That's the sort of thing I'm getting at really, just little "riffs" - as they sometimes refer to them - on other shows.

Thinking about it though, they have done some good full-length spoofs (the Bender/Christine epsiode, for example!).

I thought that was more a werewolf pastiche that just happened to be about cars, rather than of Christine.

I should watch this ...

I'm jolly heartened by the news of Futurama's proper return. I've yet to see the four feature length episodes, and I've really not been impelled to do so from all the lukewarm reviews I've seen. I'm sure somebody here can convince me otherwise though.

On a moderately unrelated note, I hadn't watched any episodes of Futurama in about a year until just recently, and damn me if the first 'at random' episode I pick to watch isn't the one that Zoe and Whitey quoted on Facebook a short while back. Spooky. I hadn't even realised they were quotes from Futurama at the time. I can barely remember a single quote from anything these days, let alone recall which episode said quote is from, and yet I go and land a total coinkydink of a fluke like that. It's downright cosmic.

I've only seen the first three, and they are okay, with plenty of laughs etc, but they all generally try to stretch one joke over 90 minutes and that is 60 minutes too long, in my opinion.

The DVDs are great, the first two especially.

It was on Sky Two today. It's one of my favourite episodes.

"To my loyal butler, You There, for his decades of service, I leave a pittance, to be paid in twenty equal installments of one-twentieth of a pittance each."

Watched some Season 4 earlier today, had forgotten just how brilliant this show really is. Hedonism-bot is probably one of the funniest characters I've seen.

I apologise.....for nothing!

The joke rate on the best episodes has to be the highest per minute for anything that's ever been on TV.

It's also touching without being mawkish.

Plus, Fry's hot.

Ah Zoe, ever the sucker for a slacker.

That sounded a lot more sexual than I had planned.



Definitely, and it's not just the number of jokes but the quality of them is so high. Most episodes are just as good as the best Simpsons shows, if not better, which is saying a hell of a lot. Futurama is better than it for my money, even though I love the Simpsons at its best. 'Rama is just more consistent; I have all 4 seasons on DVD and would probably not skip an episode were I to watch them all the way through.

Jurassic Bark is one of the few pieces of television I've cried at, and the one with Fry's brother and the clover always makes me tear up too.

Ditto.
I can't watch Jurassic Bark any more because it always makes me cry.

I want Seymour.

I have to go now.
I've...got something in my eye.

I watched this episode at a friends house for the first time and I swear I nearly burst into tears.

Classic 'Rama.

Futurama threatens to sack cast - I understand the reasoning behind it ($75,000 per episode, especially when shifting to cable), but would any fan seriously want to watch it without the original voice cast?

It's probably just a scare tactic to get the less prominent cast members to sign a smaller deal.

'Futurama' cast returning for reboot.

Good news everybody!

An reboot? Why?

It's the fashionable thing to do, I guess. Look at Batman and Star Trek. It'd be interesting to see a Futurama reboot that satirizes the whole idea.

I think it's a reboot as in they're starting back in on episodic TV rather than a Batman / Star Trek style reboot.

Well that's good. I'm only just starting to come to terms with Star Trek.

Huzzah!

Here was me hoping they'd just hired the entire cast of Futurama to make a new series of CGI cartoon ReBoot...

Anyone else watched the first two episodes of Season 6?

I thought they were promising, if not spectacular. "Rebirth" was the stronger of the two since it managed to quickly resolve the cliffhanger from "Into the Wild Green Yonder" then move swiftly into the main story, which was a solidly built science fiction story around which they were able to build plenty of good gags and clever references. Not a vintage Futurama episode, but certainly a good start that took us right back into the thick of things with few jitters.

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" was also good, but despite featuring lots of really good Zapp Brannigan moments and a pretty nice Leela-Zapp dynamic, I thought the "end of the world" story behind it all wasn't great once the threat was revealed, and that it didn't hold together as nicely as "Rebirth". Again, by no means a bad episode, but it felt a bit looser, and Futurama in general works best when everything is tight.

The worst that can be said about them is that they don't match the first four seasons' best moments, but then again they've only just got back, so for them to return on Season 2 form is a pretty good start.

Were they on Sky One or is it a download jobby? I meant to watch them but I didn't know when/where they were on.

A download jobby. I'm not sure when they air in the U.K.

i didn't realise there had been a season five...

The four films are counted as Season 5, with the current run being Season 6.

well, i didn't even realise there had been four films; i guess i'd better get round to watching them...

They're well worth watching but don't expect them to be on a par with the series. They don't quite work as films since they were intended to be chopped up into episodes for TV, but they are generally pretty funny.

I wax my rocket every day.

Ah right, thanks. I'll investigate the internets.

Bring on the DVD release!

Phew! I thought for a second there that I'd missed them.

I still haven't watched the films yet. I probably should get a move on.

I would love to have a Chamber of Understanding, but only if it came with the disco ball.

Ouch, this weeks episode was really rather bad. I hope it proves to be the exception.

Thankfully it was. This weeks episode The Duh-Vinci Code is fantastic.

Proposition Infinity was pretty great, too. Silly as the gag is, Hermes' Circusitis really made me giggle.

"I thought that only affected children."
"Children of all ages."


Oh, and I laughed a bit too loudly at the Nixon poster.



It was okay for the first seven or eight minutes, but once Susan the Boil showed up it got bad very quickly. Not irredeemably bad, but a very weak episode.

Lrr (ruler of Omicron Persei 8) exclaiming Joss Whedon's here!? had me in stitches.

That fucking killed me, though not nearly as much as "I brought you J.J. Abrams' face!" complete with really disturbing visual.

I've caught up on the episodes of Season 5/6/whatever that I missed and, despite containing the single worst episode in the entire history of Futurama (that awful, awful iPhone/Susan Boyle episode), it wound up being a pretty solid season, with the last half containing many episodes that stack up well with the pre-cancellation iteration of Futurama. The Late Philip J. Fry, in particular, would probably make it into my top 5 Futurama episodes ever. Stunning animation, a clever science-fiction plot and a genuinely moving moment for Fry and Leela. The end of Lethal Inspection was also surprisingly touching.

Also, Prisoner of Benda mention for the fact that it features a scene in which Scruffy gets to talk about his conflicted feelings for his robotic mop bucket and Fry walking like Zoidberg.

I still haven't seen the four feature length specials yet - I really must catch up. Ah, and the collected box set is now only 15 squid. Woooooob, wub wub wub wub wub!

It was cheaper than that the other day (I think about £7 or £8), but I missed the opportunity to buy it because I chose to buy Christmas presents instead. Aren't I nice?

Where?





And where?????

The Hut currently has it for £13.93.

Amazon. But check The Hut and elsewhere, you'll no doubt find a bargain.

Fanks!!

*extracts credit card from wallet*

Play.com. It was part of their "Monday Madness" selection. It's back up to £15 now.