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I just know they're going to do a real cringy rear end-kissing cameo for Elon Musk
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Feb 20, 2022 05:05
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Bootleg Trunks posted:I just know they're going to do a real cringy rear end-kissing cameo for Elon Musk He got a whole episode of the Simpsons a few years back, it's probably somewhere in the lowest point thread.
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Feb 20, 2022 05:10
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I probably won't bother if DiMaggio is out, but the only way the revival remotely works is if the focus shifts to Fry and Leela's married (and possibly family) life. Another round of pop culture and political parody 10 years later would be brutal.
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Feb 21, 2022 06:05
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I want another Robot Devil musical.
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Feb 21, 2022 09:43
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I'm working my way through the series for the first time. Does the order of episodes matter? It seems to be a huge loving mess.
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Feb 21, 2022 09:57
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Elentor posted:I want another Robot Devil musical. You may to need to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. And by devil I mean the Robot Devil, and by metaphorically I mean get your coat.
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Feb 21, 2022 11:06
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Open Source Idiom posted:I'm working my way through the series for the first time. Does the order of episodes matter? It seems to be a huge loving mess. Just watch it in order. The authentic 2000 experience is to watch an episode, then a baseball playoff game, then nothing for two months, then an overtime of a NFL game, then another episode.
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Feb 21, 2022 15:14
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Taear posted:It really feels like the reboot had lost the magic. I understand a few of the writers had left by that point so maybe that's why? But it's trying to do "current events" things and loving them right up I agree. Futurama, imo, is the greatest animated series of all time. The original five (or four depending on whether you go by development) seasons....that is. I'm not even sure if I've seen every CC episode. The movies were a pretty obvious step down in quality....and it just continued from there. Sure....they had some good episodes during the revival....but there were some absolutely atrocious ones too. The whole eyephone/Susan Boyle thing made me wonder what went wrong. The original run had maybe two or three "bad" episodes. The revival was more like every other....which would have been fine....but even the better episodes came nowhere need the quality of the original. That said....I'm sure I'll watch. Maybe the time off will help recapture some of the magic.
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Feb 21, 2022 16:45
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:He got a whole episode of the Simpsons a few years back, it's probably somewhere in the lowest point thread. He shows up in South Park and Rick and Morty too. I'm not sure why because he can't act and isn't funny.
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Feb 23, 2022 00:41
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Even Star Trek gave a gross nod to him listing off big space captains and important space pioneers. You'd think 2016 would've been all media's big "look you loving morons don't glorify any of these loving gifter business dipshits." Watching old media in general it's frightening how often they reference a famous person who you today only know as a sex pest
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Feb 23, 2022 01:03
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RestingB1tchFace posted:The whole eyephone/Susan Boyle thing made me wonder what went wrong. That episode is tattooed onto my brain. me in the Simpsons thread posted:I still remember that moment, when I watched The Italian Bob. It was just a sad, sinking feeling -- just, wrong. I had that feeling when I saw the "Susan" boil episode of Futurama, the feeling of being forced to let go. I swear, every single second of that episode pisses me off. quote:The original run had maybe two or three "bad" episodes. Ooh, I'm curious -- which ones? Off the top of my head, my least favorite originals are Time Keeps on Slipping, Jurassic Bark, and The Honking.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:06
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YeahTubaMike posted:Time Keeps on Slipping No. Stop this.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:08
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stev posted:No. Stop this. First of all, it's been a while -- maybe I'm just remembering the bad parts or something. Second of all, those are least favorite episodes, not necessarily BAD ones.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:13
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I liked the CC run overall but this revival just isn't needed. 
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Feb 23, 2022 01:32
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YeahTubaMike posted:Ooh, I'm curious -- which ones? Off the top of my head, my least favorite originals are Time Keeps on Slipping, Jurassic Bark, and The Honking. The one where Bender pretends to be a woman to compete in the women's olympics has aged poorly. Also "Bender Should Not Be On TV" was pretty bad outside of the all-time Calculon line "That was so terrible it gave me cancer."
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Feb 23, 2022 04:08
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Kif Gets Knocked up a Notch and Where the Buggalo Roam (another episode that hasn't aged well) almost always get a skip from me. The only Kif plot I liked was him abusing Fry in War is the H-Word.
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Feb 23, 2022 04:17
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My Three Suns always felt like a clunky episode to me, but you could write that off as a first season misfire.
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Feb 23, 2022 05:12
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theflyingexecutive posted:Where the Buggalo Roam (another episode that hasn't aged well Yeah I just watched this for the first time and Billy West voicing Amy's dad is just the tip of the iceberg here.
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Feb 23, 2022 08:46
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Bend Her was poo poo at the time too I think on IMDB it's the second lowest rated episode of the good ones (after a Leela Of Her Own)
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Feb 23, 2022 12:40
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Blind Pineapple posted:The one where Bender pretends to be a woman to compete in the women's olympics has aged poorly.  Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah I just watched this for the first time and Billy West voicing Amy's dad is just the tip of the iceberg here. Oh dear god I completely forgot about that  All this discussion is making me YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 15:54
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Yeah, they're 100% either gonna have to say Mr Wong died between seasons, or recast. At least Amy's mom is just Lauren Tom again.
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Feb 23, 2022 16:30
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Blind Pineapple posted:The one where Bender pretends to be a woman to compete in the women's olympics has aged poorly. It was awful at the time, and I wonder how the people who made it view it. The long process of creating an episode means they couldn't have timed it deliberately, but that aired the same year that the Olympics were writing up guidelines for the participation of trans women in the sport.
