The Orville being a hilarious lighthearted comedy

It's basically "Galaxy Quest: The Series", isn't it? Family Guy in space. Non-stop dick and fart jokes.
#renewtheorville

[@TheLibrarianOG1]

The irony. You never really see how dark this show can be, until you see these moments in succession. Now I'm even more scared, going into season 3 because it's supposed to be even more daring and dark

[@PenneySounds]

And by the looks of it, a much bigger budget. Can't wait to see what they can do.

[@TheLibrarianOG1]

@@PenneySounds it's been great so far, for me

[@Jetsparx373]

This show is better than modern Star Trek I wish we were going to get a fourth season of this.

[@ABW90]

Ok! Spoiler warning! Yes it’s more serious and darker but the comedy still there and the show is better

[@voliteon]

🙄

[@chibiprussia5574]

Seasons 1&2: funny Season 3: _shit hits you like an effing brick_

[@JYang0602]

Legitimately that first episode with Isaac, Gordon in 2015-2025, and Topa’s Transition or Re-Transition in this case

[@zachscarbrough2727]

Oh hey! You having fun? Having a good time? Good good, I’m glad! *Sucker punches you with a fist made of dark subject material* Fun times over chucklefuck. Time to get Serious.

[@Joseph-oo7pp]

I remember hearing Tarantino wanted to make an R-Rated Star Trek movie, and I feel like some instances in this video give a hint towards what that could have been.

[@PenneySounds]

Star Trek did plenty of dark stuff. But Tarantino would have tried to force it, and it would have been cheesy.

[@zachscarbrough2727]

Was it the part about watching a man consumed by a spider the size of a hatchback? Or the part where a child is forcibly taken away from their mother who was left to rot in what I can only guess is some form of concentration camp. (Haven’t seen the episode yet) For me it was the cave system filled with about a metric shit ton of bones. 😅

[@Superdeath25]

I say the Orville should have 10 seasons, with season 10 being an epic finale that wraps up all remaining plot lines

[@master-of-many-fandoms2020]

I don’t know. Sometimes, less is more.

[@Queen_Springsteen]

Oh Yees At lest it should be a season 4 coming out like yesterday

[@Briselance]

​@@master-of-many-fandoms2020 Less is more? Eh, I don't know. Story lines without ending? Not good.

[@DocFunkenstein]

I'm sensing sarcasm in the title of this video.

[@PenneySounds]

Those are some finely calibrated sensors

[@joesplace2960]

Me too.

[@captaintalon4485]

Eh...Commander Grayson was a SHIELD agent before serving in the Union. She's probably been through worse than this

[@PenneySounds]

I do want to do a video about that at some point.

[@mightymochi6320]

I don’t consider it a comedy show at all. Even from the start, it was balanced with drama and comedic moments. It was never just a straight laugh fest.

[@craigmcfly]

I have cried at one point or another during every episode so far this season!

[@l.tc.5032]

Ed meeting his daughter was a particularly tear-inducing scene for me. I need a season 4 I need him to rescue her.

[@annaparrish9036]

"They may not value life, but we do." -Claire Finn

[@Kunk_Manjeroon]

I was always a little bothered by the fact that, due to the show's low budget, all these other planets have Fords and Earth business suits and so on, but these are also some of the best episodes in the show. I think about that episode where you can die based on public opinion every once in a while.

[@Ickinot]

this is one of the best shows ever, they've tackled some real issues quite well. this holds up to the original shows it pays tribute to.

[@szabomarton8064]

For me Orville is what Star trek of today should be. They started out with the comedy but it quickly became apparent that it was a pretext

[@TheLibrarianOG1]

Really feels like something you'd see from the early TOS or Classic Who days

[@PenneySounds]

Network television budgets aren't great, especially on Fox

[@LoriCiani]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@PenneySounds It’s not just all about tiny budgets, it’s the emphasis on story and character building rather than special effects and flashy sets. As a child I watched early Doctor Who and Star TOS.( When finally TOS got to the UK on the BBC that is.) It was the story and the characters that got me hooked. But, as a child of the 60s watching TV on a black and white mono set, only viewing on a colour mono set in the very late 60s, I knew no different. Mind you, the first Doctor Who film in the mid 60s in colour and on the big screen was a bit of an eye opener.😄

[@JYang0602]

I recently just finished watching all of this show and man, as funny as this show is in some genuine and outrageous moments, it’s pretty heavy on certain subjects. The Season 3 premiere is all about a suicide and how the crew reacts to it. And don’t even get me started on Topa bro 😳👀

[@PenneySounds]

What's why it hooked us Star Trek fans. Not the aliens and the spaceships, but the exploration of complex issues, including ones that are uncomfortable to think about.

