months. I'm like, imagine
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spending months building this robot and it's just destroyed in a minute. Jesus.
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But coming up with coming up with the cool ways to destroy things, like
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the really creative robots used to like flip them over and and like stabbing while
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was like coming down from the mid air and stuff, And it's like,
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how do you create this ship? You know, you're either in awa of
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that kind of intellect or terrified of that kind of psychology. What are they
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going to be coming when they're older? Yeah, exactly. But this episode
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here, as I said as a wrestling fan, there's a fantastic parody of
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professional wrestling. I know they were going for the UFC with the title the
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Ultimate Robot Fighting Championship. But this is this is professional wrestling. But even
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the little things. I love the little things, like one of the fans
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had a bend of three sixteen shirt on a reference to Steven even robot Mania
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had the wrestle Mania font. Just little things like that where they really paid
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attention. Because usually when professional wrestling gets brought up or mocked or parodied in
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various things, it's the butt of a joke, and it is the butt
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of the joke in this episode. But they do it in a loving way,
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and that's what we do. That's what you notice a lot of future
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when they parodying something, They're mocking it, but doing it from a point
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of love. I think the best satire is usually done by usually send us
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from a real appreciation of what you're taking the piss out of. Absolutely only
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when you really adore or appreciate something can you notice all its little flaws and
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actions that you can exaggerate for comic effect, which they year, which they've
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done here with Raging Bender. What did you think of the leader storyline in
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this one? I thought this had to feel there had to be some sort
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of like movie parody or something because it just felt like, I know,
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it's just traditional, you know, old sense a teacher he just bullied you
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as a kid, a teacher at school who has always means you as a
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kid, and you've you've come back for revenge when you're older. But it's
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like karate kid obviously because he loved his teacher. But is there some sort
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of movie story there somewhere? I think it's just a riff on the you
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know a bit of an ancient story telling tradition about you know, you've got
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the the sense or the teacher who you know, sort of leads you on
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the right direction. And this guy's just a jerk. The best kind of
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joke though. How funny was he? There was some most of my favorite
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parts were, you know, yeah, related to this sense. Let's see
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who voiced mister Funo. That was his name, wasn't it, mister f
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Mister Funo. He was voiced by David Herman. Okay, cool, So
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you know from a King of the Hill, everything's connected, So that unifying
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a theory of four finger discount. Ah, so he's meant to it says,
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he is meant to be an evil, misogynistic version of the sense in
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the Karate Kid, mister Miyagi and he and he resembles Master Yet from Star
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warsn't like does he That's a stretch. I guess his clothes kind of do
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whatever, but a stretch. No, I'm not seeing it one when you
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say it, I'm not seeing it. No, No, he looks more
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like kids. But yeah, he does look like mister mister Jaghi. Don't
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you reckon a little bit? Only slightly in the beard? Okay they put
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it that way short, Okay, I'll roll with that. But yeah,
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do you know the Karate Kids. I've seen the first film, but as
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when I was a kid, I cannot really recall much about it. And
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everyone tells me how great the TV show is. I've heard that as well
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about Cobra Kay. Yeah, yeah, just never really got into it.
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I mean, I like the first Karate Kid. Fine, I think I'm
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pretty sure I saw the second one done. I am about the third,
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But I mean, I think they're bringing back Ary just m pretty much all
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of them. I didn't say. I didn't see the one that had a
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Hillary swank. The next Karate Kid it had mister me argue that it didn't
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have Ralph Marcio Okay, did he wear white in the Karate Kid and the
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black guys were the bad guys, right they were? Yeah, Gabri Kai
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were dressed all in black and Daniel Son had had his white pj'son, so
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he should have been in Copra Kine and movie in the second movie called Karate
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Kid Back in Black. You're wasted in Gelong Whywood? But anyway, enough
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about the Karate Kid. But yeah, I am. I really enjoyed him
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as a character. There's an absolute dipshit And what I loved about it was
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he was a pro wrestling heel, Like he was so ridiculous, Like it
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was the perfect bad guy for this episode. And you really wanted Leila to
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just get him in the end. Didn't, Yeah, because it usually you're
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just like, ah, Leila winging and planning again. But then you see
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what he did and you're like, this motherfucking his head kicked in. This
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guy's a total joke and he yeah, he needs to be kicked. You
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have one hundred percent right. Look, as I said, I'm not the
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the biggest wrestling fan, but I do kind of dig that whole soap opera
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aspect to it, with baby faces and heels, and heel turns and all
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that kind of stuff. I mean, the storylines that are constructed and played
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out. I know, so much work goes into them and so much conviction
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goes into them. Based on what I've seen, it's it's what's what's upon
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a time? That's pretty ridiculous. Now there's it, Okay, Yeah,
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I mean it's that WWE's being run by a seventy eight year old man or
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whatever, So it's how creative can that man be these days? Well,
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that's true. I mean, hopefully you sort of pass off some of the
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some of the gruntwork to people who are perhaps a little more on the ball.
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But I don't know, maybe if you achieve that level of how you
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think, Well, I didn't get here by accident, so what I say
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goes yeah exactly. But that we also had the brain Slug returning this episode
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first appeared. I think it was heading the polls, and we both said
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in that episode that man, that brain slug does ain't much. And again
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they've setting the commentary that they wanted this to actually be a season long arm
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with Hermi's having the brain sleg on and think fuck. They opted not to
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do that because there's just nothing to it is there. It's just it's like
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a it's a gag. You could have like a scene, but it's not.
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It's not even an episode long gag. It's annoying. Oh look,
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I was pretty happy with that they played it out throughout this episode. It
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was it was used well in this episode. But my guy, this was
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a season. Imagine if Hermis was like this for the whole season, No,
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it would wear very very thin. But having it as kind of like
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a B plot or even a B minus plot in this particular episode, I'm
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like, oh, yeah, there's a few good gags out of this.
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Absolutely. The thing it doesn't there's always looking at the reason it doesn't work
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for me though, is that they know that all you have to do is
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just kick it off its head, and Hermi's is fine. So why are
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they trying to help their friend. That's sort of the one way looking at
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it. Also, there's the fear of all the kick it off his head
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and might end up on my head. Now. The only thing I had
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to this episode as well was so Bender does his first fight, gets backstation
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and learns that it's all reaked, it's all set up right. It didn't
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include bender know that before he went out. When you think you'd want to
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tell any performers or one of them would realize that because surely he does to
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know who's gonna win, right, you'd think. So it makes sense from
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a story perspective, because you get the big reveal after the fight. You
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know, you think it's real, but it's not. From a story perspective,
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it makes sense, But when you think about it logically, it's like,
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wait, wait, so they sent him out to the ring not knowing
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he was going to win the match. At the whole point of this is
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that it's reaked and both wrestlers know who's going to win. I think sometimes
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you've just got to sacrifice logic and credibility for the sake of you know,
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coming back from the commercial brain with a good hook. Well, I've got
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here. This is what professional wrestling is based on, suspending your disbelief,
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so you're just gonna do it. But this episode was written by Lou Morton,
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who actually used to write for Saturday Night Live, You writ from news
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Radio, and he's also the He also executive produced walk Hard, one of
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your films that you always bring up on this podcast. Nice work, glue,
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Yeah, legend. Now he's written twelve episodes of Futurama between him and
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Kenkila, that is the record. So ken Killer and he have both written
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twelve episodes of the show. I'm not sure if he's gonna be writing for
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the new upcoming episodes that are coming out soon, which I can't wait for.
