Not terrible, but… WTF? It was truly bizarre. A nice enough parody of children’s programming, but it seemed rather pointless, as if they were making it up as it went along.
Last week’s was much better.
Thoughts?
I like turtles.
Fair enough.
Let me rephrase: Does anyone have any thoughts on this episode?
i think you pretty much nailed it with “bizarre”
I agree, not so good. At least it makes me appreciate the classic episodes more.
Also, I now realize books are not just for readin’.
Popular! Slut Club!
Ran out of steam at the end but, like starting with the one with Fry as a cop and last week’s with Clamps, this is a run of eps that wouldn’t have felt out of place in the original life of the show. That’s the first time I’ve been able to say that since its resurrection, even though I’ve liked several of the revived episodes a lot.
–Cliffy
Now, I loves me some Futurama. But that episode sucked. I would go so far as to say it was the worst episode I have ever seen.
Leela acting like a Diva was out of character and the revelation about the planet was completely telegraphed. But the orphanarium jokes were funny and the ending where Leela confessed to her crime and then was upset because there were no bad consequences was good.
I got what they were trying to do, and I liked the [del]subtle[/del] digs at Futurama getting cancelled, Nickelodeon and McDonalds, but those songs were so soul-crushingly awful that I could barely watch.
The only funny joke was “Old People’s Choice Awards (The Oscars)”
I do hate when Futurama stoops to topical humor ( a la “Lady GaGaesque” ). Cheap and easy. If I have any complaints about the latest iteration of the show it is that that seems to have become a bit more common. To slightly misquote Oglaf:
“Bad writers! Lazy!”
Yeah, that joke was really lazy. It wasn’t even a joke like “GagaBot” or Lady Gaga’s Head, it was just a straight up mention to a singer who was only 13 when Fry was in the past.
Was the fact that the characters would turn out to be real aliens supposed to be a surprise? Because it seemed pretty obvious pretty quickly that was what was happening.
I liked hunger cramps more than that episode!
Just kidding, I thought it was okay.
It was ok. I got a few chuckles out of it so on that note it passes. I was hoping that the cute aliens turned into cannibals at the end and nabbed a few orphans before everyone could escape.
Some really good humor in this one, but I thought Leela’s show was surprisingly unfunny. Surprised that Futurama’s parody of a mascot kids’ show fell so flat for me.
Popular Slut Club is the biggest laugh I think the show’s gotten from me since the reboot.
I thought people would get it. At one point in the episode, with nothing else to say, Bender says “I like turtles” which was a direct reference to that internet meme.
I liked it. The silliness made me laugh. The parodies were good. Sure, at first it seemed like a different show, but the ending was perfect Futurama.
I disagree. The ending felt like a second-rate Simpsons episode, where they’ve given up on resolving the issues raised and instead end with a gag. Such endings marked the decline in Simpsons quality; I’m not ready to say the same for Futurama… yet.
As I said above, I thought the ending was good. It worked as part of the overall story, which was a parody of shows where somebody learns a lesson. They subverted this by having everything come out for the better because Leela lied, so the lesson we learned was that sometimes lying doesn’t matter.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
If you want an episode where things have become worse, you have to go back to the one two weeks ago when Fry suddenly had a completely different job–and I’m not talking about the cop thing. They clearly decided the jokes were worth more than continuity. All the sudden he’s a pizza delivery boy again, and people are now suddenly allowed to change jobs, rather than the assigned career chips from Season 1.