How can it have so little cultural relevance despite running for so long
it permanently psyopped people into doing impressions of Billy West's Nixon voice instead of what Nixon actually sounded like
>>217643494As much as I love Futurama, most of the jokes are just pop culture references transmuted through a futuristic lens.
Because only the FOX run was actually good.The CC seasons were mediocre and the Hulu seasons were fucking putrid
>>217643494When you do things right, people won't be sure if you've done anything at all.
>>217643494It had four great seasons, an extremely long gap between revival where most people moved on, and then like 7 forgettable seasons.
>>217643532nailed itIt's not a bad formula, but it's still a formula, and that tends to make it feel a bit predictable and stale. It's still a fun show but it's not a timeless classic like early Simpsons was
Only the first few seasons were actually memorable and also their pretty damn dated to the late 90s/early 2000s like the episode where they explore the Internet and it still has a Windows 98 layout despite taking place in the year 3000
>>217643514Just like how most JFK impressions are Mayor Quimby impressions
>>217643628They also set up celebrities who were irrelevant by 2008 as being household names in the 31st century.
>>217643581>>217643599It was still way more consistent than The Simpsons
>in early 2000s show could have a race of super-smart negro basketball players as recurring characters>some chuckled, nobody mindedit was a different time
>>217643628The Napster episode is the worst. No zoomer would have any idea what it was about.
>>217643494It's the stomp clap hey of tv shows
>>217643714It’s worse how Hermes suddenly became a main character for the Hulu seasons, when he was a two dimensional side character in the original run. They should have just made a new black character and kept Hermes in the background.
>>217643494It unironically insists upon itself. I say this as a fan
>>217643494It was always mid, hence being cancelled so many times.
>>217643784What? Hermes was always more than just a background character, but I do agree him being on Fry, Leela, or Benders level is weird
>>217643707Simpsons had 8-9 seasons where it was better than anything else on television and those shows are still so good they influenced virtually all animation and are still fondly remembered today.Futurama wouldn't exist without the Simpsons and has maybe half as many good episodes as the Simpsons even if a majority of the Simpsons is mediocre and close to unwatchable.
>>217643784I swear there was a clause the WGA inserted that minority characters need to be represented more in tv shows now. Like even the King of the Hill reboot has a black character part of their gang now
>>217643494they're finally here but in the woods for some reason
>>217643578I still think about this episode all the time. This specific quote stays with me a lot though. Honestly, in today's world, it's a pretty depressing quote the way I read it. It's something like "do a good job for the satisfaction of doing a good job but no one will give a shit or even notice."
>>217643494Because it reflected pop culture rather than create its own part of pop culture. Its a vulture picking over the bones of other tv shows that hit the zietgiest over 25 years ago, because Fry himself can't directly reference anything that happened after Fry got frozen as its not part of his lived experience. Sure they get round this by having another character say something like "Oh you know that historic event 1000 years ago..." Or having Obama or Trump appear in the Presidential section in the head museum, but Fry won't really make much of it.As such, the show is only really relevant to people who grew up in the 80s and 90s now.
>>217643826You just wake up from a coma or something?
The original run has tonnes of stuff people quote to this day>Oh you're serious? Let me laugh even harder>Hookers and blackjack>What the hell is Kwanza?No one cares about any of the later stuff, because it's all so mediocre and forgettable.
>>217643879
>>217643866Didnt this thing not work so they just said fuck it and strangled the person inside?
>>217643714It's a Scooby Doo reference.
>>217643494thats not the shitsons though
To shreds you say...
>>217643532That’s the later seasons though and pretty much all of the new one. The first 4/5 are genuinely great.
season 1-4 = timeless kinomovies and everything else after = shit
>>217643826American Dad toward the end of its Fox run promoted Principal Lewis to major character. Even giving him several A plots a season.
>>217643514>I guess you could say they were using "listening devices"...you might even say they were using "hearing devices"...AND wigs.
>>217643910stop asking questionsplease proceed to your nearest canadian healthcare provider for immediate euthanasia
>>217643716who gives a shit what zoom cooms think?
>>217643494How would you describe this then
>>217643494I didn't like a single character. Tried to get into it. It was meh.Can't even think of a single line of dialogue. There was nothing meme worthy.
