For those asking, I do have tentative plans to put out something once the new Hulu season finishes, depending how I feel about it by the end. I don't have incredibly high hopes, considering this is the 3rd time they've brought the series back, but we will just have to wait and see
Can definitely say the first episode was really funny. Even some jokes that only really hit on a rewatch. It's safe to say that Futurama's back, and about the same as a solid Fox era episode.
I must say, I really liked the first episode of "Hulu era". I had not high hopes for that, maybe that is why, but probably no. It was good. When I like something I know I like it because I do - my own opinion and not because what other people say. If someone says it is bad, whatever but it wont effect my opinion.
It's going well so far, I'd say. The second episode was a fantastic continuation to an old storyline about Amy and Kif's children that was both hilarious and emotional, giving it the feel of some of the best episodes from the rest of the series. Also it seems Fry and Leela are FINALLY going to stay a couple this time.. Despite it's extremely sporadic endings and rebootings, I think Futurama still has a lot of potential in our current age.
Anyone who's has bumpy relationships in their lives will understand this... I moved away at 16 always thinking because I was a black sheep and my brother was the perfect kid. I'm only 23 but talking to my brother again and seeing how genuinely happy he was along with recalling the past times we'd spend as kids. Idk definitely hit hard for me to when I rewatch it
I watched the last episode when it premiered on Comedy Central and there were no credits after. It just went right into the first episode all over again. It was 100% on purpose and it was a *beautiful* moment to watch.
Extremely late reply, but it does feed into the time is a loop theory from the time machine episode where they travel to the end of time and loop back around.
Futurama was too smart and sentimental, it was waaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of its time, people just expected "The Simpson in the future", but Futurama was a different beast.
@@Se7enDsinSGaming *there were many episodes that did that for me....even when i knew the direction they were going some just hit you that hard in the right spot*
The episode that ends with Fry being rewarded for saving the world by being able to visit his mom's dreams will always and forever make me bawl my eyes out, it's such a purely beautiful moment
@@loiracitr you won't regret it. It's a beautiful episode, with a hard finish to watch, that gives us hope, even when we have lost someone close to us.
My husband doesn't binge tv like I do, so one day I was describing jurassic bark to him and literally he started tearing up and got so sad he had to go cuddle our dog for a while. He didn't even WATCH the episode and it got him. That episode is some real shit.
Your husband has definitely seen that episode. I don't think there's a person in gen x or the millennial generation in western society that hasn't seen Jurassic Bark. I still get a pit in my stomach whenever it gets even mentioned; it is easily one of the best written episodes of any show ever. I can't think of another show that relates that same feeling that Jurassic Bark does.
When I watched "meanwhile" live and they said "you wanna go around again?" And the pilot came on I got goosebumps it was such a fantastic ending to a fantastic series. While I would like more I feel like it ended perfectly and doesn't need to ruin that
I will suck it up and hope for the best . I can't imagine wanting to mess with that perfection but I was skeptical the last time they brought it back and was proved wrong. We shall see.
Unlike most every other show, Futurama not only ended, but ended in a way that left me emotionally satisfied. It wrapped up nearly everything and felt like an actual conclusion worth waiting for.
@@thesistersofbattle I mean, I'm down for It, as long as It is superior to the comedy central era and has an actual series finale(one that Isn't open ended) so that Futurama doesn't Just become the Simpsons but slow I Will be happy.
A thing about shows which I find fortunate is, if there IS good, it isn't diminished by the bad (normally, there are a few times I can think of where adding more can ruin previous content). Futurama ended well (Show had a handful of supposed final episodes, of course none of them were as conclusive or fulfilling as Meanwhile was in the end (Devil's hands are idle playthings was one and iirc, Into the wild green yonder was quite conclusive but they worked around it)) but for what it's worth, I believe it still held immense value and potential up until the end. I doubt they'd want to explore every potential social or sci-fi possibility but they had so much more to work with, I can see it turning out decently. And as I said, even if it doesn't turn out decently, it won't take away from the previous work. Same way newer simpsons isn't so great, I can just go back and watch the seasons I care about!
