Fry Wasn't Philip?! Overthinking Futurama: Space Pilot 3000 (S01E01) Full Episode Facts & Reactions!
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2023
- DID YOU KNOW … Fry's first name wasn't originally Philip? Those alien words written in the background have an English translation? Bender's very first line is his famously rude catchphrase? You'll know these facts and tons more after this geek-level deep dive into Space Pilot 3000-a.k.a., season 1, episode 1 of Futurama! We've got tons of behind-the-scenes facts, background jokes, explained references and personal reactions to share with you as we overthink Futurama S01E01!
Description Exclusive Fact: This video was released on March 28, 2023, exactly 24 years to the day after Space Pilot 3000 first aired! Happy birthday, Futurama!
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it's so funny how important the career chips are in this episode only for them to almost never get referenced again(with a couple of exceptions)
I’m suprised AI didn’t take all their jobs.
You know what else is funny?
Your weiner.
That doesn't mean they're not still important. People rarely mention that they're breathing, but breathing is important. In fact, it can often be that important things are never mentioned because they're just inherently understood by everyone; there's nothing to talk about; they're already the water we swim in.
@@anthonymercuri8885 Weird tangent you went on but my point was they made a big deal how everyone has to do the job they're assigned and the only reason Fry, Leela and Bender got their new jobs is because the old crew was killed.
later episodes however show character, especially fry and bender, change jobs with no issue.
You're right. To be fair, she didn't like the job. To Leela the just would be summed up as "You gotta do what you gotta do!".
I heard once that Bender reset during the lightbulb breaking scene, with evidence in the episode The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz, Bender will take the personality best suited to the environment when finishing resetting. Being in the criminal heads part of the head museum, he took on a law breaker attitude
Excellent point! (Marking this for "things I missed")
Kind of like Chappie 😂
This also explains why Bender only becomes addicted to electricity after he does it in room full of addicted robots.
Yes but this was later retconned/disproven in a later episode where we get to "see through the eyes of a bending unit" and we see that they're basically built to perform heinous actions, then when bender looks through them he claims that "it's like seeing double" confirming that's how he already saw the world after being built. But that adds another contradiction I wish you touch up on when it comes to robots being built in a factory and having their education programmed into them after they're made or if their born by robots having sex and go to real college with their own robot frats like Robot house on Mars University
@@rgmoses2189 Some Robots are born via conception, it's clarified in the episode that because factories couldn't keep up with the demand for robots they- the robots- were programmed with the ability to also make babies. So both are true! No contradiction. At least, not with that specific point.
"I am already in my pajamas" was brought back in the crypto episode of the hulu run
As soon as you said Phil Hartman was supposed to play Zapp Brannigan, I immediately ran his voice with zaps body through my head and oh my God it sounded perfect. Rest in peace Phil Hartman
If I'm not mistaken, Billy West deliberately made the voice very Hartman-esque in tribute to Phil.
@@SceneometryI was gonna say now that you mention he was supposed to be Zapp Brannigan, his voice is kind of reminiscent of Phil Hartman. In particular it makes me think of Troy McClure.
To bad his psycho bitch wife murdered him :(
@@StarDragonJPwell his design (well his face) is almost identical to Troy McClure.
In "Hell is Other Robots" Bender stops drinking and switches to "good old mineral oil. Mmm. Functional." meaning that Robots don't HAVE to drink. Mineral Oil will suffice. However, this is never mentioned again, and most episodes treat robot sobriety as an inverse of human sobriety. So, make of that what you will.
I definitely would've given extra points had they made a joke when he swapped back to alcohol saying "Mmm. Imperative.".
Maybe the "minerals" in the oil were alcohol, and it was just another joke about religious double standards?
@@Wendy_O._Koopa if the point was double standards, Bender would condemn the drinking of alcohol, and then chug communion wine, claiming that it's sanctified, so it's alright.
@@fandomonium3789 ... Damn, that's a good point. Well, I guess it's an official continuity error then.
There's no continuity in this series for the most part. I actually wonder if upon re-releases of the first episode if Nibbler wasn't added in.
*When bender reset among penguins he entered penguin mode. When he reset in the hall of criminals he was reset in criminal mode*
This is a fantastic observation that I'm hoping to discuss in the future!
