One Last New Episode of Futurama

Ant writes "Futurama's last new episode airs tonight at 7:00 PM on Fox." If you're missing your fix, there's a Futurama website with entirely too much Futurama info.

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sad but

[freedommatters]

i can't say it ever gripped me. i enjoy it. watch it now and again when tivo records it for me and generally find it very funny but for some reason it never had that "must see the next episode now" magic.

Re:sad but

[whereiswaldo]

Is it me or is Homer's stupidity getting a little tiresome?

It's not just you. I haven't watched the Simpson's in about 2 years. It just sucks since they've made it darker and just stoop too low for the sake of "laughs". I'll laugh when it's gone.

Funny how shows start off great and then go to hell. Like "Friends". Whenever I hear something funny on that show, I turn my head and see that it's an older episode.

Re:sad but

[aled]

By some amazing coincidence The Simpsons started downhill at the same time Mat Groening leave to Futurama...

Re:sad but

[glesga_kiss]

I wouldn't say "too intellectual", it's more "knowledgable". A lot of the jokes in Futurama are "in-jokes" where you must know what it's refering to to get the joke. For example, the "All your base are belong to us" when the aliens take over earth.

The Simpsons had these gags, but they were a lot less prominent while other more obvious gags kept a wider audience amused.

Michael, a question?

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

How is this "sweet juicy justice?" I think it's as unjust as hell to cancel such an intelligent and funny series that many, if not most Slashdotters love.

Zap Branagan and Kif rule

[Anonymous Coward]

While I thought Matt played it a little too cute with the Fry-Leela connection and almost all the subplots involving Bender, any episodes with Zap Branagan and Kif were works of pure genius that rivaled even The Simpsons.

What a Shame

[alset_tech]

I don't think Futurama ever got a fair chance from viewers, who expected "the Simpsons in the future." It's too bad that the series wasn't able to fun for fourteen years, like it's counterpart. I would have watched them all. BTW - was anyone else repeatedly dismayed to see the show preempted by football ever season?

Re:Sad..

[rbullo]

Actually, according to www.familyguyfiles.com,

Despite the huge fan base, the show's edgy content and brash humor (remember when The Simpsons used to be that way?) doesn't sit well with the advertisers. Of course, it doesn't help when a network moves a show every week to a new time slot. How was anyone expected to watch it?

So, apparently the "dismal ratings" were Fox's own damn fault.

no restrictions

[Anonymous Coward]

i loved that futurama had no restrictions. each show could be about anything, and could be as absurd as they wanted it to be. also, there was one major difference to the simpsons for instance: the show is back to normal not at the end of the episode, but at the beginning of the next. they don't have to bend the story to fit that restriction.

Futurama - The Game

[Sim9]

There is a futurama game in the works titled Futurama- The Game. Release date is Aug 15, and so far impressions have been quite favorable.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle- ur l/index=videogames&field-keywords=futurama%20the%2 0game&search-type=ss&bq=1/102-3968539-6524 956

Preair rips

[Anonymous Coward]

Rips of pre-air feeds of this episode in mpg and xvid format have been out for more than a day. The episode was funny as hell, such a pity that this show has to end while Simpsons (which for the most part is desperately unfunny now) was renewed for another two seasons...

Re:Sad..

[Mostly Harmless]

"The simspsons was geared a lot towards children usually, where I always felt Futurama was more for adults (Any one remember the death by snu-snu joke in the amazon woman episode?)"

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. One of the things that I like most about the Simpsons is that the show seems to have evolved (read: grown) with its audience. When I watch the first few seasons, those that were aired in my pre-teen/teen years, I can see how easily I related to them then -- they were geared more towards children. But the show became more sophisticated, IMHO, as the seasons progressed. Well, maybe not "sophisticated" per se, but definitely more adult insofar as the humor is concerned. Futurama, as much as I love the show, seems to have peaked too early, as if there was never much room to grow. With that said, I will miss Fry and Bender dearly, but until the Simpsons are through, I really don't care.

Sky One do this in the UK

[rklrkl]

In the UK, Simpsons and Futurama episodes are aired first on Sky One at 6.30pm and 7.00pm respectively on Sunday nights - we already have a "Groening Hour of Power" :-) Plus the DVD box sets of The Simpsons and Futurama are released up to 6 months before the US (although twice the price of the US versions, so I order the US ones instead). Oh, plus the Futurama game came out several months before the US.

Now if only Sky One didn't put "Sky One Brand New" in the top left *and* a red blob in the top right (don't ask - you're supposed to press the red button on your remote, but it doesn't go to a Simpsons/Futurama section of their interactive digital TV stuff, but just to the main menu !). Luckily, the blob can be removed by a rapid press of the Red button followed by Backup, but you can't get rid of the 2 line logo in the top left :-(

I also hate that they shove in 3 repeats of The Simpsons on consecutive Sundays and then a brand new episode, then 2 repeats, then a new episode, then a repeat, then 3 new episodes and so on - a total guess as to whether the episode will be new or not (so I just record them all and check them out later).

Futurama is BETTER than Simpsons

[w1z7ard]

Reasons why:

(1) The Why of Fry - Fry is the most important person in the universe. He was actually sent to the future on purpose to stop the evil brains from destroying the universe after they know everything about it. How sweet is that?

(2) The episode where the professor creates a mutant superhuman basketball team to compete with the space traveling globe trotters. Because he created the superhuman team by accelerating time with some chronotron, time slips started occuring during the viewing of the cartoon.

(3) Captain Brannagon, Bender, Zoidberg?

(4) The giant squid everyone ignores at the dinner table...oh wait, thats Family Guy.

Anyway, Futurama is an excellent blend of cartoon scifi / boozing / geek jokes. It has a much bigger world than The Simpsons (any time period, really, and the whole space that is the universe), and Matt Groening definitely wants to write for it, and has fresh ideas for episodes. Also, what about the star trek Futurama episode? I hate star trek, and it was still hilarious.

Re:Coping with Grief

[UserGoogol]

There's a difference between Cancelled and having the final episode. "Cancelled" means that no more episodes will be made. However cartoons are not made live. (It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.) And networks typically have motivation to air finished episodes which they've already paid for.

Case in point, there are still episodes of Invader Zim which have yet to be aired. Clerks was basically cancelled before the show even got on the air, as far as I know.

Anyway, I don't think Futurama was never formally "cancelled". I think how it happened was that Fox merely let their contract with Futurama run out naturally.