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Get out your twenty sided dice and roll up a character for today's grand adventure! Make sure to bring your imagination!Bender learns D&D. Fry smells some milk. Leela gets a few warnings.We also end up talking an awful lot about 90s Nickelodeon TV. What was Sam's endgame? What does Mr. Dink do for a living that he can afford so many gadgets?Ben climbs in through the window. Mike explains it all.

WE ARE FINALLY DONE TALKING ABOUT TENTACLES.The world breaks up with Yivo and they have to work things out. Fry has feelings. Leela doubts things. Bender gets lonely. We talk about Hamilton, the Blues Brothers, and I don't even know. 3D movies?Give this one a listen and you will probably not regret it. Probably.Ben orders a Pepsi. Mike microwaves a steak.

Fry becomes Tentacle Pope of the world. A few lucky people mount a resistance before mounting each other (sorry for that pun). Soup prohibition exists...? The League of Robots is totally lame.ALSO WE TALK WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE POPE IN THIS ONE. What is up with that? This is basically a popecast now.Ben dreams about the Pope. Mike dreams about Tentacle Owl.

We're back in a brand new studio and we're talking about part 2 of another movie! Fry gets sad and tries to leave forever. Something really terrible happens to Kif. Zapp does some things, I guess. The Professor goes to jail.We also talk about cat cameos (cameows), Pokémon, and an unfortunately lot about robot penises. There are some saucy details about conference calls.Ben chooses Squirtle. Mike chooses Bulbasaur.

A rift has opened in spacetime, and your friendly Back to the Futurama hosts are here to help you through this trying time. Fry finds love and Kif and Amy find more love and we also talk about the Oregon Trail video game for some reason.We also talk about proper wedding etiquette (warning: we are probably wrong). We find out about a new band accidentally on this week's Hot 40.Ben talks to a giant medium-sized ant. Mike is the Sausage Man.

We're wrapping up on the last part of the first Futurama movie. MORE time travel ensues! Things get even more confusing! Things are REVEALEDAlso we talk about jumping sharks. And which amendments are for your right to party. THERE IS ALSO A SURPRISING M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN PLOT TWIST. We invent a new kind of server farm. Zapp makes questionable decisions.Ben takes off his glasses and becomes sexy. Mike forgets what he told his wife.

Everything just keeps getting worse as the scammers keep scamming everything. We find out some more stuff about time travel. A wedding may or may not happen.There's a whole rant about Family Guy (surprise! Bet you didn't see that one coming). We talk about what the heck a narwhal actually is. We use a lot of Torgo's Executive Powder.Ben gets an Executive Producer credit. Mike considers the consequences of butt touching.

Time travel gets weird and it's about to get weirder. Multiple instances of everybody? Bender needs to pee? SEYMOUR LIVES?We also talk about what would happen if you woke up and there was a clone of yourself, Renaissance painters, levels of doom, levels of Doom, and tired old jokes about the year 2000 election.Ben buys one gallon of gas. Mike brings some bubble solution.

FUTURAMA IS BACK, BABY! But after a few years away, does it hold up? We're going to find out.We also talk about Family Guy and its influence, butts, Olympic medals in various sports, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, spam ads, and much more!Ben gets on a soapbox. Mike needs to be more rad.

Woah! We finished the original run! We get a little self-congratulatory for that, but we also talk about why we love Futurama and our hopes and fears for the movies and beyond.We also talk about... uh... Frysier. Just... I can't explain it. Sorry.Also, we have a Patreon page now! If you want to support us, you can throw money at us over at patreon.com/backtofuturama.Ben talks a lot about Frasier. Mike is the duct tape holding this podcast together.

Here we are, the end of an era. Before the reboots, this is where it all ended. That's all she wrote, until she wrote more.BEN FINALLY GETS DUNKED ON. WHAT? So does New Jersey (we are less surprised by that). We find out Mike does a pretty good impression. We find out there are definitely real deleted scenes with Alanis Morissette and find out what irony truly is (it was in our hearts all along).Don't forget to check out our guest Kate's podcast at https://subvertedtropescast.podbean.com/Ben is bad and he should feel bad. Mike parties like the Greeks of old.

