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All I could think of with the episode: https://youtu.be/m91RyN9mcuQ?si=Wrlf3KLKBPhZI5UZ
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That was bad and they should feel bad
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Sep 18, 2023 14:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozfGeGYe-lY
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Sep 18, 2023 15:48
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Why are the writers so opposed to using the setting to tell sci-fi stories?
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Sep 18, 2023 15:49
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A couple bits were fine, but I don't understand the glue scenes. They didn't contribute anything. Every time they try this without the what if machine, it sucks. Like, really sucks. Sucks bad.
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Sep 18, 2023 16:46
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Sep 18, 2023 16:54
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The first one's like...a metaphor for what's going on in the A plot, and then the other two are just there? This episode feels like a fever dream, but not the cool type of fever dream. Instead it's a series of half-ideas from the cutting room floor pasted together into something that feels like a stress nightmare.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:34
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What if we tried a what-if episode without the what-if machine? 
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Sep 18, 2023 17:47
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That was dumb as hell but as a result it kind of worked for me. Kind of an anti-episode maybe? Self parody beyond self parody?
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Sep 18, 2023 17:52
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Sardonik posted:That was dumb as hell but as a result it kind of worked for me. Kind of an anti-episode maybe? Self parody beyond self parody? The ending definitely feels like that, as does the entire frame narrative, kinda. It feels like it's poking fun at "generic Futurama plot", where Leela and Fry's relationship is threatened by a shenanigan and then Fry proves his love for her/there's a twist demonstrating why Leela's new love interest actually sucks, but I don't think it does any of that well at all. Mostly because it spends a solid seventeen minutes going "hey, remember Hot Wheels? From childhood?" and parodying the idea of rubber ducks existing.
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Sep 18, 2023 18:24
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That was just loving awful.
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Sep 18, 2023 18:32
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Dongicus posted:Someonr on thr futurama has a cuck fetish becsuse theres been like 50 plotlines abt it that arent just hermes.
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Sep 18, 2023 18:55
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wtf was that. why did they make leela cheat on fry again. and what was that weird egg poo poo. this episode was weird af
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Sep 18, 2023 19:50
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A MIRACLE posted:wtf was that. why did they make leela cheat on fry again Obviously the prince of space was just too good a plotline to throw away
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Sep 18, 2023 20:01
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I feel like I get what they were going for, but I don't get why you'd waste an episode of your twenty episode order, after ten years of being cancelled for this.
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Sep 18, 2023 20:04
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I'm pretty sure what they were going for with the framing "episode" was that it was an ultra shlocky, soap-opera esque version of Futurama and you were watching that and the commercial breaks that go with it, which were another version of the "what if?" machine. Perhaps it should have had an alternate opening sequence than the usual one to better clarify this.
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Sep 18, 2023 20:17
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Very weird episode. On the one hand I didn't find it as painfully unfunny as "Saturday Morning Fun Pit." But on the other hand, they already made that episode and should have learned why that one didn't work. (yes, I know, "should" is one of those fun concepts that doesn't end up applying to real life) This is such a weird season. There have been a couple of good episodes, but the rest have been "What's the hot topic du jour of this week in 2023, when we wrote this episode? Awesome, let's do that but in the year 3023!" And then there's this one. I don't know how anyone could think that this is what anyone wanted.
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Sep 18, 2023 21:42
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Was there a contest in a kids magazine to write a episode of the show or did the ex-Harvard writers take cues from their earlier brethren and take enough hallucinogens to kill small to medium size animals?
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Sep 18, 2023 21:58
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I'm pretty sure what they were going for with the framing "episode" was that it was an ultra shlocky, soap-opera esque version of Futurama and you were watching that and the commercial breaks that go with it, which were another version of the "what if?" machine. Perhaps it should have had an alternate opening sequence than the usual one to better clarify this. Yeah, I honestly kind of liked it, but I had the bar set low by seeing all the reactions in here. I like the idea of there being the hints of a sweeping dramatic story that actually only lasts two minutes because the ad breaks are so long. Could have used some tidying up in parts, but there was nothing in there that felt nearly as terrible as some of the lowest of the Futurama lows. I definitely liked it more than Rage Against the Vaccines.
