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DannyJC13
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One of Kurt's ideas.
Dude, there are like a more than a thousand things each one of us could list.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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I don't want KurtPikachu2001 to guest star in an episode...
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David A
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Since Futurama has been renewed until 2013, what are some things you _don't_ want to see happen in Futurama? There's so many threads about what people want to see, how about a thread about what people don't want to see?
Here's mine:
Wrongfully accused of a crime and has to go to prison plot. They already kind of did that in "Insane in the Mainframe." It does seem unnecessary for characters to be wrongfully accused when you have Bender actually commiting crimes though. A Thief of Baghdad plot. Stealing an entire city does seem a bit far-fetched, even for Futurama. A Sinbad Parody. (The sailor, Not the comedian) So you do want a parody of the comedian then? A Spoof of a childish fairy tale such as The Pied Piper or Jack and the Beanstalk. That could actually work for a AOI story, or even a normal episode depending on how it was handled. THe characters get turned into animals by some evil wizard. Sure, blame the wizards. Damsel-in-distress plot, especially since none of the girls are supposed to be any. They already did that with Amy, in "Where the Buggalo Roam." Male dominated planet plot. Aside from Leela being indignant about it, I'm not sure how much of a plot there would be, and we pretty much already saw that in "Raging Bender." Wimpifing of tough characters and toughening of wimpy characters. There aren't really any tough characters aside from Leela. As for toughening of wimpy characters, we already saw that with Fry in "Parasites Lost" and "Less Than Hero." A Magic Carpet plot where a character gets sold into slavery. What the hell are you even talking about? Fry gets cloned and his clones terrorize everyone. Futurama isn't The Simpsons. Also, they already kind of did that with the Lucy Liubots in "I Dated a Robot." A Super Mario spoof! What would that even entail? The characters eating mushrooms and stomping on turtles? A Go-Kart race where Fry wins. I suppose you'd rather see a go-kart race where Fry loses? Because you mighty spacemen of the future are so much better at go-kart racing than us idiotic slobs from the twentieth century. A Lifetime Movie scenario. You do realize that Futurama is a half-hour cartoon sitcom, right? A King Kong plot where a female character gets carried away by a huge monster. (Will Fry Am The EggMan be like this?) So you'd like to see a male character get carried away by a huge monster instead? Everyone is tied to a bomb, and Fry is the only one who can save them. That would pretty much be the same as the end of "Insane in the Mainframe" except that instead of being tied to a bomb, everyone was tied up by a knife-wielding maniac. Anyone else care to put in their 2 cents? Your ideas are bad, and you should feel bad.
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Svip
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When I saw the thread's title and its creator, I thought Kurt had finally realised the error of his ways and just posted all his previous ideas into one post.
And lo I would have laughed, but alas it was not be so.
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futurefreak
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Hahahahaha * futurefreak high fives David A * futurefreak and on the rebound...!
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Aki
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So, I still don't know, is Kurt a bad writer or is he joking?
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Svip
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No one is truly sure.
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futurefreak
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I think that as long as Kurt doesn't get hired as a Futurama writer, we're all reasonably safe from terrible, terrible episodes.
That's if he isn't one already, testing the waters with these "ideas"...
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Tachyon
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I'm sure Kurt's a great guy but if he turned out to be one of the writers it would qualify as one of the most epic trolls of all time.
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futurefreak
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Ok think about the plots last season if they were written down.
"An episode where all the crew members switch bodies. Fry and Leela end up inhabiting Zoidberg's and the Professor's bodies, respectively, and then end up doing the nasty to show that they aren't repulsed by the other"
"How about an entire episode made like a old 50s short based around Zapp. Most of the focus of the episode will be around him and Leela as they fly an invisible rocket and crash on a nearby planet, naked. Then some big device in the sky named V-GINY comes down and tells them in order for them to survive they have to do it. Fry is absent for much of the episode until the very end. Oh but it was one of Zapp's fantasies actually."
"Cats come to Earth to steal their energies so their planet can rotate again. Amy applies for her graduate degree, only to be denied by a fake Professor being puppetted by a cat who steals her ideas. The cats gets the Planet Express crew to turn a big crank to acquire energy by dancing around cutely."
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cyber_turnip
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Ok think about the plots last season if they were written down.
"An episode where all the crew members switch bodies. Fry and Leela end up inhabiting Zoidberg's and the Professor's bodies, respectively, and then end up doing the nasty to show that they aren't repulsed by the other" That would sound bland and like an idea not worth bothering with if it weren't for the last part. I think the whole Fry/Leela thing in that episode is inspired, even on paper. "How about an entire episode made like a old 50s short based around Zapp. Most of the focus of the episode will be around him and Leela as they fly an invisible rocket and crash on a nearby planet, naked. Then some big device in the sky named V-GINY comes down and tells them in order for them to survive they have to do it. Fry is absent for much of the episode until the very end. Oh but it was one of Zapp's fantasies actually." This sounds terrible, but the episode was terrible so what's your point? And In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela wasn't one of Zapp's fantasies, only the black and white parts were. "Cats come to Earth to steal their energies so their planet can rotate again. Amy applies for her graduate degree, only to be denied by a fake Professor being puppetted by a cat who steals her ideas. The cats gets the Planet Express crew to turn a big crank to acquire energy by dancing around cutely."
Touche.
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Aki
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Ok think about the plots last season if they were written down.
"An episode where all the crew members switch bodies. Fry and Leela end up inhabiting Zoidberg's and the Professor's bodies, respectively, and then end up doing the nasty to show that they aren't repulsed by the other"
"How about an entire episode made like a old 50s short based around Zapp. Most of the focus of the episode will be around him and Leela as they fly an invisible rocket and crash on a nearby planet, naked. Then some big device in the sky named V-GINY comes down and tells them in order for them to survive they have to do it. Fry is absent for much of the episode until the very end. Oh but it was one of Zapp's fantasies actually."
"Cats come to Earth to steal their energies so their planet can rotate again. Amy applies for her graduate degree, only to be denied by a fake Professor being puppetted by a cat who steals her ideas. The cats gets the Planet Express crew to turn a big crank to acquire energy by dancing around cutely."
While The Prisoner of Benda sounds terrible written down, and In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela sounds quite confusing, I think that summary of That Darn Katz! would have had me pretty excited. :P
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Aki
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Ah. I think the writers meant five dimensional whale though (or four space dimensional).
And yes, All the Presidents' Heads definitely seems to be time travel.
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DannyJC13
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The crew encounters a dangerous four-dimensional space whale.
From the Infosphere.
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Xanfor
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It's usually dangerous, unless there are children crying.
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Aki
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The crew encounters a dangerous four-dimensional space whale. I think the writers meant five dimensional whale though (or four space dimensional).
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Aki
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I see what you did there. I think the "space" thing is about the whale being in space, though.
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Aki
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(I edited my post after seeing what you did there, hoping you wouldn't ever see that I for a moment did not see)
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Aki
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Anything that involves Leela doing the nasty (in the pasty, presenty, or even in the futury) with someone other than Fry, and vice versa.
Agreed. And vice versa, but not as much. And if they did it, they would have to make an enormous deal out of it ("you slept with someone else?! we're through!!11").
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