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uber_stoat posted:how do you do a covid episode. who wants to see that poo poo at this point. I think it's definitely possible to do a comedy episode about covid. The last season of The Other Two had two episodes with covid storylines that were good. Even the Sex and the City sequel show had a good covid storyline in the last episode. But IMHO they need to be about either the weird upheaval of social conventions it causes, or dive into the dark comedy aspects, to work. Joking about sticking things up your nose probably isn't the way to do that.
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A show set in the future doing jokes that are a couple years late. Sign me up! 
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If they do an episode about covid there better be a bit about how the smelloscope “stopped working”.
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They already did a contagion episode last reboot. Fry brought back the common cold, and Planet Express did a whole lockdown. It was an alright episode. No one needs another. I’m not watching this reboot, but I’ll watch this thread so I can see the train wreck through this thread. I understand that I may revoke my Fighting Mongooses gang tag.
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The third season of Party Down just came out and had a lot of excellent COVID jokes. I don't trust this show to do it that well.
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Yeah if you're gonna do covid jokes, they better be loving hilarious because all we had to do for months was make them. No easy pickings there.
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It would be pretty crazy if they killed off one of the main cast from covid
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Kif, inform the men. I've been... cancelled *suffocates* Zedd fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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Jul 9, 2023 11:31
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The boneitis episode was on tv this morning.
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I say that poo poo every time I'm sick. It's just wall to wall whining to my dog or some poor romantic partner with "I apologiiiiiize" from Deadwood and "my only regret... is that I have... boneitis."
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LividLiquid posted:It's just wall to wall whining to my dog or some poor romantic partner with "I apologiiiiiize" from Deadwood SHUT THE gently caress UP!
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IUG posted:SHUT THE gently caress UP! 
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Boris Galerkin posted:The boneitis episode was on tv this morning. 'Future Stock' is one of my favorite episodes. Imo....one of....if not the funniest of the whole series. Right off the bat....."yes....good thing I noticed the similar shapes"....and I knew it was going to be a corker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EziwShcBuoQ
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Reviews are coming in. Here are non Hypnotoad based ones: https://www.avclub.com/futurama-season-11-review-hulu-tv-revival-1850633949 https://www.cracked.com/article_38785_review-this-time-around-futurama-may-have-come-back-one-time-too-many.html https://variety.com/2023/tv/tv-reviews/futurama-hulu-reboot-review-1235674534/
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Island Nation posted:Reviews are coming in. Here are non Hypnotoad based ones: All three are basically saying "It's kinda poo poo but eh, more content for the content farm" Which is depressing The variety one is a proper rubbish AI level one though, just "here's what Futurama as a concept is" and I feel like the main reason for the reboot isn't to lure in new viewers.
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Taear posted:The variety one is a proper rubbish AI level one though Yeah, loving hell no kidding. Has that weird generic cadence and everything.
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The first one is somewhat positive I'd say? It says it's just Futurama-rear end Futurama, nothing more, nothing less, and you should probably know if you want that or not. Which is basically what I expected.
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Its going to be just like every season after the 4th. Some good episodes, some really trash ones, a few that are ok, one that proves some new esoteric mathematical theorm, and then one or two that serve to emotionally devastate the entire audience.
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It being mediocre to good is better than I'd hope for a revamped writers room coming back entirely cold after years of off time.
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swickles posted:Its going to be just like every season after the 4th. Some good episodes, some really trash ones, a few that are ok, one that proves some new esoteric mathematical theorm, and then one or two that serve to emotionally devastate the entire audience. I mean, even the original run of Futurama was like that. I think the show gets looked back upon with rose-colored glasses; those original seasons on Fox had some massive clunkers and some of the humor has aged like milk. Edit: That said, The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings might be my favorite half-hour episode of anything, ever.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:It being mediocre to good is better than I'd hope for a revamped writers room coming back entirely cold after years of off time. Such a huge and accurate burn on Disenchantment
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Timby posted:I mean, even the original run of Futurama was like that. I think the show gets looked back upon with rose-colored glasses; those original seasons on Fox had some massive clunkers and some of the humor has aged like milk. Like Futurama itself said about Star Trek: "Seventy-nine episodes, around thirty good ones."
