Thoughts on [3ACV17] Pharaoh to remember

[Reply #120 on:]

I continue to break the trend of liked either one of the two.
I liked 'em both and thats that! Both have many jokes that fit perfectly if you just get into them with a clear mind (easy  ).

[Reply #121 on:]

I saw Pharaoh again tonight.  Loved the funeral parlor scene where Bender needed more crying.

Fry--"Bender was my best friend" which made Bender even more angry. 

[Reply #122 on:]

I also liked both episodes.  That funeral scene was hilarious.  "Louder and sadder!"   

[Reply #123 on:]

It's one of my top ten episodes!! I absolutely loved it, i cannot even begin to understand how so many people hated it. 
Oh and I break the trend to cos I loved Godfellas, they are about equal in my opinion!
LONG LIVE PHARAOH BENDER!
I have a feeling i like really rude mean sarcastic characters though.
Slave: "Sir, it hurts when I breath"
Bender: "Well....what should u stop doing??"

Hahah see - it's classic!!

[Reply #124 on:]

Good:

The entire 1st act.

The deleted scene with Scruffy

The A&C ref.

The Elton John-like singer


Bad:

Bender was a bit too much of a jerk

What WAS the Earth-like planet at the end of the ep.?

No Nibbler, no Morbo, no Cubert, no Zapp, no Kif, no Mom, no Walt, no Larry, no Ignar

Seeing Fry and Leela in something other then their usual clothesor variations on their usual clothes (Fry without his red jacket, Leela with her green coat) for an entire act.

[Reply #125 on:]

best line in the episode.....Heh hee heh...Also Wolfman!

[Reply #126 on:]

"Danny Boy "was the highlight for me

[Reply #127 on:]

afterlife? if i thought id have to go through another life id KILL MYSELF right now.

 

[Reply #128 on:]

Bender was a total shit in this Ep. i did think it was funny near the end when the slaves had built the giant Bender monument then he said it was too big and wanted it rebuilt.
Ohh and Leela looks really hot as an egyptian chick in this.

[Reply #129 on:]

When did you finally see it?

[Reply #130 on:]

 

Originally posted by IamBender:
afterlife? if i thought id have to go through another life id KILL MYSELF right now. 

Bottoms up.

[Reply #131 on:]

 

Originally posted by km73:
When did you finally see it?

The same night I seen Godfellas for the first time. The satellite channel must have decided to show two episodes that they don't screen very often, as that was the first time I'd seen either on TV.

I still dont own se 3 on DVD and with my current state of Zoidbergian finances it is unlikely i'll be buying it anytime soon.   

[Reply #132 on:]

First, I have to say, it is a little strange to be reading posts from nine years ago. Like travelling in a backwards time machine, or going forward through a few circular parallel universes.

This episode is pretty God-awful to me. I think one of the primary reasons why I hated it because Bender's motivation was so ridiculously over-the-top and absurd, and broke believability. Or rather, crossed by a mile the threshold of my toleration and my capacity to be sympathetic towards his "plight."

Really, if you're going to depict slavery--I mean, even the enslavement of the protag's best friends, for Pete's sake--then do so for a more compelling reason than "Oh, Bender is longing to be remembered, for whatever reason, and at whatever cost." I guess this wouldn't have been so bad if the jokes were funny. I did smile and giggle a few times; notably, the Professor catching the bouquet, the Elton John-like character being shoved into the tomb, Bender strutting across the stage like Steve Martin in the 70s, and Hermes playing the funeral dirge with a reggae beat. But the jokes were pretty shabby.

Bender was over-the-top obnoxious, and it just strained credibility. And I had to turn the TV off when Leela hugged him at the end. She hugs the tyrannical dictator who had enslaved her for long enough to build the huge monument?

I really love Bender. I realize he is immoral, self-centered, ruthless, etc, but he also has a gooey, tender center with a heart for his friends. None of that was shown here. As a rule, I don't mind Bender-centric episodes, but this just really sucked.

I give this a 3/10. It's still not bad enough to make me want to turn the channel to watch Fox News, or Jersey Shore, but pretty bad.

[Reply #133 on:]

I think I'm one of the only people who actually enjoyed this episode.

