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One of those sounds like another Kif's wacky reproduction episodes.
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SolarFire2 posted:One of those sounds like another Kif's wacky reproduction episodes. It'll be the same kids from the first one. He did say they'd be able to live out of the water in 20 years and that episode aired in 2003.
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Aug 28, 2022 12:41
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muscles like this! posted:Are you thinking about the time he sold his shares of Planet Express to 80s Guy? Future Stock is one of my top ten favorite episodes. The jokes be hitting hard in that one. YeahTubaMike posted:Attack of the Killer App was soul-crushingly bad, but it basically forced me -- a person who knew the show was beyond repair but didn't want to accept it -- to break up with the show. I believe this is the episode in which I finally admitted to myself that new Futurama was never going to be near the quality of the initial run. Also....that if I were to continue watching.....I'd likely have to subject myself to some of the downright worst episodes of the show ever created. Never think I actually got through all the episodes of the CC run. Maybe I should do it. I still consider Futurama to be the finest animated show of all time. But I have to qualify that statement by disregarding everything that happened after 'The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings'.
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Aug 28, 2022 14:41
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I'm gonna say this, though -- even when it's a bad episode of Futurama, it's still generally a watchable half hour of television. People watch all sorts of junk. I leave on Gordon Ramsay reality show reruns when I do chores, for instance. I've also watched like six seasons of the Big Bang Theory, and I think the worst episode of Futurama was more interesting than the best BBT episode (excluding the Susan Boyle episode, at least). I'm not expecting classic Futurama masterpieces, but as long as they don't do anything too stupid and I get a few more hours of hanging out with Bender and Leela and Fry, I'll be cautiously optimistic.
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Aug 28, 2022 15:06
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Phenotype posted:I'm not expecting classic Futurama masterpieces, but as long as they don't do anything too stupid and I get a few more hours of hanging out with Bender and Leela and Fry, I'll be cautiously optimistic. Same, if we get a bunch of decent enough episodes with a The Late Philip J. Fry sprinkled in once in a while I will be satisfied.
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Aug 28, 2022 17:21
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The landscape of animated comedies is so loving dire today that I cannot imagine this turning out that poorly. Low bar maybe, but I'm definitely open to returning to Futurama.
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Aug 28, 2022 17:35
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Phenotype posted:I'm gonna say this, though -- even when it's a bad episode of Futurama, it's still generally a watchable half hour of television. People watch all sorts of junk. I leave on Gordon Ramsay reality show reruns when I do chores, for instance. I've also watched like six seasons of the Big Bang Theory, and I think the worst episode of Futurama was more interesting than the best BBT episode (excluding the Susan Boyle episode, at least). Well said. One of the reasons why I didn't understand the immense hatred of Arrested Development seasons 4 and 5. While I think 4 wasn't good.....it was still better than most networks sitcoms around the same time. And I liked season five.
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Aug 29, 2022 01:25
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Hakkesshu posted:The landscape of animated comedies is so loving dire today that I cannot imagine this turning out that poorly. Low bar maybe, but I'm definitely open to returning to Futurama. I don't claim to watch every one but like right now I'm keeping up and enjoying Lower Decks and Harley Quinn. Also waiting for Netflix to release more of Inside Job. Bird Girl isn't...great but there's something about it that I enjoy. It could be worse.
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Sep 12, 2022 13:36
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Future Stock is one of my top ten favorite episodes. The jokes be hitting hard in that one. It was all I could think of during the new season of Stranger Things.
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Sep 12, 2022 14:10
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Did anyone get into Disenchantment? So much carryover from Futurama....that I had high hopes. I think I only watched a few of the first episodes before turning it off.
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Sep 12, 2022 16:05
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Did anyone get into Disenchantment? So much carryover from Futurama....that I had high hopes. I think I only watched a few of the first episodes before turning it off. I made it to the second? third? season before I trailed off.
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Sep 12, 2022 19:15
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Disenchantment was forever pinballing between wanting to take its story seriously and doing gags to the point it completely wasted its concepts and characters.
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Sep 12, 2022 19:25
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Disenchantment, in addition to not being that funny, was also WAY too serialized.
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And it managed to be very serialized but also not seem to give much of a drat about its plot. A lot of stuff happened but there was hardly ever any weight to it. Just the weirdest little failure of a show. All the right pieces but none of them fit together.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Did anyone get into Disenchantment? So much carryover from Futurama....that I had high hopes. I think I only watched a few of the first episodes before turning it off. I watched all of it and episodes feel empty. In the later Futurama commentaries they mention how their writing room kept shrinking due to smaller and smaller budget. And disenchantment feels like a singe episode worth of content stretched over 16 episodes. Also the latter seasons made me happy when it was initially announced that Dimaggio won't be part of the Futurama renewal.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:And it managed to be very serialized but also not seem to give much of a drat about its plot. A lot of stuff happened but there was hardly ever any weight to it. Just the weirdest little failure of a show. All the right pieces but none of them fit together. Every season ending with a heel turn by the same character was the most ridiculous thing.
