Futurama - THE RETURN?

xoxox

Thanks to Channel Ten, I've ended up rewatching a lot of my Futurama box sets in recent weeks...

HERE'S GREAT NEWS!
Here's the official word on Futurama!!
David X. phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project
is a done deal! Here's the word from DX--- There are 4 DVD movies that we'll start recording at the end of July or
August.Full feature length FUTURAMA movies.
Everybody is excited to get back together--as I am!
Into the Future,

holy shit, i never knew the Asian Jackee girlfriend from Bad Santa also did Amy's voice

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/CitizenGatsby/bender_alcool.jpg

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/697/697339p1.html

No New Futurama
Voice actor misinformed about show's return.
by Eric Goldman

March 21, 2006 - In a move that has to be a big disappointment to Futurama fans, voice actor Billy West has recanted his earlier statement that the animated series would be returning with new episodes. On his website West apologized, explaining that he'd been misinformed and that 26 new episodes of the show will not be produced as he'd previously announced.

West added that there is still hope for a Futurama DVD project of some kind, as had been rumored before.

The science fiction oriented Futurama ran from 1999 to 2003 on Fox, and was created by Simpsons mastermind Matt Groening. West voiced the lead character Fry. Though it never matched the success of The Simpsons, the show continues to have a very loyal following. We'll be sure to keep you updated on any new word of further Futurama projects.

HRAYYY!!!!

awww....

HRAYYY!!!!

awww....

HRAYYY!!!!

OH EIGHT OH EIGHT OH EIGHT

You know you're a nerd when you start reckognizing his voice in those "additional voices" roles.

*Roswell That Ends Well (Fry "did do the nasty in the pasty")
*The Why Of Fry (these two essentially function as a two-parter)
*The Farnsworth Paradox
*the one where Fry finds his dog and Leela almost rips all her clothes off
*The Series Has Landed (CRUSHINATOR)
*Parasites Lots (also kind of a two-part when watched in conjunction with...)
*The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (Dan Castellaneta as the Robot Devil, so good)
*Crimes of the Hot
*the one where Bender drifts through space and meets God
*the one where Zap Branagan battles the NEUTRAL MENACE

I'm sure I'm forgetting some crucial ones.

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/28/comic-con-futurama-panel-report/

"Futurama is back, and now we know in what form. The show will return on November 27th as a full-length high-def film sold on DVD. It will be followed by three additional films, and each film will be divided into four episodes each to be aired on Comedy Central."

Watch me explode with happy.

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

well done.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender/index.html

Building your own beer-brewing Bender, with electronic brain and remote control.

good god

Futurama.Benders.Big.Score.XViD.DVDRiP-ANiVCD

That file is coming to a creative zen to an av cable to a tv near me today!

YAY,

I went to the premiere last week at the Cinedome. I liked it quite a bit - but bear in mind that the movie is four episodes of the new series put together into a story arc so the pacing seems kinda off when you watch them all in a row. There's LOTS of references to past episodes and just about every minor character makes an appearance. The downside: just about every minor character makes an appearance, so no one really gets much screentime (MORBO DEMANDS MORE DIALOG) and a few are throwaways for the fans.

It made me cry! Was also v. funny, but also kind of annoying in parts. But I cried at the end.

haha, al gore is in this.

barbados slim is the star of this

I better avoid this for now for spoilers, heh. Torrented it the other day and am yet to watch: I WILL BE BUYING THIS MIND YOU because I want to support the show, but it isnt available in Aus yet.

The ex didnt like it at all, but I've realised I dont think he was thinking in terms like Chris mentions above; that this is part of a larger story, and I imagine "Benders Big Score" is going to be a lot of exposition.

I might watch it tonight :D

This is really fucking funny! The close-up on Bender when he's all "this is confusing...and I bet it's going to get MORE confusing" thing was great.

I hate how much of a sucker I am for the Fry/Leela almost-romance stuff. I hate it.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-12/ff_futurama

It dragged. The pacing is all wrong.

Don't forget you're not meant to watch the whole thing like a movie! Its like 3 or 4 episodes.

episode of Everyone Loves Hypnotoad = ultraclassic

Agreed.

OMG I watched the episode "The Sting" from the last season and I fucking cried at the end. Like hard. And it was so psychotic and hellish before, kind of like my worst nightmare.

It is the one where Fry takes a bee sting for Leela and dies.

That episode is amazing.

"You could use a shower" = killer last line

does anything happen during the hypnotoad episode? spoilers please.

Haha no.

It's the most uneventful 30 minutes of television ever.

The Sting makes me cry too Ab :( Like the bit where Fry says "I just thought if you heard a familiar voice it might keep your mind together, but I'm not sure it got through" and she says "it got through". Awww.

Everyone Loves Hypnotoad reminded me too much of being at work

Which bit, the noise or the toad? =)

the entire experience. it was almost exactly like what I'm doing right now. if hypnotoad looked a little bit more like an insipid crystal reports pie chart and the millenium falcon takeoff loop sounded a little bit more like a gargantuan meat-packing-plant-grade air conditioning system it would be exactly like my job just without the keyboard in front of me.

Man. Now I *really* don't wanna get a job :(

The boy cried over "The Sting"...he thought Fry was really dead! Then he made fun of me later for crying when Fry choked on the candy heart "U take my breath away" in the 2001 spoof episode.

When's the next DVD coming out? Must be soon...

I thought it was around this time? But I'm not 100% sure.

I'm in 2 minds about Bender's Big Score (which I now have on DVD in a nifty box that has a headache inducing holographic 3d picture on the front). The paradox/time travel storyline is really REALLY convoluted, and while I enjoyed the overall story, some things felt clunky. The songs felt *especially* clunky, was Chris Tyng having an off month? They really didn't flow at all.

So Bender's Big Score is getting its first airing on Comedy Central tonight, if Wikipedia is to be believed? I know when they first announced the movies, they claimed they were going to add additional stuff to the broadcast versions, so it'll be interesting to see if that's true. I also thought parts of the first DVD were clunky, but I wonder if seeing them in episodic format will help with that.

the next DVD, The Beast with a Billion Backs, is out June 24. liked the first one, but then I'm not a huge Futurama fan so I didn't hold it to a particularly high standard.

Yeah I fear my fandom worked against me a little in my expectations, even though I kept that in mind while watching it. I tried to remember how I felt when I first watched OG Futurama (I actually disliked it, if you can believe that).