[Reply #134 on:]

Danny, I don't think so. If you read the previous posts, you'll see that several people who commented on this thread liked it as well. At least they liked it enough to think it was decent. Including Otis--at least that was his opinion on April of 2002. Dang, that was a long time ago!

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[Reply #136 on:]

Episode: Fairly good. Commentary: Hilarious.

[Reply #137 on:]

I re-watched this last night and aside from Bender's over-obnoxiousness it's really not a bad ep and it still holds up quite nicely. I still love the funeral scene, and what's really striking is just how good the animation is, the detail on the pyramids and statues ect. The crowd shots are also highly impressive and vast, even more so on DVD compared to my original review before the DVD had been released...

It's pretty funny overall. It's a classic Fry, Leela and Bender go to another planet delivery story, but we don't miss out of the others thanks to the great funeral scene earlier. It's also one of the few Futurama episodes in which taking the future out of Futurama didn't really hurt it. There were still futuristic nods such as the hover dumpster truck dumping all pharaoh's other belongings into his grave, and the slaves with rocket packs attaching the ball on top of Bender's antenna on his giant statue...

I also liked the fact there was a casino inside Benders statue, and that was just his foot. I'd have liked to have seen what was inside the rest of his statue, but I guess we'll never know. One of my favourite jokes is Bender throwing the ball and the dog-like guards chasing it...

No really lame jokes in this one, no awful pop culture references. Really the main criticism is Bender being overly obnoxious right from the very start. That's what lets this ep down and drags the score down somewhat, but aside from that pretty good so I won't mark it down too harshly. It's far better than a lot of Season 6 eps in fact...

7/10

[Reply #138 on:]

I still love the funeral scene

I concur with most of your review, but that I disagree with. I loved the idea of the funeral scene and at first, I liked it. But when Bender insulted Amy, Fry and finally threw his glass at Zoidberg (it's funny when he's being treated unfairly, but not when he's actually attacked)... those moments seemed over-the-top, like Bender generally was in this episode.

[Reply #139 on:]

I agree that Bender was really overboard in this episode. I also liked the idea of the funeral scene but Bender was just such an ass that it pissed me off. I dunno, I obviously get that Bender's really self-centered (understatement) but he isn't usually that cruel to his friends. And then he enslaved them. What.

I really like the scene at the end when they are trapped in the tomb though. Lots of funny.

I love that it is just the three mains and I was amused, just turned off by Bender. But I'll give it a 7/10.

[Reply #140 on:]

Really Ambitious misunderstood? I think the funeral scene is one of the funniest Futurama moments.

LOUDER AND SADDER.

[Reply #141 on:]

Really Ambitious misunderstood? I think the funeral scene is one of the funniest Futurama moments.

LOUDER AND SADDER.

I get you, but Bender just seemed to me like too much of a jerk, especially to Zoidberg.

But you know, I dislike some episodes that everybody loves, like Prisoners of Benda, and love some episodes that everyone hates, like Where the Buggalo Roam... maybe disagreeing with me is a good sign.

[Reply #142 on:]

Haha okay then.

Also, it's 'The Prisoner of Benda', not 'Prisoners of Benda'. I'm not being rude, I have a problem where I have to correct people.

[Reply #143 on:]

The funeral was great, Bender was a real jerk and was borderline, but the humour was still there so it was still acceptable...

It just dawned on me that my original review was from before even Super Mario Sunshine came out! That seems like freaking ages ago! Man that really puts it into perspective. Even Super Mario Galaxy seems like a long time ago, let alone that. My how time flies (well bits of it anyway)...

[Reply #144 on:]

The first act of this episode is kind of brilliant (and I would say that Bender's funeral is one of my favorite scenes in all of Futurama), but everything on Osiris 4 is pretty meh. Bender is irredeemably awful, and there aren't too many stand-out jokes to keep things entertaining. I do think that Fry and Leela are well-used (I enjoy Fry's laments on slave-hood, and Leela's running commentary about how idiotic everyone on the planet is), and there are a few moments that make me giggle (the chanting at the wall of prophecy ("We're dumb"), the thousands of snakes that can escape into the tomb)--but the story itself just doesn't do much for me.

