- Space food.
- The final frontier.
- Let's talk about that.
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(fire crackles)
- Good Mythical Morning.
- Today's about sci-fi space food and we are luckily joined
by actress, tycoon of industry, and star
of the brand new serialized podcast Voice to the Stars,
our friend Felicia Day. - Woo hoo!
Welcome. - Salute you.
Salute, salute. - It's a Felicia Day.
- We should have done this before now.
Had you on the show.
- I know, I was sitting waiting for years,
in my room, waiting for the email.
- Oh we sent lots of emails. - Send, send, send.
- They all bounced back. - Sorry.
- All right I hope you're hungry today.
- Uh, why?
- Because we're eating lots of really
fancifully nice sci-fi foods.
- Well we know that you're a fan of,
almost an expert I might say, compared to us definitely,
of sci-fi TV, which is why we're directing our efforts today
to boldly go where no taste buds have gone before
and try out the weirdest alien food
from our favorite space shows.
It's time for Real Fake Food: Space Edition.
- Okay lots of times on the internet,
people try to recreate fake foods from TV and movies
but they make it good for humans.
- That's no fun. - That ain't what we do.
We wanna be as accurate as possible to the sci-fi shows
that we are gonna recreate the food from today.
Sound good, right?
- I mean I don't know what a borg thinks something good
tastes like but let's try it.
- You'll find out. - Exactly.
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- Okay we're starting with Futurama,
from season two, episode 18 which was entitled
The Problem with Popplers.
- Popplers. - Yes and we will try
none other than these problematic Popplers
and here's the background.
The Planet Express crew stumbles upon
a planet packed full of new delicious edible life forms
they call Popplers and proceed to harvest, market,
and sell them as the next big fast food craze,
but then, Leela finds out that the Popplers are actually
the larval stage of the aggressive Omicronian race
and they've been eating babies.
Here's a clip.
(crowd chatter)
- Stop!
Stop eating Popplers!
- Huh? - Why?
- My booze!
- Popplers are intelligent.
This one called me Mama.
- There's one way to determine if an animal is intelligent.
Dissect its brain.
- No, Mama, stop Grandpa.
(gasping)
- I'm so tasty.
- Did that work your appetite up?
- Oh my gosh. - Absolutely not.
- Look at this Poppler. (Felicia gasps)
- It's so cute.
- [Link] Mama.
Funny thing is, I usually don't eat anything
that doesn't call me mama.
So I think I'm good.
- You know, when I-- - Felicia,
here's one for you.
I had a baby and it was barely bigger than this
when I had it.
- But you didn't eat her. - You know what,
I thought it was cute and then when it got
toward my nose, I got a waft of fish.
- Yeah well here's what happened.
- I thought you were still talking about your daughter.
(laughing)
- As you might guess, we were not able
to track down the young
of an intergalactic intelligent life form
so what we have done is substituted that
with a little bit of squid because cephalopods
are considered the most intelligent invertebrates on earth.
Yummy!
So we breaded and fried a lobster-based body,
then added on two squid tentacles for arms,
then sliced a quail egg and painted on squid ink
to represent pleading eyes
and a mouth begging for mercy.
(Link laughs)
You are sadistic, Josh!
- That's not cool, Josh.
- I mean the hands. - I know.
- The squid. - It's reaching out to,
save me, save me. - Help me.
- Should I eat the face?
- I feel like-- - Definitely.
- We need to get a little bit of the eyeball
in the bite. - Is that a requirement?
What is the mouth in there? - Squid ink.
- Oh great, okay.
- That's where the squid propels out of its--
- Triple dink it. - Something when it's scared.
- Bye babies.
No Mama. - Triple sink it.
- Mama, Mama, don't do it, Mama.
It's pretty good.
- We might be able to talk Long John Silvers
to add this to the menu.
- I don't think it's dead yet,
if you eat this much.
- You can't survive with half a hemisphere.
- Mine can't see or speak anymore
'cause I took out that part of the brain.
- Oh my gosh. - All right,
I'll have this little hand. - This is good.
I'll save the rest for later
but I'll definitely eat it later.
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Okay now we're gonna time travel from the 31st century
to the 1980s to taste something from one
of my favorite shows from that decade, Alf.
- Oh, I love that show.
- Yeah it's a great show.
If you don't know, Alf is a sitcom about a normal family
who live with a sarcastic alien life form.
Basically a puppet. - Yeah.
- Alf loved to eat cats. - Yeah he did.
- We are not gonna eat a cat now.
- What? - We're gonna eat
something else that he liked, slime balls.
Here's a clip.
- Gross, what is that?
- It's a slime ball.
- Alf, where did you get those?
- Melmac.
I usually buy wild cherry but all they had left was slug.
- Oh.
- You know it's a lucky thing I found these
when I was cleaning out my space ship.
A couple of more months and they would have gone bad.
- Oh no!
- Well they're not that stale.
- No, it's a roach. - All right we each get
our own sack.
- He's got the greatest voice of an alien
in any media-- - I forgot, yeah.
- Of all time. - I forgot how hot he was.
(Rhett laughs)
- Hot and hairy.
