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BONUS: Xmas Story ("Tales Of Futurama" Patreon Exclusive) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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You've been very naughty, Brian Leila. I check my list. We'll check
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it twice. I perform over fifty megachecks per second. You're both naughty for
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disregarding each other's feelings. But we said things right for I even risked his
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life to get me a present. But what about your other co workers?
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Did either of you ever stop to think about doctor Zoidberg's feelings? No,
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I swear good news everyone, I'm back baby. Welcome to this very festive
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episode of Tales of Future. I'm aware this week we're here to review episode
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two ac V zero four. Ahead in the polls ID guy, and I'm
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very confused. Yes, no, no, it's Christmas time. And Dano,
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as we all know, is father. It's not Christmas time. This
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Tales of Futurama, Sir, it's experst time. Ah okay, then fine,
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it's excellist time. And Dano, as we all know, is father.
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Excellas he just loves everything mule Tide and you know, Santa related and
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all that kind of business. So yes, it did. It makes sense
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that we'll be talking about xCE me story and you know, skipping ahead a
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little bit or skipping around in the schedule. A little bit. Yeah,
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so the next episode we're going to go back into a head and the polls,
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just so we haven't skipped that one. And then we just thought,
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cause it's Christmas time, here is ex mes story with your good old friends
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Guy and Dano. But this episode here, it's a really really fun Futurama
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spin on Christmas time. I'm just gonna say chrismas it just comes naturally,
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just will say Christmas time. I don't know they say excess in the episode.
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They managed to incorporate a Santa story. But I love the evil Santa
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aspect. It just seems to fit so perfectly that Santa's this evil robot that
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wasn't meant to be evil, but he was just a human error turned him
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into this evil being. Yeah, technology run a muck thanks to human error,
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of course, as is often the way it makes the robot Santurine.
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Is even better the fact that it's voiced by John Goodman. Correct. Yes,
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now it's a scientific fact everybody that John Goodman has never given a bad
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performance, just the best actor there is, and yeah, incredibly good as
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Santa Claus, just running a muck being both either insanely jolly or jollily insane,
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but you know, it's wonderful, and it's just that little bit of
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nutmeg to the eggnog that spit on the character and the fact that it was
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an evil santur and not not violent but just it's a little scary at times,
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kind of for a future on episode, Fox were concerned about this and
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they thought, I'm not sure this is really suitable for the time slide that
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we'll put futuramor in. I'm thinking, what's like, that's what's going on
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here. But then as a result, next Xmas Story episode, The Tale
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of Two Sanders, got pushed back a year and and at a later time
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frame. As a result, I'm thinking, this is what happens when you
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don't get the Brooks deal. Guys. Look, people get so people get
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very bunched up around the what's appropriate at Christmas times? Like, no,
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everything's got to be just like a lot of people celebrate Christmas in a lot
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of different ways, and a lot of people have different attitudes and different approaches.
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And I think, you know, some people would like say Gremlins,
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which has you know, a set of Christmas time and has a slightly darker
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take on things, or something like this, which has a slightly violent take
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on it. It's great, you know, let people celebrate Christmas how they
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want to celebrate Christmas. I like that Christmas still exists in the year three
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thousand, but it's still different in ways, like it still feels like Christmas,
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but there's just little things, but little things that to someone like Fright
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feel like a big deal. Like the tree, Oh yeah, like that's
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not a Christmas tree, of course, it's a Christmas tree. Or the
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new words to Santa Claus is coming to town, So it was that Santy
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Claus is gunning you down in new song. Things like that. They're really
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clever in the way they take what we perceive as just a tradition and make
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it their own, but still feel like it's still the same tradition very much.
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So. Yeah, it's one of the hallmarks on the show, how
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clever it is in doing those little tweaks and twists. Yeah, this was
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actually one of the first ideas that Matt Groening and David x come and came
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up with before the show was put into production. It's one of the real
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the ideas they pitched. Yeah, besides, this is the pilot with the
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two ones, they sort of went, this is what we want to do.
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These are two episodes ideas that we have and they must have liked it,
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and then once they made it, they're like, we're not to show
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shirt this shit. Well, for kids, there's nothing in here that's really
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scary besides the fact that Sander's perceived as evil is that it's not scary but
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some good action sequences, doesn't They sort of get gunned down or chased down
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and things like that. But if it wasn't Santa, but it really matter.
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I don't think so. No, And I'm wondering what sort of kids
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they think thing about it. I mean, how old are the kids who
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would be I mean, I imagine like a kid Elliot's age or Hoies age
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would probably be like no, that's and you know, get a bit confused
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and a bit maybe a bit upset. But you know, those kids shouldn't
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be watching futu around anyway. It's past their bit time. And even single
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digit age kids who think themselves don't get a step and watch future around,
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I don't think they're going to be like, oh no, not sand or
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anything like that. I don't think that's going to happen. So I wonder
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who the suits are protecting. It does give you a good insight though,
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into why Futurama failed in the end, because Fox just fucked with it.
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Oh yeah, out of order and different time slots and as soon as you
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as soon as you move time slots, it's a it's a death trap,
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it really is. You've got to have a little faith because I remember featuring
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it just being so hard to follow in Australia anyway, add on channel seven.
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I think it started on Channel ten because that's what the Simpsons were,
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but it was on Channel seven, and then sometimes it'd be on Mondays at
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like ten at night, and then it'll be on Thursdays at seven thirty,
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and you're like, what do you what is what's going on here? Haven't
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haven't you know you think that people anyone associated with Futurama would be able to
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say, just one small adjustment can mess with the whole time. Yeah.
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That was what happened to Firefly, right, it was. Yeah, that
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was all out again. Yeah, a very similar Fox situation. It all
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out of water, time slots shifted around similarly, similar similar time as well.
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Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know you thought you think those guys
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would have worked it out by then, but no they did not. No,
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No, But as we're saying, John Gorgan was just fantastic as Robot
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Santa. But we also get a an appearance from Conan O'Brien doing some stand
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up equally good in fact, Yeah, probably one of my favorite parts of
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the episode, the whole the whole Conean appearance, and but also the way
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that everyone reacts to him. No one's got any time for Gunn and O'Brien.
