Futurama

I also think that the series finale was executed well. They could've f****d it up grandly, but thankfully they didn't.

Of all the possible finales they did (and not counting the comics), that one is my favorite and most fitting to the show.

Plus it gives an in-universe reason for reruns!

So did anyone consider Farnsworth saying "I don't want to want to live on this planet anymore." to be a Crowning Moment of Funny?

Everyone who made it a meme certainly did.

Fridge Brilliance about the suicide booths.

At first, I figured suicide booths were just another element of whacky dark humor so common on this show. But then I realize, suicide booths are one of the only ways to die in this universe. Nobody does of old age due to the robots at the Death Star, and even that can be postponed indefinitely as long as you keep getting youthisized and turned younger again (and considering they were infiltrated by a bunch of twenty somethings flying a ship with no weapons, they aren't very secure).

Body parts are replace willy nilly, and anything short of complete disintegration or being eaten alive is easy to back from thanks to 31st century medicine. Even an incompetent doctor like Zoidberg is able to patch someone back together from wounds that would otherwise be life threatening.

As many medical problems as Farnsworth has, he doesn't seem to be in any danger of actually dying, and he keeps making references to replaced body parts, so human life could be sustained almost indefinitely. So even with youthisizing, you can still have near immortality.

In the 31st century of Earth, with almost no other way to die, people simply get bored and kill themselves. And it's just an accepted way of life, partly because it's the only form of population control Earth has. This also explains why Zap Brannigan's wasting the lives of his soldiers is treated so lightly. Nobody cares about death in this universe (unless it's their own or their loved ones of course).

Hey, Zoidberg is a damn competent doctor. Of art. And lifeforms that aren't humans.

edited 1st Feb '15 5:27:33 PM by TheAirman

I liked "Yo Leela Leela" for the record (was mentioned was one of the stinkers further back). I liked the Nick Jr aliens, especially their song of the "98 words we don't say."

That was a good one. I've heard that "That's Lobstertainment" is reviled, but I loved it.

That episode was funny; I don't care what people say.

The Magnificent Three is worth the episode alone.

While I do think that it ended on a fizzle, I think that Futurama was, in many ways, the better of Matt Groening's two shows. It worked some of the wittiest humor I've ever heard into some of the most creative sci-fi plots I've ever witnessed be depicted in media, and yet occasionally add both heart and existentialism into the show. Maybe if it aired now and were on a streaming network, it would've fared better than it did on Fox, Adult Swim, and Comedy Central.

Something interesting: remember the reveal that Igner was the Professor's son? My mom had figured out the connection before the reveal was made. She figured it out due to noticing their physical similarities.

In a series with such unique...distinct human designs, that can't possibly be the hint.

\(* w *)/: Spoilers you give?

Guess she was just lucky.

This is a show that had Nibbler's shadow in the first episode and didn't pay it off until the third season. It's possible Igner's reddish hair was a Sure, Why Not? (akin to Terry's black hair in Batman Beyond), but Inger was such a background character, barely distinctive from his brothers, that it worked.

That comment should've had an opposite reaction post...I mean I agree.

I've always wondered why Fry's dad was never frozen/never said to have the same absence of Delta Brainwave. Spoiler alert for 14 year old episode: Fry is his own paternal grandfather, thus making his father/first son the same person(and any OC kids you've thought up are also Fry's uncles/aunts). It's why he lacks the Delta Brainwave. However, Yancy is his own paternal grandfather, due to his second son also being his father(and first son his uncle). As such, shouldn't Yancy logically lack the Delta Brainwave, since he possesses the same paradox of DNA.

As such, shouldn't the Nibblonians have frozen him too? We know from "The Why of Fry" they don't care/think to care about adaptability, as its for the greater good. So Nibbler shouldn't have cared about Yancy's well-being and just shove him in the freezer tube.

On another note, I have to wonder why Fry was the only example in all the universe who ever managed to become his own grandfather. And what would be the effect if they became a different ancestor; for example, their own great-grandfather or their own father. If Marty slept with Lorraine, would that give him immunity to Brainspawn?

I suspect it would come down to what they bring to the table. By the time cryogenic freezing becomes viable, Phillip is in the prime of life, while his father/son is middle aged. Phillip is a big sci-fi buff, which gives him a leg up on surviving in a world a thousand years past what he knows.

Or maybe his father was only a carrier of the right gene, and only Phillip expressed it.

Futurama acted on the principle that all Time Travel is a Stable Time Loop (as least before the last season episode with the powder that sent them to the Revolutionary War). It's specifically the paradox of fathering your own father that created Fry's lack of delta brain wave. It's not a mutated gene that is present in all his descendants.

One question that was never followed up on was Nibbler mentioning that Leela must be "The Other." The whole Nibblonian Myth Arc as guardians of the universe was kind of abandoned after "Benders Big Score."

Well Yancy also became his own grandfather by conceiving Fry. Also, I'd suggest it'd make sense for the Nibblonians to freeze him as well for a back-up/he acts as a back-up.

Yancy didn't cause the time loop, he just exist as a product of it. Him being his own grandfather is the result of circumstance. He wasn't effected at all by anything.

Considering how time travel works, they both caused the time loop.

I always thought "The Other" was something Nibbler made up on the fly to help convince Fry to allow himself to be frozen.

Which is why it was never heard of again.

Fry's dad wasn't the lynchpin, going back in time and returning to the present. He is a link in the chain, but it starts and ends with Fry.

Fry isn't just the chosen one because he's got that inbreeding, he is because he went to the future where he could be the chosen one, and then went to the past to ensure his inbred existence.

Actually the show never confirmed that Fry was his own PATERNAL grandfather save for a line by Fry, which is contradicted by a line by Yancy Sr (and if I have to choose between picking the two... I'd assume Fry is more likely to be wrong).

Everything makes FAR more sense if Fry is his MATERNAL grandfather. Not only would the genetics work out perfectly into a completely stable time loop (his mother's pair of X chromosomes are identical copies of each other just displaced by time) but also ends up explaining her behavior a lot better than Yancy's.

As for why they didn't freeze mama, because they couldn't ever get her away from the latest sports game, duh!

EDIT: Seriously probably why Mama Fry didn't go is because she was needed to raise/help/whatever Yancy Jr and Nephew Philip J Fry so eventually the Professor could be born and invent the ship & circumstances to cause the time loop.

edited 28th Feb '16 5:58:05 PM by NateWinchester