Today is also the EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF MY CHANNEL! Share your favorite NICKtendo moment below! Mine is when I gaslit commenters into correcting me about a 1,013 year old time gap. 8/29/24 Update: “Season 12” Dropped on Hulu and it’s actually production Season 9 according to the code of “9ACV_.” This means the Hulu seasons are all separate productions and not split in half, unlike the Comedy Central seasons. It just makes everything more confusing!
I subscribed to the "whatever the heck Adult Swim was doing in the early 2000s" airing order. Did not realize Futurama had such strong continuity and arcs until I rewatched the show as an adult.
I subscribed to the "Comedy Central rerunning the show at 5pm" order, from about 2012 until when The Office came to the network and bumped the show into the overnight hours. I then watched the show on FXX, where it's the true production order. Funny how the show made more sense in production order.
I watched it on Hulu for the first time, I was pretty confused with the on and off nature of Fry and Leela lol. One episode they were confessing their love, and the next one she doesn't know he likes her or something
@@inyruiTo be fair, even in production order Fry and Leela's relationship was very on-and-off. You had episodes like Fry am the Eggman after The Late Phillip J. Fry.
Futurama is so unique in how it’s encouraged to watch everything in production order. I do my best to watch every show I can in the order intended, so Futurama rewarding you with a better show says something about how much the writers wanted its stories to click.
I prefer OK K.O.!'s HBO MAX order (Before it got purged) over both the production order and airing/Hulu order. That show was truly special and one of a kind. It's just sad that there'll never be a show that great again, but I'm glad it ever existed. Also, if you're ever going tp do an OK K.O.! video, do it after you review Pokémon seasons 20-22 (or the "Sun & Moon" seasons).
Back when I watched Futurama on Netflix The straight to DVD films actually used the film cuts instead of the TV versions, I remember this vividly because one night I wanted to watch at least one more episode of Futurama before I went to sleep, and it turns out the episode I selected was One of the films and I didn't notice how long the runtime was. So at that point I'm halfway through the movie with my eyes feeling insanely heavy, and I just realized this episode has gone on way longer than it normally does, because it wasn't an episode.
i remember this!! i used to fall asleep with the movies playing in the background, especically into the wild green yonder, and the cut bender line nick (why tf did i call him mark) brought up was actually there! :)
Teletoon aired both the uncut films AND the made-for-TV episodes for the films at the same time, so it was cool seeing where and when things would get cut out. I also remember the CW airing Futurama in the early 2010s and them having little “we’ll be right back/you’re watching Futurama” bumpers with new recorded dialogue over pre-existing footage. I don’t think those have been uploaded anywhere yet. Oh, and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
i wish that all streaming services had all the extra bonus'' that the dvds/blurays have: like commentaries, deleted scenes, gag reels, behind the scene footages, etc
FOX Animated shows have a really weird way of airing episodes of their shows, take a look at American Dad for example, many episodes from the 5th, 6th, and 7th production seasons aired so randomly.
It got even weirder when American Dad moved to TBS. There’s multiple ways of counting the seasons of the show and it always confused me. With Futurama, I hear the 4 direct to DVD movies were also divided up into smaller episodes so there was another way people saw those.
I watched the episode War is the H-Word when it was first broadcast on Fox. There was a very unfortunate interruption by a news report near the very end when Bender says "ass" and you expected the bomb to explode. It might be time zone dependent (I was in Central Time). Because of this interruption it took me a while to figure out how that episode was resolved.
THANK YOU! Futurama is my favorite animated series of all time and I still wasnt 100% sure about the best way to watch it. This was awesome info I might have to drop some dough on the box set lowkey. Glad ur back Mr. Tendo :D
Disney+ also crops the episode "A Farewell to Arms" to a 4:3 ratio for no reason. It should be in widescreen so half of the picture is annoyingly cut out
These production order/airing order situations that happen with cartoons always interest me. Like, how Ren & Stimpy’s fifth and final season in airing order is still production code season 4 or how Dexter’s Lab’s second season is production order seasons 2, 3, and 4 (based off of Genndy‘s claims), despite being Season 2 in airing order.
