New Futurama! Sucks!

[Mcupobob]

So many quotes just in the first five mintues.
"somethings wrong shes not responding to my poking stick" "poke harder dammit!"

"Hes flat lining we need something to power him possibly this thing!"

Anyways I loved rebirth didn't get to catch all of ep 2 but what I did see I though was still awesome felt like it never ended.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Quick, someone call David X. Cohen and tell him to stop writing irresponsibly, people might get hurt!!

I understand that a lot of people don't take the show's story and characters seriously because it's an animated comedy that originated on Fox, but Futurama isn't Family Guy. It's not a show that has done idiotic things with its main characters just for a cheap laugh here or there. Or at least it wasn't.

 

[Firia]

It only took two episodes for them to hit the low point of the entire fucking series. Grats.

Yeah, that bothered me. But maybe they needed to reestablish the Leila-had-sex-with-The-Zapper point for new fans that never saw Leila give it up for him in the original. Now it's fresh, and the many Leila-Zap sex jokes can begin again like in the original airing.

That is at least how I'm rationalizing it.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

It only took two episodes for them to hit the low point of the entire fucking series. Grats.

Yeah, that bothered me. But maybe they needed to reestablish the Leila-had-sex-with-The-Zapper point for new fans that never saw Leila give it up for him in the original. Now it's fresh, and the many Leila-Zap sex jokes can begin again like in the original airing.

That is at least how I'm rationalizing it.

Hm, possibly. Makes a lot more sense, certainly. Sort of disheartening to think they're shoe-horning old plot devices into new episodes just to "catch up" any new viewers. Really thought the show returned based on the groundswell of support from established viewers, and that viewership should be sufficient, shouldn't it? I guess not, if you're an exec.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Well, that third episode sure was great, huh?

I was sort of intentionally overreacting with my original post because I disliked the resolution of the second episode so intensely, but I never imagined it would be followed by easily the worst episode in the series.

An episode-long (and not remotely veiled or funny) iPhone joke. A "knee-slapper" about Jared from Subway. A major plot point that revolves around one of the main characters having a singing boil on her ass... named Susan. Oh, and a ridiculously disgusting and not at all clever gross-out gag.

At least they somewhat resolved the inevitable strife in Fry and Leela's relationship as a result of her sexing Zapp at the end of the previous episode. And by resolve I mean "made zero mention of it, and in fact acted like these two characters had no romantic entanglement, past or present, whatsoever".

Lots of season left, but so far it feels like a completely different show. Way more focus on blue material, even at the expense of major characters. Incessant references to present day without cause, which feels very jarring and unnatural to long-time followers of the show. No heart or emotion - you know, the aspects of this show that set it apart from Family Guy.

Ug. Anyone else think that episode was utter trash?

 

[PayNSprayBandit]

Well, that third episode sure was great, huh?

I was sort of intentionally overreacting with my original post because I disliked the resolution of the second episode so intensely, but I never imagined it would be followed by easily the worst episode in the series.

An episode-long (and not remotely veiled or funny) iPhone joke. A "knee-slapper" about Jared from Subway. A major plot point that revolves around one of the main characters having a singing boil on her ass... named Susan. Oh, and a ridiculously disgusting and not at all clever gross-out gag.

At least they somewhat resolved the inevitable strife in Fry and Leela's relationship as a result of her sexing Zapp at the end of the previous episode. And by resolve I mean "made zero mention of it, and in fact acted like these two characters had no romantic entanglement, past or present, whatsoever".

Lots of season left, but so far it feels like a completely different show. Way more focus on blue material, even at the expense of major characters. Incessant references to present day without cause, which feels very jarring and unnatural to long-time followers of the show. No heart or emotion - you know, the aspects of this show that set it apart from Family Guy.

Ug. Anyone else think that episode was utter trash?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. It was horrific and, after all this wait, incredibly discouraging.

 

[Feriluce]

What? The 3rd episode was hilarious. Then again. I find all apple bashing hilarious.

 

[Laughing Man]

Yeah, that bothered me. But maybe they needed to reestablish the Leila-had-sex-with-The-Zapper point for new fans that never saw Leila give it up for him in the original. Now it's fresh, and the many Leila-Zap sex jokes can begin again like in the original airing.

Actually the reason is amazingly obvious in the last episode The devil's hands are idle playthings, you could see that the connection between Leela and Fry was becoming closer, it left the whole thing on a note that suggested they had a future together. The the four extended episodes came along and over the course of those they distanced Leela and Fry and then brought them back together, again on the assumption that their may not be any more Futurama. So new series hits and you have Fry and Leela together.One of the running plot lines of the entire Futurama series seems to be resolved from the word go in the new episodes.

They had Leela sleep with Zap to create that distance between Fry and Leela again so that they could continue that, will they or won't they plotline. A theme that they enhanced in the new episode. Now you have Fry trying to deal with Leela sleeping with Zap and you have Leela trying to deal with Fry making her a laughing stock to millions. We are essentially back to where we were when the original series ended.

As for the episode, brilliant anything that can rip on the sheep like behaviour of the Iphone user base, rip on the Iphone itself, rip on twitter and even throw in a few digs at, of all people Susan Boyle is sheer genius.

