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I hate both the relevancy and the time-lapse of this scene.
Did firefly air on Fox? That’s crazy I figured it was a cable show.
Yup, Fox. They helpfully put it on Friday evenings when no one was watching, and preempted it for baseball half the time too.
Like Futurama getting preempted by football on Sundays, Fox loved to run shows into the ground by shitty scheduling decisions.
They also aired the episodes out of order, leading with the 3rd one instead of the 1st.
I believe they did that for quite a few shows too.
They took the sky from us =(
Hang on now Firefly and The Tick (1994-1997) rule lmao.
Well the gag was “if all of those shows get cancelled then maybe we have a chance to return”
Not a judgement on quality just saying what all was cancelled in between family guy runs.
I think "terrific shows" was supposed to be facetious, as most of those are not terrific shows. I think the gag was "they cancelled us to make way for all of this bullshit nobody liked."
Which tbf fits their modus operandi, they cancelled King of the Hill 4 episodes early to run the fucking cleveland show.
This was Family Guy's best joke.
(I'm not a huge fan of the show, they have some great jokes, like this one, but overall I just don't find it that funny.)
Which series is the scene from?
Firefly (2002). Although it might be from the film Serenity (2005).
I'm pretty sure the scenes from the show rather than the movie.
Well, one thing is for sure, it's not from Castle.
Hands-down my favorite reaction gif of all time.
I mean I just... have no words...
Okay, well so one of my favorites! :-P
Those are great!
Hrm, which one to use... imma go with this one!
Kinda sus that only one is from Castle and the rest are from Firefly.
I think I am on solid grounds by using the term "reaction gif", which excludes the original gif :-P
But the GIF I reacted with is from Castle, and my interpretation is that that's your favorite 🤔
P.S. Leave it to me to get unnecessarily pedantic over anything trivial.
Facts should matter, so that's a good position to take.
I see that you are right! (Description) You already knew that ofc, but there's proof for anyone that needs it:-).
I believe we've discussed this topic before, but for one thing I forgot, and for another in the reaction gif the coloration, hairstyle, and such looks so very similar to Firefly! In fact I legitimately forgot that his name is Nathan Fillion and found the above clip from Castle by searching for the keywords "Malcolm Reynolds Castle reaction gif":-).
I hope this has been an enjoyable trip down memory lane for you:-). For myself, I prefer being correct, which sometimes requires me to be corrected, so thanks:-).
Being right is my favorite pastime >:-)
Moreso than being left? Ba-dum-tiss!
Confirmed. Just watched that episode on Saturday.