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Cojawfee posted:This was Billy West with some sort of gas cloud being. He did the voice and they put a filter on it. Then the character came back when they went into the internet in some episode. And yeah, he listened to the old episode and then recreated the filtered voice. LividLiquid fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Aug 20, 2023 |
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Jerusalem posted:Not sure if it was Welker or not, but I recall one of the commentaries mentioning they took a voice actor's performance and then added a bunch of filters to make it deeper/boomier/bassier etc beyond what a human could do. When they called him back in to do the character like a year later, he showed up and gave a performance that exactly matched that altered version, because he re-listened to it before coming in and didn't realize it had been altered, and just assumed it was all his voice and so re-created it perfectly I remember them saying "if you need to hear a dragon flying backwards in a canadian accent on a tuesday you get Welker"
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5: Related to Items You've Viewed Bender uncovers the mysteries of the Momazon corporation.
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Stop with the topical episodes already. Did nobody learn anything from how poorly the Nappster episode aged? It was good *in spite* of the topic.
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Easily the best one so far. Still not a classic or anything, but a solid episode. Edit: I just want to add - even though the season so far has been a C+ at best, it’s been really nice winding down from my weekend with a new Futurama on Sunday nights 
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Aug 21, 2023 06:40
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Yeah I enjoyed that episode, not an all-time classic by any means but it was fun and I enjoyed the non-resolution resolution.
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Aug 21, 2023 09:54
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Too big to fail taken to its illogical extreme Seems like they could've taken Amaz...Err, Mom down a peg but instead had her achieve total universal victory. Either Hermes wanted to commit fraud or PE is out of business which changes the paradigm of the series given the chips in the pilot. Which means same as usual next week.
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Aug 21, 2023 14:36
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Planet Express has gone out of business like eight times. Also, Mom just consuming the entirety of the universe is unfortunately not particularly different than capitalist reality. 
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Aug 21, 2023 14:55
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As Fry said at the end of When Aliens Attack, "... at the end of the episode, everything's right back to normal" Definitely better than any of the other episodes, hopefully a positive turn for the second half of the season 
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Aug 21, 2023 15:06
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Other than the slap joke, episode was fine. Just went to that well a distracting amount.
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Aug 21, 2023 15:39
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Pretty good! I thought the ending was great and actually made the satire land effectively. The episode starts at "look at [current thing]" but then segues that into a funny take on a sci-fi concept, which is way more interesting. "Oh, no! You mean we're trapped in the universe forever?" was a really good joke. Plus, it had a solid character story about Fry, Leela and Bender at the heart of it, which always helps. It's cool that they actually advanced the cast's living situation a bit - it probably won't come up much going forward, but that's the sort of thing early Futurama did from time to time, and it was always satisfying.
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Android Blues posted:"Oh, no! You mean we're trapped in the universe forever?" was a really good joke. That was really good; made me think of that one episode where they take Fry to the edge of the universe and Zoidberg goes, "It's funny you live in the universe but you never do these things until someone comes and visits"
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Aug 21, 2023 17:03
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I always like jokes involving the closets of cartoon characters being the same set of clothes.
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Best episode so far. Reminds me of Season 1.
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TwoDayLife posted:Best episode so far. Reminds me of Season 1. It had season 1 vibes for sure. Character focused with no schmaltz, and a fun sci-fi premise.
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Aug 21, 2023 18:34
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Pretty good one. Easily the best of the season. I think this is a point in favor of the idea that the jokes are more important than the topics. Because this topic is pegged to a current day thing AND dated (taking shots at Amazon Prime and Alexa years after both came out), but it's still alright. Makes me less worried that upcoming ones like the vaccine one or the Zapp gets cancelled one are going to be atrocious. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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Aug 21, 2023 18:58
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Lots of great nonsense humor in this episode: "Ready to fire at your command." "Fire!" "What?" "There must be a billion robots here!" "Then, mathematically, at least ten of them must be Bender." "Sweet vampire Moses!" The less sense it makes, the more I laugh! SimonChris fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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I like that the whole episode showed Fry and Leela as definitively being in a relationship without dancing around it. And I laughed at the "tiny product in a huge box with one air balloon for no reason" gag.
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"Did you order diarrhea medication?" "No, that's not my brand."
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LividLiquid posted:Stop with the topical episodes already. Was this one even that topical? They could have made it during the Comedy Central run.