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Nah, and no, it's is that Colone O'Brien is probably the kind
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of person that would pitch that, you know, make sure they don't like
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me, say that I'm not funny, say that I'm an idiot, because
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he doesn't care that he's just he's a genius. But the animator is actually
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because of the perception is that he's going to giant ahead. They drew his
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head too big for the jar, so he'd his head was sticking out of
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the jar. Parannimators did not like that, right, No, no,
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because they got their template to draw people in a jar, and now they're
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going to readjig, tinker with it a little bit and make his head appear
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out of the Top. But also we mentioned in the last podcast Frank Welker
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he voiced Nibbler. He also voiced the parrot in this and voice stripe in
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Gremlin, So they're all connected in the great circle of fourthing a discount.
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Oh my god, that unifying theory of four thing a discount is coming true
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again. It's starting to get a little weird. If he asked me,
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h, so we've got here. Also a small visual joke. I got
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this offt the Infosphere, a good website for future I'm a fans, check
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out the Infosphere, says. A small visual joke that was added was that
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the clock tower is shown at the end of the episode, and at the
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time on the clock is the same of the as the actual time that that
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scene would have been airing during its original run. How cool is that?
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That's it's pretty smart. It's pretty fucking awesome. I mean, no one
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who would actually have even realize that, but that knowing now that it's there,
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I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how many people
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would have been watching this episode when it first ran, or ran at that
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time, but you know, imagine there's probably just one person who looked at
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the you know, caught it out the corner that I on the screen and
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looked at their own watching Wait a minute, wait what Look, it's the
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same time. What's going on? Yeah, I would have just made their
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night. As we've said before here on the show, Future Rummer was a
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show that you knew it was made for geeks and made for people who look
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for the Easter eggs. So by this point in season two, as a
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viewer, if you're one of those people, you're looking for things like that.
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So yeah, it's just it's just I love that kind of aspect that
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they into the show. But I like this episode in the sense that,
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you know, it's a traditional Christmas episode. It's got some heart, it's
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got some wackiness, it's got a whole bunch of everything. But I like
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how they poke fun at the materialism of Christmas time and the present giving,
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and they sold their hair to get it wasn't clips, was it? Was
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it clips? That That's what Yeah, Yeah, I think that's something we've
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talked about on maybe on four Finger discount in the past. But yeah,
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the old o Henry story of the Gift of the magi, Yeah, yeah,
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maybe the wollen the gift of the magi. Yeah, yeah, because
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the gist of that is you've got this loving couple who he's got this lovely
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antique pocket watch that was like a gift from his father. She's got beautiful
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long hair, and they love each other so much, and for Christmas,
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she cuts off all her hair to you know, donate to a wig maker
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so she can buy a chain for his lovely pocket watch. He sells his
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lovely pocket watch so you can get comb for his wife's lovely hair, and
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they both oh man. The story actually ends with them saying what the fuck
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know that it doesn't, But it's it's a sweet and sad story, and
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y'all I like the riff that they do want to hear. It's like,
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well, we'll get to it when we get to it. All works out
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well for Zoidberg. I loved how much Zoidberg was in this episode. But
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then I like Zoidberg a lot, so it's it's one of my favorite moments.
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I'll just say here, I love Santa's love for Zoidberg, except here's
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a bogus everything's there. Everything works out for Zoubeger this episode, which is
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nice. It's one of those things where he's usually the butt of jokes.
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But being a giving episode, a festive episode Christmas, it's giving time,
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it's important that the character gets he does that is correct? Yeah, it's
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funny. I mean, I know that Zoidberg is kind of presented as the
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one that everyone rags on, but it doesn't I don't know the episodes we've
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watched, it doesn't really feel that way so much. He's just kind of
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a sad sack and it doesn't feel like it was going to a fuck is
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Zoidberg. It's been like he's kind of ignored and kind of sidelined and and
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he's kind of used that. Hey, it's sometimes they so I think,
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what was the one with the when aliens attack? It's like way to overact
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Zoidberg like things like that, but it's not overly cruel. I can't record
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and it's overly cruel. He's not the whipping boy. No, no,
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not not anyway. And the next episode in the series, which is not
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the one we're going to be reviewing, but the next one is called why
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Must I Be a Crustacean in Love? Which is all about Zoidberg. You'll
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really enjoy that one. That one's really really good. But yeah, as
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I was saying, I like that they poke fund the materialism of Christmas,
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but also they support the Christmas spirit in this episode as well. I've got
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to say, it looks really nice a planet express HQ around Christmas time.
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It does, doesn't everyone's crazy. You've got the fire going, decorations are
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up. Even Bend is sitting there with Nibbler in his arms. Yeah,
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you know, there's a whole feeling of well being and you know, enjoying
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on earth and goodwill to all people. It's lovely. Yeah, it definitely
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is. Plus in this episode, we also get some advancement with the Leela
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Fry will they won't they story. They nearly do in this one. Nearly
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lands a big smooch on the lips, but it's because they both realize that
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he's lonely for the reasons he came from nine Time nine. She's lonely because
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she's the only known person from most species, so they're sort of going to
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be lonely together. So that found a common ground there, and I thought
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it was a very nice way of bringing them together but still leading you on.
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Yeah, they didn't quite give you what you want. Well, yeah,
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but it's good. Ye mean, they are both outsiders in this this
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environment, so yeah, it makes sense they would sort of gravitate towards one
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another. I don't know if I'm buying and just yet, but yeah,
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I appreciate that they're they're taking their time with this courtship. The good thing
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too, was that when they pull the rug out and they don't give you
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the kiss moment, they do it with something that sort of doesn't leave you
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disappointed. So the parrot with the missile, it's like, you're not going
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ah, you focus on You're focusing on the fact that parrot savings and it's
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a funny moment. You know, Oh, it's my favorite robot. It's
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me, no one else look in this mirror. What were your favorite moments
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from ex me story? What did I ANDROI? Well, you know,
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anything with John Goodman there you go, Yeah, can't complain about that.