>>217644336Oh, that's why that happened? I thought they realized the character is hilarious and versatile. I still laugh about the note to get Steve out of math class starting with "Dear Math Bitch,".
>>217644584Apparently OP since he's asking about the current relevance of the show.
It peaks with Zapp Brannigan episodes and fun sci-fi concept episodes but drops hard outside of these
>>217644654>good news everyone
>>217644751>There was nothing meme worthy This is objectively incorrect whether you like the show or not
>>217644654OP is a faggot. Anon wins by snu snu.
>>217644751>>217644946This is the reason I can't really watch it. I just hate all of the characters. I find them more annoying than funny down to the last one. The only exception is Zapp who was literally written for the late Phil Hartman. Even if some of the humor is funny it's just ruined by this obnoxious cast for me.
>>217645011>I just hate all of the charactersCome to think of it, out of the main castFry is a typical lazy-and/or-stupid-but-well-meaning-everyday-man characterLeela is stuck-up, organized, hard-working and empathetic to misfortune of othersBender is a psychopath asshole, but not in a smart House MD way, just in a rude "haha you're dumb" way (which is fine but gets tiring much quicker)Zoidberg is cowardly and poor I guess?The rest is kinda just there.
>>217643494Because it sucks
>>217643494There are 22 year olds walking around who weren't even born when the last good episode of Futurama aired. Nobody cared when it was brought back because it was terrible, and the early seasons are endless pop culture references that nobody under 35 will get. It didn't have much else going for it like The Simpsons did. The entire emotional core of the show relied on the Fry/Leela romance that they teased for so long that people stopped caring. Every other character is one-note comic relief.
>>217645161Don't forget Bureaucrat Man but with unexpected accent or Smart Girl but drawn Asian.
>>217643784>"Lethal Inspection" is the sixth episode in the sixth season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 94th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on July 22, 2010. In the episode Bender learns that he suffers from a terminal manufacturing defect, effectively rendering him mortal. Bender must cope with his newfound mortality and enlists Hermes Conrad's help to track down the mysterious quality inspector, Inspector No. 5, whom he blames for allowing him to enter the world only to die.Retard.
>>217645266>Amy is smart and not a ditzy rich kidNow I know you haven’t watched the show.
>>217645530fuck I am literally the virgin scientist. farnsworth was even a sniff chad
>>217643494>cultural relevanceis this the new buzzphrase? like "media literacy"?
>>217643494Still can't believe suicide booths aren't a thing.
>>217646671
>>217643939You're just too young to recognize the pop culture references in the early seasons.
>>217646720Looks comfy
>>217646671You obviously are not familiar with the Canadian medical scene.
>>217645552She's a doctorate student and the professors intern you retard
>>217643494
>>217644336Lewis is pretty funny, I think of him as Coach from Left 4 Dead before the apocalypse
>>217643716Even boomers have forgotten the controversy over Dubya's $300 stimulus checks that one episode with Tricky Dick Fun Bucks was riffing on. It was a big deal for a few months and then 9/11 happened.
You're not gonna like it but it was proto-reddit.
>>217647688You have to go through the hassle of making a doctors appointment and waiting for approval in CanadaIt's not like Futurama in which you just put $0.25 in a phone booth
>>217643716Not as bad as the susan boyle episode. I assume you blocked that one from your memory. I don't blame you.
Shut up and take my money
>>217643784Exporing the secondary planet express was always bound to happen, if that crazy cat lady or the fat trucker guy got their own episodes it would be odd
You're supposed to stop at the first run
>>217643494It only had a couple of really strong seasons more than 25 years ago that have aged horribly. Entire episodes are inaccessible to people born after 1999, imagine watching Lucy Lu bot without knowing who the fuck Lucy Lu is. Shows come and go no matter how big they were. Have you ever watched Happy Days or Bonanza? They were some of the biggest shows of their eras that are totally forgotten now. Hell even most millenials don't know what Xena is even though it was at one point the most popular show on the PLANET.
>>217649748Do zoomers appreciate classical music?https://youtu.be/C52MXbkhepQ
>I rewatched and fell asleep so many times to this show that it's actually unwatchable. I know every episode and joke.I think a lack of strong storylines or memorable themes hold it back. Like Anon said>>217643532This is the truth. I still think it's a really fun show and there are some great gems during it's run but it's pretty dated with the references.
