Ben and Mike take you on a podcast voyage back through one of the greatest TV shows Fox ever cancelled. We also talk about a lot of other tangets that come up, whether it's Battlebots or A-1 Steak sauce.
The crew is selected to go witness the birth of a new universe! But the problem is that they will age terribly, tens of millions of years! So they hatch a plan to sleep in a carbonara stasis and then shenanigans ensue. Of course.
Meanwhile... well we're actually kind of on task for once? We don't go on too many digressions other than a few video games. But we do try to figure out what the worst burrito fillings are.
That's a wrap on the season. See you next year!
Ben makes a vegetarian lasagna. Mike tries out for a role as Dr. Doom.
Bender goes truffle hunting! There's a pig! The robot mafia is there! We basically summed up the episode in three sentences. Good job everyone, we did it. Yet somehow we produced a 90 minute long episode? That's right, that must mean Back to the Futurama is back.
We're also talking about the urge to throw your phone into the river and move into the forest, and a late nod to... mayonnaise? Fine, whatever who even knows what this podcast is anymore.
Ben trips balls with a raccoon friend. Mike evolves his balls.
Zoidberg loses his hip bachelor pad. Leela loses patience with her parents. Fry somehow DOESN'T lose his pants in this one despite all the other times it has happened this season. Also there's something about a blenal gland and crabasaurs also existed. It's all explained in the episode.
Meanwhile we're talking about millennial memes, mayonnaise, and spiders. I'm not sure if that is supposed to get you interested in this episode or make you run away. But it's probably fine because I don't think anybody actually reads these.
Ben gets some shoes. Mike gets some shoes.
Something something scandal at a local pizzeria I simply cannot be bothered by that. But also, we go on a fun adventure to the Central Bureaucracy and fight something that does 2d12 damage. Look nerds, I accidentally say 1d12 damage when Dwight clearly said 2d12. Also I said a bastard sword does 1d12 damage when really it does 1d10, and I meant greatsword which I'm also wrong about because that does 2d6. What I was thinking of was a greataxe. Let's not call a lot of attention to it. Fry also loses his pants. So that was a plot.
Meanwhile we're talking about awkward things that happen to us, pineapple on pizza: yay or nay?, arcade cabinets, and radioactive teeth. We truly contain multitudes.
Ben finds a table of radioactive half-lives. Mike is perceived.
The rapture is here! Everybody is getting raptured... almost. The few stragglers try to figure out why this is happening from a scientific perspective. I guess. Mostly it's just yelling about how good science is? It's fine, we'll get into it.
Meanwhile we're talking about elevator music and Shakespeare plays somehow.
Ben dies as he lives. Mike enters his Benoit Blanc era.
These darn kids with their screens! Always on their screens! Why won't they stop looking at them!? If only there was some sort of program to get them to stop, perhaps taught by some sort of famous war hero / war criminal? Also, while the kids are away, the parents will play (get massively drunk).
Meanwhile, we're talking about the things we're bad at, our histories of being nerds on a burgeoning dial-up internet, and living in a world of enshitification.
Ben performs a retro impression. Mike makes a ringtone for reasons he does not remember.
Amy uncovers a secret number station plot to develop a device to travel to Numberland, a world where there are only numbers. ONLY NUMBERS. Bender is afraid of every number except 0 and 1. Fry tries to become an artist. Also, special guest Danica McKellar. On the Futurama episode and not our podcast. Obviously. (But if you want to guest, Danica, please reach out).
Meanwhile, we're talking about movie lines, how sand is coarse and gets everywhere, numbers stations (they're real, look them up), and more!
Ben gets pedantic about Morse code. Mike gets excited about math.
Fry and Leela are on the rocks (again) and so Fry gets an illegal magic mirror to prove that Leela is his soul mate. This backfires when Leela's soul mate is revealed to be the man, the myth, the legend Branch Woodsman. Hilarity ensues.
Meanwhile, we're talking about being the coolest kid in school, karaoke and strippers, and of course the esteemed acting career of one Mr. Kenny G.
Ben needs to apply himself. Mike also needs to apply himself.
The world is doomed. Doooomed. DOOOOOOOOOOOMED! A new climatetastrophy is on the horizon after some controvertible data is processed into an obviously incontrovertible graph. A plan is hatched to save the climate once and for all (again)! We also talk about the hierarchy of biologists that is raised by the events of this episode.
Meanwhile we are talking about some poorly thought out drinking games, weird place we fell asleep, and the deadliest animals of all.
Ben takes sides in the eternal Cola Wars. Mike demonstrates the importance of properly labeled axes on graphs.
We're back and we're talking about the latest season, in which Bender gets really tall after making a literaly deal with the devil, and then Fry and Leela do some stuff I guess.
Meanwhile we're talking about the darnedest things that the kids say.
Ben dispenses Tinder advice. Mike buys one art.
The first order of Hulu episodes is done, and we're here to give our thoughts about it. What did we like? Did we like things? Let's find out.
See you in season 10! Or season 13. Whatever it is we hope you're there.
Ben turns neutral. Mike turns the camera on society.