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Yeah with a few shining exceptions, post-resurrection Futurama is really not that good.
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My cable company lied to me. Season 4 is the episode I was talking about, only the latter half though. I just watched "The Sting" and "The Farnsworth Parabox", both of which were fine episodes, but the Fry/Leela-ness of them turned me off. I can't defend Season 6 at all, though I thought the Season 5 movies were just fine (though I don't remember them at all). "This Trinity's Going to War" was a catchy song.
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Mar 13, 2020 15:46
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YeahTubaMike posted:My cable company lied to me. Season 4 is the episode I was talking about, only the latter half though. I just watched "The Sting" and "The Farnsworth Parabox", both of which were fine episodes, but the Fry/Leela-ness of them turned me off. "The Farnsworth Paradox" is the best episode, you monster
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Mar 13, 2020 16:11
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Like a lot of shows it really starts to get annoying when the writers get caught up in their favourite will-they-or-won't-they pairing. Thing is that it kinda works at least because Leela isn't exactly opposed to hooking up with Fry and likes him, but it is established she sets very high standards for herself, especially for her dates, and Fry obviously isn't the best prospect given he's a developmentally disabled guy who is entirely content in a dead-end job and living in a robot's closet.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:15
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The first movie is the end of futurama if you are the kind of person that wants things tied up in a neat little package, devil's hands is the end if you like to leave things open. That loses a couple great episodes like the time machine one, but it's a fair trade to ignore multiple seasons worth of subpar episodes
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Mar 13, 2020 16:22
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The series finale was pretty good too. There are a few good ones in the later seasons, but they're few and far between.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:28
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I really love "Law and Oracle," but I'd argue it's not a good episode
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Mar 13, 2020 16:33
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Empty Sandwich posted:"The Farnsworth Paradox" is the best episode, you monster I thought it was hilarious, it was just tainted by Fry & Leela being married in the parallel universe. PostNouveau posted:The series finale was pretty good too. There are a few good ones in the later seasons, but they're few and far between. Are you talking about the one where Fry learns to play the holophoner or whatever the post-resurrection series finale was? I liked the idea of a holophoner more than the episode itself, my heart was not warmed by the Fry/Leela garbage, but I do generally love everything about the Robot Devil.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:43
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YeahTubaMike posted:I thought it was hilarious, it was just tainted by Fry & Leela being married in the parallel universe. I'm starting to get the feeling you just really don't like Fry and Leela as a couple. The bit in The Farnsworth Parabox doesn't even come up outside of like five lines in one scene.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:48
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Yikes, the last time I mentioned hating Fry & Leela as a couple was less than a year ago. I need other hobbies.  Anyway, I like "The Farnsworth Parabox", I just had myself a little eye roll at Fry/Leela, that's all -- same with "The Sting". The arguments over which universe was evil were great, Hermes considering ejecting the entire crew into the sun was great, the episode was great. The sequence where everyone is getting stung by bees & popping like balloons was great, the layers of consciousness were great, the episode was great. Maybe "fine" in my previous post was underselling them.
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Mar 13, 2020 17:01
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Like most sitcom couples, Fry and Leela is mostly made obnoxious about how they get way too much focus without actually making any progress.
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Mar 13, 2020 18:19
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Also there's a spin that I'm not terribly happy with, where she acts superior and dismissive of Fry the whole time she thinks she's a kickin rad cyclopean alien, but then once she finds out she's a human mutant from the sewers she apparently lowers her standards / self-esteem to the point where she'll consider Fry as a suitor.
