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axleblaze posted:Wait...people don't like the Honking? I think that's literally my favorite episode. Shhh, shhh, it's okay. Keep on believing what you were programmed to believe...
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Leovinus posted:It's not bad, it's just a bit humdrum. Makes a lot of people's bottom five. God I love that episode. B-E-N-D-E-R, BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDER! B-E-N-D-E-R, BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDER!
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 15:18 |
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The Honking has a load of great bits but they don't hang well enough together, in my opinion. The thing about Fry being Bender's best friend isn't very interesting I think.
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I dunno, I never thought too badly of The Honkening, and can definitely not do so now that the most recent season has had as many stinkers as it's had. My Bottom 5 list of Futurama episodes is frequently being updated with them as they come out. At least we've had some amazing episodes to balance that out. Mobius Dick, Silence of the Clamps, Ghost in the Machine, and Yo Leela Leela are easily the worst episodes yet.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 15:54 |
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This episode was decent. I didn't love it, but it was funny and i had no major complaints to speak of. Got a The Honking vibe from it too, but I liked The Honking much much more for one reason or another. Anyway, not a bad episode all in all. This one's going on the re-watch pile with most of the others.
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I noticed the number of bones, but wasn't sure what it meant (other than that it was abnormal).Martytoof posted:This episode was decent. I didn't love it, but it was funny and i had no major complaints to speak of. Got a The Honking vibe from it too, but I liked The Honking much much more for one reason or another. Anyway, not a bad episode all in all. This one's going on the re-watch pile with most of the others. Not a word there I disagree with.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I think the best line was "This is going to kill him more than it does me" Fry I know you're upset right now but I hope you'll consider donating the body to sciencedinner   Evil Mastermind posted:Hey, can I axe someone to post a screenshot of the Vampire's stats? 
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I can't let my monstrous deboner hurt Leela.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 18:09 |
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Zarkov Cortez posted:Fry I know you're upset right now but I hope you'll consider donating the body to sciencedinner They're really enjoying the portmanteaus this series.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 18:24 |
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I loved The Honking too, gotta admit. Sadly, "space Scotland" is a lot less clever a place to have a monster story visit than "robot Transylvania", but I can cope.
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Alter Ego posted:The new thread title needs to be either "Futurama: I'm scaroused!" or "Futurama: Mr. Peppy! Bullets make you talk?" Futurama: no different than stomping a puppy
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 19:08 |
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"I'm scareroused!" This was a good episode, also Mr.Peppy is awesome.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 19:22 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:They're really enjoying the portmanteaus this series. I just hope they don't portmantoverdoit.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2011 19:23 |
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I'm rewatching a few of my old favorites, and man, Parasites Lost still makes me cry. Honestly, I find it sadder than Jurassic Bark. "No man would willingly make himself stupid!" "Obviously you've never been in love!"  And honestly, I think that's why the whole Fry-Leela lack of relationship thing is sorta pissing me off. I like seeing them together. It's just a sweet story. Edit: I'm as dumb as Fry! SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at Aug 12, 2011 around 20:15 |
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I dunno, I liked the episode for what it was. It's definitely not that great when you compare it to some of the others in the new run, but it was enjoyable enough. The "Mr. Peppy, bullets make you talk?  " line had me laughing a lot.SpiderHyphenMan posted:I'm rewatching a few of my old favorites, and man, Parasites Lost still makes me cry. Honestly, I find it sadder than Jurassic Bark. That's one of my favorites too. It doesn't quite beat out Jurassic Bark for me in terms of sadness, but it's definitely a close second. Monicro fucked around with this message at Aug 12, 2011 around 19:58 |
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I just hope they don't portmantoverdoit. I get it!
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I just hope they don't portmantoverdoit. The season finale is just going to be fry and zoidberg on screen for 22 minutes, Fry making unfunny portmanteaus and Zoidberg raising and lowering his head-fin. Also Hermes will walk back and forth in and out of the scene every few minutes. "I love me Jamaican cigars wink wink"
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John Dough posted:I guess Bender is also 40% humidor.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I'm rewatching a few of my old favorites, and man, Parasites Lost still makes me cry. Honestly, I find it sadder than Jurassic Bark. ROBOPUPPY RECEIVING PETTING made that episode much softer a hit.
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Martytoof posted:The season finale is just going to be fry and zoidberg on screen for 22 minutes, Fry making unfunny portmanteaus and Zoidberg raising and lowering his head-fin. Needs Scruffy standing there and going "uhr-hmm" after every third line.
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sebzilla posted:Needs Scruffy standing there and going "uhr-hmm" after every third line.
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Oh, Lord.
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Martytoof posted:The season finale is just going to be fry and zoidberg on screen for 22 minutes, Fry making unfunny portmanteaus and Zoidberg raising and lowering his head-fin. Now I can't help but think of Futurama doing an entire episode showing a Mayonnaise jar.  Also, about the Fry/Leela thing, I have to say them going back to the on/off thing with them bugs me. I'm fine with them breaking most continuity things, but it really felt nice that it seemed like this one thing was allowed to have continuity and it felt like Fry and Leela made progress on, with Into the Wild Green Yonder and the first few episodes of this season. Especially since, prior to that, I honestly felt like the on/off was just getting annoying. I wanted to see them either get together or come to terms with that they weren't going to be. You can only see Fry pine after Leela and have her reject him so many times before it gets pathetic instead of funny. Not only that, but them actually being together would've opened the door up to new material they couldn't have done when they weren't.
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ParagonParadox27 posted:ROBOPUPPY RECEIVING PETTING made that episode much softer a hit.  ROBOPUPPY MISTREATMENT ALERT!! ROBOPUPPY MISTREATMENT ALERT!!
