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Otis P Jivefunk
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American Dad is ok, in fact some eps are pretty good! Of course they're nowhere near as good as Futurama (unless we're putting the best American Dad eps against Holiday Craptacular and Yo Leela Leela)...
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DannyJC13
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American Dad is awesome. All the retards who watch Family Guy at my school say it's not funny, so obviously they don't like Futurama either. Not that I care. Fucking fart jokes and sex gags only appeal to them.
And there probably has been, but I can't recall, but I don't remember hearing a fart sound effect on Futurama at all...
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DannyJC13
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Since this is the GENERAL discussion thread, this can go here. Someone on PEEL told me a few months ago that Chirs Tyng doesn't do the music for the show anymore cause they can't afford him or he just didn't come back or something. Lies. Lies and slander. He does still do the music.
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Svip
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They couldn't afford the small orchestra Tyng used to use, so he has to settle for synthesisers these days.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Although a fantastic job has been done with the synths, when you watch an ep like The Sting the difference really is quite apparent. The orchestra really benefits eps like The Sting and I couldn't imagine it being quite as amazing without to be honest...
If only their budget allowed them to use the orchestra for even just one ep a year, then we could still get that same heightened effect for the most epic eps. A man can dream, a man can dream...
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DannyJC13
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Bender's Game is the only one of the 4 movies that gives me that "sat-in-the-cinema" feeling when watching it, and that's because of the music.
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coldangel
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American Dad is awesome. All the retards who watch Family Guy at my school say it's not funny, so obviously they don't like Futurama either. Not that I care. Fucking fart jokes and sex gags only appeal to them.
Don't be such an elitist snob. I'm probably the most intellectually sophisticated person you're ever likely to meet. I listen to Tchaikovsky, enjoy 1950's French cinema, smoke cigars and wear a damned monocle. (All true, apart from the monocle). I enjoy cerebral fare. And also cartoons. Futurama isn't an intelligent show, I'm sorry to say. Just because it has a few mathematical easter-eggs thrown in throughout does not make it smart, nor does it make you a sophisticated person for watching it. American Dad is even less of a cultural pinnacle. But they're good fun. That's all. And so is Family Guy. Only difference is that FG is based primarily in absurdist humour. Incidentally, so was Monty Python. You like Monty Python, don't you? Of course you do - you think you're smarter than other people; those folk you refer to as 'retards'. Anyway, all I wanted to really say is that you're misrepresenting the humour of FG somewhat unfairly - there's quite a lot more to it than toilet humour, and if you were half as intellectual as you seem to think you are, you'd be able to read through the lines. And it's really a matter of personal taste anyhow. Sometimes it's nice to just be able to laugh at something randomly hilarious.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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I enjoy Futurama, American Dad and Family Guy (and even a few eps of Cleveland!...). I think what I like most about Family Guy is some of it's so ridiculous that it makes me laugh, and I don't care if it's intelligent or not because it's making me laugh. I also like the characters...
Futurama is of course by far my highest priority, and that's not likely to change. The humour is different to Family Guy, although a few Faimly Guy-esque jokes have started creeping into Season 6. For some reason though, I'm not finding those jokes funny in a Futurama setting, as where I might be more partial to them in a Family Guy setting...
Bottom line is I can't see myself anticipating eps of the other shows in the same way that I do with Futurama, but I find enjoyable qualities in each to varying degrees...
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coldangel
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a few Faimly Guy-esque jokes have started creeping into Season 6. For some reason though, I'm not finding those jokes funny in a Futurama setting, as where I might be more partial to them in a Family Guy setting... Because Futurama, as wacky as it can be, exists within a universe with well-established rules and continuity. Furthermore, its characters are all very well-defined and their fourth wall rarely even gets glanced at. For this reason, sudden OOC moments or blatant in-universe impossibilities will be jarring in a way that they aren't in the much more fluid, malleable world of Family Guy. I personally never got on-board with all the FG hate. With so few mainstream adult-oriented cartoons in existence, it doesn't do to be so picky. I blame the Internet. It's made everything appear to suck because one minor critique just snowballs through all the braindead parrots until an apparently unanimous contempt for a film or TV show emerges. That's why no modern works of film, television or literature will ever become "classics" - the net just breeds hate.
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DannyJC13
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Also Coldy, I know FG can be very clever and stuff like that in the same way as Futurama, but my point is they only like it for the "dumb" jokes, like violence, farting and sexual humour. The stuff that we understand probably just goes over their heads.
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DannyJC13
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Futurama has non-maths and science related jokes that even I couldn't come up with.
And they're really simple.
Such as:
"Don't you ever stop and think?" "I never stop to think about it..." "Is this one of those no means yes situations?" "Yes and no."
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coldangel
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they only like it for the "dumb" jokes
Don't judge others for the things they derive enjoyment from. That's my job. on the whole, I'd say they're far smarter than average. Especially when it comes to comedy.
Which, of course, says very little.
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coldangel
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I don't even know any more...
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Thinking about it, Holiday Craptacular and Yo Leela Leela are two of the worst episode titles, and they're two of the worst eps in the series. I hope Fun on a Bun doesn't follow this worrying trend ...
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Svip
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The title makes perfect sense to me. It would be like calling an episode "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass" or "Good News, Everyone". Although, since the latter two are rather famous (at Internet meme level), it would cheapen it to use those; so a lesser known catchphrase make sense.
If the title therefore should suggest anything about the episode, I assume it would be Bender holding a party. Or something even more ridiculous.
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Gorky
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Well, he was reset to factory specs at the end of "Overclockwise," so it would have been a great oversight on the part of Mom's Friendly Robot Company to not restore that glorious catchphrase to Bender's memory.
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cyber_turnip
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The title makes perfect sense to me. It would be like calling an episode "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass" or "Good News, Everyone". Those would all be terrible episode titles. Unless "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass" was an episode about a robot donkey and unless "Good News, Everyone" was something to do with Linda and Morbo. It'd be like calling an episode of 'The Simpsons' "[Annoyed Grunt]".
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