Futurama: I'm Not Back Baby

[neveragain]

I mean we're all having a good laugh and generally joshing about... but I think it would be quite wonderful if all the references in the next couple of seasons were based on minor British events of 2021. An episode in which the Professor must assemble a cast for a new version of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads etc.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

BENDCEPTION

the head of peter molyneux takes over planet express and makes unrealistic promises. bender is now 100% unironic blackface, starts calling the factory he was made "da hood". the woman who says kerjigger puts nibbler in a wheelie bin and is crucified for it. teenagers are scared of the MOM-Mo challenge. bender invents "the beer bucket challenge" Qubert thinks he's at a Sunn O)) gig but its just the cast trying to do their voices after a smoke break. mom marries clive sinclair. mr blobby impregnates kif. the cast do a parody of the ninja turtle rap. officer crabtree, now the crack pilot of the neutral planet, becomes zapfs commanding officer. zoidberg sings the song from the Trio adverts with the woman who says kerjigger. the woman who says kerjigger is reincarnated as a hanging chad. the woman who says kerjigger is susan boyle. the woman who says kerjigger is maureen off driving school. bender says ooh yes like the churchill adverts in response to the woman who says kerjigger saying if you see sid tell him. the woman who says kerjigger says kerjigger after being tangoed. the woman who says kerjigger fires a machine gun at the brit awards. the cast sing the JCB song. fry romantically pushes a black and decker drill into his eyeball so he can romantically meet leela again for the first time, they have a romantic meet cut three seconds before he dies from brain damage in the arms of the woman who says kerjigger. the gang do shaddupyo face at Fry's funeral, it sound like iceland ripping in two.

[Theoretical Dentist]

BENDCEPTION

the head of peter molyneux takes over planet express and makes unrealistic promises. bender is now 100% unironic blackface, starts calling the factory he was made "da hood". the woman who says kerjigger puts nibbler in a wheelie bin and is crucified for it. teenagers are scared of the MOM-Mo challenge. bender invents "the beer bucket challenge" Qubert thinks he's at a Sunn O)) gig but its just the cast trying to do their voices after a smoke break. mom marries clive sinclair. mr blobby impregnates kif. the cast do a parody of the ninja turtle rap. officer crabtree, now the crack pilot of the neutral planet, becomes zapfs commanding officer. zoidberg sings the song from the Trio adverts with the woman who says kerjigger. the woman who says kerjigger is reincarnated as a hanging chad. the woman who says kerjigger is susan boyle. the woman who says kerjigger is maureen off driving school. bender says ooh yes like the churchill adverts in response to the woman who says kerjigger saying if you see sid tell him. the woman who says kerjigger says kerjigger after being tangoed. the woman who says kerjigger fires a machine gun at the brit awards. the cast sing the JCB song. fry romantically pushes a black and decker drill into his eyeball so he can romantically meet leela again for the first time, they have a romantic meet cut three seconds before he dies from brain damage in the arms of the woman who says kerjigger. the gang do shaddupyo face at Fry's funeral, it sound like iceland ripping in two.

This but over the end credits they all do a Gangnam Style.

[dissolute ocelot]

Surely they must have a Stranger Things parody, and I could totally see them doing a Green Book parody, Bender driving Zoidberg or Zoidberg driving Bender, it would work either way, although I'd rather see them take off Yellowjackets (crash in Canada, eat each other). Look forward to The Last Of Us in 2031 too.

Fuck, just remembered the Simpsons' take-off of Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite. That was the sort of thing you dream after too much hallucigenic cheese, definitely felt like something AI had generated.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Robot Santa's factory has been taken over by Robot Krampus and is now a parody of The Handmaids Tale. horrible scenes where making and giving presents are a visual metaphor for sex

[The Late Satoru Iwata]

The gang spend a fortune on tickets for the Fyrewyre Festival

[itf]

Oh god, kill it, please.

https://www.theverge.com/24206898/futurama-season-12-review-hulu-nft-ai

[Alberon]

There was a time when I would have been overjoyed to have Futurama back. Now I can't manage a shrug.

[idunnosomename]

Incredible to think South Park did a funny bit about hustling NFTs in a bigger plot nearly three years ago (South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID, aired December 16, 2021). Futurama being, ironically, so out of date is kind of a bit in itself now

[Ferris]

Squid Game? NFTs? As cutting edge as "YouTube" and dabbing.

That means these scripts are presumably from the first raft of script ideas put together for the Hulu reboot in 2021 or whenever, but the ones that didn't make it into the first tranche. Doesn't inspire hope.

I'm fan of the show from back in the day, but much like the Simpsons, I wish it had stopped 2+ decades ago.

[Theoretical Dentist]

Have they had a disappointing Wonka experience episode yet? They probably kind of have to, they've already got something to base it on since they've already done a Wonka parody with Fry and the Slurm Factory.