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But also, yeah, do you think it sounded like John Goodman? Or
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was it Once you realize it was John Goodman, You're like, oh,
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yeah, that sounds like John Goodman. I knew it was John Goodman going
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in okay, and then you know when he first appeared and first started talking,
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it's like it could be anybody but then you hear sort of certain inflections
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in certain rule it's like, oh, yeah, that's definitely John Goodman.
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Yes, oh that's Fred Flintstone from the nineteen ninety three smash it film Flintstones.
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Correct. Was it ninety three that film? I want to say ninety
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four ninety four, Maybe it was ninety four year right, Yeah, but
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re visit that long because that's a film that I loved as a kid,
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and I've always kid. Yeah, but I remember it being a good incarnation
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of a TV show. Remember, I actually kind of liked the sequel.
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I love the sequel in Viva Rock Vegas is awesome. It's really good,
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and I mean it's gotten none of the people from the original Flintstones. But
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I remember I remember running in my review after seeing It's like, I never
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thought I'd say this, Steve Barney Rubble maybe the role that Stephen Baldwin was
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born to play. It was really funny because it was Rick morandas in the
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first one, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the
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the Flintstone I mean the Yeah, Flintstones maybe had a really good cast.
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I got to say between you know, John Goodman, Rick moranis Elizabeth Perkins
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and Rosie O'Donnell, Elizabeth Taylor is in it, Hallie Berry and who was
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who was? It was a chicken from Alian McBeal. She was the and
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that was that was the Barney's wife. And the second wasn't she? Yeah
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it was the woman from Third Rock as Wilma. Yeah. Jane Krakowski from
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Allen Bell in thirty Rock. Yeah, Jane Krakowski is. And the fact
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I from Full Monty was Fred he was and did pretty good, did pretty
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well. Yeah, let's let's a sequel. We should probably watch a sequel
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rather than rather than the John Goodman. But I remember thinking Viva Roth Bakers
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was actually really enjoyable. Yeah, much to my surprise. What else did
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I enjoy? Yeah, the cone and dissing when they're all walking, when
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they're walking out of the gig and just sledging him. I thought it was
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great. We've been seeing a lot of Peanuts shout outs on various that we
15:31
cover, so the Simpson's yeah, yeah, all the shows we cover under
15:39
the Forefinger discount umbrella, and this of course had another one as well where
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the kids are skating around the pond. You've got the sort of Peanuts esque
15:45
piano music, and then of course Bender just ruins it all. So I
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love that. How long they stretched that out? I think I went for
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like a good ten seconds before Bender actually fell, waiting to the point where
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you're like, is he gonna fall? And it boo. I think they
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want to also wanted you to make sure it's like, you know, we're
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doing Peanuts here, right, I guess so yeah, And this is a
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bit of an odd one, just the professor's weird noises that he was making.
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He'd occasionally made these weird sounds like yes, which gave me a tickled
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me somewhat. So yeah. They were some of my favorite things from this
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episode, how about you, dan it. I really enjoyed the Cool Runnings
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reference the Jamaican Bobs, their team, true inspiration for the children. They
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came last, and they just sold booze true inspiration for the children. Very
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funny. Cool Runnings was was huge there for a while. That was that
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was also about like I only three, or maybe that was ninety three.
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I'd love Cool Runnings. Man, John Candy, that is so great.
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M yeah, man, Cool Running Month. Yeah, Lucky Egg, the
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Lucky Egg. I mean that movie has so many quotes so that was like
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for someone who grew up in the nineties, that was like right up there.
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We loved eggs, Yeah, we loved it. Also, I love
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that when Leela saves Fry, I'm gonna get you so many lizards that shouldn't
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be a romantic lion, but it was yeah, yeah. And then as
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I've just got her satus love for Zoidberg. You're been very naughty, except
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you Zoidberg. And then Zoberg just bouncing around the purpose stick was very good.
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I want to ask you a question. All right, it's time for
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some trivia, but before then, giving that it's the festive season and the
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19:00
Christmas to all those people as well. We don't we say Mary Christmas,
19:03
Happy Holidays, Happy whatever you do, whatever however you celebrate this part of
19:07
the you enjoy it. Indeed, season's greetings, one might say, and
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a happy New Year to all of us. Exactly right. Okay, what
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my first question is what number was professor when he was skiing? You see
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when he arrives and he's asleep, and he's got the bronze medal around his
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neck. He holds it up and you see what number a vest he's wearing.
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Well, I certainly didn't. It was okay, so you would have
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been you would have been this age when Corel Runnings was released. Oh okay,
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twenty four twenty four. Hey, that was That was a very good
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prompt. My first question to you, where could you catch Conan O'Brien's act
19:56
next time? Or the andropter hut chuckle hut You got it? Chuckle hut,
20:02
Yes, the chuckle hut. Yes, that was one of my favorite
20:04
names for a comedy venue, and I always use it disparagingly, you know,
20:10
whenever I see someone trying to riff, and I'm like, you're doing
20:14
your type five with the chuckle Hut. Did you get it from this or
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do you? I don't think so. I think I've heard it somewhere before.
20:22
But it's such a great name for like a shitty comedy. Yeah,
20:26
see it, the chuckle Hut. It sounds like the kind of places attached
20:32
to some tourist like casino or something, isn't it or you know a pub
20:38
that can't quite find it's vibe. Yeah, all right, we're got a
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comedy night, follow trivia. When Wednesday night is comedy night at the chuckle
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Hut, Thursday State Night, Friday trivia, Yes, Thursday night is Palmi
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night. Tight as Tuesdays? I have to explain to Nicol what tit as
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Tuesdays was the other day? Once she saw She's like, what's Titus Tuesdays?
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And I was like, where do I go with this? Where do
21:08
I go with this? I could? I could head off in any number
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of directors. Wafully. You took the right one, Oh I did.
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The next one was my question is what number was bender Son number? What?
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Oh damn it, it's not ten eighty two? Is got one of
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those numbers? In it, Well, two of those numbers, it's seventeen
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twenty nine, seventeen twenty yeah, because it's a it's a it's a geeky
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scientific reference. Is its a reference to something called the hardy ramanuin number?
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Yeah? Which, okay, that's and I read the explanation. I was
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like, I can't I know two of these words. I'm not going to
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read this out. That's above my pee. Agree, Yeah, exactly right.
