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I just watched both the EyePhone and Holiday episodes. They're both bad, but the EyePhone was less bad. Maybe. It's a hard call. I don't like tests with too many choices.
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Perhaps I'm in the minority in that I enjoyed every episode this season and the others, even if some are slightly weaker in places than the norm. 
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Jul 2, 2011 22:06
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There was something in every episode to enjoy, don't get me wrong. They were all watchable and had a few funny bits here and there, they're just not memorable to me at all, with the exception of probably two great episodes. That's just my opinion though, obviously don't expect anyone to agree with me.
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Jul 2, 2011 22:15
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Martytoof posted:There was something in every episode to enjoy, don't get me wrong. They were all watchable and had a few funny bits here and there, they're just not memorable to me at all, with the exception of probably two great episodes. I didn't HATE the eyePhone episode. How can I hate something that gave us "Scruffy turned a reg'lar board inter a divin' board"?
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Jul 2, 2011 22:28
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eyePhone had a couple really amusing parts but the rest of the episode was terrible. And the Holiday epiosde, yikes. That one was just bad from start to finish.Martytoof posted:There was something in every episode to enjoy, don't get me wrong. They were all watchable and had a few funny bits here and there, they're just not memorable to me at all, with the exception of probably two great episodes. Pretty much this. I've enjoyed most of the new episodes but none of them really stick with me as being great episodes except The Late Philip J. Fry, the one where Fry, Bender and the Professor get stuck in the time machine and go through all the historical periods.
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Jul 2, 2011 22:36
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Shugojin posted:I didn't HATE the eyePhone episode. How can I hate something that gave us "Scruffy turned a reg'lar board inter a divin' board"? So much for a pleasant swim in vomit 
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Jul 2, 2011 22:52
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I thought the holiday special was funny and the eyePhone one was okay. 
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Jul 2, 2011 23:00
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The eyePhone episode would have been much better without that godawful Mom subplot. For a show that usually has great nerdy humor, that whole "We will transmit this virus once someone has 1,000,000 friends!" bullshit is just insulting dumb. It needed more vomiting and more Bender being great. Eh, on second thought, forget the vomiting.
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Jul 2, 2011 23:07
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As I said, I don't dislike the Eyephone episode, and I don't dislike the holiday one either. I thought the Cat one was much worse than either of them (though it wasn't unbearable or anything) and I know most people really like it but my least favorite episode of the half season was easily the evolution one, which is also my least favorite episode in general. Hell I though Garden of Eden one, while not bad per se, was worse than the Eyephone one. Just for the record the best episode of the season so far is still easily the body swap one followed by the Time Travel. axelblaze fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jul 2, 2011 |
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Jul 2, 2011 23:33
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axleblaze posted:and I know most people really like it but my least favorite episode of the half season was easily the evolution one, which is also my least favorite episode in general. I don't want to live on this planet, anymore.
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Jul 2, 2011 23:48
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Martytoof posted:Yet another OOOOH! NOW I get it!
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Jul 3, 2011 00:59
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Futurama: "Winter is coming."
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Jul 3, 2011 01:06
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Martytoof posted:Correct! Your
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Jul 3, 2011 01:40
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I can't hate the eyePhone episode because it gave us this.
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Jul 3, 2011 02:56
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Ensign_Ricky posted:I can't hate the eyePhone episode because it gave us this. This is from a GBS photoshop thread, what does the episode (which is really terrible) have to do with this? vvvvvvOh. OK.vvvvv Dred Cosmonaut fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jul 3, 2011 |
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Jul 3, 2011 03:40
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:This is from a GBS photoshop thread, what does the episode (which is really terrible) have to do with this? That's the exchange between the guy at the mom store and Fry
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Jul 3, 2011 03:42
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In my eyes all Futurama episodes are equal.  EVEN THE MOVIES!
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Jul 3, 2011 05:17
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If you honestly think the eyephone episode is 'terrible' you have bad taste and should feel bad. Man that one episode that was a parody of Titanic sure was better!
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:If you honestly think the eyephone episode is 'terrible' you have bad taste and should feel bad. Man that one episode that was a parody of Titanic sure was better! But the Titanic one is good because they waited a while to parody it, so it wasn't anything fresh or new, as opposed to the eyephone one where they waited a while to parody it, so it wasn't anything fresh or new.
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Jul 3, 2011 06:24
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Oh how I wish I could believe or understand that.
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Jul 3, 2011 06:27
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To be completely fair, when the Lucy Liu episode first aired in 2000-something I pretty much wrote it off as "topical guest star" trash too, but in time I came to love it because it integrated her so seamlessly. Plus it didn't hurt that I haven't heard her name once in like ten years since then, so she doesn't seem like such an obvious celebrity insert. I really doubt I'll feel the same way about any of these "topical" episodes, but maybe they'll grow on me. Who knows.
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Martytoof posted:To be completely fair, when the Lucy Liu episode first aired in 2000-something I pretty much wrote it off as "topical guest star" trash too, but in time I came to love it because it integrated her so seamlessly. I still feel that episode is one of the more dated. I mean the main plot involves a Napster reference. I just don't really care for that episode in the general though. And yes, It has a few good lines, but what episode doesn't?
