Futurama Season 2 Episode 15- The Problem with Popplers Reaction!

[@vetarlittorf1807]

It's quite amazing that Zapp actually came up with a good plan AND was able to negotiate down to one person being eaten.

[@jaredkrol3739]

I would say the Omicronians are similarly doofus-ish as Zapp (or at least Lrrr is) so it makes some sense they could come to an agreement. I mean they demanded a new episode of a 1000 year old TV show for crying out loud.

[@vetarlittorf1807]

@@jaredkrol3739 Well, they didn't know it was a 1000 year old TV show since it took 1000 years for the transmissions to reach Omicron Persei 8. Either way, the fact that Zapp actually came up with the idea of using the Omicronians' inability to tell apart individual humans to their advantage is quite surprising. It's the first time he's ever come up with a plan that actually makes sense.

[@jasonbrennan9918]

That's probably because Kif did most of the negotiating - the omicronians did think he was the statesman afterall - while, (understandably) mistaking Zapp for a 'jabbering mental patient'

[@purgeblue]

@@vetarlittorf1807his is the one episode Zapp wasn’t actually too hatable since he came up with the idea to use the omicronians inability to tell apart to trick them, and even after the vegan guy said it was fake, Zapp had an actual good reaction to it, it might be because of it was Leela they were faking, but still Zapp’s intolerance of the Vegan saying it was a trick was actually a satisfying reaction of him

[@gurvmlk]

@@vetarlittorf1807 I think they did know how old the show was, since at the end of the same episode, they say that they need to return to their planet to catch a thousand-year-old Leno monologue. Rather, they probably don't realize that humans don't live that long. It's clear in that very same episode that they don't know much about humans, since they think they can raise Earth's temperature by one million degrees a day for five days as a threat, like the planet won't be wiped out after just the first day.

[@vladthestorm]

As for me, this Wingus and Dingus moment is one of the best jokes in cartoon ever

[@TheGrunaldi]

one of my favorite line in whole of Futurama "People of Earth .... shhhh!"

[@TheStapleGunKid]

This episode was clearly Zapp Branningan's finest hour. He literally saved all humanity by convincing the Omicronians to only eat one person, and even came up with a good plan to save that one person too. It actually says a lot that Zapp was so dedicated to ensuring his plan didn't cost a single human life. Normally he wouldn't care about one death one bit.

[@SirPaladin]

so if they sold 198 billion Popplers at $1 a dozen, that means Fry & Bender made about SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS.

[@Someguyhere111]

I'm willing to bet Fry never changed his PIN number, so all that money now belongs to Mom

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

198 billion included all popplers that planet express sold and that other guy sold

[@kellynolen498]

they come in baskets so the sales numbers are going to be lower possibly hundred fold depends on the size

[@mmxxiii9503]

If that is the case, he is poor by choice....or he is just too dumb to know it

[@BigJiggly]

@@kellynolen498 that’s still at least a years wages for fry so bender probably tricked him into something idiotic

[@dannybob42]

from Slurm to Popplers, the moral of the story is that all food in the future is bad

[@arthurwatson2555]

At least for Slurm, it was comparable to milking a cow and voluntarily offered

[@SomedudeonYouTubeB]

As someone who's been to a hot dog factory and seen how they are made, I can confirm that it's pretty bad now too (the smell alone is nauseating). However, this does not stop me from eating hot dogs, because we're here for a good time not a long time!

[@purgeblue]

@@SomedudeonKZbinBhmmm, interesting, what would you say has worse smell, the hot dog factory, or a fish market

[@SomedudeonYouTubeB]

@@purgeblue The hot dog factory smells like raw meat and the most God-awful sanitiser known to man combined, and the thing itself is made out of ground up pig anuses and lips. At least I know that fish is actually fish Also, my dad is a fisherman who always took me on trips with him and taught me how to gut a fish when I was 6, so maybe I'm just used to the smell, lol. He's 62 now, and we still go sometimes when I'm not busy with work

[@moneylover318]

The one time zapp comes up with a good idea and it screws them over

[@0okamino]

Well, any of Zapp’s plans seem to involve somebody getting screwed.

[@Ashamanic]

I did like how the reaction to missing an episode of the Ali McBeal type show was to wipe out humanity, but their reaction to the killing of almost 200 billion if their young was to demand they get to do the same and then negotiate to eating just one person

[@RaistliniltsiaR]

To be fair, he DID fill up on nuts at the negotiation.

[@moneylover318]

@@RaistliniltsiaR I think it's ridiculous how even though zapp comes up with a fair compromise it still screws them over

[@Bakemer94]

I love how your analytical brain just got down to how much you could possibly make for these sentient beings!

