Doctor REACTS to FUTURAMA | Psychiatrist Analyzes "Insane in the Mainframe" | Dr Elliott 

Dr. Zoidberg has a doctorate in art history. So technically, he is a doctor

As an American cashier, I just have to applaud Roberto's choice of weapon, because if you aren't robbing an independently owned gas station who's cashier is ready to defend his own money with a shotgun: a knife will accomplish everything a gun will during a robbery for a fraction of the cost, police interest, and potential jail time. Rob(erto) smarter not harder.

13:40 Bender’s “what, are you crazy?” in response to Fry wanting out of the asylum is brilliantly ironic

"chAAANGE PLACES!" is one of my favorite one-off Futurama bits.

It has been stated in other episodes that Zoidberg is an excellent doctor.... As long as the patient isnt human

10:28 ooooooooh. So that's why therapists just gave me silent treatment when I was a "troubled teen". I just thought they were dismissive unprofessional quacks who didn't care. They sure succeeded in making me uncomfortable. And making me shut away even more. Oh well

Recently read a book called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti which deals with someone who had three patients who all believed they were Jesus and got them to hang out together to see how they'd react. Probably horribly unethical but it was a long time ago.

I have to praise your commitment for taking an episode of Futurama completely seriously.

On the show “Squidbillies” their lottery scratch off tickets were called “Snowball’s Chance in Hell” And “Piss it Away” 😂

The Lawyer is supposed to be, at least in part, a reference to Atticus Finch from the book "To Kill a Mocking Bird."

"Hold still Red...I gotta practice my stabbin! Ha hiiah!" Roberto is such a great character. Always love when he pops up to cause chaos.

Our insanity threshold is both high and lower. The biggest difference that comes to mind in America is that a mental illness isn’t required. But I believe that it’s not just legally wrong, but ethically.

I think another good futurama episode would either be “A Clone of My Own”, where Dr. Farnsworth has to face his own mortality and his clone has to decide if he’s ready follow in his footsteps; “Near-Death Wish” which deals with a lot of themes about aging and childhood trauma; or “Bendin’ in the Wind”, which deals with sudden disability and the idea of psychosomatic illness. I don’t think you have time to review “Bender’s Big Score” but the themes of isolation, depression, and such would be really interesting

I was under the impression that 'Stockholm Syndrome' came about after the captives saw their captors as the more reasonable people because the authorities put the captives in a dangerous situation, and that it is largely seen as something that doesn't happen that often in different circumstances.

I really liked how you brought up how being in the hospital can remove people from their protective factors and isn’t always therapeutic. I’ve been hospitalized many times and have seldom found it helpful, but look at it like as a necessary evil. It keeps you safe physically from yourself, but emotionally, it’s lonely and I feel worse in there. Sometimes there can be violence in there as well. I’ve been attacked twice in the hospital for no reason and it can be scary depending on what unit or hospital you are in. I suggest doing research on hospitals before you get to that point and have a plan with loved ones.

There's something to be said in that episode about the role of practitioner empathy. The doctor cannot fathom that Fry is human, so he gives Fry the delusion that he is a robot. From this, Fry comes out less mentally adjusted than he went in. Now some folks have mental illnesses because they have an intractably shit life, to an extent that someone with degrees and a career might find it hard to relate to, and sometimes hard to accept as probable. As the UK implodes and poverty becomes more entrenched, this gap will become more widespread. In the face of this, would the urge to reduce acute symptoms by telling people that the upsides of life are enough to balance the shit (when this is decreasingly the case) be a similar disservice? Does the risk of such a disservice increase as empathy decreases? Would that also be the imposition of a delusion? And if that is a delusion, is that necessarily a bad thing?

I'd like to see Dr. E react to some of the episodes of M*A*S*H featuring Dr. Sidney Freedman. It might be interesting to get a modern take on psychiatric methods used on a show from the 70s that was set in the 50s.

US Perspective : If you have to work 40-80 hours a week to put food on the table and you are barely getting by, you don't have time to see a psychiatrist or therapist & work with them to get on the right medication. If you make 60k in a large city even and you don't have a car and you rely on public transit, you may have to travel 1-2 hours with public transit. After Rent/food, you can't afford the luxury of a psychiatrist.

Would like to know what you think of the ending, right after you cut off, where Fry sees his blood and realizes he’s a human. How likely is it that a vivid demonstration of a delusion’s falsity would “snap him out of it?”

I think my favorite “Is he really a doctor” character is Dr. Spacemen from 30 Rock. “I’ll just remember that it’s the opposite of what the form says.”