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Mar 13, 2020 18:22
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YeahTubaMike posted:Are you talking about the one where Fry learns to play the holophoner or whatever the post-resurrection series finale was? I liked the idea of a holophoner more than the episode itself, my heart was not warmed by the Fry/Leela garbage, but I do generally love everything about the Robot Devil. The post-resurrection one. The actual last episode if you go watch it on Hulu or whatever. It's dragged down a bit by Fry being way too dumb and overexplaining the sci-fi gimmick. I don't know if I like where they end up or not. It implies a time loop they'll never escape or even know is happening
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Mar 13, 2020 18:43
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Data Graham posted:Also there's a spin that I'm not terribly happy with, where she acts superior and dismissive of Fry the whole time she thinks she's a kickin rad cyclopean alien, but then once she finds out she's a human mutant from the sewers she apparently lowers her standards / self-esteem to the point where she'll consider Fry as a suitor. Alien-era Leela had pity sex with Zapp Brannigan though, it's not like her standards were through the roof to begin with. edit: also alien-era Leela's self esteem sucked because she thought she was the only one-eyed alien in the universe and she was teased about it while growing up and everything. I don't recall any era in which Leela thought she was superior to Fry, even though she always was.
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Mar 13, 2020 18:46
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YeahTubaMike posted:Alien-era Leela had pity sex with Zapp Brannigan though, it's not like her standards were through the roof to begin with. It's more she thought Fry was a sweet guy but not good enough for her, and her upbringing was basically defined by insecurity over her totally unknown origins and having no family who care about her. Does seem like she subtly chills out and gets more comfortable with herself after meeting her parents, though she definitely shows some issues in trying to do-over her childhood that one time they get de-aged. (Which I think a lot of people can sadly relate to, mind) That and I think initially Leela has the career woman problem where she's basically the senior employee at her job and doesn't want to date down, but pretty much all the men who do fit her standards are entirely willing to. Zapp does technically fill her original standards as a wealthy, famous, high-status man, just he's a pathetic jerk and possibly a semi-functioning sociopath.
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Mar 14, 2020 13:50
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On Hulu the Futurama seasons are listed weirdly. What it calls "Season 5" is actually the second half of what was season 4, for example.
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Mar 14, 2020 18:13
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:On Hulu the Futurama seasons are listed weirdly. What it calls "Season 5" is actually the second half of what was season 4, for example. I think hulu uses the production schedule for their listings rather than the air dates. Pretty sure futurama had some weird fuckery in the way the show aired that resulted in one season becoming 2 or something like that
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Mar 14, 2020 19:09
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zimbomonkey posted:I think hulu uses the production schedule for their listings rather than the air dates. Pretty sure futurama had some weird fuckery in the way the show aired that resulted in one season becoming 2 or something like that
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Mar 14, 2020 22:34
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The original DVD's have weird numbering/seasons too. They call them "volumes" iirc
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Mar 14, 2020 23:41
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Apparently Futurama aired completely out of order production wise for seasons 3-4 and some stuff got delayed so long that they ended up in another broadcast season even though they weren't actually a "new" season. So going by production the movies are the 5th season but sometimes you'll see stuff that aired on Fox listed as season 5.
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Mar 15, 2020 00:19
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muscles like this! posted:Apparently Futurama aired completely out of order production wise for seasons 3-4
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Mar 15, 2020 00:27
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Tenebrais posted:I'm starting to get the feeling you just really don't like Fry and Leela as a couple. By a guy named scrunchie
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Mar 15, 2020 08:10
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https://twitter.com/dvsblast/status/1238940949608312839
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Mar 16, 2020 07:27
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Eerily accurate Julie Kavner impression.
