Futurama: Bender's Game

[Kronos]

Spoiler: Best quote ever

Takei: "Way to kill the franchise, Bakula!"

Spoiler

As he's driving Bakula's ship, even.

True, but notice it immediately crashed into a wall, much like the show

Great movie

 

[votd]

I thought the Morks were hilarious as well.

"Maybe if you don't laugh at them they'll go away"

"It doesn't work!!!"

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I thought the Morks were hilarious as well.

"Maybe if you don't laugh at them they'll go away"

"It doesn't work!!!"

Me and my friend were both pissing ourselves at that part, too.

 

[Chris3123]

Well, this finally aired on Comedy Central last night, so I just now got to see it (I'm cheap ).

I thought it was ok. Better than the last two, I think. Better gags and such. I loved George Takei's brief cameo in the demolition derby scene: "Way to kill the franchise, Bakula!"

I thought the Morks were hilarious as well.

"Maybe if you don't laugh at them they'll go away"

"It doesn't work!!!"

Me and my friend were both pissing ourselves at that part, too.

That part got the biggest laugh from me out of the whole thing. I didn't get right away what she meant by "morks", but then I almost busted a gut when they started saying random Mork-isms. Maurice LaMarche does a decent Mork.

 

[Christopher]

^Maurice LaMarche does an extremely good Mork; usually his impressions just sound like Maurice LaMarche doing a rough approximation of somebody else, but his Robin Williams is excellent. My problem with the bit, though, is that there was absolutely no point to it other than giving LaMarche a chance to show off his Robin Williams impression. I mean, I could understand it if Mork were a widely reviled character like that Urkel monstrosity. But as far as I know, Mork is a character perceived fondly on the whole (despite the general lousiness of his show after the first season), so the bit about the characters reacting to the "Morks" with horror and revulsion just didn't make any sense to me.

I caught the last half of the Comedy Central broadcast, and I realized that the movie just doesn't hold up well. It's a cute conceit, but a lot of it just isn't very funny and much of it is pointless and gratuitous. I mean, "Wipe Castle?" What possible reason was there to make a toilet joke there? Not to mention the plot inconsistencies, like why Fry isn't initially altered by the reality shift and why he and Leela both keep their memories while everyone else is co-opted into the fantasy. (I suppose the first could be explained by the ever-handy handwave of Fry's missing delta brainwave, but Leela's intact memory is another matter.)

 

[bigdaddy]

I loved it until they got into the "Bender's Game" world, then it sucked.

 

[Trent Roman]

But as far as I know, Mork is a character perceived fondly on the whole (despite the general lousiness of his show after the first season), so the bit about the characters reacting to the "Morks" with horror and revulsion just didn't make any sense to me.

I think it was just a Robin Williams dig. Like Patchcord Adams and his painful humour.

I mean, "Wipe Castle?" What possible reason was there to make a toilet joke there?

Presumably a play on "White Castle", and/or colloquial references to toilets as 'ivory thrones'.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman