best episode ever: last night's Futurama

Last night's Futurama episode (Roswell that ends well) reminded me why I like animated comedies. It's what the Simpsons no longer is. There was actually a developed plot, the sight gags were hilarious, and there were lots of great quotes (that's not a UFO, that's my ass).

Digital Puer wrote:

Yes, that was a great episode. If only Matt would go back to concentrating on the Simpsons as much as he's focusing on Futurama.

Brian

Agreed - compare that to the Simpsons ep yesterday, which was one of the worst I've ever seen. The second half of Futurama season 3 was pretty bad IMO, but it's made a good start on season 4.

It'll get shitty... it aaaaaaalways does. Although I get through my weeks at school dreaming about Sunday nights on Fox.

I also saw a promo for a show called "That 80's Show". That'll without a doubt suck.

Chris Jones wrote in message news:VqcR7.15190$RT4.181100@NewsReader...

I am a big fan of Futurama, but I thought that last night's episode was horrible. I sat there in silence and laughed out loud once.

"I concur." (voting for the Brain-Slug Party)

<The second half of Futurama season 3 was pretty bad IMO, but it's made a good start on season 4.

Correction: Almost all of Season 3 was bad.

~Paul Melnyk, too Laozi to come up with a witty nickname. "An autocrat is a facist that's loved, a dictator is a fascist that's hated."

In article , [email] (Darth Arada) writes:

It was a great episode and the animation seemed particulary good, but I have to say that an actually funny episode with more than just a few catch phrases/funny lines here and there is the exception rather than the rule for Futurama. I hardly watched a complete episode last season because the stories always seemed very slow and unfunny to me...but last night's episode will make me give it a try again this season though.

Kevin

Kevin Madden wrote:

That's because S3 was a tad weak for Futurama--try an episode like Xmas Story (on this Sunday) from S1 or S2.

Brian

Digital Puer wrote in message news:...

I'm 43, and I thought it was indeed the best damn episode yet.

I don't know how old you are, but it might've helped to have been of a certain age. Not old enough to remember what life was like in 1947 necessarily, but to be able to chuckle with some social history perspective at the rather touching questions posed by Fry's grandpa ("Do you ever feel like we only go out with girls because we're supposed to?"); to "get" that footage of the house being blasted away; the way Fry is addressing Truman as "sir" while he's fighting him--all that stuff.

--Dirk

Dirk wrote:

It's less of an age question than a knowledge question--which is one of the redeeming aspects of the episode. Futurama has yet to devolve into lowest-common-denominator episodes (some jokes are at the LCD, but not the entire episode.)

Brian

I don't think it has anything to do with age. I also thought it was one of the greatest episodes ever. It once again totally and absolutely blew away The Simpsons and is a reminder of the kind of jam-packed, brilliant entertainment that show once provided, if not even surpassing it in some ways. This Futurama episode succeeded by virtue of its non-stop, fast paced, cinematic storytelling, the way it integrated parallel stories among different characters and gave them all a key purpose in the plot, and the absolute hilarity of so many different styles of humor from the low comedy to the subtle references being pulled off so successfully while being juxtaposed against an unpredictable story with a great beginning, middle, and end. This was an utter, mind-blowing classic and any Simpsons fans who want to feel the true energy and brilliance of The Simpsons' past greatness absolutely should not be missing Futurama.

Yeah, I like when they make you think.

See "Guy, Family" for more information on LCD episodes.

Dave (can't stomach such trash.)

As if age and awareness were coincidental ... Besides, I doubt there are many on the writing staff who are as old as you. : )

I hadn't thought of this as a historical joke, but I suppose it is. Fry's panicked response is equally as relevant. Of course, he had a good reason.