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Otis P Jivefunk
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« Reply #7 on: 09-24-2011 14:58 »
« Last Edit on: 09-24-2011 15:00 »
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Most of all for me has to be the whole Space Bees talking like gangsters joke in Holiday Craptacular. I don't care if this was meant to be non-canon, it was just a terrible idea going back there and having them speak, let alone like the awful way they did! So un-Futurama-y it's beyond belief!... I can't stand the references to present day pop culture (Christina Aguilera, CSI: Miami, Nicolas Cage, etc.)
Yep this, I hate all of that. In particular the Susan Boil "joke" and the Lady Gaga one. I do however like the LOST joke so I guess there are exceptions, but that was tastefully done and worked well unlike the others...
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Tachyon
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"Wipe Castle". Most jarring and annoying.
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DannyJC13
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No, it just felt so out of place and 'meh'.
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DannyJC13
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But older people might have liked the fan joke too... The writers obviously did...
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Tedward
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My dad laughed out loud at the second fan joke.
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DannyJC13
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Exactly. It's people's humour that affect the outcome of a joke.
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spira
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Yeah, my mom thought the fans were the funniest thing pretty much ever. I was also really highly amused. Age doesn't really have much to do with at least that genre of jokes. I'm pretty sure (correct me if I'm wrong) your reluctance regarding juvenile jokes is rather based on these jokes to be used randomly for their own sake. (To give another exmpale: Bender asking Leela "Why two animals of every kind?" in LLLIS, she whispers something in Benders ear, and he gives a dirty laugh. Am I right that you are fine with that kind of jokes?) Yeah, exactly. That example was funny. It's just dumb stuff like Hermes' "That's my boy!" line that makes me cringe.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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The fan thing was ok, but not that funny, not terrible, but nothing great...
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Tedward
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Any of Bender's jokes about penises or whatnot. Pretty much everything in Benders Game. "Fun on a bun" urrgh, just horrible. But the goat puking/pooping thing in that one episode takes the cake. That episode was absolute trash
Any of Bender's jokes about penises or whatnot. Pretty much everything in Benders Game. "Fun on a bun" urrgh, just horrible. But the goat puking/pooping thing in that one episode takes the cake. That episode was absolute trash
So consistency is good, yes?
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Gorky
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Yeah, my mom thought the fans were the funniest thing pretty much ever. I was also really highly amused. Age doesn't really have much to do with at least that genre of jokes.
Indeed. Head injuries are always funny. (And it's possible that I am Tedward's father, because the only belly laugh "Overclockwise" inspired in me was for the second fan joke.) I would say that the only so-called jokes that don't work for me on Futurama are the really puerile ones (so pretty much, like, jokes about bodily functions--though some of them are well-done (I liked the taking-a-dump joke in "Reincarnation," but not the one in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela")), and the really tactless references to pop culture that feel too contemporary or fleeting (so, yeah, the Lady Gaga thing). But there are exceptions to these rules, and generally speaking I agree with Louiswuenator that the writers, actors, and animators are so talented that they can theoretically make any joke work.
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spira
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« Reply #30 on: 09-27-2011 06:10 »
« Last Edit on: 09-27-2011 06:11 »
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Another one of the worst jokes I can think of was Bender's "9...10...a big fat hen...the name's 'Bender'!" in Less than Hero.
I actually found that really funny. I am not sure why. Perhaps because it comes out of nowhere and is just random. The delivery is excellent. Why such hate on Roseanne? I agree the whale was dumb though. However, that episode had a lot of really redeeming qualities.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Another one of the worst jokes I can think of was Bender's "9...10...a big fat hen...the name's 'Bender'!" in Less than Hero. It comes out of nowhere and makes little sense in the context.
Whaaa? Are you serious? That's an awesome joke! I love that one, great line and delivery. The randomness makes it all the funnier if you ask me!...
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Gorky
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I certainly didn't recognize that it was called "Wipe Castle" until they got there--but I don't think it was something the writers meant to deliberately obfuscate (because why would you want to hide such a "brilliant" joke and not get as much mileage out of it as you possibly can?).
Speaking of stuff from "Bender's Game," though, I will say that the run about the staghorn knife--though amusing, to a degree--seems like a very un-Futurama-like moment to me. It's just way too drawn out, and what it's parodying (lousy infomercials) is well-trodden comic territory, and it just feels way too self-indulgent to me (and, dare I say it, Family Guy-ish).
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