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March 2nd - "Less Than Hero" [4ACV04]

7 PM e/p on FOX

Having seen this episode, I must say it's an interesting premise. Especially the villain: The Zookeeper!

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W00000000T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111one

Wait a sec...What the hell do you mean, you've seen it?

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OMGWTF!!!1

Sounds good.She/He must have read about it online Spice Weasel.

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dont get your hopes up,

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Originally posted by lfv:


Having seen this episode, I must say it's an interesting premise.

HMMMMM?????

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I was an attendee at Comic Con 2002. (that photo of the panel on CGEF's article about it....mine!)

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Bah, that doesn't explain anything.  I was an attendee at a drug dealers funeral.  That doesn't mean I pulled the trigger.  *runs*

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To explain, here's my COMPLETE summary of the episode. All contained in a nice spoiler box.

Show spoiler

The episode begins with a stand-by blip with the Futurama letters blinking in and out with weird sfx. Cue theme song. Sorry. Cue kickass remixed theme song. Well, it's a remix. Anyway, to begin, the episode starts out with Leela talking to her parents, who have been granted a 1-day surface permit since they're mutants. She plans to meet up with them at the museum. Just then, the Professor's new device arrives from pi-Kea (the IKEA logo with a pi sign). The delivery robot falls apart on the way out. After Fry Leela and Bender put it together, Fry and Leela use the new miracle cream from Dr. Zoidberg to heal their aches and pains, in which Fry replies "I would think something like this would be freebase." Afterwards, the machine explodes, and Professor asks the others to trade it in for some rancid food and wobbly CD racks. On their way, Fry and Leela almost get mugged, but their bodies resist the lasers and the pipe bashing, so they figure they got superpowers, and it's thanks to the miracle cream.

After Bender creates a guilt scene, the 3 form a new superhero team called "The Super Justice Team." Composed of Captain Yesterday (Fry), Clobberella (Leela), and Super King (Bender). They fight crime and thwart evil for the city. Of course they keep their identities secret. Soon, it turns out the Zookeeper wants to steal a gem from the museum, about an hour before Leela's parents come to meet her. Unfortunately, Zookeeper runs late, and Leela misses her parents. She soon goes to the sewers to tell them that she missed their arrival because she's Clobberella, and not to tell anyone else. Her dad blabs, first thing. Zookeeper eventually finds out and captures Leela's parents. To top it off,
they're out of miracle cream. Zookeeper demands they steal the gem he was trying to steal from the museum. They pull off a good faking and steal it, and return to Zookeeper's lair. In the end, Leela gets her parents back, and Zookeeper escapes with the gem. Fry and Bender are bored and decide to steal.

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I was just baiting you.    This is priceless.  I'm singlehandedly responsible for spoiling the only new ep in almost two months!

[Zoidy]Hooray, I'm useful[/Z]

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::sarcastic clap:: yaaaaaaaaay.

actually i posted that to alt.tv.futurama back in August.

im a sucker for bait.

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Hey, you got promoted out of the deal, so don't bitch. 

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Is it true? IS IT TRUE?!? In case: OMGWTF!!!!!1

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HUUURRRRRAAAAYYY!!! At last! Finally a new ep!  And it sounds awesome as well, especially as it has Leela's parents in it 

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W007!

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It's still 3 weeks away! However WOOT, YEA!!!

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Just as an aside, if you click on certain shows in the official FOX schedule (fox.com) it comes up with any shows being prempted.

Quoted from the FOX site (this is for tomorrow, NOT the March 2nd EP!!!!!:

(READER'S NOTE: FUTURAMA is pre-empted this one night only)

Hahahahahah!!!! Oh wait, they're wrong. Let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, that's a good one.

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And the next night, and the next night, and the next night...

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Judging by the reviews the Comic Con visitors have left on the Net this should be a good episode. I just hope Leela's parents are done right, much like Amy's parents.

And I hope there are no crying in this episode, like in "Leela's Homeworld". Sadly (pun intended), none of the members of the Turanga family can cry convincingly.

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It is so good that we get to to see a brand new episodes of Futurama on March 2. Less Than A Hero should be a really good episode. It would be interesting to see our favourite characters using some special powers.