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Yeah, what's the next one? What is the name of Zoidberg's cousin.
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Oh, good question, and I do not know what is it.
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It's Zoid Farb zoid fab of course on the card. Yes, yes,
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And my final question is what year did the Friendly Robot Company build a robot
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Sander? Oh? Was it twenty two something? No? Add six hundred
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to that, so it's twenty eight something two eight four to two. No,
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it is basically two hundred years prior to this episode, twenty eight hundred
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twenty oh one, because I think they're gone through a new year. I
22:37
believe maybe they haven't yet, but it's twenty eight oh one. Yes,
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okay, I have one more question for you, if you wanted what were
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the ingredients in Fry's dad's eggnog ah, yep, I know this. It's
22:48
ice cubes and bourbon of bourbon or something that is right, yes, all
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right, that is trivia for ex MEAs story. Let's get into our review.
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The original edit of this episode it was December nineteenth, nineteen ninety nine.
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It was written by David X. Cohen and directed by Peter Avanzino.
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The opening caption was based on a true story and the opening cartoon was Alma
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Fudd in Fresh Hair from nineteen forty two. The episode kicks off at the
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Catskills Lodge, Ladies and Gentlemen Conan O'Brien's head. Thank you, thank you.
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Let's get started, Max, play me over a looks like someone forgot
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to feed Max. So people are getting pretty worried about this y two k
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problem. Huh Now they fixed that nine hundred years ago. Just bear with
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me, sir. Anyway, I'm walking to work this morning. I got
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it. Listen, pal, I may have lost my freakishly long legs in
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the War of twenty twelve, but I've still got something You'll never have a
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soul, eh and freckles. Well, I'm out of material. You can
24:06
catch me next week. At the andenrama to chuckle hut, enjoy your breakfast.
24:11
I think many freckles me. Yeah, not anymore when I was younger.
24:17
Yeah yeah, I think time just sort of wears them off, just
24:22
washed them off in the shower. Now I've just got spots. He's all
24:26
finished, and he says, check me out the end. Drop it a
24:27
chuckle hut. As you said, Bender, they're walking off. Benda's comedy
24:32
is a dead art form. Now tragedy. There's the future in there,
24:36
Professor says, let's go do some scheme to forget about the moldy old antics
24:40
of Conan O'Brien. I'm just so it's so great that Conan has that connection
24:45
to the future. Rummer and Simpson's staff, you know what I mean,
24:47
Like he's he's he's said recently that that March versus Monoail episode is probably his
24:52
biggest success. What do you think is his biggest success, Conan O'Brien,
24:57
What do you think he'll be remembered for the most Well, they're all connected,
25:00
aren't they really? I mean, I mean, I think it's it's
25:03
going to be the talk show. I'd say, when when that when it
25:08
comes right down to it, you know, when and when that sad day
25:11
comes when we're writing. Conan O'Brian's a bit true like, you know,
25:14
late night talk show host, but you know, sort of multi talented late
25:17
night talk show host. Well he changed late night, didn't he. He
25:19
made it more of he made it more of a comedy, didn't he.
25:22
I think I think Letterman's sort of started with that. But although Letterman was
25:26
working with a format that was kind of pre existing, and Conan did sort
25:30
of start his own thing. He had the puppet. It was a dog's
25:33
name, the puppet. Remember the Triumph the insult comic dog. Yeah,
25:37
there's a lot of weird absurd ship on Conan's the mouth, I think the
25:40
mouth dag, Yeah, you know, Pimp pot I think Pimp Bom was
25:45
kind of hilarious. I think he'd probably be membered as the as the talk
25:48
show host. But you know, yeah, certainly the writing is definitely going
25:52
to come in there. Because he's got just a couple of really classic Simpsons
25:56
episodes to his name and all that kind of stuff. I guess he's I
25:59
guess his perception might be that, you know, nobody's talking about the interview
26:02
he did in nineteen ninety seven with Kevin Costner. But everyone's still talking about
26:04
Marchers of the Monorail. Yeah, now I'm going with I'm sticking to my
26:10
guns. I'm gonna say but because he really did, if not reinvented and
26:15
certainly reinvigorate Late Night in a lot of ways. So yeah, I'm gonna
26:18
go with that. But you are not incorrect by saying, yeah that he
26:22
wrote Marches of the Monorail, that's pretty good thing to have on your don't
26:29
his toombs. I should just say mono equals one and rail equals rail,
26:33
and that concludes this funeral. But the we get discussion here about global warming.
26:38
Glad never happened. I know it did, just the nuclear winter canceled
26:41
it out. Then we get the just basically, this was just similar to
26:47
the episode when Aliens attack when they go to the beach, except that it's
26:51
the crew at the ski lodge. And I always like this when they're just
26:52
going out and sort of hanging out as a unit, because you don't really
26:56
do this all that often with your workmates, go out and hang it as
26:59
a unit, No, but when there occasion when you do, and it's
27:02
actually kind of fun. I remember when you and I were working together at
27:06
Pop Culture we had the was it the Easter party that we were in bowling?
27:11
Yes, that's right. Remember that got really drunk and wellly did Yeah,
27:17
drunken bowling. That's good times. Yeah, but you know that all
27:21
of us were together and no, we're just having a lot of laughs.
27:25
Yea good fun occasion playing with people that you normally haven't spoken to, and
27:30
you're like, we've seen you. What's in the same premises that you've for
27:33
you has never spoken to you? Cool chick, cool, not bad person.
27:38
Yeah. So the skal that's is broken, Zberg stuck up there with
27:41
with Hermes. Then we see Farnsworth. He's he's killing it, but unfortunately
27:45
he's asleep, he's escaping, he's sleeping. Then we get the trees down
27:48
gag. I like this, just simple trees down, say trees up up.