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But he also went to the same primary school as David X Cohen,
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one of the show runners of Our Future Rama and Simpson's. And it's it's
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who you know, isn't it? It is who you know, David,
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who you went to primary school with? And who you pee japants next to
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David X Cohen. He is the man who brought us Homer three D the
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three D seguent correct, yeah, yeah, And it was directed by Ron
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Hugot, who was known for animating them said on the on the audio commentary,
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he's no animating the best violent scenes or whatever there's violence, he's your
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man. So this is obviously the best episode for him to have worked on.
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And he now works as a co supervising director on American Dad. Good
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that he landed on his feet. Who is my favorite robot? It's me
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none out this mirror or what were your favorite moments from the episodes, mister
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Davis well as mentioned, Yeah, big big fan of Master Phono, who
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was just a dick in every way shape or vaughn. Um, I'm skipping
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right to the end here, but that see you when girl. Hell well,
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I'll be in Boyle, which is nicer. Everything he said was funny.
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Everything he said was pretty damn funny. Um. I was a huge
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fan of it. Was just it was only three characters, but sort of
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the big bads that Bender was up against. That that's my that's my favorite,
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most the over the top heels. Billionaire Bot's billionaire Bot and he just
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gets a barrel shoved room and here he's like very poor. Yeah. Probably
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my favorite was the Foreigner. I'm not from here. Yeah, my customs
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are different to your check out my passport. Very very funny. I got
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a genuine, good long laugh out of that. That's the most iconic wrestling
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heel. The Foreigner, the iron chic all over here. Yeah, and
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of course the chain smoke like a soon as I'm done here, I'm coming
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to your favorite restaurant. Yeah, what a legend. Um And of course,
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um blanket you'll miss it, but look as a as a fan of
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crot Robot and Tom Servo and Joel and Mike and the rest of the guys
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on the satellite Love Got a Mystery Science Theater three thousand shout out when they're
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first of the movies telling them to stop talking during a movie. Tell them
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to stop talking during the movie when it's a great gag. Yeah, So
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I loved it, loved it. That's one of those gags where when I
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first watched Future Rum it lost on me. When I was older and watched
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this one, I was like, Oh, man, that's great, that's
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like, that's like, can you think of a better way to use a
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mystery science theater? Like Joe, there is no They did it. Yea,
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they did it perfectly. I really did So the wrestlers here, we've
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got it on them on the you face sphere. I need this anyway.
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But so the Gorgeous Gonks, Oh, that's one of my fucking questions.
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Anyway, Gorgeous Gonks was just a um a poster on the wall in the
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Commissioner's office that's a take off of Gorgeous George. The clear Cutter is a
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parody of a famous wrestler, Hacks or Jim Duggan just like, yeah,
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yeah, not you. He'll billy you your lumber your lumber man you used
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to carry and the two the two by fours, that was his weapon of
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choice. The foreigner was the iron cheek like you're mentioning. The chain smoker
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was a guy called the Sandman. You want to know the sand Man.
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He was in a company called ec W. Appeared in WWE briefly, but
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he was He used to smoke on his way to the ring. Billionaire Bot
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of course his million dollar man. Ted Dibiassi one of the most iconic wrestlers
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of all time. Sergeant Feces, Processor, Sergeant Slaughter and yeah, obviously
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Destructor but who's not really a take on anybody, but you know, using
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him is a war crime. But yeah, I'll just got here. My
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favorite moments where the over the top He'll plus the mister Fnogue when he was
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first having got Leila like with the fight, won't take me on again.
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You lose once or more, I didn't think, so it is me you
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lose again. Terrible terrible human being, not even human being, terrible alien.
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Oh I want to ask it a question. All right, it's time
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for truvia before we do that we're going to be carrying on the new box
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office segment here, what we're gonna give it a name? They trying to
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give a name for this segment, mister Davis, So you're trying to guess
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what was number one at the US box office when this episode first aired?
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Box office? Brain bust you? Yeah, all right, that'll do for
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now. That's what we're gonna call it this week. But let us know,
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page give us some suggestions. Dando's holding his day, you stinker.
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That is a stinky, stinky name. But yeah, so, mister Davis,
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February twenty seventh, two thousand, what was number one at the US
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box office for this week? Oh my gosh, the year two week?
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The week the week of February twenty fifth to March second, of the year
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two thousand. I'll give you a clue. Stars Your Man, Stars your
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man that you love so dearly, who unfortunately was diagnosed with dementia. Okay,
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two thousand. What was he doing in the year two thousand? I
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want to say sixth cents? This movie would go on to have a sequel.
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It's almost an identical title, the sequel, damn it. Okay,
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could these clues be anymore obvious. Oh, it was a whole nine yards,
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a whole nine yards correct, Oh dear, a sequel of that is
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just oh god, The Whole ten Yards is just one of the worst movies
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ever made, really so terrible. Okay, but is that because you had
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high hosts for it or is it just a bad movie? It's just a
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bad movie. Okay, we should we should review movies that you just just
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have a disdain for. Why would you do that to me? What do
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you think it was number two? One of the Whole ten Yards would certainly
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number two, if you know what I mean. No, you gotta get
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me clues down. It's too long. It's been too long. Okay.
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Christmas is the clue, but not in the way you would have think.
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Someone you associated with Christmas is in the title. But it's not a Christmas
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movie. Okay, Red read Santa? Who's who are? So we've got
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something red that you associate with Christmas time? Oh? For goodness, say
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no, you're just gonna tell me. And Reindeer games, Oh we'll route
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off the Red Nose Reindeer and Reindeer Games starring Ben Affleck and Charlie there On.
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Of course, yes, they were top two when this episode originally aired
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on February twenty seventh, in the year two thousand. Now before we get
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into our questions, Davis, of course we're gonna be out the names of
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Murray, Agrit McCloud and Lewis Kavanaugh. Now, you people may think
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that I just record those names and play the same clip every time, but
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I don't. I read them out each and every time when we do this
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show. I know you don't trust Dando, but you can trust me.
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I'm looking at Dan though, and he's reading them out every single time,
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and he's got a big, big smile in his face every time he does,
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Discount family. All Right, mister Davis him quite as big a smile on
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his face at that time. He's still learning to love you, guy.
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It won't be long. It won't be long, trust me. All right,
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what's your first question for me, mister Davis. My first question to
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you is when they go to the multiplex cinema, m shaft is where as
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in which cinema? No, No, the's on the on the Marquee shaft
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in where shaft in where I'm going to say Africa nine, and you would
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be correct. I just looked it up in the notes. The other the
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other movies that appear. He came from Planet Earth, which was from the
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episode Fear of a pot Planet when Fry was pretending to be a robot.
