I've got nothing against a good throwaway gag. I just don't think the "circusitis" was a good one.
FUTURAMA: Rebirth
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Says who? I know there's one in the back-half of the season, but that's months off. I think that's the X-Mas episode, in fact.
According to Futurama Point, the reamining episodes before the mid-season hiatus are...
6acv05 - The Duh-Vinci Code
[Jul 15th, 2010] - The crew races to future Rome to unearth the shocking secret of Leonardo da Vinci.
6acv06 - Lethal Inspection
[Jul 15th (or 22th), 2010] - Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.
6acv07 - The Late Philip J. Fry
[Jul 29th, 2010] - The Professor invents a one-way time machine.
6acv08 - That Darn Katz!
[Aug 5th, 2010] - Earth is invaded by a race of intelligent cats.
6acv09 - A Clockwork Origin
[Aug 12th, 2010] - The theory of evolution is put to the test on a planet inhabited by robots.
6acv10 - A Prisoner of Benda
[Aug 19th, 2010] - A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
6acv11 - Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
[Aug 26th, 2010] - After a bungles Earth invasion, alien leader Lrrr faces a midlife crisis.
6acv12 - The Mutants Are Revolting
[Sep 2th, 2010] - Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.
[Jul 15th, 2010] - The crew races to future Rome to unearth the shocking secret of Leonardo da Vinci.
6acv06 - Lethal Inspection
[Jul 15th (or 22th), 2010] - Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.
6acv07 - The Late Philip J. Fry
[Jul 29th, 2010] - The Professor invents a one-way time machine.
6acv08 - That Darn Katz!
[Aug 5th, 2010] - Earth is invaded by a race of intelligent cats.
6acv09 - A Clockwork Origin
[Aug 12th, 2010] - The theory of evolution is put to the test on a planet inhabited by robots.
6acv10 - A Prisoner of Benda
[Aug 19th, 2010] - A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
6acv11 - Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
[Aug 26th, 2010] - After a bungles Earth invasion, alien leader Lrrr faces a midlife crisis.
6acv12 - The Mutants Are Revolting
[Sep 2th, 2010] - Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.
Ooh ooh! What if that thing he said?!?
You're correct.Says who? I know there's one in the back-half of the season, but that's months off. I think that's the X-Mas episode, in fact.
MeanJoePhaser
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"The Duh-Vinci Code" wasn't really good.
But I was never a big on them making Fry excessively stupid. A clueless clod, yes, a total moron...no.
"I was in the hospital 2 weeks and nobody came to visit me." (Not even Leela, who loves him...umm...okay...)
The best line was "Didn't we used to be a delivery service?"
But I was never a big on them making Fry excessively stupid. A clueless clod, yes, a total moron...no.
"I was in the hospital 2 weeks and nobody came to visit me." (Not even Leela, who loves him...umm...okay...)
The best line was "Didn't we used to be a delivery service?"
"The Duh-Vinci Code" was a lot of fun. A wackier episode than usual, but there were a lot of good gags and no serious negatives. At first it seemed it was less character-driven than usual and more gag-driven, but the character side emerged more in the final act. I saw it coming that the great invention would be what it turned out to be, once Leonardo confessed his frustrations, but it still worked, and it was nice seeing Fry stand for something and act heroically.
And yeah, Hermes' "Didn't we used to be a delivery company?" line broke me up. And I agree it was sad that nobody visited Fry in the hospital. That was going a little far, and out of character for Leela at this stage.
What I want to know is, how did Fry and the Professor survive a month in that spaceship without food or water? And why didn't their beards grow? Were they in suspended animation somehow?
I look forward to seeing the annotations online explaining all the math references.
And yeah, Hermes' "Didn't we used to be a delivery company?" line broke me up. And I agree it was sad that nobody visited Fry in the hospital. That was going a little far, and out of character for Leela at this stage.
What I want to know is, how did Fry and the Professor survive a month in that spaceship without food or water? And why didn't their beards grow? Were they in suspended animation somehow?
I look forward to seeing the annotations online explaining all the math references.
Obviously there was food and supplies. Why would DaVinci build a spaceship to ferry people to outer space and not provide to keep them alive?
I mean beside the fact that he's an idiot who can't even answer simple questions about bosons in operatic form?
Sorry if this was asked at some point.
What season# are they calling this current one?
What season# are they calling this current one?
I certainly noticed that Fry was dumber than usual in this episode. For me, distractingly so. Other than that, I thought the ep was pretty good.
Says who? I know there's one in the back-half of the season, but that's months off. I think that's the X-Mas episode, in fact.
According to Futurama Point, the reamining episodes before the mid-season hiatus are...
6acv05 - The Duh-Vinci Code
[Jul 15th, 2010] - The crew races to future Rome to unearth the shocking secret of Leonardo da Vinci.
6acv06 - Lethal Inspection
[Jul 15th (or 22th), 2010] - Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.
6acv07 - The Late Philip J. Fry
[Jul 29th, 2010] - The Professor invents a one-way time machine.
6acv08 - That Darn Katz!
[Aug 5th, 2010] - Earth is invaded by a race of intelligent cats.
6acv09 - A Clockwork Origin
[Aug 12th, 2010] - The theory of evolution is put to the test on a planet inhabited by robots.
6acv10 - A Prisoner of Benda
[Aug 19th, 2010] - A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
6acv11 - Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
[Aug 26th, 2010] - After a bungles Earth invasion, alien leader Lrrr faces a midlife crisis.
6acv12 - The Mutants Are Revolting
[Sep 2th, 2010] - Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.
6acv07, 10 and 12 all sound great - the kind of plots I can't believe they haven't done before now! (And if they have, I've forgotten.)
What else haven't they done? Have they ever met their evil twins or been split into two or merged in a transporter accident? And I'm still waiting for that full-on Star Wars parody that covers all six movies.
Thank you!Plus, I LOVED this little gem:
Now when we do a Politics theme for the SF&F Av contest, I know what my entry's gonna be. 
Bleah. I went to watch it and discovered that I forgot to set my timer. I really was looking forward to the da Vinci theme, too. 
No mind-switch episodes yet. The plot of episode 12 has been done, if you substitute "Leela" with "Bender" and "mutant" with "robot".6acv07, 10 and 12 all sound great - the kind of plots I can't believe they haven't done before now! (And if they have, I've forgotten.)
Bender has a twin named Flexo. Bender is the evil one. They also met parallel reality versions of themselves, and both sets naturally assumed the others were evil. ("Now, now. Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything."
)There was a one-off transporter accident gag in the 3rd movie, I believe. ("The horrible conglomeration once know as the Dixie Chicks.") Transporters aren't a big part of Futurama, though. They'd probably carry out these sorts of plots other ways.
Not really their style. A loving tribute ala the one they did with the surviving cast members of the original Star Trek would be great though. Good luck getting Harrison Ford, though. Shatner only did the show because he got to record in person with Nimoy. I can't think of anything that could lure Ford in.
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