This episode really highlights one of Fry's core personality traits. His willingness to give up something incredible in exchange for something simple but meaningful to him.
In the body switching episode, didnt the show actually come up with an algorithm/theorem/something to figure out how to get everyone back into their body? They had some real mathematicians and whatnot writing for the series.
@@ryanway5922 True, although it's compound interest that really does the work. The recursive nature of it (where each new installment of interest then earns further interest) is what leads to exponential growth. It's the difference between "linear" growth (on a simple graph, a straight line) and the "geometric" variety (on a simple graph, that distinctive curve moving rapidly towards being a straight vertical line).
I have the same savings account I opened as a child in the early 90's. As a kid I was encouraged by its mascot to watch my savings grow by however many cents every month on the small amount of allowance I had put aside. Now it has a $4 monthly fee just for existing, and there's no such thing as interest. Fry's account would have had a negative balance and gotten closed before his nephew was born.
The interest checks out: $0.93*1.0225^1000 = $4.284-billion. Half the writing staff of Futurama have Ph.D.s in mathematics. (Though, this is compounded annually, no bank is going to give you that much interest on a deposit account, and his account would be drained from service fees.)
Gamma radiation is pretty much the most dangerous type we can encounter, that shit would pierce all the way down to your bones and wipe out humanity after an ad or two.
Two things that get me, 1 was it a savings or a checking account? Also how could fry get interest from .93 cents with the maintenance fees from not having any activity in it while he was frozen? The only option I could think of is that his manager put fry paycheck direct deposit and over time after it was able to keep getting interest while the maintenance fees were being subtracted until the interest went over the required limits.
Ahhhhh I was waiting for this one. I love how the 2 of you are starting with some really fun shows of the late 90's and starting from the beginning. So much nostalgia and it's fun to see how it's aged. Whoever decided on these shows to watch is a genius.
This is one of those highly sentinmental episodes to me- for a lot of reasons! One is- having watched it one Nostalgic night on DVD- along with most of the S1 episodes as you two are- at night in my sisters room while she slept. She put it on for me figuring I’d like the show and I had no idea just how much it would become a favorite of mine! But also- don’t we all kind of want to live how Fry did in this episode more, and more as time goes on? That’s not to say things are getting worse and the old times were better necessarily, but there’s something familiar- and sweet about how we used to live, the highlights of our youth- something very comfortable about being able to live in any chapter of your life you want- especially the one that made you the most happy. The further into the future we get the more I want to hold onto a piece of those things from the past, and i’m only 24 lol!
To be fair to the demo pair of the briefs. Given how far into the future this is, I imagine that tiny spray the worker used before giving them to Fry is an extremely potent sanitizer that our modern technology can only imagine.
love this episode. i would have to ask the bank but wouldn't the bank have the account closed since it was inactive for so long and fry was reported missing?
Hey, watching ur reactions like 1 year later, they took this idea about the money saved in the bank with all the interest over a long time from the book "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" where u could travel in time to a incredibly expensive restaurant at the end of the universe where u could literally watch the end of the universe, it was very expensive but u could just set in 1 cent in their bank account and when u arrived at the restaurant in the future the interest would be enuf to pay for the visit 🙂
@@luciferclown9328 Considering he's kept going whilst buried in the desert for about 1050 years (Roswell that Ends Well) and several trips back to the past to steal valuable relics in history (Bender's Big Score), it's probably something not brought up but if it is then there's now an in-universe logical explanation.
I had a slice of Pizza with Anchovies. I didn't eat/buy another, and I came to prefer Sardines to Anchovies, anyway. However, a day without "Futurama" is a very dark one.;)
Lol, "Ancient Egyptian Algebra" is hilarious if you know history/archaeology since the two are anachronistic relative to each other (but it's a nightmare of Fry's so...). I know Matt Groening had a team of scientists and mathematicians working on the show to ensure so many of their references are actually correct and/or have meaning, and I bet the math the dream professor shows is probably correct if "translated", since that's how far they would go for something that only appears onscreen for less than a second.
Gamma radiation is also the stuff that requires thick lead shielding to stop. The "lottery curse" is similar to "Extreme Home Makeover"'s dirty little secret, that being that almost every family they "help" ends up losing their upgraded home because they can't afford the higher property taxes on the increased value of the structure. Lottery winners also tend to buy lots of expensive stuff, not realizing that: a) taxes are going to take a big bite of their winnings, and; b) that all that expensive stuff comes with maintenance costs (eg storage, property taxes, upkeep, etc). Plus, they're usually people with almost zero experience handling money, which also exacerbates the fact that they instantly become a target for every grifter who can possibly spin them a tale. It's funny that the Mona Lisa is only as famous as it is because some dumbass Italian nationalist decided that France shouldn't have the work of a quasi-Italian artist and so stole the painting, creating a huge international scandal that brought the work to popular attention. Said nationalist didn't bother to actually research the painting, of course (fascists rarely do), or he'd have known that da Vinci himself gave the work to the French. "Drunk History" has a great episode on the affair, starring Jack Black. The "compound interest" storyline technically doesn't work as it disregards inflation, but, y'know, a cryogenic tube that went unnoticed and maintained power for a thousand years, through at least 2 civilization collapses. Disbelief: suspended. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure rents a lot of relief from misery. Big Oil has been shitty for a very long time. When cars were first being introduced in America, most roads had parallel drainage ditches which also served as water sources for haulage horses. These were deliberately destroyed or rendered unusable. Similarly, LA once had one of the best public-transit systems in the world, the Red Rocket. Big Oil and Big Auto conspired to buy it and disassemble it, helping make LA the sprawling, pollution-choked, traffic-snarled, car-dependent nightmare that it is to this very day. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is a low-key satire about that event. We desperately need a return of aggressive trust-busting to restore competition to an oligarchically-controlled economy that serves only the most powerful. We may already be beyond that possibility, though, and into the hellish hyper-corp world of Weyland-Yutani and the "Alien" universe.