>>217643514Me.
>>217649782If classical music contained lyrics about a silly adventure requiring you to know who the Duke of Piedmont and Djion were I bet a lot less people would listen to it, yeah.
>>217648020Yep.>>217643494I know people hate this term but it plain didn’t age well.People talk about 1-4, but there are tons of stinkers there, just look at season two, a bunch of nibbler episodes , the first old old New York epicode, zoldberg falls in love, AOL/internet epicode Paula shore episode
>>217649782They do but only for the Tiktoks and to shit on other music genres for views.>Le born in the wrong generation but commoditized>Like every other hobby they've ruined.
>>217643494The original run is ok but every subsequent revival just makes it worse and worse by trying to be more and more topical and Simpsons-esque, according to the writers the suits at Fox strong-armed them a lot to avoid making the show too weird or stupid and they hated them for it but ironically this seems to have caused the original run to be almost as legendarily good as a tv show can get, and ever since CC and Hulu gave them more freedom they just keep making stupider episodes like the one in which Bender's ass runs away or the 20 episodes we now have of Fry doing random shit like making tiktoks or binging tv shows.
>>217649748I think the Lucy Liu episode still works because it is not about Lucy Liu, it's about piracy and sex robots, all the viewer needs to know is that Fry downloaded a celeb into a robot to fuck her, it could be Lindsay Lohan or Scarlett Johansson or Sidney Sweeney, the episode would still be the same.Compare that to the fucking eyePhone episode that is specifically tied to the early 2010s 99% of the time.
>>217650087would it work if you replaced lucy with Seth McFarlane? ;-)
>>217650110No because nobody wants to fuck Seth McFarlane, but that's why you look for a current overrated celeb who is being presented by the media as the hottest bitch ever to play the role of the fuckbot.
>>217643494I agree. There's a handful of memorable Futurama scenes, but like 9999x more memorable Simpsons scenes.
>>217643514I can't think of Nixon's voice without hearing "sock it to me?"
>>217646720when can we order one in the usa?
>>217643716Any zoomer who used to pirate shit off their parents computer knew what that episode was about though In fact that episode probably unintentionally aged the best considering the rise of deepfakes/AI generated porn
>>217643494I'm pretty sure there are many pop culture references to Futurama. At least several which says a lot more than most television shows. Seasons 2 through 4 were great. 1 was good. >>217643693I'm pretty sure everyone would be star struck if they saw Lucy Liu again. She's timeless.
>>217643494Family Guy.It got upstaged by Family Guy.
First four seasons futurama is great but it will always be little brother to first nine season simpsons.
>>217650087>I'll always remember you, Fry->MEMORY DELETEDStill gets a smirk.
>>217650503>You should write a book, Fry. More people need to know about CAN EAT MORE
WE'RE WHALERS ON THE MOONWE CARRY A HARPOONBUT THERE AIN'T NO WHALES SO WE TELL TALL TALES AND WE SING OUR WHALIN' TUNE
the original run might be the best animated TV series ever made. They fucked up big time by trying to wring it out
>>217650664I keep this one in my pocket for when my wife is prattling on about something I didn't ask to hear about. It's the only thing that gets through
>>217643514>and it doesn't say what KIND of candy...
>>217643514>roooooobot hooooooouse
>>217643494>Simpsons gets destroyed by terrible writing and every episode being celebrity cameos>Matt *friends with Epstein* Groaning makes a new series set far into the future>surely there will be no celeb cameos>there are celeb cameos every single episode with the cringe head in the jar bit>half the episodes are about some celebrity who wasn't even relevant when the episode came outfucking retards
>>217651952Psychotic stunted retard.
>>217651963Dilate Mattstein
>>217651975Poor pathetic little obsessed virgin retard. Epstein Epstein Epstein. You'll never be free, lmao
>217652708Actually kill yourself you disgusting pedophile
>>217644444>10 hours and 19 miniutes ago>not one anon has checked those quints
>>217647742Is this the thread where we pretend >shut up and take my money>my own x with blackjack, and hookers>Death by snu-snuAnd so on just aren't a thing? I have seen more references to snu snu in the past 5 years than any specific jokes from, say, The Simpsons.