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Jul 3, 2011 07:14
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The Titanic episode was better in that it had multiple funny jokes and such. Also I don't remember a thing about the Holiday Spectacular except thinking it was alright at the time. Maybe I should rewatch it. Honestly though, even if the iPhone episode was funny as hell all the way through but still had the boil thing I'd still consider it a bad episode - I don't know how that got through so many people and ended up in the show. I've never found anyone who liked it, and with good reason. However the rest of the episode wasn't funny and instead was "every joke that had already been made about the iPhone and Twitter but set in the future". It had some good one-liners, sure, but they all do. EDIT: hahaha ^^
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axleblaze posted:I still feel that episode is one of the more dated. I mean the main plot involves a Napster reference. Hey, if it worked for The Italian Job. Oh wait, no it loving didn't.
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Jul 3, 2011 14:46
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The only bit on Futurama that's been so dated it really bothered me was the Pat Buchanan joke in Future Stock.
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haveblue posted:The only bit on Futurama that's been so dated it really bothered me was the Pat Buchanan joke in Future Stock.
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Jul 3, 2011 16:59
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Coleman posted:The "Obamacare" line from the most recent episode is probably not going to age very well either. But everyones praising the glory of that episode! No I'm pretty sure I posted one page ago about how the most recent episode was poorly written.
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Jul 3, 2011 17:19
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Brett824 posted:No I'm pretty sure I posted one page ago about how the most recent episode was poorly written. There are plenty of episodes I like less than others (which I will decline to mention because I know at least one of them is very popular), but it's never due to "oh that joke won't age well." I mean have you guys never watched South Park? If it weren't for topical humor that show would've been off the air 5 years ago. And most people still accept it for what it is and maintain it's only gotten BETTER with age.
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Coleman posted:I mean have you guys never watched South Park? If it weren't for topical humor that show would've been off the air 5 years ago. And most people still accept it for what it is and maintain it's only gotten BETTER with age. South Park turned its whole premise into parody of pop culture/current events. They can pump episodes out in like two weeks or less, so episodes are a little more "disposable". They're meant to be enjoyed around the time that they're created, and then if they hold up over time that's awesome, but if they don't corporations will still pay for ad time and ad space so who gives a gently caress. Comedy Central seems to want its other animated shows to be able to follow the same model, but hand-drawn animation takes so much longer to produce that you can't really rely on pop culture references that aren't going to be relevant 6 months after they're written into the show. Lots of animated shows have been trending toward more parody or character-development driven storylines because with parody you have a preexisting audience and with character-development/multiple-episode based story arcs you build viewer loyalty. This is my own cynical hypothesis as someone who works in the lower levels of television animation.
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Coleman posted:The "Obamacare" line from the most recent episode is probably not going to age very well either. But everyones praising the glory of that episode! It already wasn't funny when it aired. It was a great example of how not to do topical references (directly in random one-liners). The ghostbuster reference, on the other hand, was awesome and hilarious.
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Jul 3, 2011 19:09
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The point is, shows add in Topical Humor all the time. Even topical non-humor, serious shows referencing real world events, people, what have you. I just don't get why it's some huge deal if it doesn't hold up 10 years from now.
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Jul 3, 2011 20:05
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Even if people don't remember Napter the joke still works because they'll assume it's a random company name and then the sign will break revealing it's actually kidnapster.
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The problem with a lot of topical jokes is that they aren't actually jokes, even though they're played as if they are. Like, Bender screaming "OBAMACARE!!!" is played like a punchline of some sort, but it's not, really. It's just Bender referencing a thing that exists. That's not funny.
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DirtyRobot posted:The problem with a lot of topical jokes is that they aren't actually jokes, even though they're played as if they are. Like, Bender screaming "OBAMACARE!!!" is played like a punchline of some sort, but it's not, really. It's just Bender referencing a thing that exists. That's not funny. Also, I recently watched all of the last half-season's episodes except for the holiday one (which I didn't care for at all on the first viewing) and the EyePhone one is the only one I'd say I actually disliked. That's not because it was too topical; it was just kind of obnoxious and not very funny minus a few good lines.
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I think we can all agree that the Obamacare line is timeless compated to the Kardashian reference in the Bender clone episode. Not only was that a bad, reference that would have been dated a year ago, but it didn't even make any sense. I mean with Obamacare line at least there was a vague joke there (that Obamacare is somehow miraculous, when no matter how you fall politically, I think it can be agreed that it is not). It worked in the ironic sense. On the other hand the Kardashian reference was just senseless and confusing. I liked that episode but that line was inexcusable. It was pointlessly topical. Topical jokes on Futurama are kind o bad in the first place. Given the setting they're just distracting and rarely funny. They have to at least be funny, rather than just being a reference to a thing. With that joke it was a reference to a thing that didn't even make sense. axelblaze fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Jul 3, 2011 |
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When I watch old episodes of the Simpsons, I am consistently infuriated that I no longer understand old jokes about President Clinton.
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I thought the Obamacare joke was funny because of the absurdity that it would still be on the books in a thousand years, much less remembered.
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Jul 3, 2011 21:23
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Vogon Poet posted:Actually, it is a joke about how "Obamacare" is a huge bogeyman for conservatives. Whether it's a funny joke or not is up to the viewer; I personally thought it was pretty funny. I was actually surprised by the mixed reactions here to the newest episode, because I thought it was great and easily the best of the three new ones so far. I actually did really like the most recent episode, that line aside.
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Leovinus posted:President Clinton. Who? I skipped a lot of ancient egyptian algebra.
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Manos del Sino posted:I thought the Obamacare joke was funny because of the absurdity that it would still be on the books in a thousand years, much less remembered. THE SCARY DOOR
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