Anything that uses "30 Century Man" and includes Charles De Gaulle in just so the "Shakin' hands with Charles De Gaulle" line makes sense is FANTASTIC and anyone that disagrees with me is clearly crazy.

Saw Bender's Big Score tonight for the first time, I can't say I was disappointed at all. A million shoutouts to longtime fans, fun and super convoluted time travel plot, trademark bits of sad angles, what more could I ask for?

The songs were really oddly included, I will admit, and the Lars twist was fairly predictable, but hey! Still feeling the love.

SPOILERS

Yeah the Lars thing was very obvious, but thats ok by me really. It was a nice twist that sort of let Fry and Leela get together without that actually happening.

Ah shit stupid not-CR-obeying board.

Hey, I just found out they apparently extended the episodes a bit (while cutting stuff off the beginning) for the Comedy Central broadcast. Can anyone fill me in on what was added, out of curiosity?

Bender's voice interviewed @ BBC

dvd commentary is hilarious, did we cover that already?

Oh man, how have I forgotten to listen to the commentary yet?! They always do such fucking awesome ones. DiMaggio is always gold.

Who's in it?

damn you, european release delay :-/

Geeez, it's even out in Aus, the hell!?

Shit, I haven't listened to the commentary track! Good thing it's raining today!

I wasn't so crazy about Bender's Big Score either. pretty much agree with Trayce on that one.

trailer of the next movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDHgRGtOY0

http://i25.tinypic.com/289btrt.jpg

lol "gentacles"

I hope its better than the last one! :/

oh look who's picky about jokes all of a sudden

Err... huh? (I've been critical of the new-release movies all along, wtf is in yr pants Tom?)

it was joeks, nm

qed

(j/k)

xpost!

Sorry, it came across as a "lol you of all ppl with your shit excelsioritis shut the hell up". I've had no sleep and I'm not in a good mood, just ignore me.

There there.

HAHAHAH I see what you did there ;D

Am currently acquiring the new DVD from my cousin Don Load...

This new movie was just terrible.

And I liked the last one!

I'm 25 minutes in and I'm really enjoying it. And I didn't like the last one!

I'm hearing very mixed comments already. Some fans hate it, some like it, I don't hold out much hope now :(

Oh Kif, it's like a movie with this happening in it!

I'm watching this right now!

hha, you may now eat the snake!

wel come i'm the pickled head of ste ven haw king in a way cool rocket

MATZO FEVER

this is funny

How are you watching this? It sez it's not coming out for two weeks on Amazon/Netflix?

Leaked to the torrents a couple of days ago.

picked it up this weekend, then fell asleep on it after a particularly massive dinner + long day of errands. It has a really slow wind-up during the middle, standing all the dominos up in a line, but the payoff at the end is pretty worth it. Bender's Game looks like it'll be awesome

Leela, I can't help but notice that you're unescorted. Can I escort you behind that bush for the next five minutes.

haha I didn't notice that the "five minutes" bit was a running gag!

Best gag - aside from the "Bender's son" scene - has to be the "Horse Repair" shop Bender wanders into.

Or pinning the suicide note to Zoidberg.

Or "MY LEG FEELS FUNNY."

Colleen, I think we should take this to the next step. Will you be moved in with by me?

NIXON: [about the Moon] nothing up there but dry rocks and those revolting onion men!

I can't remember anything except a blinding light and a searing ass-pain.

> Bender's Game

ha ha, just got this (as in understood rather than acquired). funny.

I enjoyed this latest one much more than Bender's Big Score.
It was funnier and felt like they'd gotten the tone of the show back.

wow this was bad

huh, did you the beast with a thousand backs yet? (or was it million). Pretty damn funny

that's what I'm referring to.

pacing just seemed all wrong it just sorta meandered around aimlessly, the monster-from-another-universe/heaven/genticles thing just kinda went nowhere (what kind of tension were they hoping to create with a villain who just wants to love everybody? Also David Cross bugged).

also no hynotoad

it improves on a repeat viewing.

at least there was lots of Nixon

Too much Kif, not enough Brannigan. Oh, and a stupid alien.

yeah I think the main problem was that there were basically three or four different stories (Kif and Amy get married, Fry has a new slutty girlfriend, Bender's robot club, and the invading monster) that weren't tied together particularly well. The last one had some pacing problems too, but it was at least held together by all the time-travel paradox nuttiness.

And on top of those stories not tieing up, 2 of them (Kif and Amy, the intergalactic alien) were all a bit meh.

agreed

Some good gags, as ever, though.

And I meant "tying" above!

they aren't really writing these to "tie up" nicely, they're setting up dominos and then knocking them down all at once. Everything happens for a reason so you can get to the "ARMY OF HELL, PREPARE TO BOARD HEAVEN" line, and boom, epilogue.

I thought there was a good overall voice about relationship stuff in the movie that tied up all the loose ends regarding that. The beast thing wasn't incredibly dramatic, which is why it seemed to dabble, but I could sense that there was an incline in drama as the movie approached the end. The whole thing seemed to be written around love issues. But the main thing that was great about the movie was the constant gags with most of them being pretty clever or unique, and basically there was no shortage of funniness, which is what matters most for this film.

i lolled at the league of robots

only just saw 'Bender's Big Score' the other day but loved it even tho the Fry/Lars thing was fairly obvious.

i laughed myself stupid at the newest one. the theme was sort of hokey but man THEY THREW A KOALA OUT A WINDOW! that was some serious neighbour waking lols!

Frozen dim-bulb travels thousands of years into the future - story read and discussed this week on Slugs and Stars

ok - typing it doesn't make it sound all that lolicious. but i laughed really hard all throughout this one. the gag with benders' kid was pretty awesome too.

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Just saw Big Score... amazing how long an 85 min movie can seem. Esp when you watch it w someone trying to convince you you'd need a PhD to get all the jokes

Drunk calling the bartender rules tho

Bender's Game is incredibly hard work. I'm slogging through it 20 minutes at a time.

They do feel really long... it helped a little that I was sort of forced to sit through them in a sitting, watching them on Comedy Central. I think the movies are still pretty entertaining, though.

Bender's Game is the nerdiest Futurama ever. And yes it does kind of drag. Still very very funny though.

Just saw Bender's Game the other day. I think it is my favorite of the 3 new ones.

I'm a sucker for D&D humor.

oh shit I didn't realize bender's game was out

Did they REALLY need to show a Lila/Amy makeout?

Really?

The psych unit scenes were GOLD tho. "CHANGE PLACES!"

yes. it's been a long time coming.
i think it's obvious if they could, they'd just have them fucking for 90 minutes at a time.

xpost!