To this day I can’t watch Jurassic Bark without crying. I first saw that episode when I was 8, I’m 26 now. Probably the only thing I’ve ever watched on tv that actually made me sob. From an animated series. Futurama really is a masterpiece. Still has the best memes too. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen the “shut up and take my money” fry meme, I’d be as rich as fry was in the billionaire episode. Cant say that about family guy or the simpsons.
I don't think you can have ever had a pet, and not cry after watching it. People often compare having a pet with having a child, and they are dead wrong. Tou raise a child knowing that, one day, they will grow up, and leave the nest, starting their life, and their family. With a pet, you know that they will be with you until one of you passes on. And as you age, you wonder what will become of them, if you go first. Same if you face a serious illness, something I have been through. There is a depth ro that episode rarely seen anymore, and it will always hood a special place 8n my heart. I worry about it now, having just survived a major infection, and the loss of a limb, with my service dog. All he has known is life with me, and his training so far, with that bond, so if I'm gone, how will he handle it? Yeah. That one still gets to keep whenever I watch it.
@@AnimePlaysMinecraft it actually makes more sense he turned to dolomite due to Bender firing a futuristic weapon vs Seymour just lying in the same spot day in day out.
18:00 If you notice in episode one, Bender and Fry escape through the museum to escape the peace officers. Bender was the one who suggested it and he says, "this way, the museum's free on Tuesdays". New Years Eve on 2,999 will in fact be on a Tuesday. This is pre readily available computers being everywhere that they made this very joke, in fact.
@@RingsOfSolace Yes, and? Doesn't mean people couldn't look up what day of the week it'd be. There are people who can do the math to figure out what day of the week any given date was or will be off the top of their heads anyway.
I had an old 486 IBM computer from the early 90s. Talkin floppy disk, upgraded to windows 95 from 3.1 and 56k modem from 14.4k. And its calendar went up to the year 2100 i believe. Which is why i thought that whole y2k scare was hilarious. The technology that was available in the mid to late 90s, and what professionals use, was far superior to my old hand me down pc from the early 90s. Not exactly a long stretch to believe that it would be very easy to see a calender from 2999
The episode called "Game Of Tones" will ALWAYS be the episode that makes both smile and cry. For those that don't remember, it's about Nibbler's partner using his Keyfab to find their car and almost destroying the planet and Fry has to go into his dreams to remember why he knows the sound. He heard it on the night he was frozen, right as he was falling into the tube. He starts to realize how much he misses his life and family before he was lost to them and, in return for his help, Nibbler allows him to go into his mother's dream the night after he disappears. He tells his mom that he has so much he needs to tell her and, when she asks what he needs to say, all he can do is hug her. I'm actually tearing up just thinking about it. It's probably my favorite TV moment from any show i've seen in my life. It's just incredible.
It’s on my list of episodes that make me sob, and then every time I watch it I think “that’s not so bad”. It’s a little sad all throughout, but it keeps moving, and I can keep from crying. And then… “it’s not your dream. It’s hers.” That line just sneaks in there at the end and touches me in some way I will never be able to express. My heart breaks all over again.
Its episodes like these that make me glad it returned. Theres some stinkers but personally I think some of the most emotional and impactful episodes came on the comedy central run. Here’s hoping this new revival does similar things. The first episode was good enough but not quite up there, and I think they need to prove themselves considering they retconned maybe the best ending in sitcom history.
I legit avoid that episode cuz I’ll cry so hard. Even seeing the dog for a few seconds in this video I almost lost it. I don’t know why, I can’t handle it
Actually the Professor says the button takes them back to just before he made it, so it just undid the episode from their memory and they kept on living, not looping from the pilot time and time again.
@@jat6758 actually it's kinda a yes and no situation. I re-watch the ending and he does say he was gonna send them back before he conceived the button but also apparently people were saying the first episode played after the ending with no commercials.
@@jat6758 so if they did continue the series they would have this ending to continue from but that never happened. So it's kinda a yes and no time loop, p.s sorry for my dumb and long explanation
@@jat6758 Well the Professor literally invented a forward time machine in one episode and him, fry, and Bender go through the birth and death of the universe multiple times, each time being an exact loop of the previous universe. So yeah, its canonical that the show loops.
