# Futurama; season 7-B (open spoilers after each airing) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420 "2013-06-20T01:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/41 "2013-08-31T02:07:17Z")
“In your dead face little girl.” LOL!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/42 "2013-08-31T04:01:08Z")
Wait, there’s only one episode left?! I thought there were two or three. No fair! Can’t we use nerd math to make there be a couple more episodes or something? ---
**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:** [August 31, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/43 "2013-08-31T17:56:18Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Well, it was a very understandable misunderstanding… Yeah, I’d say he got what was coming to him pulling a stunt like that. I liked Leela’s lampshading of the luxurious panic room that would’ve come in handy numerous times before. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/44 "2013-09-04T18:55:23Z")
Well, this is is folks…the last episode of Futurama, potentially ever, airs tonight. ☹ I know it was canceled once before, and brought back as direct-to-DVD movies, and then after that for a couple of season here on CC, but I don’t think it will get another resurrection. There will be a live-stream chat about Futurama with some cast and crew hosted by Chris Hardwick both before and after the final episode on The Nerdists’s Youtube channel, if anyone wants to watch that: > **[Nerdist](https://www.youtube.com/Nerdist)** > > Welcome to Nerdist. We've got video entertainment for all of your nerdy passions and a whole lot of funny. You are what you watch! If the commentaries are anything to go by, this could be pretty funny. Matt and David know a lot about the show, and Billy, Phil, Maurice, et all are hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/45 "2013-09-04T20:12:16Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > There will be a live-stream chat about Futurama with some cast and crew hosted by Chris Hardwick both before and after the final episode on The Nerdists’s Youtube channel, if anyone wants to watch that: > [http://www.youtube.com/Nerdist](http://www.youtube.com/Nerdist) I was confused. When I read about that happening I thought they meant it s going to air on comedy central before and after the show…oops. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/46 "2013-09-05T02:01:50Z")
I liked that Zoidberg got to keep the girl, and now back to the Moon! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/47 "2013-09-05T02:34:27Z")
That was a really sweet ending. And poignant. Fry asked Leela if she “wanted to go around again,” and she says “yes.” Then they immediately started playing the first ever episode, literally “going around again” for the series. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/48 "2013-09-05T02:44:12Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > That was a really sweet ending. > > And poignant. And open-ended if someone else wants to produce more episodes! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/49 "2013-09-05T03:09:21Z")
That was just about a perfect series finale: some very funny jokes, an interesting sci-fi dilemma, a lot of great visuals of the frozen world, and we not only got to see Fry and Leela get married, we got to see their life together (at least a version of it). That’s pretty much everything you could want. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/50 "2013-09-05T03:20:23Z")
Goodbye, from The World of Tomorrow, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/51 "2013-09-05T03:22:18Z")
Very sweet episode, a good way to end the series. My biggest laugh was their bed made of pandas and koalas. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/52 "2013-09-05T03:27:16Z")
And all of the time travel episodes are the best! Roswell That Ends Well, The Late Philip J Fry, Time Keeps On Slipping, and I think this one is going to make my top 10 too! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/53 "2013-09-05T03:34:44Z")
It really was the best series finale Futurama’s ever had. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/54 "2013-09-05T03:36:30Z")
Just missed the edit window, but I also just realized that they created a time loop to prevent any new episodes from being made! If they jump back to right before Farnsworth created the button, then the exact same thing will happen again, making them going back for more and more rounds of the same lifetime with nobody else ever getting past the point where the button was destroyed! Now, that REALLY bums me out, but it’ll be nice to know that Fry & Leela get to spend eternity together. ---
**Author:** ![Enigma42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/87869e/32.png) [@Enigma42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enigma42)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/55 "2013-09-05T14:26:37Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > That was a really sweet ending. > > And poignant. > > Fry asked Leela if she “wanted to go around again,” and she says “yes.” > > Then they immediately started playing the first ever episode, literally “going around again” for the series. She specifically said, “I do.” Even more meaningful. That really was a great series finale with a little bit of practically everything that made the series so good. I actually re-watched it immediately (which I never do), so I went around again myself, albeit only 22 minutes or so. . . ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/56 "2013-09-05T15:45:14Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > That was a really sweet ending. > > And poignant. > > Fry asked Leela if she “wanted to go around again,” and she says “yes.” > > Then they immediately started playing the first ever episode, literally “going around again” for the series. I thought it was nice that they did that. I thought it was a good way to end the series. I cracked up when they were on the beach and Fry tosses the dog with the frisbee in it’s mouth to Leela. I was planning on going to bed after the last episode but when they started the first episode I thought what the hell and I stayed up to watch it. It was fun to see the differences between the two episodes. I read a while back that Nibbler (well his shadow) was actually in the first episode and I remembered to look for it and it really was there, for a second and a half, as Fry falls into the cryo-tube. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/57 "2013-09-05T22:50:35Z")
I thought they did a great job with the finale, too. It does seem to have become traditional to end a television series with a “have it both ways” ending. (In this case, as with _STNG_ and _Voyager_, we get to see What Happens To The Characters, and also get to believe that what happens to them is undetermined and open to all possibilities.) The _Futurama_ crew did as good a job with this now-traditional trope as anyone has, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/58 "2013-09-05T23:00:59Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > It really was the best series finale Futurama’s ever had. [Amy Wong]I don’t know. I’ve had cow[/Amy Wong] Except for the fact that it’s no longer the Futurama series finale, I preferred “The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings”, which is one of the best episodes of the entire series. Not that “Meanwhile” was a bad episode at all. I liked it quite a lot, and the writers hit the right notes for what they knew was actually going to be the final episode for real. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/59 "2013-09-05T23:25:05Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Just missed the edit window, but I also just realized that they created a time loop to prevent any new episodes from being made! If they jump back to right before Farnsworth created the button, then the exact same thing will happen again, making them going back for more and more rounds of the same lifetime with nobody else ever getting past the point where the button was destroyed! Now, that REALLY bums me out, but it’ll be nice to know that Fry & Leela get to spend eternity together. I don’t no why but I took it t mean that they would go back to just before he thought of the idea of the device so that he would never invent it in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420/60 "2013-09-05T23:31:47Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I don’t no why but I took it t mean that they would go back to just before he thought of the idea of the device so that he would never invent it in the first place. That was how I took it- I think he said something about going back to before he invented the button. I’m in the middle of watching the episode again but I haven’t gotten back to the end yet. Also, I liked “Bronx Zoo: Get a Loada Dese Animals Ova Here.” “To the instant before I conceived of the time button,” he says. But we don’t know when that was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-season-7-b-open-spoilers-after-each-airing/661420.md?page=4)