[@inso80]

Yes, just a little lighthearted comedy, nothing to see here.

[@MultifandomMashup]

If you really think about it, that first scene where the (Doctor Lee I think her name was?) was killed, that time suspended bubble was 100 years on the inside and a few seconds on the outside… and if her brain was on the inside, that meant that to her, it took her 100 years to die… and that messes with me a little

[@PenneySounds]

The problem with that is it means she screams for 100 years. In reality, her face should have become a blur as 100 years of facial expressions happened in a matter of seconds. In the blink of an eye she would go from screaming and scared, to bored, and then to panicked, then sleeping, and eventually just a long fluctuation between absolute madness and sleep, since having your head locked in place for 100 years as a room full of frozen people stare at you would make you go insane. So maybe the fact that she didn't experience that is a small mercy that proves it was actually a quick death.

[@MultifandomMashup]

@@PenneySounds I truly hope that is the case. Because I did think of that after my comment, I realized she wouldn’t have just screamed and screamed lol. What a horrid way to die

[@PenneySounds]

It also evokes the question of how her head could have been alive for 100 years without eating

[@atomicskull6405]

@@PenneySounds What would really happen is her head would die almost instantly from lack of oxygen and then rot leaving an exposed skull and neck bones

[@johnrettig1880]

So Family Friendly Reminds Me of Family Reunions during the Holidays

[@Mario-SunshineGalaxy64]

But why did the scientist age so much? Wasn’t the machine set to just a month? Also, that’s a gruesome way to go, to us she died in a few seconds but to her she was probably stuck there for decades, he brain not being able to send signals to her body to get her to move and such.

[@lord_beethoven1169]

Ok the part with the Kalon graveyard was disturbing.

[@Liam-jj7po]

why is this show better than any of the new star trek

[@PenneySounds]

Because it's actually made by people who understand and care about Star Trek and its philosophical principles.

[@DocFunkenstein]

Well, except for Strange New Worlds, which is trumping it quite soundly. The Orville's is straight 90's Trek start to finish. SNW has the storytelling of TOS/TNG (episodic), but overreaching story arcs, amazing visuals, great CGI, and every single character and actor is doing an amazing job. It's 90's Trek with modern effects, cinematography, and sensibilities.

[@PenneySounds]

SNW is the same edgelord trash

[@DocFunkenstein]

@@PenneySounds Sure it is. (Oh look, more sarcasm.)

[@PenneySounds]

It is. It's the same dreary hateful garbage as Discovery and Picard. Still going completely against the values of Star Trek. They recently did an episode about the Gorn (Who the Federation canonically shouldn't yet know about at the time they claim the show takes place), and the message of the story was that the Gorn are irredeemably evil violent monsters. Completely the opposite message of the TOS episode featuring the Gorn in which Kirk sees the Gorn as people he wished to make peace with. Same as how the Orville showed Captain Mercer making peace with the Krill. Star Trek and The Orville promote peace and understanding. Strange New Worlds promotes race-hatred.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

6:23 - 6:45 More redshirts died on this battle scene than those in TOS combined 😉

[@LGranthamsHeir]

0:02 - 0:04 Alara did the honor of getting shot and killed (until she was revived by Dr Finn), just like any good redshirt 😉

[@LGranthamsHeir]

3:35 - 3:38 I didn't know Moclan divorce is deadlier than Klingon divorce 😊

[@PenneySounds]

Klingon divorce isn't deadly. It's a bit painful, but not deadly.

[@jackkarg2578]

Haa-a-a-aaa...!! All my Favorite GAFFS...!!! Thanks...!!!

[@PenneySounds]

Everybody loves the "don't take my baby" gag. Classic comedy. Almost as good as the old "strapped to a chair and tortured" routine. An absolute laugh riot.

[@paulinetaylor1682]

What season and episode is timestamp 0:32 from?

[@PenneySounds]

Season 1 episode 4 "If the Stars Should Appear"

[@waynemyers2469]

I'm pretty sure I have half of the casts tonsils memorized, they were so often screaming, shrieking, shouting...and screaming.

