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That was relatively funny episode, backed by actual decent animation and voice action. Well by gromit, we got ourselves a stew going here! This legitimately felt like a proper Futurama throw it on the re-watch pile type of episode. They keep this up and I will be more than happy for more seasons.
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"I'm not even going to dignify that with a slap" is a quality line in stark contrast to the other kind of quality on display last week.
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Aug 23, 2023 13:16
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"What the hell is money?" was also really funny.
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Aug 23, 2023 13:30
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I agree with the general consensus that this was the best one of the new season so far, though it still had some awkwardness. Every other episode felt like it was written by AI to me.
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6: I Know What You Did Next Xmas Bender and Zoidberg travel through time to attack Robot Santa.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:6: I Know What You Did Next Xmas This was great. Felt like classic Futurama once more.
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Aug 28, 2023 05:54
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Neat episode, but I don't really like the idea that Santa's sensor was set in reverse. Shouldn't that make him treat naughty kids nicely? The original explanation was that his standards were set too high, which makes a lot more sense. I also kept expecting the twist to be that the professor had taken the time machine backwards into an earlier universe, so Santa would still be evil there. Like, the episode could have ended with them wondering why Santa is still evil, then there is a "One Universe Later" title card, and we see that universe's characters partying with good Santa. Anyway, hire me to write Futurama episodes, tia.
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Aug 28, 2023 13:17
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SimonChris posted:Neat episode, but I don't really like the idea that Santa's sensor was set in reverse. Shouldn't that make him treat naughty kids nicely? The original explanation was that his standards were set too high, which makes a lot more sense. I hope someone got fired for these blunders.
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Aug 28, 2023 13:56
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Yea it struck me as dumb too. If the switch was flipped, why are mobsters who beat up shopkeepers for not paying their protection money exactly as naughty as shopkeepers who don't pay their protection money? Also just like... an X-Mas special in August?  Probably not the worst episode, but whatever. I was amused that the professor had a hard time operating the clutch/gear selector though 
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Aug 28, 2023 14:06
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This reboot isn't doing it for me. It seems like at least half of the 'jokes' are just throwbacks to a previous season where the joke worked. Or they're like "hey remember this character?" or "remember this plot point that was funny twenty years ago?" There isn't a whole lot that's original in this reboot.
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Aug 28, 2023 15:09
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TNG knew they messed up after the second episode, "The Naked Now", got scathing reviews for remaking the TOS episode, and the 1980s Twilight Zone suffered for its frequent remakes, and you'd think they'd have learned from that
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Aug 28, 2023 15:44
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Their version of an old fashioned holiday special was just kind of sad. Doesn't anyone on staff have Dino Stamatopoulos' phone number?
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Aug 28, 2023 18:26
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CornHolio posted:This reboot isn't doing it for me. It seems like at least half of the 'jokes' are just throwbacks to a previous season where the joke worked. Or they're like "hey remember this character?" or "remember this plot point that was funny twenty years ago?" There isn't a whole lot that's original in this reboot. I think there's a case for this, but I also think some of the episodes (such as this one) are using old plot points in ways that are newly funny. Like, the time machine from The Late Phillip J. Fry coming back was really just a mechanism for new jokes and for the plot to continue. Yeah, the Professor did the reset the universe thing again, but now he's incredibly cavalier about it which is funny.
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Pretty bad, really flat character writing. Didn't feel like Futurama so much as a middling episode of any other comedy cartoon - really broad lazy jokes that were just about hitting the characters' most obvious points. Bender is a jerk, Zoidberg smells bad, etc, for twenty minutes. The 3D printed turducken and the mutant turducken ("No, they crave death.") I thought were genuinely funny, though.
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Didn't much care for this one. Not a lot of good jokes, plot was a a goddamn mess.
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Android Blues posted:Pretty bad, really flat character writing. Didn't feel like Futurama so much as a middling episode of any other comedy cartoon - really broad lazy jokes that were just about hitting the characters' most obvious points. Bender is a jerk, Zoidberg smells bad, etc, for twenty minutes. The 3D printed turducken and the mutant turducken ("No, they crave death.") I thought were genuinely funny, though. The mutant turducken flying straight into the pot was my one good belly laugh of the episode, so I appreciated that one a lot. (Also the skis made of liquid chicken got a sensible chuckle).
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SimonChris posted:I also kept expecting the twist to be that the professor had taken the time machine backwards into an earlier universe, so Santa would still be evil there. Like, the episode could have ended with them wondering why Santa is still evil, then there is a "One Universe Later" title card, and we see that universe's characters partying with good Santa. Anyway, hire me to write Futurama episodes, tia. Nah, that works out fine. in every universe there's a professor from the next one. I liked the 2800 establishing shot with the old-timely flying vehicles.
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Aug 28, 2023 19:31
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Honestly, I thought this was a good one. The Zoidberg and Bender antics got a good chuckle out of me, as well as the turducken jokes. Glad they got Coolio again before he kicked the bucket. Rest in peace Big C.
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Aug 28, 2023 20:08
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That one was my favorite so far. The twists could have been better, but overall enjoyed the jokes and character interactions. Maybe because they were juggling so many characters all at once, it felt like everyone got a good moment in, plus Bender and Zoidberg were a great duo.