This was the only one of the movies with Roberto the stabbing robot amirite? He's one of my favorite peripheral characters.

Bender's Game dislike: no Zapp Branigan.

I get the slash deal and all but DID it need to be animated? It was weird.

It was boneriffic.

It hasnt come out here yet ;_; not til Dec 5th! RAR.

You got a .rar file of it?

you nerd

:P

These have gotten steadily worse. The next one will probably be genuinely terrible.

I've heard its not too bad. Actually I didnt mind BWABB (it had more genuine LOLs right from the get-go), but the overall plot was incredibly o_0

What was the deal with that totally gratuitous shower scene in Bender's Game? Was there a joke there I was missing, or was it just a boner jam for the nerds?

The real problem as I see it is they aren't writing them as if they're actual movie length thingies.

On the other hand, great use of Kathy McCarty and Daniel Johnston.

Thats because they aren't meant to be movies, the plan is they're going to be spliced up for TV.

Ch10 in aus started playing Bender's Big Score a couple weeks ago, and the pacing actually works a lot better when you watch it on TV (they also cut out the silly start bit with the "what does this mean for us and our many fans" and all that pointless establishing crap).

I liked the o_O of Beast with a Billion Backs. Bender's Game was mostly just ;_; and '_' which is not preferable.

Ah... I guess I'll see what I think of it... hurry up December.

maybe i'm just old but this show doesn't seem funny at all to me anymore. :(

Just watched Bender's Game. Yeh, a slog. Just really obvious jokes - no more LOTR/Star Wars parodies please!

Been catching some of the first couple of series on Sky 1 recently - it really did used to be fantastically well-written.

I like "Wild Green Yonder" a lot but mainly bcz it had a lot of lol biology joeks so I'm biased.

I think these all wld have been better as individual episodes.

I never commented on Bender's Game, which I watched over xmas. I liked it - the D&D/LOTR parody worked fine for me, but it might help that I'm not a roleplayer or Tolkien fan? I agree with what someone upthread said about the gratuitous shower scene, wtf "oh yeah excuse to show Amy's naked butt" or wtf ever.

I didnt think WGY was ouy yet!

Out, even.

Liked WGY a lot but am slightly prejudiced because Donbot and Clamps were in it. Great way to end the show too.

I like WGY best out of the four, too, despite not having near enough Zoiberg.

clamps or clamplike objects

wild green yonder! what a great ending. and hermes calling out his wife for her poor quips.

Jebus I have got to watch WYG again. I was smashed when I watched it and it made no damn sense, heh.

this show was terrible

challops

If s/he means the 4 long-form eps then I'm with her/him.

yeah they weren't great, all over the place weren't they.

The point where the fanboy shit over-tipped the snappy gags, for me. But at the same time too crappily inconsistent to even really satisfy the fanboys.

Making them into films as well as episodes they could show individually was a really bad idea.

The extended storylines were a bad idea even if they'd only ever been made as normal length episodes. I feel like there's a rule of thumb for all sitcoms that once you get to the "hey! here's a multi-episode story" stage then you've stopped bringing lulz and started doing fanfic.

Good news everybody! An inside source has revealed exclusively to Collider that “Futurama” has been given a 13 episode order by Comedy Central. Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that “Futurama” production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward.

This should be a welcome surprise to fans of the show who have already gone through the series’ cancellation and resurrection as direct-to-DVD movies.

Look for official word in the very near future. Though animation has a big lead time, I would guess on some kind of “Futurama” presence at Comic Con next month.

i'm going to hope that beign constrained to 30 minute episodes means they won't be left to flail like the movies. but they'll probably suck in a nu-simpsons way.

Sense of cautious optimism rising.

i've only seen two of the movies but they were pretty great

Variety reports it's been picked up for 26 new episodes.

sweet!

I only saw the first two movies also, but definitely happy about this.

Good news EVERYBODY? WRITAR IS NOT TROO FAN
SHUN
SHUUUNNN

But yeah, this could be good if they stick to episode length.

As I said on a Futurama comm, I wont be happy if this means the show sinks into Simpsons/Family Guy mediocrity as a result of this... but I'll remain cautiously optomistic of no complosions!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ibdf529f18374f6c965f140dbc42e7419

...20th TV is proceeding with auditioning new actors after failing to reach an agreement with the original voice cast: John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Tress MacNeille and Katey Sagal.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I actually think I would decline to watch Futurama with different voice actors, not because I wouldn't enjoy it okay, but out of a noble desire not to subject people around me to thirty minutes of me going "no, it just doesn't seem like the same character with that voice, it's all wrong"

Surely they will find a way to have them

GREAT NEWS, EVERYBODY

Good news, everyone!

I still find it funny that the dude that voices Bender is also the lead character on Gears of War...

yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

holy shit 'upcoming feature film'! like, in THEATERS!?!?!?!?!?

Oh wow I hope it's as good as The Simpsons Movie.

I can't help but say "Good news everyone!"

New episodes of the resurrected animation favorite "Futurama" will return to Comedy Central in June.

Comedy Central sources confirm to HitFix that Thursday, June 24 at 10:00 p.m. is currently set to be the premiere of the first new half-hour episode of "Futurama"since 2003.

Okay, still hoping this is a lot better than the shtoopid fanfic movie-lengths.

I really really really want to believe these will be better than the movies, because it's only 23 minutes or whatever. I mean, limits are good for these guys. I hope.

Yeah, 23 minutes = good sitcoms, stray outside of that and you're usually fucked

yeah that movies were so clearly stretched out/stitched together they really didn't work too well for the most part

Did they ever resolve the actor disputes?

They did yeah, as far as I'm aware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT9XfMriVIE

tentatively looking 4ward 2 it

weak teaser

yeah in terms of punny comeback announcements, I prefer "what does this mean for us and our many fans?"

but i'm still stoked about the show returning, i found something to like in all of the movies even if they weren't collectively as strong as the old show.

I hated that "many fans" joke it was terrible!

i generally don't like meta-moments in shows, and I found the whole "Box Network" analogy kind of tortured and nudge-y. but then they were like "fuck this coy shit just throw in some fans" and i was mollified.

New Futurama starts this week on Comedy Central.

I haven't been this happy since double soup Tuesday at the orphanarium!

a reason to keep on keepin' on, i agree! (or to at least not cancel the cable subscription.)

I have to rely on torrentz for now, as it just wont be on tv here at all for a long while. Oh well.