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Remember he's like, God help me or whatever. Remember he yells out like
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he's scared in the in the in the cinema that was it came from Planet
19:33
Earth. Also when a Man Loves a Smizma. Now Smizma is the love
19:37
partner of Kiff's Race of Alien. Yes, and I mentioned Smiths Mars later
19:41
on when the announcer says ladies and Gentlemen's and smiz Mars. They absolutely we
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get quiz blog, quiz blog, and alien movie. We get Galaxy Wars,
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a historical documentary that one which I actually point out Planet of the Clams,
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which book says, and all my circuits the movie. So yeah,
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what's my first question for you is where was hermis on holiday too? Oh
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man, Oh no, no, tell me the spleef Nebula. Spleef Nebula.
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That's right and very appropriate it would appear. Um. What is the
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name of miss Universe? Ah Man, I should know this, um because
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we had just had an episode with the two Benders. Um. She's mentioned
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in the opening credits of the film. Now what is it? Her name
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is Gladys Lennox Gladdus. That's right. I do have in my notes and
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I just could not be bothered looking for it. What does Bender order at
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the movies? Oh? Gets a popcorn with extra motor oil and just a
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large soad large diet malt liquor? Did liquor your next question? My next
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question is you mentioned Robomania before? What number Robomania? Is it as twenty
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seven? Yeah? Correct? And my final question is how much does Bender
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away? According to the ring announcer, Oh oh, I know how much
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destructor? Because I was going to ask you that question, but Bender,
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I didn't put it down four hundred pounds, it's five hundred and twenty five
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is destructor? Destructor? Is that eighty ton? He was four hundred four
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hundred tons Jesus Christ got any more questions for me before we get into our
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review? What were the names of the students knocked out by Leila? I've
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got it my notes. Should I look now? Look? I can't bother
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looking? What is it? Bruce is one of them? Bruce? No?
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No, Bill is one of them? Keith is the other one?
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Keith. Yes, you combine those two when you come up with brief is
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not like Bruce? If you want to, I see where your mind's at.
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Yeah. Yeah, let's run with that. Let's run with it,
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The original edit for this episode was February twenty seventh, in the year two
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thousand. Production Code to a CVS You Were eight, written by Lewis Morton,
22:36
directed by Ron Hugart. It guest starred Rich Little as himself playing who
22:41
he played? Howard go sell he did? And who I mean? Obviously
22:45
Rich Little known for impersonality people and Kruss Leatherman playing mister movie Phone. Now,
22:51
wherever you hear movie phone, do you just imagine Cramer going Hello,
22:52
welcome to a movie phone. That's the only thing I remember that is like
22:59
what I've scifer. That's one of the things that just always stands out to
23:02
me. Hello, and welcome to the movie phone. That's one of those
23:04
stupidest fucking storylines. But it's just so memorable. I just love it.
23:07
It's so simple, So because we'd all love to have done that, don't
23:11
you reckon? But just that whole why would you just tell me? Yeah,
23:15
so funny, isn't it. Why did you just tell me which movie
23:18
you like? It's a it's a perfect I know it's not a Si Faur
23:23
podcast. You can check out Talking Cifer, but that's just the perfect representation
23:27
of when a planners goes wrong with poor planning. So the opening caption for
23:33
the episode was nominated for three Glemmys and the opening cartoon was Hollywood Capers,
23:37
which was released in nineteen thirty five. The episode kicks off with the Professor
23:44
and he's saying how he's taught the toaster to feel love. Do you have
23:48
you ever once in your life, obviously, when you're a child, thought
23:52
like, for example, a Toy Story member when Toy Story first came out,
23:53
and thought, they do these things have feelings? Does any does any
23:59
object in this world? I would have a feeling? Have you ever thought
24:00
there's an object out there where you gone a little teddy when you were a
24:03
kid and gone, I know it's just a teddy, but just in case,
24:07
I'm going to make sure that he sits under bed, not on the
24:08
floor. Oh yeah, absolutely, when I was a kid, certainly,
24:11
I mean and even to this day, you know, I think about them,
24:15
my you know, little toy dog Sam, who was my you know,
24:19
constant sleeping companion when I was a little, a little tacker. You
24:23
know, I've no idea where Sam is now. He's probably you know,
24:26
been eaten to bits by his silver fishing and moths and whatever. He was.
24:32
He was a wreck when I first had him, but you know,
24:34
he traveled the world with me and you know, saw me through some tough
24:37
times as a youngster. And I don't know when, you know, I
24:41
got older and he was you know, he just went his own way or
24:45
whatever happened. I've no idea what happened to doing. Oh he's okay.
24:49
Was his name again? Sam? Just the Sam? Yeah, the Sounder
24:53
Dog. Yeah. You know, it's a sweet little pal to have,
24:59
even though he was, you know, just a fabric and stuffing, but
25:02
you know you would mbue it with love, and you know that love's got
25:06
to go somewhere. Do you have a photo with Sam the Dog? I
25:08
probably do. There may be one around somewhere. But you know, he
25:11
was a mess when I got him. I don't know if he'd been through
25:15
members of my family before he ended up with me. I mean, my
25:18
sister Margot still has one of her teddy bears, yeah, that she had
25:22
when she was a kid, and she's you know, got him on a
25:23
shelf at her lovely house down the coast. And I always gonna smile when
25:29
I say they it's like, oh yeah, I remember that from when we
25:30
were growing up. It's just like a little not of appreciation for it.
25:33
You got me through tough times. I know you're just a fucking object.
25:36
You know, you're just fabric, but you hult me through some shit.
25:37
You deserve to be on that shelf. Yeah, exactly. You aren't going
25:41
to the mid sir. Yeah, but it's funny. You know, every
25:45
once in a while you'll do the whole Marie Condo thing, which even Marie
25:49
Condo doesn't do anymore, where you know, you get rid of stuff that
25:52
doesn't quite spark joy. But before you do handy, before you you know,
25:56
you throw it in the in the bin or in the bag or whatever.
26:00
Thanks a lot, man. You were a good shirt, you know.
26:03
Yeah, yeah, when when you fit when I you fit into you
26:06
pretty well, I look pretty good inside you. Well hang on, yes,
26:10
you were good on me all that kind of stuff. Thank you for
26:12
that. I appreciate it. Now, off your go, you know,
26:15
go have a start a new life of someone that's going to appreciate you,
26:18
thank you for your service. That's it. Homies returns from his vacation with
26:22
the brain slug on. Everyone just starts act normal, you know, don't
26:26
don't, don't, don't acknowledge it, and start using garlic shampoo so it
26:27
doesn't go any So garlic apparently is what they don't like. I love my
26:32
man. They they ditch him and go to the movies. So they arrive
26:36
at the lows and plex. Right now, this is a mathematic thing,
26:40
I'm assuming. Yeah, he gets explained a very long winded way on the
26:45
infosphere. Now the movie did. His name is lows alpha alp nubll plex,
26:51
including the alpha alf null mathematic symbol. It's all lost on me.
