Spoilers Futurama Season 12 (9) July 29th

[JD]

I enjoyed it, it wasn't amazing, but I did like getting some new stuff for Hermes, and the coffee stuff was pretty good.

 

[thribs]

I’m I missing something? How did they solve the clothes problem?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Omni missing something? How did they solve the clothes problem?

Soft reset just like after the Eye Phone and Momazon cliffhangers.

 

[thribs]

Soft reset just like after the Eye Phone and Momazon cliffhangers.

But those didn't really feel like actual cliffhangers. This one did. Very strange.

 

[JD]

This week's was OK, but it didn't totally blow me away. It was a fairly fun take on obsessive collecting.

 

[The Wormhole]

At first I made a snide comment about "making fun of the Beanie Baby fad, that would have been topical twenty-five years ago." But then I thought about it, given a common criticism of animated sitcoms is that given the long lead time between script writing and airdate, many of the topical ideas they write about end up being dated by the time the episode airs, so maybe this time they intentionally went with an old and outdated fad knowingly?

I did LOL hard at Bender's line about believing Bambi's mother "deserved it."

 

[JD]

Yeah, Beanie Babys specifically aren't a thing anymore, but I thought it still worked pretty well as analogy for obsessing over fads and collecting in general.

 

[Commander Troi]

The "Gotta catch 'em all" song was reminiscent of Pokemon. I laughed at Amy's "we give them everything, why are they spoiled" bit. I've met those folks!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I also wasn't enthralled by this one. Never cared for Beanie Babies or Pokemon or any of those other fads, so that theme landed pretty flat for me. Just a giant eye roll all around.

I'm also not a fan of how they've been presenting Amy as a mother. She was always very nurturing of Betsy but she's also a terrible mother? Doesn't jive for me.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Amy's daughter making friends with the ear orphan was sweet, but otherwise completely forgettible episode.

 

[Tosk]

How the hell is Sally the orphan still a child two decades later?

 

[The Wormhole]

How the hell is Sally the orphan still a child two decades later?

Same way Cubert Farnsworth and Dwight Conrad are?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

As well as all of the rest of the orphans we saw in this episode.

...maybe it's Damien's fault...

 

[JD]

And you'd think the adult characters would have visually aged by now too. The way they're treating time in the show is kind of weird, they seem to be acknowledging the passage of time since the show started, but yet no one's aging. It's kind of strange to see them doing one, but not the other. At least with The Simpsons when they refer back to past events, I don't think they ever say anything about how long it's been, just that they happened.

 

[Tosk]

At least with The Simpsons when they refer back to past events, I don't think they ever say anything about how long it's been, just that they happened.

They sometimes do (such as Bart was born in 1980) but then if they refer to the date of an event again later they simply move the date.

 

[JD]

Oh, OK. I do get a kick out of their constantly updating their history, like how they keep updating how Homer and Marge first met every few years.

 

[Tuskin38]

Though they did mention how much time passed in the previous season's premier.

 

[Marc]

Oh, OK. I do get a kick out of their constantly updating their history, like how they keep updating how Homer and Marge first met every few years.

Hell they've they've retconnected the whole timeline with Marge and Homer born in the 1980s thus she can't have have voted for for Carter (twice) any more

 

[The Wormhole]

Hell they've they've retconnected the whole timeline with Marge and Homer born in the 1980s

Damn, Homer and Marge are now approximately my age. That feels so weird, given I was approximate in age to Bart and Lisa when I began watching the show.

 

[JD]

Just out of curiosity I looked at the Simpsons Wiki to work out how old the characters on The Simpons would be if they aged in real time, based off either the birth date listed on the wiki or the age it lists.
Homer: 68
Marge: 68 (it doesn't list an age or birth year for Marge, but it says she's the same age as Homer)
Bart: 49
Lisa: 43
Maggie: 36
Grandpa: 124
Santa's Little Helper: 43
There's no age or birthdate listed for Snowball V