27:53
Then Bender is skiing well with his Jester hat. I love his just
27:57
hat. There's no need to be wearing a just a hat, but he's
28:00
wearing one. He gets warned that he's going off the trail. Lick my
28:03
frozen metal ass and straight off the cliff, gets his comeuppings and he falls
28:07
into the pond, much like Peanuts. Obviously this doesn't happen in the Peanuts
28:11
Christmas Special, but that's a future on a spin. Then Zoiberg mocks Hermes
28:15
for trying to your own a bobslade now that I'd like to see. And
28:18
then as you were saying earlier, yeah, I remember, then it came
28:22
last and retired alcoholic beverages. True inspiration for the children children. Then Hermies
28:29
tries to go bobsledding. Of course Terrible just goes upside down. Little help
28:33
Zoibeg doesn't happen by getting him out, he pushes it and then as Zoibeg's
28:37
laughing, he sinks down there as well and was like, oh fuck.
28:41
It reminded me. I don't know whether you ever had one of these as
28:42
a kid, but we called it a slip and slide. I'm well aware
28:47
of a slip in side. I've never had one. I maybe used one
28:49
once or twice, and I think they're more fun on the packaging than they
28:52
actually are. They're very fun. Just make sure there's no rocks in the
28:56
grass that you put it down on, because if you go over at rocks,
28:59
it's just not good. You don't do it at all anyway. So
29:03
we're back at the lodge and Amy is comforting a guy with a broken leg,
29:07
but then she sees the guy with more injuries, more of a turn
29:08
on and Farnsworth and arrives asleep still and he wakes up. If you had
29:14
a bronze medal he somehow won the skiing contest, or he's coming third,
29:17
and everyone's just happy. Everyone's just in the festive Christmas spirit. Mood I
29:21
was like, this is what I was saying. Do I say in this
29:23
podcast what I say in the last one we did that. I went to
29:26
my old work today and everyone was just stressed and sad, and I was
29:30
like, this isn't what's Christmas is all about? This for retail. It
29:33
is for retail, But like I like, when you're with your family most
29:38
of the time, unless you've got some sort of previous tragedy or it's just
29:41
people aren't very nice. Most of the time, people are happier, and
29:45
you sort of always Christmas time, we always go we should do this more,
29:48
we should, we should, we should have more catch ups, you
29:49
know, and then you don't see it for twelve months. But the idea
29:55
if we did see them. Three months later, people go, h,
29:57
I like you all that much. Yeah. Yeah, once a year,
30:00
you're fine. More than that, not so much. But yeah, I'm
30:03
always happy at Christmas time and the year. I enjoy that. It's good
30:07
that the kids are starting to get into it now. It just makes me
30:11
I'm living character through the children again. It's great. Like Elliott the other
30:14
day when he saw Santa, he got so nervous because you were walking past
30:17
and he's like Santa and I was like, wave to him, and he's
30:19
like I was like you wave to him. He's like okay, and he
30:22
waved to him and he sends a way back, and it was just like
30:25
it's like you've just seen a god. So nice to see it. Anyway,
30:30
it's wonerful when you're when you're a kid like that and you've still got
30:33
that youthful innocence. I remember my back in seventy seven when Star Wars came
30:38
out, and you know, I was just the ultimate little Star Wars nerd.
30:41
Yeah, my dad took me down to like some toy shop and like
30:45
really early in the morning. They were doing it really early in the morning
30:48
for some reason because there was some guy dressed as dove Vader there. Oh
30:52
wow, you know I was in the paper. There's like, dove Vader's
30:55
gonna be at this toy store. Dad, Can I get it? Can
30:56
I get a man of infinite patience? Bobby Davis? For goodness sakes,
31:03
this brat of the sundown waking up early to take me down as some toy
31:07
shop so I can see some out of work act. That was some toy
31:11
shop employee. It was just it was just some chick in a costume.
31:15
Yeah yeah, but I was looking at this dude in a star or this
31:19
person in a in a Star war in a in a darve Vader outfit,
31:23
and it was just like me, you feelish be weaking. I was literally
31:33
kind of just star struck by someone who was some minimum weight slub yeah in
31:38
a darve Vader costume. It's crazy. Like when I walked around at during
31:41
Halloween this year with my Scuby Do costume, because kind of a mascot costume,
31:45
like at the theme parks, kids were walking up to me thinking,
31:48
oh, Scooby Doo, and I was like, well, now that I've
31:51
worn this, it is now my duty to fulfill because they don't want to
31:53
meet Scubby Doo as a prick like they love Scooby Doo. They've walked up
31:56
to me, they're excited. I'm gonna give high fives and played the part.
31:59
Now I want to think that I left those kids happy, you know.
32:02
Oh fuck? It was tiring though, man. Anyway. So yeah,
32:09
so it's everyone's in the Christmas spirit. And would they say expost spirit
32:13
far I think you mean Christmas spirit. It's no, no, no,
32:15
it's it's it's it's ex MEAs ah. Nothing like a warm fire and a
32:21
super soaker, a fine cognac. Yeah, it really puts you in the
32:27
Christmas spirit. Watless Christmas you know x m as Oh you mean x mess.
32:34
You must be using an archaic pronunciation, like when you say ask instead
32:37
of x x mess. Huh ah. You know this will be my first
32:43
x mess away from home. Hey, hey, let me ax you something.
32:47
Would it cheer you up if we went and cut down an Xmas tree?
32:51
Yeah, an old fashioned Xmas tree? Hey, these aren't Xmas trees.
32:57
Oh halla, there's supposed to be some kind of you know, pine
33:00
tree. Pine trees have been extinct for eight hundred years. Fry gone the
33:04
way of the poodle and your primitive notions of modesty a risk. They go
33:12
to cut down an Xmas tree. It's not an exmis tree. It's a
33:15
well, not a pine tree, as Fry says, because they've been extinct
33:19
for eight hundred years. Much like the poodle and the sense of modesty,
33:22
how goes this brisk did? One thing I did appreciate about this episode was
33:28
fun's worth willingness to get nude. Yeah, that's the thing. We're so
33:31
anti nude as a society, aren't we. I wonder if that will ever
33:36
change it ebbs and flows, like so many things I think. I mean,
33:42
yeah, you hear about the seventies, and you know, nudism was
33:45
just kind of in, you know, among regular ass people and people who
33:49
weren't even in great shape. It's just like, no, it's good to
33:52
be free, man. So you know, you could have a big old
33:55
beer gut or whatever, a big butt and just be walking around showing it
34:01
off. It's let the good times roll, you know. Then people get
34:06
modest and it comes back, and then it'll go again. So maybe twenty
34:10
twenty three, you and I should make a concerned effort to bring back public
34:13
nudity as long as long as it's brisk out side, I'll do it.