Now so Felicia, show yours first because
I believe you have the wild cherry slime ball.
- The texture is not appealing.
- [Rhett] But you did get the wild cherry one.
Whereas-- - What is that?
- [Rhett] We got the slug.
- Ew, oh, oh, oh, oh!
There's something in there.
- What is that?
- You know, just kind of a cockroach.
- What?
You're gonna eat that?
- Mine's got a slug, yours has a cockroach.
- Whoa whoa, hold on. - Where's the slug?
- This is not Alf-approved.
- The slug is down in there and--
- You ran out of slugs?
- Is that like a, wait-- - We had to beef up
the recipe with some cockroach.
- No but I wanna, I wanna understand.
Where do you get, did you just go out in the alley
and get these or the actual culinary--
- We no longer ask these questions.
We've gotten so much stuff here, Felicia.
It's just, it slides across the desk.
- As long as it's cooked to an adequate temperature,
it doesn't matter if it's from the alley.
- I don't know about that theory.
The food science behind that is skeptical, okay.
- Triple dink it.
- Okay I'm gonna bite the cockroach.
- I'm gonna let Felicia take hers first.
- Are you really gonna, okay.
- Can I try the back half?
- Oh that's pretty good, it's actually,
you wanna taste the back half, yeah.
- [Rhett] Hold on why are--
- Eat the back half of my ball.
It's really good actually.
It's kinda like a gourmet Jell-O
with pieces of cherry in it.
Alf.
- Which side of this-- - That's good.
Almost as good as cat. - I actually might throw up
if I watch you eat that cockroach, I'm not kidding.
No, please. - Okay.
Dink it. - Dink it.
- And.
- Oh my God, oh my God.
Oh for real, I'm disgusted right now.
I'm for real disgusted, oh my God!
- And I got, here, use the bag, use the bag.
- [Felicia] I'm not kidding,
that is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
- Look at that cross-section. - I got a slug, man,
it's not like it's that much better.
- Oh my-- (Link gags)
(crew laughing) (Link retches)
- Oh you're right. - Oh gosh!
What, Alf!
You did it to me again, Alf!
- Ugh. - Ugh.
- Alf is no longer my favorite television show.
- I can't look at it, just, please hide it.
(Link whimpering dramatically)
- You know what, we'll save that for Alf.
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Now there are tons of amazing gross and intoxicating foods
featured throughout the Star Trek Original Series,
animated series, five spin-off television series,
and film franchise. - Hey slow your roll,
Star Trek. - But we have made
the highly illogical choice to focus on a sample feast
from the Klingon race. - Oh.
- We're talking about a starter course of the delicacy gagh.
Followed by a platter-- - Sounds great.
- Of pipius claw, all washed down by Klingon blood wine.
Resistance is futile.
- Let's start with gagh.
Gagh is basically a live serpent space worm
and it's supposed to be revolting
because it's wiggling around in your mouth.
- Got you.
I'm not-- - Gaghked you?
- Yeah, I just don't wanna eat anything live.
- Yeah, they're dead.
- So it's not live but we added Pop Rocks--
(Felicia gasps) To make it feel like
it's still alive.
- No wait those are-- - Worms.
- Sauteed earth worms seasoned heavily with Pop Rocks
and Sichuan peppercorn. - No.
No, I'm not gonna, I'm so sorry.
- All right Felicia, we're not gonna do this to you.
- Oh! - We're giving you--
(laughing)
We're gonna give you the gummy worm version.
- Thank God, thank God because there's absolutely no,
I'm so sorry.
I have several, as a policy I always save worms
from the sidewalk so this is my equivalent
of somebody offering me horse entrails, okay?
- [Rhett] Oh you, whoa.
(Felicia screams) - You're getting it
on your hand.
- Worm juice, worm juice was about to go everywhere.
- Oh my God. - No, I think you saved it.
- And you know what, maybe we should just share this and--
- Now come on now! - This is great.
Look how beautiful this is.
- Okay. - These are--
- Now give it a go.
- Here Link, take one.
You remember the Klingon people down at the diner?
- Wait what? - In Burbank that
we went to visit. - Yes.
- Not too far down the road, there's a Klingon group
that gets together and has breakfast together.
And we went and-- - Really?
- We went and did it. - You joined the group, yeah.
- [Rhett] I joined the group.
- You would be an excellent Klingon, by the way.
You have a good forehead for it.
- Thank you yeah, I could really ridge it up.
- Yeah, okay. - Okay.
Dink, you can at least dink it, just dink it.
- Dink it, oh, you know, I think you should get a mic here
because can you get close to the mic because it is popping.
- We do have a mic right there, it's real.
- Do you hear that?
- All right and sink it. - Oh.
(gagging)
Having trouble?
- Sichuan peppercorn helps.
- It's got that numbing effect, yeah.
- Have you had worms before-- - Yeah.
- Is this the best preparation of worms?
- This actually is. - This is season 15.
(chuckles) Yeah.
We've had worms.
Look at what it does to your mouth.
- Oh my God, that is so sexy. - So we got that down.
Let's move onto the second course which is pipius claw.
