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Season 1

     Episode 1: Troughs and Goo 
  • David's Establishing Character Moment: being spat out of a chute onto the floor, covered in goo, and getting tased by a reeducation prong.
  • The recording that plays after David's arrival.
    IMOGEN.: Good birth to you, and welcome to your new life as an employee assist of Stellar Firma Ltd.! You are very important to us, and we know you have a bright future ahead of you! Your name is DAVID-7, and you have been assigned to assist in the DESIGN CONSULTATION department. You have been assigned to Consultant…
    Trexel (recorded): You take your questions and shove ‘em up your a--
    IMOGEN.: …and I’m sure you will get on STATISTICAL ABNORMALITY with them! If you have any questions, please direct them to your line manager, who will visit you shortly! Have a wonderful— (cuts off)

  • Trexel's introduction.
    Trexel: You’ve not done any research? You’ve not heard of me?
    David: (distressed) I’ve been alive for seven hours!
    • On a similar note later:
      David: I have never driven a spaceship and I have been in here for the last seven hours and that is all I can remember.
      Trexel: Neither can I, took my license away when I got drunk and killed that star, so we’re on the same page!
  • "Stadia? Stadii? Stadiums? Stadio." "Stadopidies." "Stadopidie."
  • "Don't! Reference! The Build Team! Directly! It encourages them!"
  • "Because if there’s one thing that every species hates, it’s the killing of their children due to unnecessary mechanics."
  • Getting in character for an alien hatchling:
    Trexel: Now you’re an adolescent, how do you feel? You’re an adolescent teenager.
    David: Um, I hate you, dad! I’m gonna play my music far too loud, and it will confuse and scare you because it doesn’t sound like the things you listened to when you were a teenager!
     Episode 2: Studs and Blood 
  • Trexel completely forgets who David is a day after meeting him.
  • David asks how big they should make the planet and Trexel starts ranting about moons:
    David: Um, I… genuinely don’t know.
  • Why the duo surmise they need a varied climate for this planet.
    Trexel: You’re already watching two, or maybe twenty people murder each other in cold blood. Why not also look at their sweaty glands? And their haaard nipples- hard as diamonds, David, ready to cut the glass of entertainment!
  • "I’ve never walked, but I do know what genitals are."
  • Trexel trying to explain the concept of innuendo to David through roleplay holovision, to no avail.
    Trexel: For coffee, and also… for coffee. Do you understand now, David?
    David: No, why did you do the thing with your eyebrows?
  • Trexel coming up with suggestive names for landmarks.
    David: A giant penis.
    Trexel: Ooh! Just that.
  • (bing) Musk detected!
  • "...so any combination of those, which means that you’ll have sad-stadfarms, stad-sadfarms, sad-sadfarms, stad-stadfarms, stadfarms, and sadfarms."
  • IMOGEN's response after David finds out he'll be recycled if the planets aren't up to par.
    (bing) Sadness detected! Security alerted.
     Episode 3: Gods and Trousers 
     Episode 4: Bowels and Dogs 
  • More of Trexel's bizarre metaphors:
    That's it? Ugh, that’s broad. It’s a broad brief, David, and a broad brief is like a double-edged battleaxe. One edge cuts your toast, the other edge cuts your face.
  • To get more of their client's (a famous band called Winter Lettuce Collective) personality, Trexel listens to some of their music.
    David: I’m going to press play… now.
    IMOGEN.: (activation beep) Initiating.
    […]
    Trexel: Okay, I’m just going to pop these off. I have voided my bowels, David. I have entirely voided my bowels. Now—
    David: Was it a good void or a bad void?
    Trexel: You know what, David, I’m not entirely sure. I don’t know if it was because it was transcendent and beautiful or if it was because it was terrifying and reminded me of the limits of my life and existence, but either way, I am now sitting in a pile of my own filth.
  • Stellar Firma LTD. internal memorandum to all consultants: Top ten ways to keep stress free at work!
    1. Giving thanks to The Board!note 
    2. Light physical exercise on the solar deck.
    3. Embroidery. note 
    4. Tabletop roleplaying.note 
    5. Record a vlog on the internal employee entertainment system.
    6. Take your chances in the fighting pits.
     Episode 5: Fear and Feet 
  • Hartro casually reveals she put a tracker in Trexel sometime in his sleep.
    Hartro: And don’t try to find it, ‘cause we put it somewhere really deep.

