Futurama
I love Futurama. We got given a box set of Season 3 at Christmas, and we’re slowly working our way through the episodes, helpless with laughter. In many ways, I prefer it to The Simpsons. I’ve just watched A Pharaoh to Remember, in which Bender has a bit of a hissy fit because he thinks no-one will remember him. His friends try to cheer him up by organising a surprise funeral for him, but he criticises all the eulogies from his coffin (“Loud-er and sad-der”), and eventually storms off (“This is the worst funeral ever!”). They all get captured and forced into slavery when delivering a block of sandstone to Osiris 4. While they are in the slave ship, in chains, Fry complains to Leela,
Fry: You know the worse thing about being a slave? They make you work, but they don’t pay you or let you go.
Leela: That’s the only thing about being a slave.
Priceless.
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It's so much better than The Simpsons.
Must find cheap DVDs.----- I found the box sets on special here in Australia last year, and we watched all four seasons in record time. I can't wait for season five to come out on box set, because the show was dropped from Australian TV long ago. I have no idea why Futurama didn't succeed like the Simpsons, but it's equally cleaver and funny.
We've moved onto "Family Guy" season 3 while we wait for season 5 of Futurama, and I love the baby in it.
by Justin French @ 22/05/2005 12:06 am • Permalink •
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Robert Brook: Yes, it is
Justin French: I don't know why it didn't catch on either. I think the characters are every bit as good, even the ones who appear irregularly (Zap Brannigan and Kif, for example), and it's pretty gutsy. From the moment when I saw the suicide booth in the first episode, I knew I was going to like it
by bsag @ 22/05/2005 5:06 pm • Permalink •
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I own all the DVDs -- definitely one of my favorite shows. The audio commentary by the staff and actors is pretty amusing, too.
by chris rhee @ 23/05/2005 1:06 am • Permalink •
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I love Futurama. It's on Adult Swim (latenight cartoons in the US), and I've seen most of the episodes at least a half-dozen times. The humor is brilliant, especially if you're technically-oriented. One of my favorites is the final episode, with Dan Castelleneta (sp?) doing Hedonism bot and the Robot devil. "A man, writing an opera about a woman? How deliciously absurd!" What a great finale!
by Matt Pelletier @ 23/05/2005 8:06 pm • Permalink •
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chris rhee: Yeah, I'm saving that bit
Matt Pelletier: They definitely reward re-watching, that's for sure. I miss half the stuff the first time around. There are a lot of very geeky physics jokes, I know that...
by bsag @ 24/05/2005 8:05 pm • Permalink •
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