JV has been really really sick and we're still trying to figure out what's going on. We filmed a few Futurama but he wasn't able to do the others. Hopefully he is okay soon and we can get back to it. Week 4 😔
14:05 "What?! MY MOTHER WAS A SAINT! GET OUT!"
This episode really highlights one of Fry's core personality traits. His willingness to give up something incredible in exchange for something simple but meaningful to him.
The triplets slapping each other in age order is probably the most underrated running joke in the show.
They are not triplets. Regular brothers.
I love how utterly offended Jane is by Mom’s absurd schemes.
Unlike most of us, she might have some semblance of morals.
the writers actually did the maths to figure out much Fry would be worth
Not gonna lie, I found an interest calculator and ran the calculations as well, figuring that there was no way it could be that much. Boy was I wrong.
@@notyourfathersdm interest is one hell of a thing
In the body switching episode, didnt the show actually come up with an algorithm/theorem/something to figure out how to get everyone back into their body? They had some real mathematicians and whatnot writing for the series.
@@tastyneck yes they did, they solved a real world mathematical proof for that episode. The writers are nuts!
@@ryanway5922 True, although it's compound interest that really does the work. The recursive nature of it (where each new installment of interest then earns further interest) is what leads to exponential growth. It's the difference between "linear" growth (on a simple graph, a straight line) and the "geometric" variety (on a simple graph, that distinctive curve moving rapidly towards being a straight vertical line).
I was around 10 years old when this episode first aired, and this episode taught me about compound interest :D
I have the same savings account I opened as a child in the early 90's. As a kid I was encouraged by its mascot to watch my savings grow by however many cents every month on the small amount of allowance I had put aside. Now it has a $4 monthly fee just for existing, and there's no such thing as interest. Fry's account would have had a negative balance and gotten closed before his nephew was born.
Mom is a great character.
“The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg! *splat*” I love Farnsworth. 😂
The interest checks out: $0.93*1.0225^1000 = $4.284-billion. Half the writing staff of Futurama have Ph.D.s in mathematics. (Though, this is compounded annually, no bank is going to give you that much interest on a deposit account, and his account would be drained from service fees.)
Gamma radiation is pretty much the most dangerous type we can encounter, that shit would pierce all the way down to your bones and wipe out humanity after an ad or two.
Two things that get me, 1 was it a savings or a checking account? Also how could fry get interest from .93 cents with the maintenance fees from not having any activity in it while he was frozen? The only option I could think of is that his manager put fry paycheck direct deposit and over time after it was able to keep getting interest while the maintenance fees were being subtracted until the interest went over the required limits.
Ahhhhh I was waiting for this one. I love how the 2 of you are starting with some really fun shows of the late 90's and starting from the beginning. So much nostalgia and it's fun to see how it's aged. Whoever decided on these shows to watch is a genius.
tried anchovies 'cuz of this episode. they're good. eat a few from the can by itself, put a few on the pizza. then also nobody will touch your pizza.
Bender playing Rock-em-Sock-em Robots is great.
This is one of those highly sentinmental episodes to me- for a lot of reasons! One is- having watched it one Nostalgic night on DVD- along with most of the S1 episodes as you two are- at night in my sisters room while she slept. She put it on for me figuring I’d like the show and I had no idea just how much it would become a favorite of mine!
But also- don’t we all kind of want to live how Fry did in this episode more, and more as time goes on? That’s not to say things are getting worse and the old times were better necessarily, but there’s something familiar- and sweet about how we used to live, the highlights of our youth- something very comfortable about being able to live in any chapter of your life you want- especially the one that made you the most happy. The further into the future we get the more I want to hold onto a piece of those things from the past, and i’m only 24 lol!
And let's be honest. I imagine if most people had the money, they would definitely spend whatever it took just to recapture their past.
'Money won't buy you happiness'. You know who says that? Poor people.
To be fair to the demo pair of the briefs. Given how far into the future this is, I imagine that tiny spray the worker used before giving them to Fry is an extremely potent sanitizer that our modern technology can only imagine.
love this episode. i would have to ask the bank but wouldn't the bank have the account closed since it was inactive for so long and fry was reported missing?
Hey, watching ur reactions like 1 year later, they took this idea about the money saved in the bank with all the interest over a long time from the book "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" where u could travel in time to a incredibly expensive restaurant at the end of the universe where u could literally watch the end of the universe, it was very expensive but u could just set in 1 cent in their bank account and when u arrived at the restaurant in the future the interest would be enuf to pay for the visit 🙂
Since Bender tried the anchovy, I guess he is permanently oiled. Though I do not think it will ever come up again.
Which if you think about it, it makes sense since he wouldn’t have to worry about that again 😂
@@luciferclown9328 Fair point.
@@luciferclown9328 Considering he's kept going whilst buried in the desert for about 1050 years (Roswell that Ends Well) and several trips back to the past to steal valuable relics in history (Bender's Big Score), it's probably something not brought up but if it is then there's now an in-universe logical explanation.
You guys should definitely react to the show Archer it’s hilarious
I feel like it wouldn't be their cup of tea.
Mother's Day coming up.👍
Finally more Futurama
Yes, Mom will return!
Anchovies on pizza are a wonderful topping, especially with olives and garlic.
🤮
I aint tryna picture that shit
I had a slice of Pizza with Anchovies. I didn't eat/buy another, and I came to prefer Sardines to Anchovies, anyway. However, a day without "Futurama" is a very dark one.;)
The math checks out too, because Matt Groening and his team are math nerds, so of course it does.
Mom is Futurama's Mr burns
I will have an anchovy can save maybe in the future a fortune is worth
If you had a billion dollars, and spent one every second, you still would not be broke 30 years later.
All that money for Anchovies...well people spend more on NFTs...at least that is physical
7:13 420p? You give CRT tvs too much credit.
If you find a good Spanish tapas joint, treat yourself to some delicious sweet anchovies. Mm. I could drop 50 million on a tin right now.
Heeey you are back :D This is my favorite episode of season 1 definetly
Lol, "Ancient Egyptian Algebra" is hilarious if you know history/archaeology since the two are anachronistic relative to each other (but it's a nightmare of Fry's so...).
I know Matt Groening had a team of scientists and mathematicians working on the show to ensure so many of their references are actually correct and/or have meaning, and I bet the math the dream professor shows is probably correct if "translated", since that's how far they would go for something that only appears onscreen for less than a second.
Globetrotter math...
There’s underwear that’s like 50 dollars or even more today.
Bring it back!
Thx for the reaction
Gamma radiation is also the stuff that requires thick lead shielding to stop.
The "lottery curse" is similar to "Extreme Home Makeover"'s dirty little secret, that being that almost every family they "help" ends up losing their upgraded home because they can't afford the higher property taxes on the increased value of the structure. Lottery winners also tend to buy lots of expensive stuff, not realizing that: a) taxes are going to take a big bite of their winnings, and; b) that all that expensive stuff comes with maintenance costs (eg storage, property taxes, upkeep, etc). Plus, they're usually people with almost zero experience handling money, which also exacerbates the fact that they instantly become a target for every grifter who can possibly spin them a tale.
It's funny that the Mona Lisa is only as famous as it is because some dumbass Italian nationalist decided that France shouldn't have the work of a quasi-Italian artist and so stole the painting, creating a huge international scandal that brought the work to popular attention. Said nationalist didn't bother to actually research the painting, of course (fascists rarely do), or he'd have known that da Vinci himself gave the work to the French. "Drunk History" has a great episode on the affair, starring Jack Black.
The "compound interest" storyline technically doesn't work as it disregards inflation, but, y'know, a cryogenic tube that went unnoticed and maintained power for a thousand years, through at least 2 civilization collapses. Disbelief: suspended.
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure rents a lot of relief from misery.
Big Oil has been shitty for a very long time. When cars were first being introduced in America, most roads had parallel drainage ditches which also served as water sources for haulage horses. These were deliberately destroyed or rendered unusable. Similarly, LA once had one of the best public-transit systems in the world, the Red Rocket. Big Oil and Big Auto conspired to buy it and disassemble it, helping make LA the sprawling, pollution-choked, traffic-snarled, car-dependent nightmare that it is to this very day. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is a low-key satire about that event.
We desperately need a return of aggressive trust-busting to restore competition to an oligarchically-controlled economy that serves only the most powerful. We may already be beyond that possibility, though, and into the hellish hyper-corp world of Weyland-Yutani and the "Alien" universe.
Hell yeah! Love me some futurama
Fry is stupid but funny lol
Great reaction!
Loved the vid!
I love her girly reactions 😂
Now I'm not on Peyton but u guys get a lot of love love on UA-cam.
Love these reactions!!! One of my favorite shows ever. Glad they got the voice actor of bender back for the new seasons
Fry is my role model
Awesome episode. It gets better though.
Same day The Take does a Pamela Anderson video.
how about a bigger futurama window?..
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JV has been really really sick and we're still trying to figure out what's going on. We filmed a few Futurama but he wasn't able to do the others. Hopefully he is okay soon and we can get back to it. Week 4 😔
@@SeeJaneGoTV Oh I see, thank you for responding. Hope JV gets better soon, sending positive vibes!
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