Having some trouble with your love life? Why not try the most appealing aphrodisiac of all: listening to two idiots on the internet making jokes about dongs.If you're not into that, we also talk about The Scary Door, "Just Friends Spooning", Windows screensavers, Bigfoot, that thing dogs do where they spin around before lying down, and questionable songs. Frankly, if nothing this episode turns you on, we have failed.Ben plays bass for Wang Coffin. Mike finally crosses the line.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

What would you do if you got a crooked $300 tax refund right now? You know you'd spend it on coffee, and we think that's a good choice.We also talk about Rosanne, Shania Twain, naked bike rides, marine biology, and art.Find more from our guest at amityarmstrong.com.Ben's secrets get revealed. Mike learns about the Mid-Atlantic accent.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

Flip a coin; heads you listen to this podcast and tails you don't. Think about how unfortunate it is that there's a you in an alternate dimension who didn't get to listen to this episode. How sad for you in the Mongoose universe!We're talking with James, the other half of Unabashedly Obsessed (unabashedlyobsessed.com) as we talk about parallel universes, sweaty boot rash, ideal podcast guests, great senior quotes for the yearbook, and an accidental rant about another TV show (who is surprised?)Find James on Twitter at @unabashedjames and check out all his podcasts!Ben is silver. Mike is gold.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

We're getting an upgrade this week as we learn to deal with our new coworkers who are better than us in every way. And we're also talking about the time Bender gets stuck on a deserted island. Bring your 10 best desert island discs.We also pretend we have a sponsor. And pretend we're a clip show pretending to not be a clip show. We promise 100% it is not a clip show.Ben has some sweet potato liqueur. Mike manages to do your job before saving your life.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

This one is a rough one. We talk about some stuff we don't really like talking about.But we also do talk about Jerry Seinfeld and Puppy Petting Olympics, soap opera drama, and life changing college courses.Ben starts a war with Jerry Seinfeld. Mike stands on a desk.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

On today's very special episode of Back to the Futurama, somebody DIES. Maybe? No spoilers. But yeah Fry dies and it's kind of sad.We also discuss bees, fear of bees, Hot or Not style websites for bees. Neptunian Milhouse makes a comeback. We discuss Leela's fashion choices and Bender's life choices. And we try to figure out if we can swim in jelly.We're also joined by Erin of the podcast Unabashedly Obsessed! We got her hooked on Futurama, so we've done at least one thing right with this podcast. Check out her podcast at https://unabashedlyobsessed.com. Ben has a phobia. Mike can't swim in jelly as far as he knows.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

Hi. We don't know much about Star Trek, so we were the logical choice to talk about this Star Trek related episode of Futurama.We also talk about one of the worst TV shows Ben has ever seen, Welshie, being a nerd, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and I think that's about it. Then some updates on March Ocean Madness 2018.Ben rants about a bad TV show. Mike makes a bow out of caterpillars.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

Would you give up your present life to go have a future life in order to save the universe? What if you were the most important person in the universe? That's exactly what Fry has to deal with in this week's episode.We also spend way too much time talking about steamed hams, looking questionable stuff up in dictionaries and phonebooks, doing the nasty in the past-y, and of course, The Chaz Experience.™Ben writes for an important magazine. Mike becomes a sports commentator.Music at the end of the episode is "Super Sunday" and used with permission. "Super Sunday" is provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk.