>>217644444I hope anon sees his digits eventually got checked
>>217643716No zoomer would have any idea who Lucy Lu was.That being said, it was the sexbot episode so maybe it'll swing back to being relevant soon.
>>217643532Futurama did it better than most though.Most of the reference jokes are ones that either work even if you don’t get the reference directly, or will go over your head and not drag the pace down.
>grunka-lunka-dunkity-d'armedguards>SHUT THE HELL UPPops into my head every now and then.
>>217649723Cat lady episode would be lame but trucker guy episode could have been fun
>>217649748Happy days really only started losing relevance in the last decade or so
>>217643494It sucked 99% of the time. Never warranted being brought back from cancellation over and over again. The only funny stuff was Zapp Brannigan as a star trek parody. And no, the show's few good emotional moments didn't make up for a comedy show not being funny.
>>217653594>tell them I hate them
>"Guess I'll do what I always do when I run out of booze.">[breaks down weeping]
>>217643494They just don't make 'em like they used to. Futurama was always my favorite Adult Swim toon low-key and the fact it has maintained its stance of flying mostly under the radar for 20+ years is a sign that it has aged nicely, regardless of how little "cultural impact" it has had.
>>217650802kek
>>217643716The electro gonorrhea joke from that episode lives rent free in my mind.
Lots of quotes from the show became popular memes in the 2000s what are you talking about?
>>217655054Futurama was a better show when it was being a drama/romance, than a comedy. The coma episode, Fry's dog, its been a decade+ since i watched an episode so its all blurry now, but it had its moments.The only exception being the oompa loompa and Death By Snoo Snoo episodes, those were hysterical.
>>217643714I dunno, an advanced civilisation of negros that revolves around basketball is funny in the same way that wakanda having mud hut skyscrapers and laser spears is funny
>>217656650But Black Panther isn't a comedy
WARNING THE ENEMA YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENJOY IS EXTREMELY HOT
>>217643578
>No cultural relevance....>Not a single post of pic rel ITTYou're all poorly engineered fascimiles.
I still quote Zapp Brannigan.
Everyone seem to dislike the new seasons, but what about the movies? Were they any good?
>>217643494not sure how to articulate this, but this was a show for a genre of nerd that has pretty much gone extinct.
>>217657326
>>217657406>insightful quip>exhales strongly out of nostrils and then snorts on the in breath
>>217643534It ended with the movies.
>>217643714>all it takes for some fat fucking /pol/troon mangirl atrocity to flip their shit is showing some niggerThis is so boring.
>>217644530That didn't happen in Canada. You've got your red hat on a bit too tight.
>>217643532Which dates them horribly making them and unwatchable. The best ones are the episode that aren't "It's current trend we're poking fun at" which was the early seasons on FOX.
>>217650286Amazing he actually say that on Laugh In.
>>217644444checked
>>217657326First one is genuinely good. Second one meh. Last two are pretty bad
>>217643922Actually they just had a cartoon of them as super heroes
>>217647581Their tagline: Dying never looked so luxurious
>>217657406aka millennial redditors who heckin love basedence and also get the now dated pop culture references in the show
>>217657525They're dated when they come out. They did a NFT episode half a decade after NFTs were a thing
>>217657872And the season before they did physical bitcoin mining.
>>217643532Not really, pretty much the only episode out of the original run that tries to tackle [current topic] was the napster bad episode that every fucking cartoon in the early 2000s was mandated to have. And they still twisted it enough to make it funny.
>futurama writers trying to stretch "hermes is a really efficient filing clerk" jokes into a full episode
>I know, today I will demoralize people by setting the bots to fill out a thread shitposting Futuramagreat
>>217657326They're useful for letting you know you don't need to bother with any of the post-revival stuff, but if you've already seen some of that there's no point.
>>217657872Brutally dated, yeah. Was really offputting every time they brought the show back.
>>217644654>One of these three people got their pelvis broken... But in the best way possible.
