Bonus New Year's Episode - Talking Futurama "The Late Philip J. Fry"
Talking Simpsons
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
The Talking Simpsons Network is taking a week off for the holiday season, so to fill the content gap, we've decided to post an episode of our Patreon-exclusive Talking Futurama podcast miniseries! If you like this episode and want to hear the rest (with more to come every month), head over to Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and sign up at the $5 level. Once you do, you'll have immediate access to all of our limited miniseries, covering animated shows like King of the Hill, Mission Hill, The Critic, and Batman: The Animated Series. (That's over 200 bonus episodes to date!) So visit Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and sign up today!
This episode was originally posted on December 8, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Once again, television has given me a reason to live. |
| 0:11.6 | Good news, everyone. |
| 0:13.0 | It's Talking Futurama recorded on a mountain of skulls near Blood Lake. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm one of your host, the Crapface sack of crap, Bob Mackie, and this is the Talking |
| 0:20.4 | Simpsons' chronological exploration of Futurama, who is here with me today, as always. |
| 0:25.3 | Henry Gilbert, and thanks for the air and whatnot. |
| 0:28.2 | And this month's episode is The Late Philip J. Fry. |
| 0:32.5 | Is it possible? |
| 0:33.9 | It must be possible. |
| 0:35.3 | It's happening. |
| 0:36.4 | By the way, what's happening? |
| 0:38.2 | This episode originally aired on July 29th, 2010. And as always, Henry Will tell us what happened on this day in real world history. |
| 0:46.7 | Welcome to the world of tomorrow. |
| 0:49.8 | Good news, Bobby. The Benedict Cumberback Martin Freeman Sherlock show debuts. The long-awaited StarCraft 2 is released. And Ellen DeGeneres leaves American Idol after only one season. |
| 1:03.6 | Wow. I didn't even know she was a judge. The famously loved Ellen DeGeneres. Everybody loves her. It's, yeah, she was put on it because they were trying to rebuild, you know, |
| 1:15.6 | was like American Idol was losing some of its popularity and she was trying to booster it with as a big hire, you know, |
| 1:24.3 | because they hired like they've hired Katie Perry, they've hired Jennifer Lopez. |
| 1:32.1 | They get famous people, but they never want to commit very long to, to the show. You know, she really picked the wrong time to hang out with George W. Bush. If she did it |
| 1:37.8 | during this election cycle, she would have been praised for, you know, crossing the aisle and |
| 1:42.7 | trying to mend fences and all that stuff. |
| 1:44.6 | By the way, we're recording this in October. We don't know what happened during the election. |
| 1:48.9 | Surprise us. Yes. She could have, well, if they had been nice to her, if everybody had been nice to Ellen, they could have used her connection to get George W. Bush to officially endorse Kamala Harris, |
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