Mike got snowed in and we couldn't record our normal episode, but our podcast buddy Max was already scheduled to record with us. So instead of talking "The Why of Fry," we zag and just talk about Futurama for a bit. We talk Max's Futurama favorites, going up watching the same TV, and other potential shows that might take up the Futurama flag. We also touch briefly on whether or not Futurama stuck the landing when it rebooted.Ben defends an anime series. Mike is probably fine.Find Max's podcasts at: Zenkai Boost: http://bit.ly/tryzboost Insanely Haunted: www.insanelhaunted.comPlus Ultra: www.plusultrapodcast.comMusic at the end of the episode is:"Welcome to the Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Youth is wasted on the young! Or maybe age is wasted on the old? It could go either way. The important thing is that we hop on the podcast highway to discuss.We also talk about Tootsie Roll Pop commercials, Podcast Clippy, the ultimate fate of Instagram, and the various larval stages of Zoidberg.Ben tries to become a tooth fairy. Mike transforms into a compact disc.

It's a hot one, like some number of inches from a mid-day sun. Cool off with a tall, cool glass of Futurama. We're here to sell it to you from our weird podcast lemonade stand.In addition to talking about global warming, we also talk about Al Gore, dark wizards, way too many balloons, and we question whether or not everybody does, in fact, love Raymond.Ben reflects 40% of Rays. Mike plays a trombone.

Grab some tissues and be prepared for some EMOTIONS. EMOTIONS!!! Yes, we're talking about perhaps the most infamous episode of Futurama, Jurassic Bark. It's the one with the dog. And it is very, very sad.We also get an interview to talk all about how sad this episode is, and that perhaps reveals that Mike is kind of a jerk sometimes.Ben cries in a coffee shop. Mike is a sociopath.

In our modern society, we have to make sure we know what our kids are watching. But we also struggle with making sure they are cool, but not cool by robbing somebody. Life as a parent can be very complicated.Luckily, we're here to help! And in the process, we accidentally unleash the immortal power of a certain 90s film, and we have a special guest (it's Bender's Banjo, making its 4th appearance).Ben consults the dictionary. Mike builds an indestructible fort.

We start this episode asking some hard hitting questions, but we promise it's relevant to the episode. Zoidberg eats a flag and people get up in arms about it. The only flags harmed in this episode are made up, fictional flags, we cannot stress that enough.It's Freedom Day, though, so do what you want! Listen to this podcast or don't! Personally, I felt like not writing a very good episode description. Freedom!Ben starts a very specific radio station. Mike becomes Zoidberg.The jazz track used in this episode is "Fake it Til You Fake it" by Kevin MacLeod and is used under a Creative Commons license. It can be found at http://freepd.com/Jazz/Fake%20It%20Til%20You%20Fake%20It

What would your superpower be? Shapeshifting? Flight? Something better than our dumb butts can come up with? Would you be a hero who saves gemeralds or would you STEAL the gemerald?Aside from the New Justice Team, we talk about alternate social media platforms, IKEA furniture, tiny robots named Andrew, and the most buck wild natural history museum that ever existed.Ben becomes CEO. Mike commands the loyalty of sea creatures.

Would you date your primary mode of transportation, even though it violates interstellar shipping statute 437-B? Bender does, and hilarity ensues.We also talk... uh... way too much about Roman Mars. We talk about the best new flavor of Cthulhu. We talk about controversial art. We talk about something called earwig honey. What don't we talk about?Ben is 23% invisible. Mike dreams of ranch dressing.

It's been teased for multiple seasons but we're going to finally find out where Leela comes from! And it's NOT where you'd expect. Unless you've seen this episode before, which you probably have.We also talk about where to buy goats, holiday specials, deals we've made regarding breakfast cereals, album names, Snakes on a Plane, and much more!Ben tries to garner a sponsor. Mike knows it's Jon Arbuckle.

Ah, the birds and the bees, where bees fall in love and their skin turns into a semi-permeable membrane for the exchange of DNA with birds. Wait, that's how it works, right?Aside from yet another gross tale of alien mating habits, we talk a surprising amount about Jean-Ralphio from the TV show Parks & Recreation. We talk a bit about carnival ride names, programming languages, and give mad props to the Grand Midwife.Ben Googles something yet again. Mike wields a machete.