One thing I haven't noticed until I started rewatching it was how in the early seasons Fry would make an observation, and another character would explain that in a specific year that thing would change or end. Like in the Mars University episode they would explain how Mars developed vegetation and sustainable human life In the 2600s while brushing off that jungles became extinct on Earth around the same time. As a result you can almost create a timeline of all the stuff that's happened while he was frozen. It's almost as fascinating as the in-universe language they created
I love how as I've gotten older and learned more science, Futurama has gotten funnier and funnier 🤣 "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" 😂
@@Nolabray21 While it does have plenty of bullshit science (like most of the 60s-80s sci-fi it's trying to emulate), a surprising amount of it is real.
can't think of almost anything good on Futurama from after season 4. all I can remember is every goddamn day getting the commercial with Amy and Bender "guess what happened to the last person who told me to shut up" then they have sex. hilarious...
The writers room was actually highly educated, and there was even a mathematical theorem written for the show, they just mostly kept their academics down to references, goofs and other nonsense. A lot of the jokes get even funnier when you know they could probably have been a lot more scientifically accurate, but chose not to.
In the UK, when I grew up, Sky One had the rights to air Simpsons, and Futurama re-runs. It was on every single day, and Futurama always came on after the Simpsons, as MG originally intended, and because of this, I think it was much more popular over here than in the States. Most people I talk to in the UK that loved the Simpsons, also loved Futurama.
Damn I remember when the new seasons were released on sky and I definitely remember watching the finale on there too. I remember that ending hitting me hard
Simpsons and futurama were two of the few shows we could watch as a family when we stayed at my dad's house without arguing. Learned a lot from watching it, and it was thanks to sky one showing Simpsons showing a satirical side of modern life, whereas futurama showed that the future will likely still have the same issues as we do, but in a different manifestation
@@TheRavenCapitalTCapitalR thank god it wouldn’t have been the same without him but I can’t wait to see how the do it now. I will say if they end the series after a few seasons I wonder how they will end it now since meanwhile was a perfect one
I love Futurama more than any other English show, but Meanwhile is a perfect ending, maybe the best ending they've had. Having Disenchantment makes me OK with letting Futurama conclude as is. It also seems to take place in the gap between 2000 and 3000, so maybe it could lead up to the start of Futurama?
@@anchorbubba Mhm, there are a few fan theories floating around out there on the subject. An episode in the first season with a crystal ball shows an image of Fry, Bender, and Farnsworth in the forward time machine for a frame, immediately connecting the shows. The idea, I think, is that since Disenchantment is so far removed from the actual reality of medieval past, the show could take place inbetween the modern age and the year 3000. Plots in the second season of Disenchantment nod in this direction as well, what with the scientific advanced nation featured.
I always say Futurama is a masterpiece. Besides all the amazing episodes that makes you laugh and cry in 20 minutes the ending is a thing of beauty. Every time you finish the series you are given an invitation to do it again.
truly! ive watched it spontaneously as a kid and about two years back i watched it in chronological order. i would rewatch it again with no doubt, its a perfect mix of silly one-off episodes with slice of life elements that never really get boring or redundant.
I went through a difficult time about 20 years ago when my company was purchased and I was in fear of losing my job. Futurama episodes got me through this time by reminding me that everything works okay in the end.
Which part, all the predictions made by Ale Gore being disproven by the year 2020 much less the year 3000. Still not knowing anything but what we see by telescope and basing science off nothing but observations, while making fun of religion for doing basically the same thing? Don't get me wrong I love the show, but for being so wrong on just about everything dealing with science. It was right on political crap. Politicians and businesses being greedy and selfish but that's not a hard prediction to make since this is always the case. Any new episodes made will be crap as they will have the same lame political messages as all other revived or remade shows.
@@beaustory9238 Accurate? Look at Star Trek and how many inventions that Roddenberry foresaw. The flip phone, modern micro sized medical devices, flat screen TVs, they (NASA) are even working on a REAL warp drive. So, I would say, regardless of the crap budget ST was allowed for production, it was pretty accurate, although we're already beginning to eclipse the technology supposedly available in the 22nd century the prototype of the series proposed.
