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Did you realize that in a thread about a t.v. show, people will actually discuss the show?
FUTURAMA: Rebirth
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Did you realize that in a thread about a t.v. show, people will actually discuss the show?
I'd say that's right on the money.
I don't see any reason why Leela and the others should react to two co-workers wanting to marry as they would to Fry being addicted to cheap Internet porn.
Do you not understand that people, and characters change throughout the years?
For whatever reason, I found the entire clownitis gag very, very funny.
I don't know what you're talking about. The show is clearly a documentary series.
Seriously, it's not the first and won't be the last time the show has done a complete 180. I just happen to have really liked I Dated A Robot.
"Proposition Infinity" wasn't one of the greats, but it was a damn sight better than the previous episode. The relationship changes were a bit rushed, but you could say the same about a number of past romances involving Bender or Amy (heck, even Amy/Kif began as a throwaway gag), or indeed most of the romantic plots in this show. And the treatment of the issue could've been funnier if it had been a little more subtle here and there, but there were some excellent gags, some of which were subtler than others. (I didn't get "pre-op Transformer" until just now.)
This is the kind of "topical" episode that works better than one like last week's. Even if the most direct references are to a current issue, the debate over gay marriage, the broader issues of tolerance and discrimination are timeless. And casting it in a futuristic context, i.e. organic prejudice against robotic life forms, works better than past Futurama episodes that have shown 31st-century society to be at about a 1960s level when it came to gender equality in sports or the military.
They look kinda like Edna Krabappel and Seymour Skinner dressed up for a Trek convention.
Oh, and judging from the folks in the background, it looks like rings are back in fashion.
Whereas I found it a pointless intrusion. Too randomly bizarre. Something more sci-fi, like the brain slugs, would've worked better. And the brain slugs actually worked as a kind of subplot. This was just there for a few gags and then vanished.
This is the kind of "topical" episode that works better than one like last week's. Even if the most direct references are to a current issue, the debate over gay marriage, the broader issues of tolerance and discrimination are timeless. And casting it in a futuristic context, i.e. organic prejudice against robotic life forms, works better than past Futurama episodes that have shown 31st-century society to be at about a 1960s level when it came to gender equality in sports or the military.
On the other hand you apparently missed the 'interracial couple':
They look kinda like Edna Krabappel and Seymour Skinner dressed up for a Trek convention.
Oh, and judging from the folks in the background, it looks like rings are back in fashion.
Whereas I found it a pointless intrusion. Too randomly bizarre. Something more sci-fi, like the brain slugs, would've worked better. And the brain slugs actually worked as a kind of subplot. This was just there for a few gags and then vanished.
How dare they!
So? It's a throwaway gag which lasted less than a minute, and it was funny. It's an animated sitcom, not everything has to be relevant to the plot.
And it's not like it's the first time Futurama has featured a wacky, illogical disease: boneitis, anyone?
But that had actual plot relevance.
On the other hand you apparently missed the 'interracial couple':
They look kinda like Edna Krabappel and Seymour Skinner dressed up for a Trek convention.
Oh my! Can't believe I didn't see it.
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Hmm.. the pr-op Transformer joke. Either it wasn't very funny or I don't get it.
I fear I don't get it.
What the hell is going on here?
My guess is, this has something to do with the Transformer movies in which one transformer's transformed form was changed from a VW Bug to a sports car.
Hmm.. the pr-op Transformer joke. Either it wasn't very funny or I don't get it.
I fear I don't get it.
What the hell is going on here?
It's a play on "pre-op transsexual," i.e. someone who's living the lifestyle of the opposite sex and is on hormone treatments but hasn't yet had the gender-reassignment surgery to complete the process (pre-op = pre-operation). So the joke here was that this robot could change form in a limited way but didn't yet have the full capabilities of a Transformer because he was "pre-op."
Quite. I mean, this is the show that brought us the What-If Machine, essentially an excuse for 22 minutes worth of throwaway gags.
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