34:15
No, yeah, natural, But Fry is sad and everything's changed. She
34:20
doesn't feel like Christmas. And I can sort of see from Fries's perspective,
34:22
because we all have our our ideas of like, you're not really into Christmas,
34:27
but Christmas time. There's certain things about Christmas time that reminds you of
34:30
Christmas. So they were taken away. They're only little things, but taken
34:32
away. It's like it doesn't really feel like Christmas. Kind of like when
34:35
someone in the family passes away and they're not at the following Christmas, it's
34:37
like it's never quite the same. Non No, But Leilah cuts down there.
34:44
She says, nothing's changed all that much. She cuts down a tree
34:45
with an axe, but uses the laser out of the handle. They then
34:49
arrive back at HQ with the tree attached to the ship and homage to which
34:52
film, Mister Davis, which one was it? It'll be the Griswolds.
34:55
Oh, I was thinking vacation, but oh, there you go, so
35:01
it is. I mean, I just like vacation. I mean, I
35:06
know a lot of people love Christmas vacation. It's not really one of my
35:08
faves. I have never seen any of them. It's interesting because I think
35:14
they got they got a little. The first two were kind of risk something
35:17
Ribald, no doubt. Really. Yeah, it was a lot of a
35:22
lot of shirt off action in the What the Grizzwold films. Yeah, really,
35:30
I didn't know that. A lot of boobs in both Your in Vacation
35:34
and European Vacation, but I think they toned it down to a PG thirteen
35:38
for Christmas Vacation. They commensated by putting Julie Louis Drivers in it. But
35:43
yeah, I've watched it once or twice. I'm like, it's fine,
35:45
it's funny enough, I guess, but when it comes to the Adventures of
35:49
the Griswolves, it's the first vacation. That's it. Okay, well,
35:52
but they're definitely films that we will check out for the movie Guys in twenty
35:54
twenty three. Correct. So they arrived back and I like, Bendy here
36:00
he's holding nibbler and he's singing, oh X mystry, oh x myst try.
36:04
Then he just goes because so many people don't have X line. Oh
36:08
yeah, it's Christmas tree. It's just what people do. They don't know
36:15
the words. All these Christmas songs are so iconic? Can we hear them
36:19
every year repeatedly? But we know like one or two lines in them.
36:22
You know the tune, and that's enough if you can you sing just enough
36:27
to like, oh, that's the song they sing. But then it sounds
36:32
even nice when you're humming it. Every Christmas, my mom would get a
36:37
fresh goose for gooseburgers, and my dad would whip up his special eggnog,
36:40
got a bourbon and ice cubes. This dumb holiday just makes me think of
36:45
all the things I left behind. Let's just stop talking about Xmas Poppy,
36:50
Xmas, xmos people, x mus cads have arrived, xms Amy, there
36:55
you go, fry Professor Zoidberg, A mighty hold for bender. Yes,
37:00
I got the most I win ex meus on the last, but not least,
37:06
the sweet flower of the office me hermi is Conrad, hmmm ah,
37:15
a picture of my mommy. What's this? Cards from my cousin's wide farbe.
37:24
Instead of clause, he writes clause. Now that's humors to those comedians
37:30
got learning from this card. Then Leela is very sad. She pulls at
37:35
the photo while this is pretty heartbreaking property all those sad picks. What was
37:43
it the senior problems? He's holding out their hands holding nothing. Oh mate,
37:46
Oh in that ten seconds, they make you feel more sympathetic for the
37:51
leading character than anything they've done previously. I think, oh, absolutely,
37:53
it's like wow, and now it is. It's because Exmas time is meant
37:58
to be a time we sort of get with fam in friends. And then
38:00
they're really emphasizing here she's actually got nobody, and then you're like, a
38:04
shit, imagine having nobody, Imagine having nobody not fine at all. So
38:08
you really feel sympathetic towards her, and Fris like, ah, well,
38:12
at first he's like, I have but a bit of sympathy here. She
38:14
runs off crying and it Amy explains that she was an orphan and she's the
38:15
only one of her species. So then Fry starts feeling sorry for her,
38:20
and then Bender tries to cheer him up. Doesn't work. It all needs
38:22
to work on his act, Fry. He says, he's then feeling like
38:25
a rat because he was winding like a pig. And then Leelah's lonely,
38:29
like lonely is a frog, So you know, I kick myself, so
38:31
Amy kicks him. Then we get Farnsworth and he says, you know,
38:36
you have to be blind not to see that Leela's a cyclops. Then we
38:38
get bender will make Christmas Eve? Oh, x Mas Eve, another pointless
38:43
day of accomplishing nothing. Christmas Eve is kind of like that. It's like
38:46
it feels like it's close to Christmas, but it's like it's just a day
38:50
to get out of the way until Christmas time comes. It's like, can
38:53
we just get to Christmas already? Please? You are honestly like a child
38:57
at Christmas. Give me get the Yeah, it's not the presence of the
39:00
I open my presence now. By the way, I hope we haven't forgotten
39:07
the apology dance. Maybe I have no, No, not yet, No,
39:12
it's coming up. It's coming up. Yes. So we get the
39:14
news report first and the oathening is not yet nor the meaning of suffering.
39:17
And she said that she visited a shelter for down and out robots, and
39:22
the only thing that'd be sad of that would be drowning puppies, and it
39:23
would have to be a lot of them. So Benda says he's going to
39:27
go help them out. He's like, you don't charity, you don't help
39:30
out people. There's at one time I gave blood. Who's I don't know
39:34
some guys. Then Zoiberg suggests the apology dance. Go mister Davis. We're
39:44
doing a podcast. I can't actually do there, but it's yeah, it's
39:47
just it's funny. Fryer says he's going to go out and get her the
39:52
perfect Express present so she'll forget all about it, and Hermi says, make
39:54
sure we come back before dark. A lot on this fryline, it's just
39:59
maybe I like to haggle. I like to haggle. I like that.