@@Sceneometry *Man I’m full of them. I went to school for film, I’m a pop culture encyclopedia, and I can theorize like no other. Not sure how big your behind the scenes crew is but if you ever expand and hire writers or researchers, please let the next comment be my try out*
@@Sceneometry *I have the best fan theory. The Matrix is terminator sequel. In the matrix Morpheus says how the war started has been forgotten over time, but they do know humans blocked out the sun so the machines can’t use solar power. John Conner gets put into the matrix (forcefully or him sacrificing himself) and because he is a man out of time due to his dad being from the future, his genetic material being passed down eventually leads to neo (and possibly the “other ones”) Ths prophecy could actually be a plan by people from John Conner’s time. While decoding the Matrix so the humans could utilize it they realize that John’s brain works differently and he could bend the laws of physics. Then they theorize that if his dna getting passed down through the system would eventually allow for people to fight from the inside. So he sacrifices his freedom and allows himself to be captured and put into the matrix. But since there are so many humans, the trait is so rare, and so few people are looking, it takes forever to find someone with the gift. So long that it’s forgotten and the whole concept becomes a legend. Kind of like how the second coming of Jesus is now. most have heard about it, a lot of people have a working understanding of it, but most think it’s just a story, & the out of the ones that do believe it only a small percentage believe it will be in their lifetime.*
Yes, Bender's zapping on Episode 1 is crucial for the whole series in how it "freed" Bender. Not sure freed is the correct word but good as any. This is the most cannon impacting zapping of all time :P
This channel is a gem! Btw wouldn't it make sense for Leela to address Fry with ask instead of axe because she knows he's from the past?
You from austria?
Farnsworth has brought back the pajamas line, which is incrediblly weird because he did it in the episode I watched right after I watched this video.
This is like old CinemaSins, before every episode became the same sins. i love it im so glad my friend showed this to me
My headcannon as to why Nibbler used that name: It actually took several attempts to alter the timeline before Nibbler figured out how to get Fry in a position where he could inconspicuously nudge him into the cryo pod.
In all other attempts he didn't sit down, he just left the Pizza and walked away. Realizing he'd been duped and there was no one to take the delivery is what actually allows Nibbler to get him in the pod without being seen.
That's an interesting theory/method of time travel: rewinding *yourself* to the point where you altered the timeline and making a different choice. Like reloading a save in a video game. I haven't seen that a lot.
Nibbler would have been observing Fry for quite a while, and took note of his penchant for falling for obviously-fake names, like "Seymour Asses".
@@Sceneometry
It's actually the main mechanic of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time game.
I've always wondered why so few time travel plots consider the possibility that the time travel device would be built with short term do-overs in mind. Especially given how surgical something like altering the time line might need to be.
They did bring back "But I am already in my pajamas"
Almost turned off the video at the axe thing due to my own hangups but remembered it's a futurama joke and chilled
It’s about time!!! So happy to see your channel is live! 😁
The arcade cabinet explanation made me feel so old, and I was born in 2003, so I’m well within the generation that would benefit from that explanation; for those older than me, I can imagine the feeling is much stronger.
Arcade cabinets still exist.
The simultaneous countdown always bugged me too! This was the first tv show that I bought on DVD back before the "movies" and resurrection of the show. Still one of my top 5 tv shows. As a total nerd I had to go back and check for Nibbler's shadow and was blown away. Great job and I subcribed! Thank you for sharing your creativity🎖🚀🤖
Clearly Earth finally realized how dumb timezones are and adopted universal time for everything. Morning doesn't have to be 6am for everyone, we don't need multiple 6ams, morning is just whatever time it is in your part of the world when the Sun comes up. Also makes logistics and stuff alot easier between countries or especially off worlders. The big problem with that n the countdowns however is they all appear to be happening during nighttime, although perhaps that goes with Bender moving all those things to one spot!
