cyber_turnip
Urban Legend
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Having watched it, I don't feel any better about the basic concept but it was pretty funny, I admit. OK, I quite enjoyed it.
I mean, it's weak by Futurama's overall standards but, sadly, it's quite easily one of the best episodes of 7A for me. That's a bad reflection on 7A rather than a positive reflection on this episode, but yeah, I didn't think it was bad.
The storylines were enjoyable enough. The novelty didn't wear too thin. And like I said, I found it funny enough. Plus, I suppose, good on the show for daring to try new things.
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jtleyko
Near Death Star Inhabitant
Crustacean
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I thought that this was the best three parter other than reincarnation. I loved the PBS references and seeing all the characters re imagined as animals was great. I loved Zoidberg in all of his forms just hilarious, "hey I'm here with friends-- aggh!". And the romances played into nature were adorable. For those of you comparing it to the holiday spectacular, shame on you.
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Pa Yankee99
Poppler
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Absolutely terrible. I hate this episode along with the other 3-part special. They are the bottom two rated for me. Several reasons I hate this episode are; I prefer having human characters through the story, nature stories suck and the jokes and puns were not funny. I don't watch futurama to see absolutely stupid nature stories with horrid narration. "Nobody knows!!!!" - seriously?? The episodes are getting worse and worse and if dumb episodes like this keep being put out I hope Futurama gets canceled.
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TheMadCapper
Fluffy
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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If you can't live with an offbeat episode once per season, go be boring someplace else. They do this stuff for the fun of it, and in order to act out scenarios that ordinarily don't fit in with the show.
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Svip
Administrator
DOOP Secretary
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Were the 3 baby tortoises supposed to be Mom's 3 sons? If so, would this suggest that the professor is not only the father of Igner, but the other 2 as well? (I know it's non-cannon, but food for thought)...
It is also heavily implied that it is Wernstrom who is their father. I think they were merely used for the joke, because it made sense for Mom to have her sons as offspring. I do not think this is a wise episode to conclude any subtle hints regarding canon. If it turns out he is the father of the other two sons, then I still do not believe that we should have used this argument to speculate that. But considering how the reveal is set up in Bender's Game, I sincerely doubt that is the case. But not to pile on your 'theory', I did actually think that for a bit; 'how weird is it that Farnsworth's offspring are Mom's sons', but then I concluded it was for the rule of funny.
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Tastes Like Fry
Urban Legend
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Brace yourselves, framegrabs a-hoy! (my normal site wasn't working, so I used another one so sorry about forgetting to crop out some black borders >< Already have. I walked into the lounge to find Mum was watching a show about whales and I mentioned 'whale barf', 'ambergris' and 'perfume' about ten seconds before the narrator of the whale show basically repeated what I'd just said. Mum was like 'dafuq did you know that?' I said 'I'm a whale biologist, lol jokes, Futurama taught me - it's educational, you know.' Mum just looked at me strangely. Opening title was awesome, good to see Mr. Peppy~ <3 or at least Mr. Peppys' species represented. Act 1: "I'm born, baby!" Upon watching this at the start, I didn't even realise Leela wasn't there *facepalm* I do like their design and the gags (albeit, they weren't that clever - maybe I'm just hyped up on sugar or something and therefore giggling at everything). Hyperchicken er, herron? whatever, wasn't funny, but it was fun to see randoms like HedonismBot (Oh my!) and a few others during the journey. Great narration (through the entire ep), and good pacing. Lobster Zoidberg [supposedly] eats Scruffy: but then Scruffy is seen later with the others: Continuity error? Backtracking a little (you thought I'd skip the shippy? xD) Enjoyed Zapp being rejected and the montage: Was strongly reminded of the otter section from Parasites Lost: Animals are not really how I like the characters portrayed, but I can appreciate the artistic license of this episode. I prefer the otters though ~ <3 *disappointed we don't get to see what their children look like* never mind, a happy ending for a salmon. Act 2: "Blue Footed Boobie!" Bwahahaha! An uplifting start, maybe I am too hyper, found the whole start of this hilarious. Was trying to get a frame grab where Fry-bird and Leela-bird weren't blinking and proceeded to notice a little gem I missed first time around: Fry cocks his head and totally checks Leela-bird out while she's talking. Blink and you'll miss it. Moving on, cause this isn't Fry/Leela - it's the Profs story, speaking of the Prof, there doesn't appear to be much room in his shell cause his tortoise body takes that all up, so then how does Bender fit in there? - never mind all the birdies: Lol at Amy being eaten xD Dafaq you doing, Fry? The time montage was impressive, at least I thought so. The next part not so much >< Their expressions sum up what my expression was like, although there was a lot more wincing on my part. Act 3: "40% ass" Best parts: Nibbler cameo Seriously, is this the only ep he's been in this season? Not good >< I'm hoping he's going to feature in an episode in the rest of the seasons run! Shippy: Kif standing up for himself: (although with disastrous consequences, but I don't think there would have been any other way to confront Bender) Although at this point I realised that the other males were going to mate behind Benders back xD This is very cute: But who mothered them?! There's no indication of who the mothers of those pups were. (Also, I thought Randi was gay?)
