-Nooooooooooooo Beth’s parents just left their divorce papers out for her to find???

I was so sad that nobody pointed out that it was a perfectly cromulent word.

Maybe they’re applying the same logic that was used when using contemporary music in “A Knight’s Tale”: using 20th/21st Century music (and TV) just makes it more accessible to the viewer.

I get that, but it provided a pretty good red herring for the show. Early on I figured out that Darulio was the key to Ed and Kelly’s behavior, but I couldn’t quite figure out why Yaphit and Claire—and ONLY those two—we also affected.

I keep trying to come up with a way that they could use Yaphit (given the setup, it…

This is the conceit of the show, though: they have to crew thousands of ships, and not all of them are going to be stocked with the Best and the Brightest. This isn’t the Enterprise, with the Shakespearean plays and the chamber music concerts; it’s the Orville, where the crew watches old Seinfeld shows and stages…

Tim Curry was reading a document in Russian, and there’s a slow zoom in toward his mouth. Then he switches to English and the camera zooms out again.