any thoughts on Meanwhile

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I think it will start with Fry looking for an engagement ring for Leela, and comes by Ultra Guy's Jewelry store, and buys the ring (Another "Shut up and take my money would be funny) and the professor invents the "Back 10 seconds Button" and the "Time Proof Shelter". Act Two will probably feature the "big question" Possibly well swinging on the swing made of people. But then, stuff gets bad. Fry is on a balcony, but the wind blows him off, Hubert dies of toxins, and Hermes  gets murdered. Leela is so sad, that she takes the button and fixes it all, but there was an error with the time-proof shelter, and Leela has to destroy it. Leela prevents Fry from going on the balcony, stops the murderer and disposes of the toxic waste. Act Three is probably the wedding, and might end with a frame for five seconds saying The End?

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This is the kinda finale ep I really won't know about until I see it. It's hard for me to even speculate, since it's going to involve a 10-Second Back in Time Device, and a Time Proof Shelter. It could be pulled off pretty well, or it can fall flat and make us rue the return of this show.

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It could happen in a similar fashion, All the facts given out by Matt Groening and the FB page, I just pieced all the clues "Lots Of Death" "Fry and Leela getting Married" "Ultra Guy owning a shop" "The Ten Second back in time Device (NOT made up, confirmed)" "The Time-Proof Shelter" and the "Mind-Blowing ending" but it's my thoughts.ß

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I think that first fry is going to get an engagement ring and then propose on the swing of people but then the professor invents the back 10 seconds machine and has a mistake and sets leela fry hermes zoidberg and amy all the way back when fry got frozen then they find a way back get hitched then fry wakes up in panuccis and mr panucci says you passed out for a few months because of a coma and finds out it was all a dream.

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I think that first fry is going to get an engagement ring and then propose on the swing of people but then the professor invents the back 10 seconds machine and has a mistake and sets leela fry hermes zoidberg and amy all the way back when fry got frozen then they find a way back get hitched then fry wakes up in panuccis and mr panucci says you passed out for a few months because of a coma and finds out it was all a dream.

I would HATE THAT! But it's ur opinion

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You're all going to end up hating this, too.   It's like you all take one thing from an episode you all don't like, and you think the whole show sucks because of it.

Old and New Futurama are both equally good.  I'm outta here...

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You're all going to end up hating this, too.   It's like you all take one thing from an episode you all don't like, and you think the whole show sucks because of it.

Old and New Futurama are both equally good.  I'm outta here...

You think everyone's the same. It's like anything less that 10/10 means we think it's bad. I think the episode sounds good, and look forward to seeing it.

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You guys didn't listen to the comic con table read?

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They're trying not to spoil the episode for theirselves. They want it to be every bit as surprising/exciting as it deserves to be.

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They're trying not to spoil the episode for theirselves. They want it to be every bit as surprising/exciting as it deserves to be.

Oh, I see.

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They're trying not to spoil the episode for theirselves. They want it to be every bit as surprising/exciting as it deserves to be.

Oh, I see.

Page was made before then :/

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WAIT, hasn't DXC said in multiple interviews that Fry and Leela's wedding takes place at the beginning of this episode?

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The first 2 acts have nothing to do with the wedding, other than Fry preparing to propose...

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Ultimate Trolling?

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Either that, or they really have crammed, and I mean bloody crammed the third act with as much stuff as possible.

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In most of the interviews with DXC, he has said something similar to: "Lots of people think I'm spoiling the final episode when I say Fry and Leela get married, but that's just the beginning, there's lots of death and time travel."

Why would he spoil the wedding in the third act then mention the time travel and death, which we already know there is a lot of in acts 1 & 2?

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"That's just the beginning" could be meant the way "That's only a small part of the plot, we have a much bigger story to tell", and not in a temporal sense.

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Yeah, that's what I've thought as well. Wedding is like main theme and the actual plot is happening around it.

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I'm thinking the episode either ends with the People Swing, or the wedding.

The people swing is a plausible ending. But I'd much prefer the wedding.

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I'm thinking the episode either ends with the People Swing, or the wedding.

I am sceptical about the swing. As far as I recall, no preview showed the final scene/ending so far.

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Though I also wondered wether constantly using that button "freezes" the universe somehow, and the last scenes shows Fry and Leela first using their "private time", before trying to fix the timeflow
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Why are so many people convinced that the "people swing" will be the final scene of the episode?

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Why are so many people convinced that the "people swing" will be the final scene of the episode?

It'll be in Act III for sure, but I don't think it will be the FINAL scene

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Why are so many people convinced that the "people swing" will be the final scene of the episode?

I think their wedding will be the final moment. Most finales for Futurama end on a sweet note.

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I'm also guessing it'll end on the wedding. My best guess for the final moment is that they'll use this shot from "Time Keeps on Slippin'" only maybe slightly modified:

I'd be happy with this since it would be a great callback and shows most of the major characters there in some form. I agree with Hein in that I'm very skeptical about it ending on the swing. That would just be very disappointing to me if they'd already shown us the final shot of the whole series.

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I'm also guessing it'll end on the wedding. My best guess for the final moment is that they'll use this shot from "Time Keeps on Slippin'" only maybe slightly modified:

I'd be happy with this since it would be a great callback and shows most of the major characters there in some form. I agree with Hein in that I'm very skeptical about it ending on the swing. That would just be very disappointing to me if they'd already shown us the final shot of the whole series.

The pictures of Fry and Leela in their wedding outfits are on the infosphere and it's the same as " Time Keeps on Slipping," so maybe there will be some callbacks to that episode?

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Wouldn't the constant use of such a back-in-time-device create lots of time duplicates of the people using it?

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It might work differently, since there is that time shelter involved, but I don't know.
You probably can look it up from those revealed 2 acts, if you want to.

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It might work differently, since there is that time shelter involved, but I don't know.
You probably can look it up from those revealed 2 acts, if you want to.

Is there a place to watch act two?

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I don't know about that, but I think you can read what's happening in it. I could be wrong, I haven't spoilered myself.

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I'm also guessing it'll end on the wedding. My best guess for the final moment is that they'll use this shot from "Time Keeps on Slippin'" only maybe slightly modified:

I'd be happy with this since it would be a great callback and shows most of the major characters there in some form. I agree with Hein in that I'm very skeptical about it ending on the swing. That would just be very disappointing to me if they'd already shown us the final shot of the whole series.

Possibly no Harlem Globetrotters?

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^Well, I was actually guessing the Globetrotters might still be there since this episode is heavily involved with time travel; it seems like the sort of issue Farnsworth might try to get their help with as he did in TKOS and "Prisoner of Benda" so maybe they'll hang around for the wedding.

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^Well, I was actually guessing the Globetrotters might still be there since this episode is heavily involved with time travel; it seems like the sort of issue Farnsworth might try to get their help with as he did in TKOS and "Prisoner of Benda" so maybe they'll hang around for the wedding.

Also, Leela is happy, not Angry in the finale?

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Would Marv Albert still be there?

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We have a thread for this now so no need to speculate anymore!