40:04
And they warned him about about Santa Claus. I know about Santa Claus.
40:07
Wink wink, A good joke for the adults watching the show without make him
40:15
too obvious for the kids. They handed it very well. I'll go out
40:19
and get her the perfect Axmus present, something so great she'll never want to
40:22
be unhappy again. Just be back my son, Dawn. One Well,
40:27
see, I like to haggle. You can't stay out on xmus Eve You'll
40:30
be killed. Say what, good Lord? He doesn't know about Santa Claus.
40:36
I know about Santa Claus. Back in twenty eight oh one, the
40:39
Friendly Robot Company built a robotic Santa to determine who'd been naughty and who'd been
40:45
nice and distribute presence accordingly. But something went wrong. Wow twenty eight oh
40:52
one anyway, wait two four. Due to a programming error, Santa's standards
40:57
were set too high, and the invariably judges everyone to be naughty. If
41:01
he catches you after Dirk, he'll chop off your head and stuff your neck
41:06
full of toys from his sack of horse nice meeting you. Bender then arrives
41:13
at our motherboard of Mercy Liquor Kitchen, and the priest from the previous episode
41:16
where Benda gets all religious. He greets him at the door. He just
41:20
says, show me the free booze, so shows him there. Then we
41:22
get Alien Overlord and Taylor. I like the fact that is usually a line
41:28
this time of year for the suicide booth. Oh god, a very bleak
41:31
gag, that one, a very bleak gag, but you know, very
41:35
funny. It's funny that we're talking about this and we just recorded our Gremlins
41:37
review for the movie Guys, where they you know, Phoebe Kates's character and
41:42
that of course has a reason to dislike Christmas. But she said something along
41:45
the lines of a lot of people get depressed at Christmas. Some people are
41:49
opening up their presence. So they were opening up their wrists, Like holy
41:52
shit, that's a dead line. There's something about the whole wrist I hate
41:58
even hearing about. It's like, no one want to talk about this,
42:00
but my precious wrists. He suggests the surface to Santa rocket missile. Then
42:06
we get bender you filter, the hoboes know how to live, and he
42:08
steals the alcohol from the robot next to him. Then poor little tinny tim
42:13
he arrives for some some beer, that poor kid that laughs at him.
42:16
Now at Joe's Archpet Store, and we've got the dog with many legs,
42:22
we've got grainings, Bongo bongo, the one he had rabbit, yes,
42:25
yep, and a mini giraffe in a cage. But he suggests the electric
42:30
snail fries on a fan of that. But then he says, way about
42:31
a parrot of five hundred lizards. Then we get we get this gag lot
42:35
future I've noticed there. So he's like lizards, parrot, yes, no,
42:39
no, no, they did this in the slam one they did it
42:42
in another recent one as well, so yeah, they did this sort of
42:45
a lot. But he ends up buying the parrot, and the guys very
42:47
close to getting the lizards though, because girls like girls like swarms of lizards,
42:51
right, We've all made that mistake indeed. And then as Fry leaves,
42:57
the guy locks up quickly, of course, because Sandy's going to be
42:59
on his way soon, so sort of emphasizing it's dangerous, dangerous kind.
43:01
By the way, we forgot to mention that I loved Amy's description of how
43:08
terrible Santa Claus is, Like, you know, he'll cut your head off
43:12
and stuffy a neck full of toys from his sack of horror. Yeah,
43:15
sack of horror. But then the parent ends up biting Fry and flying away,
43:22
and then I know where you live, so now everyone's setting up Christmas.
43:24
It's just, as you say, very nice, nice vibe in the
43:28
Planet Express offices at this point in time, even if you do have fans
43:32
Worth and HER's playing chess. Nude, yeah, nude, chest of course.
43:36
I don't know if you were hanging out of your mates and they're just
43:37
like, is getting dude and they didn't care, did you do it,
43:40
would you be fine with that? I think it'd have to be under different
43:45
circumstances, like unusual seems like, say we're camping, yeah, and you
43:50
know someone just rocked out of their tent nude and they're like, guess what
43:53
doing this all day? Maybe? But you know, if it makes sense
44:00
if he went around to their house though, and they were just sort of
44:05
sitting around noon like it makes elf comfortable, mate, get your year on,
44:08
like gotta go back way through the hedges? Is that the time got
44:15
to guess? But I think if you're in circumstances different from your the every
44:22
day, you might be like, well, let's shake things up a little
44:25
bit. Yeah. Literally, Well yeah, Leela walks in and they tell
44:30
her that Fry's going to buy a present. His life's in danger. Why
44:35
I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town. Fry then sees the
44:38
parrot's flying the way. It's flying up into the clock. He's on the
44:40
dangerous ledge. No banana peals allowed us. It's on the sign. He's
44:45
on the door there, and he's crawling out to get out to get the
44:47
parrot. The parrot tiptoes away just before he jumps on, it flies off,
44:51
and he grabs the numbers here, which I thought was a really funny
44:53
gag, grabbing the numbers and following on the number seven. Yeah, hi
45:00
there, Leila. Oh my god, you saved my life. I am
45:06
gonna get you so many lizards. You didn't need to buy me a present,
45:12
Fry. I just wanted to do something to make you happy. I
45:15
mean, I miss my family, but you never even had a family.
45:17
It's okay, you're lonely and I'm lonely, but together we're lonely together.
45:24
Mary X, miss Leela, mary X miss Oh boy, it's Santa.
45:38
They're coming together, gonna go all the way. You know they're gonna go
45:42
all the way yet, it's too early in the series, but they're gonna
45:44
get there eventually. And this is why Santa Claus arrives, and I thought
45:47
it was a very cool transition of him looking happy to looking angry. Yeah
45:52
the whole No. We get back and Santa explains that they tell them the
45:58
chick's list again. I check a fifty men, get checks a second,
46:00
and she they've both been very naughty for not considering the feelings of each other.
46:05
You don't ever think about Zoeberg's feelings. No, I swear, so
46:12
he says hes got something special in his sack for them, and pulls out
46:14
a gun well as he says, I've got something special in here for you.