>>217649701That episode completely killed any interest I had in nu-Futurama. It was embarrassing
>>217644654I really need to make an emergency fund so that if I ever get terminally ill then I can choose to die that way
>>217643578I still think about this ep meanwhile i saw it wren i was 12
>>217658774I've been on 4chan for longer than a decade and suddenly in the past few months everyone is negative about everything, even fucking Futurama. I suspect this is another attempt at killing off the user base
>>217658774There's nothing more reprehensible than faggots like you calling any opinion that hurts your feelings "bots". Pathological garbage. If you really thought you were surrounded by machines you wouldn't be passive-aggressively crying about them to no one in the middle of the thread.>>217659167Futurama is bad after its first few seasons. It always has been, and even as far as good episodes go it's nowhere near as fondly remembered as some of its peers. This isn't a shocking new development.
>>217653620I remember how on the early internet Fonzie was a meme and people would reference him a lot. Haven't seen a single instance in the last 10 years. The old guard must've ripped.
>>217643581Seven? I never even knew it had one after it got cancelled, thought there was just three specials that were about as funny as a heart attack
>>217659234You are naive if you think 4chan isn't 30% bot posts>Futurama is bad after its first few seasonsEveryone knows, but people are now claiming ALL of it is bad and dismissing it as dated because it had the audacity to reference things.
>>217659313>i-it's bot posts!It isn't. You're a fucking retard for even suggesting it because no one here shitting on your favorite show is a machine, so you're clearly detached from reality and nothing you say can be taken seriously.
>>217659245The old internet nerds are either dead or hidden away in paid forums. Not the same but people still do the Fonzie "ayyyyy" and smack things to make them work
>>217659343My sweet winter child, you are so sweet and stupid
>>217659313>>217659167I've noticed it but it could just be called getting old and not caring about all the shitflinging people like to do now. yesterday there were two star wars threads that were about 5% star wars discussion and 95% people talking about politics. if anything it's a good excuse to not spend so much time here and do something else that's actually fun.
>>217659378>makes utterly retarded batshit insane delusional claim>now tries to play "above it all" with "ooh sweatie"-tier shit.Yeah, this is the kind of person you are. Delusional, broken moron swatting at "bot".
>>217657490I am NOT fat
came in to post that in my age group (late 30s) it is absolutely culturally relevant and still a good show, even if quality is inconsistentthat being said, it's understandable if younger people don't like it, in its prime, it was a product of 2000s attitudes toward the future
Nigga wat? Some of the greatest internet memes still used today came from Futurama
>>217659418My child please stop or you will get the rod again
>>217659484Let's see, there's "snu snu", okay that's good, aaaand...hmis "bite my shiny metal ass" something you wanted to go with? are we doing that one?
>>217644336That was purely because fans loved him. Then they ran it into the ground and eventually dialed his usage back because fans got sick of him. A lot of side characters on AD go through these boom and bust periods for some reason.
>>217643494Because the relevance it has has already been distilled into culture and now standardized. Futurama started the overeducated modern writer bit, but the catch is that they were actually educated.nunlike the modern crop of writers in Hollywood the staff held degrees in hard sciences and actual interest in subjects during the era where hobbies took effort and not a search and spending time in the community taught you to be part of it. This lead to the current crop of culture we have that is obsessed with references and more esoteric bits of scifact dribbled in shows. The catch is that modern writers are not actually intelligent and lack the wherewithal to write something intelligent and interesting.
>>217659530
>>217659530Another one
>>217659530I always liked the Calculon episodes which don't seem to be getting much attention
>lol sitting around watching recordings of 20th century shows and commercials on an old tube TV>how silly is that like lmao who would ever do something like that?
>>217659530Again
>>217659527Have you learned not to glibly say incredibly stupid, mentally ill things on the internet yet? Or do you need to be stripped down as the schizophrenic you are some more? Or do you just want to retreat after saying something as stupid as you did?
>>217659530Don't know if troll or underage zoomer
The fact that this show only ran for 72 episodes originally and yet twenty years later they're still hauling its corpse out for godawful revivals that nobody likes is proof enough of how much cultural relevance it has
>>217659530Here
>>217659662OP was baiting for responses
>>217659671are you just pulling anything that comes out of a google "futurama meme" search now
>>217659698
trying to make leela fry's "one true love" was the dumbest move this show ever pulledactually it was part of a long pattern of constantly trying to recapture the "glurge" glory of their hachiko ripoff episodethat one was a hit so they felt every season needed some kind of ridiculous forced pathos like they were trying to squeeze the last drop of emotion out of a dishrag
>>217659698No shit sherlock, that's the point the memes are still relevant, tell me this wasn't used a thousand times on all social media and 4chan alike
>>217643514even Nixon in COD:BO does the "Aroo!" thing
>>217659770what is that even supposed to be?