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Yea that one was decent! Nothing amazing but god, worlds ahead of the poo poo we've had until now
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Aug 21, 2023 23:47
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Really good episode. I laughed a bunch of times. This has been a good season so far. Definite shift back towards the quality of the original run....and away from the bad memories of the CC run.
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:And I laughed at the "tiny product in a huge box with one air balloon for no reason" gag. The short string of packing gags were great.
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It's funny that I didn't think the episode was particularly fantastic or anything, and it still suffered somewhat from a few things I don't like (based on a "modern product" a bit too much, overexplained the joke a few times, and used a lot of callbacks from earlier episodes with no reason other than nostalgia) but it felt like Futurama anyways and therefore I smiled the whole time. Other than some of the jokes people here mentioned, I also liked the Bender "My turn. DOOOOOMED" joke. I also really appreciated the moon farmer saying "We're getting together for a futile protest.
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I think this was the best we've had yet. I don't think it was particularly great, but I got some laughs out of it. Had a light string of "classic futurama" style humour and wasn't aggressively bland. I'll take it.
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Crushinator was and still is funny. Both of those gags worked perfectly.
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Yeah, this week's episode was pretty great. Classic Futurama with a really weird sci-fi twist.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Crushinator was and still is funny. Both of those gags worked perfectly. How'd she get inside anyways
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some kinda jackal posted:I think this was the best we've had yet. I don't think it was particularly great, but I got some laughs out of it. Had a light string of "classic futurama" style humour and wasn't aggressively bland. I'll take it. Absolutely this, wasn't super amazing but decent enough, and I sure hope it's a harbinger of what's to come instead of the string of nothingburgers that preceded it.
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comedy is always better when you're punching up, and in that way I think it's hard to miss with Mom episodes. There were also a good number of jokes that landed, such as Fry's math joke
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I enjoyed me wondering how crushinator even got in there, and then someone said what I was thinking.
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Crushinator being given a package with the label "DO NOT CRUSH" and then crushing the guy who gave it to her while gently cradling the package was also good times.
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I mean my only real nitpick here is that we all know what Amazon is, and MomCorp is already a corporate juggernaut, so this whole plot would have worked probably even better without the unnecessary hand holding. Yeah a giant warehouse full of slave labour putting people out of business, giant needless packaging, invasive digital assistants, WHO COULD THEY POSSIBLY BE MAKING FUN OF HERE?? Just call it MomCorp. Respect your audience enough to know they'll get the joke without literally saying "hey it's like Amazon but run by Mom" I don't want to make it seem like that's what made the episode bad or anything -- again, i thought it was ok, but when I see that they CAN write a funny script it just kind of irks me that they feel they need to point out the obvious joke instead of trusting that the writing will lead us there. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Aug 22, 2023 |
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Or just lampshade how obvious it is, like that old Simpsons episode where they meet corrupt boxing promoter Lucius Sweet and comment on how he's exactly as rich and famous as Don King.... and looks just like him too!
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Jerusalem posted:Or just lampshade how obvious it is, like that old Simpsons episode where they meet corrupt boxing promoter Lucius Sweet and comment on how he's exactly as rich and famous as Don King.... and looks just like him too! Leela: "I love how MomCorp stocks everything you need. It's kind of like what Amazon was a thousand years ago" Fry: "Pfft, that lame online bookstore startup? No way, that thing'd never get off the ground."
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Doesn't Dwight also buy a couple shares of Amazon in one episode?
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SimonChris posted:Lots of great nonsense humor in this episode: "Fire!" "What?" made me laugh pretty hard. One of my favorite little jokes in the original series is when Leela's feeding Nibbler and says, "Aw, somebody likes snouts." And Fry asks if it was him. I don't love that they made a worse version of the same joke for one of Mom's kids, and then had him say it twice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTr4t88XWg
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Professor Wayne posted:One of my favorite little jokes in the original series is when Leela's feeding Nibbler and says, "Aw, somebody likes snouts." And Fry asks if it was him. I don't love that they made a worse version of the same joke for one of Mom's kids, and then had him say it twice. Yeah this bugged me too. "Is it me?" is one of my favorite dumb Fry moments too, and it stood out as just using the exact same joke as before.
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LividLiquid posted:Stop with the topical episodes already.
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Agreed that this was easily the best episode of the new season. The callbacks actually worked to advance the story, good character development with Fry/Leela/Bender and a plot line that was still topical and had a goofy sci-fi conclusion. "Why are you counting like me" and both Crushinator gags got me. Also, "our door's always open" followed by the ridiculously long series of closing doors.
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