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Amusing, but not one of their better ones. I think part of it was that it wasn't very cohesive. One story was about Kiff and Amy getting married. Another about Fry and his new girlfriend. (Which just seemed really strange coming off of this big timey-wimey love story between Fry and Leela. I don't even really care about "ships" in Futurama but I found this...strange.) Another about Yivo the monsterpuss who was having sex with/dating the whole universe. Another about Bender joining a brotherhood of robots. Another about Kiff dying.
It was a little light in that smart, sharp humor that I'm used to in Futurama - everything was a bit more broad. But I didn't hate it and there were some amusing parts. The head of Nixon never fails to crack me up. However, I'd watch Bender's Big Score again first and I'd definitely not introduce anyone to Futurama on this. (I'd do "Jurrasic Bark" for a first-time ep.)
One pretty cool extra on the DVD is that they put all the cutaways (and a small sampling of gameplay) from the 2003 Futurama video game. There's a good 20-30 minutes there and it tells its own story. I was just as amused by that as I was at TBWaBB. (The toaster that gets pushed around, allowing people to have "more lives" cracked me up.) It's done in horrible 2003 graphics, but all the voices are there and the whole thing was scripted like a normal episode.
Another thing is getting a small video of the voice actors in the recording studio. I didn't realize that they're all in there at the same time - at least the regulars were. Was fun to see Billy West, especially.
It was a little light in that smart, sharp humor that I'm used to in Futurama - everything was a bit more broad. But I didn't hate it and there were some amusing parts. The head of Nixon never fails to crack me up. However, I'd watch Bender's Big Score again first and I'd definitely not introduce anyone to Futurama on this. (I'd do "Jurrasic Bark" for a first-time ep.)
One pretty cool extra on the DVD is that they put all the cutaways (and a small sampling of gameplay) from the 2003 Futurama video game. There's a good 20-30 minutes there and it tells its own story. I was just as amused by that as I was at TBWaBB. (The toaster that gets pushed around, allowing people to have "more lives" cracked me up.) It's done in horrible 2003 graphics, but all the voices are there and the whole thing was scripted like a normal episode.
Another thing is getting a small video of the voice actors in the recording studio. I didn't realize that they're all in there at the same time - at least the regulars were. Was fun to see Billy West, especially.