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Mar 16, 2020 14:54
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PostNouveau posted:Eerily accurate Julie Kavner impression. I thought it was her for literally a second or two because of how awful and close to death it sounds
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Mar 16, 2020 15:02
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Last Chance posted:I thought it was her for literally a second or two because of how awful and close to death it sounds 
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Mar 16, 2020 15:04
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In the new one, Grandpa gives Bart a fake grenade. He brings it to a school assembly and freaks everyone out by pretending to pull the pin. Ned, who is at a school assembly for some reason, jumps on the grenade while everyone else freaks out. They're gonna expel Bart, but Ned offers to mentor him to get him on the straight-and-narrow. It works. Homer gets jealous so he takes a walk and runs into Nelson at the dump, who he thinks is such a loving mess that he can even help him. Lisa goes to Moe's to find Homer and gives him $40 to get therapy to figure out why he's doing this. A joke in this one that I think really typifies the problem with nuSimpsons: Lisa tells Homer she likes being the voice of morality. From offscreen, Duffman enters to say "I like to believe this role has not typecast me. I can still play Shakespeare," and then he starts quoting Shakespeare lines with Duff jokes inserted into them. Is Duffman playing Shakespeare a bad joke? Not really, classic Simpsons made a running gag out of a similar joke with Sideshow Mel. Does it make any sense at all in this moment that Duffman is in Moe's bar? Absolutely not. NuSimpsons has every single character waiting just offscreen to jump into a scene if there's an easy joke to make. The therapist tells Homer he's acting appallingly. Homer feels guilty and tells Nelson the truth. Nelson goes to the Christian Pride Parade that Ned and Bart are at to get even. He triggers the pair of big fake praying hands in the middle of the street to crush Bart but Homer pushes him out of the way. Homer connects Ned and Nelson, making the ripoff of the Big Brothers episode complete. This episode was dedicated to Max Von Sydow, who apparently appeared in a Season 25 episode.  There were no celebrity cameos in this episode.
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Mar 16, 2020 15:20
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PostNouveau posted:Ned, who is at a school assembly for some reason He became a teacher a few seasons back.
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Mar 16, 2020 15:43
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J-Spot posted:He became a teacher a few seasons back. I thought that was temporary but I guess not. This episode ended with Ned kinda taking in Nelson and his mother and Nelson telling the other bullies he's changed, so we'll see if that sticks.
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Mar 16, 2020 16:04
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PostNouveau posted:The therapist tells Homer he's acting appallingly. Homer feels guilty and tells Nelson the truth. lol at the jab at therapy, having the therapist berate Homer rather than trying to help him
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Mar 16, 2020 18:37
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CodfishCartographer posted:lol at the jab at therapy, having the therapist berate Homer rather than trying to help him Homer tells her "Aren't you supposed to validate everything I do?" and she says "Only the rich people get that!"
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Mar 16, 2020 22:04
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PostNouveau posted:Homer tells her "Aren't you supposed to validate everything I do?" and she says "Only the rich people get that!" That's actually kind of funny. You sure this was The Simpsons?
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Mar 17, 2020 00:04
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The Bible posted:That's actually kind of funny. You sure this was The Simpsons? Yeah it was the only chuckle I had the whole episode.
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Mar 17, 2020 00:17
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's more she thought Fry was a sweet guy but not good enough for her, and her upbringing was basically defined by insecurity over her totally unknown origins and having no family who care about her. She was right, imho. quote:Does seem like she subtly chills out and gets more comfortable with herself after meeting her parents, though she definitely shows some issues in trying to do-over her childhood that one time they get de-aged. (Which I think a lot of people can sadly relate to, mind) Which episode was that? I don't remember that plotline.
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Mar 17, 2020 22:56
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YeahTubaMike posted:Which episode was that? I don't remember that plotline. Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles They go to a spa and all fall in some mud that turns them into teenagers I think? Leela is happy to spend some time with her parents as a teen, but the rest of the cast tries to fix the issue, but it fails and they become even younger. Leela babysits them. The professor has a dumb gargoyle that saves them all at the end when they get stuck in the fountain of aging.
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Mar 17, 2020 23:13
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Fun fact, the gargoyle Pazuzu is named after the ancient Babylonian Demon-God of the underworld. Pazuzu also brought plagues and storms, so Pazuzu was worshipped just in an attempt to keep him from wrecking your poo poo. And is also frequently portrayed with a massive erect dong, because ancient religion.
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Mar 17, 2020 23:45
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Yeah, Maggie got posessed by him in one of the Treehouses
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Mar 17, 2020 23:48
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edit: never mind, I'm dumb
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Mar 18, 2020 01:07
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I got a laugh at the sign on the dump in the new episode so that's something. "50,000 seagulls can't be wrong!"
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Daikloktos posted:Yeah, Maggie got posessed by him in one of the Treehouses It was also the name of the demon in the Exorcist movies.
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