Happy 8 year anniversary to nicktendo. 8 years of wholesome comedy gold and fun cartoon facts. Futurama is pretty timeless with dated pop culture references
Dear god. I don’t know if you put in the mid roll ad at 11:18 or if RU-vid generated it there but that was perfect and the only time a RU-vid ad didn’t annoy me. Bravo.
It’s obvious to anyone that both the Simpsons and Futurama will never die. However, the different approaches they take to never dying is legit fascinating. Like the Simpsons is just interminable and nothing, not even back-to-back strikes or memes so ubiquitous that not even discrediting them can make them go away (you know the ones), can stop it from dropping a new season each fall. But Futurama goes on and off the air so much that it arguably leads to higher returns whenever it does return for the umpteenth time. And given the choice between a zombie franchise that still has plenty of juice and one that has essentially become “That Prediction Show,” yeah I’ll take the Futurama approach (though I do wish bringing it back wasn’t Matt Groening’s solution to everything)
@@logicphile6207 Basically, about 10-15 years ago the Internet collectively decided that every single event that happens in the world can be traced back to some random joke on the Simpsons. Whatever the gag was would then be labeled a “prediction” by the Internet, even if it makes no contextual sense. The meme has only increased more and more powerful since the Trump administration (for context, Bart to the Future made a reference to Trump’s late-90s presidential campaign, a joke that became heavily discussed after the 2016 election), to the point it’s basically the only thing from the show people talk about nowadays. That’s why I made reference to the fact that discrediting the meme will do nothing to stop it; it is that level of ubiquitous. I hope that’s clear
Also can't forget the fact that The Simpsons erased and scrubbed the 6th simpson member from history, so much so that nobody seems to remember him. Graggle Simpson will eventually see justice.
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0:24 about the Beastie Boys not seeing the show, that's just it - they hadn't. The episode came out in May 1999, and the pilot came out in March 1999. You know it takes longer than 2 months to write, voice and animate an episode. they've never seen it, because it hadn't existed yet. 4:55 fry skipped a millennium, not a century.
Personally what im most looking forward to is when the new futurama episodes make fun of Andrew Tate, they're going to be topical so unless the episodes were made wayyy ahead of time you know its going to happen.
Bill odenkirk is the brother of bob odinkirk which is interesting because bob odenkirk voiced a characters in futurama who i forgot who he voiced but he was important to the show
Interesting! I wasn’t aware of the different episode orders! I’m used to watching the show on dvd and was a bit confused when I started watching some seasons on disney+, noticing something was off
I would never have known, or considered that some of the episodes are out of order if not for the fact I had the first season on DVD as a kid and saw most all of it on TBS when I was young. Like if I'd never seen them, I'd definitely see what the problem is but having seen the series multiple times before streaming was a big deal I never would have noticed. Aqua Teen Hunger Force does a similar thing between DVD releases and streaming order but because that show is what it is, it does not effect any continuity.
Just got the complete series minus the movies for Christmas! And considering that Christmas one of my aunts was recovering in the hospital/at her home and my grandfather having to go to the hospital for a test and staying overnight it helped a lot! Also got a fosters home dvd! Which includes the Christmas episode!
as a filthy pirate who never buys dvds but loves this show, i've ensured that my archive of the entire series is labeled in production order, with the correct number of seasons and the continuity left intact
from The Simpsons to Futurama I've LOVED Both Shows and just catching up on a bunch of episodes on Hulu Before the Revival is even coming on Hulu for Futurama and The Simpsons on Disney+
The new run on "Hulu" Kinda makes me laugh how americans have to pay separately for Disney Plus and Hulu, when in most of the world its all the same. Also in the nicest way possible you sound like Fozzy.
@NICKtendoReviews Cool, next time I'm at second and charles or a thrift store I'll look for those sets, I had no idea about the extra content and deleted scenes and stuff, amazing channel by the way, my favorite video of yours is the mad TV and the crossovers video.