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Sep 18, 2023 22:36
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"I'm 40% aerodynamic!" "THAT'S NOT AERODYNAMIC ENOUGH!" got a pretty big laugh out of me. Also more turducken humor??
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Sep 18, 2023 22:37
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Yeah, this episode wasn’t bad, but it feels like a reaction to the later-era anthology of interest episodes. Definitely felt more true to the earlier seasons of the show with a lot of the side quipping. Could stand to rely on more sci fi concepts, but eh. 11 more episodes to actually get around to that.
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Sep 18, 2023 23:06
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Nichael posted:Why are the writers so opposed to using the setting to tell sci-fi stories? But Leela was under a science spell, you see it was very scifi after all. The "Round Wheels" episode kinda amused me, but I'm a car enthusiast so I was just amused that Leela's a 911 and Fry's some random rear end wagon (as a wagon-haver). But the actual musical jingles for the commercials themselves were terrible. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Sep 19, 2023 00:10
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"And now, what's left of Futurama!" Hey, they said it, not me. edit: I'm also annoyed that they reused the "mumbo? perhaps. jumbo? perhaps not!" joke from the Werecar episode. angerbot fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Sep 19, 2023 00:46
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In my view, weakest episode of the season. Couple of good individual jokes (40% aerodynamic, and science spell). But it certainly felt like a "what the heck did I watch?" episode, and not in a good way.
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Sep 19, 2023 00:54
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It really felt like they had two scripts, the Prince of Space conflict and the toy anthology but neither one was long enough for a full episode so they just combined them together.
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Sep 19, 2023 01:30
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When you can't think of a joke, it's always best to remind the audience of the time when you were able to come up with jokes and reuse one.
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Sep 19, 2023 02:57
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Man, all the non what-if-machine trilogy episodes have been dire. I guess this one was slightly better than the Christmas and Saturday cartoon episodes, but that's a ground level bar. This felt like an episode designed to have a DVD commentary where the writers tell you that this episode is actually super meta all the supposedly huge fans of the show just don't get it, except DVDs don't exist anymore so they just made the glue scenes extra stupid to hammer the point home. The ending kind of felt like that old meme "Joke's on you, I'm only pretending to be (slur removed)." I will say I'm actually looking forward to next week's episode though. Seems they saved their one actual good sci-fi idea for the end.
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Sep 19, 2023 05:34
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Bite my shiny metal... ah forget it.
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lmfao
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Sep 19, 2023 12:09
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Why was the Cars parody also a The Ring parody?
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Sep 19, 2023 18:07
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Wheels and rings are both round things.
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:Why was the Cars parody also a The Ring parody? Why would Zoidberg be killing random people if his whole goal was to merge all the Planet Express crew
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Taear posted:Why would Zoidberg be killing random people if his whole goal was to merge all the Planet Express crew Covering his tracks 
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Sep 19, 2023 19:47
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For me it felt like they had the hotwheels song And they decided to make an episode around it but couldn't quite manage it
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I kinda liked this one. Maybe because it was the only one so far that didn’t feel like a sequel to a classic episode or maybe my brain is just broken.
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Sep 19, 2023 21:41
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Wow, like others have said it had one or two really silly lines but other than that, nothing about it worked for me. The idea of "these are toy commercials during a soap opera version of Futurama" really needed a reason for Futurama to be a schlocky soap opera because without it, there was no reason for it to be that way. I just kept waiting for the shoe to drop on why the A plot was so over the top ridiculous and it never came. Like imagine if they had pulled back from the final shot and had them gathered around the What If machine and someone said "And that's what it would be like if an AI wrote a show about our life"! Or even if it they just had someone turn to Zoidberg and say "See.. that's why we ever let you use the what if machine!"
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I do not ask what the gently caress was that. I ask why the gently caress was that.
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angerbot posted:"And now, what's left of Futurama!" New thread title.
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Toy episode was a flaming load of garbage, but I did have to laugh at the absurdity of the post-battle image of the duck and egg corpses littering the beach.
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Are we sure that episode wasn't written by AI? Incomprehensible.
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