The Official Futurama Griefing Thread - Revived for Hulu because Matt Groening needs to milk his cartoons to death

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Oh god I can already see Trump's head in a jar "joke". And I had a long rant on the worst episode thread about the revival episode they did with the birth certificate.

It would go full woke and suck even harder.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

The show had four finales. Just let it stay dead.

It wants to be the first show in history to have five different finales

 

[King Dedede]

Just kill me already

 

[The Nothingness]

Oh god I can already see Trump's head in a jar "joke". And I had a long rant on the worst episode thread about the revival episode they did with the birth certificate.

It would go full woke and suck even harder.

Expect a "January 6th" episode where Fry is manipulated into storming the Capitol.

 

[Flexo]

We'll see what @Bender has to say.

Original run was pretty gold. Movies are hit or miss but have their moments. The restoration was much weaker until their last season where the writers admitted they had run out of ideas. And then somehow it got better again.

Without the cancelation sword of Fox hanging over their heads I just don't think the writers have it in them any more.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Just kill me already

 

[Starscreams Cape]

We'll see what @Bender has to say.

Original run was pretty gold. Movies are hit or miss but have their moments. The restoration was much weaker until their last season where the writers admitted they had run out of ideas. And then somehow it got better again.

Without the cancelation sword of Fox hanging over their heads I just don't think the writers have it in them any more.

Plus, haven't you heard? Since 2016 comedy is as dead as a doornail.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I wasn't that big on Disenchantment

Disenchantment was the blandest shit ever written by man.

 

[derpherp2]

So I'm guessing disenchantment flopped?

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

I really enjoy disenchantment.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

God forbid we let some young people make new original cartoons because they'd probably just suck right?

It's modern America, so of course the Boomer has keep all for himself, damn the consequences for the future.

As for my opinion of the show, the Fox run was great, the movies started off strong, but each entry got worse, the CC run had okay episodes but I honestly cannot remember most of them (a bad sign there).

I've said it before on the Simpsons Griefing Thread, and I will note the same thing here: the storehouse of Futurama's humor is the corpus of science fiction. In all honesty, that world is now closed and finish, replaced with unbearable awful garbage, noteworthy only in its politics. My guess is that sometime during Futurama's run — maybe during the Fox years, definitely during the CC years — it exhausted that well, just as the Simpsons exhausted its well of late 20th century pop culture. All that remains is an empty husk.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

Plus, haven't you heard? Since 2016 January 20, 2009 comedy is as dead as a doornail.

FTFY

 

[Creep3r]

I was never fond with how Leela and Fry's relationship was handled, but the Devil's Hands episode always felt like the best way to end the show on an open yet highly entertaining note. Everything else that came afterwards just felt like hit or miss milking by Groening to see if he could turn this into another Simpsons for him to cash in on and drive into the ground for all eternity.

The fact that his crummy new fantasy show on netflix flopped means he'll be more determined than ever to revive Futurama and keep it going for as long as the Simpsons, if not longer if possible.

 

[Ruin]

John DiMaggio is a massive sjw and Trump derangement syndrome victim. If even he has the good sense to avoid this project it's probably shit.

 

[Quijibo69]

Does anyone want to help me find some 30 year old docs to nuke Futurama?

 

[Professor G. Raff]

The original run of Futarama is potentially the best adult animated series ever (yes, even including early Simpsons). They already diluted that a lot with the revival... but now it is just going to be pissing on it's grave. Even the revival had some shoehorned modern political BS (that obvious Obama episode) and that was in a time when it was 1% of how bad things are now.

King of the Hill is already going to get wrecked... must everything I appreciate be destroyed?

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

The first season was rough. Seasons 2 and 3 were basically one home run after another. The show was clearly losing steam by season 4. Nothing wrong with that! Most shows don't have two and a half good seasons in them. The fleeting nature makes it more special.

I'll admit that I don't give a shit about the Fry and Leela love story, which I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this season will continue. These two are obviously *not* suited for each other. The later episodes' insistence that theirs was some romance for the ages was just dumb.

Guessing the recasting of DiMaggio is a power play by the producers; The Simpsons pulled a similar stunt some years back when the voice cast demanded more money. Bender is one of the all-time great comedic voice performances and I truly don't think the show would work without him, and I have to imagine the producers know that.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

I never entertained the slightest notion of watching Disenchanted. I could picture the articles from the Mary Sue and the like: "At last! A strong independent woman subverts the tired old fairy tale tropes and proves she don't need no Prince!" As if that trope hadn't been used to beat us about the head since, what, the 90s?

Did it flop, then?



Now all those writers, having pickled their brains in that pot of clunky, stale progressivism, are raring to get back to Futurama. Hurrah.

 

[Product Placement]

Futurama, before it was cancelled, was all good, movies I enjoyed most of them and even the weaker ones I wouldn't call bad, the comeback show was much more hit and miss with some truly great episodes such as The Late Philip J. Fry but on the same hand truly awful ones such as The Butterjunk Effect.

I'd rather the show stay dead, it ended on a good note and not sure the team has it in them to make a 5th ending that works, let alone a show that is overall good.

 

[thegooddoctor]

The show had four finales. Just let it stay dead.

Yeah but Groening would never allow it considering how his passion project of Disenchantment kind of went nowhere, the Fox run was easily the peak of the franchise, I do really like the TV movies and felt they kept in spirit with the original series. They should have ended it there, it was a good natural conclusion to the show. Anyway I’m really glad we got a Futurama thread after all these years, too bad this revival is almost certainly gonna be a shitshow, Should have stayed dead since 2013 but alas money reasons.