I hate both the relevancy and the time-lapse of this scene.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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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 took the sky from us =(
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.
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
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!
Those are great!
Hrm, which one to use... imma go with this one!
Confirmed. Just watched that episode on Saturday.
So that was Kimmel. I wished they would do the same for Colbert. But I get the feeling at this point Colbert wouldn’t accept it, and would leave anyway.
Such a shame. What a shitshow.
A lot of it is Kayfabe. Don't get lulled by the performance and theater, they (the comedians, network execs and everyone else who appears on camera) are performers who have a role and they're only there because they play that role well.
I'm not saying they're all "in on it" but they get marching orders, they get back-room deals to do this and that, they're instructed by the people who control whether or not we can see them. It's normal.
If we were to understand just how much of our informational world (including network media) is completely scripted from the ground up to engage us in a narrative of Good Versus Evil, we would realize that we're just in WWE theater meant to distract us from the wealthy who are consuming our world around us like locusts.
The issue with Colbert is that economics is part of the reason why CBS cancelled the Late Show.
I'm sure that getting rid of the show to give Trump a favor was a plus, but late night television has seen audiences drop for decades. It is made even worse as video podcasts are taking up a lot of the role that late night talk shows used to take and are now popular enough that they are giving out awards for them.
I also don't think that Paramount was as strategic about Colbert as Disney was with Kimmel or NBC is with Fallon. Disney commonly uses Kimmel as a way to promote other Disney IP. NBC now uses the Tonight Show as an extension of SNL to promote writing talent before they move on to different shows. In contrast, Colbert doesn't really have any big clips with Star Trek actors.
Eh if only. Usually they stay cancelled.
They cancel 20 shows to activate stagnant viewers of 2-3 of them, then they reactivate those 3 so those fervent viewers resuscribe.
That "lose a few billion" is fake, that's a stock market decrease, which does recover. People who actually unsubscribe come back when the shows reactivate, mostly.