Okay episode. Amy's line about that obscure underground song that's playing everywhere gave me a good laugh.
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Great episode :D
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The vomit thing annoyed me because it felt like elementary school-level humor.
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I do, but Comedy Central rarely if ever fits my schedule. Heck, I'd probably be more active in the South Park topic if it was on Fox instead of CC.
South Park streams all of its episodes on its official website, with the newest one being streamed several hours after it airs. I don't know if you prefer to watch shows on a television, but that's usually how I watch the show.
As for this week's episde, I liked it. The only thing that bothered me is that the Mom plot really went nowhere. You could have taken out all of her scenes and it wouldn't have had much of an effect on the story. I'd rather they'd gotten rid of the boil plot (and just had Fry do random things to increase his Twits all montage-like) and go with the usual foiling of Mom's plans. Even the boil plot was largely inconsequential since everyone forgot about it, but that probably was the point. Still, it delivered on the funny.
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Good episode.
The second I saw eye phone, and saw how it worked. I lol'd.
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First minutes were great with the garbage and third world planet, the middle part was mediocre with all that iPhone bashing (which i like) and the tube vids (which i didn't like, cause it's common every day life with no grand surprises…) and the end was just gross to a point where i didn't like it anymore.
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Nice episode, not as good as the first but better than the second one.
Loved that EyePhone ^^
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Ending felt totally out of no where. No resolution to the plot at all. Were some good jokes here and there though, but overall mediocre episode.
And it seems official: At the end of the day, Futurama will have ended three times, with Fry and Leela getting together in every finale. THem not being together in Benders Big score was weird but excuseable, but now, after freaking declaring their love for one another it's just nails on chalkboard for me whenever Leela treats Fry like "a good friend".
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The entire ep was a big joke about mindless zombies buying whatever new iphone product comes out, and twitter and such. A bit broad and obvious, but a commentary on what our society is turning into all the same. The sending messages to people across the table from you bit was pretty amusing.
And the Susan Boil joke was… stupid. Its never in 10 years come up, and it never will again. Add in the vomiting goat... and Leela and Fry STILL acting like "just friends"... arrg.
Really the entire episode was overly straightfoward potty humor taking really REALLY obvious puns, not really clever in any way. Infosquito kind of amused me though.
Meh. This episode had a couple cute ideas and jabs in it, but it was pretty low on the totem pole of quality.
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Infosuito is my new favourite animal in Futurama-verse ^^
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The vomit thing annoyed me because it felt like elementary school-level humor.
This is Fry we're talking about here.
@robbybedfart:
The entire ep was a big joke about mindless zombies buying whatever new iphone product comes out, and twitter and such. A bit broad and obvious, but a commentary on what our society is turning into all the same. The sending messages to people across the table from you bit was pretty amusing.
It saddens me how people didn't catch this joke at all. It leaves me to wonder about our future…
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Episode's on. Right now.
What just happened?
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IMO this episode was MUCH funnier than the last one. And it wasn't just because of its theme, the actual humor seemed more along the lines of what I loved in the old Futurama.
The "There is a storm coming" ad that they parodied wasn't really any less stupid than the actual parody. lol God, I remember that stupid ad.
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Great episode :D
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I really loved the end of the eyePhone episode (just saw it for the first time tonight), I was wondering when the credits rolled up where the resolution was and then Mom said the magical words: 2.0, and I cracked up.
The episode tonight was pretty good, but I don't know how memorable it'll be.
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Next week's episode is supposedly the "Emmy shot" of this season.
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Next week's episode is supposedly the "Emmy shot" of this season.
What makes you say that?
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Great episode, I like how Hermes "Circusitis" just came out of nowhere and really nothing to do with anything.
Its kinda like Family Guy gag, only it was actually funny.
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@Badass:
What makes you say that?
That's what the crew called it. I think it was Mauriche LaMarche that worded it like that.