>>217659790A decade old video game. Are you 10 years old?
>>217659736>that one was a hit so they felt every season needed some kind of ridiculous forced pathos like they were trying to squeeze the last drop of emotion out of a dishragarguably that might've been production issues, in later seasons many times they were re-continued for just 1 or 2 seasons so they wanted to make a proper "end episode"
>>217659809Not COD you fucking retard. Why the fuck would Nixon say "aroo". Why was that supposed to be "a thing".
>>217658579That episode is top-tier though
>>217659831You seem confused and belligerent
>>217659861you are technically correct. the best type of correct
>>217659862>can't answer the questionSo this is just "lol so ranDumbxd" humor?
>>217659831Billy West said that as a kid he saw an interview with Nixon where Nixon looked like a werewolf and it freaked him out. The image stuck with him so he randomly gave Nixon that affectation when he voiced him
>>217659886Bro just kill yourself. Just end it. Do a flip while you do it
>>217643494millennials wouldn't know who nixon was without iti'm a milennial from the uk and i learned about him and the watergate thanks to futurama
>Snu snu and the reaction images from it>shut up and take my money>this thing is bad and you should feel bad>fry's dogThose are the big ones that get around
>>217644336lewis is goated the accidental announcement episode still makes me crack up
>>217657406I completely know what you mean. I was for genuine nerds that predated the big bang theory nerdification of pop culture in general.
>>217659942Bender's "NEAT" still gets posted once a while
>>217659932I'm a bong as well and find it very odd that's the thing you chose to mention out of all the things in Futurama. Nixon has about as much relevance to us as that monkey film with Robbie Williams was to the burgers
>>217643494Bender became a pretty big thing for a while. hes definitely the breakout character from the initial run of futurama
>>217650299the pro life right hates these things with a passion, so probably never
>>217659988he's a very big character in futurama, robot nixon etc. he has a lot of episodes where he is featured. he's probably one of the most common side characters. i know his mannerisms purely through futurama.he would otherwise be irrelevant to me if not for this show.
>>217659919Yup, predictable. Can't even answer the question and lashes out fantasizing about violence. Are you the psychopath who thinks he's surrounded by "bots"? y/n
>>217660044aye as a character he's funny and I guess it is a bit of a history lesson I just find it a bit odd that's the thing you've focused on lol
>>217660003yeah like slimer in ghostbusters
>>217660065it was the first thing in my mind when i tried to consider what cultural impact futurama had on me, that other things might not have had.
>>217650664Literally how ChatGPT praises users
>>217657406>>217659947The "Hot Topic nerd" that gradually morphed into what is now just best called a "Redditor". It's casual lip service to vague "Science!" things that entered their news cycle that they can point like the leo meme and say they know that and pat each other on the backs when it's dropped.
>>217660076fair enuff pal
>>217660095ken its hard for others to ken what a mean, eh
>>217660086It's an Eliza joke. That's literally how Eliza "talked".
>>217643494Original Run Futurama has plenty of lasting impact in pop culture. Comedy Central and Hulu Futurama are just throwaway content trash that proves that enough people doomstream Futurama to make it worth it to give Phil Lamar, Lauren Tom and Katey Segal work.
First season was pretty rough, and everything after Fox was bad. When airing It had the 6:30pm central death slot causing it to constantly start halfway into the episode or not even aired because a NFL game ran long. Really the only reason it's popular is due to Adult Swim.
>>217660111they probs cannae understand but i only put me accent on if i wanna make me sen look ard n make the burgers mardy
Its a show for nerds by nerds and as such is more niche than Simpsons.>>217643578My good chum
>>217643866>>217646720
I consider the amazonian episode as being singlehandedly responsible for at least half of the western world's musclefags
>>217660240I was listening to a podcast not that long ago where there was a physicist on the panel talking about how he was called up by Matt Groening for science advice cos they wanted to keep the show as plausible as possible. I think the only thing they said was that the science can't interfere with the comedy so obviously that meant things like FTL had to be possible. Was interesting.
the Anthology of Interest episodes are kino, 10/10 all of them
>>217643494cause a lot of its joke are very date because they would just reference topical (at the time) shit like napster
Why does it feel like every cartoon is obligated to do an episode spoofing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
>>217643578I don't understand what other people think this line is supposed to mean. Do you actually consider that a GOOD thing for God to say, as filtered through coastal sensibilities?