[@PenneySounds]

Aw man, this already has more views than the Star Trek video I spent 5 months making kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHWVamCiiNyXpcU

[@billkeithchannel]

That is usually how it works. The ones that you painstakingly craft gets overlooked while the ones you rushed to get gone, flaws and all, go viral.

[@goku546686]

My first thoughts oh cool, a funny comedy only star trek ill skip. The story and action getting deeper... ok i may just keep watching.

[@WJen8]

The show was a blast, for both the comedy and the deeper moments and everything else. I hope they make a season 4!

[@tomwotton9]

I genuinely don’t remember any of this!

[@scottwatts3879]

Crap Rule #2: Injections must go DEEP into the throat

[@tabicat.puccino7425]

The title of this video is misleading

[@PenneySounds]

That's the joke. The marketing for the show was equally misleading. It was marketed as a sci-fi parody sitcom. As you can see here, it's not that.

[@TheLibrarianOG1]

Arachnids in The Orville

[@theevilmoppet]

One of these was a great episode of a great series that was the intellectual sequel of another, without technically or officially being that. The other was a bad episode of a worse series that was the official sequel while disregarding most of the show’s point. Long story short, fuck Chris Chibnall and new Star Trek. Ugh.

[@Sneakystevegod]

0:53 **TIMMEEN EMMIDEEN**

[@shalynv5902]

I really expected light hearted comedy. I guess I really have autism.

[@PenneySounds]

@@shalynv5902 Better check out the companion video about Star Trek being a serious science fiction drama.

[@Chichilllive]

“So this is… humor.”

[@XanthosAcanthus]

Too funny lol 😂

[@DavidLS1]

Click bait?

[@voliteon]

🥱

[@kuldas9299]

So when the Orville is being serious..doesn't that make it Star Trek?

[@PenneySounds]

Basically. That's what it's for. If Star Trek won't be Star Trek anymore, somebody might as well be.

[@PenneySounds]

If Star Trek is being funny, does that make it The Orville? kzbin.info/www/bejne/omXUeIumirmWoZo

[@kuldas9299]

@@PenneySounds Actually Star Trek was also funny way before Orville.

[@dragonjames7911]

I hate it when KZbin titles lie to me!!!

[@PenneySounds]

The whole marketing campaign for this show lied to us. A lot of people never gave this show a chance because they thought it was a comedy.

[@missssophisicated6742]

Was this really the orville? I totally don't remember any of this..

[@PenneySounds]

Just the first two seasons. Season 3 got even darker You can always rewatch it. It's on Hulu AND Disney+ as of tomorrow, I believe

[@missssophisicated6742]

@@PenneySounds I went on Disney and started from season 1..made me realize I forget ALOT..

[@mattevans4377]

You should do more of these with other shows, like 'X show being a kids show'.

[@PenneySounds]

There are a ton like that for Doctor Who

[@mattevans4377]

@@PenneySounds I more meant shows where people say 'why are you watching that, it's a kids show'.

[@PenneySounds]

I suppose I could do something like put together a compilation of emotional and dark moments in "Avatar: The Last Airbender" or something

[@amanzeihedioha]

@@PenneySounds I suggest something like the old JLA cartoon. Those were beautiful

[@LoriCiani]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@PenneySounds Yes, self appointed moral guardian, Mary Whitehouse and her National Viewers And Listeners Association used to get very agitated about certain scenes in Doctor Who. But, the show’s producers used to wish for a rant from Mary Whitehouse because each rant brought more viewers to the series.🤷🏻‍♀️

[@carrotonaschtick]

This was hilarious!

[@Briselance]

00:02 😢😢

[@scottwatts3879]

Who are these people? And are you sure you want them to stay?

[@alexiachimciuc3199]

The heck was that at 2:20 💀

[@RurouniKalainGaming]

Gotta watch this stuffs.

[@PenneySounds]

Season 3 starts Thursday

[@TheSpiderScientist]

@@PenneySounds Hey, do you know if it starts on Disney plus too or on Hulu only?

[@PenneySounds]

I think it's only on Disney+ in regions that don't have Hulu, like here in Canada. Basically, if the first two seasons aren't already on D+ where you live, the new season won't be either.

[@PenneySounds]

The show is now on Disney+ everywhere

[@kendalldalton3111]

Where can I watch this show

[@PenneySounds]

Hulu or Disney+

[@kendalldalton3111]

@@PenneySounds thank you