Having been through the mental health system in the USA, I always saw this episode as what the mental health system seems to demand of it's patients. For instance most of our councilors in my rural area come from other major cities. So we are told to totally change our dialect, how we speak when we speak. Though I can understand the reasoning behind it, I feel destroying a person's entire culture is a bit much to ask for in terms of care. Also in the USA if you are complicated with a drug addiction as well. (like just about everyone with a mental disorder) You will not be treated until you stop using. In my rural community this removes nearly all of our social safety nets at a time when we need them most. Trust me in a small town every church goer knows I'm a poor drug addict. AND if I remove myself from my friends and family, I ostracize myself from a flawed but ultimately helpful community. As they often put it "OH so you are better than us now?" further hurting an already ailing mind. I honestly felt not like a human but a robot by the end of it. With no one around me to relate to. I am still dealing with this aftermath. I see many nations don't follow the USA and UK system and thank God for it. But any suggestion in the USA of perhaps changing a few things is met with an honest to God religious rebuke. In the USA at least we are the best at everything, and every other nation is just Nazi's and Commies. Except the UK which we get most of our practices from. If you are severely depressed in the greatest nation to ever exist, then clearly you are the problem not the society we live in. Basically, everything is fine and it's only you. Many nations treat some mental disorders as a societal issue as a whole. This has been my Ted Talk. TY.

You should check out the show Community, there are plenty of psychology scenes in it. There is an entire episode about an experiment seeing how long it takes people to crack while being asked to wait. Then there is another episode where they deal with an autistic character going through a mental breakdown and experiencing delusions.

Loved your take on this! One thing I'm curious about your opinion on, because it's always been one of my favourite jokes in this episode: "This is Frankie. He's convinced he's a lunchroom worker, so they put him to work in the lunchroom. HOW'S WORK IN THE LUNCHROOM FRANKIE?" "It's alright." "Poor Frankie." In real world application, what's your take on this kind of... treatment? Management? Basically if someone's delusions (being a lunchroom worker) aren't harmful, and they can essentially be 'made true' so that the individual's delusional beliefs become reality, or at least can be treated as reality without any real conflict, is that the best course of action? Or would this be another way of brushing off the origins/causes of the original delusion? In other words, is Frankie the not-lunchroom worker being helped or harmed by being put to work in the lunchroom?

More Futurama please!!!! The honey bee episode, the worms episode.... it could be a stretch but I swear there are so many episodes you could do. I just love watching your bewilderment at cartoon antics ❤

We later learn Zoodberg is a doctor... in art history. 😂

"This here is Frankie. He's convinced he's a lunch room worker so they put him to work in the lunch room. HOW IS WORK AT THE LUNCH ROOM, FRANKIE?" Is aight "Poor Frankie..."

I love the emergence of the wide variety of professionals of so many subjects coming to RU-vid and using Pop-Culture from TV, Movies and Video-games to teach in a fun way, keep up the good work!

Dr. Zoidberg is actually a BRILLIANT doctor and surgeon... with every species other than humans. XD The inspiration was Dr. McCoy from the original Star Trek, as he was a human that was constantly dealing with the anatomy and physiology of countless non-human species. So he'd be naturally strong with human A&P, but might struggle or know nothing of non-humans. Dr. Zoidberg was created to be the exact opposite of McCoy, being great with everyone EXCEPT humans. ^_^

Have you reacted to Arsenic and Old Lace? Covers inherited metnal conditions, antisocial personality disorders, murderous delusions, and a guy who just thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt.

Zoidberg is a doctor, he's just not a human doctor, he's an alien doctor both literally and as his occupation, its just that Planet Express hired him cause he and Farnsworth are good friends as much as the show doesn't wanna show it

I've been in the psych ward over 30 times... Sometimes it was helpful, sometimes it was not and I was just faking getting better so I could leave. My last 2 times, this year, they were doing construction on the depressive side so everyone was all together, depressive, manic, and psychotic patients. It was really upsetting for someone who was just depressed. People were yelling, and had to be tackled and restrained a lot. They were muttering to themselves and yelling at you. It wasn't my first time on this side, but when I had been over there in the past I was also manic or psychotic so it didnt bother me. The nice thing is that they can change my meds faster than on the outside. Otherwise it's super boring.

Dr Spaceman from 30 Rock is probably my favorite...umm...questionable fictional doctor 😂

Dr Krieger does, when someone says "He's not THAT kind of doctor" reply with "Not the other kind of doctor either"

Not sure if you react to video games, but I think it'd be interesting to see what you think of psychonauts. The games touch in mental health issues and the second game has helped me in my life to deal with my own panic attacks. Just a thought, literally just found your video today and you got me interested. Keep up the good work!

Fun fact: you're more likely to win a slot machine that's closer to the casino door because it's programmed that way in order to lure in more potential gamblers.

Favorite TV “doctor”: Dr Spaceman from 30 Rock

I would love to see more futurama from you. Most of the episodes that would be interesting would be the Bender centric episodes, they gave him a lot of humanizing episodes.