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Is it wrong if this episode turned me on a bit?:<
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Last weeks episode was my favorite so far. A lot of the humor was sharp and spread throughout the show nicely. The plot felt a bit forced, though, professor's love story at the end was kind of stupid, and the ending with Kif was cliché. IT wasn't the best of Futurama by any means, but it was the first 'good' episode in the season, by my opinion.
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@Thousand:
Is it wrong if this episode turned me on a bit?:<
Depends on who turned you on.
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Last weeks episode was my favorite so far. A lot of the humor was sharp and spread throughout the show nicely. The plot felt a bit forced, though, professor's love story at the end was kind of stupid, and the ending with Kif was cliché. IT wasn't the best of Futurama by any means, but it was the first 'good' episode in the season, by my opinion.
That's how I felt about it as well. A good episode that ran out of steam towards the end as it was pretty obvious what would happen based on Bender's basic personaltiy. At this point, it doesn't seem like the writers have any actual ideas for Amy and Kif (and really haven't for a while now), but they seem set on maintaining the status quo for characters as well.
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Wait, everyone liked this episode? I HATED it, and now I'm close to believing Futurama is gonna join the long list of "Shows That Should Have Stayed Cancelled". All the eps have been fairly weak, but this was just plain bad.
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Wait, everyone liked this episode? I HATED it, and now I'm close to believing Futurama is gonna join the long list of "Shows That Should Have Stayed Cancelled". All the eps have been fairly weak, but this was just plain bad.
agreed.
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Easily the worst episode of the season.
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Decent episode, felt like the show should, tho the Davinci Code parody feels really dated. It would have been a much better fit if this episode had been done, oh, six years ago. Some fun quotes in it.
"oops, nibblers dead and mummified." "thats not nibbler, thats davinci's beard!"
"Leela, wanna join the mile deep club? "Sure, why not?"
"I have to draw in pencil because I don't know how to use rendering software!
"Wait. You told me it was an unstoppable ice cream machine!" "Ice cream is just a byproduct!"
"There's always going to be someone smarter than you. so the only way to be happy is to be happy with what you've got!"
"Some doomsday machine, it barely killed anyone!" -
You know…
Nostalgia Glasses are a dangerous element.
New Futurama really doesn't feel that much different than the last batch of eps before they went into Direct to DVD Movies.
The EyePhone episode was still pretty epic :V
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I still actively enjoy episodes from the 5th season. They haven't even warn out their welcome to me. This last episode just… didn't make me laugh... There were just so many stray elements that were thrown around, but it felt like they played them too straight. Animatronio, for example, really didn't do anything but advance the plot. He had one not too subtle self-flagellation reference to mark his time period and that's about it.
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You know…
Nostalgia Glasses are a dangerous element.
New Futurama really doesn't feel that much different than the last batch of eps before they went into Direct to DVD Movies.
The EyePhone episode was still pretty epic :V
Yeah. Thats about my take on it. They haven't hit the highs of the very best 10 or so episodes, but… they've been about on par with normal episodes content wise. The big thing is we've seen the old episodes dozens of times in reruns for a decade, and they've gotten really comfortable and familiar.
Tonight, when the eye phone ep played for the... fourth? time, I liked it better than I did the first (tho the vomit humor is still not my thing) cause I had a better feel for where the episode was going and what they were doing and caught some little things I missed before. Its still packed with LOTS of little jokes and character moments, some of which go by the first time you see it. And, when it was marathoned in between four other episodes? It felt completely in place and like it belonged.
(Though movies 2 and 3 were really uneven... theyre actually better on tv with breaks and commercials and blatant cliffhangers... for some odd reason. It changes the pacing.)
Largely its that these episodes have the expectation and weight of newness on them. If you found them all released enmasse as a "lost" season that had taken place between 3 and 4, the average opinion would be "oh, these lost episodes are great! Why didn't they air on television?"
