people always compare the shows but a few superficial similarities aside I found Rick and Morty to completely lack the sincerity and humanism of Futurama. To a large extent it is toilet humor and edginess with some very heavy-handed dramatic moments thrown in.
Futurama can still get pretty meta. The first five minutes of the last reboot were about how those responsible for their cancelation were ground into Torgo's Executive Powder.
I think a better example of a return to straightforward comedy would be the King of the Hill reboot.
Also kindof wild to think of telling 1997 me that there would be new episodes of Futurama and KotH 25 years from now.
After watching the misery that has been the Flanderization of the Simpsons and its complete decline I'm quite happy with King of the Hill staying out of remakes and anything that would straight up destroy the treasure that it is.
The two aren't even close to being comparable. Rick and Morty has a lot of good ideas, but the two main characters themselves are just fundamentally annoying, there's nothing to balance it out.
It's quoting Bender specifically, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubPWaDWcOLU.
"Yeah well, I'm gonna build my own themepark, with blackjack, and hookers. Infact, forget the park" when he's thrown out of the moon themepark.
Seasons in futurama are variable - Disney puts it as 10 seasons, with the films being season 6
There were great episodes in the post films, on the whole id put 95% of episodes as good or excellent, very few haven’t stood the test of time, before or after the films (although I wasn’t too keen on the films themselves, especially the undoing of Jurassic Bark)
The Devil's Hands, and to a lesser extent, Wild Green Yonder would also have been fine places to leave it had it stayed ended there. Even if Bender's Big Score had been a standalone movie that would have worked too. So based on their track record, I'm confident they can park it nicely when this revival ends too.
Yeah, this was my instinct as well. I was worried when they came back last time, and was left super pleased with the gift that was given. Even if they mess up this time, I can just ignore it and move on with my life, but the chance that it's as good as it always was, or that a new generation will be excited about it is worth it.
Every time this happens, I am initially a little disappointed. It hurts every time it ends, every new series isn't quite as good as Jurassic Bark. Still, every time this happens I'm filled with joy. I wonder how many young folks will discover this series for the first time through the new one and go back and enjoy all the old ones.
X2. The movies and then new seasons were okay, but in a different way where they kind of seemed to be caricatures of the original run.
Jurassic Bark is always the mentioned best episode with Futurama, but it (and Luck of the Fryish) is just so sad. Not that they aren't good episodes, but the Luna Park episode in season 1 (with Bender assaulting the mascot, the "moonbillies"), then Bender getting hooked on electricity in Hell is Other Robots and even Mars University with Gunter's classic line (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqjv0mHpapk) are all great. Godfellas and Pharoah to Remember are also underrated.
I enjoyed the later seasons, although I'm the type that would prefer a relationship to gradually decay until you don't have any interest rather than cut your losses while it's still good.
If we took this same approach to star wars and killed the franchise during episodes 7-9, we would have never gotten The Book of Boba Fett.
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[ 5.9 ms ] story [ 125 ms ] threadKind of a bummer that the article got that one completely wrong....
Which I guess is why they're making this show.
I think a better example of a return to straightforward comedy would be the King of the Hill reboot.
Also kindof wild to think of telling 1997 me that there would be new episodes of Futurama and KotH 25 years from now.
Or the best news I’ve had all week.
There were great episodes in the post films, on the whole id put 95% of episodes as good or excellent, very few haven’t stood the test of time, before or after the films (although I wasn’t too keen on the films themselves, especially the undoing of Jurassic Bark)
I am confident that they will be able to continue to make great episodes and end them if needed.
(Like seriously I’m not american, what’s Hulu? I get my streaming fix on Disney Plus)
Shut up and take my cryptocurrency
Jurassic Bark is always the mentioned best episode with Futurama, but it (and Luck of the Fryish) is just so sad. Not that they aren't good episodes, but the Luna Park episode in season 1 (with Bender assaulting the mascot, the "moonbillies"), then Bender getting hooked on electricity in Hell is Other Robots and even Mars University with Gunter's classic line (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqjv0mHpapk) are all great. Godfellas and Pharoah to Remember are also underrated.
If we took this same approach to star wars and killed the franchise during episodes 7-9, we would have never gotten The Book of Boba Fett.