>>217660428I never liked that episode because I was a limewire chad and new better
>>217643494>with blackjack, and hookers
>>217660484strangely the simpsons is the only fox cartoon to not do that. futurama, family guy and american dad all did
Who was better, the Professor or Zap Brannigan?
>>217660537
>>217643494as a kid I used to put on a futurama dvd and fall asleep listening to the commentary tracks. shit was comfy. it's a shame all those old dvd extras aren't easy to come by
>>217660557To be fair, the Professor had lines like "Tell them I hate them" and his hatred of hippies
>>217660537that meme further up the thread has made me reevaluate myself, I don't want to be a virgin scientist. I want to be a chad farnsworth. that said Zap is also 11/10 funny
>>217660491People dont notice when everything goes to plan because its expected. It was just supposed to come off as profound but still a little silly.
>>217660575I mean, the best thing about being a 30 year old loser like Fry in the anchovies episode is that you can do whatever you want now. you can just go out and buy a CRT and some video tapes again if you want to relive the experience. see >>217659628
>>217643532The post-cancellation seasons are incredibly guilty of this. Remember the Susan Boyle/Twitter/iphone episode?
>>217660537>I had sex. Inform the men.Zapp easily
>>217660686that pic does ring some bells in my head but I think I'm blessed enough to not have the brains to remember it
>>217660428The whole premise of the show is based on the 90s cryonics fad.
>>217660686>epsiode based around close-up's of Leela's hot ass
>>217659546>Futurama started the overeducated modern writer bitThat started in The Simpsons, whose writers were famously Harvard graduates. They even had numerous appearance in the show where they made fun of themselves.
>>217659600Ironically this is from a shitty nu-Futurama episode.
Leela was always the worst character on the show, and most episodes revolving around her suck
the newest season was good. The other hulu seasons were not
>>217659605I like that Calculon is basically the troy mcclure of futurama. the werecar episode is great
It's like Arrested Development. It was cancelled too early but then it got another chance and it sucked. All interest died.
>>217660902I like the first revival season of arrested development. after that though it got very strange and had a terrible ending
did anybody play the video game? iirc it was based on the parallel universe arc with golden bender etc. not sure if it was actually good or not, it could be another one of those things that I remember being cool when really it was shit
The worst season is the first hulu season. The othere are fine at worst
>>217660484The Wizard of Oz too.
>>217660090>It's casual lip service to vague "Science!" things that entered their news cycleI disagree.It very deliberately made the science completely nonsensical to make it clear you weren't supposed to take it seriously.The fact that some people did isn't the show's fault.
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>>217661057>It very deliberately made the science completely nonsensical to make it clear you weren't supposed to take it seriously.same anon that made >>217660387 post. they did actually put a lot of thought into keeping the science grounded in reality just with the caveat that if the science interfered with the comedy, the comedy would take precedent.
>>217660527Cause The Simpsons tries to avoid injecting magic into their universe. That's why I thought the elf jockies was stupid. Sure for a Halloween gag it can work, but their universe now has an actual civilization of elves living underground who work as race jockeys.
>>217643494Futurama is in Fortnite, it's relevant.
>>217650707SHUT THE HELL UP!
>>217661182I heard that Kang and Kodos appeared in a non Halloween episode.
>>217653594Same, it's one of the goofiest lines in the entire show
>>217661293kang and kodos are sci fi, not fantasy magic
>>217660873yes
>>217643494It aired, did what it needed to do and left leaving everyone satisfied. At least it's not being milked like family Guy andThe Simpsons.
>>217661390The simpsons also tries to stay away from having aliens and blatant sci-fi elements.
>>217661937They tried with the later seasons but the core audience rejected it. It isn't sloppy enough for mass appeal like the other Fox stuff
Is "A Fishful of Dollars" the perfect Futurama episode?
>>217644444checked, good joke too
>>217662688fear of a bot planet followed closely by my three suns
