Is Futurama a 'cutesy' show?

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 Obviously adult cartoons aren't supposed to be 'cutesy'.   However, do you all think Futurama is a 'cute' cartoon show? 

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Obviously adult cartoons aren't supposed to be 'cutesy'.   However, do you all think Futurama is a 'cute' cartoon show?

No. these are "cute:"



Cute:
1) Attractive or pleasing, especially in a dainty, childlike, quaint, or fun-spirited way.
2) Possessing physical features, personality traits, or other properties that are mainly
    attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals.
3) Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
4) Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd.

One might make an argument for the original sense of the word, from some hundreds of years ago, or sense 4 above. Therefore, you may put me in the 'no' column.

The only things I remember that were intentionally "cutesy" were the "Lovey-Bears" from "Love & Rocket."


I have too much free time...

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I have too much free time...

Yes.  Yes you do, but I agree basically.  I think some moments could be considered genuinely "cutesy" such as the end of "Love & Rocket."  In general though, Futurama goes out of its way to blast a big, ragged edge, buckshot holes clean through anything "cutesy."

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Considering what was happening to those bears, I'd say it evens out.

[Reply #4 on:]

Does Japan love it? That should give you an answer on whether something is 'cute'.

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Does Japan love it? That should give you an answer on whether something is 'cute'.

Or royally F*d up.

Japan's top export is 87% of the worlds weird shit.

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Japan's top export is 87% of the worlds weird shit.

Examples of weird Japanese cartoons:




vs.

Futurama:


Quite the difference.

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Obviously adult cartoons aren't supposed to be 'cutesy'.   However, do you all think Futurama is a 'cute' cartoon show?

No. these are "cute:"



Cute:
1) Attractive or pleasing, especially in a dainty, childlike, quaint, or fun-spirited way.
2) Possessing physical features, personality traits, or other properties that are mainly
    attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals.
3) Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
4) Mentally keen or discerning; clever; shrewd.

One might make an argument for the original sense of the word, from some hundreds of years ago, or sense 4 above. Therefore, you may put me in the 'no' column.

The only things I remember that were intentionally "cutesy" were the "Lovey-Bears" from "Love & Rocket."


I have too much free time...

Most of those are more scary than cutesy.

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Most of those are more scary than cutesy.

First, I am not an aficionado of 'cute', but it seems scary vs cute is a matter of interpretation.
Second - and the following is an invitation not a challenge - If you have better examples, please share them.
I'll just ooze back out under the door now...

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I don't think Futurama is a cute show, but it can have it's moments such as Lrrr and Ndnd in "Spanish Fry" or such moments of not too serious romance-y-ness. To me that's what makes Futurama so good though. It is able to cover various emotions without being 'unnatural'.

In short, it can but I wouldn't say it is.

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Sorry, SpaceCase, I see what you were talking about, but when you get too cute things right in your face they sometimes scare you... me.

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Sorry, SpaceCase...

No need to be.

... when you get too cute things right in your face they sometimes scare you... me.

There, we agree...
I'll shut up now...

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Examples of weird Japanese cartoons:

Um, Stinkoman is actually 100% western. Just ask Strong Bad.

And for the record, the japanese don't like most western animation - including Futurama - because of our habit of giving characters four fingers instead of five. They see that as bizarre and disgusting and unrealistic.

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Yeah, Futurama can definitely be a cute show sometimes.  But of course, it depends on which episode you're talking about.

Anyway, generally speaking, I'd say Nibbler is a very cute character.  ^_^ 

And of course, the 12 orphan kids that Bender adopts in "The Cyber House Rules" were really cute too.  Especially at the end of the episode, when they gave Bender that drawing, and then all the kids hugged him, hehe.  XD 

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I think futurama is real cute.  I often wish to be friends with all the characters. ^_^

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When it needs to be, Futurama is cute. Such as the orphans and the Huggy Stuffy Bears. If a scene, not an object or person, makes you go "aww", would you put that under the cute category? For example, the moments when you can tell that Fry and Leela are in love like in "Love and Rocket". (Which makes me go "awww!!!!") 

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like happy tree friends- cute but disturbing, or in futuramas case cute but disturbing sometimes.

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Well...we probably don't notice this much because of constant watching, but the character design is godawfully uncute. After all, they're just like the Simpsons with normal colored skin--they look like bug-eyed, reptilian hybrids between insects and birds with misshapen heads and horrendous overbites. But if you take all that into account, I think some of the characters can look cute with the proper facial expressions. Mainly Fry and Kif, as far as I've noticed.

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In BBwaBB they were throwing lab animals in the street5 that proves its not a cutesy show

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I remember that bit. Wasn't that koala just soooo CUTE!?!!?   

Especially the cute noise it made a few seconds after being cutely thrown out the cute window.

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Futurama is serious shoe

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Futurama is a serial sole.

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I don't think Futurama is a cute show, but it can have it's moments such as Lrrr and Ndnd in "Spanish Fry" or such moments of not too serious romance-y-ness. To me that's what makes Futurama so good though. It is able to cover various emotions without being 'unnatural'.

In short, it can but I wouldn't say it is.

I think that sums it up the best.

Due to the animated and often light-hearted comical nature of the show it can be and easily has the power to be cutesy but, since it covers such a wide spectrum of emotions and topics it wouldn't be categorized cutesy.

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And for the record, the japanese don't like most western animation - including Futurama - because of our habit of giving characters four fingers instead of five. They see that as bizarre and disgusting and unrealistic.

Waitaminute...

This from the country that brought us Evangelion, Dragon Half, tentacle porn, Dead Leaves, Elfen Lied, and... (I could go on)?  Who created a series called Read or Die where the British Library tries to take over the world? They're pointing fingers about realism?

Well, I guess we all have different ideas about what constitutes 'real'. 

(Not that I'm down on anime, I own all of the series that I name above - not the porn, though - and I love them to bits, but they're all, to a man, barking mad. Fun, but utterly bonkers.)

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The very same.

Read or Die was nifty when I saw it. Ahh, Yomiko Readman, so like my wife...

But yeah, they think that the incorrect number of fingers is a bizarre and disgusting disfigurement.

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Obviously adult cartoons aren't supposed to be 'cutesy'.   However, do you all think Futurama is a 'cute' cartoon show? 

I wouldn't call Futurama an 'adult' cartoon. An adolescent cartoon perhaps, but not adult. Ghost in the Shell is an adult cartoon. America doesn't really make adult cartoons. No, not even South Park.

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I wouldn't call Futurama an 'adult' cartoon. An adolescent cartoon perhaps, but not adult.

I think it's not adult or adolescent, for example i know many children of the age 4/5 who enjoy watching Futurama with me, though the aliens sometimes scare them. If it is an adolescent cartoon however, woohooo for being adolescent!!!!

Lol