As someone who has dealt with a sense of loneliness, isolation, and melancholy throughout my life along with being essentially raised by TV and to a lesser extent the fledgling internet culture of the 00's: Futurama might hands down be my favorite cartoon across my life. I haven't watched the show on repeat all these years, but I've always loved it. As a kid the sci fi and irreverence brought me in, but as I got older the more mature themes and slacker comedy appealed to my teenage sensibility. Maturing through my teens into adulthood the ideas around mortality, purpose, love, and relationships really spoke to me. Now as a twenty-something who has been through my own constructed families, in-another-life's, and unrequited love, this show brings me to tears more frequently than I care to admit. Everything from the overt romance to the subtle expression of the simple happiness of a mundane life despite the contrast of living in an absurd reality, the meditations on meaning and happiness hit hard now. Maybe I feel more strongly now in general now, but I seem to laugh harder and cry harder at this show as an adult. I don't think a single show can make me feel as many different emotions or thoughts as Futurama, be it hilarity, nostalgia, contemplation, sadness, longing, etc. It's a masterclass in relatability and exploration of the human condition, along with being one of the funniest, most irreverent, and layered comedies ever animated. I think a generation of Americans really identify with this show for reasons like these, and will always be one of the most beloved cult-classics that transcend that very label.
1:23 "Beyond being one of the nerdiest cartoons ever to air, all while contemplating on themes like the nature of God and the humanity of robots, it still was able to keep itself completely rooted as a quirky workplace comedy with an underlying romance." That summarizes the show so well!
The scheduling of this show was brutal when it first came out. I remember trying to follow along as the episodes came out years ago but it was impossible bc it almost never aired in the same time slot. Ended up rewatching the series on the internet a couple years ago and Noticed I missed like over 60% of episodes back when I was actually trying to catch the show on tv. You wonder why it flopped.
Dude, they killed AMAZING shows back in the day this way. Most people have never even HEARD of Brimstone, and it's probably the greatest of all the Fox Uranus' swallowed children, and with Firefly Family Guy and Futurama and Freaks and Geeks and Sliders I don't say that lightly
I loved this video. Growing up with Futurama I never really took a step back to appreciate how special it is, and as a misfit adult now I resonate with it more than ever. It’s great to see it still being talked about, Futurama always has a uniquely special place in my heart. The behind the scenes stuff is really sad. No wonder every fox animated show seems to rip on fox, what an insulting way to handle the shows that define you. The show deserved better, I’ll never understand why these companies seem to intentionally fuck up their own revenue and popularity.
Fox sitcoms made fun of Fox especially in earlier years, because Fox started out with the reputation of a "counter-culture" network that took more risks. In the 80s sitcoms were becoming very phoned-in and Fox wanted shows to break from that so it gave writers a lot of creative freedom. This eventually led to Simpsons for example, throwing low blows at Fox and it was pretty novel you never see a show do that to its network before. It started losing its way in the 2000s with fixation on reality TV.
Watching Futurama first episode again always reminds me how relatable fry is. Just a kid with no place in a society that prides itself on materialism that not all of us easily get. He gets to escape this all by traveling years into the future, such a cool story premise to work from
Repent and follow Jesus! Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation has been unfolding since Jesus died. The Popes are now and have been claimed to be equal to God and set themselves in Jesus' place. Vatican City (Which is its own nation BTW) have risen up to fulfill the role of the false prophet 2 Thessalonians 2:4 says “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” The restrainer that the Apostle Paul was referring to was the Western Roman Emperor, who held back the Popes from taking power. Once the last Western Roman Emperor was removed from power in 476 AD, the Pope was given civil and ecclesiastic authority over Rome; healing the deadly head wound, as they took the Emperors title of Pontifex Maximus, leader of the church and state. “We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God.” (Source: “Decretals of Gregory IX,” Book 1, chapter 3.) Pope Pius V blasphemed, “The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” (Source: Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218.) Pope Leo XIII declared, “We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” (Source: Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter, June 20, 1894) The antichrist sea beast of Revelation points to the office of the papacy, the Popes of Rome, who controlled the Roman beast for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. Daniel 7:25 says “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” The Popes of Rome spoke against Elohim and proclaimed to be God. They reigned for 1,260 years, from 538-1798 AD. during which they caused tens of millions of saints to be killed. The Pope’s title is Vicar of Christ, which in Latin is ‘Vicarius Filii Dei’, and equates numerically to the number 666
@@FreightmareFTW Look Savannah you don't have authority to teach me about bible verses. You are a woman full of IMPURE menstrual blood. (Leviticus 15:19-30) Also since you are a woman you in fact have no right or authority to teach anything to a man like me. (Timothy 2:12) So why don't you "but remain silent" or simply shut up while the men are talking. Hey not my personal view... just using the book you seem to worship to point a few things out.
