Yeah, I don’t need to watch new Futurama anymore.

[classicswim]

 [Quids Game]

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.........They just don’t try.

That’s it.

They can’t for their lives write even a fairly decent episode anymore. They are no longer capable of writing good scripts. It’s not at all different from the entirety of the last season. Each show as bad, or more bad than the next because they don’t care at all to write a coherent story or even just a joke anyone can laugh at. 

The year 2024 and the best FUTURAMA can do is a copyright friendly product gag? Go fuck yourself.

 

You know how the episode began with Fry not wanting to have his birthday acknowledged, and then suddenly all of Futurama ever is on the ship, in space... because a-doy? All of the cast that wouldn’t give Fry the time of day subversively loves him because fine?

I don’t know if the staff knew this or not, but New New York isn’t Springfield. People watch Futurama because it’s not The Simpsons.

Seeing as all of the characters die for the sake of dying anyway, and obviously come back out of thin air anyway; I got something! Why not have all of Futurama pop up on the fucking planet when the game has started? THAT WAY, you can write either something mildly humorous in the beginning, or even just have something that makes sense with the show (it’s Futurama, by the way. I know you want to write something else, but it’s Futurama.) you are writing.

But no. Everything’s gotta be lazy as all hell.


Not a single soul looked at Fry’s house recreated and said “oh, boy! Fry’s house! Can’t wait to see the 12th or even 17th scenario of him having a fucked up childhood! This thing with Fry and his family, surely that hasn’t been milked enough as is!”

They put zero thought into the alien villains. Like, none at all. You never get a single explanation for how they know Fry or any simple goddamn motivation for anything they do. Leela went the whole episode not even thinking of *drum roll!* attacking the aliens. Again, the writers completely forgot they’re writing Futurama.


 

The flashback sequences would’ve been far worse if Fry’s parents were written as normal, but nothing made sense anyway. They pulled punches on being too mean to Fry like they usually would, but still wrote for all the kids to conveniently hate Fry. As if he can cheat pinning the tail on the donkey. Or as if cheating on your birthday party warrants friends hating you forever. It’s not something real that happens, so it’s not a premise worth caring about.

Speaking of not caring... why should I give a single fuck about Fry’s “friends?” They didn’t exist before the episode (unless you count the breakdancing group) and they won’t exist after this episode.

“Everything’s coming up Gecky” or whatever David Herman’s fucking name was as I already forgot.

One of the main kids was a sickly Todd Flanders who was named in the episode as Bartholomew. They’re not even trying in the slightest.

 

What is anyone getting out of this show being back? Why should anyone continue watching? Is the show being terrible on purpose? I don’t know the answer to this but I do know I should respect my time better.

Comments

[matt_zimmer]

It was the worst Futurama episode of all time. Hands down. Your critique itemized things WAY better than mine did. I essentially just threw up my hands and said "That sucks."

[classicswim]

I woke up, saw your words first and had the indefinite feeling you’d be right about it. I hate what’s happened to this show.

[matt_zimmer]

When it comes to the quality of the individual episodes, you and I don't usually agree. But this one was not even close and I didn't really need to itemize everything wrong with it. In fact, you noticed more true faults with it that I did! And I called it the worst episode ever!

[classicswim]

When I list off things in that way it’s typically more of a personal preference opposed to setting a standard.

I wouldn’t encourage anyone else to look deep into a dumpster fire if there was no need. And there usually isn’t, even for me. But that one from top to bottom was just wrong and failed every conceivable point as you put it before.

[matt_zimmer]

Something else: Leela is both selfish and a coward in the episode. She's wailing for Fry to cheat on her behalf so she'll live, not giving a shit that that would mean Fry's death. I half expected the episode to be a dream sequence because that was so unpleasantly out of character for her.

[classicswim]

It’s baffling to defy letting this be a simple non-canon shitshow just because they thought they could make a tragic Fry backstory episode and failed miserably on both fronts at once.

They let Leela cry over her parents in one second, and then after several other deaths, they just quirkily kill Farnsworth and Amy’s parents like it’s nothing. Either you give a shit about the characters you’ve created or you don’t.

The voice acting on some of them were read like the VAs didn’t even feel like delivering lines. That’s definitely not exclusive to just this Hulurama ep but it really added more to how unpleasant it was.

[matt_zimmer]

The deaths in the episode were both coldblooded and heartless. It amazes me on some level the producers wanted us to laugh at both them and the scenario.

It is very hard to believe an episode of this show this bad made it out to the airwaves. Who the FUCK thought this would be a good idea?

I'm not going to stop watching the show but I don't ever recall an episode of The Simpsons hitting me this badly before. I might be wrong there, but the closest thing I can remember to that was the Lena Dunham episode, which everyone involved seemed to know went too far, and decided to make it non-canon at the end. But the fact that it wasn't canon means I hated it far less than I did this.