I always play a game called "Joke or Mistake" on Futurama, like was this a reference to movies like Armageddon where it's sunset worldwide and every country can see the explosion in the sky? or was this just a run-of-the-mill mistake? Another big one I like to bring up is scenes involving the sun where you can see stars. Are we seeing the incredibly-dimmed-so-we-can-make-out-any-features textbook version of the sun, with a backdrop of stars to indicate that it's in space (which you would not be able to see if they dimmed it that much), because they think that's how space _actually looks?_ or are they just parodying every space opera ever made? It's easier in the Simpsons, because like Homer will change the channel on the radio, and his car will stop balancing precariously on the cliff's edge, and that's obviously a joke. But in a sci-fi setting... the lines between what people know and don't know, and what we're expected to accept are so blurred, it makes everything incomprehensible.
So, it's a game, what are the rules? how does scoring work? Well, it's not that kind of game. Basically me and Iggy argue about it for a while, and then we do something else.
@@frankgrimes7388 no it was this has been proven false
You're definitely thinking too hard. Its like a Montage, it shows someone learning martial arts in a 5 second segment, that doesnt mean they learned it in 5 seconds. Similar here....unless they started using UNIVERSAL TIME! So all of earth is on the same time zone
Glad I found this tonight when I did -- first I'm hearing of Futurama coming back (to Hulu) in 2023. I'll certainly give it a try -- if it's still half as funny as it was the last time it was being produced, it will still be better than almost anything else going today.
Unfortunately I have yet to see any good reboot or sequel since 2019
My personal nerd rating: Near Mint. The only fact mentioned in here I didn't already know is that Fry was originally called Curtis. Phil Hartman was one of my favourite actors, voice or otherwise. The very idea that I didn't know that tidbit and the meaning behind it shames me a little. Thank you for enlightening me, gonna binge what you've got so far, and I can't wait to see what you've got for us in the future.
14:15 fun fact: the professor does indeed use that line again in one of the recent episodes. I would say which to be specific, but i am already in my pajamas.
Yes, I laughed extra hard when I saw it!
I absolutely love this! Can't wait for every single episode to come!
Watching this after season 11 ep 3 and professor does say “I’m already in my pajamas.” Lol
i like to think that the medieval world that pops up after new york is destroyed is the world of disenchantment... i dont know if its canon or not but its head canon at least
It isn't the first time I've heard the Bender electricity personality change theory
I always kind of assumed that most of the heads were clones
Bender saying he can quit drinking is like a regular human saying he doesn't have to abstain from alcohol. We even see Bender go on a binge of non-drinking when he is most vulnerable meaning it's also a vice like alcohol abuse.
I think “I can quit anytime I want” could’ve been interpreted as sarcasm since he was later revealed to use alcohol as a fuel source.
@@mr.x2567Yeah, but it's been stated (at least once) within the series that robots can use mineral oil as a fuel source.
I remember B&W TVs. We got a color TV only in 1977 and my aunt gave me a B&W portable TV which I used until 1995!
!!!!! im already in my pajamas made a reappearance in this weeks episode
Also, Fry says “you owe me one” and Leela hasn’t paid him back for it yet
maybe the payment was getting into a relationship with him
The pilot sets up a lot of things that pay off later, along with a lot of things that they quickly abandoned. A lot like most pilots. Also, listen to the audio commentary for these early episodes if you can. They're really inciteful and entertaining, IMO.
How is the building he was frozen in still above and the rest of his world underground?
Very good question!
the building is still being used 1000 years later so i assume they have done some kind of upkeep
Also Fry was supposed to be a delivery boy, but was easily able to sign up to be a cop
i never thought of that, and he joined the army too now i think about it:-)
Tomato/tomato....cop is a delivery job. Look around for your app to send you some where. Go pick up your package(criminal) and drop them off at the jail, so a cop is an expensive delivery boy
14:21 They did it!!!!!
In the episode where Michelle comes to the future, he calls her boyfriend by a different name rather than Constantine. Maybe she got him to change thinking it was dumb name.
LOL I love her line, "That's a dumb name, ew!"
I think the implication was supposed to be that Constantine was just a short-term hookup with a guy hotter than Fry, she got sick of him being not much better, and found her boyfriend/fiance person.
"I have poor depth perception" "eye see what you did there" "I.C. Weiner"
Bro, how do you only have 400 subs?? This was an amazing video and I can’t wait to see what you’ll so next!!
