Talking Futurama - Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch

This IS a pretty decent episode, but it's always one I don't think back too fondly on because it settles the transition of Kif from stoic/sarcastic sidekick into being the butt of jokes about effeminate men and "wouldn't it be weird if gender roles were flipped???" stuff that got very annoying to me very quickly when I'd watch this as a kid. It remains to be seen if I'll feel differently about Kif's character going forward as I rewatch it/watch most of the Comedy Central era for the first time, but this episode is at least better than memory served, minus some of the very dated politics.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I think that's where it was! - Bob

Talking Simpsons

Bob mentioning the ride the “Hell Hole” makes me wonder as an eastern OH boy, if you’ve ridden the Hell Hole that used to be at Conneaut Lake Park in western PA back in the day.

Tyler M.

All this toupee talk and I'm over here thinking 1,000 years and there's still no cure for baldness?

Andrew O.

Correction deployed as requested: you are wrong. I like Bashir! The character I absolutely hate is the fake recurring holodeck lounge singer (Vic Fontaine). Screw that character; he made the show way worse in the final season. And I HATE holodeck episodes in general, all across TNG and DS9 and Voyager. The only good one is the one that introduces Reginald Barclay because it's about what a loser he is for being hooked on it (I like that character, just wanted to add). "But Nina, what about--" no. It's okay to not like things. Shoutout to other holodeck haters.

nina matsumoto

I've heard Emo Phillips use that incest joke to describe watching stand up on Netflix vs seeing it live.

Matthew Hansen

I thought they were confusing it with the Jude Law/Gwyneth Paltrow movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".

Matthew Hansen

Alright, some Star Trek info! Recent Star Trek media has actually caught up with all the Holodeck jokes both you guys and Futurama made: The recent Lower Decks animated series (the one that looks like Rick & Morty) has plenty of gags about what people do in the holodeck, and the people who have to clean up afterwards. Correction: The Moriarty episode Henry describes is actually the Season 2 episode "Elementary, Dear Data". Season 6's "Ship in a Bottle" is a sequel to that, with its own story about Moriarty's return. The idea of Jack the Ripper as an immortal being has a surprising origin behind it: Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, wrote that "Wolf in the Fold" episode with "Redjac" as he's known, and the idea had been floating around in his head as early as the 1943 short story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper". He also wrote the TOS episode "Catspaw", a very weird but fun ride that I believe is the only "Halloween" episode Trek's ever done.

Harry Thornton

In the U.K. we called the ride - the wheel of death 💀

Alistair Shand

Star Trek Lower Decks provided a canon explanation for how Holodecks are cleaned on starships. The job is a menial chore that typically goes to the lower ranked officers on the ship. The "bio-filters" are apparently located in a panel behind a wall which must be collected into a cart and transported elsewhere to be...perhaps reconstituted in some way? And yes the joke is that most of the time crew members use the Holodecks in such a way that would fill up these bio-filters.

Jason Lew

Speaking from a place of scathing bald jealousy, you both have lovely heads of hair.

Drew Mackie

I think the confusion between "Sky Marshal" and "Air Marshal" probably comes from Starship Troopers, where the leaders of militaristic Earth are called Sky Marshals. "To fight the Bug, we must understand the Bug." etc. Loved the episode!

I also slept with my jeans on!! Tight ones too like a psychopath.

Saya Clarke

I could be wrong but the plot of that Brittany Murphy movie sounds very similar to a later Simpsons episode that flashes back to when Homer and Marge go on their honeymoon or something? It could be a parody, or it could be a coincidence They both break up briefly and then contemplate cheating with somebody that they meet at the resort they were staying at

Covey M.