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

[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.