"I was introduced to futurama from the simpsons crossover." What a hell of a way to get introduced. But i guess im not much different from how my family learned about it from the simpsons movie teasers that come with the dvd.
My first watch was back when the series was on Netflix, and now I’m curious if it had it in production or premiere order, since Netflix is inconsistent about that. I know the movies were all considered part of a season 7, but they weren’t broken up into parts, they were just part of a four-episode season. I think there were only 9 seasons listed in total, too
One thing I think works a bit better, though works either way tbh, is that with broadcast order the next episode for Leela's parents is the Superhero one, where the main drama is Leela's parents being concerned Leela is ashamed of them. I feel this works slightly better when it's more spaced out then when it's closer. Life sometimes gets the better of us and it's not always easy to keep up with those distant from us. Plus Leela's mom comments at the end that she could call more often. Which that line does work better if it's more spread out then if it is almost immediate that we see them again.
@@NICKtendoReviews yeah. For me that whole side of the plot just works best if Leela hasn't been keeping up with them as much as either side might like, then if it feels like only a few days have passed. As the line also implies to me that they've had at least some phone contact in that time off screen so they haven't been completely ignored by Leela in universe.
I prefer the DVDs if only for the fact that the Di$ney+ / Hulu hosted editions are censored in certain places, such as the removal of a line from "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" while Zoidberg is trying to attract a mate.
When I originally watched futurama on Netflix around 2013-2014 they had the dvd versions of the movies instead of the TV cut, definitely the best way to watch them.
Good video. Don't have anything to really say as I watched Futurama growing up through pirated episodes and Comedy Central reruns, but I'm sure I missed something in the continuity
fyi the nibbler cameos (the shadow in the pilot, the eye stalk in the trash, etc) were all added in much later after the initial airing. I still ahve VHS recordings of the pilot episode where those edits were not there. Matt Groening does this ALL the time on his shows.
@@NICKtendoReviews yeah I can't prove that one was changed as well because I don't have it recorded but I do remember seeing it when it first came out and the stalk was not there. I only particularly mentioned the pilot because I actually have evidence of that episode being changed
@@OtioseFanatic If you do actually have the original airing recorded, please upload it somewhere, if not for proof than just to have it archived. However for the proof side of things though, it is extremely unlikely that the shadow wasn't there as it is included in the Workprint Animatic of the pilot (seen here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WVou8qY7_8Y.html ) which while it was a DVD Bonus Feature, there is absolutely no reason to go back and add a detail like this to something that was essentially a Storyboard, especially when the change would have just been edited on top of the animation after airing.
The show when aired on Comedy Central, SYFY and now Adult Swim since its return to the network as well as FXX all have had the show in the DVD's episode ordering, which is technically the actual order of the series! S1-4 is labeled as S1-5 and S6 is labeled as S7 when aired and Hulu has the same thing and the movies were labeled as part of S6 when aired! And are split up into episodes making up the entirety of the season! And that 52 episode 2010-2013 Comedy Central produced revival run is labeled as S7-10! It's basically the same thing with American Dad!, with season 1 having 6 episodes in some releases, but the actual full season is 26 episodes long, but its first run broadcast originally on Fox and then later on Adult Swim and then TBS as well, the second season is labeled with the rest of the first season's episodes, broadcast later in fall 2005 on Fox, until 2006. And it still continues with all of the TBS first run episodes into the modern era today with all the current seasons! And the upcoming ordered seasons, 20 and 21, are seasons 18 and 19, season 18 wrapped its run back in November last year and season 19 beginning recently back in February, that has who knows how many? Like, 20, I think, I'm not sure yet, but it has begun airing and on Hulu, it has the same setup, it's kinda crazy! Broadcast orders are confusing sometimes vs. production order, even with Miraculous Ladybug! Where the English version has episode 1 as Stormy Weather and the Origins 2 part premiere episode as the season 1 finale, it's labeled differently in the French and (formerly) Netflix and Disney+ versions of the show, where the Origins episode is the first one and Stormy Weather is the third episode, either way, the show's distribution order is all kinds of fucked up sometimes internationally outside of its country of origin France, it's a bit of a mess, man! But anyway, if this has taught us anything, it's that there's a huge difference between broadcast and production orders and it can get out of hand pretty quickly when it's changed for other releases of a show, it's kinda strange how companies do this type of thing! Even in anime like Dragon Ball Z or Shaman King when those were released on DVD, they have different episode orders and season labels in the English dub release! This shit gets really crazy then! Also, Nick, congrats on eight consecutive years here on RU-vid, awesome, bro! You deserve it, and here's to many more years to come in the future! Good job! You made it!