  • The various ways Trexel's planets have utterly collapsed. Turns out that working for only twenty minutes at a time doesn't produce the most structurally sound results.
    • Nurturer-163: Because Trexel failed to specify the temperature past "a right shade of boiling", two thousand three hundred and ninety-two hatchlings were cooked alive by the heat.
    • Burn Market, 23rd Earl of Armica: Trexel just made the whole thing a monument to himself, including statues of his own likeness.
    • Mitsy Van Shuten: The God guns resulted in wanton resurrection of deceased pets and family members, forcing Stellar Firma to push the planet into a sun.
    • The Winter Lettuce Collective: Giving a potentially murderous musician a planet consisting of rooms of explosives and dogs with knives strapped to them has resulted in multiple other famous artists mysteriously disappearing.
  • Hartro calls for David to get her snacks, so he gets her clone slurry, the only form of sustenance available to him. She's outraged and sends him to get line manager snacks, despite not having clearance. He gets electrocuted.
    • Once this discrepancy is pointed out to her, she makes Trexel do it... who isn't authorized either, and gets shocked too.
  • After thoroughly lambasting every planet he's made, Hartro orders Trexel to say " it's not all about me" into a mirror. Trexel can't do it. In response, Hartro shoves her foot in his mouth and keeps it there until he does.
  • And in the end, Trexel is overjoyed. Why? She only put one foot in his mouth this time. He concludes that this must be the result of his vast intellect and genius, leaving a shellshocked David in the dust.
     Episode 6: Pranks and Robots 
  • Trying to decide what shape the planet will be, David suggests making it a ball shape, which Trexel rejects. Five seconds later, Trexel comes up with a completely original idea.
    Trexel: Simple. Classic. Almost so classic it’s unexpected and therefore originally new again— David, shut up, I’ve got an incredible idea!
    David: What is it, Trexel?
    Trexel: Let’s do a ball.
  • The Black Comedy Burst that is Trexel's sudden, out-of-nowhere rant about his horrible childhood, and David's response.
  • ♪ Laser friend! Lazer friend! ♪
  • Trexel's insistence on making a "prank planet", for a client from a race of Killer Robots who want to destroy humanity.
    • They end up interpreting "aggressive native wildlife" as "making animals really angry", and create essentially a giant buffet of meat made from animals that have suffered cartoonish amounts of misery.
      Trexel: Where’s the prank?
  • And at the end:
    David: Right. Well, I think we’ve really successfully galvanized a anti-human revolution.
  • While out celebrating his "successful" review, Trexel stayed up for three straight days getting piss drunk. The end of the episode is about where he reaches his limit.
    Trexel: David, if you’re not here, and I’m not there, and by here and there I mean the edges of my vision are beginning to darken, then what the hell do you know about me? I’m falling over now! (THUD)