If I have any one major complaint is that it feels like they HAVE been storing up ideas for the last several years. Stuff like Davinchi code or Iphone aps have been around for a while now, it feels like dated parody, even though its new.
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You know…
Nostalgia Glasses are a dangerous element.
New Futurama really doesn't feel that much different than the last batch of eps before they went into Direct to DVD Movies.
The EyePhone episode was still pretty epic :V
I knew there was a reason I thought you were cool…!
Also, figured this would be worth mentioning: there's going to be an episode later in the season that focuses on Clamps, from the Robot Mafia. That should be interesting, to say the least.
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I knew there was a reason I thought you were cool…!
Lmao thanks.
Seriously thou, it just puzzles me when people claim to like something that they "lost" and when it comes back they SHIT all over it.
I don't understand that mentality.
Like Robby said, if you place these new episodes in a batch of random season episodes no one would bat an eye.
I can understand SOME of the Family Guy hate, since it seems like Seth is doing a show filled with in-jokes that only those within his inner circle can laugh about.
But the Futurama hate strikes me as an internet fad… and I HATE bandwagon hatred on something that's not even close to shitty.
Twilight is over THERE points
Make fun of that abomination.
For the record... I'm not even a HUGE Futurama tard... I just like it better than the Simpsons because of the sci-fi spin on the humor.
@robbybedfart:
If I have any one major complaint is that it feels like they HAVE been storing up ideas for the last several years. Stuff like Davinchi code or Iphone aps have been around for a while now, it feels like dated parody, even though its new.
I read on two separate occasion that both Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are using this first batch of episodes to play catch-up with pop culture… which I'm ok with since the Duh Vinci episode was pretty ingenious.
But I WOULD like them to do more EyePhone style eps that are a bit more "recent" in terms of parodying something that we still have fresh in our minds (I honestly forgot all about The Da Vinci Code shit...)
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Have been watching the new episodes. I only missed the episode about allowing humans and robots and humans to marry. This Futurama season is okay so far. I can't wait to see the episode "The late Philp J. Fry". The Fry centric episodes have my favorite episodes from Futurama.
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I guess I'm on completely different wavelength than the rest of you. I felt this was the best of the season so far, but I haven't seen the Da Vinci code nor the various parodies related to it sooo… somehow that actually helps instead of making it even better?
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That was an awesome episode. 'Nuff said.
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Great episode :D
My favorite part is Dr.Zoidberg shooting ink everywhere XD -
Loved the episode too…
Character centric without pop culture references....like good old times...
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Futurama feels like a re-animated corpse to me. It's still walking around and talking in the body of a familiar friend, but I can't help but stare at how its left eyelid has been chewed off by rats and there are a colony of flies living in its orifices. I'm not sure if people have actually looked very closely at any of the new episodes, which I suppose I can understand given the excitement of new Futurama… But everything about it is just eerily flat. It doesn't feel like the writers are controlling the characters. It feels like the characters are controlling the writers. Everyone does what they're "expected" to do, or fall into "roles" that we're used to. It's all... everything we've seen before.
And this is combined with some seriously uninspired writing. I also heavily dislike this concept of how many cases there have been of... topical humor. Topical humor in a show that takes place 1000 years into the future. Futurama has covered "issues" before, or contemporary (to us) events in some twisted new futuristic format. But it's never felt like this. Even then, they were weak segments compared to the show's strongest format:
Its characterization, from which the best humor stemmed from. I'm barely seeing it anymore. Instead I'm given caricatures. Sure, it's more Futurama, but is this the show that used to feel so inspired and original? No, because just like every other animated sitcom, it has run its course and simply fallen into a format that can only really rely on patterns and previous elements. I guess it was picked up too late. Sorry Futurama, but I just can't stand looking at you like this.
I do need to play catch up though. I haven't seen the past two episodes. So I'm hoping it was just a really awful start for the season and maybe things can pick up again.