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Aristobulus posted:Especially since, prior to that, I honestly felt like the on/off was just getting annoying. I wanted to see them either get together or come to terms with that they weren't going to be. You can only see Fry pine after Leela and have her reject him so many times before it gets pathetic instead of funny. Honestly, it didn't bug me that much until the line "My completely platonic friend is right." It felt like a needless cheap throwaway gag at the expense of characterization, and that's sort of the thing I feel Futurama should be above.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:"The Late Phillip J Fry" had them together, and it was pretty much without a doubt the best post-return episode yet. Futurama is at its best when it's touching as well as hilarious, and to have something as drastic as a relationship between two main characters be treated as a "WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY OH WAIT THEY ALREADY HAVE EXCEPT NOT HO HO HO" running gag feels... wrong. Yeah, you're right. The touching episodes do tend to be the best, and I think it's somewhat telling that this half-season so far has had nothing but straight humor episodes, really.
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Aristobulus posted:Yeah, you're right. The touching episodes do tend to be the best, and I think it's somewhat telling that this half-season so far has had nothing but straight humor episodes, really. Sad, really.
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Yeah, the problem I have with the Leela/Fry thing is they're just treating it like any other plot point as in they're making it match up to whatever the episode needs. I mean you have episodes like "Rebirth" where Leela and Fry can't live without each other, one's like "The Late Phillip J Fry", where they're dating or one's like "Prisoner of Benda" where no big thing is made of them sleeping together. Hell there was a throw away joke in "The Duh-Vinci Code" that where Leela agrees to "Join the mile deep club". Then there are episodes that just tend to forget it all like "The Mutants are Revolting" where it's treated like it's still a secret or this week's where it's just thrown away so Leela can pine after some jerk while Fry pines after her. I know the show treats everything like this but I just feel you can't conclude a "Will they/Won't they" type deal and then go back on it because it's not as funny when they're together. "Will they/won't they" plots are tedious as it is without the series welshing on wrapping it up. E: SpiderHyphenMan posted:Ghost in the Machines was probably the closest the show has gotten to "touching" apart from The Late Phillip J Fry since the return. Lethal Inspections had some decent emotional stuff. Honestly the ratio of emotional to none emotional episodes seems about the same. The emotional ones were always the exception, not the rule. axleblaze fucked around with this message at Aug 13, 2011 around 05:47 |
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axleblaze posted:Lethal Inspections had some decent emotional stuff. Honestly the ratio of emotional to none emotional episodes seems about the same. The emotional one's were always the exception, not the rule. And it deserves points for making a very unique character combo work brilliantly. Not to mention it boasts some great lines.
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Lance of Llanwyln posted:Yeah, Lethal Inspection is pretty great, even if it's overshadowed slightly by The Late Philip J. Fry. But it's still top-notch in and of itself. SOMEBODY SAID "LETHAL"! 
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I thought tonight's episode was, while not particularly hilarious, still pretty good. Most notably I liked Fry's lines a lot more than in recent episodes, he seemed a lot more like the Fry from the original run. I was worried it was going to be another Poppler episode for a minute but they executed it well. I also enjoyed the Dr. Seuss joke since I felt Mr. Pepper was basically drawn in that sort of style. Plus,appropriatemetaphor posted:Dersu Uzala Yojimbo Rashomon!!
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I don't think they're throwing the Fry/Leela relationship away, but I am wondering if it is them deciding what's convenient per episode. They really did back way the hell off after Rebirth, but the feeling I got there was that Leela made a robot dupe because she was still upset over losing someone she just realized she had deeper feelings for, and Fry because he really loves her. The feel I've been getting is that they're supposed to be pretty casually dating, taking it slow, not having made a serious commitment yet. Fry, obviously, is pretty fully devoted to the relationship. In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", Leela took a few decades to realize how deeply she loved Fry before leaving him that message. As for this episode, Leela was a bit of an rear end about it, but I got the feeling Fry's stink eye was coming from her pretending there wasn't anything going on with them, not that he was back to pining for her. I'm thinking the writers are taking this approach as they are probably worried about changing the dynamic too much, or don't want to devote too much time to the two just being all lovey dovey. There's been a distinct lack of that even in other couples since the DVD movies. Amy has slept with two people other than Kif since then, and it's been written off pretty casually, and LaBarbara cheats on Hermes any chance she has. Practical Demon fucked around with this message at Aug 13, 2011 around 09:27 |
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John Dough posted:One of my favourite Futurama visual gags to date.
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Practical Demon posted:I don't think they're throwing the Fry/Leela relationship away, but I am wondering if it is them deciding what's convenient per episode.
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Oh how I wish I could believe or understand that.
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Some Strange Flea posted:The half-season is not airing in production order. They may yet be a reason why this is going on that will be explained in the future past! So what you think you just explained to us is that...
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| # ? Aug 13, 2011 16:29 |
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So after rewatching the latest episode I believe the whole "my purely platonic friend" shtick from Leela was only to convince that Angus fella (we're ALL named Angus!) to not immediately kill the crap out of the Bone Vampire but rather wait a few days. I guess it comes of as a little stilted but it might be some kind of reverse psychology reminder that Fry and Leela are, indeed, still together. 
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Doctor Spaceman posted:So what you think you just explained to us is that... Correct! 6000 hulls!
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abraxas posted:So after rewatching the latest episode I believe the whole "my purely platonic friend" shtick from Leela was only to convince that Angus fella (we're ALL named Angus!) to not immediately kill the crap out of the Bone Vampire but rather wait a few days. I guess it comes of as a little stilted but it might be some kind of reverse psychology reminder that Fry and Leela are, indeed, still together. Perhaps you mean that the "platonic" line was meant for Angus, not for we the audience, and was intended to show her opinion was not biased due to a romantic relationship with Fry.
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