Thoughts on [4ACV14] - Obsoletely Fabulous

[Reply #80 on:]

Nah, it's just hate.

TOTPDunce

[Reply #81 on:]

I didn't hate it, and I'm a shipper... so what's that arguement about.  In fact.  I liked this episode more than I liked "The Sting." That point is moot.  I do think that Bend-Her was a better episode though, here was my biggest laugh this ep:

Bender to Wild Boar:  Turn around...

[Reply #82 on:]

I've watched it a couple more times now, and I like it more every time.  The first bit at the trade show is seriously funny, and full of freeze frame stuff, like cameos from almost every robot ever seen in the series (and R2D2).

The music, as usual, is really unbelievably awesome.  Christopher Tyng doesn't get enough credit for what he does.  The music when they're wrecking the city is great.

[Reply #83 on:]

Just watched it again.

Stage.
Anthem.
Chronicled.
Rush.

Nice.

[Reply #84 on:]

 

Originally posted by getak2003:
wow, you guys really DO hate me!

and all this time i thought it was just more of a passive agressive love hate sorta thing....

What? No man, I am so totally over you. I'm seriously moving on.

*makes five thousand posts talking about how he's moved on*

[Reply #85 on:]

Pretty funny.  The part where Bender got reprogrammed looked a lot like the similar scene from Total Recall, so I thought at that point that the rest of the show would be a "Recall".  Then the ending with the unicorn reminded me of Blade Runner -- I don't know if it was done intentionally or not.  I would say this episode was better than Bend Her.

[Reply #86 on:]

This episode was really good! For a Bender-centered episode, it was great! I didn't like the ending though, but that's just because I didn't get it. Probably a reference to something I haven't seen yet (Blade Runner?).

[Reply #87 on:]

Uh, by the way...what's a "shipper"?

I'm new here.

[Reply #88 on:]

Shipper is short for realationshipper

 

Originally posted by McGrady:
Pretty funny.  The part where Bender got reprogrammed looked a lot like the similar scene from Total Recall,

PHeeew, I'm not the only one who thought so. I instantly saw this picture of Schwarzenegger before me when that scene played.

[Reply #89 on:]

 

Originally posted by Fing-longer:
Uh, by the way...what's a "shipper"?

I'm new here.

Don't worry, that question gets asked about once every two weeks.

In this context, a "shipper" is someone interested in the romantic relationship between Fry and Leela.  It's short for "relationshipper," and can be applied to other fictional works (I think it got started with X-Files).  Also, a "shippy" episode is one that deals with their relationship, such as "Love and Rocket" or "The Sting."

[Reply #90 on:]

 

Originally posted by getak2003:
wow, you guys really DO hate me!

 Well, at first it was hate, but its rapidly becoming boredom.........

[Reply #91 on:]

Thanks for the info, Action Jackson. I find it funny, and sometimes annoying, how quickly people like to compartmentalize others. Sure, I think the Fry/Leela relationship gives Futurama a heart that no show has had since 2nd season Simpsons, but I don't want every episode to be about it.

So even if I didn't think this last episode was great, it's not because I'm a shipper.

(the same thing happened to me when I told people that I didn't like the movie A.I. They thought it's because I worshipped Kubrick and that Spielburg directed it instead. No, I didn't like it because I thought it wasn't good!)

[Reply #92 on:]

Here Here A.I. Sucked!!

[Reply #93 on:]

 

Originally posted by getak2003:
wow, you guys really DO hate me!

and all this time i thought it was just more of a passive agressive love hate sorta thing....

Could you really blame anyone, you bring it upon yourself and you know it.

[Reply #94 on:]

Hey im new, but i have a question! If you are in california, wheres the closest omic store or plain store were they sell the comic books? it has to be very close to tracy, or in tracy

[Reply #95 on:]

Well I've seen the first minute of this ep and so far I liked it. hehe soul detector, I'll say something more constructive when I've seen it all

Edit: seen it all now and it was quite good, it was odd in that normally when an episode is very centric on one character they normally have a side story involving the others. Lacking this it sorta made this ep "The Bender Show", not that there is too much wrong with that.