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@Gigglepuffy:
Futurama feels like a re-animated corpse to me. It's still walking around and talking in the body of a familiar friend, but I can't help but stare at how its left eyelid has been chewed off by rats and there are a colony of flies living in its orifices. I'm not sure if people have actually looked very closely at any of the new episodes, which I suppose I can understand given the excitement of new Futurama… But everything about it is just eerily flat. It doesn't feel like the writers are controlling the characters. It feels like the characters are controlling the writers. Everyone does what they're "expected" to do, or fall into "roles" that we're used to. It's all... everything we've seen before.
And this is combined with some seriously uninspired writing. I also heavily dislike this concept of how many cases there have been of... topical humor. Topical humor in a show that takes place 1000 years into the future. Futurama has covered "issues" before, or contemporary (to us) events in some twisted new futuristic format. But it's never felt like this. Even then, they were weak segments compared to the show's strongest format:
Its characterization, from which the best humor stemmed from. I'm barely seeing it anymore. Instead I'm given caricatures. Sure, it's more Futurama, but is this the show that used to feel so inspired and original? No, because just like every other animated sitcom, it has run its course and simply fallen into a format that can only really rely on patterns and previous elements. I guess it was picked up too late. Sorry Futurama, but I just can't stand looking at you like this.
I do need to play catch up though. I haven't seen the past two episodes. So I'm hoping it was just a really awful start for the season and maybe things can pick up again.
I was gonna say something, but Rican already did…
You know…
Nostalgia Glasses are a dangerous element.
New Futurama really doesn't feel that much different than the last batch of eps before they went into Direct to DVD Movies.
The EyePhone episode was still pretty epic :V
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Cool.
I disagree.
Edit: By the way, the new episode was pretty good. It hasn't changed my mind at all though about the previous ones. There were a lot of things about it that felt very dissimilar to the past ones, which I really disliked. So no, it's not "nostalgia goggles", or I wouldn't even be analyzing any of this and saying "yes finally a good episode."
It's giving me the faintest glimmer of hope, but I'm afraid if I reach out and touch it, I'll be hurt again.
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Great episode. What a fantastic twist at the end.
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@Gigglepuffy:
Cool.
I disagree.
Edit: By the way, the new episode was pretty good. It hasn't changed my mind at all though about the previous ones. There were a lot of things about it that felt very dissimilar to the past ones, which I really disliked. So no, it's not "nostalgia goggles", or I wouldn't even be analyzing any of this and saying "yes finally a good episode."
It's giving me the faintest glimmer of hope, but I'm afraid if I reach out and touch it, I'll be hurt again.
Cool.
But the new episodes aren't very different from the old episodes. The only difference is that the new episodes are NEW. You have to understand that. Have you watched every old episode of Futurama? If you have, then you would notice that we get episodes like these all the time, so we're getting the same kind of episodes we always have been getting.
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This season of Futurama wasn't bad, but last night's episode was the best this season. The episode could rank my top 10 Futurama episodes, not that I have a list on top of my head.
Bender and Hermes had a great dynamic and the ending was nice. Lots of nice comedic moments too.
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@Badass:
You have to understand that.
And you have to understand that once again, I completely disagree, since there are several times the directional approach even seemed slightly off. All of the episodes before the latest pretty much felt like they were incredibly rusty and trying to get back into everything again. So just stating something like that "no you are wrong and you must realize this" repeatedly doesn't really make room for … anyone to say anything. Futurama has had bad episodes before (the ones that come to mind were in final season too, so it's like a foreshadowing), but it never took this long before for the chain to be broken. I don't know what else to say here, so... don't respond to this post and just go back to enjoying your show?
If there's anything I have less of an interest in it's and endless stream of "No, I disagree", "too bad I disagree," "except I disagreed first," "I disagreed times a million."