Podcon lined up with our traditional season 3 break, so we talk a little bit about Podcon. Most of the episode is then spent sharing a favorite thing outside the realm of Futurama for each of us.Mike talks a bit about his all time favorite musician, Weird Al Yankovic. Ben talks about another of his nerdy hobbies, Dungeons and Dragons.

Bender does something or other about cooking. But honestly, we're in this one for Zoidberg. Zoidberg and his love of a great and mysterious bottle and a ship built within it.Other hugely important topics we talk about A1 Steak Sauce, steaks, portals, failed t-shirt schemes, cilantro, and WoW raiding soundtrack tips.Ben is thinking of Eugene, Oregon. Mike goes on a cilantro tirade.

This week's episode is coated in the dazzling veneer of the 1980s. We're talking a lot about money and business and lot of things Ben specifically doesn't understand.We also come up with an interesting theory about Matt Groening, ask a favor of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the timely humor of ballot jokes from 2000.And of course, The Safety Dance.Ben isn't looking at the big picture. Mike is a shark.

God is somewhere in space, or at least so believe a sect of monks high in the mountains. Also, a robot was there, and that robot was Bender. Yes, we're talking about a strangely religious episode of Futurama today.We also talk about hatch green chilis, SimCity, a crazy conspiracy about the What-If Machine, being sued by Oprah, and where to hang paintings of yourself as Napoleon.Ben kills everybody in SimCity. Mike has been on the internet too long.

You should be careful if you ever find yourself back in time, lest you cause yourself to not exist. Existing is basically all you do, after all.We talk about time travel, karaoke (AGAIN. WE CAN'T STOP), mattress tag humor, eggs and pie, and we forget who Gomer Pyle is. Most of all, we talk about causality and some gross things.Ben rides into the disintegration zone. Mike uses some All-Purpose Spray™.

"What if" is always a dangerous question to ask, which is why we're doing it again in part 2 (electric boogaloo). Be forewarned: when you listen to this, you can't unlisten to this.We also talk about emotions, and how to tell if a person is really a human, and laugh a lot about video game references. We talk about how to reverse things (which involves doing things in reverse), inflatable coconut guns, Bender spinoffs... what don't we talk about? It's a non-canonical episode so all bets are off.Ben gets very uncomfortable. Mike feels the rhythm.

If we change our slogan to "REMEMBER US" will you remember us? What if we became the lords of all creation? Actually, it's probably best that such a thing doesn't happen.In addition, in this episode we talk about Mike's bad sports teams and Ben's Sims. We accidentally start yet another podcast about fonts. We talk about attitudes on butt. We also talk about Futurama, I guess.Ben falls in love. Mike cannot lie about butts.

Let's face it: the NNY Mets stink out loud. How do you get butts into those seats? With the first professional female blernsball player who also happens to have one eye and also be really bad.We also talk an awful lot about pizza and flaming magnesium, selling things on eBay, and we accidentally steal a McElroy bit. Please don't sue us, sirs.We also get a SURPRISE GUEST and we guarantee you won't like them.Ben orders a questionable pizza. Mike hasn't seen a podcast this bad since the days of Bob Uecker.

We've all had a phase where we wanted to date a robot; why hide that fact in shame? Today we're talking about dating robots and it probably works out for everybody.We talk a lot about The Scary Door, blowing up planets, timely references to music sharing services, some of Ben's patented dating advice™, and really bad movies.Ben puts Spencer on blast. Mike buys the Milky Way.

By the time this episode ends, it will be August, so we hope it is time well spent. We're gonna talk about the Globetrotters and mutants and also Kelsey Grammer may make an appearance.We also talk about awkward banners to hang in your apartment, naked conga lines, and the best kind of fine china.Ben does even more bad impressions. Mike does some showboating algebra.

Everybody secretly wants to quit their job and become a musician-poet who transcends genres even as they reinvent them. What happens when you finally achieve that dream?We also accidentally plug some home brewers' beers and invent a really terrible sitcom. We maybe talk about state names a lot. Honestly, this one is kind of all over the place.Ben is confused in the laundromat. Mike becomes a Cylon.