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Jul 23, 2023 23:37
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We'll see how well this works compared to posting Bob's Burgers 1:The Impossible Stream Fry risks permanent insanity when he attempts to binge-watch every TV show ever made. 2: Children of a Lesser Bog Amy and Kif’s children emerge from an alien swamp. 
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Timby posted:I mean, even the original run of Futurama was like that. I think the show gets looked back upon with rose-colored glasses; those original seasons on Fox had some massive clunkers and some of the humor has aged like milk. The original run had almost zero clunkers. Maybe a handful. And even those weren't terrible.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:The original run had almost zero clunkers. Maybe a handful. And even those weren't terrible. Yea there's a definite "mix of 7-9 scores" for the original run and then a "mix of 6-9 scores" in the second run. It's no way as bad as the complete drop off for the simpsons but it's there, the later ones are just straight up not as good
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Last time this came up in the Futurama thread I felt like the point stood that even A Leela of Her Own, possibly one of the worst episodes and one people generally agree on, still had a good Bender quote that gets repeated a lot and the Hank Aaron Jr. stuff that was okay. It didn't seem like they had any truly dreadful ones until the reboots even if some were just mediocre.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Last time this came up in the Futurama thread I felt like the point stood that even A Leela of Her Own, possibly one of the worst episodes and one people generally agree on, still had a good Bender quote that gets repeated a lot and the Hank Aaron Jr. stuff that was okay. It didn't seem like they had any truly dreadful ones until the reboots even if some were just mediocre. A Leela of Her Own is definitely (IMDB wise) the lowest rated original one There's a few rated lower later on but the average score is just generally lower. I do think (especially with older stuff) it's a good way of seeing the consensus on episodes because it does tend to fit how people talk about them too.
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I liked A Leela of Her Own, the main thing was I've never paid any attention to baseball so I had no idea why everyone kept shouting "bean"
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I liked the new one but I also liked most of the Comedy Central ones so what do I know.
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The original run had high highs, and the lows were still pretty high. Comedy Central run had high highs and LOW lows. New one is fine. Not a classic but not a dud either. I do hope we get some new classics in this one to justify its return again. I was re-watching some CC era episodes this weekend since I only vaguely remember them and Game of Tones WRECKED me. That episode should be remembered up there with Jurassic Bark and Luck of the Fryrish
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Taear posted:All three are basically saying "It's kinda poo poo but eh, more content for the content farm" This is what feels so off about it. If someone was like "I've got an idea for an amazing Bender story, we've just gotta tell it!" then it's like, okay, if you've got that great an idea, let's get the band back together. But it's just like "hey, let's do some more Futurama episodes riffing on current events or whatever" and man, there is only so many times you can kick a dead horse before worms stop coming out (or whatever, I don't know how that analogy works, I assume you're hunting for worms). I get the same feeling with the Justified revival too, even though I've enjoyed the first two episodes. So far it just seems like "hey, let's drag Raylan out for another season of crime hijinks" and sure, it's fun, but you didn't need to drag everyone back just to do this, you coulda just come up with something new.
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Yup, this is a Futurama revival episode. I'm curious how much they could or couldn't say about working the writers room to death.Taear posted:A Leela of Her Own is definitely (IMDB wise) the lowest rated original one It's what Hank Aaron XXIV would want.
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The meta stuff about the revival and actual plot felt pretty rough. Along with a little too much "Remember this guy! And these guys!" but the individual jokes got a few good laughs. Not a bad start and better than I expected.
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I also hate how they reset Fry and Leela yet again. It's like the writers just can't write them.as a couple. Episode was definitely in the lower range quality wise.
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Mokinokaro posted:I also hate how they reset Fry and Leela yet again. Like the time Fry sold his marriage to the DevilBot.
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I did laugh at the robot comedian clip, and the little dig at the Twilight Zone reboot, not that Futurama really has any high ground there. Also lol that they basically just decided to completely ignore the previous finale and character development from it.
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Phenotype posted:This is what feels so off about it. If someone was like "I've got an idea for an amazing Bender story, we've just gotta tell it!" then it's like, okay, if you've got that great an idea, let's get the band back together. But it's just like "hey, let's do some more Futurama episodes riffing on current events or whatever" and man, there is only so many times you can kick a dead horse before worms stop coming out (or whatever, I don't know how that analogy works, I assume you're hunting for worms). The motive is always these producers need money for 4th vacation homes. If it turns out well, that's a happy accident.
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