Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, September 18, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m

    • tkohldesac@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I watched half way, got PTSD from season 10 and put on s1e1 and fell asleep. I’ve liked this season so far, being fan since literally 1999 (holy shit…) but I couldn’t make it through this episode. It was Naturama all over again.

        • tkohldesac@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          Hey, you do you. My days of slamming things I don’t like are over. Not everything’s made for me and I accept that but there are definitely similartities I can draw between the two. I told my brother that I don’t mind the off-the-wall goofy episodes when the What-If machine is involved but the knee-jerk transitions between actual episode and goofiness just isn’t for me. Glad there’s a new season and that there’s an audience for episodes like that though!

    • Pendulum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      324·
      1 year ago

      I turned it off halfway through. It was completely rubbish. So bad that it’s making me want to NOT rewatch classic episodes.

      If the writers on this are striking for more money, I can only hope they lose their homes to an AI. That also pleasures their wives, since at least one of them seems to have a fetish for cuckoldry.

      • stephenc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        I stopped watching 3 episodes into the new season when it was obvious that this was exactly what I feared it would be – a half-baked revival where characterization and good writing got thrown out the window. Even the CC revival had solid episodes even if some weren’t quite up to par with the original run. This is just embarrassing. I consider it a bad fanfic reimagining of the series and refuse to consider it actual Futurama.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
          32·
          1 year ago

          It feels like someone made them include at least 4 references to better episodes per episode and don’t care if the writing isn’t strong enough to hold them all together.

          This is a show now meant to offer dopamine in the form of nostalgia and that’s it. It’s just giving a junkie their fix and I’m not interested since I’m not an addict.

          Such a fucking shame.

  • Moxvallix@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Did anyone else think this episode was supposed to be a dream? The fact that adverts are spread throughout definitely made me think it was (remember ads are beamed into peoples dreams).

    Also there were elements shared between the anthology segments, like Fry being unwell, or Bender doing loop-de-loops that make me think it’s a reflection of some real events? Maybe events we’ll see in the season finale?

    Curious if anyone else got these vibes. Could just be reading too much into it.

  • audrbox@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    The framing plot here was imo definitely a self-aware parody of past episodes where Leela just totally forgets/ignores she and Fry are dating, and through that lens I found it hilarious. The science spell reveal at the end is the perfect absurd capper to it and also makes it clear it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously

  • fry@fry.gsEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Can’t believe the first season back is already almost done! Any word yet on if it’s been picked up for season 12?

  • HaKeNdoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Here is my theory. They intentionally make these god-awful episodes so the rest of the episodes would shine against them.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    If I had a nickel every time Bender became a car, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

  • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    My theory here is this episode is 4 mini episodes written by ai.

    Usually when they do an anthology or clip show they have some kind of in-universe framing device, but this almost feels like the whole screenplay was ai and they just said fuck it.

    • TheLoneMinon@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I really hope this is the case and they were trying to prove a point in favor of the striking writers… otherwise I may skip the rest of this season. Its been okay, if a bit stale, but this was one was disheartening.