Futurama - 03/02/03 (1 Viewer)

[Roger_C]

Man am I going to miss this show. A great episode after a long hiatus.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

SHIT! I didn't even know it was on...

 

[Rex Bachmann]

Roger_C wrote (post #1):

Yes, but I'd say only a pretty good episode, by Futurama standards.

The two real gems of this episode ("Less Than Hero") are

(a) The Fox Network in-joke when the Zookeeper, who tries to steal the Gemerald, says "Animals, attack!"

(Also, the Zookeeper, to me, looks suspiciously like Dr. Marvin Monroe, the "pop-psychologist" from the early years of the Simpsons.)

(b) Leela (Clobberella) tells Frye (Captain Yesterday) that they should keep their real identities secret from the public to avoid liability suits for all the "collateral damage" they do in defending justice.


Other goodies:

---Without the FlimFlamMan cream the heroes become "superpowerly challenged".

---Bender pondering whether to change his superhero moniker to "El Zilcho".

 

[Rex Bachmann]

Adam Lenhardt wrote (post #2):

And therein is encapsulated the problem from the beginning in a nutshell.

By the way, it's seems unclear that all the remaining episodes will be shown this season, and that would leave up to five or so remaining for next(?) or for never(?) ("DVD-only"?)

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Boy I love FOX's marketing of this show. I figured that there'd be an hour of King of the Hill from now on so I stopped checking to see whether they'd show anymore Futurama.
DAMN YOU FOX FOR SINKING ONE OF THE BEST ANIMATED SHOWS OF ALL TIME

 

[Roger_C]

I didn't know it was on either. I forgot to check. I found out about 7:25!! Luckily I found a west coast feed and saw it at 8.

And yes, maybe is was only GOOD by Futurama standands; but a good Futurama is better than most anything else on!

 

[MarcVH]

Huh. I thought the best part was the supercollider the bought from pi-kea. "Enjoy your affordable Svedish crap!"

 

[Dan Rudolph]

Was it just me, or did this play largely like an episdode of Freakazoid, complete with musical interlude.

 

[Chris Beveridge]

Once again, thank god for Tivo and season passes.

 

[TonyD]

heh on tonights rerun on cartoon net. they said "all your base are belong to us"

it was the what if ep when frye wondered what if life was like a video game. and he had to play space invaders.