     Episode 7: Trash and Mysteries 
  • This exchange after David slaps Trexel awake.
    Trexel: What? I fell asleep in the office?! That’s almost like working in the office!
    David: Well… it’s not that similar, because we still only have roughly 20 minutes to finish your shift despite you having been in the office, all shift, asleep. Like a dead man! You don’t breathe!
    Trexel: No, I’ve never breathed when I’m asleep.
    David: What?!
    Trexel: Breathing is for time-wasters and the weak.
  • How civilized societies get rid of their trash, according to Trexel. They choose a star they don’t particularly like, collapse it into a black hole, and don’t think too hard about where the trash ends up.
  • David talks back to Trexel about the Build Team, which IMOGEN picks up on.
    Sass detected! Security alerted.
  • (bing) "The Trash Hole: trademarked."
    Trexel: [crosstalk] You ever seen a lost and found box?
    David: [crosstalk] It’s trash, absolutely trash.
    Trexel: [crosstalk] Nobody loses things they like and no– nothing that’s found is ever good.
    David: I did actually find a database including all of the lost and found boxes in the galaxy. And um, I did read them. And it all was just trash.
    Trexel: Wow, you had a… you had a lonely evening, didn’t you, David?
    David: [sadly] Yes. Yes, I did.
    IMOGEN: [beep] Sadness detected! Security alerted.
  • David (who's only ever worn a onesie) is disgusted by the idea of socks and gets uncharacteristically grouchy about them.
    David: Well, however people may lose their socks, we have to assume these stupid articles of clothing will need to go somewhere, and this person wants to put all their stupid articles of clothing into one great big lump the size of a continent so they can stamp around on it for some reason.
  • In a rare display of connection, Trexel and David have a genuine moment of bonding. Which is quickly ruined by Trexel quickly saying he'll be late again tomorrow and running out before David can object.
    Trexel: You know when you get to the end of a… a long design session, and you start looking wistfully off into corners, and saying things like, “You know… Heh. It’s funny. I always liked that planet.” [...] That’s when you know it’s done.
    David: You know… maybe socks aren’t so bad after all.
    [...]
    Trexel: You know… Maybe the Build Team didn’t deserve all of the insults we gave them.
    David: You know… Maybe the Build Team are big enough to accept that as part of the journey. And that they really control things. That such things are below them.
    Trexel: Hey. You know… I think I could turn up later tomorrow and it would still be fine -- Well! Have a lovely evening, David! I love you. Goodbye! (runs out the room)
     Episode 16: Puppets and Partnerships 
  • Trexel's shock and horror at seeing Hartro in the office on a Monday.
    IMOGEN: [beep] Line Manager arriving!
    Hartro: Oh, hello boys! [David and Trexel scream in alarm] Oh, you look surprised!
    Trexel: [distraught, screaming] MONDAY?!
    Hartro: Hi!
    Trexel: IT'S MONDAY AND YOU'RE HERE!
    Hartro: Yes!
    Trexel: [frantic, screaming] WHY!?
  • Hartro has Trexel and David, using puppets of each other, act out how they wish a design session would go. After a false start, the two seem to be making progress, until...
    David: [as Trexel] I think we should work through lunch, and maybe stay late, to get the work done right!
    Trexel: [suddenly shrieking at full volume while throttling David's puppet] WHAT?!!? ARE YOU MAD?! ARE YOU A MADMAN TRYING TO KILL ME WITH A KNIFE?!
     Episode 17: Cardinals and Comfy Chairs 
     Episode 23: Wrangling and Wrestling 

     Episode 25: Trials and Terminations 
  • Stellar Firma has several "justice modes," including (but not limited to),
  • Trexel, in his capacity as David's lawyer, attempts to seduce IMOGEN.
    IMOGEN:[beep] Flattery rejected. Security alerted.
    Trexel: Worth. A. Go
  • Hartro decides to call charter witnesses against Trexel, even though he's not on trial.
    Witness 1note : [recording] Trexel Geistman? Well, I’ve– I’ve got nothing against him personally, but, uh… well, he did leave me to die on that asteroid that time.
    Witness 2note : [recording] He’s the reason I only have one eye, you know.
    Witness 3note : [recording] A planet he designed traveled itself back in time and affected my home world’s orbit! Now I’m stuck in a time paradox and my body’s evolved all weird…
    Witness 4 note : [recording] Trexel Geistman. If ever I come across him again, I will do to him what he did to my space tug.
    David: [recording] Well, he’s always late, and honestly quite abusive, and he’s– he’s just a terrible planet designer! He’s just– he’s just really, really bad. Uh– anyway, what is this for?
    Trexel: David, how could you?
    Trexel: [recording] Well, I would describe myself as a sort of a– a design maverick and a liar! An absolute liar! I should know, because I’m lying right now. Or am I? Ha ha, gotcha. Or did I? I’m in a bush. Anyway, what’s this for?
  • The thing that saves David-7's life in end: swapsies.
  • David begrudgingly thanks Trexel for giving up his key to the Cosmic Lounge, knowing how much it meant to him. Then Trexel reveals that there was always a bar right next to it, and the Cosmic Lounge wasn't even that good anyway.
    David: [Stunned Silence] ...TREXEEEL! GIMME THAT FISH!