Also it's going to be good to see Leela's parents again because I really like to get to know more about them.

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What? You mean eventually that picture of a pregnant Kif will be replaced at the "now showing" on PEEL? What kind of magical world is this?!   

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Originally posted by aslate:
It's still 3 weeks away! However WOOT, YEA!!!

It's less than 3 weeks, 2 weeks and a day

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I posted this in another topic, but just to reiterate:

Quoted from: http://www.culttv.net/index.php?cm_id=252&cm_type=article  :

...Meanwhile, Futurama, an Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Animated Programme, returns to Sky One, Sunday nights at 7.00pm from 2nd March for its fifth season.

So it looks like March 2nd will be a good day for Futurama.

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
It's about frickin' time!

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A... new... episode? But... it cannot be... but it is... but...

*head explodes*

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[Scruffy]Scruffy thinks FOX have gone mad.

*brushes up Kryten's mess*[/Scruffy]

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Just out of interest Ifv, how would you rate this episode compared to 'Leela's Homeworld'? I know it's totally different, but I was just kinda curious because they both have Leela's parents in them 

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Less Then Heroes (or is it Hero?) is much less emotional. Leela's parents seem to just be there out of interest to see them return to be honest. but we get to see them interact with each other more on a normal day.

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That's cool, I look foward to it, thanx for your reply 

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You're about to enter a place where FOX airs Futurama 24/7.
A place where the show is treated fairly or gets some sort of advertising.
You're about to enter, the Scary Door!

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Well two things about Futurama Advertising, at least Cartoon Network really is doing it, At Gentle Ben's In tucson AZ there is a banner hanging from the second story promoting it.  GB's is a bar on Univeristy bvd at the heart of the U of A.  Also in the Maxim I picked up at the airport today, A Full page ad with bender and Angelene, Saying "Characters you can Relate to."

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I guess the ads are paying off. Futurama on CN's getting better ratings than The Daily Show (OMG).

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Originally posted by lfv:
I guess the ads are paying off. Futurama on CN's getting better ratings than The Daily Show (OMG).

   

Amazing what a consistant time slot and a little advertizing can do for a great show.

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Grrrr...

It's so annoying being in Australia. I have not seen past The Luck of the Fryish (I think thats what it is called). Arg! I wish they would show Futurama down here!

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Too be honest, I think the reason CN is promoting Futurama so aggressively is the amount of money they paid for it. $10 million is a fair amount of money for a cable network (yet when you think about it, 20 of the episodes together cost more than that). They're looking for a good return on their investment. There's nothing wrong with that, mind and it certainly gives Futurama what it always deserved in the first place : a stable home with good relations and executives who treat it with respect (even if they don't "get" it (which is not necessarily the case with CN)).

Let's not forget, the main reason FOX picked up "The Simpsons" was because at that point they had nothing to lose. Now they do, they've fallen in with every other commerical network.

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This is great - I'm just worried that FOX will end up preempting it with a dazzling episode of "When Joe Millionaire watches the Bachelorette's Grass Grow"

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I agree.  I'm going to resist reading the spoiler of the episode above until it becomes apparent FOX is going to preempt it.  I predict nothing as original as "When Joe Millionaire watches the Bachelorette's Grass Grow", but a KOTH repeat.

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Originally posted by Tzlk: At Gentle Ben's In tucson AZ there is a banner hanging from the second story promoting it.  GB's is a bar on Univeristy bvd at the heart of the U of A.

Could you get pictures of said ad?

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Well here is a crappy screenshot of a flyer that was handed out at the U of A.  Im gonna try and go...even though im not 21....oh well http://slurmman.tripod.com/right/CN.jpg

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Originally posted by Tzlk:
Well here is a crappy screenshot of a flyer that was handed out at the U of A.  Im gonna try and go...even though im not 21....oh well http://slurmman.tripod.com/right/CN.jpg

that guy must've participated in the Adult Swim intern program.

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Nearly every episode I see on Cartoon Network is new to me.  Between Fox's scheduling shenannigans and being overseas, I missed all but a few episodes when Futurama first appeared on the air.