Ahem.

Might be worth searching those torrentz now, two days before broadcast. Just saying.

Are these eps made of dissected & reassembled parts of the DVD movies?

no...they've been airing the movies on CC for a while, these are new new half hour eps.

Is it any good? Don't have cable right now :(

I liked the first one. Thought the second episode would be on next week so I didn't watch it yet. Turns out it was shown straight after the first one.

First one was pretty good, as good as the best episodes in the DTVs. Second episode was a little better than okay. Still, I'll take as many pretty good and okay Futurama episodes as they have to offer!

http://www.free-tv-video-online.info/internet/futurama/season_6.html

Spammy site that needs ClickToFlash to be watchable, but works.

Just saw the first ep., about to start the second!

first: good; second: ok.
anyways, yay!

guess my opinion is the opposite of everyone else's cuz I thought the first one basically sucked and the second one was lots funnier/back on track (Nixon's "bb's at Bebe Rebozo" joke cracked me up but I am like that)

I def. liked the first a lot better than the second, especially because I guessed in about 5 seconds that (SPOILER) they were on Earth. Although the whole series of jokes with Zapp and Leela in the little spaceship were great, and Amy's "So the orgy's off?" was A+++.

damn sometimes i wish i didn't read so fast. By the time I register SPOILER i'm already two sentences down.

I'm so glad these are actually funny.

ok apparently im gonna have to avoid this thread for a bit so jokes arent ruined in advance til I see this.

The animation seems a little more low-budget. Not a dealbreaker, though.

From what I recall, they had to cut corners to get all the original voice talent back.

Happy that this is back, but doubly happy it's on during the Summer when there's nothing else on television but Last Comic Standing.

Wld way way rather have original writers (or at least many of) & original voice talent + shoddier animation, than same or better quality animation & shittier everything else.

I enjoyed the first ep - not vintage, but perfectly decent. Not unusually, Farnsworth had all the best lines.

The animation seems a little more low-budget.

Yeah, but kind of charmingly, I thought.

The show is so much RUDER this time around! I was a bit worried this would happen. I loved it, but it fucking better not degenerate into Family Guy toilet humour.

I mean "V-GINY" was a really silly childish joke, but I did laff.

I need to rewatch them though. I was quite drunk, and I think I wasnt paying it enough attention.

'need to rewatch' lol you'll end up watching em 500000 times anyways!

Hahaha dohhh, I'm so predictable ;_;

that's why we love you!

Awww <3

(I said that in zoidbergs voice in my head, GO ME)

Does anyone like Hermes? Easily the weakest major character IMO.

wkiw hermes

I love Hermes.

When push comes to shove you've got to do what you love
even if it's not a good idea.

Easily the most racist character IMO.

"don't be a dog heart, woman" still makes me giggle

The business between Hermes and his wife in the last of the DVD movies, where she kept trying to use his "Sweet X of Y" phrases and he kept belittling her attempts, was A+ material. "Sweet she-cattle of Seattle!" "Not your strong suit, woman!"

Hermes is great when they use him properly as the world's most easygoing heartless bureaucrat. And the sheer unreasoning hatred he has for Zoidberg is always good for a quick laugh.

(Also classic: the phrase "rage dump," which has entered my day-to-day vocabulary and refuses to leave.)

See now, I got into a lot of trouble for using that phrase recently.

Which movie did Fry and Leela hook up?

End of the last one.

You got in trouble for "rage dump"?

not trouble per se, people kind of focused on it as if it were a construction similar to "hate fuck", ie a really angry bowel movement

which, you must admit, is hilarious

I srsly didnt even PARSE it that way until you bastards did ;_;

Yr right though, it was pretty funny.

This episode was a bit of a dud, though it still had some good lines ("I unsubscribed yesterday..."). Did they secretly hit the reset button on the Fry and Leela relationship?

You talking tonights? Argh better stop looking at thread again shit

NOTE PPL: we dont get the shows in Aus. We have to wait and torrent them pls try not to spoil for a few days :(

Yeah, the plotwas very "meh," but the jokes were A+. I loled at the infosquito.

laughed once at that episode ('turned a regular board into a diving board'). really weak. not quite as unfunny as the simpsons apple episode, but getting there.

trayce: just don't read the thread between broadcast date and torrenting it. it's how every other show thread works.

trayce: shows become available on the internet generally within half an hour of being broadcast in the US.

Oh I know, but for various reasons (I work at an ISP and get free internet from 'em) I prefer not to touch torrents. I get someone else to do them for me so I have to wait a bit, all good.

That Susan Boil/Boyle gag was fucking sub par :/

This is ALL (all seasons + movies) on Netflix Watch Instantly now!

that puking goat thing had me lol'ing pretty hard. i know it was dumb - but lols nonetheless.

It was a bit much for my taste - esp when the other end got brought into it hahaa. Amy saying "ew, he SNEEZED in it!" was funny though =)

So ... POSSIBLE SPOILER?

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does anyone else think pt 2 of this ep (first time theyve done a cliffhanger!) will involve Fry's delta brainwave in some way and/or the whle brainspawn concept?

I dunno why, but that crossed my mind (also where was Nibbler? hmmm)

it was a cliffhanger?!

yeah, plus the fact that leela unsubscribed to fry's futuretwitter means they will have 2 unite 2 defeat mom or something

Dy: course it was! Mom set off her zomie army, went muahahah, and then it ended!

ya but leela forgave fry, and usually i assume that's the end of things. everything else is just peripheral.

i was also stoned and doing work at the same time this was on - so maybe things like puking two headed diarrhea goats got my attention more than everything else.

how could they not, really.

I don't think it's a cliffhanger, the punchline was just that the zombie virus makes them go buy the new version of the phone.

Anyway, the "next week on Futurama" ad is all about a Robot Pride Parade, so it doesn't look like a cliffhanger...

Oh, ok. They're just gonna let what Mom did drop and not exist? Thats a bit shit!

I think that's the joke. That the iPhone brainwashes its users to want to buy newer iPhones.

so, episode 4. not too thrilled, personally. A would-be provocative storyline that felt a little, or a lot, underdeveloped, and went for the easy jokes and relied upon sudden reversals of established characters. None of which would matter if the jokes were there, and they kind of weren't. Although-- circusitis. And "the only lies worth believing are the ones in the Bible."

lol @ Trayce thinking the punchline was a cliffhanger

THIS GUY SURE LOVES PORNO

i thought this was the best episode since the premiere

agreed

"shut up and love me" is a great song.