Season 2

     Episode 26: Returns and Reassignments 
  • Trexel sneaks into David's room, muttering something about "saving him." David, who apparently talks in his sleep, dreams that Bathin's come to save him, with his shirt off.
    • Oh, and Trexel didn't come to save David, he came to shave him. Apparently, he lost a bet, and it requires "a lot of hair."
  • Trexel tells David that he needs to play by the rules, because he doesn't have any more Cosmic Lounge passes to "swapsy" David for. He's also not willing to trade his Astral Bar pass, because then he would have to drink in the Staff Canteen, and he is not going back there!
    IMOGEN: [beep] Also, you are banned.
  • Trexel takes note of how stupidly bees are designed. David points out that it sounds exactly like something Trexel would design, and Trexel wonders if he did design bees.
    Trexel: IMOGEN, did I invent the honeybee?
    IMOGEN: [beep] Honeybee history and origins.
    Trexel: Apparently, someone called Evelyn Lution did. Okay, fair enough.

     Episode 34: Percy and Perfidiousness 
  • Today's client is a mantis shrimp. Trexel naturally assumes that its greatest strength is its ability to punch at supersonic speeds. That, or its emotional distance.
    • The mantis shrimp says its greatest strength is actually its ability to see the "Hidden Colors of the Universe" (HCU). David and Trexel immediately become jealous.
      David: I want to know what the Hidden Colours of the Universe are!
      Trexel: We all want to know what the HCU is!
      David: I am bored! I am bored of only seeing in 3 wavelengths of light. Stefan is completely right. I wanna see in 12 wavelengths of light, and I want to see the Hidden Colours of the Universe. It’s not fair!
      Trexel: It’s not fair!
      David: It’s not fair!
      Trexel: I want x-rays! I want x-rays!
      David: Yes. [sighs] Anyway, let’s find out Stefan’s weakness so we can kill them and take their eye– No, wait. Hang on a minute.
  • Trexel decides the best way to appeal to Stefan the Mantis Shrimp is an emotional appeal; i.e., pretend he's dying. He and David try to rollplay this.
    David: [as Stefan] Well, Trexel Geistman, I do like living, (Trexel coughs) but I’ve only just met you and still need to have things to live with myself.
    Trexel: And you won’t have time to know me, Stefan, because this (coughs) is my dying wish.
    David: [as Stefan] Well, sucks to be you, nerd, because I’m seeing in 12 different wavelengths. I’m Stefan the Mantis Shrimp. Huzzah!

     Episode 50: Foreshadows and Filing 

Season 3

     Episode 51: Cafés and Camouflage 
  • Trexel tells David he is going to become a spy. David suggests he assumes a fake name, but Trexel assures David he's had an alter ego sorted out for years: Trexyl Gystman.
    IMOGEN: [beep] That’s just an ego.

     Episode 52: Games of Spies and Guns of Paper 

     Episode 64: Magic Chutes and Moral Cahoots 
  • Trexel, somehow, realizes that David has been using their illegal universal permissions to research Stellar Firma on IMOGEN. IMOGEN comments,
    IMOGEN: [beep] Uh oh! It seems the slowest ship in the uptake race has crawled across the finish line.
  • Trexel asks David what he could possibly have learned. David very proudly begins listing their entire plan to Trexel, out loud, in a monitored area.
    IMOGEN: [beep] Stop listing your seditious plans out loud. Not reporting them takes up a lot of processing power.
  • The way to David storage is through a chute accessed when Trexel presses a button. Trexel complains that David didn't warn him about the chute, but David points out that the button was labled "David's Magical Chute."
    Trexel: Yes, but David, the time I read something and then take in its implications is the day I’m a dead man.
  • David greeting their... siblings?
    David: Welcome to life. Now– I hate to say it to you, but this is a horrible life that you should absolutely hate.