26:57
For all you maths nerds out there, I'm all, you're just going ha
27:00
ha. Apparently it all translates to apparently lows infiniplex, like it's it's like
27:07
in the name for infinity or something. I was thinking that it had to
27:10
be you know, some monstrously like Google style number. Cool, let's see
27:15
this one. Nah, I'm not in the mood for a historical documentary.
27:19
I've heard good things about quiz blog. Quiz blog. Ghak I hate subtitles.
27:25
Alien films are so pretentious, follows Shallows. How about a film we
27:29
can all enjoy. Planet of the Clams. It's about an upside down world
27:33
where lobsters slaves to clam Who invited you? Let's just see all my circuits
27:38
the movie good point band so fright orders a super small slum because it's only
27:45
a little bit cheaper. I love the way that the cinema. I want
27:48
to hate it, but it's a great marketing, great business sense. You
27:52
get the movies right. And you're not one for popcorn of the movies,
27:55
I know that, but you know we always get popcorn, A small popcorn
27:57
eight dollars or a large for ten. Why would you ever order a small?
28:00
You might as well go large every time, An't you in the option?
28:03
They don't give you the option to buy a small, but a small
28:06
as five dollars, you'd buy the fucking small. But it's like, well
28:07
I was in extra two dollars miles, We'll go to large. They fucking
28:11
clear that popcorn out so fast. Yeah, it's genius. It's genius the
28:15
way they do it. And making an extra two bucks on top. Yeah,
28:18
they're doing all right. They know what time it is. There is
28:21
a hack for the for the combos at Village Cinema. I won't get into
28:25
it now. If you ever want to note, just contact me on Facebook
28:26
and I'll tell you. But it's a way of saving like eight dollars by
28:29
getting the same shit. It's like a couple's combo, and then like you
28:33
can it's like there's a certain combo where you can add shit too for like
28:36
two dollars extra, and it works out to be like eight dollars cheaper than
28:40
like the couple's combo. So like you better for get like this like one
28:44
popcorn and one drink combo and then add like a drink and an ice cream
28:47
whatever it is, because it works out to be cheaper than what a couple's
28:48
combo is. But you get the same shit. Did you work this out
28:52
yourself? You know you're going were you doing that? Zach galifanarkas thing?
28:56
Where all there standing at this? But I'm just like you walk in there
29:02
as a couple when you see the couple's combo, it's like, oh,
29:03
the couple's combo, we get the sounds love baby, and then meanwhile they're
29:11
just getting extra eight bucks out of here for doing absolutely nothing, which on
29:12
this thing I love. I appreciate it, every bit of it. That's
29:15
the person. Someone's getting fucked when you do the couple's combo and it's not
29:18
the couple, Oh it is the couple. So but Fry, he gets
29:23
the super small, super small slum bender, orders his food. It's time
29:26
for the movie and down in front and this gleg Na's human Ryans presents this
29:33
week and you never I wish they still did this shit at the movies.
29:37
Well the news real, Yeah, I love him. They're talking about like
29:40
a boy and his dog, like way to go scruffee. But yeah,
29:45
Fry mocksham Mystery Science, here to do his timeue that to be quiet.
29:48
I've got the here. Guy would have adored this moment. Guy did adore
29:52
that moment. We've got the new New York Mayor, Maycy Randall Poop and
29:56
Meyer. He's opened up a new tube blind to alleviate the rush hour,
29:59
but actually everyone's using that twoe blind now and cause chaos. We get the
30:04
Miss Universe Gladys Lenox from the Paramesium homeworld. So we didn't get a name
30:07
in um in a Lesser of two Evils, but we've got her name here,
30:11
and she's entertaining the troops as they attempt to wipe out the human race.
30:15
Go get him Buys, that's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah,
30:17
go get him Buyas and the mass unit has destroyed. Oh, we do
30:22
get gorgeous gonks. This is where we get gorgeous gonks in this LaPier.
30:26
And he tried to melt him. He don't have the name for the melting
30:27
accountant what it was, but that's the same move that he attempts to use
30:30
on Bender in a few moments, we're melting him with the lasers. But
30:33
initially he of course, Bender is the pro wrestling fan in this in this
30:37
show, um just yeah, but yeah it Bender says he go mass units.
30:41
Clearly he's a fan. Then we get the two robots arriving in front.
30:45
One seems like a mild mand a young gentleman, and he's got his
30:48
partner, who Bender reflows to his flabby even though that's just as the factory
30:51
made her. Benders just being a horrible person here, Isn't he prettyish even
30:53
my Bender standards? Absolutely? Yeah, I mean, but still it's never
30:57
it's never great when you're at the cinema and you've got someone just big in
31:00
front of you, or at any event, really, you know, the
31:04
lovely the reason I went to went to Day on the Green a couple of
31:07
a couple of weeks ago. I guess he's Sting, who was very very
31:11
good. Indeed, did he come down from the rafters. So that's a
31:14
check the on your wrestling fans, I'll understand, god appropriate for this episode.
31:18
I well played, yes, but I was very conscious of, like,
31:22
you know, we got there, you know, other people are already
31:25
there was like, oh, you know, if I sit in front of
31:26
this person, that probably made themselves very comfortable. Here, I am just
31:30
sort of taking up space. Yeah, there's nothing worse than that. But
31:33
no, Luckily the people behind me went down in front, so it was
31:37
all right. We all got to enjoy Sting. Don't you love how often
31:40
that us as a society used to term there's nothing worse than that one.
31:42
There's definitely something worse than that. Oh, certainly, It's like when I
31:48
said, oh God, what a nightmare, It's like, that's barely a
31:51
bad dream. It's nothing wrong with that. You know. He turned the
31:53
tap on and the water sprays over nothing worse than that. It's like,
31:59
I can think of thirty thousand of these words in that right now if you're
32:01
speaking of people being tall in front. And I remember why I took Alie
32:04
to see him up at Christmas Carol with a live orchestra back late December last
32:07
year, before Christmas in Melbourne. We sat down and this be tall dude
32:13
sat down right in front of Elliott's chair and I was like, fucking now.
32:15
He's like, daddy, I can't see. You can't see, And
32:16
of course Ali can't stand up to watch because then you're going to stop the
32:19
person behind him scene. I said, oh, mate, would you mind
32:21
stopping with your wife so so um my son can see? And he goes,
32:27
nah, I really don't want to, mate. I say, like,
32:28
come, he said, he's only four. Can can you move?
32:30
And he goes, you brought the four year old, not me? I
32:32
think that's what he said to me, right to the Muppet Christmas Carol.
32:36
Yeah, yeah, you brought the four year old, not me. I'm
32:38
like, mate, you are you're a man, clearly, like you know
32:43
you're here with your partner. I'm assuming, but just fucking swap seats with
32:45
him so Ali can see, I give a fuck if I can't see,
32:49
maybe a million times, but Elliott. I ended up swopping seats of Elliott
32:51
so he could see because this motherfucker wouldn't move because I brought the four year
32:53
old, not him for an asshole? Yeah, what an asshole? Jesus?