I was skeptical of the Nibbler shadow myself until I saw someone had posted the first ep WITH COMMERCIALS on UA-cam (or maybe the first 10 minutes) and there he was! Too bad Fry's shadow isn't there too. Looks like the video has been removed, or leastwise I can't find it again.
yeah, they did bring back the pyjamas thing in the crypto episode 14:12
"Venusians Go Home" is a reference to a hilarious scene in Monty Pythons "Life of Brian"
So the counter starting at 11 would be a reference to the movie, 'Spinal Tap'; about a fictional rock/metal band. Their volume controls go to 11, because it makes their music "louder".
Bravo. I love the commentary.Being late, I can see there is more to come and I hope it continues.
The timer counting down down from 11 to 10 would have been followed by 01.... 3.. 2.. 1 in binary
they actually brought back the farnsworth pajamas gag in s11 lmao
That intro audio edit is spectacular
Whoa whoa whoa, wait a minute.
Your telling me that Nibblers shadow was in the 1st ep.? 🤯
I never even thought to go back and look as I assumed it wasn’t there
@@frankgrimes7388there’s a vhs upload of the first airing which still has the shadow
I can finally hear what my subconscious has been screaming at me all these years. Phil Hartman is Zap Brannigan
S*icide Booths are actually from the horror short story collection "the king in yellow" by Robert W Chambers :)
Solid video my dude!
I liked your theory about the time traveling president head snatcher, maybe it was the supervillain that New New York elected governor that stole all the monuments for Monument Beach
3:30 It's amazing how even this early they are planning so many things.
I never would have caught Olde Fortran, good find!
you missed a moment where benders mouth dissapers for a moment in the area with the convit heds only for a fram
"Venusians go home" has to be a Monty Python reference
I think some things are paradox free time travel are predestined while others that contradict the timeline risk the universe’s stability.
Well done, newly discovered and quickly subscribed. Thanks!
Thanks so much!
I was born when a lot of TV was shot/broadcast in black & white especially news & current events. I don't actively remember new shows being B&W but I do remember us having a black & white TV.
Not even one minute in and I just got roasted to hell and back
I’ve heard that Nibbler was only added to the episode after the reveal later on.
that false
the reason Bender left the Applied Cryogenics Lab standing is because he knew Fry was in there.
Bender did believe he had a backup unit at this point, it should also be common knowledge that suicide prevents you from getting downloaded into a new body.
Knowing the Professor, he did in fact build a dedicated nephew identifying device and was just waiting for a flimsy pretense to use it.
Nibbler's shadow wasn't there when the show was originally broadcast. It only got added in later
OOOOH, this feels like a spiritual successor to overanalyzing avatar! love that guy.
14:14 he said it in the new one!
I hope you do more of these. This is great.
The professors off hand mentioning of his "intergalactic spaceship" makes sense in context. Space flight and spaceships are that common its the equivalent of us showing someone our car.
Why is there a no parking zone when literally every car parks
Love the Homestar Runner t-shirt!
Also love the videos, well done!
5:17 literally every vehicle parks and there are tons of no parking zones
Leela's pronunciation of "ask" is proper for a resident of NYC.
The "Radio City Mutant Hall" joke is actually redubbed. In the original airing of the episode the guy asks to go to JFK, jr Airport, a joke about how the actual JFK airport was renamed, but then the real JFK, jr died in a plane crash so they redubbed the line as the joke was retroactively considered to be in poor taste.
Verified true! I went found the clip on UA-cam. The audio sounds authentic and the lip syncing matches the line perfectly. Thanks for the info!
The relatives part.... Hubert's parents weren't on Earth. This could be why no one else was mentioned, either.
12:24 what i am personally curious about is how the cryogenics lab survived until fry's de-freeze. unless it was placed just on the border between new york and some other american city, there's no way that cryogenics lab was in any way shape or form transferred over to new new york or that it was the only building that survived.
I can believe "but I'm already in my pajamas" is only said twice, it's something my brother and I do all the time and for years 😂😅
He says it again in the Hulu revival
Haven't watched it yet but cannot wait haha
Very nice. Excited to see the whole series
I've always liked to think they could synthesize clones from scratch or scraps making the head museum the reason for their jarring. They are an education tool or something.
