Episodes 6x14 and 6x15 official comment post

[cork118]

Welcome to the world of tomorrow to all you noobs, greetings as always to our old members, and all hail the Hypnotoad!

Sweet lion of Zion, new episodes of Futurama start tonight on Comedy Central at 10 EST/9 CST! And good news, everyone!: we get not one, but TWO NEW EPS in a row! We're starting off with Neutopia, followed by Benderama. Post

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[screamingdolai]

I chuckled a few times, but again, it feels like Comedy Central has perhaps mutated the brains of the writers and now they write for the lowest comedy denominator. Or maybe Zoidberg is writing now.

[mouseears2007]

I very much enjoyed both episodes and laughed quite a few times.

Maybe I enjoy both smart and low-brow humor. *shrugs*

Something I HAVE noticed though is the more I watch an episode the more I like it. Episodes I didn't like last season I like much much more now that I have been able to watch each episode several times. For me it's one of those series that ages well and gets better the more I watch it... both new and old episodes.

I personally laughed until I cried at girl Scruffy's mustache though.

[luminum]

You know, I HAVE noticed that, too...Maybe I should give them a wait.

But no amount of rewatching will make me like The DuhVinci Code...

[mouseears2007]

That's probably the one episode that I just do not like in any way shape or form.

But there is 1 or 2 like that in the original seasons for me too.

[luminum]

I think My Three Suns is like that for me, too, though I feel that even My Three Suns is way higher in quality than the bad episodes this season.

I think all my concerns about Futurama's revival in the earlier episodes only continue with these two. I was hoping that those issues would be ironed out in this half-season now that they had some practice, but it might be a full-season issue...

[odannygirl7]

Liked Benderama better. The nano stuff was science-ish and cool.
Neutopia was just a frustrating mess though. The constant mixing up of sex and gender... ergh. I was so having 'windmills do not work that way!' moments.

[luminum]

Right there with you. It's frustrating how short the writers always seem to fall in getting the discourse about gender and sex to write something smart and funny about it. Can't be experts on everything, I guess. :| Still, math and science jokes are better than what most others are doing. :D

[odannygirl7]

They're so close... and then it just falls apart and gets all muddy. I think they could take five mins and google the difference between sex and gender (and how removing ones genitals doesn't always dissolve their orientation or desire for sex...) and give it the old college try. lol. And I was dissapointed that there wasn't a ref to Bender being a girl before. He should have been teaching Fry to glob on the lipstick.

Math and science jokes ftw! Their nerdiness is their greates power! :D

[nicolexisxdead]

Eh. I wish I'd liked them more.

[atomgal]

A few thoughts in no particular order:

Futurama really doesn't need to do Battle of the Sexes/Genders anymore. It's been done. And done. That said, the animation was pretty funny. Hermes as a woman really made me laugh for some reason.

I liked Benderama better because it reminded me of the older seasons - they actually have a delivery to make, they meet some weird alien, Bender is lazy, and there's funny science jokes.

To the point that was brought up before about pop culture references, I chuckled at Fry's Kardashian joke (it's funny because it's true), but then it bothered me because there's no way Fry would know about the Kardashians.

[luminum]

Right. I feel like with the pop culture references, they're really great when they bend them a bit into something futuristic instead. Like, do they need to drop all those clothing name brands as is? Giving them spacey names would have been cute and true to the theme of the show.

I feel like that's what they used to do.

[atomgal]

Yes! Alien Overlord & Taylor was one of my favorite gags. :)

But "Tommy Hilfi-kajigger" was kinda funny.