It was all good except for the ending, a bit strange but meh what can you do?

[Reply #96 on:]

This one has me wondering...
Okay, in AOI II Leela gets banged on the head and has a hallucination. Said hallucination is the 3rd segment of the anthology. Then;
In TS, the space-bee venom puts her into a coma. Her (how to say it?) "experiences" form the plot of acts 2 & 3.
In OF, Bender gets an upgrade. Said upgrade takes him on a virtually-real trip.

Hokay.
That's three stories based on characters having, er, "synthesized experiences." That is, a head-trip, hallucination, or whatever that seems real to that character, but is, in fact, not real.

I would ask 'what's next'? Will Fry wake up and discover it's taken the technicians a year to get him out of the cryo-tube?

That is, I would ask; but as there will probably be no new Futurama ep's for a l-o-o-o-n-g time after 10 Aug. 2003 (if ever), the question is pointless.

[Reply #97 on:]

 

Originally posted by SpaceCase:
I would ask 'what's next'? Will Fry wake up and discover it's taken the technicians a year to get him out of the cryo-tube?

That could've been interesting.  Fry wakes up and discovers his experiences were all a dream.  But Fry's past is rather boring, so the writers would have to do something to liven it up.  Maybe the episode would show that Fry's dream was based on a TV show called Futurama, and Fry becomes obsessed with it and tries to meet the actors.  They could have a few none-too-subtle jokes about the show's popularity, but the writers would have to resist putting in jokes about themselves.  And at the end we of course find that Fry is still really in the future.

The basic idea is very similar to the "Back to Reality" episode of Red Dwarf.

[Reply #98 on:]

that would SUCK if he dreamt it all.  and don't forget a fishful of dollars, if you want to include that.

And Fing-longer, a shipper could be interested in Amy/ Kif as well. 

[Reply #99 on:]

 

Originally posted by SpaceCase:
This one has me wondering...
Okay, in AOI II Leela gets banged on the head and has a hallucination.

Anthology of Interests II doesn't count.  Remember, that part was a parody of Wizard of Oz.  In the movie, we find out at the end that all that was just Dorothy's dream.  So, it isn't hokey in this case.  Keep in mind that was a direct parody of Wizard of Oz.

That aside, now that you mention it, I do find it annoying that all that in Obsoletely Fabulous was just a dream.  The fact that The Sting was all Leela's hallucination was really cool, because it gave the writers and animators the license to do some really wacky stuff.  But in Obsoletely Fabulous, it feels like it was made to be a dream because the writer couldn't think of any other way to end it.

[Reply #100 on:]

yeah, the sting was great with the dream because it was the OPPISITE person dreaming.  now that's a twist, but in this it wasn't that good.  i liked the whole story- but at least two things are good about it being a dream:

1. the city isn't wrecked
2. amy's hair is still normal *pant, pant* thank god.

but the very last scene was good. "oh thanks baby" possibly the cutest Bender line.

[Reply #101 on:]

Did no-one else think the music when they were catapulting stuff was really bad-ass?

I want that song!

Great ep., those who complain just prove that it's IMPOSSIBLE to keep people happy round here.

I think you all missed the moral of the story at the end, about life and reality being as you percieve it. I thought it was quite touching.

N.

[Reply #102 on:]

True, the ending's message was very powerful.  Though, I doubt Bender will remember it for the next ep.

[Reply #103 on:]

Great episode.  Even though Bender is getting very monotonous, he never ceases to make me laugh.

Also, anybody notice this little fella?


You may recognize him from such episodes as...



This may very well be my favorite robot of the entire series, excluding Bender of course.  Maybe it's because he reminds me so much of Crow from MST3K, or that I just like his design.

[Reply #104 on:]

 

Originally posted by Drippy_taco:
Maybe it's because he reminds me so much of Crow from MST3K, or that I just like his design.

Ther's another robot who pops up frequently who reminds me more of Crow.  You can see him here, in front of the reaper robot:

[Reply #105 on:]

I really had hoped since the begining of Futurama that we would have seen an MST3K refrence in the show somewhere. But unless there's one next week there never will be.
--
"TV's Frank Lives!"