"Young lady I'm an expert on humans" My favourite TV quack Dr is Daniel Radcliffe/John Hamm's character in A Young Doctor's Notebook

"The arousal of uncertainty The irresistible pull of variable schedule reward"

3:30 my favorite part of the show!! Because "Well, my memory is a little bit fuzzy" works in at least two levels… because memory type is "fuzzy logic"… but being my own memory issues I had a thought but I can't remember where I was going with half of it 😂😂

I think as a therapist, he would have a field day analyzing and reacting to Doom Patrol.

The gibberish comment reminded me of the episode "The Pinky POV" from Pinky and the Brain. Seemingly disjointed concepts are connected through internal dialog.

Always learning and laughing at your videos Doc! 😂

Excellent review of the episode. :)

Zoidberg is a doctor just not for humans

Zoidberg is a real doctor, but at one point he mentions: "My doctorate is in artistry."

Found you channel by a suggestion from the suggestions list on the right of another channel. Glad I clicked on it. I look forward to checking out your other videos.

HOW DARE YOU?! Dr. Zoidberg is an expert in human anatomy. He's taught me everything I know. Now open you mouth and let's take a look at your brain. No, not that mouth, comedian. EDIT: also, really appreciated your humor and obvious knowledge with these subjects, especially in response to something I love that's also completely ridiculous. really entertaining and informative. SUBBED!

Very good point at the end :) The video as a whole was good.

I loved this video! If you react to Futurama again, "The Sting" may be a great starting point!

Also would like you to look at the West Wing episode “Noel,” which deals with a gunshot victim’s PTSD and the issue of how people in government jobs get treatment.

1:24 His doctorate is in Art History

I didn't know I'd be learning so much today. Thx doc

is the yellow lego person missing?

You should check out the show young royals. I am curious to see what you would think about the different illnesses in it. I would also be curious to see what you think about the movie whiplash and his drive to be perfect. I would also love to see your take on perks of being a wallflower.

Futurama is one of my favorite shows. I watched the entire series like a dosen times.

That van was called the Lobotomobile btw lol

there is an episode of becker called Papa Does Preach where multiple personality disorder is portrayed, i would love to see you react to that specific episode(just a suggestion though) because obviously you reacting to tv shows where mental health is portrayed is very interesting, plus that becker episode isnt very new so it will be interesting if its good by the time zoidburg is the best doctor, he is so amusing, love futurama and this episode, Roberto is such an amusing character

Oh, "Infinity Train" Chapter 1 might make for an interesting breakdown from a Psychology standpoint. Quite a bit of unpacking young Tulip does along the way.

I understand it's necessary to restore the status quo for an episodic show, but I was kinda hoping you'd talk about how, when Fry sees he's bleeding, he realizes he is actually human, since that seems (from my layman's perspective) to run counter to the idea that one of the defining characteristics of a delusion is that evidence doesn't work to dispel it.

I recently knew an NHS nurse who developed cancer in one of her kidneys. During the operation to remove it, while under sedation she muttered something that worried doctors. She woke up from the operation in a mental ward and didn't escape for 3 months. During that time they forced her to take drugs that kept her in a perpetual state of suppression. We had to hire a lawyer to prove she was wrongly emitted, since she had no right to legal representation by herself.

That insanity threshold for law is designed to provide that avenue while preventing it from bein abused. Since mens rea is as important legally as actus reus, I'd say it's a pretty good standard. Ultimately it comes down to knowing, or more specifically being capable of knowing , it was a criminal act.

to be fair, zoidbergs doctorate is in art history

I am a Jungian Psychologist. Became a widower in a house fire on 18-December-2020. In my area, the only Psychiatrists are NOT Counseling Psychiatrists, they all do medication management ONLY and dump you into a Licensed Independent Social Worker for counseling. The Psychologist I meet is 113km away, so we meet by Telemedicine weekly.

I have trouble holding a job due to my high functioning autism. Currently scraping by as a FedEx Ground package handler.

In a mental hospital at CAMH in Toronto, Canada, the only therapy was medication and challenging delusions

My favorite tv doctor who isn't much of a doctor is doctor spaceman from 30 rock. You should definitely react to some episodes from that some time. I think you'd enjoy it

I've heard Stockholm Syndrome described as a Fight/Flight/Freeze/Friend response to danger, a sort of complex interaction with different parts of our social nature. Part empathy in response to perceived sympathy from one previously regarded as other and dangerous. I'll have to look into it more, see what the consensus is.

Similar to Polyamory, there is often a financial barrier to entry. A certain amount of security, money and free time is required to make it work successfully.

