Episode 4.7

With long-standing fellow cast members Whoopi Goldberg and Michelle Yeoh (here played by Archie and Podge), Alan watches the rival series The Orville on another channel and realises that it, too, had an ‘AI attempting to destroy all sentient life’ plot but managed to dispatch it in two trim episodes in contrast with the heavy weather his own show had made of the idea.


What’s more, their captain isn’t even a professional spaceship captain at all: he makes his money as a sometime comic but mainly wise-cracking voice-over artist for ‘Kermit the Frog’.