[Pink Gregory]

Have they had a disappointing Wonka experience episode yet? They probably kind of have to, they've already got something to base it on since they've already done a Wonka parody with Fry and the Slurm Factory.

Don't worry, they have form for revisiting one off jokes with drastically diminishing returns!

[idunnosomename]

Disappointing Slurm factory experience would need to be in 2027

[Thursday]

Genuinely think the writers of this should be banned from being allowed to make comedy.

[madhair60]

i threw on the new one and lasted less than one minute when i heard Cubert Farnsworth snorting and explaining what NFTs were

a character who wasn't even funny or likeable in the original series run explaining something that isn't interesting in service of jokes that weren't funny when they were on twitter three years ago

[dissolute ocelot]

Is this on Disney Plus here? I think I'd rather watch the Simpsons' NFT episode broadcast last year or the Simpsons' Bitcoin one from 2020 (which was actually mildly entertaining within the parameters of recent Simpsons once you got over the exposition dumps).

[Ruben Remus]

I also got up to the first instance of a character saying the word nft and then something just broke in my brain and I turned it off.

Look forward to checking back in whenever they next do an "actually good" one that isn't actually that good.

[Agent Dunham]

I also got up to the first instance of a character saying the word nft and then something just broke in my brain and I turned it off.

I fell asleep.

[madhair60]

i think Cubert is among the worst characters in television history. the original series used him maybe twice, and in his first appearance everyone hates him and that's funny. in the second, one of the original run's first episodes, we're asked to care about Cubert and Dwight's paper round. Now they've been joined by Kif's children and it's like a dogshit sandwich where the bread is also dogshit. so it's just like, loads and loads of dogshit in your hands and mouth, inside your mouth, dogshit from three different dogs all getting chewed together and mushed in your teeth and smeared on your tongue. that's what it's like.

[Pink Gregory]

Kif's children

AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

[Pink Gregory]

Bender is arrested and charged with robbery and gets sentenced to working on a chain gang, but hold the phone, it's a BLOCKCHAIN gang!!!!!!

Clamps is there, and Roberto, and the Robot Vicar, and Hedonism-bot, why not

[Agent Dunham]

i think Cubert is among the worst characters in television history. the original series used him maybe twice, and in his first appearance everyone hates him and that's funny. in the second, one of the original run's first episodes, we're asked to care about Cubert and Dwight's paper round. Now they've been joined by Kif's children and it's like a dogshit sandwich where the bread is also dogshit. so it's just like, loads and loads of dogshit in your hands and mouth, inside your mouth, dogshit from three different dogs all getting chewed together and mushed in your teeth and smeared on your tongue. that's what it's like.

It's the fun thread all over again.

[BritishHobo]

They have a real knack for taking on the most dated-feeling subjects, don't they? I know what's topical online moves fast these days, but they always do the most tired subjects.

[Agent Dunham]

Should be renamed to Current-bore-ama.

[itf]

I watched the whole episode. It was shit. Hope this helps.

[madhair60]

thanks for taking one for the team

[wrec]

South Park only managed to do topical episodes because they'd engineered a fast production time for that very reason. Why are Futurama attempting to do so when it seems to be taking them several years from script to finished episode?

I haven't watched a frame of a new episode since the original four seasons, and I don't even know who's involved now. But Fry and Leila 's male nerd fantasy of a "romance" still being milked twenty years later? Characters' kids unironically made a focus?

The first episode of Futurama is as close to now as it was to the final episode of The Brady Bunch. If temporally confused ex-con Billy Boy from Lionel Ritchie's Hello video invited Amanda to watch a new episode of Futurama she could say "yes, unlike your other comically dated suggestions, this is something we could do, but it's shit now. Also I'm blind so, not ideal mate". At least it would explain NFTs to him. Conclusion: Futurama is now aimed at violent murderers recently freed from prisons with news blackouts.

[idunnosomename]

Fry and Leela are still a couple but it's as awkward as you'd expect and not really mentioned in ones I watched. Nominally as I will have said upthread it's supposed to be real time (i.e. it's 3023/4) and while that's plausible for the adult characters in The Future not to change appearance (and Billy West just sounds old, which helps), it isn't for the children like Cubert, but they just cant be bothered changing their character designs. And of course Fry has now spent more time in the 31st century than his age in 1999.

Anyway, good news everyone! While I was playing Pokeyman Go 5D, I met Zoella's head, who dared me to take the Absolute Zero Bucket Challenge!

[Alberon]

I can't wait for the episode about deepfakes in 2029.

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

No, Futurama, what you do is you write an episode where something dumb and inconsequential gets hyped as an instant get rich quick scheme and everyone loses their minds buying into it, then it turns out it was all a scam by hustlers and rich people. You never say the word NFT. This is supposed to be the future.