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…not to speak for anyone else, but I think we can call that one as being hit out of the proverbial universe.
Seconded. That was outstanding and the artwork was fantastic.
Now that I know the name of the story, it was a lot like “Flight to Forever”.
Brillant.
I enjoyed it greatly, although it made me depressed.
A million years is but a blink in regards to the scale of the universe, and yet for humanity it may as well be eternity. A million years from now, no matter what I do, myself and my family will be forever gotten. Every single mark made on this planet will have been erased by time.
“This too shall pass” and all that good stuff.
I’m gonna be a minute late in posting this reply, but if both the time machine and the Universe work as I hope, you won’t notice.
I think everybody here is missing the episode’s big message: the universe has been in reruns for an eternity.
Awesome episode. Up there with the best of classic Futurama, IMHO.
Except it’s 10 feet lower now. Also it makes no difference to history if you assassinate Hitler or Eleanor Roosevelt.
The best episode since the show’s revival. Loved the version of “In the Year 2525.”
It was ok, but not great. Some of the gags were really stale (the Planet of the Apes thing was a real groaner), and the ending was pretty predictable. The Fry/Leela plot was sweet, but the Fry/Bender/Farnsworth plot was basically like the alternate universe episode of Family Guy, just jumping around looking at weird stuff for a while without actually doing much. How did modern humans come back in the Terminator-inspired world after the species diverged in the H.G. Wells-inspired world, anyway?
Somehow I’m kind of skeptical that Farnsworth would care about getting out of the time machine and assassinating Hitler. Just another tired time travel cliche that they didn’t do anything funny with.
How old is Leela now? I don’t recall her age ever being mentioned on the show, but I’ve always assumed her to be a few years older than Fry.
I thoguht it was great.
My unsolicited ranking of the new season to date:
[ol]
[li]The Late Philip J. Fry[/li][li]Proposition Infinity[/li][li]Lethal Inspection[/li][li]Attack of the Killer App[/li][li]Rebirth[/li][li]The Duh-Vinci Code[/li][li]In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela[/li][/ol]
But, I think 1, 2, and 3 are pretty similar in quality; as are 4, 5, and 6. Two tiers of quality in my book, with episode 2 as the stand out stinker.
The quality seems to be mostly headed in the right direction as the series progresses, so here’s hoping that we get some real fantastic episodes. I don’t think there’s been one yet that quite meets the level of the old stand-outs, but I think we’ll get there.
Agreed. This one felt really old-school, and was fantastic.
I was going to say a wizard did it, but of course, there’s no such thing as wizards, so wizards could not have wiped out the Dumloks.
I thought it was pretty funny- then again I liked the Planet of the Apes joke. The joke there was that they did it so casually, and it had no absolutely zero effect on history at all. Their universe did not appear to change when Hitler died early or when Eleanor Roosevelt died early.
I guess she and Fry should be in third mid 30s, but they haven’t aged since the pilot. Fry was 25 when he was frozen and you do get the sense Leela is about the same age, but she’s never said. I remember an episode where Leela said she didn’t want to die at 25, but Bender said “honey, unless we hit a time warp, I wouldn’t worry about it.”
Best episode since the revival. A good story with lots of funny bits.
And Amy still hasn’t graduated from Mars University (remember she’s supposed to be an engineering intern) and apparently won’t for the next several decades. 
Futurma’s been just getting better and better. I thought “Lethal Inspection” and “The Duh-Vinci Code” were quite on par with the quality of the original run, but “The Late Philip J. Fry” is every bit as good as the best episodes the show has ever produced. We may have just seen this season’s “Roswell That Ends Well.”
“What are you doing here? I fired you twenty years ago.”
Loved HedonismBot, as always. “Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies. And then the explosion struck!”
hedonismbot imo is quietly one of the most clever characters ever created for animation.
I watched in wonder because, no lie, Wednesday night I finished reading [COLOR=“Red”]Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine.”[/COLOR]
Nearly th exact same plot.Guy builds a time machine, but by accident, natch, and keeps going into the future hoping to find someone who knows how to make a backward traveling machine.
Only he finally finds someone, doesn’t have to do the repeat.
but i got such a kick out of the 2 being so close, and so closely experienced.