TOTAL NERDGASM. wow. the detail, affection, and sheer nerdery that went into this episode is awe-inspiring. really nothing else on tv like it.

Ooh anotyher new'un. Better be better than last weeks dammit.

It was.

Excellent. I was just bitching to someone a bit earlier that the show didnt feel as nerdysmart as it used to, so anything nerdical i'm all into.

I just got torrented up to the Susan Boyle/Boil episode and was all :rolleyes: about that but the Mac jokes were totes dead-on!

Also: "let's make things interesting!"

lol @ da vinci being the stupidest guy on that planet

I especially liked the first 5 or so minutes

That episode was great!

... until the ending. WTH? "whoops ran out of time oh well smoosh da vinci and lets bugger off home then". LAYZEE.

actually, that felt like a pretty typical Futurama "lesson learned... sorta" wrap-up to me!

i like how Hermes seems to get one great joke per episode now, in this one it was "didn't we used to be a delivery company?"

Hahah yeah that line made me roffle loudly, like that Simpsons one where Carl says "does he even still work here?"

All the groanworthy jokes too, like "Futu-Roma".

I liked the "I'm not really big-boned" joke too.

just caught up with newbs...'proposition infinity' really, really particularly good. 'the only lies worth believing are the ones in the bible'!!!!

Really? I found the whole Bender/Amy thing kind of... I dont know, it bugged me. Where was Kif while this was all going on? How come Bender suddenly got all caught up in the idea of marriage and only at the end, went "oh yeah shit, monogamy!" and fucked off? I mean it had some awesome jokes and funny bits but the plot frustrated me.

That said, this is only in my hyper-critical-expectations way. Still shittin' all over nu-Simpsons.

I've got to say, I've never watched a Futurama episode and been like "Where's Kif? What's he up to while this is happening?"

Well, in this instance it was pretty relevant to the whole plot! What I meant was, sure ok he dumps Amy in a huff, but then he just... disappears? He isnt back going "hey waitaminute, you're screwing BENDER?". I dunno, I pick too many holes in this show, hahaha.

That said, why on earth she liked Kif to start with was always utterly baffling. Amy is not a fav character of mine at all.

She did have one of my favorite lines ever on the show, though: "Sometimes you meet a guy and think he's a pig, but then later on you realize he actually has a really good body."

she's also part of the classic exchange:
"Hey, did that guy just say rings were cool?"
"No, he said they're stupid."
"Cool!"

So what did we think of SPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOILERRRRZ hermes being bender's daddy? Why and when was Hermes in Mexico? Why was the Mexican inspecter the 5th highest ranking? Why was it Bender who made him give it all up? I mean it was a sweet little end and all but it didn't make a lick of sense (and was totally obvious the whole episode that it was him).

Also lol at resolving leela's hiding tree problem by burning all the paperwork instead of sorting it.

That ending was sentimental & kind of out of character for the show. I laughed a lot at the episode, though! That is what I want from Futurama: laugh early, laugh often.

tbh I thought baby Bender was adorable.

Honestly not as good as similar sappy retcon endings the show has done in the past (Fry's brother, Leela's parents) but even saying this feels like a nitpicky complaint - worked well enough, fun episode with an unexpected pairing, like the Amy/Bender episode. But yeah, it doesn't really make a ton of sense, unless you believe previous Bender origins were just completely made up (which tbh would totally be in character, since he's usually the one narrating them), but it does fit a young bureaucrat Hermes who's hasn't completely bought into the system yet. But hey who cares when you get a pile of dead bears? (Planet Express's complete dissolution under Leela's bureaucracy was pretty excellent.)

omg the dear bear pile. and "did someone say howitzer"?

What is weirdest to me is that robots apparently have a neotenous stage?

xp that recurring joke was sooooooo stupid but i kept laughing!

well, there was that Tiny Tim robot

What is weirdest to me is that robots apparently have a neotenous stage?

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lol yeah this is pretty wtf but its not the first time we've seen baby bender is it? there was the fountain of youth episode. still doesn't make a lick of sense.

I dont think the sentimental ending was out of character at all, Abb! Look at the ending of the one where Leela finds her parents, for eg. Very very similar in fact. Not to mention the gorramned dying dog one, wah.

I absolutely loved the killbots "did someone say ____?!!" jokes. It was a bit of a riff on the thing in Bender's Game where they were all gong "what!?" and turning and shooting each other. But "did someone say Howitzer?" was next-level ROFL, in my mind.

I actually teared up a little at the end even though we'd figured the payoff well before it happened.

But I have to say - the way they had to shoehorn the Moms robot factory/inspector thing into Mexico (because of all the previous "hecho en mexico" jokes Bender's had, presumably) was a bit odd, it felt forced.

Haha, I guess I mean the specific way they did this particular sentimental ending – a wordless montage over a twee song – seemed out of character! Maybe because that is the way they end every single episode of House, M.D.

Someone correct me if this is totally off, but is the joke about Hermes being a bureaucrat and a weed smoker a little side acknowledgement that in the future pot is legalized? Because presumably Hermes wouldn't break the law considering his job. (Or possibly it's exactly the opposite and that's the character contradiction?) Someone enlighten me!

Don't think so - during the robosexual marriage episode: "It's time to legalize it!" "We're talking about robosexual marriage." "We're talking about LOTS of things!"

one of my favorite things about futurama is that there are child robots, evil robots (antonio, anyone?), homeless robots, etc. never fails to make me laugh.

i love the stabbity robot. has he shown up in the new season yet?

Roberto! I'm gonna practise mah STABBIN! Ha HA! Ha HA! Whatsa matter Red? You SCARED?

Dave Herman is one of my fave voice actors, and Roberto's prob one of my fave voices that he does (that and Mayor Poopenmayer).

Holy shit Herman also does Scruffy's voice! Thats some range.

oh shit you're right - antonio is the kid robot from the robot soap opera... ROBERTO is the stabbing robot. my bad.

Its interesting about all the robot types tho. In the commentaries someone (David X Cohen maybe?) made the comment "why are there mentally ill or homeless robots to start with? Wouldnt they have to have been built that way?", and the writers were all "hmm yeah... shut up thats why".

I love the dvd commentaries.

I actually teared up a little at the end even though we'd figured the payoff well before it happened.

something abt that song

Yeah who is Elizbeth Mitchell? I'd never heard of her before. Curious song.

ya - it's a very random song for them to grab. she really hasn't done much except for a few children's songs!

