Futurama

I keep missing it due to a) my work schedule and b) Comedy Central airing on East Coast time.

I just feel wrong watching it through questionable means, since I'm a guy who bought literally every episode on DVD up till now. I'm fine doing it with other shows but...Futurama is special.

edited 11th Sep '11 7:28:48 PM by Arsidias

Comedy Central hates money. They had The Daily Show and the Colbert Report on Hulu, then took it off, then put it back on rather begrudgingly, but they don't want to stream Futurama online, and it's entirely because they don't want to make money online under the misguided assumption that if they don't put it online, everyone will watch it on the channel and forget the internet exists.

Comedy Central? Meet FU Nimation. FU Nimation, Comedy? We'll get along well? Yes?

You can download Futurama off of iTunes, though.

That requires spending money. I'm talking about ad-supported streaming.

Streaming ads are much more lucrative than TV ads because they can be targeted.

Voice actors can be amazing. Especiall Phil Lamarr.

here's a glimpse. And if you don't like Justice League, at least you get a couple seconds of Maria Canals gainaxing.

So I wondered when the episode first came on.

When Mom accepted Hermes' resignation, it seemed to me that she was sad about it. Unhappy to see him go. Or maybe she just didn't care. What do you guys think?

I can see what you mean, but by the time she summons the donkey, she just looks bored.

Any one has their unfavorite/least liked episode? Out of the bat, I don't like Benderama. I pretty much either indifferent or don't like Bender-centric episodes, but that one rub me pretty badly. It's mostly because of everyone being super jerks (albeit everyone except Bender can be excused for being drunk). Yeah sure the math trivia was fun, but otherwise it was cringing.

I didn't like the one with the Space Whale. Leela seems really out of character in that one.

Neutopia was another one I didn't like. Mostly due to Never Trust a Trailer. The commercials implied that the Gender Bender aspect would be the focus off the episode, only for it to not happen until the last five minutes.

I didn't like "Future Stock". I don't see why it's among the best liked episodes either.

I have yet to see "Benderama." Comedy Central never airs it when I get free time, it's the only one out of the new season I missed, and it was the most looked forward to.

edited 8th Oct '11 11:52:22 AM by Shota

Apparently the newer episodes are finally starting to air in Canada. Yay!

The space whale one derailed Leela much less than the kids show one. It exaggerated what she already is.

Also, I had to look up what episode Benderama was and... duuuude. I'd forgotten that the first episode of the season was "Rebirth". So the season, which at the time may have been their last shot, started with "Rebirth" and ended with "Reincarnation".

See, with a year and a half between the two, it's hard to pick up on stuff like that.

I like when shows do something like that. Supernatural's fourth season started with "Lazarus Rising" and ended with "Lucifer Rising".

The global warming episode is on right now. Two things I noticed/found out:

• Kristin Gore (Al Gore's daughter) only wrote for the show in seasons 3 and 4. The only episode she was lead writer on was "Leela's Homeworld", which was fantastically done.
• So, Earth is:
  • Farther from the sun, and one week longer per year
  • Rotating the other way
  • "Ten feet lower".

Anything else?

I finally caught up with the new Futurama episodes. I have to say that the first half of the new season was better than the second half, and actually in general quite a few of the new Futurama episodes are a bit lackluster.

That said, there are some real gems as well. "Reincarnation" was solid gold. The best new-season episodes are still "The Late Philip J. Fry" and "The Prisoner of Benda" from the first half, though.

Earth being ten feet lower doesn't count, as it's implied this holds true for the entire rest of the universe.

edited 27th Oct '11 6:17:04 AM by Sporkaganza

Just watched the Star Trek episode yesterday. At the end, when they're talking about how good they had it on Melllvar's planet and then Fry says "And all you had to do was put up with one really annoying Star Trek fan," the Star Trek cast all get wide eyed for a second and then Shattner says "Let's get the hell out of here.''

I never understood whether they all realized that they left the greatest thing ever or if they realized it wasn't worth putting up with Melllvar.

Looking at the Wikipedia page for the list of episodes, it's pretty impressive that I can tell which episode is about what just from the title for the vast majority of these episodes. I can't really say that for any other show.

It wasn't worth putting up with him.

To see all the futurama episodes head to Motion Empire.

Anyway what's anyone theory on next season's Status Quo tricks.

I'm sure this is an old topic but I haven't been able to find anything on it. Can someone help me clear up Fry's grandparentage.

From Futurama Wiki:

Here's the catch, per the family tree◊, we've never seen Mama Fry's parents. So where's the confirmation that Fry & Mildred gave birth to Yancy and not Mama?

Plus it makes sense (look at Mama Fry's hair & Fry's hair) as well as kind of works out genetically.

Mildred has X[1]X[2] chromosome. Mildred mates with ___ to birth MF with X[1] & X[unknown] chromosome. MF mates with Yancy to make Philip Fry with X[either] & Y Here's the catch, when Philip goes back and time and mates with Mildred, if he got X[1] from Mom, then he creates a perfectly stable time loop without any "self-existing" parts (Mom is born with X[1]X[1] chromosomes, which might explain some of the... tendencies we see her with).

Just came to me when I was reading "there is another" under the YMMV Futurama page - anyone else think (and/or have confirmation) that Fry being his own MATERNAL grandfather fits better than being his PATERNAL grandfather?

That does make a certain amount of sense, yeah; but considering how much time travel is involved in this family tree it's a touch hard to say for sure either way. Especially if you consider the idea of an alternate timeline where Fry never went back in time; is that even possible?

Didn't the What If machine prove that those universes where Fry didn't time travel unraveled themselves? (such that you had nothing to do but play Dungeons & Dragons against the Vice President)

But doesnt Fry yell at Enis's crotch that everything will be ok DAD, back when he thought Ennis was his Grandfather? Now I know Fry is an idiot, but Id think he could tell the difference between his Paternal and Materal Grandparents. Also wasnt Ennis's last name Fry?

Well this is also the episode where the Professor never shows concern that Fry whiping out his grandfather would spell the doom of Farnsworth as well. ;)

Now the wiki shows Mildred & Enos having the last name as Fry, but I can't find any line confirming that in the episode itself, so it could be an easy enough retcon.

After all, which is more likely: Fry got mixed up which grandma Mildred was? Or that his father, believed there was a tradition of the firstborn always being named "Yancy Fry" but also knew his father was Enos to tell Philip & Yancy about it? (if Enos was maybe the 2nd or 3rd male child... it would maybe work?)