[@jasonbrennan9918]

- Remember the name "Free Waterfall Junior" he's one of the series' running gags. - Bio-accumulation of toxins is pretty well documented. The effects in this instance appear similar to cannabis intoxication, but who knows what sorts of psychotropic compounds are in use 1000 years from now...

[@dragonlynx9969]

I guess they treated that hippie guy like a pot brownie.

[@marquis911]

Thus begins one of my favorite recurring gags of the show: the Waterfall family.

[@Robert-ht7om]

Such a thought provoking episode( cracks a couple of eggs), really makes you think about how we treat animals (seasons and scrambles)there are so many other options out there (pours into a hot frying pan) hopefully we'll learn and grow out of that habit (plates and eats).

[@KarlJAisthegoat]

Lol

[@_Shadoh_]

One of my favourite episodes! "I feel like I'm flying!" 🤣🤣

[@cameronspalding9792]

@ 6:58 I can’t help but wonder that if the planet was a nursery planet for the Omicronians children, why was nobody guarding the pobblers that Fry and the gang found and ate. I feel that would have prevented this whole ordeal.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

This is without a doubt, my favorite episode of season 2, if not of the entire series! (Granted, I haven't seen many of the Comedy Central episodes yet.)

[@superjonh1000]

Have you watched "The Late Philip J. Fry"? I think it's from the Comedy Central era, it is worth watching if you haven't. It is regarded as the best in the whole show, and I agree.

[@gurvmlk]

The great thing is that in this episode, we learn that Fry's first name is Phillip. Which was one of your guesses in the first episode when you were trying to remember his second name, thinking that his second name was his first name.

[@jasonthayer1309]

That Howard Johnson's joke doesn't work now that that chain of hotels is gone.

[@0okamino]

I didn’t know they weren’t a thing anymore. I was starting to wonder about the Howard Johnson references in _Blazing Saddles_ not seeming to even strike a note of recognition with younger reactors.

[@christabelk16]

Regarding Kif, don't worry, the lovable green dork will get more lines as the series goes on- especially season 3 and onwards :)

[@sophiapenna9088]

Kif supremacy

[@AthosJosue]

Modern day dumb dolphins blow their money in NFTs instead. 🤣

[@0okamino]

Bored Apes for Dumb Dolphins.

[@Goomyx1492]

I won't say what episode it is, but ohhhh man am I counting down to a certain episode in season 3. I absolutely can't wait for your reaction to it!

[@solgnaleb]

I think season 3 has 3 10/10 episodes. The best of futurama is now to come!

[@chuckrothans7535]

@Eric Reacts that particular little omicronian returns in a future episode.

[@jeffjenner5030]

Look at you, still trying to apply some sort of logic to Futurama. I cant wait to see how season 3 screws with your noodle.

[@tmirred1945]

I think the part about getting high was due to the vegans hemp cloth

[@0okamino]

That and whatever might have still been in his system at the time of being consumed.

[@pcwkid76]

"Hail to the Chef." Umm...

[@cameronspalding9792]

The hippie person was called an anti-eating activist.

[@georgeprchal3924]

Maybe it just does it as a parlor trick like Fry? Like Fry! Like Fry!

[@rushmaverick1923]

Not to push my own views on anyone, but I went through a vegetarian phase early in my life that ended once I came to the realization that human beings are omnivores by nature. We can't live off of one or the other, we need to have a balance of both meat and vegetables in order to survive. It's like that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa's vegetarian lifestyle wasn't giving her enough protein or iron in her diet, so she started eating bugs as a workaround.

[@zeallust8542]

We totally can live off one or the other.

[@letheas6175]

I thought it said poppers in the title

[@maxzak5310]

zuban cigar -> cuban cigar

[@tevinlogan8781]

couldn't they just make a clone of Leela to solve the problem

[@JonathanGhost42]

It is wrong, but I still want to eat Popplers...

[@yaroslavpanych2067]

Turanga? Phillip?

[@NovaOnce]

It's the same now. Russia was negotiating for peace with Ukraine while continuing airstrikes.

[@alexbort3082]

Or the USA negotiating for peace with Vietnam in Paris while continuing airstrikes and poisoning with agent orange

[@NovaOnce]

I think vegans should not fight for prohibiting eating meat, but get a degree and make a product as good as meat or better so everyone volunteers to switch. That is a fight for real change. As well as with abortion: find a way to preserve the growth of children out of the uterus, so you don't need abortion at all.

[@zeallust8542]

Theres some really good vegan meat substitutes out there tbh. Its just expensive.

[@yaroslavpanych2067]

Wtf with order of episodes

[@9791mij]

I figured something about the hippie stereotype, It was a way to insults White people who don’t want to be racist or sexist

[@zeallust8542]

Lmao what?

[@rhyantrick8178]

hippie has turned into an insult for people who care for the planet and want to be healthy in mind and body.. don't think it's specific to white people though