There’s a joke?
I’m glad you asked. Mind if I ask you how old are you, and where are you from?
Same and I got it
I didn’t know they were the same actor originally but with reruns it’s not like they weren’t on at the same time
Katey Sagal speaks both Charakters and play one real and in this episode…
I don’t see any in the image. Do I need the audio or knowledge of the Futurama universe to get it?
The voice actor for Leela (Katey Sagal) played Peggy Bundy in the tv show Married… with children, which was hugely popular in the 90s. The above picture was a very common scene from the tv show. Peggy with huge hair, sitting on the couch with her husband watching tv and eating junk food. So, it’s a fun reference to her previous work.
In my headcannon Peggy left Al behind and joined up with a biker and his gang, creating a whole new life for her. Al meanwhile took the kids, left chicago for california and used his knowledge about sales to create a solid closet company. Out of that lead infested house, Kelly got her act together and met Phil - while Bud Was finally done with overcompensating.
I love it.
Peggy then eventually married Josh Lyman, who became a pilot after leaving President Santos. They had a son who became the greatest detective that the NYPD has ever known!
Unfortunately that new life was full of hardship and abuse, if Sons of Anarchy is her sequel.
So, it’s a fun reference to her previous work.
So then not a joke, but a reference. I understood the reference but failed to see the joke. Maybe I am just overly pedantic.
I watched this Futurama episode back when it aired and was disappointed to see this reference make it to the screen. It wasn’t clever and they spent too much time on it. The term “cringe” has managed both to come into and go out of vogue in the intervening years.
The joke was you all along
Yep. You’re the type of motherfucker nobody enjoys having a conversation with.
No worries! I always thought of a “joke” as something that was intended to make me laugh. When I first saw this, I laughed as I didn’t expect a reference to her old show. So I personally consider it reasonable to call it a joke. Either way, this all has made me want to go back and watch an episode or two of Married with children. Cheers!
Eh, no, Peg.
I was absolutely blown when I discovered that Peggy and Leela are played by the same actress.
I had to explain it to my husband. :(
😂
Wooooooooooooh
Old McBundy had a farm EIEIO…
I’m 35 and got the joke
I’m 25 and did not
Incase you still don’t, it’s referencing a late 80s to mid 90s sitcom Married with Children. It’s surprisingly good. Katey Segal who voices Leela played one of the main characters, Peggy.
Well I didn’t get it at first but I certainly watched married with children. Mainly because there wasn’t anything else to watch at the time on TV.
i recognized all the characters, but my TIL was that they were preformed by the same actress 🤯
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it’s on hulu, and in higher quality than this torrent
Fuck Hulu, there are plenty of torrents with actual HD. Join a private tracker for actual quality in general
But is it free tho?
Just because you didn’t pay for it doesn’t mean it was free.
Where can I buy all those things outside of the US?
What things? A VPN and a Hulu subscription?
i would think “the best tv show ever” is worth at least a little more than nothing
Agreed. I want a better torrent.
You can’t buy it where I live. I usually respect copyright, except when I’m prevented to buy something which is the case right now.
that’s totally fair in my book
Your comment made me sad.
Hulu is American, I’m not.
He’s missing his hand down his pants but otherwise perfect
In a toga, that changes the audience age rating.
Multiple generations.
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I am refiering to generation alpha. (2010 on since there is not really an agreed on date.)
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To be Gen Alpha you must be the child of Gen Z who had to be the child of Millennials.
This is not true. I’m a millennial (1989) but my parents are boomers (1950s), not Gen X, as are the vast majority of my friends. Not everyone has kids in their early 20s, infact the average age to have your first kid in the UK is 29.
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Literally not how it works at all. Generations are defined on the year you were born, not who you were born to.
Mick Jagger was born in 1943, making him part of the Silent Generation. When his wife had their latest kid, in 2016, Jagger was 73. That child is not a baby boomer.
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_named_generations
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Yes, as I have nephews that are gen alpha, that is how that works. You have kids now that are not gen Z and are around 10 that never knew MWC. Just because someone is young does not invalidate their status as people (yet, don’t give them any ideas).
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Yes and yet you are the only person that seems to think this is how generations work, that somehow you can skip at all.
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Married With Children would have ended when millennials were somewhere between 16 and 1.
It doesn’t really matter how strict your parents were with TV. Most millennials weren’t really in the target demographic for it when it was airing; they’d have been more likely to be watching Rugrats, Power Rangers, All That, Dragon Ball Z or whatever if left to their own devices.
