Comments on: Futurama

By: Jason L

Jason L — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:59:13 +0000

Right on, except for the rare occasions when the joke is that he’s fat and disgusting.

Does it break the Homer Effect that Brian and sometimes Stewie earn my love by being smart in the same way?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:37:40 +0000

What I like about Fry, though, is that the joke isn’t often just that he’s stupid. It’s more commonly that he’s easily pleased, geeky, weirdly optimistic, or inexplicably perverts grammar. “Hey look, it’s that guy I am!”

Griffin’s stupidity is too consistent for my taste: everything he says is dumb, and dumb in the same way, and that’s always the joke.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:11:33 +0000

It’s all over the commentary – in the first season they quote…some famous comedy guy…to the effect that everyone loves a guy who’s stupider than they are. Every so often from then on: ‘Heehee, Fry’s so dumb.’ ‘Golly, Fry’s dumb.’

By: DKMFan

DKMFan — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:16:05 +0000

For some reason, its funnier than the Simpsons. I think they just lost it after the first few seasons.

Why are idiots so funny? Take Peter Griffin from Family Guy. He’s the best joke anyone came up with

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:41:17 +0000

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/back_to_the_futurama_entertainment_don_kaplan.htm

*Sheds a tear of joy*

By: Jason L

Jason L — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:29:43 +0000

I finally started my Futurama collection on the strength of various geeky recommendations and the few latter-season episodes I'd seen. I have to comment that it starts out kind of rough. Completely forgivable pilotitis aside, for the first four or five episodes the dialog felt cold-slab dead to me. The lines are great, but there's no joie de vivre in anybody's delivery; it feels very much... "OK, now I say my line. OK, say your line. OK, now you say yours, good..." Even when one character's supposed to be interrupting another, there's a dead beat in the middle where the sentence fragment sinks, flailing, beneath the surface.

Fortunately, around the sixth and seventh episodes things seem to be improving dramatically (bdmp-tssh), with the biggest gains made by Leela and Professor Farnsworth. Just a warning to those who come after; don't give up on it too soon!

By: Heretic

Heretic — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:42:55 +0000

True but Star Treks phasers don’t kill that much, theres far to much set to stun in that series. But when I was 3 or 4 I didn’t much care for stunning people (Pun not intended)I wanted explosions and spaceships that swoop dive and weave(SP?) so star wars stole my affection very quickly.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:33:38 +0000

Well, Star Trek has phasers and Star Wars has blasters. Star Trek’s phasers do at least work rougly like lasers – they’re beams of energy – whereas Star Wars blasters fire bolts of something and hence aren’t light-based.

By: Heretic

Heretic — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:40:32 +0000

I love Futurama, its infinitely better than the simpsons as that’s becoming clichÃƒÂ©d. Futurama feels fresh and pokes fun at things geeks and non-geeks alike can find hysterical.

My favourite episode has to be the star trek one, I used to like it when I was very young about 3 or 4 until I found out star wars had more lasers. However it makes for a brilliant episiode and it includes the great Zapp Branigan who is the greatest captain ever in the history of captains.

By: davej

davej — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:33:36 +0000

i only have this to say: i want futurama back too :(

By: Jason L

Jason L — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:14:31 +0000

Whoops. Small boo-boo. Looking back at Old James, you left out the “anti-mugging-you fund” line.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:46:50 +0000

They had jokes, but none good enough to make me feel bad about dismissing them. I actually can’t think what the other two would have been, but Route Of All Evil is the worst.

By: craigp

craigp — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:46:46 +0000

What episodes don’t have a single joke in them, btw?

The only thing wrong with Roswell That Ends Well is the distinct lack of Zapp Brannigan. Just one of his lines would have made that episode reach state of Zen comedy perfection.

“If we can hit that bull’s-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards… Checkmate!”

“Rock crushes scissors. But paper covers rock! And scissors cuts paper! Kiff, we have a conundrum. Search them for paper! And, bring me a rock!”

“What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?”

God I miss Futurama. And love Wikiquote.

By: Mr Dan

Mr Dan — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:32:22 +0000

The episode with the Neutral Planet is one of my favourites. The President has some great lines:

“All I know is my gut says maybe.”
“If I dont make it tell my wife, “Hello.””

By: Graham Smith

Graham Smith — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:10:09 +0000

I don’t remember the bit where he points at his face, but I’ll stick in the DVD in a bit and probably watch it. And also maybe rip the episodes with Ainsley Hayes in it, and maybe some of the ones with Mary-Louise Parker. Because they’re all awesome.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:37:05 +0000

Also Simple Minds. Luck Of The Fryish, that was. I think they were recorded as seasons the way they're boxed, and Fox split them up to suit their schedule. To be honest I sort of prefer Fox's divisions.

That is indeed the best origin story ever. I like the bit when Josh points at his face.

By: Graham Smith

Graham Smith — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:30:05 +0000

You know what is stupid? Roswell That Ends Well isn't on the Fourth Season DVD. And there is no Fifth Season DVD. The Fifth Season is on the Fourth Season DVD, and the Third Season DVD - which presumably contains the aforementioned episode - is at my brothers.

Balls.

My favourite is probably the one where Fry tries to get his lucky five leaf clover back from his brother. It fulfills the three things all shows need to be great: comedy, drama, and flashbacks. Like those early season two episodes of the West Wing, where we get The Origin Story, and it's the best Origin Story ever? Yeah, like that. Only with robots.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:08:52 +0000

Yep: “the fourth starts with a run of mind-blowingly good episodes, the premiere being probably my favourite ever”

Spooky.

By: craigp

craigp — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:59:52 +0000

Is your favourite episode Roswell That Ends Well? Cause if it is, then you and I have far too much in common for our own good.