As a kid watching the pilot it blew my mind. I remember the sub heading joke "Now in color!" and wondering if it was an old show brought back. That "I, Roomate" is perhaps my favorite episode for capturing all the wonder and variety of city life while featuring exciting possibilities for an apartment in this futuristic world. The tiny fruit tree is the clencher. You've done a great job here dissecting some of the issues of the latter seasons. While I enjoy the sloppy plot devices such as with the dog I like seeing it pointed out. That final episode is a masterpiece, still brings tears to my eyes watching it referenced here.
Despite agreeing with you, I am obligated to dislike the video due to the mid-roll ad. If you're going to put ads in, give me a bar like Alex (formerly Alex French Guy Cooking, or whatever) where he shows a physical representation of the length of the ad so I can skip through it and not overshoot and then spend time trying to find where it ends.
@@thebigdawgj To be honest, that sounds unnecessarily complicated compared to skipping ahead by ten seconds at a time, or just watching the sponsor spot. I mean, if that 30 seconds was that important to me, I'd be doing something with it besides watching RU-vid. I also don't really think it's fair to thumbs down an hour long video which is of objectively very high quality, just because the person making the video spent 30 seconds talking about the company that paid his bills for him this month. Frankly it seems really petty and makes me think that you're a kind of person that I'd just rather not know. You're entitled to your own standards and opinions, but if these are your standards, then I can't imagine why you'd be on RU-vid since you must dislike everything on the site.
@@michealdrake3421 Double tap on the phone skips thirty seconds which is harder to judge. Most manual ads end up being something like two minutes and change. That's a lot of tapping to get around and I judge accordingly.
When I was a kid I used to love downloading and printing off the fan versions of episode scripts that listed all of the easter eggs and translations of alien language signs / graffiti in the background and reading them as I watched the episodes.
It still amazes me how many people misunderstand Bender. He is NOT an alcoholic. Bender is a robot and has to drink beer in order to function normally. When he is deprived of alcohol he is shown to be in an inebriated and disheveled state. When he drinks sufficiently he is sober. It's part of the layering and the comedy.
in the first episode, when Fry asks Bender why would a robot need to drink, Bender replies “i don't need to drink, I can quit anytime I want!”. i’m pretty sure Bender is an alcoholic
@@banananana2999 you know when fry thinks hes a robot and drinks beer to fuel his power cells(like bender has said in the past before) or the episode where bender doesnt drink and leela commenting on bender staying up all night not drinking or (i can go on lol)
As someone who consistently plays up that moment whenever I'm presented the opportunity, it's important to note that the airing of the final episode wasn't just followed by the first episode- the fade to black from the credit card at the end of Meanwhile transitioned _directly_ into the white-on-black date card at the beginning of the pilot
I watched the finale online, and did not even know that they did that on CC. But the final image in the finale immediately made me remember the opening of the Pilot ;)
I remember that. Haven't seen any station air the episodes like that since. It was perfect, albeit bittersweet that the two will always forget that time together.
What everyone, including the show itself, seems to forget is that Professor Farnsworth is not only Fry's great, great, etc. nephew, but a direct descendant of Fry as his great, great, etc. grandson since Fry is his own grandfather. This makes Fry his brother's grandfather as well, so any descendant of Fry's brother, is a direct descendant of Fry.