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Its interesting about all the robot types tho. In the commentaries someone (David X Cohen maybe?) made the comment "why are there mentally ill or homeless robots to start with? Wouldnt they have to have been built that way?", and the writers were all "hmm yeah... shut up thats why".

One of the few bright spots in Bender's Game... "I was designed by a team of engineers attempting to build an insane robot...BUT IT SEEMS THEY FAILED!"

Elizbeth Mitchell?

if it's the one i'm thinking of, she is a member of rather good group Ida and also writes children's songs. i have not heard the song in question though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6WRiNwujQ

omg, my fave ep so far this season

Yes! It had the biggest happys and biggest sads of this whole season.

And (without being TOO spoilery since it just aired) I loved how the really authentic emotional stuff itself gets undercut by the **second go around when they miss their stop the first time.** If that makes sense -- just perfectly executed imo.

Yeah I am hearing a LOT of praise for this ep - and last week's was excellent enough. Can't wait.

this one was pretty great. the song made me crack up.

Extremely LOL line from Zack Handlen at The Onion AV Club: "There aren't many series that could show you the heat death of the universe without blinking, of that short list, I think Futurama has the edge over According To Jim."

Also, I real-life LOLed over, "Just slow down, I'll shoot Hitler out the window."

^ i think i woke up my neighbour i laughed so hard!

The fake Zaeger & Evens song had me in tears!

Oh god that episode was so back to form I dont even!!! The song was magnificent. The time traevel. the hitler-shooting thing. The... oh should I spoil it now?

Abb: was that a specific song parody? Who is zaeger and evans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2525

Oh shit! Hahaha I had no idea.

Then the song effectively "starts over" with the first verse again and then fades out, leaving open the possibility that "we went through this before," and life is now at the start of another cycle.

OK they totally wrote the ep around this song, right?

It appears so, but I hadn't thought about it before now.

Not entirely perhaps, but yeah it certainly structured it.

The convenient bit of the new TT machine appearing, and dropping onto the existing crew and killing them "Oh well, that takes care of the time travel paradox!" was pure Simpsons level "fix the plot", but I didn't care :)

I lolled really hard at "Dumblocks," too.

xp It also made for a nice gag at the end with Bender burying the bodies beneath the bridge Leela and Fry were standing on.

Hahah yeah I spotted that, it was weird/sweet.

Overall, this is def the best episode of the new series without question, and is even easily up there with some of the classic OG eps in my opinion.

imo they are hitting their stride

agreed, also started actually feeling grateful that the show is back again, lol

Graffiti on my road:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f223/joegood/Image0318.jpg

Dunno if the drawing's supposed to be Fry, doesn't look much like him.

its not fry, its hanover fiste. close enough imo.

The horse says... DOCTORATE DENIED

Wondering if this week can possibly best last. Guess I'll find out in a few days.

Three words: Bender, window, fire.

lol remember when this show had third acts?

Hey that last ep (not the most recent one, the cat one) had an ad bumper! I'd not realised they havent done one in so long. <3

a what?

The bones thing! The ad at the start.

ie similar to Glagnars Human Rinds, Molton Boron, Thompsons Teeth, etc.

This week's mind-changing episode was superb
I liked the cat one too but this week's episode had so much great physical humor

All the grossness from years of Zoidberg rounded up and consolidated into 30 beautiful minutes. But there was so much more.

Just watched this off the DVR. Great episode! I think my favorite bit was Fry's quickly-dashed pleasure at the thought of Leela being in Amy's body. That and the Japanese guy at the UN.

Only just caught last weeks. Love Fry yelling "this is a cool way to diiiieeeeeeeeeeee" as he's yoinked off by the robot dinobird.

ok that was the funniest thing ever and i've now stopped worrying about them cocking up the return.

this last episode was beautiful. Bender's idea of how human seduction works. Fry and Leela attempting to gross each other out. The tragic love of Washbucket and Scruffy. pure glee.

omg. "Washbucket and Scruffy".

would watch that movie.

I think Scruffy is my favorite character.

"scruffy's gon' die the way he lived"

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/22/futurama-writer-devises-and-proves-math-theorem-to-save-the-pr/

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Sure, you could prove as-of-yet-unsolved mathematical problems (why hello there, P≠NP), but where's the entertainment value for the rest of us? Cue Futurama staff writer Ken Keeler, who used his PhD in "Math Blasters (in N Dimensions)" to create and verify a theorem that served as the crux of the plot for the recent Prisoner of Benda episode, wherein minds and bodies can only be switched in one direction and order must eventually be restored. Thus we are at a crossroads, dear reader: you can either brush up on your Group Theory and related permutations and expressions... or alternatively, just take a chill and enjoy a hilarious moment in science fiction. Next up, let's explore the ramifications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle being disproven when a peanut butter sandwich fell into the large hadron collider, and by some stroke of luck scientists were able to simultaneously determine its momentum, position, and crunchiness.

The short of it: what just looked like scribble in the background is actually legit.

mind=blown

David X. Cohen and Ken Keller are amazing to listen to on the Futurama commentaries. The number of jokes they've slipped in that only math majors would get is amazing. See also: http://mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/

I am so pleased the extreme nerdery isnt being toned down (I was worried, initially).

my fav is bender and flexo reading off their serial numbers and laughing to the confusion of every1, then matter-of-factly, "we're both expressible as the sum of two cubes!" "WOO!"

^^^ YES

"LRRR DEMANDS THE COMFORT OF POP-PSYCHOLOGICAL PLATITUDES!"

Argh I still havent see this ep yet and I so want to - I love Lrr and Ndndnd!

Shocked that it took this long for Devo to guest star

Play Whip It!

No. Play the other one.

The Lrr one is A+.

NSFW image linkified

Oh gross.

oh thanks canktroversial mod edit, i'm at work ffs

TamTam is canktroversial mod edit?

sb

Way to blow it, Schlafsack.

lol surely everyone knew by now.

Can someone blow away that pic? Yuck.

lol i genuinely didn't know thats who tamtam was either. delayed wb canks

genuinely sorry dude, I didn't know it was a secret

OK the mod edit is cracking me up.

it was? i mean he posted in some other topic like "lol look at my old posts"

anyway, i think the new season of Futurama just hit Netfix instant streaming for those who were waiting

I got the DVD from amazon a while back, I mean I'd seen the whole season already but nice to have on DVD. Was very disappointed in the Xmas Special though. Load of lazy old-xmas-episode memes strung together with limp songs.