A series of unfortunate events meant that we couldn't record this week! So we hope you enjoy a small selection of our many outtakes.

When your 12 year old sons take over your company and turn it into a rude, crude delivery company, you have only one option: listen to our podcast!We hope you like our podcast even if that's not your specific scenario.Also there's a great side plot about making beer and we're really into that.We also talk about chemistry nerds, dogs with thrusters, the video game Paperboy, and proper names for planets.Ben gets fired on a slow news day. Mike takes over the company.

WE PODCASTING ROBOTS HAVE PRODUCED A PODCAST FOR YE. We discuss an episode all about insane robots and also a robot who is maybe a fidget spinner.We get into other great topics like Cypress Hill, teeth, retirement plans, beeping, and great accomplishments in making Futurama references.Ben doesn't understand money. Mike is tuning his banjo.

Get ready for a rough and tumble cattle drive where we tell nobody our feelings (but we still have them).We talk about some cool things like how (un)cool we are, how (un)cool Kif is, Powerpoint presentations, pretending to be rich when you're not, and how printers cause blue screens of death.We also talk about some uncool things like stereotypes.But it's mostly the cool things. Probably like 95% cool things.Ben gets a truck of Pepto-Bismol. Mike serves #TeamZoidberg refreshments.

We know you've always wondered what would happen when a criminal robot adopts 12 children, and today we're talking about that answer.We also talk about being perfectly normal and having two eyes. And we talk about creating perfectly normal greeting cards for perfectly normal people. We also detail quite a lot of movies we haven't seen (spoiler: it's a lot).Ben waits for a job offer from Hallmark. Mike gets an ink pouch.

Today Ben and Mike talk Hollywood. The comedy. The drama. Webster's Dictionary defines comedy.We also talk about the Great Gatsby again (sorry), Dr Pepper knockoffs, bending molecules to heat them, ink, Tarsharknado, and as always, other things we can't even remember anymore.Also, a cameo from the Channel Surfing Podcast! Check them out at http://thechannelsurfingpodcast.libsyn.com/, on Twitter at @ChannelSurfPod, or look for it on iTunes!Ben is the Mr. Pibb of podcast hosts. Mike has somebody's Oscar.

Brains make people dumb! Like this podcast! Dumb dumb podcast. You listen to podcast now? I made good sentence. Please give ham.Also we discuss ham-related pickup lines, and hypnotoads and pet shows and classical literature that may or may not feature giant brains. We tried to get Colin Firth for this episode but his agent concluded we were dullards and we didn't have a good comeback for that. We also rate the hot Futurama memes of summertime fun. Please let us know your favorite Futurama memes by tweeting us @backtofuturama.Ben avoids doing impressions. Mike puts on a one-act play.

Everybody has pent-up bend lust, some people and robots just tend to do something about it.Robot love is a weird thing (as we all learned in high school) so let's do an episode all about robot love! And bending. And the robot mafia. And really dumb plans about ways to win back the fembot that is the ex wife of your best robot pal. Everything gets complicated.We also find out about the mysterious origins of Mike becoming #TeamZoidberg. Stay tuned.Ben has ben(d) lust. Mike starts a biker gang.

Let's fly penguins to Pluto and dump oil on them!Wait. That sounds like a bad idea. But that's what we did in this episode. Bender spends some time as a penguin and I think we're pretty okay with that. Penguins are cool.We also talk about Ben's girlfriend twirling, nature's long-johns, eating penguin eggs, and why you probably shouldn't hug on the job.Ben insults people. Mike goes on a highly controversial mission.

Some people are born lucky, and some people need the magic of a seven leaf clover. And some people are so unlucky that they've run over black cats luckier than themselves.We delve into some melancholy tones in this one so strap in. But we also talk about a lot of dumb things as you have come to expect. In addition to finding out more about Fry's past, we also talk about naming race horses, get some quantum physics wrong, the need to properly license things, and also a fan theory about Shaq's leg.Ben dates Iclandic model Njord. Mike does a septuple headspin.