@@liriosogno6762 I'm not surprised. It's really hard to wrap a brain around a time travel paradox like that. There was an episode where the crew goes back to 1947 and crash just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. Fry meets up with who he believes is his grandfather and tries to keep him out of trouble but inadvertently gets the man killed. Fry, believing that since the guy died, but it had no impact on himself, he sleeps with the man's girlfriend since the man could not have been his grandfather, therefore the woman must not be his grandmother. Turns out the woman really was his grandmother, and by sleeping with her, he got her pregnant thus making him the father of who would become his father, making him his own grandfather. His father would later have two sons, himself and his brother. His brother would later have children, who would later have children, etc. until we get to Professor Farnsworth. So if we traced back Farnsworth's family tree all the way back to the 2000s we see his great, great etc. grandfather is Fry's brother, and his great, great, etc. uncle is Fry. But if we go back just two more generations we find that Farnsworth's great, great, great, great, etc. grandfather is Fry.
@@crocodileman94 Yup. There's a couple of instances of this paradox within the series, such as Fry goes back in time in the tenth episode in the fourth season and meets up with the past Nibbler and ultimately causes his past self to become frozen to wake up in the year 3000.
Absolutely. It always blows my mind when I bring up Futurama being my fav of all time and the listener has no idea why. Honestly, it's a show that requires watching it through and appreciating every character and the references. It takes attention to their detail.
@@mackenziecolt I have regarded Futurama as the smartest, most humanizing, thought provoking, emotionally driven adult animation of all time. (Thus far). Most people I've told about why I hold the show in such high regards usually look at me like I'm an idiot. But to this day, I don't know how someone could watch the ending of Jurassic Bark or Game of Tones and just not shed at least one tear.
"The dark time in the 2000s when everything wasn't online" I guess that depended upon whether you knew how to use torrents lol. Pirates basically forced streaming services into existence.
The irony is that streaming services are now forcing everyone back into piracy, since too many companies want too much of your money split all over their platforms. It’s ridiculous.
@@pdpUU Don't worry. It's just a matter of time before ads come into play and the pricing starts going up as cable is slowly phased out and streaming becomes the only real option.
Hot take, streaming services are helping ruin network TV. I see reboots of old shows happening on streaming services but originated on network TV channels. Also, the decision to put Disenchantment on Netflix is a sign of the times, there's no reason that couldn't have been a TV-14 show on Fox
@@falconeshield ?? There were loads! But not everyone had a pc with internet connection... such a golden era were the internet wasnt saturated with stupidity.
Despite its minor flaws, Futurama is a brilliant, heartwarming, and hilarious show that will always mean a lot to people. I wish the network didn’t mess with it like they did, but I’m grateful the show is so extraordinary regardless.
To me futurama is like meeting a perfect love when life's consequence impedes it's development. Bittersweet memories, that leads you to fantasize about wishful "what ifs", exists with a resigned acceptance of what cannot be. At once you regret knowing it's existence, while also appreciating its fleeting experience.
I've had a girlfriend like this. Adored her to bits, but I knew it wasn't ever going to last due to our different paths in life. Though our time was short, and immediately afterwards I hoped it never happened, I am glad that I had that fleeting experience. You really nailed it on the head bud.
My theory is that Bender was just lying when he told his first backstory to prove his point. Like the same thing as when he says random things about his elemental makeup.
I mean he did literally just meet Fry. Even if Fry is his "only friend" there's no way he'd be vulnerable enough to share such an intimate detail like his origin. So instead he tells something that fry is dumb enough to believe.
I appreciate anyone who appreciates Futurama. Instant follow. Also, your editing is cracking me up. The references you’re using to correspond with your script are great.
After season 4 I wanted it to come back, after the movies/season 5 I still wanted it to come back, after season 7 I was finally ready to let it go. It ended in a way that I didn't want it to be lessened. It is so rare that a show gets to go out on it's own terms like this it makes the show even more special in its own regard.
Futurama is indeed the best sci-fi comedy series I've ever watched. I like it wayyy better than the Simpsons. It really took me years to get into Simpsons when in Futurama I fell in love with after viewing a few episodes.
I think futurama should of had a few nore seasons because of how ahead of its time it was and if it were to still air today, it would of have been great dince people these days loves shows almost just like this like Rick and Morty, also i think a futurama and Rick and Morty crossover would have been the best thing ever just to see bender and rick just hang out
You really gotta give credit to the creators for constantly trying to end the season finales with closure in case it was the last. Not many shows attempt to do that, and we often get cliffhangers. I really hope the upcoming revival on Hulu captures the essence, comedic timing and emotional development of early seasons.