But "the Late Phillip J Fry" is one of the most amazing things the writers have ever done. So fantastic.

OK the mod edit is cracking me up.

ahahahahahahaha i just saw it, brilliant

calm down

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good news everyone - http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/03/its_official_futurama_renewed.html

New season starts tonight. Official site has been doing some great, great countdown stuff for the last couple of weeks, and io9 today takes a look at their 10 best episodes. Hard to argue with their list, although I'd find a way to get "The Farnsworth Parabox" on there.

yay they included Late Phillip J. Fry -- good for them acknowledging that new episodes can be good!

these old claws just don't flee like they used to. whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop

<3 Zoidberg!

"Heh, heh. Instead of 'Claus,' he writes 'Claws.' Now that's humorous! Today's comedians could learn from this card."

yay they included Late Phillip J. Fry

Think this is actually my favorite ep overall.

the gender one suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.

the bender one was funny doe.

"hey, I know that guy" lulz

jurassic bark was my favourite, how emo am i?

Yeah the gender one was on some old school sitcom men-be-like-this women-be-like-this dull ancient humor. The whole episode should've been about everyone with no genitals or switched genitals. LOL @ Lady Professor!

Although I did like the "In the event we go into a time warp, do not kill your parents. If you have small children with you, help them to first not kill you before you avoid killing your own parents."

The Bender one was great. Some great geek humor in there.

I wasn't too impressed with the first three new futurams although each one topped the previous one. And that is definitely true about the fourth new futurama. 'Law & Oracle' ranks up there with all the better classic episodes.

Tron chase k-lassic

"The show looks so cute kids will love it and it looks so cruddy their ironic hipster parents will 'love' it."

"Don't hug me! I did a horrible thing!"

So, I've only seen the first two new ones so far and man, they stunk. And this is ME saying this. The gender one had the laziest jokes.

And and AND. Somewhere in one of those 2 eps Fry made a Kardashians joke. WHAT. He wouldnt know about the effing Kardashians, they happened after he was frozen. Unless we're meant to believe they ended up teaching Kardashaianism in history classes or something.

I've dloaded a couple more... I remain hopeful.... *sniffs*.

it gets better! the gender one is definitely one of the all time worst

They do get better, but I also have bad news: He made a Lady Gaga joke in the most recent.

aaaaaaargh

Same people who put Homer in a grunge band fyi

the oracle/minority report ep wasn't bad but yeah, def nothing this season nearly as good as the late fry from last season -- of course last season had that terrible cat ep.

Yeah the risk with continuing Futurama was diluting it as happens to any other show that goes on too long - ironic, we all yelled for more shows - but yeah I'm ok with it, its still way more clever than anything the Simpsons have done in 10 years.

ok holy shit the thing that happens to fry in this episode is possibly the funniest bit of meta ~ever~

u lost me

The various syndromes he has, you mean?

yuh

no comments on the finale? I thought it was great!

I could watch 90s japanese style furturama every week.

yeah i like when they play around visually like that, with some cartoon shows it's just kind of lame and cutesy but Futurama always goes further w/ the quality of the animation and the conceptual underpinnings

thought the video game section was meh but the steamboat mickey section + saturday morning anime cartoon one were both great!

Still havent caught up with all of this season yet, last one I saw was Moebius Dick (which was pretty good actually, if a bit of a rip of story matter theyve done before)

the last 4 or 5 have been A+ imo.

one where leela makes up the children's show is still MVP of the season imo for at the very least introducing into my life the song:

"if it's alive, don't lick it.
if it's alive, don't lick it.
if you're not sure if it's alive or dead
poke it with a stick and lick the stick instead."

OMG so finally I got S6 on dvd to catch up with all the eps I'd missed on TV... the final "Reincarnation" - which I knew had some awesome 8bit scenes and anime - was SO GODDAMN FUNNY. Havent laughed that hard in a new episode in forever.

Medical Crab!

http://i.imgur.com/xjC0R.jpg

i see leela and amy

fry and bender and hermes, struggling on the rest

also brannigan + kif. zoidberg. last two is, i assume, professor + someone else...

zoidberg i can only tell bc his head is such a zoidberg color orange/pink

yeah, the zoidberg one is only by default, it doesn't feel zoidbergy

i'm guessing the one right next to hermes is hermes' wife, bc i can't figure it out otherwise. professor is pretty bland too...

hang on, let's number

1. Fry
2. Bender
3. Leela
4. Amy
5. Zoidberg
6. ?
7. Hermes
8. ?
9. Brannigan?
10. Kif?

8 maybe Farnsworth

6 = Scruffy???

Nobody ever remembers old Scruffy. The janitor.

http://www.veryicon.com/icon/png/Movie%20%26%20TV/Futurama%20Vol.%201/Scruffy.png

lol xp

"Prison's not so bad. You can make sangria in the terlet. Course, it's shank or be shanked."

aw y'all got there before I could

some of them significantly better than others

yeah it's weird amy and leela sorta popped out as characters

amirite guys?

Tomorrow night, wheeeeeeeee!

my life can always use some new futurama episodes in it

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brilliant

lol!
Havent caught any of the new season yet, must get my hands on the eps.

It's very up-and-down so far, although the most recent episode is extremely Bender-centric and thus hilarious. (And contains the line, "At least he died knowing I was great.")

really enjoyed the first three thus far.

worst season

yeah, there was nothing as bad as the gender one last season but no out and out classics either, i might've stopped watching if it hadn't been summer

ya. still enjoyable and funny often enough, but regularly too cringily meta or geek-specific, and few of the plots were up to much. and even the ones that were ended up a bit tonally weird or seemingly truncated (e.g. bender's free will).

ive only seen abt 4 eps of this season but I was a little disappointed. Too much pop culture.

And yeah nothing'll top that gender ep for crapness, that one was so beneath their usual output.

It pains me to say it, but the Billy West/John Di Maggio episode of the Nerdist podcast was better than this entire season.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/potentially-notsogood-news-everyone-futurama-has-b,96803/

for the best probably, show was definitely running out of gas though i do think futurama 2.0 had enough peak episodes to justify it. hopefully this last batch will be great.

I'll love its second life forever just for the one throwaway gag in the Robot/gay marriage ep about the law banning the marriages of horses and ghosts, which is all just a set up for the ghost to angrily declare "booooooooo!"