 

[Uncreative]

This most recent episode was somewhat disappointing to me. It was ok from an objective standpoint, but it just didn't feel like the old futurama.
I always liked the way they handled Fry and Leela. It was simultaneously ridiculous and sweet.
"I love his boyish charm, but I hate his childishness"

This...I don't know, this just didn't seem to have that weird warm feeling that made me really care about what happened.

Also, Susan Boil was just dumb.
Really, I have nothing against Family Guy. It's not deep, but that's not what they're going for.
But please, please don't get your Family Guy in my Futurama. Reeses pieces of comedy it does not make.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I've enjoyed the first 2 but 3 was pretty hit and miss for me. But then again every series has their high and low episodes. Go back and watch the old series of futurama, tell me every episode was perfect.

Episode 2 was my favourite of the 3 for me. It created a new favourite quote from Zapp Brannigan for one thing.

Zapp: "We're trapped, like fish in a barrel!"

President Nickson: "What would you suggest we do?"

Zapp: "I shall hide in this barrel, like the whiley fish."

 

[CK76]

I enjoyed all three new episodes. Zoidberg, Bender, the Professor, all been good.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

The most recent episode was too much of a parody for my liking. Like people have been saying, the whole eye phone and susan boil thing...it's all very Family Guy ish. That's fine for Family Guy, that's not what I look for in Futurama. It also definitely feels more vulgar, which is fine as long as it means they don't use it as an excuse to go for the cheap gross out laughs, which the double goat kind of did.

It's also a little annoying that they've just seem to have thrown aside the whole relationship angle with Leela and Fry as if nothing happened. It was more than a little odd. I wasn't sure if they were together or not for most of the episode, and the hug at the end was very...off. I don't know, Futurama has always been shot episode for episode with very little continuity, but then again there have been very few times it's needed to be before now, everything always turns out the way it was at the beginning of the episode usually.

I did still get some decent laughs out of it, especially liked Fry purchasing the eyePhone.

Fry: So, why they call it an eyePhone?

Guy: I'll tell you after I've installed it *pulls up Frys eyelid and inserts phone*

Fry: AHHHHHHHH!!!

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

As for the episode, brilliant anything that can rip on the sheep like behaviour of the Iphone user base, rip on the Iphone itself, rip on twitter and even throw in a few digs at, of all people Susan Boyle is sheer genius.

Interesting fact: all of these references hail from present day pop culture... which happens to be almost a decade removed from Fry's original time. That's probably why they feel so forced. We're not seeing the year 3000 through the eyes of Fry. We're seeing it through the lens of 2010, where our references take precedence over those of Fry's time and the distant future. At that point the setting becomes meaningless. If they're going to shoe-horn all those 2010 jokes into the show, it might as well take place in 2010.

I'm not trying to be rude here, but I really can't imagine someone enjoying the best episodes of seasons three and four and the most recent episode. I thought it was beyond terrible. It felt a lot like a Family Guy episode. Personally, I don't care for that show. I thought the Futurama writers didn't either (12 Jokes a Year Calender, anyone?), but their latest offering was just as dependent, crass, and random.

 

[Bat Vader]

I thought the two new episodes were great and in my opinion the ending to the second one was quite hilarious. The episode that aired on July 1st was also very funny as well. Everyone has their own opinions as to what they like and dislike.

 

[Laughing Man]

Interesting fact: all of these references hail from present day pop culture... which happens to be almost a decade removed from Fry's original time.

So what? In case you forgot the show isn't meant to be seen purely from Fry's point of view and the whilst the references where from a period of time set after Fry was frozen it's not like he was all knowing about what they were all talking about, he was doing what he was doing since he was first unfrozen learning about something new that he had never seen before.

Okay maybe the episode long dig at the Iphone was a bit more than the one or two liner digs at popular culture in the past episodes but the fact is it hit the mark on a lot of things it was observing and the push me pull me goat was no more gross out than the episode set on the Slurm planet.

As it is the first episode didn't feel like Futurama it seemed far to focused on cramming in as much statement about them being back, the second episode felt a hell of a lot closer to Futurama of old and the start of the third one had the same feel until they started in on the 'eyephone.'

Will we see gags as clever as Farnsworth complaining about them changing the result by measuring it when his horse Heisenberg loses? I dunno but the show has been away for long enough and I am willing to cut them some slack until they refind their feet.

 

[saintchristopher]

The Chamber of Understanding is my favorite new gag by a mile.

 

[eastinfecter]

i really miss the 3000s..

 

[Tsudokun]

Rebirth was brilliant.

The second episode? Leela bones Zapp... with zero hesitation... in front of Fry...

It only took two episodes for them to hit the low point of the entire fucking series. Grats.

The low point of the entire series, I suppose if you are excluding the movies

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Loved it, Yet it was a little weird that she boned zap.. what ever, still laughed my ass off

Well, it was that or have the world blow up. Even if the stakes were there for comedy purposes, I'd say her actions were plausible. I mean, she did sleep with him just because he was a pitiful idiot before.

 

[newfoundsky]

At most, I'm confused. Are Fry and Leela dating or are they friends. . .