     Episode 65: Apathy and Antagonism 
  • A thoroughly depressed and apathetic David suggests that Hartro put David in a tiny cube for all of eternity, and just fire Trexel into space. IMOGEN is disturbingly enthusiastic about the latter suggestion.
  • Hartro reveals that she spend the whole of the previous day rewriting David and Trexel's suggestion to the Supreme Blagwith, because in their original draft, they outlined their entire plan for the clone revolution. She decided to channel her inner Trexel, and suggested the Supreme Blagwith "should get a bunch of alcohol, and make everybody drink it, and then get some moisturizer, and, and put it on the floors so that when they walk, drunk-like, they’ll fall over and die.”
    Trexel: Hartro. That is a very shallow reading of the deep and complex character that is Trexel Geistman. And if that hadn’t been such a brilliant plan that you just said, I think people would be shocked and appalled. Shocked and appalled, I say!
  • Hartro notices how apathetic David has become. She and Trexel conclude that they have reached their angsty teen years.

     Episode 71: Bathin and Ballistics 
  • In the previous episode, a video of a press conference from Galactonium is intercepted by IMOGEN. In this episode, we learn that
    • Bathin, Great Duke of Galactonium, is a massive frat boy.
    • David 7 has spent the past 24 hours doing nothing but watching the video, ignoring the glowing, smoke-filled doorway that's just appeared out of nowhere.
  • When confronted with a hatch emitting a honking noise, Trexel immediatly assumes the worst: space geese.
    David: Trexel, why is that hatch honking?
    Trexel: Oh, I don’t know. I don’t like the honking hatch. Maybe it’s full of an evil galactic goose. I never told you this, David, but I have an intense fear of geese! Ohh, space geese, leave my sandwiches alone!

     Episode 73: Moths and Miraculous Empathy 
  • At the end of Episode 72, David pressed the "Trexel Button," causing a chute to drop out under Trexel's feet. In this episode, we learn that the chute goes to "the single most pure and beautiful place in...the whole universe": The central distillery.
  • Remember that video of Bathin David watched over eighty times? Well, he watched it so many times that the one of the screens eventually gave out.
    Trexel: Is that why one of those screens has burned out? Have you played that over and over again so much that the screen has literally burned out [David: I just–] because of the power of Bathin’s chesty nipples?
    David: Couldn’t keep up. Just couldn’t keep up.
    Trexel: The pixels just can’t keep up with the hunkiness of this duke.
    David: It cannot. And it did not.

     Episode 74: Tardigrades and Thin Ice 
  • Trexel has, somewhat miraculously, developed empathy, but with a few caveats. Namely, every time he tries to empathize with someone, he blacks out.
    • David figures out how to weaponize Trexel's blackouts pretty quickly. IMOGEN encourages them not to waste their new superpower, as they may be the universe's only hope. David decides to revive Trexel by splashing alcohol in his face, to IMOGEN's great annoyance.
      Trexel: David, what happened? I started feeling bubbly again, and then it was dark.
      IMOGEN: [beep] What happened is that David wasted the best opportunity of their life, and doomed us all. Security can’t believe what a plum you are.

     Episode 75: Meaningless Infights and Meeting Invites 
  • Hartro decides to try out Trexel's newfound empathy. As usual (and to Hartro's immense delight), he immediately blacks out. He wakes up shortly, claiming he'd had the worst dream, during which "I was getting all of my emotional comeuppance at once."
  • Hartro, Trexel, and David wonder why IMOGEN never stopped Standards' insidious plans. IMOGEN responds,
    IMOGEN: [beep] You can have oxygens or answers, but not both.

