Is Continuity Holding Futurama Back? - Analyzing Parasites Regained EP04 of the Hulu Futurama Reboot 

I like how you just gloss over the extremely useful fact that nibbler could almost instantly devour any animal threat. No, nibbler is over deployed if anything. The nibbler episodes can be quite jarring and contrived

@@fertilizerspike I glossed over it cause it wasn't that important to my comment. The point I was trying to make was that Nibbler doesn't do much to show off his intelligence enough to be in many episodes with the Planet Express Crew despite wanting to BE a part of the crew since the Season 6 episode "That Darn Katz!" Which is one of the only episodes Nibbler had a main role that WASN'T about him freezing Fry back 1,000 years ago. And the episode was complete dogshit as many other ones during the CC Era. Nibbler is underutilized and is only relegated to just being a house pet with his only comedic joke is that he eats just about everything. Except Bender's cooking and enemies like the Brain Spawn and the Scam Aliens. Even his pooping is now not important since the Planet Express Ship doesn't use Dark Matter as fuel anymore rather they now use whale oil. The only episodes we really get to see him in are literally only about him and no one else. There are a few episodes when he plays the main role where he only is subjected to be a lore guide as to why Fry is in the future to begin with. I'm not saying Nibbler is not important to Futurama. I just think if the writers wanted Nibbler to be an official member of the main cast just like they wanted since Season 6, they have to give him more laid back roles with episodes like this one or even go on adventures with the Planet Express Crew on some of their deliveries where his intellectual and animalistic nature can clash with the other alien inhabitants with some very creative jokes spread out in between.

They do sort of toss him on the crew in That Darn Katz and then just like never really address it again. He's definitely in the Scruffy, Cubert, Dwight, class of character, not the Zoidberg, Amy, Hermes group. They could probably bump him into the second category pretty easily.

@@bennett420 They should. I actually like Nibbler and find his intellectual nature fascinating and his tie-in to Fry as to why he's in the future to begin with. Along with the fact he has stated Leela being "The Other" in "The Why of Fry" as some lore hint.

I always assumed that Disenchantment took placed during the time between 2000 and 3000 because of the castles that appear and are destroyed but turns out it's actually further in the future? Wild. Also new/final Disenchantment season drops on Friday, pretty pumped for that

😂 that's my mind set to anime, suspense your disbelief for a bit and enjoy.

I like that approach. Almost, appreciate it when it works, and laugh at it when it doesn't. It is a comedy after all lol

Yeah, this was the same man who invented the electric bagpipe, so you know he knows what he's talking about

Awesome, glad you like them! Though now I've developed this weird thing where when I watch each new episode I'm consciously looking for a screen to put the video in lmao

@bennett420 im curious to see how yolu pull it off but im sure you can

Oh, this is very interesting, and works better with that whole universal truth Nibbler and Leela see through the sand visions. It would also explain why he would need his ancestral litter box sand. If Nibblonians naturally have these worms, it's not a question of when he got the worms, it's when did the worms get crabs? Lol

Worms not only made Fry smarter, but stronger and a lot more coordinated too. Ik Nibbler doesn't have a 6-pack and isn't particularly strong himself. So maybe these worms could also improve his physicality in a way.

@@bennett420 in order to eat animals that are incredibly larger in size he does have to be strong enough

Agreed. The continuity is there, but it only acts when it's right for the story. And if a scene is played off for jokes, remember that Futurama is a comedy show first so gags and dark humor are their obvious priority over some continuity. That's how I've always viewed the show since I was 11 years old.

Most of the adult animated sitcoms I can think of have a pretty large focus on their shows continuity. Bojack you mentioned but Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, Disenchantment, Inside Job, even shows like Archer do it a bit as well. It feels like they're growing in popularity, and it make sense, it works well with streaming and binging.

@@bennett420 Rick and Morty seems to not care and likes to blue-ball their audience for caring. Which is unfortunate since the show was seem as a pretty good show to watch back when it first aired.

@@bennett420 I guess what I meant futurama is more continuity focused then most other adult animated sitcoms from the time it started out as. Since yeah stuff made in the 2010's to now focuses more on continuity and building it's world but that certainly wasn't really the case in the late 90's when Futurama started. Though the first show I'd argue that has a full airtight continuity for an adult aniamted series was the Venture Brothers which cared more then Futurama did but yeah that was a rarity until like the last 10 years.

Yeah, I think this is where I ultimately landed. I thought it was a great sign in the first episode, but it's starting to oversaturate the revival. Half-assed burial feels accurate, I hope the back half turns it around.

At the end of overclockwise, before bender give fry and léela those pages you can see nibbler running away from bender with a similar pile of papers

I think the fact that so many show are serialized these days is why I wish they would keep to an episodic format. The ability to do some outlandish story, then turn around and do something completely different the next week is something I've always thought of as a strength. When you're too serialized your hands get tied and you're forced to clean up plot holes and threads like Kif and Amy's kids.

Can't disagree, especially if we're talking about the original Fox episodes. One of the reasons I feel in love with the show was the ridiculous attention to detail. I'm concerned the attention to detail is lost in the more recent episodes, but the desire to keep them connected is still there. It can still be fun when it happens, I just wonder what could have been if they were less focused on it.

The subtext in the new episodes makes it very clear they are just cashing in and and filling contractually obligated time down to the second

I totally agree when it comes to Leela's relationship to Kif and Amy's kids. I also liked how they did it in the episode itself. "Woah, I must of been super drunk" lmao. The Nibbler thing though, it feels like such an established fact that it was jarring to see it. But as fan dedicated enough to make videos about the show, maybe I'm underestimating the new viewer angle

The odd pairing of Hermes and Bender will always bother me, but the killbots are the absolute best. The "I don't see how it's her..." "Someone said Howitzer" gets me everytime

Thank you very much! I appreciate the notes. My audio mixing has always been a little too fast and loose, so it's good to know when I'm vibing on the music a bit too much lmao. Good point on the frame too, I've been using them because I don't have full resolution clips, but this one is waaaaaay to busy compared to the other ones I've used.

@@bennett420 otherwise, really great videos! I binged them last night. I love Futurama 💜

@@bennett420 I like the little audience, but move the copyright text up.

Most definitely. I have a long form video about Planet Express's poor business practices that goes a bit into that inconsistency. There's an episode where Fry changes job without changing career chips and later in the episode career chips make an appearance. So inconsistent.

@@bennett420 It's even more inconsistent when there's multiple background characters that have more than one job, on another note, Scruffy appears despite blowing his head off in the Simpsons. Which is a whole nother continuity can of worms.

I really liked the emotional gravity of the scene where we though Nibbler was going to be an animal forever. I was prepared for that possibility because that was kinda the old status quo, but I do agree that the show is better when he can operate in both worlds, so I'm glad it landed where it ultimately did.

@@bennett420 yeah I liked that scene too, really had the emotional weight.

"It is as I feared...The case is unsolveable!"

She's just being impulsive

Sorry, that's my bad, I forgot to add the subtitle to the title, hence the " - " hanging on the end lol. I'll be better at flagging them in the future, still pretty new to posting videos

@@bennett420 considering you're new to this, you're doing an amazing job!

I appreciate it!

It sucks AND it was a mid season finale, I remember being livid when it aired. A show that gets canceled this often and unexpectedly can't risk having that nonsense be the FINALE. Almost always skip it when I get to that ep.

@@bennett420 I hate Naturama and the Tales of Interest too.

I managed to get past the initial strangeness and ultimately didn't hate it, but then again, it prompted me making this videos, so it clearly ended up bothering me more than I realized lmao