That's a fictional creature that's a cross between
a chicken, a crustacean and a squid.
- This is amazing! - So for this,
Josh marinated chicken feet and octopus tentacles
in a mysterious red goo and laid it into a bed
of squid ink soaked cabbage.
- Wow, I'm not as grossed out about trying this.
- I think I'm gonna grab an octopus.
- This one obviously has some kind of war wound.
This one's missing a finger.
- No he did that for all of it.
- Yeah. - Oh, okay.
- Because that makes-- - It's for accuracy.
- Makes them seem alien.
- Kinda makes them seem heavy metal.
- It does like wah.
- Okay. - Hook 'em Horns.
- Here we go.
- Dink it. - Doop be doop.
I don't wanna do it now.
- Oh wow. - That's good.
- I can't even, it's real meaty.
It's just-- - Whoa it's spicy, whoa.
- I can't get, I can't get my mouth--
- Wow!
What spice is this?
- Oh it's very spicy.
- [Josh] Klingon.
- (chuckles) Klingon.
It's Klingon sweat.
- I can't, oh, ow it's burning.
- Burning. - Wait for real.
It's really burning my mouth.
- Yeah yeah, don't drink water, it only makes it worse.
- What?
- And we don't have anything else.
- You wanna wash it down with some octopus?
- No the octopus is spicy too, actually getting more spicy.
How's this possible?
It's like moving around my mouth.
I think I need a nappy.
- I've got anti-bacterial hand sanitizer.
You can put that in your mouth.
- It's getting more spicy, how is this possible?
(Rhett chuckles) - Yeah.
- [Josh] The cabbage should cool it down.
- The what? - The cabbage.
- Oh yeah, eat some of the black cabbage.
- [Link] Seriously?
- Oh did that help? (Felicia gags)
(Rhett laughs)
It helps!
(Link coughs) - I hate you Josh!
- What's in the cabbage? - Is it over-seasoned or what?
- (laughs) Is it over seasoned?
- It's still really, really hot, for real.
- We got milk, we got milk for ya.
That'll calm down.
- Why is it still hot, like it keeps going.
It's getting hotter. - It's Klingon.
We like it rough, as Klingons.
- Is this like radioactivities?
- It's like a caffeine replacement.
All right the best thing to do is to wash it down
with some blood wine and-- (Rhett laughs)
So let's move onto that.
It's the most popular alcoholic beverage amongst
the Klingon race and is best served warm.
Oh it is warm, I can feel it.
- Oh gah, oh. - It's known to be
highly intoxicating.
To the point that most Klingons are incapable
of getting through it and tolerating it
but I bet we can.
- Oh gosh.
- So-- - I have to pass.
- This is my arch nemesis.
The blood is my arch nemesis.
- Yeah I gotta pass on that.
I don't drink alcohol.
- Hold on, let me-- - You want a swirl?
- Yeah give it swirl-- - She doesn't drink alcohol
but she does drink melded pork blood.
- [Rhett] Oh, I shouldn't have swirled it.
- So I wanna feed this to you.
Oh my gosh, warm. - Link, swirl it.
You gotta swirl it. - Do some swirlies.
I'll do some swirlies. - You gotta get the blood.
- [Felicia] Now on the Klingon planet--
- (groans) Oh just the smell, woo!
- On the Klingon planet, what?
- Just for the record, on the Klingon planet,
we would be married after I feed you this okay?
- Should we do this or something?
- We'd have to do battle, yeah, we'd do battle.
Okay you ready?
- I'll just drink by myself I guess.
- Dink it and then-- - Okay dink it.
(glasses clink)
- I'm just gonna take one little sip.
Don't give me like a glurg glurg glurg.
- I'm not gonna glurg you.
That's something very dirty
that Klingons don't allow in public, okay?
- (chuckles) Here we go.
- Wait why am I leaning on you?
(retching)
Oh boy okay.
- Oh you know what? - I got it down.
- I feel like the vodka almost makes it tolerable.
- Oh yeah vodka helps, helps a lot.
I mean if you're gonna drink blood,
definitely add vodka. - I don't hate myself.
I don't hate myself as much as I usually do.
- The look on your face is that you might puke
out of your eyeballs right now.
Like you really-- - I know, seriously,
I got it down.
I got pork blood past my-- - Woo!
- Yay!
- Thank you, Josh.
This is a new thing for me. - Thank you, Rhett.
- I feel like I passed the final frontier.
- You passed it. - Yeah.
- You pass the final frontier, that's too far.
- Yeah you went too far, man.
- I went past the edge of space.
- All right Felicia, we wanna thank you
for hanging out with us and for feeding me this.
- I mean, I would feed you more actually if you want.
- Yes, make sure you check out her new podcast series
Voyage to the Stars.
- And thank you for liking, commenting and subscribing.
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- You know what time it is.
- I'm General Boss. - And I'm Admiral Riff.
We are from Zorbage, and it's time--
- [Both] To spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
(rock guitar music)
- Zorbage. - Zorbage.
- I love it! - That's the best
planet name ever.
Rhymes with corsage.
- Or is that the name of their band?
I don't know. - I don't know.
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