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Feb 23, 2022 16:34
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I'd forgotten there were two horrible episodes where Bender dressed as a woman for Reasons (and cheap laughs). 'That's Lobstertainment' was the pit of the original run, though. Woo, yeah, let's take a swing at the very hip and contemporary targets of [checks notes] silent movies and Borscht Belt comedians! Also Harold Lloyd was an awesome physical performer and stunt artist, so linking him to a lovely (both in-universe and on screen) and annoying comic was kind of an injustice to anyone who might never have heard of him before. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 16:53
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I always thought the one with the penguins was kinda weak. Really anytime they used those 'wacky' hippies never did anything for me.
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Feb 23, 2022 18:31
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I like Amy as a character, but pretty much everything involving Mars or her parents is bad.
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Feb 23, 2022 18:36
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I guess I'll be contrarian and say I think the soap opera scenes with Calculon in Bend Her are really funny.
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Feb 23, 2022 18:39
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Early on there a few jokes here and there about gender that were merely tedious at the time, the same as all sexist jokes for the era. Not even in an angry or progressive seeking way of today but just the "jesus christ how many unoriginal comedians and writers can write these same exact tired hollow jokes about women/men/relationships." Now they are worse than tedious, but less than outrageous, just kind of pitiful.
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Feb 23, 2022 18:42
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Chairman Capone posted:I guess I'll be contrarian and say I think the soap opera scenes with Calculon in Bend Her are really funny. It's ok, I liked Yo Leela Leela.
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Khanstant posted:Early on there a few jokes here and there about gender that were merely tedious at the time, the same as all sexist jokes for the era. Not even in an angry or progressive seeking way of today but just the "jesus christ how many unoriginal comedians and writers can write these same exact tired hollow jokes about women/men/relationships." Now they are worse than tedious, but less than outrageous, just kind of pitiful.
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Feb 23, 2022 19:35
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Khanstant posted:Early on there a few jokes here and there about gender that were merely tedious at the time, the same as all sexist jokes for the era. Not even in an angry or progressive seeking way of today but just the "jesus christ how many unoriginal comedians and writers can write these same exact tired hollow jokes about women/men/relationships." Now they are worse than tedious, but less than outrageous, just kind of pitiful. Yeah, I feel like every time the show got into the subject of gender, the writers just trotted out the laziest hack cliches imaginable. That one CC revival episode where the crew got genderswapped also comes to mind.
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DaveWoo posted:Yeah, I feel like every time the show got into the subject of gender, the writers just trotted out the laziest hack cliches imaginable. That one CC revival episode where the crew got genderswapped also comes to mind. The funny thing about that episode is watching it in syndication where they edit the hell out of it with stuff like recoloring Leela to make it look like she's wearing a top when they're doing the calendar scenes.
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DaveWoo posted:Yeah, I feel like every time the show got into the subject of gender, the writers just trotted out the laziest hack cliches imaginable. That one CC revival episode where the crew got genderswapped also comes to mind. I guess it's very Gen X/Boomer - just think of what Season 1 of Seinfeld is like
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muscles like this! posted:The funny thing about that episode is watching it in syndication where they edit the hell out of it with stuff like recoloring Leela to make it look like she's wearing a top when they're doing the calendar scenes. I swear I've seen censor bars that move as the professor ... 
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Feb 24, 2022 00:37
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Payndz posted:I'd forgotten there were two horrible episodes where Bender dressed as a woman for Reasons (and cheap laughs). On the flip side though, I liked the bad movie they ended up making. Zoidberg saying "Good MORNING Meester Vice PRESident!!" was a running joke between me and a couple of co-workers for a good while. As was this bit between Calculon and Bender: "And you say you can guarantee me the Oscar?" "Hey, I'll guarantee you anything you want."
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Feb 24, 2022 01:03
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Sydney Bottocks posted:"And you say you can guarantee me the Oscar?" "You said that Oscar was practically on my shelf!" "Now you know why I used the qualifier, 'practically.'"
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All these bad posts saying that totally fine episodes are bad and nobody has mentioned the real worst episode of the original run: The Route of All Evil I don’t think it’s BAD (like how some revival episodes are bad), but Cubert and Dwight can’t carry an episode on their own Also, I rewatched Overclockwise today and it’s a drat good episode. I’m not sure if it was written as a “this could be the series finale” episode but it definitely feels like it.
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OldSenileGuy posted:All these bad posts saying that totally fine episodes are bad and nobody has mentioned the real worst episode of the original run: The Route of All Evil I disagree 
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OldSenileGuy posted:All these bad posts saying that totally fine episodes are bad and nobody has mentioned the real worst episode of the original run: The Route of All Evil Wait what's wrong with it? Other than the idea that americans say it as "rowt"
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Blind Pineapple posted:Also "Bender Should Not Be On TV" was pretty bad outside of the all-time Calculon line "That was so terrible it gave me cancer." I don't mind that episode, has plenty of great lines. Almost all the lines from Calculon. "I...don't know how to describe the type of thing I'm seeing." "That was so bad it gave me cancer!" "I just wish we could see this Bender I keep hearing about...they say he's the best!" Bender's got some: "Have you tried simply turning off the TV...sitting down with your kids...and hitting them?" "Whoever's directing this is a master of suspense!" But yeah, the plotting ain't great, especially because it brings back Cubert and Dwight.
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