33:00
Yeah no, But anyway, it doesn't matter. All. They had
33:02
a great time, but Ben, it's just being an absolute dick to this
33:06
artist person. I liked the rated M fourteen not Suitable for Aliens from Planet
33:08
M fourteen by Aliens Alien from M fourteen. The movie then starts. Now
33:14
did you see the credits here? I thought you would have liked this gig
33:16
I did. Yeah, I mean were the various writing units and directing units,
33:21
and of course Joe as to house one of the biggest hacks in Hollywood.
33:24
Hacks you reckon hack? Oh god? Yeah? I mean did he
33:30
even my basic instinct? Yeah? That's that's the script is the worst thing
33:34
about that. So everyone just remembers it for Sharon Stone. Every remembers that
33:37
Sharon Stone. It was very well directed by a man, Paul Verhoven,
33:40
who made Start JEP Droopers and all that. Yeah, but no, Paul
33:44
Verhovens. Sorry, Joe has an absolute hack master. He sort of.
33:50
He rewrote the same story for at least three different movies. His dialogue is
33:52
shit. I mean, you write the three three big ones. You wrote
33:55
show Girls, he wrote Basic Instin What was the other one? You vote?
33:58
Well? He wrote Jade, which is kind of like the one.
34:00
I think he wrote Flashdance back in the day. Was it Flashdance? Let's
34:05
have a look, Let's see what he's written. He made a lot of
34:08
money. I mean Basic Instincts sold. The script sold for a shit tone
34:12
of money. It was flashed Flashdance was the other one? Yea jacket Edge
34:15
and Flashdance? Yeah, oh yeah. I heard those movies and I was
34:17
like, well, the big movies, it must be. He must be
34:20
at least half decent. I think you'd write a good hook, but yeah,
34:24
most of most of his movies are absolute garbage. So is the gag
34:28
here being at this movie is going to be ship pretty much. So I
34:32
like the two in the credits. Here's obviously a take off a double a
34:36
seven bea get the robot sort of chumping off screen, and one of him
34:37
goes in which he jumps off. Well, if that finishes this paperwork.
34:45
Calculan enterprises Calculan. A fight scene is broken out of the special effects warehouse.
34:51
Come quickly before a fiery explosion chases someone down a hallway. I have
34:58
no choice, but if you on calcul On to race to the laser gun
35:01
battle in his hover Ferrari, press one. If you want calcul On to
35:05
double check his paperwork, press too enter Now you have pressed too. No
35:12
I didn't. I'm almost positive you did. I cannot wait for the day
35:16
they've already doing this on Netflix. I look forward to the day we can
35:19
go to the movies and do this and pick and like it's a because when
35:22
it's to shoot your own adventure, when it's just you, you can choose
35:24
you own invention, like you know what you're gonna be choosing. But when
35:27
you're in a cinema, it's like, oh, man, come on,
35:28
every come on, everybody, let's let's team up. Let's make sure we
35:30
get the right heads up, because the thing is, you put your vote
35:34
in, but you still don't know what you're going to get. What have
35:37
they done it on on Netflix? And now they did it on a Black
35:38
Mirror episode where it's like, no, you go this way or now you
35:42
can do this. I think they've done it on one or two other things,
35:45
but I can't remember what as a kids show. So basically at thutha
35:49
Elliott watch it was a bad boss baby thing and there was a dressic park.
35:52
What's it called. It's a camp cretaceous one, yeah, camp cretaceous,
35:57
yes, yeah, and they're fine, they're enjoyable. That's Aliot was
36:01
so sad that when he pushed him on button he got eaten while this dinosaur.
36:05
He was like, you're so sad. It was like, oh,
36:07
there's there's a button there though clearly because they know it's for kids that you
36:10
can go just restart, restart from that moment you have to go back to
36:15
the start. It's just it's like, and this time, choose the right
36:16
one. Aliot chooses the same one, you idiot. Um. Yeah,
36:22
so there's the movie. They rig it basically, you know, he chooses
36:27
one thing. I mean, how could you not want to go see a
36:29
lazy gun battle in a hover ferrari? How do you want to see Colclan
36:30
do that? They messed up bend. They keep kicking the chair in front
36:35
of him and boredom. I believe you're inadvertently kicking my seat, so polite.
36:37
The mask Unit isn't he is? Isn't he? But yeah, I
36:42
guess it's the mask unit you can afford to be Yeah, Bender mocks him.
36:45
Yes, that is the gist of what I said, and he then
36:47
throws popcorn at him, So he challenges him to fisty cuffs even like the
36:52
what he challenges him to is just so like we'll see proper, and he
36:57
tries the melting move on Bender and obviously realized is a huge robot. And
37:01
then the woman's yells out, let's all go to the lobby, which,
37:07
yes, mister Ben, that's actually the line from the from the ad,
37:10
right, let's all go to the I first heard that on The Simpsons when
37:15
mister Burns did it. Likewise, I think when he's learning, when he's
37:20
trying to get the I think it was Burns air that episode when he first
37:22
did that. But but just noticed the professor didn't move. So when everyone's
37:24
running away, he just sits there. And then we get the mask unit.
37:30
He's going to open up a file of whoop ass, I'm Bender as
37:32
opposed to we can He slips on the oil, so no, all all
37:37
works out In the end full circle Bender ordered the oil. That's what causes
37:39
the mask Unit to slip. He passes out legally realizes the mask unit.
37:43
Everyone's really impressed their girlfriend. What a hussy she's just got. You're just
37:51
calling your fat slob before. Now you're hugging in all over him. The
37:53
commissioner of the Ultimate Robot Fighting Championship or whatever it's called company arrives because he's
37:59
a kind of stew jokes you pick fights theaters and you are the biggest one.
38:01
You should see me at funerals. I've got here top not to work
38:07
by Demagio this episode. Have you got any terrible funeral stories aside for going
38:13
to some as the most in fact that it's a funeral, have you ever
38:15
been like an awkward moment or anything like that. I told a story for
38:20
the first time, not longer. I'm not I don't think I'm going to
38:21
share it here. This is um. I told it under very sort of
38:24
cone of silent circumstances. But yeah, there was something that happened after my
38:30
dad's funeral. I don't know, we'll see how we go, but that's
38:36
what I'm keeping in the back pocket for somewhere down the line. Is it
38:38
a funny or is it a shocking story? It's not really shocking, it's
38:44
it's kind of blackly funny. Okay. Yes. I remember once being in
38:51
a funeral and the woman was it was the wife the person who had passed.
38:55
As she's doing her talk, her mulogy, and all of a sudden,
38:59
she just drops a ripper fart and everyone in a like I don't know
39:05
whether to laugh and cry or just want do we do? And what you
39:09
can? You sort of hear a couple of like sort of chill and she
39:14
went, that's a stinker, and everyone just started laughing, you know,
39:17
so it was like, don't pretend it was fighting over the microphone basically,
39:22
so everyone heard it. So it's like you mightn't just run with it.
39:23
It's just a ripper fart. And she went, well, that's a stinker,
39:27
and everyone laughed. I was just like oh, and everyone was sort
39:29
of like happier after that. You know, it's good. Sometimes a funeral
39:31
needs that kind of thing. I mean, you know what people always say.
