Season 6 was good and reminded me of classic Simpsons. Season 7 is lame and mostly rehashed sitcoms.
In the most recent episode they want to write a family sit com so they pull out Farnworths having parents in a Home (or sorry virtual home, just add future words to things). They are of course Jewish living in a stereotypical comedy old folks home. His Mother is even voiced by Estelle Harris of Seinfield fame. They escape and "live it up" by doing physical things with their ancient bodies and it turns out Farnsworth hates them and runs off to New York and blah blah blah.
This felt like a bad 90s family sit com script that got walked on and finally picked up a decade late. Nothing about the future was used except for a few puns.
After 14 years — and seven seasons — of missions, the Planet Express crew is about to make its final delivery (again) with the news that Matt Groening’s Futurama ends Sept. 4 after an improbable run of 140 episodes.
Comedy Central has decided not to renew the animated science fiction comedy, which the network resurrected after Fox cancelled it in 2003.
“If this is indeed the end of Futurama, it’s a fantastic finish to a good, long run,” show co-creator and executive producer David X. Cohen said in a statement accompanying Comedy Central’s announcement.
The maybe-possibly-final season launches June 19, with guest stars for the run including George Takei, Adam West, Burt Ward and none other than Dan Castellaneta, who you might know as the voice of Homer Simpson.
At least we can rest easy, knowing that those asinine morons will themselves be fired for incompetence.
Honestly, I'm not too upset. The Comedy Central seasons have been decent, and have had a couple of standout episodes, but in general haven't captured the magic of the original four seasons, or even the DVD movies. I'm glad they got the second (third?) run, and I'm sorry to see them go, but I'm not mad about them being cancelled before their time like I was the first time around.
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I agree, a lot of the last season was just recycled 90s sitcom scripts with "In space" or "Bot" added to them to sound Futurama like. I would rather it be canceled than suffer through another 90s 'fat black women' stereotype robot shouting urban slang at us, to sound hip like the cool kats. Cause that's what black women/bots do right?
This is it. Tonight is the last we'll ever see or hear of Futurama ever again forever. I have laughed, I have cried and sometimes I have cried from laughing. I will probably miss these guys all over again for a while and then after some more time I'll go "Oh, I remember that!" And then chuckle and be a little sad until a funny picture of a cat distracts me.
That reminds me of my favorite joke. A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, "I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead." Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.
"Leela: Look, I'm going down to Vergon 6 to save those animals whether you like it or not.
Zapp Brannigan: Go ahead. I won't stop you.
Leela: Threaten all you-- Wait. What?
Zapp Brannigan: We both know you won't make it halfway to Vergon 6 before the craving sets in. Then you'll come crawling back for another taste of sweet, sweet candy... bam!"
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thoughts… well at least it wasn't crap.
"Man we sure used to try harder back then." - Leila
Ok the reason for Fry falling off the skyscraper was lazy and contrived, but the conversation played out over Fries multiple bloodsplosion death was funny.
ETA: I thought I would add, while I've been harsh to Futurama recently, it also contains some of my favorite absurdist Sci-fi on TV.
I was going to ask how Happy Madison productions was still around given all the pathetic dreck they shovel and then I discovered most of their films have actually made a profit.
Of course, since Fry was a delivery boy in New York City Springfield.
It's important to keep continuity afterall.
(Which is totally why in the new Simpsons credits the bullies saw off the statue head instead of beating up bart after he sawed off the head...) it's the little details that keeps fans watching.
New eps of Futurama started dropping on Hulu last night. I haven't seen the first one, but bey sent me a screenshot with like 20 visual gags. My cup runneth over.
Watched the first couple Hulu Futurama episodes. Not bad but a little bit self-conscious; maybe just to re-establish itself with the fans. It's not a bad thing, and there are some good gags revisited/revived. I'm hoping that it got a lot of the self-referential nostalgia out of the way in the first episodes.
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