I do like that Bender is so often used as the vehicle for these stories on mortality and what it means to live a worthwhile life, but the first act of this episode sets you up for something that should be a lot better than what actually follows. "Lethal Inspection" has a similar theme and much better execution.

6/10

[Reply #145 on:]

Hm, that's the second OR episode you've given a 6/10, I've seen you rate the new series even higher.

[Reply #146 on:]

Oh, I know. I'll readily admit to liking a lot of season six episodes just as much as, if not more than, "Bendless Love" and "A Pharaoh to Remember." Neither episode achieves a level of greatness that I generally expect from the series as a whole, but from seasons one to four in particular. 

[Reply #147 on:]

I have emerged from the place of spells and fairies to be the first PEELican to vote in the recently added poll.   

Remember me!

[Reply #148 on:]

'Yes, you were doing well until everyone died.'

[Reply #149 on:]

All right episode.  If its on I probably won't turn it off, but then again, I will never think "Ooh, i really feel like watching that episode!"  Not awful, but not very good either.

[Reply #150 on:]

Although Bender is quite dark and over the top in this episode, I think the episode manages to stay quite funny and interesting. The funeral scene was the best part, but I also liked the Egyptian guy saying "The Pharaoh... just suddenly died!",  Fry's "You remember that guy who used to bend things? You know, Hermes!" and "REMEMBER ME!" while they were escaping. Good episode that fits right in the middle for me.

8/10

[Reply #151 on:]

'Yes, you were doing well until everyone died.'

Wrong ep.

[Reply #152 on:]

The "varying combat ablities" always give me a grin:

There are three people, they have guns, they have a complete ship's firepower, one is a trained martial artist (okay..going bare handed against two persons with spears is usually called "suicide", but Futurama has accepted worse odds than that ) , the other can move several tons and should be invulnerable towards most hand weapons...
and they immediatelly surrender to two savages with spears....priceless

The Star Wars reference ("I've got a bad feeling about this") was priceless

[Reply #153 on:]

Oh god I'm this far behind in the Random Order Thread?!
In the last episode in the ROT Thread (Bendless love) Bender was a huge jerk and in this episode he's at the same level of being a jerk. Luckily this episode has Fry and Leela so it is slightly better.

I was hoping this episode would go full sci-fi on us because I really hate the Egyptian times.

The Best Parts of the episode

Professor: Why bother remembering anything if you're just gonna forget it 5 seconds later
Scruffy(when Bender leaves room)Boy I've never seen him so down or ever before.

The entire funeral scene was defiantly the best scene in the episode I just loved Zoidberg's singing, Amy's line about going to the Professors funeral and I loved that Bender took control of his entire funeral as he later did with the Egyptians.

The lines when Fry was complaining that being a slave is a bad job

And may I say how much I loved Bender in a speedo

Show spoiler

nah I'm joking..

The episode took a slight turn for the worse when they left to deliver the huge ass rock but it then got better when Bender became a  Pharaoh.

8/10

[Reply #154 on:]

My favorite bit of this is the scene in the end, when they're trapped and Fry and Leela are trying to convince Bender they don't remember him. Something about watching the two of them team up like that is just really, really funny.

"Hey Leela, you know who I remember? That guy who used to bend things. You know, Hermes."

[Reply #155 on:]

Some funny scenes, but a somewhat weak plot. 8/10

[Reply #156 on:]

The funeral scene is one of the best things the show has ever done. But yeah, Bender is a pretty big jerk. 7.5/10

[Reply #157 on:]

This is one of my favorite Bender episodes. I pretty much realize it's not a great episode, but I love how Bender is so excited about slaving, then later about slavedriving. The part where he whips a slave and floats away with his jetpack (with his hilarious angry eyes) is one of my favorite parts ever. 8.5 seems right, but having to choose between 8 and 9, I gave it a 9/10 'cause it's so frickin' funny.

[Reply #158 on:]

I thought it was funny when the police characterized his pool heist as being perpretated by an 'angry caucasion male'.

[Reply #159 on:]

And human! Don't forget human!

Scruffy: Boy, I've never seen him so down, or ever before.

Lots of great one-liners in this episode! I especially like:

Bender: I'm the first one to work. A new low.