46:16
Fry looks excited. He's like something good, better than takes the robots
46:22
caroling, and they go to the old lady's house. The confused old lady
46:25
they said, come invite us in for some cider. I said that's enough,
46:30
get her purse. They then Santa's now chasing Friar and Leela through the
46:34
streets of New New York, and they suggest, we'll give you some milk
46:37
and some cookies. You dare bribe if you were Santa. What would you
46:43
want to be bribed with? Apple pies? And what a nice glass of
46:46
whiskey and a McDonald's apple pie. There we go. McDonald's would love your
46:51
Santa Claus. They said it fris like, man, I don't think it's
46:59
how going to be gone down by Santa. I honestly, I didn't see
47:02
it coming. So they both say the goodbye is they're going to be destroyed
47:07
and shot by Santy Claus Dow under the missiletoe. They're about to smooch and
47:12
your your missiletoe is no match for my toe missile, so he shoots it.
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Parrot gets hit. A nice way of bringing the stories together. I
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thought the parrot being the one to save him in the end, sort of
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tying it all in something else. I really enjoyed about these scenes when Santo
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sort of running rampant. Was it's Christmas music with sort of an action a
47:31
Futurama spin. What's that? It's like a future It's like a spin on
47:36
the Futurama theme. Almost, yeah, it is, but it's also really
47:39
but done like diehard music. I really got to kick out of that,
47:44
plus the animation as well the three because when he's flying around it looks it
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just looks futuristic for nineteen ninety nine. Anyway, it looks really good.
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And Santa doesn't doesn't realize at this point that he hasn't killed them, because
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he starts flying off. Then we get the robots singing what their two former
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husbands and they send the shoe down the sewer. The guy thanks them from
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the last episodes on the yeah, the people are now part of the of
48:07
the future of the universe. Yeah, And he sees Fry and Leeler.
48:10
Well they see frying Leila. Should we rob them? Ah, they've got
48:14
nothing. This is where Santa Claus arrives. Bender blames the kid. You
48:16
dare blame this child, So he adds him to his list and as he's
48:20
doing that, they escape whilst he writes it down on the list. Meanwhile
48:23
we get the the O Henry Gay here was zoieberg Amy and Hermes. I
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just love the payoff. I think it's very very funny. That's a great
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line. It's very good. Everyone's arriving at the at the HQ and Professor
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says they're going to be killed on their doorstep. The trash doesn't get picked
48:44
up to January third, so Santa starts coming down the chimney. They try
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to stop him by pushing the big guard in front of the in front of
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the fire, but unfortunately they're too late. He gets inside. You've all
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been very knotting, very naughty, indeed, except you, doctor Zoidberg.
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This was for you. I'm poor Ghostic. How's for the rest of you.
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I'm going to tear off your skin like wrapping paper and duck the holes
49:12
with your guts. Yeah, well, I don't believe in Santa Claus.
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Come on, everybody, if you don't believe in him, he can't hurt
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you. Oh God, the pain. Time to get jolly on your naughty
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asses. I like this line here, This is great reading from John Goodman.
49:34
The time to get jolly on your asses. And he's about to he's
49:43
about to blow is overly jolly. And then so Zoeber cuts the lights and
49:46
the cable will let you coots them. Lea kicks him into the into the
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fireplace and explodes up the chimney. And you think that's the end of Santa
49:52
Claus. But not quite. I Meanwhile, on Christmas Day, Benda has
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cooked a lovely Exmas dinner, which is the power hurt. I know,
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I'm sure I how there's anything left. I've been shot with the missile.
50:02
But anyway, No, that tinny tim gets the toenail, that nibbler that
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hates it all. The food's not what's important. I'm so hungry. I
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use that quote all the time, and I forgot where it came from.
50:16
And Fry says he's never felt more at home, despite the fact there all
50:19
such a mishmash of people here here. Now, let's all of us shut
50:23
up and sing he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're on
50:30
the can. He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from you to Paktisttan,
50:37
you better not breathe, you better not move, You better rock down.
50:39
I'm telling you, dude, Santa Claus is gunning you down. Very
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exmus everyone, and it's just a very pleasant way to end the episode.
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And over the credits we get the return of Robot. Santa is gonna come
51:12
back and releast expect it next Christmas. And he's incorrect because the fuckheads at
51:16
Fox, the executive's pushed it back. Yet. If there's anyone who could
51:22
if there's only one power that could mess with the you know, the goodness
51:24
of Santa, it's the fuck heads at Fox exactly right. But yeah,
51:28
so that is Xmas Story, a very very fun future episode of Future On
51:34
that I watched every year, not necessarily on Christmas Eve, but at some
51:37
time around this season I always watched this episode. The next one's good,
51:40
I don't remember. I don't remember enjoying the second one as much as this
51:43
one. The second one doesn't have John Goodman in it for whatever reasons,
51:45
maybe the scheduled conflict or whatever, and John Demancio takes over right. Yeah.
51:50
Yeah, And if you had said to me, John Demajio did this
51:52
one, I would have bought it anyway. Kind of sounds like John Demagio
51:54
a little bit, But yeah, I thought this is it's just a really
51:58
good way of incorporating all opinions of Christmas. You've got the materialism, so
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the people that don't like Christmas, the people who don't have anybody on Christmas,
52:06
they get a mention here as well, and how we can find a
52:09
way to unite and sort of be together over the Christmas season when you feel
52:14
like you've got nobody, but also just that Christmas spirit where the giving attitude,
52:17
like with the hair and the cones and things like that. Normally Hermes
52:21
is cruel to zoibe, but it's Christmas time you've got to give a present.
52:23
So I just thought they covered Christmas very, very well in this episode.
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They did indeed that as we pointed out, you just want to hang
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out at Planet Express during the Christmas season. It looks so cozy and so
52:37
warm and welcoming. Yeah, but you're right, the whole episode just has
52:42
a very it doesn't feel saccharin or sappy or anything like that. But it
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just feels like it feels like a nice, warm Christmas hug. It does
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indeed, So I hope you guys enjoyed our review of Exmas Story. The
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next one's going to be the one previous ahead and the pile you're going to
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be doing that one that's going to be in the new year. So I
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celebrate it. Mister Davis, any final words for those amazing listeners out there,
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Merry Christmas everyone,