39:35
I know it sounds weird to say that, but you know, I
39:37
was saying, oh, you know, celebrate my life rather than more my
39:39
death. It's like, well, you know, someone just let one go
39:43
in the middle of your funeral. You probably like that's good. I mean
39:45
it's something that you know, my funeral will be remembered. And I think
39:50
Guy would have liked that if someone let, you know, let one rip
39:52
during his funeral, Yeah, I would actually good on you. So better
39:57
agrees to become an ultimate robot fighter and professor. They don't make movies like
40:00
this anymore. Bender is now super excited. He's going to float like a
40:05
flat button stinging like an automatic stinging machine. But everyone explains to him,
40:07
mate, you know what this is. It's pretty brutal. So the gag
40:09
is that no one knows that it's fake. Yeah, when did wrestling when
40:13
it was a widely known that it was fake, Because in the eighties people
40:15
still brought into it. I think it was like during the nineties where everyone
40:20
just went wait a minute, Like it's like when once the wrestling told you
40:22
it was fake, then it was just like, okay, it's fair game.
40:25
But I feel like even when I was growing up, I was still
40:29
trying to sort of blur that line they weren't openly saying. And because you've
40:31
heard stories of wrestlers who would beat the ship out of people who would question
40:37
them on it. Like there's a there's a really um the iconic interview where
40:42
it's the guy Munch from from Lauren Order, right. They that plays much
40:46
the Big Years, the Glasses, the late the late Richard Belzer. Yes,
40:50
he died not long ago. Yeah, exactly a couple of weeks ago.
40:52
Yeah, he had a talk show, I believe once and he had
40:54
Hulk Hogan and he was just like sort of, you know, not saying
40:58
it's fake, but sort of like laughing, Oh yeah, you know,
41:00
you guys really go in there and all of the stuff, and he goes,
41:01
show me a headlock. So Hulk Hogan just gave him a head like
41:05
a headlock a sleeper and just put into sleep slow stage. Yeah. Yeah,
41:07
it's like, you can't deserve the mate, you know, we gotta
41:13
be talking smack about someone's word, you know, to their face. Man,
41:15
Hulk Hogan, exactly, he's gonna running wild on you, mate,
41:21
and he certainly did. And Hulkogan got a lot of trouble for that for
41:22
obvious reasons. But um, yeah, that's just the iconic moment in television
41:25
history. That one not long ago. One of my social media budd he's
41:32
found a picture of Hulk Hogan from some action movie made in you know,
41:36
the late eighties or the early nners and whatever. And he's got like a
41:39
hairpiece. Song. You know, he doesn't have his usual sort of weird
41:44
Hulk Hogan hair like. Yeah, well that's you know, it's like a
41:47
flattop kind of wig, like you should have worn that all the time.
41:52
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, he's got his big mustache,
41:57
but he's got you know, that sort of short back insides. We
42:00
got a link that looks kind of good dude exam for everybody, not for
42:04
me. But I don't know. I could have given the Hulks for a
42:07
whole new, whole new direction. But the thing is, though that he
42:13
just was Hulk Hogan, you know, Terry Balaz his real name. But
42:15
like, yes, his image was so iconic that you can't really change the
42:20
Hulk Hogan image. That's true. I think. Ye, the weird ass
42:23
haircut that he's gotten, the scullet so is Yeah, I guess part of
42:30
the whole Cogan mystique. Yeah. And plus, you know, I just
42:31
love the fact that when he turned into a bad guy in WCW in the
42:36
nineties, he just painted he had a black beard, but still the white
42:38
hair and the white mustaches. Fucking the grain. It's like Evil Hougan has
42:43
a black beard, but baby face Hogan's clean shaven. But anyway, so
42:50
Benner says he doesn't want to do it, he's scares. Says, you
42:52
must do it, you know, And she tells the story of when she
42:53
was a child again with the Orphanarian. Let me tell you a story from
42:58
my childhood again the Orphanarium. When I was growing up at the Orphanarium,
43:04
I got picked on a lot. My only outlet was our turn kung fu.
43:07
Yeah, accident, Beau Keith, you will go to junior championships.
43:17
Bu congratulate Keith when he regains consciousness. But master Fnog, I can beat
43:22
these dorks with one eye closed. Perhaps, but there is more to winning
43:25
than beating your opponent. You lack the weird of a warrior. What do
43:29
you mean watch this? Ye ha ha ha. No girl has the weird
43:35
of a warrior. You have the weird of a housewife or at base,
43:38
the school marm. That's it. I'll take you on right now, very
43:43
well, but you see, I have the weird of the warrior. Therefore
43:45
the battery is already OVA the winner. Me ha, remotch you lose again,
43:51
honey enough I thought so Finog which is an absolute dish bag, and
43:58
he really was, like he actually was the perfect heel for this perfect villain
44:01
for this episode. She's an absolute classic wrestling manager heel. Oh yeah,
44:06
I mean can't recognize just the master fighter that's in front of him and instead,
44:12
you know, giving it up a bill and Keith Will just been kicked
44:15
the shit kicked out of him. And he says that leither at this point
44:17
that she has the will of a housewife or at best the school momia,
44:22
two types of characters that Katie Seagal has both played on various shows. Now
44:27
I'm not I couldn't find the school mom one right, but I've definitely obviously
44:30
the housewife is Peggy, yes naturalists. I couldn't find who the school mom
44:34
character was that she played, but apparently that was a reference to m to
44:37
characters she had previously played on other shows. One about listens. I'm sure
44:40
we'll let us know about that one, but please do yes, very very
44:44
good, better agrees to do so to join the league so he can get
44:49
back, she can get back at U, mister Fonogg, And it's a
44:52
montage of him training. How's your training going, by the way, or
44:54
so it was the four days of running now, yep, gonna be five
44:58
once we're done with this. Absolutely, Yeah, you're gonna do my run
45:00
as well, doing some push ups, doing some running. It's a bit
45:04
of a shuffle around the block. But I'll just keep running that circuit until
45:07
i can run it a bit faster, and then I'll have another another block
45:10
to it, and yeah, before you know it, I'll be running marathons.
45:15
Doesn't matter how fast, it's just you move it. That's all that
45:16
matter, is correct. Correct? That's now for a time for robot Mania
45:21
twenty seven. Leather was robbing some rust rusta Liam I think it is.
45:24
It's glass protected enamel stops the rust onto bender and introduction here the ladies and
45:30
gentlemen smiz Mars, which I said is a love partner of the amphibios and
45:35
culture, which is who Kiff is. So Kiff actually goes on to to
45:37
marry Amy. By the way, we should have mentioned that last week's podcast.
45:39
We're talking about Amy and Frist relationships, so she obviously falls in love
45:43
with Kiff. But Bender here from Mums, from Mum's shot wherever it's course
45:49
America's heartland, Mexico. And I love this as a wrestling fan that Clearcutter
45:54
was from and made of parts unknown. There's always that one wrestler who's from
45:59
parts known. It's just like the phrases. So hermis tries to give Fry
46:05
the brain slug here, and I mean, it's just not going to happen.