Edit: I'm Frasier Crane listen to my show listen to my show listen to my show
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I have to agree with Gigglepuffy, actually. Not that the new episodes are bad, or not Futurama-like, but there is something slightly off…something I can't quite put my finger on. It's not just because they're new. On the other hand, there were whole seasons of the Simpsons that were utterly terrible, but I thought they seemed to have become a bit better lately.
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A lot of people seem to forget you've all had years to watch the old Futurama episodes over and over and over and over again, and dissect them 'till kingdom come, get nice and comfortable with every episode, and disregard all those old wheel-turners. I'm probably not too far off when I say that, in your minds, the series was primarily composed of Luck of the Fryrish, The Why of Fry, Leela's Homeworld, etc. etc. peppered with the episodes with your favorite gags. Why exactly do you think there are so many people having problems with the new season, without being able to directly put their finger on why?!
How, excatly, have these episodes been any different from, say, the Titanic episode? Or the episode with the monkey and the hat? Or Robot Party Week?! This is a comedy show, it's funny, what's the problem? This isn't some massively story-driven show where every episode needs to be dedicated to advancing a plot, developing characters, etc. Shit, what did the old episodes give us? Bender "jacking on," the Beastie Boys in Robot Hell, the main three leads becoming superheroes, etc. Jokes come before plot every time. Even when they contradict earlier plot points (there's been multiple explinations for what global warming may or may not have done, after all).
I mean, god dammit, internet, I know it's your collective job to bitch endlessly about everyone and everything, but Jesus…!
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A lot of people seem to forget you've all had years to watch the old Futurama episodes over and over and over and over again, and dissect them 'till kingdom come, get nice and comfortable with every episode, and disregard all those old wheel-turners. I'm probably not too far off when I say that, in your minds, the series was primarily composed of Luck of the Fryrish, The Why of Fry, Leela's Homeworld, etc. etc. peppered with the episodes with your favorite gags. Why exactly do you think there are so many people having problems with the new season, without being able to directly put their finger on why?!
How, excatly, have these episodes been any different from, say, the Titanic episode? Or the episode with the monkey and the hat? Or Robot Party Week?! This is a comedy show, it's funny, what's the problem? This isn't some massively story-driven show where every episode needs to be dedicated to advancing a plot, developing characters, etc. Shit, what did the old episodes give us? Bender "jacking on," the Beastie Boys in Robot Hell, the main three leads becoming superheroes, etc. Jokes come before plot every time. Even when they contradict earlier plot points (there's been multiple explinations for what global warming may or may not have done, after all).
I mean, god dammit, internet, I know it's your collective job to bitch endlessly about everyone and everything, but Jesus…!
Hey guess what homes!
… You kind of missed the points.
I've already stated why the comedy felt uninspired and stale to me: cruise control. It feels like the first episodes this season were all completely on cruise control with creativity thrown out the window. I'm not sitting here going GRGHRGRHGRR FUCK WHY CAN'T I PINPOINT JUST WHY I AM HATING THESE EPISODES WHERE IS FRY'S DOG. And yeah, I do feel like these episodes are a lot different than Robot Party House. Or whatever that episode's name was. The Animal House parody.
I get why you're being defensive of Futurama and all, and that there are probably a lot of people who your points apply to. But not me.
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I still think people are bitching for the sake of bitching…
It IS the internet after all.
I mean... I saw a review for the movie Inception that BITCHED the movie out for being "too complex".
Seriously... the reviewer (professional) wanted the movie dumbed down, so he took a whole star out of his review BECAUSE of this.
Entertainment has always been subjective but Holy Crap guys.
This IS supposed to be a dumb animated sci-fi comedy show, be glad when it shines with wit and political or social commentary.
That's not to say you can't shit all over the show then it has a terrible episode, but coming at it with Odin's Fury because it's not evoking warm and fuzzy feelings of years past doesn't mean the quality has "dropped".
At the very least be glad it's not de-evolved into the current crop of Family Guy episodes… those are dangerously approaching a level of "quality" that might just either save the show or doom it again (this time for good).
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