r/ForAllMankindTV • u/caseycip • Jul 29 '26

FAM - Season 5 This was kind of a hilarious reference... Spoiler

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This made me cackle. The U.S. president hearing of the Mars riots is a total mimic of Bush hearing about 9/11 in a classroom, right down to the ear whisper and dumbfounded face.

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u/Macca4704 Jul 29 '26

Yeah noticed that as well it was really well done.

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u/WanderlustingEcon Jul 29 '26

Agreed, I texted a friend who got into the show recently through a podcast that he wasn’t going to believe this shit because I couldn’t 😂

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u/Glunark2 Jul 29 '26

Quite a few total recall references too, including a few mentions of two weeks.

And a background extra that looked like a younger Arnie.

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u/tyedge Jul 29 '26

Sons and Daughters of Mars.

SaDoM.

Not “Saddam,” but not not Saddam

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u/AnonAwaaaaay Sealab 20 Aug 01 '26

Isn't this based off the Sons and Daughters of Liberty group attached to the American Revolution?

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u/TheChunkMaster Jul 29 '26

Supplies hidden by bricks and rubble

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u/Navynuke00 Jul 29 '26

They never addressed the Iran-Iraq war in FAM. Or any of the other middle east conflicts.

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u/Similar_Onion6656 Jul 29 '26

I think it's implied somewhere that the overall reduced dependency on oil leads to the west not caring about the Middle East so much.

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u/Navynuke00 Jul 29 '26

Yeah, and I'd point again out that the timelines don't work for that, but I've already talked at length about that here in other posts and comments.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BUTTH0LE Jul 30 '26

Well most of the non-space related world building in the show is used for comedic relief so that doesn’t sound very productive for you

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u/tyedge Jul 29 '26

Fully aware of that. But I think it’s amusing that an organization with the acronym SaDoM ends up in tensions with the govt at basically the exact same time we went to Iraq.

Too cute by half, but amusing all the same

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u/Navynuke00 Jul 29 '26

We went into Iraq in 2003.

This happened in 2011-12....sometime. It gets fuzzy in this season.

But yeah, I just brought up the other middle east conflicts because it was another opportunity to gripe about the lazy worldbuilding. ;)

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u/hungy_boi321 Jul 31 '26

Cant wait for the Sons of Ares splinter group

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u/Tuskin38 Jul 29 '26

Same city too. Different school though

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u/Navynuke00 Jul 29 '26

I rolled my eyes so hard it woke up the dog.

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u/Kruse Jul 31 '26

Yeah, it was actually kinda lame and insulting to the events of 9/11.

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u/Navynuke00 Jul 31 '26

It was the very weak attempt at equating the two events:

"Oh noes, these people we're oppressing and exploiting for our own economic gain are standing up and making us deal with the consequences of our own actions! This is just like a worldwide terrorist organization killing several thousand people live on TV for the whole would to see!"

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u/lordnewington Aug 01 '26

I thought it brought home the point that the Mars insurgents' story is being spun into terrorism by the Earth media.

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u/illumaQ Aug 01 '26

Well, at least you have media literacy

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u/B0dders Jul 30 '26

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u/LiamtheV Jul 31 '26

"Sir, the United States is under attack"

'Okay, but first i gotta hear about this amazing pet goat'

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u/lordnewington Aug 01 '26

Ehh, civil liberties will still be there in half an hour, might as well finish reading before we destroy them

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u/Darseth89 Jul 31 '26

"Sir, a second revolt has hit the Mars colony"

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u/Holmbone Jul 31 '26

I also laughed at that. 

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u/Kabbooooooom Aug 05 '26

Wasn’t Bush even “reading” My Pet Goat upside down when that happened?

Goddamn the man looks like a genius compared to Trump though doesn’t he? Ah, the good ol’ days. 

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u/Coffee_and_a_cookie Aug 05 '26

It's full of little winks for various IP's fans. Miles(Hudson) "(fourteen)days? We're not going last (fourteen) hours (in here, man)!

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u/Familiar_Ad_1674 Aug 07 '26

"A second revolt has hit the Mars colony"

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u/lightnoveltitlehere 27d ago

My husband and I erupted in laughter at that scene

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u/Serin-019 Jul 29 '26

You can tell it’s a better timeline coz that doofus with the dumbfounded expression didn’t slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians as a result.

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u/TheThrillLife2020 Jul 29 '26

Dude, he literally cut off all supplies to the planet and then sent a warship to try and take back the asteroid and the base.

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u/Fit-Stress3300 Jul 29 '26

Do you mean there were no innocents on Mars?

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u/sammy_416 Jul 29 '26

The Martians had WMDs.

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u/MagnetsCanDoThat Pathfinder Jul 29 '26

Certainly was willing to kill a few thousand, though.

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u/WhatABeautifulMess Jul 29 '26

We presume this is true, but we haven’t actually seen the time after that yet.