46:07
Then we get Bender Gant hit with the axe in the back and drilled
46:10
through the face and I'm like, yeah, he's axhole. Yeah. So
46:15
Bender doesn't know it's fake at this point of what's going on here, but
46:17
the click Cutter here explodes and he knows. When Bender is putting his arm
46:21
back on, it's a like a shotgun sound, the sound that they use
46:23
from The Simpsons. I don't know why they have missed it, but yes,
46:27
Bender is the winner. He has defeated the click Cutter, even though
46:30
he doesn't really know how he did it. He's backstage now, he's just
46:32
he's so happy. Yeah, I took a life nice work out there,
46:38
kid, you know, I think he might be dead. I took a
46:42
life boss. Yeah, dude, Hey he's that dad. What's up with
46:47
that watch? It didn't read the pamphlet Ultimate Robot Fighting is a scam,
46:51
kid, It's rigged. It's a secret, so I'll keep it under your
46:53
head. But the most popular robot always wins. You mean I'm not a
46:59
great fighter. I just won because I'm popular, Bengal, I'm popular.
47:04
In fact, you're more than popular. You're pure lowest common denominator. Go
47:07
Bender, Go Bender go. Bender. Still is still an up shot for
47:13
still the upside for a Bender. You know, he's the lowest common denominator
47:15
according to the according the Boss, so he's now known as Bender the offender.
47:20
He's just next con trying to get straight and get his kids back.
47:22
I'm like, that's so awesome. The guy that the bend of three sixteen
47:29
shirt in the crowd loving it. He's taking on. Of course, he's
47:30
taking a billionaire bots, you know, the complete with his handsful of money.
47:36
Yes, they're just not saying Bender puts the very poor barrel over him.
47:45
So awesome. Then the foreigner, which is just that was my favorite.
47:47
I'm not from here. I've got my own customs, look at my
47:52
crazy passport and then the chainsmoker as you're saying, heading straight to your favorite
47:58
restaurant. So great. You could have enough fucking montage like twice as long
48:01
as this. I would have loved every one of them. Oh god,
48:04
yeah, but just those three were perfect, the foreigner in particular so perfect.
48:07
Yeah. Leader is now waiting for him. You know you're supposed to
48:12
be training. This was always used in Fox eight commercials for Futurrauma. You
48:15
know, I'm also an ultimate robot lover Leader though, so Leader character in
48:22
this she's basically she's lutching herself onto Bender's career here because she wants to get
48:27
back at Fornog. But it's Fornog. But she doesn't know FOG's part of
48:30
the other. She's just she's just working out some of her own issues.
48:35
Yeah, yeah, what do you mean we? I mean us? So
48:38
Bender says he doesn't need her because obviously it's fake and he hasn't told her
48:40
it's fake yet. She can't work out how are you always winning? You
48:44
know? And he doesn't need anybody, of course, he needs Flusies though.
48:46
Well. Obviously my favorite line of the episode, We're gonna do with
48:52
a couple of fluses in our life from time to time. And he walks
48:53
off from the light up dollar sign on the back of his coat. We're
48:57
now at the ultimate robot fighting HQ and see the son of the front hiring
49:00
giant. He'll billy Robot Bender. Your popularity is slipping. Sales of your
49:07
Bender brand French Mill bathsols are down twenty percent. Those morons, I said,
49:13
teaberry nut sandal Wood. Damn it. Bender. If you can't move
49:15
sander Wood, you don't belong in this league. That's why you're gonna lose
49:20
next week's title match. But the crowd loves me, perhaps, but let's
49:23
see how they feel about your new persona, the gender Bender. You will
49:28
be the most unpopular robot fight us in sergeant Feces process of oh yeah,
49:34
well what if I don't let the new guy win, Dan, he'll just
49:37
have to beat you the old fashioned way to death. Melessa sending the new
49:42
kid. I am destructor see it the fight he threatens your sexuality? Yeah,
49:55
not exactly progressive when it comes to gender issues. This particular episode of
50:00
your drama bed what can you do? They introduced destructor push the button door
50:06
opens. He just burst through the wall. Anyway wall see you at the
50:09
fight, and Bender then tells everybody the story word for word and say way
50:14
he said it. And he explains to everybody how robot the robot fighting his
50:16
fake. They couldn't believe it, you know, I thought it was real
50:19
like pro wrestling, not fixed like boxing boxing. Leather then refuses to help.
50:24
You know, well, if you didn't want my help when you didn't
50:27
need it, then why would I give it to you when you do What
50:29
the hell are you talking about? I don't know, but I'm still not
50:31
going to help. Like she's so confused, she's just so caught up in
50:34
her own issues, like you were saying. And then she turns on the
50:37
TV and she sees the ad for gender Bender, like he's saying, he
50:40
threatens your sexuality. I love it. Leaning laying on the bed with his
50:44
legs crossed on the on the telephone and master for noogue. I've got here's
50:50
the manager. But he's not really the manager. He's just I guess you
50:52
could say, like the trainer. I guess he's going to be called there
50:53
like the corner and or, but he's not. He's not even that though,
50:55
because he never he's never seen him, he's underneath the ring. Yes,
50:59
yeah, them, Yeah, it feels more like trainer than than manager
51:02
though it does. But the thing is when you look at this logically,
51:07
which is stupid, I know, but it's like, so, who was
51:12
operating Destructor when he was there with mister Fogg on the TV and stuff like
51:15
that? Who was operating Destructor when he burst through the wall? Bloody logic,
51:22
ruining our enjoyment of these episodes. It doesn't matter. But Leither says
51:25
she's gonna teach better to fight like a girl. So he says, I
51:28
go put on my two too. It's now time for the championship bout where
51:31
there will be no gambling. The destructor he's use in battle as a war
51:35
crime, and Benderson his two too. Did you notice there was an animation
51:38
error here? Fries got the towel around his neck, but it's black,
51:42
not white. You've got the egalize you do old egalized Dando here, But
51:46
rich Little was here as Howard Cassell and George Foreman. I didn't think George
51:50
Foreman really added much to this, No, no, I mean very enthusiastic.
51:54
Absolutely. I mean he threw himself into the into the role with Gusto.
51:57
But but he didn't didn't play himself though, because he wasn't on the
52:00
page, was he George George Foreman wasn't in the guest appearances. George Foreman
52:05
performance was full of gus stars George Foreman. So George Foreman's head unless I
52:09
just forgot to put him on there. It was voiced by John de Bacio,
52:15
didn't you. Rod didn't add a great deal. I mean, the
52:19
only thing he really had was just the disgusting spectacle of drinking the fat from
52:22
the George Foreman girl. Yeah, having a George Foreman girl. And I'm
52:23
just like, well, I'm never gonna be fat ever again. I'm gonna
52:29
eat all the fried chicken I want. And we weren't good at my hips.
52:32
This is rich little imitating Howard Cowseell hair red ring sided with George Foreman,
52:38
George A word and edgewise. This could be the most one sided fight
52:44
since nineteen seventy three, when Ali faced an eighty foot Tom mechanical Joe Frazer.
52:49
My memories now what it used to be. But I think the entire
52:51
earth was destroyed. Interesting if true. The Vega SARTs tonight standard an unpresent.