It's really sad that it's going to be locked away from so many people. You need multiple services, i.e. paid for internet and a paid subscription, to access it. I really loathe the world we live in, this pay to play garbage. All to submit to something fake, illusionary. Not at all real. Money is, and has always been, a faith-based system, no different than god. Only, every single human being on the planet MUST worship that particular god. No choice in it. So a handful of people can own the rest of us. Disgusting. End the monetary system entirely and permanently!
I remember so well how after the last episode first aired they played the first episode and it felt so poetic. Like that to go back to before The Professor thought of the button was before he ever met Fry. That it was his arrival that got Professor to think about time travel.
So many bits and inside jokes live in my head rent free and always will thanks to Futurama. I don't think I could ever forget the transients at the bus stop who all end up dating because of Benders dating service, and who can forget when Mars & Earth were about to collide and the crazy old cat woman yells "Oh no! it's the kajigger of Gibraltr!" Or when Zap cries over how he can't even say the word Champagne properly. A legendary series, with a legendary audience.
While a good way to put your sponsorship in, it feels weird because that's part of the problem you're discussing, meta and depressing and I'm gonna be thinking about it all day
dude needs to eat. it makes me uncomfortable too but i understand you need to function within the system in order to better it. or at least if criticizing it is your job lol
I just rewatched the entire series this year, and when I was done, I looked for *THIS* video, a video that discussed the entire series in depth, talking about creation, studio interference, the messages, the writing, it's revival, and ending, why it failed, and why it's a cult classic. I couldn't find this video though because you hadn't uploaded it yet! Glad I get to watch it now though 🙂 Great effort from a shockingly small channel, you earned a sub from me my friend 👍
I had no idea that the pilot was shown after the last episode, thats pretty mind blowing if that was intentional like ya said. Certainly makes reviewing everything with that in mind interesting
Futurama was the perfect balance between The Simpsons and Southpark. It pushed the limits of what television was willing to air while being intelligent in its deliveries. Going just lowbrow enough to pique the interests of the masses. Its easily one of my top 3 favorite animated shows of all time.
I didn't care much about the dog but him talking with his Mom memories got me, in fact I didn't know the dog episode was so iconic until social media told me over and over again years later. I guess after so many rewatches and it at the time being all we got it became the moment was analyzed thoroughly and ranks up there now but me I watched it once, thought it was fine and forgot about Seymour, also I don't have any pets so maybe that's why it didn't hit me as much as others but to chat with a loved one 1000 years later got me completely and made me realize how special this show truly is after it's reboot-reboots
The episode with his moms memories makes me sob. She lost her son, and lived the rest of her life not knowing what happened to him, that’s heartbreaking. And Fry wanting to see his family one last time really shows that deep down, he missed where he came from, but doesn’t regret being in the future at all.
@@mistressmoon1779 yeah he realizes that their long gone and it's just a memory but he still loves his new future family he's made for himself, he just misses those people he took for granted back then now that he knows that they also missed him cause the past left alot of clues for him that he correctly deciphered so far
@@drebone1986 yeah, it also shows how he never really was over it until that point. I think being able to see his moms memories gave him the closure he needed, because I did get a sense that he missed the past, he just didn’t know how badly until he saw his family. I lowkey wish in the new season we’ll be able to see more flashbacks of interactions with his family
@@mistressmoon1779 exactly and I think they were going to do more but since they were always a second away from multiple cancellations that had to focus on quick gags, it only got to those serious moments once they were comfortable and felt like this was a permanent job which was the last couple of seasons
And to think we'll get another season on Hulu this year Im honestly so excited and am praying for this to be just a little bit as good as the first go around
It’s funny, I barely saw futurama on tv when it was airing because at a certain age I’d lost most interest in tv altogether…I didn’t really even hear much about it from the people around me in the countryside of North Carolina…nor did I know it had such a cult following. And then one day on a whim I decided to download a torrent of all the seasons just to have some new material to watch and I ended up BINGING allllll of it over the course of a week and realized what a gem it was! And I’ve always wondered since how no one seemed to really know very much about it. It’s definitely one of the best shows I’ve ever been fortunate enough to see.