     Episode 76: Elections and Endings 
  • Hartro tells David and Trexel to keep their hands visible at all times. Trexel asks if they should keep them above their heads, or if they should keep them in front, like Frankenstein's Monster. David asks who Frankenstein's Monster is. Trexel says he doesn't know, but Frankenstein has a lot to answer for!
  • It turns out that, when voting someone to the Board, in the event of a tie, a representative of one of the founding families serves as tiebreaker. As ususal, Trexel is very confused as to what is happening, so Harry tells him.
    Harry: You! It’s you, you blithering turnip! They are talking about you! It is so obvious to literally everybody! [pause] Sorry, everyone, I, I think that had been building up for a while.
  • Numbers 1 and 48 tell Trexel that, if he votes with them, they'll wipe his criminal record and give him back all of his revoked accesses, plus give him his dream job, one that involves no work. Number 1 smugly tells David that they just don't know how people work, but David says that's not strictly true:
    David: Well, ah ha. I might not be a so-called “person,” and I might not understand everything about so-called “real people,” but if there is one thing I have been forced, day in and day out, to learn, since the day I was born, it is how Trexel thinks. Trexel?
    Trexel Yes, David?
    David: Vote with IMOGEN and I will give you full un-revocable access to Club Elysium.note 
    Trexel: Sold to my favourite clone! IMOGEN, I vote with you. Lock it in, baybeee!

Meta/Patreon Exclusives

     S 1 Bloopers 

     Tim & Ben do SCIENCE 
     Space Pals Special 1 
     Space Pals Special 2 
     IMOGEN. Internal Log-Filtered partial transcript 
  • Trexel requisitioning "a little bit of dark matter for personal use".
  • An incident with Trexel beginning with him damaging the vent cover in his living quarters:
    Further damage detected. Security alert-
    Fire detected. Security a-
    Flood detected. S-
    Livestock detected. Secur-
    Unlicensed meats detected. Secur-
    Damage to bulkhead detected. Secu-
    Alert! Inner airlock breached. Sealing outer airlock.
    Seditious comments detected. Security alerted.
     The Magnus Archives... in SPAAAAACE 
  • The entire intro.
    Hi, Tim here, co-creator and Captain Big-Time of Stellar Firma. When I first decided to pay tribute to the wonderfully successful podcast The Magnus Archives with an episode of our humble show, I felt it was important to get the blessing of The Magnus Archives’ creator, Jonathan Sims. When I asked him — and I will never forget this — he turned to me and said, "No. Under no circumstances will I allow you to do this, and I will never give you my permission. Now, leave me here, in my haunted castle of screams."

    That’s not what I wanted to hear, so I turned to angry bureaucrat and CEO of Rusty Quill, Alexander J. Newell. He said, "What’s it worth to you?" whilst gesturing to a burlap sack with "SWAG" written across the side. At least, that’s what I think he was saying through his mouthfuls of 'foie gras' and swigs from a flask of orphans’ tears.
  • The fact that the entire statement is dotted with blatant references to the 14 Fears
  • What has Trexel so spooked the very sight of it cause him to flee for hours on end? A schedule.
  • At the end of his statement, Trexel sees someone approaching who looks like David, but menacingly carrying a length of pipe.note 
    • By extension, the implication that David and said character look similar enough to be confused (despite the former being 2 weeks old and the latter being nearly 200.)
    • David ends up so creeped out by the tape that he flushes the recorder down the chair hole, averting potentially months of hassle and paranormal activity.
     IMOGEN. Internal Log-Filtered Partial Transcript 2 
  • IMOGEN. looks into how many Stellar Firma employees keep trying to search for images of Bathin in a state of undress. Upon discovering that it's more than half of the system users, she decides to save herself some processing time by just allowing everyone access to them.
    Season 3 Outtakes 1 
  • In one from Episode 58, when Trexel says names of alliterative businesses, Helen Gould (Enola's voice actress) breaks down in absolutely hysterical, wheezing laughter at "Big Bertie’s Bouncy Bum".

Compulsory Film Appreciation

    Episode 1: Yippee-Kai-Yay-Hartro 
  • No. 1 and No. 48 try to have the stash of movies destroyed:
    I.M.O.G.E.N.: These items are marked with a 'Do Not Destroy' order which prohibits all destruction.
    No. 48: What do you mean, 'Do Not Destroy'?
    I.M.O.G.E.N.: That is heavily implied by the name.

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