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #61 on: 08-31-2012 17:52 »
« Last Edit on: 08-31-2012 17:53 »
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At least one of the segments should have been about some weird new future or alien species and their biology. It would have made for a much more creative bit of science fiction rather than something that, fair enough, could easily have been done with The Simpsons.
I actually thought about that yesterday, but wouldn't it kind of make the casual viewer flick over or whatever? No wait, it makes sense. Omicronians get Earth TV shows like a 1000 years later. They've just put the show's character's into the form of the animals.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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I thought it was just the Omicronian network or whatever.
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DotheBartman
Liquid Emperor
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If you can't live with an offbeat episode once per season, go be boring someplace else. They do this stuff for the fun of it, and in order to act out scenarios that ordinarily don't fit in with the show.
I enjoy most of the trilogies. I even like Holiday Spectacular okay. It's not amazing, but it's watchable. And the Anthology of Interests and Reincarnation are fantastic. This particular one is just really poor to me. Not many jokes landed and I don't really feel it used the show's characters, setting, etc in any meaningful way. I don't mind them going off the wall with weirdness or going non-canon, but I just want it to be funny when they do. This was an idea that just didn't really work, IMO.
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SpaceGoldfish fromWazn
Urban Legend
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Something else that bugged my just came to mind.
Nothing about this episode relates to the fact that this show is set in the future or that it's sci-fi (short of it being an Omicronian production).
At least one of the segments should have been about some weird new future or alien species and their biology. It would have made for a much more creative bit of science fiction rather than something that, fair enough, could easily have been done with The Simpsons.
\ Yeah, that kind of bugged me as well. There was nothing future-y or sci-fi-ey about this at all. I think they could have explained this in the opening commentary, without it cutting into the segments too much: That the Omicronians have attacked and destroyed Earth civilization, and killed all of Earth's citizens. Meaning that every major or recurring Futurama character in NNY is now dead. This episode takes a few centuries after this event, when Earth is returning to its primal state, and everyone we see here is a reincarnation (since it takes place a few centuries into the future this could be why we see Lrr and Ndnd reincarnated in bear form). The Omicronians at the beginning could sneer at the very concept of reincarnation in the opening, despite the viewers knowing otherwise when we see the characters in animal form. The Omicronians have declared Earth a wildlife sanctuary and are filming there. We could also have all of this not outright stated in the opening, but we could see plenty of ruins (including the obligatory shout out to Planet of the Apes) dotting the landscape. Or we could have it take place sometime after the year 10,000 when Earth civilisation has bitten the dust on its own, but would come to the same conclusion (Earth society has crumbled, every character has been long dead and post-apocalyptic Earth is returning to a wild state.) In the end the Omicronians declare EARTH WILDLIFE IS MEANINGLESS AND DEPRESSING! and destroy the planet. Now it's sort of sci-fi and a bit more Futuramy. Maybe.
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spira
Liquid Emperor
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Earth society has crumbled, every character has been long dead and post-apocalyptic Earth is returning to a wild state.
A good idea. I wouldn't want them to dwell on this too much, but a minute or so explaining this with the Narrator's opening credits (or maybe even including something to this effect instead of the other Naturama opening they played in the title sequence) would have been nice.
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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Omicronians have attacked and destroyed Earth civilization, and killed all of Earth's citizens. Meaning that every major or recurring Futurama character in NNY is now dead.
I'd actually like to see this as the final resolution to the series. If they could make it fit with the various futures seen in TLPJF, I think it would be an oddly fitting finale to Futurama.
That'd be pretty terrible in my opinion, it's kind of like "We dragged you through 7 (or more) seasons of ups and downs and whatnot, but in the end it doesn't really matter what the fuck happened 'cause they're all dead." It's kind of like making the end of the Xmas segment from TFHS canon...
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DannyJC13
DOOP Secretary
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I can't tell if the seal next to Leela that says "What's the matter with you? You just crushed seven of our babies!" is a known character or just a generic seal, it looks pretty generic but the voice seems familiar. Of course it could just be a super similar voice to one of Tress' other characters.
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robodog
Crustacean
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Why make the characters animals? Is someone on the Futurama writing staff secretly a furry? Seriously though, it wasn't really a bad episode. I enjoyed it for what it was. I also wonder why there wasn't really anything science fictiony about it. It seemed a bit too far removed from the basic premise of the series.
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