At least it's not as bad as "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" Anime Broadcast to production order! .... Time to catch up and up to speed on Futurama before the new season comes out.
FOX commonly has shows aired out of order because of sports programs running over their time allotment, so the intended broadcast date of the Sunday animated show gets pushed back.
In Europe, the production order and the broadcast order are the same... at least before Hulu came along. Season 8 and 9 (11 and 12) are season 8A and season 8B. Futurama has 8 seasons right now and not 12.
South Park's first 8 seasons also have that production / broadcast episode order disparity. And despite not having much continuity back then, I honestly prefer the former when it cones to that series.
I will point out that for Phineas and Ferb at first the Christmas special had scenes cut out in the streaming version but I’ve noticed that later on they added them back in so at least I know I’m not the only one who was pissed about some of my favorite bits being taken out - I remember when Disney plus first launched a bunch of animation writers and staff were in social media telling people the intended watch order because a ton of continuity based shows were completely out of order! I also once forced my friend to play the entire hypno toad dvd bonus episode and would not let him turn it off…I was no longer invited over to his house
It sounds like you missed the most annoying years to be a fan of the show. There was some Fox executive (I think his or her name was Gail something) that really hated this show for some reason and tried to kill it. When Fox would have commercials for their Sunday night lineup they would talk about all the shows starting at 8:00 and what would happen in the episodes. The announcer would then say, "IT ALL STARTS AT EIGHT!," followed by him quickly muttering, as if he were reading the deadly side effects in a drug commercial "after an all-new Futurama". When the show was finally released on DVD, other countries got it years before the US did, so you had to import a DVD from another region and get a multi-region DVD player. These DVDs were converted from NTSC format (used in North America and Japan) into the PAL format (used in the UK and some other places). NTSC runs at a different frame rate than PAL, so the video and audio was slightly sped up from how it was supposed to be. The Critic, which debuted on ABC but then moved to Fox, was also treated poorly. Al Jean & Mike Reiss said on the commentary that right after they made the deal with Fox to air their show, there was a shakeup in management and the new people hated their show. One of them lamented, "They cancelled our show and replaced it with something called 'House of Buggin'!"
Her full name is Gail Berman and the ongoing theory of the day was that she didn't like sci-fi very much (corroborated by the strange treatment of Firefly as well, and to a lesser extent John Doe and Millennium) and probably also considered Futurama to not be very relatable to people. Especially as it had to contend with Family Guy. At the time there was also a huge focus on reality TV because Fox in the early 2000s was so obsessed with new ideas for reality show. I remember House of Buggin as well, just vaguely because that itself wasn't a very popular sketch show and it was replaced by the far more successful MadTV.
First of all Technically yes each comedy central season was split up in to two years part one and two like Hulu is doing and Netflix does with Disenchantment but most including me look at each half season as one season. And two Futurama has always had continuity unlike The Simpsons ive been watching since the pilot in 1999 that aired after the super bowl!
But where can I watch the full versions of the movies now? Because I won't even watch them at this point cause the online versions I find are missing scenes and I don't like that
ever since The Professional on RU-vid mentioned Futurama i thought What the Heck/hell why not see some of it if i don't feel to play any game i have bought/pirated
I kinda like the Hulu order, but I do think this show with the new season will have 10 seasons, and what Hulu calls season 6 should be movies not put in a season