They’d have watched it if it were something their parents watched. I literally never deliberately turned on Friends or Will And Grace, but since my parents watched them, I saw a bunch of them. Married With Children wasn’t a show my parents followed, though, so the Futurama episode would have gone over my head.
It really seems like a reference aimed mostly at the oldest millennials, gen X, and boomers.
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As someone who watched rugrats and dbz, All that, and a Lil power rangers…YOURE FLIPPING WRONG! I also watched the heck out of MWC and also Roseanne.
- Older Mellinial
I’m only 27, not American and I had never heard of married with children before. I can remember watching fresh Prince of Bel air and friends (repeats) and some other shows. Plus I’m on the oldest end of gen z and if I’d had a kid at 16/17 then they’d certainly be old enough to have opinions.
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I never understood why Al acts like having sex with his hot wife is a chore. Boomers sure are different.
Not everyone has, or keeps their desire for sexual activity
Al Bundy spends all day working on his hands and knees for women only to come home to more demands from a woman he’s not emotionally attracted to.
It’s supposed to be ironic that he can’t derive joy from the one bright spot in his life, a sexy wife who’s DTF.
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It’s also a nod to sooooo many married couples who got together for all the wrong reasons
Al nailed Peg because she was hot, not because he actually liked her. Peg got knocked up
Suddenly, Al, who was a star at the time and had many gals, is stuck with one annoying chick he only liked when he was drunk at a party.
In other words he found himself married, with children
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DTF?
Deriving the Formula.
Dancing the Fandango
It seems his skin was sweet as mango
When last I held him to my breast
But now we dance this grim fandango
And will four years before we rest.
Down to fuck
Drugs, Tobacco, Firearms
Alright, alright, alright!
Did Not Finish
Doomed To Fail
Driven To Fornicate
Yes please!
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The whole show is peek boomer “haha wife bad/annoying” humour.
As a millennial who is now the same age as Al, I get it a lot more. When you are 40, come home from a job you hate that doesn’t pay enough, and are physically and mentally exhausted, yeah, sex isn’t as appealing, even if married to Katey Sagal. You just want to plop down on the couch, turn off your brain, and be left alone. Peggy being horny is just a reminder that his wife refuses to work (neither outside nor inside the home) and has more energy.
But also remember they originally offered the role to Rosanne Barr, which would have been even more understandable.
Rosanne Barr would have absolutely ruined the show and it would never have been as popular.
No matter how hot an individual may be, somebody, somewhere, is tired of fucking them.
I’ve been drawn to Futurama because of Katey Sagal. I’m a huge fan of MWC. Watched both of them dozens of times.
That was one of Futurama’s weaker episodes even if you understand the actor allusion. If you don’t get the reference, a lot of screentime is spent on a couple of the characters behaving in slightly strange ways for no apparent reason.
It’s one of my favorites (when I saw it two decades ago) but I guess I get the references. I just thought Fry pretending not to know what a video game was and the internet being full of ads and sex still relevant? Bender also stealing everything was a delight.
“This one’s got NO eyes!”
(Prys off all the jewel eyes)
I remember the joke before that being:
“this statue’s only got one eye”
“lazy sculptor”
then when the “no eyes” bit came up … I was cracking up.
The internet being full of ads and sex is still relevant (ads possibly moreso) but yeah it’s not as fresh as it was. If anything the Napster episode aged worse than the plain internet one, but I think it holds up as an episode better.
Basically explains all communication.
Married With Childrens last episode aired in 1997 so it was in recent memory, and I’m sure you could watch a rerun of MWC same day this episode aired (March 19, 2000).
…if you cared to, which at least some of the audience likely did not. I’m sure the demographics of a live action present day dysfunctional family sitcom and a sci-fi cartoon don’t perfectly overlap.
Then 23 years went by.
Show us your true form!
That’s form 11-C, you can pick one up at the central bureaucracy
This episode aired 23 years ago.
And the reference is a show that ran until 1997. So a small slice of the audience was too young at the time.
Oh fuck me. For a moment I started to think “no. Married with Children was already over 23 years ago” then I quickly realized that holy shit, Futurama is already over 23 years old.
I’m to scared to verify this…
A Bicyclops Built for Two aired on March 19, 2000.
And when did the MWC episode air?
Which one? The final episode aired on June 9, 1997.
I assumed it was a shot for shot parody of an episode. Guess it could just as easily be of all of them.
Oh, no, it was a common scene that indeed could have been any of them.
As usual, “Who the fuck is GenX?!”
The people who wrote the culture war Boomer vs Millennial articles and are all the rising stars of MAGA.
I’d love a couple of links for that, some follow-up read, anything.
And why are they always playing games?