Your comment about challenging delusions makes me wonder if you've seen Instinct (late 90's movie with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr). The main character is a psychiatrist, though I do think most of the movie isn't really about that, but the opening sequence shows a patient with a delusion that gets probed in an interesting way and I'd love your take. Also on some of the other side characters. Also would love your take on the character Amos in The Expanse.

I recommend to analyze Fry and Laurie, psychiatrist. It's funny, but also accurate, I think.

I love how you could even tell us something about the teeth joke

Zodberd is a damn good alien doctor not a human one

you should see "the amazing digital circus" see how you analyze each of the characters in it

"Stockholm syndrome" is something I've always seen described as a psychological defense where people form an attachment to their captors in order to make it easier to appease or create a rapport with them, thus increasing their chances of survival. Although there's now doubt about whether it exists at all because apparently in the incident for which the term was coined, the hostages seemed defensive of their captors and worked with them because they felt the police & other officials weren't doing all they could to ensure the captives' safety & in some cases actively put them in danger (unnecessarily escalating the situation, shooting at the captors while hostages were in the line of fire, telling the hostages it was their duty to die at their post), so the captives felt they had no option but to work with their captors to resolve the situation.

You missed the part where fry is freed from his robo delusional stat but if you watch closely fry subconscious moves the oil can into his jacket it's a blink and you miss it moment wean puts it in there

Ive been watching Legion recently so when you defining delusion I was thinking of John Hamm naration and eggs tbh (this makes sense if you’ve seen the show

I’d be interested in what you think Sam from GenVs mental diagnosis would be. The show says he is schizophrenic, but the more we learn the more it seems to me like PTSD with Psychosis.

Would love a reaction to the Family Ties two part My Name is Alex. I know it's older but it's one of my favorite TV psychiatrist episodes of anything.

"Pleased to meet you"..."The pleasure is all mine"..."WHAT?!"

How dare you question Dr. Zoidberg's credients, haha anyways love the video man

Re: the ending - It's Futurama. Yeah, it really is that deep. They've made at least 2 of the top 10 saddest episodes in the history of television. Just because it's animated doesn't mean it can't be serious.

Dude, you should look up Tuca & Bertie season 2, has a lot of sort of mental health topics that could be a good fit for you to view.

Dr. Zoiberg and Dr. Nick are my favorites

More Futurama vids please.😊🎉🎉🎉❤

I do agree that IED requires more examination of triggers, but since I know a couple people who have been diagnosed with IED, I know that the focus isn't always on sedating the responses, but on finding an understanding of oneself and using the wisdom of the underlying triggers to regulate emotions contextually. Like "I may have a reason for blowing up, but after years of practice, I'm going to take a breath, think about if I'm actually angry at the people around me, and wait to release my stress elsewhere." And as someone with ASD, ADHD, and probably other shit, muttering isn't necessarily crazy. I often criticize myself under my breath or practice writing and re-writing scenes that I'll never put to paper because simply having a creative outlet that I don't have to permanilize and can be discarded after the moment helps relieve frustration I've heard that Stockholm Syndrome is better understood as part of the threat defense web of Fight, Flee, Freeze, Flop, Friend. Like, we try to appeal to people's better nature and develop a sincere care for them because we want to believe that we can snap them out of whatever is driving them to violence, simply because we believe that there must be something under our control, similar to how we believe we can control a threat by confronting it, control our autonomy by fleeing, control the aggression by going limp or failing to move. It's like, this specific thing isn't about falling in love, but something AKIN to it exists as self-preservation

In one of the episodes Zoidberg said he has a doctorate in Art History so he is a real doctor just not a medical one

We demand an answer, where's the yellow man?

DR Mantis Toboggan. Greatest T.V Dr. Also has all the credentials IRL.

Zoidberg's doctorate is in art history

I'm physically disabled, legally blind, and have beenvdiagnos d with anxiety and depression a since 2012. I've never worked gainfully band have been on Disability since 2983 when I was 18. I'm not allowed a job, and if I get one, I will lose my SSI. THAT is insanity to me.

i still get nightmares after learning about the Lobotomobile.

14:55 gibberish translator ... I wonder how he will react on AESOP Rock - shrunk

3:00 - I read in the novel American Psycho that the word Panic comes from the emperor Pan causing terror to the inhabitants. Is it true?

Remember, just because you're right doesn't mean you're not crazy.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on episode 6 of season 3 of Dickinson. It looks at women's mental health in the 1800's.

A great episode. "That's why that dog had to die. He's a dirty, dirty dog."

“Ok, we’ll… filibuster.” -Charlie Day

I was gonna say Krieger ! 1:47 tho if he count I'll also add M.Ludwig, The Medic from TF2 (it's a video game but they made an animated short, does it count ?)

Ad the etymology of the “lunatic”, could it come from the fact that some mental disorders have periods of lucidity, so they thought those periods are linked to the moon phases? :D