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Sep 13, 2022 13:40
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I liked Disenchantment, it wasn't great, but it was fine and made me laugh more often than not. Is it anywhere the caliber of Futurama? Not really, but I still thought it was decent 
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Sep 13, 2022 14:00
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I didn’t mind Disenchantment but it really lacked good characters, so maybe the Futurama reboot will be better in that respect. I think I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be like the Comedy Central run where it’s mostly meh quality with a couple great episodes.
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Sep 13, 2022 18:03
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Hakkesshu posted:I liked Disenchantment, it wasn't great, but it was fine and made me laugh more often than not. Is it anywhere the caliber of Futurama? Not really, but I still thought it was decent To be fair, I didn't actively hate it or anything. It was fine background TV, but that's such a low bar to clear and with the talent involved you'd think that they could do more. Especially since the ideas could have been fun.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:To be fair, I didn't actively hate it or anything. It was fine background TV, but that's such a low bar to clear and with the talent involved you'd think that they could do more. Especially since the ideas could have been fun. It was said in the thread but it feels like two very distinct writing groups are working on it and the way each episode was meant to work swung wildly from group to group
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Sep 13, 2022 23:52
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I don’t know how you could save Elfo though, he was bad no matter what plot type you were going for.
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Nanomachine Son posted:I didn’t mind Disenchantment but it really lacked good characters, so maybe the Futurama reboot will be better in that respect. I think I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be like the Comedy Central run where it’s mostly meh quality with a couple great episodes. Cautiously optimistic is that the Hulu reboot will be "meh" quality? I'm hoping that they spring for a decent sized writers room and the quality edges closer to the FOX run.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK-jHFUCEi8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38dBBUuhjt8 Thank you! I don't know that I would have noticed this anytime soon otherwise. A really good commentary/breakdown is up.
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https://twitter.com/Zeurel/status/1659577900264476672?s=20 who's ready to laugh
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Well we're boned
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I hope that's all in one episode and it's just a 30 second cold open of some dude screaming about bitcoin, vaccines, and cancel culture and then Bender beats the poo poo out of him. Roll opening credits, get into the otherwise unrelated episode.
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May 20, 2023 05:30
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I'll wait until it gets a Blu-ray release.
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Jerusalem posted:I hope that's all in one episode and it's just a 30 second cold open of some dude screaming about bitcoin, vaccines, and cancel culture and then Bender beats the poo poo out of him. Roll opening credits, get into the otherwise unrelated episode. It's all in one episode but the rest are irritating robot Santa episodes. No wait, it's all in one episode but the rest are irritating bender episodes and stories that go on way too long. No wait, it's all in one episode but the rest are retreading Leela and Fry will they won't they.
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May 20, 2023 07:20
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If the released list of episode titles is right, it's going to be pretty dire. Lot of uninteresting political/social stuff that's probably already out of date.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:"Zapp Gets Cancelled," God no.
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Khanstant posted:woof i forgot that bit entirely and what... forgettable reference to pop culture not worth enshrining in cartoon form
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LividLiquid posted:Susan Boyle was only a thing in pop culture because people were shocked that somebody they didn't want to gently caress was good at singing and Futurama really shouldn't reference things so ephemeral or meanspirited. As someone who had no idea who Susan Boyle was (still not entirely sure), it was just a funny singing boil voiced by Craig Ferguson.
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May 21, 2023 11:03
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I wonder how much funnier the episode would have been if I hadn't known who Susan Boyle was. Probably at least a tiny bit.
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May 21, 2023 14:48
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MikusR posted:As someone who had no idea who Susan Boyle was (still not entirely sure), it was just a funny singing boil voiced by Craig Ferguson. I've legit no idea how you couldn't know who she was but it was probably different in the UK with how much she was just everywhere
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She was pretty much everywhere in the US too for a few weeks, and a recurring joke on Ferguson's show. But yeah, it's weirder on rewatches that you could probably just chalk it up to weirdness than a cultural reference if you missed it when it happened.
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May 21, 2023 20:56
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YeahTubaMike posted:I wonder how much funnier the episode would have been if I hadn't known who Susan Boyle was. Probably at least a tiny bit.
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May 21, 2023 21:04
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Taear posted:I've legit no idea how you couldn't know who she was but it was probably different in the UK with how much she was just everywhere She was prime fodder for shows like Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood, tabloid shows that love to play the "freaks done good" angle. Simon Cowell et. al. probably had a hand in making sure she was known on this side of the pond. At the same time, it was much easier to miss back then if you stayed online and off TV.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:These sure are some episode titles:
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Futurama is an American show made by Americans. We knew who Susan Boyle was. She was everywhere for a minute. On TV and viral on all forms of social media as a feel-good story that super wasn't. It was just a reminder that we expect everybody to be model pretty.
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