My favorite is probably Roswell that Ends Well.
One of my top 5 as well.
Bender's grave robbing at the end was priceless, "Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion"
Futurama: An Appreciation
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One of my top 5 as well.
Bender's grave robbing at the end was priceless, "Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion"
My favorite is probably Roswell that Ends Well.
One of my top 5 as well.
Bender's grave robbing at the end was priceless, "Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion"
That's from The Luck of the Fryish.
"Hey Fry, you want me to smack the corpse up a little?"
Call me crazy, but "Three Hundred Big Boys" and "The Farnsworth Paradox" remain two of my favorite episodes of the whole show, higher than "Jurassic Bark," which I found less tear jerking than "The Late Philip J. Fry" (but don't get me wrong, "Jurassic Bark" does make cry).
I've already decided that as soon as the show has ended (for the third time), I'm going to rewatch everything. And will be glorious.
Lastly, I completely agree with everything RJDiogenes said in his first post. The Truth.
I've already decided that as soon as the show has ended (for the third time), I'm going to rewatch everything. And will be glorious.
Lastly, I completely agree with everything RJDiogenes said in his first post. The Truth.
My favorite is probably Roswell that Ends Well.
One of my top 5 as well.
Bender's grave robbing at the end was priceless, "Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion"
That's from The Luck of the Fryish.
"Hey Fry, you want me to smack the corpse up a little?"
Sorry, quoted the wrong guy. You mentioned Luck Of The Fryish.
Roswell is great too. It explains a lot about the Fry family.
I...shit. I've never noticed that.
Damn you, dyslexia!
Dyslexia sukcs. 
So has nobody mentioned Where No Fan Has Gone Before yet?
What kind of Trek board is this anyway?!?
We met Walter Koenig at a convention last November, and I told him how much I enjoyed their Futurama episode. He told us that everyone did their part by themselves. There was no interaction amongst the TOS cast during the recording.
Not unusual, I suppose. But I had never really given it much thought. I has just assumed they were all together in the studio.
Bender: "Uh, can people who hate Star Trek leave?"
Walter Koenig: "Good question!"
What kind of Trek board is this anyway?!?
We met Walter Koenig at a convention last November, and I told him how much I enjoyed their Futurama episode. He told us that everyone did their part by themselves. There was no interaction amongst the TOS cast during the recording.
Not unusual, I suppose. But I had never really given it much thought. I has just assumed they were all together in the studio.
Bender: "Uh, can people who hate Star Trek leave?"
Walter Koenig: "Good question!"
No one has mentioned it because it goes without saying! 
As for all of them recording separately, I can't help but wonder why James Doohan declined. He said he didn't want to work with William Shatner, but he didn't want to be associated with him in any form?
As for all of them recording separately, I can't help but wonder why James Doohan declined. He said he didn't want to work with William Shatner, but he didn't want to be associated with him in any form?
^What, and deprive Welshie of his classic death scene?
So has nobody mentioned Where No Fan Has Gone Before yet?
What kind of Trek board is this anyway?!?
I wouldn't even put it in my top ten episodes. It's great and all but there are so many better episodes.
I don't think he was sick at the time, because if he was sick they wouldn't have made the jokes about him. I'm pretty sure their was a "scheduling conflict" from the fact no one told him he wouldn't have to put up with Shatner.
As we wind down to the series finale, I thought it appropriate to take a moment to reflect on what I consider the best animated show of all time.
Futurama was wonderfully animated, rich and thick like a great chocolate shake.
The top tier characters were just about perfect. Not only that, the second tier (Amy, Zoidberg, Hermes) were excellent, as were even the third tier characters (Mom, Zap Brannigan, Kif, Calculon of course) and hell the fourth tier (Robot Devil, Scruffy, Nibbler) too.
Futurama could move you. It had heart and soul. Think The Luck of the Fryish, Jurassic Bark, Game of Tones. When was the last time The Simpsons moved you? 10-15 years ago? Has Family Guy ever done it?
The romance between Fry and Leela (they'd better not screw this up!!!!) is epic. So hopeful. A mutant and a reject from the past, finding love in the 3000's! Brilliant! Think Fry's Holophoner episode, or the worms in Fry's sandwich. Or Leela being stung by the space bees. If you aren't rooting for these two, you're dead inside!
And how about the vision? Far from the ideal Star Trek future, this is a realistic vision, where we have a bunch of new stuff, but we're still lazy morons with a bloated bureaucracy and political corruption ("NIXON'S BACK!!!!"). We have more toys, but really haven't learned anything. "Society is never gonna make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other."
Bender...sure some will argue he's nothing more than a robot version of Homer Simpson, but that sells him short. An absolute breakout character. He's an awful, anti-social creature ("And on more than one ocassion, he stole my blood!"). But we still love him. What great depth and characterization is that?
I know there's already a thread for the final season, but let's take this thread to remember all the Greatness that is Futurama. Let us share our memories, favorite episodes, and favorite quotes one last time, in honor of the (almost) late, great, Futurama.
And if you don't like that, well: "JAM A BASTARD IN IT, YOU CRAP!!"
And let's not forget the best Trek spoof ever written, "Where No Fan Has Gone Before."
Oh, the ending of that episode made me cry, and I too can't watch it ever again.