52:57
I did one thousand to zero a bet of zero dollars on Bender pays
53:01
one thousand dollar as if he wins, still very field takers. Isn't that
53:07
not a smart bet? Later then says, you know, don't worry,
53:10
just kick his head off, kick off the structor's head, and Better says,
53:14
all right, nope, I'm gonna do that, And whilst he's practicing
53:15
his kicking, he kicks off the brain slug from her Meason and puts it
53:17
back on his head. Amy's. Meanwhile, he gives Professor the program.
53:22
I feel a Professor as a character. They haven't forgotten him, but he
53:27
hasn't really have been given much to do lately. He's more for the odd
53:30
punchline to do with how decrepit he is. Yeah, because when you think,
53:35
what he's not really driving stories or anything like that. Let's go to
53:37
season two. So I think the last one he did was like Mars University?
53:42
Was that season one? Was that season two? So he wasn't that
53:44
feels like season one? So if we go back radio, you put your
53:46
head on my shoulders. Less of two evils. He kind of rolling that
53:50
gave him the gag, the Zoibeck episode Christmas Story. It's just kind of
53:54
it's just kind of a punchline, now, isn't he years it's you know,
53:59
almost zoid burgish. Yeah, that's what he's coming down to. Yeah,
54:01
it's just the old the silly old professor. Now, I always good
54:06
episode is going forward, but up to this point anyway. So then we
54:07
got the front Row, got zap Kiff calculated Nixon and yeah, the alien
54:12
from the episode five or six or what it was from there was my Three
54:16
Sons episode The King the Emperor from that episode on the front row booing.
54:21
I just love that they're so they've brought into it because he appeals to the
54:24
laws coming dominated you know, boo, get that hippie off the head Dixon.
54:30
Just the outrage. That's the thing about wrestling. Knows go to a
54:32
live event and everyone's just buying into it because they everyone knows it's not real.
54:37
But that's the fun of it. You Yeah, it's pantomime. You
54:40
know, you're just you're playing along. Everyone else is playing along as well.
54:44
It's okay to act like a dickhead, you know, no one,
54:45
no one's going to judge you for it because we're all just wrestling fans.
54:49
Just play along, don't be don't be that guy that he goes to a
54:52
fucking ghost tour and goes you know, there's no such thing as ghosts,
54:53
Like we fucking know it's not real. Why did you come forward? You
54:57
don't like it? Just let us buy in to the Yeah, buy into
55:01
the fantasy for a little while. So we meet again, most amusing girl
55:07
who acts like fighters, training fighter who acts like girl. Keep laughing,
55:10
Fnog, He's just never ending, mister Fogg. Terrible, terrible creature,
55:20
is it, mister master Probably yeah, Master Phenog. I'm just I've just
55:24
been writing, mister in my notes, Master Phenog, and Destructor A Midley
55:29
starts killing ban Duck, just beating the shit out of him. And this
55:30
is where foreman It drinks the fat out of his mouth. Fry, it's
55:34
revealed he has wearing the brain slug, which was a good reveal. I'll
55:37
give it that. He's like throwing the towel for love of god, Fry,
55:39
why aren't you helping me? And because the only way to throw in
55:43
the towel according to the story, So he can't because the brain slug.
55:45
So they sort of write that little um, what would you call it?
55:49
Not a plothole? But it's just like, well, why did you just
55:51
end the fight while he can't. Then we get the really great slow mo
55:53
which is a takeoff of which movie, mister Davis, I'll leave it for
55:55
you of Raging Bull starring Robert Nero and former heavyweight champion Jake LaMotta, one
56:01
of the greatest movies of all time, which is where we get Raging Bender
56:05
from. Correct, Except when I was a kid, whenever I saw a
56:07
raging Bender, I was frais, my little dirty mone went to raging Boner.
56:13
You're only human. I'm only human. But now, when Bender's getting
56:16
beaten up, he yells at mummy. And that's the thing you see a
56:21
lot like when people and guys, grown men feel like they're about to meet
56:23
their maker, they yell for mummy. Yeah. Yeah, whether you're on
56:28
Normandy Beach or in the wrestling ring, it's usually your mum. You're calling
56:31
for Leela. She notices a little radar didition, What's what's that? What's
56:35
going on here? And Benders asking why won't anyone help him? She looks
56:37
under, she sees under the ring and he is basically, what's those suits
56:43
called where it's emotion emotion capture, I think kind of yeah yeah, motion
56:46
capture, yeah yeah, and she um, she starts fighting hile you're an
56:51
excellent student. Too bad, I was a lousy teacher. And they're having
56:52
their big fight, big battle, and Bender says, this is where our
56:57
destructor starts moving backwards, and Benders like, what's endering time? Take off
57:01
of Hulk. It's clobbering time, clab and talking time. Yeah, yeah,
57:05
no, the thing from the Fantastic the Thing, Yes, the Fantastic
57:09
four, not the Fantastic four. Jesus Christ, I'm messing up my my
57:15
MCUs. Yes, but yes, So they're having a big fight and Lela
57:20
realized that she can grab the hand of him slam it down into his own
57:22
head, which I thought was a good twist. It was. It proves
57:27
that Leela was, you know, just a smart fighter, yes, and
57:31
which unfortunately results in Bender losing anyway, gets squashed by the structor. Everyone
57:37
everyone wins in the end, except for Bender, who gets flattened out.
57:40
But he get he does, but at least he does get a ten percent
57:43
off whenever he goes to what's the bed bath and beyond that is correct,
57:46
and you know Leally gets to feel good about herself because I beat up somebody
57:50
who hurt my feelings in high school. Yes, and Friday. No one
57:52
has the brain's lug either, because it's staffed to death. Now this is
57:55
a reference to an episode going forward that gets mentioned an episode going for it.
58:00
Apparently he has the delta brain wave. So the delta brain wave is
58:02
something that people have who weren't from the future. So that's why it wasn't
58:07
able to get any sustenance from his brain. Would you find out in a
58:10
future episode why that is the case. But that's why he has a different
58:14
brain wave to herb he starts, that's why the brain slug as they were
58:17
to feast on him and not on fright, that is the future of future
58:22
rama. M So they roll up bender, I mean, and with rich
58:24
Little and George Foreman doing this a bit that kind of lost to me,
58:29
so said, he says things funny, that's the gag, But it wasn't
58:32
really much of an ending. I felt the ending was for an episode that
58:37
was so over the top and you know, flamboyant with wrestling and things like
58:39
that was a kind of flat ending for me, It's kind of petered out,
58:44
didn't it. Yeah, it didn't really end with a bang, just
58:45
sort of a whimper. Yeah, anyway, but that aside. As a
58:50
wrestling fan, I've always loved this episode. I think they did a beautiful
58:52
mass to the pro wrestling industry of this. They can tell they definitely some
58:57
of them were wrestling fans. Whoever put this episode together, because just a
58:59
little details that really really made up for the what it lacked. But anyway,
59:04
yeah, Raging Bennet, fantastic episode of Future and I hope you guys
59:06
have enjoyed our review. The next episode we are going to be doing is
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