Bro c’mon, the timer starts at 11 because of the famous Spinal Tap joke
I love this!! Please make more
Number 9 guy actually first appears in the background of when Fry first steps out onto the streets in the future.
The Eiffel Tower goes back and forth on whether or not it hovers..
They did bring it back in the Hulu revival, Its up to three times he was in his pajamas
6:09 Since everything is recycled in the future I'm guessing the pipe probably uses it to bring waste to a recycling plant right away so it doesn't build up.
Absolutely Loved Every Second!
11 counting down to 10 was probably actually counting down from 3 in binary, we just saw it launch from outside instead of seeing it reach 1
That billboard....is...retro themed, yeah.....even if it floats.
Why was the cryogenic lab above ground in the future even though the rest of old New York was built over? If the whole building itself is moved, why isn't it shown in the time-lapse?
That is a very good question.
Love the concept. This is a concept I had in mind as well. However I am no expert on what you're allowed to do on UA-cam, so I did nothing with it. I'm glad someone did though. I have definitely subscribed and look forward to your future videos. Yes if you overthink the show there are going to be a lot of continuity errors as well as things that just don't make sense. In this show particularly, I feel the continuity errors are suppose to be part of the humor of the show, not an actual error. I know in the commentaries they do highlight these continuity errors and add that they sacrificed the continuity so they can make a joke or serve the plot. I'll add in the fact that in the commentaries it feels like the people who put the show together are also doing a similar thing as this video.
“Eye see what you did there”
Fun fact: a company in Switzerland is working on a real life suicide booth.
I personally always saw the heads in the jars as clones of the long-dead historical figures. Like, I think somebody in the future found a way to clone them and restore their memories (or maybe even just install them based on what we know from historical books). And not some time travel stuff.
In the episode “where no fan has gone before” he says he doesn’t remember because they aren’t allowed to talk about it remember?
Yes...I made a mistake here. I *should* have said that Mr. Nemoy should have lied in this episode too, pretending not to know what Fry was talking about.
@@Sceneometry all good, I only know it cause I binged the show, new season sucks
i can’t believe u forgot the most noticeable error in futurama: 30th century fox
Its established later in the series that everything is recycled. Perhaps that bin with a tube in it is a sort of trash version of the transport tubes, and the bin breaks it down somehow to be small enough to go through
14:30 It's counting down in binary (11, 10, 01 instead of 3, 2, 1) as the robots can presumably innately read it, and would be included like how appliance instructions are written multilingual.
The Professor does make incredibly specific devices so him making a device that solely exists to identify his uncle wouldn't be surprising.
Either that or he knows he is the last living relative, and made it to find other possible relatives.
So I take it this project is inspired by Overanalyzing Avatar? I'm glad to see more channels like that popping up.
"Did nothing about the New York City skyline change in the 300 years after Fry was frozen?"
Well...
I believe they say that the mutants' level is below old New York at some point in the commentary.
1:53 It's hard to believe because it's a myth. The first couple airings of this episode DID NOT have it. All subsequent VHS and DVD and digital and streaming copies have it in.
For the "I recorded the pilot though" people, you recorded a RERUN. VERY soon after the first couple initial airings, it was put in.
For some reason, a LOT of fans of the show are going to great lengths to keep claiming "No. no. I got the ORIGINAL airing" and then when asked for proof, they NEVER actually provide it. I guess it's an inside "joke" for them or something.
Many have said this, but I have yet to see evidence. If you have some, I'd like to see it. However, there also the issue of the storyboards released on one of the DVD sets (Nibbler appears there too).
Where's your proof?
I'm not finding anybody with an "original recording" of the pilot with no shadow.
Also the twist is revealed like three seasons later So what did they Go back and put the nibbler shadow as soon as they started airing reruns still years before the reveal?
That makes no sense.
There is a screenshot of the chair with no shadow from the episode where Fry doesn't get frozen, not the pilot.
12:07 Actually, this really happened with seattle it burnt down, and they just built over the top of it and you can go underground and visit it.
But I am already in my pajamas came back!
I wish the professor's voice still sounded like this
I always thought that rather than a series, this episode would have made an amazing stand alone move.