Also a similar story for me. Early in the 00's, I had to work on the other side of the country, and needed to drive to have a car with me for a few weeks. I took a portable DVD player (the screens were terrible, but I was just listening along) and bought a couple of seasons of Futurama DVD's. Then, I listened to all the commentaries like a podcast while I drove. It was terrific, and I became a rabid fan.
So, just playing around here, but built into what you were wondering about how no one around you seemed to really know very much about something as good as Futurama, is one of favorite understandings, which is, you find the most truth where nobody is listening. In general, straight Christian adults are not watching shows like Futurama, Rick and Morty, South Park or even The Simpsons, really. It's why those shows were able to fight the networks and stay true to themselves. The ones who would normally complain - parents and such - were not watching. Ask almost any of them about South Park, for example, and they'll tell you two things: One, they hate the show; and Two, they've never really seen it. You can notice it when one of the Uptight is in the room when something like even The Simpsons is on. They're sort of watching, but not really. They'll hear something that makes them uncomfortable and they'll tune out. It's sad and good at the same time...the shows, for the most part, get left alone.
The sentimental beats are the same reason I loved The Simpsons back in the day.. "Bart" being Lisa's first word, _"Do It For Her"_ etc.. - but _the_ moment that legitimately choked me up; the episode where Homer reunites with his Mum but she has to run away to escape prosecution.. after taking her out to the desert to escape, the final shot is him sitting alone on the hood of his car, hands in lap, thoughtfully watching the sunset, which fades into an unchanged shot of him still sat on the hood, under the stars Man.. I honestly get teary even thinking about it ❤
Besides all the amazing episodes that makes you laugh and cry in 20 minutes the ending is a thing of beauty. Every time you finish the series you are given an invitation to do it again.
Honestly I feel it got an amazing ending and too orginally thought it got a very elegant loop back to the beginning. You either die Futurama or live long enough to be the simpsons...
That point on the first season is so true. When I went back as an adult to watch those show all these great memories of awesome episodes shocked me that so many were in the first season
I was just a little kid when I'd watch Futurama. Nkw that I know DVD and merch sales helped it come back I'm really really grateful to my mom for buying me all that futurama stuff haha.
46:37 It's easy to not see that as a retcon when he was fossilized standing up like 3D model in a modern Pokemon game, but the last thing we see of him is him lying down, presumably about to die. It wouldn't be the first time the show thought far ahead in advance. This show's quality makes me think they wouldn't fail to see the contradiction within the same episode.
It's most likely that some nerd pointed out the difference in final positions to one of the writers who eventually jumped at the chance to fix the future. The original episode's ending also screams at me with Monty Python clarity, He's not dead yet! Just as the many series finales were open ended so too was the true final moments of Fry's dog, until later.
RIP, that singer died some years later, went and looked up other songs by her, turns out they are rare as most we not recorded, but even tho 8 understand no words, they are beautiful and she's a low key legend
@@flewis02 I think you are kinda confused my man, yah, Nujabes did pass away but he left us a lot of the most beautiful music ever made and he's a very much aknowledged legend
I have watched Futurama on hulu every night as I fall asleep for the last 10 years, when I get to the last episode I switch over to American Dad, and family guy, and Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites. Just on rotation every night. I don't know what I would do without Futurama. Its just a special show.
The Simpson feels like a mole hill that built into a mountain. While futurama is a mountain of an idea that never got the time to build into a monument
These are exactly the kinds of videos I want, there aren't enough like it with this level of care and quality. Keep it up! (Also love the Feather intro there)
"I hope that despite all my whinging it's clear that I really do love this series." I don't think any reasonable person would say otherwise. It's clear that you truly care about it, and have created and edit a damn good retrospective. You earned a sub.
I never felt as though the later movies were "retconning" Fry's past. He still experienced the grief and isolation that came from his situation. Even if his "history" was altered, I didn't see that change the lessons and experiences that he endured. That aside, I love the work you've done here. Thank you.
Futurama is one of my favorite shows, but a lot of episodes are pretty mediocre in my opinion. But those mediocre episodes are still better than a lot of other shows.