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Though Groening also had the Zen attitude that comes with believing Futurama's final completed chapters are “the best ones we’ve ever done”

lol he keeps saying that about the simpsons so

does he?

iirc

sic will correct me

maybe it's the simpsons long long decline or just that they're not on netflix and so i haven't seen an episode in forever (except for one or two newer ones, eg i saw the portlandia one), and haven't seen a peak one in over ten years probably or maybe it's cuz futurama was never a huge phenomenon but i think i might have more of a sentimental attachment to futurama than to the simpsons.

I think one of my fave gags in the new seasons was when the killbots were chasing Bender and Hermes, and they revisited an earlier gag whereby all the killbots would too easily be set off shooting if they heard "shoot" or "fire" or similar from anyone around.

TO wit one killbot says to the other "well, I don't see how it serv..." and is cut off with the other shouting "DID SOMEONE SAY HOWITZER" and shooting him to pieces. I almost died.

...I may well have touched on that gag upthread I imagine.

they got really gratuitous with the nudity/sex jokes, found it kinda irritating

there were times they did seem to catering to segments of the internet i'd rather not think about

never forgave them for that episode with the dog

Ha. I changed my FB profile pic to that today and got "oh fuck you" as a comment among others :D

By "to that" I mean a pic of seymour lying down sadly.

I can't even think about that episode without getting upset.

Hah. It was co-directed by Steven Spielberg.

That may be like the biggest sucker-punch episode in the history of television.

Jurassic Bark is on now ;_;

Hah. It was co-directed by Steven Spielberg.

I've never heard that before and Wiki doesnt back it up, where'd you hear that?

On the other hand, morbid roffle:

According to the DVD commentary, the original idea for the episode was to have Fry's mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but this idea was scrapped after it was thought to be too upsetting to the audience.

http://i41.tinypic.com/abhy1c.jpg

2-D drag racing episode legit great!

These last few episodes they're running out are worth a look-see.

"we're supposed to have a date at the adults-only pancake house"

"You know who I really hate? That monkey with the hat that we haven't seen in years."

"nature's waterfall. The cliff of the waters".

Just watched the new one with the Omicronians last night. Great! The whole scene at the White House was as good as anything on classic Futurama.

ya just watched the last few and i'm surprised by how fun they've been, certainly didn't expect that after the previous mini-season.

David X. Cohen gives a Reddit AMA (link to Topiama which hides the twits)

If they gave you the option of writing a Futurama spin-off, which minor character's adventures would you choose to follow?
5. By: likeaversion

A: We thought about this quite a bit... the one we almost attempted on several occasions as a "one episode" spinoff was the Zapp & Kif show. That's an example of an episode I always wanted to do that we still didn't get around to, even after the four bonus seasons on Comedy Central. My glorious dream was to do a Star-Trek-style episode where we stayed with Zapp and Kif's mission the entire time, and just have them run into the Planet Express crew in passing at some point. We would have also done a full new version of the opening credits and all. We never quite figured out the story for this one. Also we were nervous that people would get confused and angry, and throw things at the TV. I guess we panicked and chickened out. Now I feel bad.

Q:
What's a storyline that you love that won't see the light of day now that the show was cancelled?
12. By: GopherInWI

A: Josh Weinstein and I had a great idea for an episode involving a character moving (and talking) backward in time. The story was great, but it was exceedingly complicated, and it had one other minor problem -- it wasn't funny at all. Very grave and creepy. We spent three full days talking about it, though. Painful. Often when we get un-cancelled someone gets a new take on one of these half-dead ideas and suddenly it works. We'll see!

Pouring one out for Zapp and Kif show.

LOVE that these final episodes are killing it... "I don't know which I like more... Original, or Type II!"

there's much to be said for an affectionate parody but i loved how brutally unaffectionate the saturday morning cartoon parodies were. the scooby doo one especially.

could deal with a lot less Zapp Offbrandhartman than is already in the show tbh.

the character is funny and billy west does a great job channeling hartman but pretty much every time he pops up for me it's another sad little reminder that phil hartman is gone

I've been real impressed with these last few (the initial "return" episodes were certainly decent but a little spotty)

OMG that Calculon episode was hilarious. So much so I had to go make an img macro.

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that'll be my Cup-a-Soup. It's been microwavin' longer'n I can remember.

that ending :'''(

song sounded like it could be on the new kanye album

well done

"listen to Orange Joe!"

Also omfg at bender TAPDANCING ON A DEAD LITTLE GIRLS CORPSE.

ha, yes. that, fry being reduced to a pile of bloody viscera, and a few other moments, this season wasn't afraid to go daaaaark.

the last episode was nice, I AM SATISFIED.

Saw the final ep last night and I also am satisfied. It could go on if they wanted to restart it, but it left nothing hanging. That's a pretty damn skilful bit of writing.

Not directly related. But perfect.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_circus/2014/02/07/zoich_sochi_olympics_2014_meet_the_futurama_themed_faux_viral_sochi_mascot.html

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"Staring into the hypnotic, loyal eyes of this weird furry toy, we were conquered by its magnetic inner strength."

mixed feelings about this

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/04/simpsons-futurama-simpsorama-crossover/

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i'm kinda floored by how good the last season of this show was. they were firing on all cylinders by the last 3-4 episodes especially. very last episode ranks as one of the best series finales i've ever seen.

I still need to see these. I can't remember what kept me from watching the last season, but I got distracted.

Yeah they ended the show beautifully - wrapped up neatly, appease the fanbase, yet leave it open for follow up if required.

The last few were indeed great - Bender tapdancing on a 5 year old girls corpse was just 0_0

Ooh good, they're waiting for me on Netflix.

"Wow. Whatever just happened really makes you think."

New season on Hulu indistinguishable from early seasons.

"Uh, I'll go dispose of this medical waste... with a little butter and lemon"

And now, rereturning

https://gizmodo.com/futurama-season-13-release-date-streaming-2000632133

So, this Hulu season has been frankly unimpressive to me. The main reason being, they've pulled a "self-references are the best jokes!" schtick over and over every episode! Instead of a batch of new stories and/or gags, we've had:
- Bender is once again a Giant Robot (ffs they even reused the "falls down dead against a building" animation from 30% Iron Giant or whatever it was called)
- world is getting too hot, rehash the giant ice cube joke, somehow completely forget they'd alredy fixed this issue by moving the planet further from the sun?
- Robot mafia made the same "the entire robot mafia" joke
- science vs religion
- bunch of the same gags involving the pizza aliens

The only one I found completely refreshing and unique was the brakes-off "this is gonna be ALL MATHS NO EXPLANATIONS numbers episode. That one was something quite different!