Back when the future was thought to be made up of a lot of lazy, apathetic. layabout investigators with naggy sidekicks.

Maybe this is common knowledge in the anime community, but is Space Dandy sort of paying homage to this? They're both fairly lazy and kinda dim-witted but somehow kick ass if they need to, they both have robot companions who usually get them out of trouble, and both would rather go to bars and hit on girls than do whatever prophecy they're supposed to fulfil. In space. Anyway just curious.

wow they changed the music, thats just so wrong

This show is really good, used to have the swedish dub on betamax when I was a kid, must have watched it over 100 times