[Reply #106 on:]

I'm not going to edit that because it deserves to be there in all it's shamefull glory.
I forgot there was an MST3k refrence. In "Raging Bender" (02AVC08)
I go die now.

[Reply #107 on:]

<Mr.B @mazaite> Oh Wesley... you have A. D. Deeeeee.... <Mr.B @mazaite>

[Reply #108 on:]

And it's hyperactive cousin A.D.H.D.
(I do actualy, or did when I was in school. I liked school. They had great Sausage Pizza in the cafeterea. I'm drinking Tea. I'm not sure if I would still be diagnosed with it today)

[Reply #109 on:]

 

Originally posted by MrB:
True, the ending's message was very powerful.  Though, I doubt Bender will remember it for the next ep.

That's a good one, Mr.B! 

Aside from that, I must say that Obsoletely Fabulous is IMHO the best of three Bender episodes. It grows on you... 

[Reply #110 on:]

Well I found this episode very interesting especially because of the Back To Nature Idea. But finally i have question. When Bender dances on the island there was playing a song. Is anybody here who knows that song?

[Reply #111 on:]

"I'm Alright" by Kenny Loggins.

[Reply #112 on:]

Thank you very much.

[Reply #113 on:]

A good episode I thought, although I didn't have many really good laughs (Not like Bend Her, 'buy the cake dammit!'). I liked seeing Roberto back, even if it wasn't for long. The whole idea of bringing Bender around to like 1-X through some kind of hallucination rather than just resetting his system.
I wonder what form the hallucination took on Roberto though?

[Reply #114 on:]

I have to say i am a little disappointed, not one of futuramas best episodes.

[Reply #115 on:]

A show with its ups and downs - it went a bit flat in the middle when it went into 'Bender goes off alone and does something random' territory a la '30% Iron Chef' (though I did like the ducks, but then I find ducks naturally amusing) but picked up after Bender met the other robots. But the ending... "It was all a reprogramming-induced dream". Craaaaaaaaap! Cop-ouuuuuuuuuuut!

Amy's new hair *was* cute, though!

[Reply #116 on:]

 

Originally posted by payndz:
But the ending... "It was all a reprogramming-induced dream". Craaaaaaaaap! Cop-ouuuuuuuuuuut!

Isn't the technical term YAATE? (Yet Another Abrupt Trek Ending (although I suppose it would have to be YAAFE, in this instance.) 

 

Amy's new hair *was* cute, though!

Absolutely. 

[Reply #117 on:]

This is a brilliant episode. Some of you are comparing it to the rather average 30% Iron chef, I'd say it's more worthy of comparision to an episode like Godfellas (both in quality and structure). I laughed alot during this episode, I thought Bender was particularly good. I loved the out-dated robots, especially the tape robot "What!?".
Other highlights were Farnsworth finally punching Wernstrom, the panic attacks that the water wheel robot has every time the water runs out, Wooden Bender, trying to find a socket for the blender, some cool CGI waves, and the brillaint ending.

Overall A-

[Reply #118 on:]

i liked the extra long bolder sounds that went to a painfully high frequncy.

never before has the t.v hurt my ears,

well except when i briefly flick to mtv

[Reply #119 on:]

This episode was kinda meh. After 'Bend Her', I was hoping for something a bit better, but it turned out about the same. The highlight for me was seeing Roberto again, and unlike 'Crimes of the Hot', he had a speaking part too, Yay! Also, I liked robot 1-X, he was pretty clool, and Nibbler's expression after he kissed him was priceless. The Cartridge bot was neat too, and also the ocean effects, they reminded me of the film, 'The Perfect Storm'. Also, on the subject of films. one of the 3 Obsolete robots; 'Sinclair', looked like one off the cover of the old Sci-fi movie, 'Forbidden Planet'.

But anyway, appart from all that, I found it kinda meh in most places. There's something about some of the newer eps this production batch, they seem to have something missing, and replaced with something else meh. And I really didn't like the wacky, tacky end either