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The movies are bad because they aren’t movies. They are very clearly segmented into four parts for four episodes, but then they also have too much overarching plot to work as separate episodes.
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Going back to The Simpsons here's a video about the layout, including the rumpus room and where exactly are the basement and garage doors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQ6CmIDV1g
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:The movies are bad because they aren’t movies. They are very clearly segmented into four parts for four episodes, but then they also have too much overarching plot to work as separate episodes. I dunno I saw them as DVDs and I can't stand how disjointed they are when broken up into pieces for TV. To me, the only really bad one is the 3rd one (D&D one). The rest are middling.
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Hakkesshu posted:You people are nuts, revival Futurama was not that bad, ok yeah the movies kinda sucked and it was the wrong format, but the show never completely lost its way like Simpsons did and there are several really good episodes that make the whole thing worth it, including the actual finale. Revival Futurama wasn't great, but the original run was really hit or miss and had plenty of bad and forgettable episodes. The good to bad episode ratio just goes way down in the revival Honestly, a lot of seasons 1-4 episodes seem like they were made by people too incompetent to even get a job working on zombie Simpsons. Stingwing fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Jan 4, 2021 00:38
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The original run of Futurama definitely relies on more pop culture references than early Simpsons did. Revival Futurama just ramped it up.
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Jan 4, 2021 01:32
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Yeah even original series Futurama had some boomer jokes. Like Hermes cracking on his son for buying Amazon stock.
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Tonight's episode of the Simpsons is about Comic Book Guy and his pretty Japanese wife they gave him a few seasons ago having a baby. I'd rather watch the Yo Gabba episode of post-revival Futurama.
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Jan 4, 2021 03:10
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- Simpsons plots that feature some real-life celebrity instead of their well-established in-universe analog - Simpsons plots that focus on some painfully too-in-depth facet of a once-beloved one-off joke character *two buttons guy meme*
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I remember seeing a new episode like four or five years ago. Did you know Moleman was the beloved mayor of Springfield when Marge and Homer were kids? Now you do, gently caress you!
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Jan 4, 2021 04:17
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Stingwing posted:
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Jan 4, 2021 04:31
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Detective No. 27 posted:I remember seeing a new episode like four or five years ago. Did you know Moleman was the beloved mayor of Springfield when Marge and Homer were kids? Now you do, gently caress you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG8d0x1WcAc
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Jan 4, 2021 05:05
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No, that's too young....
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https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1345916009924857856?s=21
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"Cretaceous Gardens." Eeeey yooo, I'mma Simpson writa ovah hea'h!
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The joke's in every corner
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As someone who was a big Futurama fan, I'm realizing the only joke I can remember is that the stores still don't take Discover.
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Jan 4, 2021 07:16
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"Primitive robots" working on the assembly line
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Detective No. 27 posted:gently caress you! same to you buddy!
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PerniciousKnid posted:As someone who was a big Futurama fan, I'm realizing the only joke I can remember is that the stores still don't take Discover. Whalers on the moon Because the song gets stuck in my head.
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Stingwing posted:Honestly, a lot of seasons 1-4 episodes seem like they were made by people too incompetent to even get a job working on zombie Simpsons. a lot of funny-seasons Simpsons writers jumped ship to Futurama bc it was obvious that the Simpsons was close to getting canceled
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When somebody does something stupid I'll think, "THAT'S THE GREATEST THING I EVER SAW!" And I get a lot of the opera from the (first) season finale stuck in my head from time to time. Actually, I remember a lot of Robot Devil lines. Did post-revival gently caress him up?
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Funniest Futurama joke is thisData Graham posted:"Primitive robots" working on the assembly line
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I wonder if there'll ever be another prime-time show that does "nerd humor" — by which I mean like actual math/science jokes — as well as Futurama did. Seems like a market that might have dried up and/or turned to anime and 80s nostalgia rather than STEM one-liners like "No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!" Or the random number generator in the execution chamber
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Data Graham posted:I wonder if there'll ever be another prime-time show that does "nerd humor" — by which I mean like actual math/science jokes — as well as Futurama did. Seems like a market that might have dried up and/or turned to anime and 80s nostalgia rather than STEM one-liners like "No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!" Um, Big Bang Theory??
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Hakkesshu posted:Um, Big Bang Theory?? no no that's laughing at the nerds - not laughing with the nerds.
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Data Graham posted:"No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!" I vaguely remember David X Cohen saying he had to fight to get that joke in. dude has a physics bachelor's from Harvard and a CS master's from UC Berkeley
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Mantis42 posted:Tonight's episode of the Simpsons is about Comic Book Guy and his pretty Japanese wife they gave him a few seasons ago having a baby. I'd rather watch the Yo Gabba episode of post-revival Futurama. They really are that completely creatively bankrupt.
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Jan 4, 2021 16:54
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I made the exact same parody title when I was like 10?
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Empty Sandwich posted:a lot of funny-seasons Simpsons writers jumped ship to Futurama bc it was obvious that the Simpsons was close to getting canceled
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It always seems to come down to the writers, both their quality and their level of effort, doesn't it? Post-revival Futurama, there might have been some GOOD episodes, but I don't remember any of them (even the GOOD ones) being very funny.
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I liked the brain swap episode where they used a mathematical proof to show everyone could get back to their original minds without repeating any body parings
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PerniciousKnid posted:As someone who was a big Futurama fan, I'm realizing the only joke I can remember is that the stores still don't take Discover. "The hat goes on the head! It's all so obvious now!" in the episode where Gunter the monkey wears a hat that makes him a genius is one of my favorites. Slotducks posted:no no that's laughing at the nerds - not laughing with the nerds. I don't associate Big Bang Theory with laughter of any variety. Empty Sandwich posted:I vaguely remember David X Cohen saying he had to fight to get that joke in. That actually kind of surprises me -- I was under the impression that the Futurama writers' room was filled to the brim with geeks of his nature and that they would have loved a joke like that.
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emgeejay posted:and then the funny Futurama writers moved to American Dad! after their own cancellation oh no YeahTubaMike posted:That actually kind of surprises me -- I was under the impression that the Futurama writers' room was filled to the brim with geeks of his nature and that they would have loved a joke like that. I think it was a network objection or something, or just a feeling that it was too obscure (which seems odd, since I never took a serious science class after high school and I got it)
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Slotducks posted:no no that's laughing at the nerds - not laughing with the nerds. My dad loving loves BBT, and claims that the only reason I don't like it is because I don't understand the science jokes.
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Iron Crowned posted:My dad loving loves BBT, and claims that the only reason I don't like it is because I don't understand the science jokes. I've sat through a shitload of BBT at my parents' home. The jokes are never about the science they're talking about. The jokes are always "what kind of loving nerdo would care about this thing or know what this long word means?"
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I just learned that Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, who's a writer/exec producer on Family Guy, has a psych bachelor's from Yale and a JD from NYU Law. on the other hand, I also learned that Loren Bouchard dropped out of high school, so
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PostNouveau posted:I've sat through a shitload of BBT at my parents' home. Whoever called it "nerdface" was 100% correct
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs BBT is one of the shows that feels extra weird without a laugh track
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