# Futurama returns -- anticipation and the first two episodes \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213 "2010-06-23T05:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/41 "2010-06-24T15:27:53Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Death by snoo snoo! I love their reaction to this. They’re horrified, then smiling, then horrified, then smiling…:eek::):eek:🙂 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/42 "2010-06-24T16:21:34Z")
[Zap Brannigan] You disgust me! Go on.[/ZB] ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/43 "2010-06-24T16:30:02Z")
First new episode good, with some catch-22ish verbal humour. Second episode quite weak. Interesting to see which episode defines the quality for the rest of the season. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/44 "2010-06-24T19:42:42Z")
It seems no Canadian channel has picked it up. And the industry wonders why people pirate stuff? ---
**Author:** ![TheFifthYear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@TheFifthYear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFifthYear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/45 "2010-06-24T19:54:43Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > First new episode good, with some catch-22ish verbal humour. Second episode quite weak. Interesting to see which episode defines the quality for the rest of the season. I actually liked the second one better than the first. Both were good, though, and of course, it’s great to have Futurama back. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/46 "2010-06-24T20:06:56Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > It seems no Canadian channel has picked it up. I’d love to know who was behind that decision. I’D GIVE HIM THE CLAMPS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/47 "2010-06-24T20:24:34Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > I love their reaction to this. They’re horrified, then smiling, then horrified, then smiling…:eek::):eek:🙂 “I never thought I would die this way, but I’ve always really hoped.” **Philip J. Fry** ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/48 "2010-06-24T21:04:02Z")
Sweet something of somewhere ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/49 "2010-06-24T21:06:19Z")
Sweet ganja of La Mancha! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/50 "2010-06-24T21:31:15Z")
I really liked both episodes. I feel like they hit the ground running and it’s the show I know and love and missed all these years. I can’t wait for the rest of the season! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/51 "2010-06-24T21:37:37Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I really liked both episodes. I feel like they hit the ground running and it’s the show I know and love and missed all these years. I can’t wait for the rest of the season! That’s a welcome review. ::rubbing hands together in anticipation:: I wonder if I have some popcorn in the cupboard. ---
**Author:** ![Grapefruit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@Grapefruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grapefruit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/52 "2010-06-25T00:34:01Z")
I agree, the first one was good. It felt like the classic twisty episodes, like the Sting. I mean, I’ve watched enough Futurama to know that Fry is supposed to be a robot at the end, but somehow, it still had me going “ooooooh!!!” It didn’t even bother me that Kif, Zoidberg, and Bender resurrected from _human_ stem cells. The second one was weak weak weak. I didn’t quite get why v-giny was supposed to be funny. Is it because it sort of, kind of, maybe, almost sounds like vagina? Virginity? I get the Star Trek reference, but it fell flat for me. Plus, Zap’s only funny when Leela kicks his ass after each and every chauvinistic comment, and well… she couldn’t. Plus, I know Futurama likes to handwave stuff without explaining but at least there’s a quip by Farnsworth about how it’s the future and nothing has to make sense but we didn’t even get a hint of that when v-giny wanted Leela and Zap to mate. A whole lot of whuck?! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/53 "2010-06-25T01:17:36Z")
Futurama returns in less than an hour on Comedy Central. Two episodes; one dealing with the aftermath of the last movie and in the other Leela and Zapp Brannigan are stranded on an Eden like planet. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/54 "2010-06-25T01:26:15Z")
what about we fans who haven’t seen the movie? I am left out ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/55 "2010-06-25T01:30:58Z")
Hey wait, my local Comedy Central isn’t showing the new episodes until 11 at night. What gives? Talk about being left out. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/56 "2010-06-25T01:35:11Z")
The first episode was note-perfect and, notably, written by David X. Cohen. Very clever and full of science fiction tropes. The second episode was shit and, even more notably, written by a new writer. It was brain-dead, relying on “naughtiness” for laughs. The whole tone was completely off. Seriously, it’s the only truly bad episode of _Futurama_ yet. Terrible. No wit at all. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/57 "2010-06-25T01:50:49Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Hey wait, my local Comedy Central isn’t showing the new episodes until 11 at night. What gives? Talk about being left out. ☹ :dubious: Comedy Central is a cable channel, not a TV network. Are you in the Mountain Time Zone? ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/58 "2010-06-25T02:09:57Z")
Loved the first segment! (but this commercial break is waaaay too long) ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/59 "2010-06-25T02:13:55Z")
what happened to all the “robot love will destroy humanity” ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213/60 "2010-06-25T02:36:37Z")
Nixon again? Oh boy, because we can’t get enough Nixon. Nixon is always funny. Like Leela’s Miss Piggy karate. Still glad it’s back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-returns-anticipation-and-the-first-two-episodes-edited-title/544213.md?page=4)