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The remake so far has been pretty polarizing it seems. I see disagreement in the thread about which exact episodes were good and which ones were bad, but I think we can at least agree that it hasn't been all total stinkers and that it's even had moments of old Futurama's quality shining through sometimes. Honestly, after the pretty low bar from the Comedy Central reboot, I'm at the point of saying that's good enough for me and all I should expect in these days of declining quality.
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So far, I've liked 1, 2 and 5, thought 4 was a mixed bag with some funny bits, 3 was dreadful, and 6 was mostly bad with like two good jokes. Which isn't a terrible batting average, I guess! I think the hit rate's actually pretty similar to the Comedy Central run, but it definitely has a tone that's closer to the original run's sensibility.
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Aug 28, 2023 23:17
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Who did Cara Delevingne voice in that episode?
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Android Blues posted:So far, I've liked 1, 2 and 5, thought 4 was a mixed bag with some funny bits, 3 was dreadful, and 6 was mostly bad with like two good jokes. Which isn't a terrible batting average, I guess! I think the hit rate's actually pretty similar to the Comedy Central run, but it definitely has a tone that's closer to the original run's sensibility. Mostly agree. 1 & 2 were both good. 5 was very good. The other three have been fine. Not good.....but not dreadful like some of the CC episodes were. Feels like each one of these episodes at least had a few good gags or jokes.....which again......is more than I can say for some of the CC episodes.
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I liked it. Probably doesn't stand up to scrutiny at all but I was willing to let the silliness wash over me. Best of the season IMO so far. Nice outro and tribute to Coolio as well.
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I think I missed something but how did Bender + Zoidberg appear in the time machine at the end? From what I understand, 3023 B+Z go to 3024 and kidnap Santa and then go back to 3023 and kill him. Then 2023 Santa shows up and some other B+Z appear in 3023 to kidnap him too? Did I miss a "1 year later" in there somewhere?
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koolkal posted:I think I missed something but how did Bender + Zoidberg appear in the time machine at the end? They said why, Zoidberg messed up the time machine controls and they just went ahead one week so that was them from earlier in the episode.
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Zoidberg hosed up and went 1 week into the future instead of 1 year into the future.
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Okay episode but I’m really getting sick of them doing ones that are heavily connected to previous episodes. It’s nice they got Coolio again just in time though.
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I liked it. Made me laugh more than any other episode. "No, they crave death" was definitely the standout but I also really liked some of the others. The ski made out of chicken was amusing. Then Fry saying he ate his ski was even better. I also really liked Bender stopping Zoidberg from confessing so that he could.
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koolkal posted:I think I missed something but how did Bender + Zoidberg appear in the time machine at the end? They intended to go back to 3022 X-Mas to kidnap santa. If you pay attention closely, you'll see that Zoidberg actually moves the lever to go forward through time. They actually went one week forward to kidnap Santa from their upcoming X-Mas. The Bender and Zoidberg we see appearing at the end of the episode are the ones that time traveled in the middle of the episode. The episode was ok, but it seems like Santa gets more and more dumb every time they use him. This time he devolved into saying "mmm cookie?" repeatedly for some reason.
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Yeah that was weird. A lot of the dialogue through this run has been oddly juvenile.
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I think Santa gets stupider every year
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RestingB1tchFace posted:Mostly agree. 1 & 2 were both good. 5 was very good. The other three have been fine. Not good.....but not dreadful like some of the CC episodes were. Feels like each one of these episodes at least had a few good gags or jokes.....which again......is more than I can say for some of the CC episodes. 5 was reasonable, like a low end original run or mid CC run episode. The others have all been poo poo. Still, one decent episode is better than I expected to get! IMDB wise 1,5,6 all have reasonable ratings, the others are extremely low. That said not many people are voting compared to what you'd normally see, I wonder how many people are even watching this? Felt like it came back with barely any fanfare, even Disenchantment got more than this.
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I got some good chuckles out of the episode so in that sense I was happy, though it's still nowhere near the standard of previous years. The Professor declaring he was gonna go alone before pointedly looking at Fry and saying,"So nobody accidentally becomes their own grandfather  " cracked me up. But yeah,"They crave death" was definitely the highlight of the episode.
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Taear posted:Felt like it came back with barely any fanfare, even Disenchantment got more than this. Well Hulu released it during an actor's strike. Can't promote a struck work under the actor's strike. So all they got is putting out teasers on the homepage or maybe some lovely news articles on the ad news sites and hope for word of mouth. But word of mouth doesn't work if they made a bunch of poo poo episodes.
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Split second of Disenchantment when in the time machine. Episode sucked just because of that.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Split second of Disenchantment when in the time machine. Episode sucked just because of that. I actually liked that little detail, even if I don't care for the show.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Split second of Disenchantment when in the time machine. Episode sucked just because of that. In the future or the past?
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PostNouveau posted:In the future or the past? I think it was in the future.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Well Hulu released it during an actor's strike. Can't promote a struck work under the actor's strike. So all they got is putting out teasers on the homepage or maybe some lovely news articles on the ad news sites and hope for word of mouth. But word of mouth doesn't work if they made a bunch of poo poo episodes. It's on Disney+ here in the real world Doesn't even have a banner! Okay that episode was dogshit. For one we've had robot santa die already and I don't really think we need to return to that. And if his plan was "go back and alter robot santa" wouldn't that have changed all of history pretty markedly for them all? Normally futurama is good on stuff like that. I hope it was a deliberate joke of "I have to go back and do it because he'll be prepared if i do it in the present" then showing Zoidberg/Bender just regularly beat him up with literally no problem at all Taear fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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