Donnie Zoido

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« : 01-08-2004 12:42 »
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Hi everyone, I don't know if this has been done before, but who cares, it's my first thread, humour me... What are everyones' favorite episodes that other people have said they hated? I quite liked Bendin' In The Wind, and I thought That's Lobstertainment was okay. Also, I heard someone say they hated Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings. Damn them to hell. Okay, guys, over to you...
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« #11 : 01-08-2004 16:21 »
« : 01-08-2004 16:21 »
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A lot of the blernsball jokes in this particular episode don't require any particular knowledge of baseball. The rules are supposed to be new even to baseball fans, anyway. I mean, come on, "Hit it here and win the game?" The original blernsball bit in Fear of a Bot Planet, I think, was more obscure. "The blerns are loaded, the count is three blerns and two anti-blerns, and the infield blern rule is in effect."
The real fanboy insider bit in A Leela Of Her Own is the Mets-bashing. But as long as you know the Mets are perennial losers, you don't need a whole lot more. But I dig baseball a lot, and I love the Mets, but I also like to bash them. And Hank Aaron and Bob Uecker do great voice work. So I think the episode is great.
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Mouse On Venus

Liquid Emperor
 
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« #14 : 01-08-2004 17:08 »
« : 01-08-2004 17:08 »
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"Bowwwwwwwmmmmmmm!" "Uh oh."  Someone give John DiMaggio a pill for god's sake!  And I agree that Futurama has had it's share of good masturbation jokes, such as Fry's comments about "tough love" in A Head In The Polls. But Bender's jokes in Spanish Fry were just so obvious and repetetive that they just weren't funny. With A Leela Of Her Own, the jokes aimed at baseball fans don't bother me as such - I enjoyed Where No Fan Has Gone Before even though I've never seen an episode of Star Trek. I think it was more that in order to include all these baseball references they felt the need to severely tone down Blernsball from it's wild original incarnation. Also, Bob Uecker was a great voice part and had some brilliant dialogue, but Hank Arron's performance was less solid, although sometimes funny for it's stiffness ("Low?! It was zero you blow-fo!" ). The belly itching joke I thought was lame. Finally, it felt like they tried to cover the issues of racism and, more evidently, sexism in this episode and to be honest I wasn't entirely convinced by either of them. The Cygnoids were midly amusing, but too obviously Italian stereotypes, and whilst Jackie Anderson's attitude was fairly believeable, I still don't buy that sexism has not budged an inch since the 20th Century. I just would've liked to have seen something more imaginative. 
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Professor

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« #18 : 01-08-2004 18:56 »
« : 01-08-2004 18:56 »
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cryonic woman spanish fry three hundred big boys
while its not a favourite i dont hate a pharoh to remember and I didn't think bending in the wind was hated,
my opinion on devils hands, is that the opera was funny, but when they actually sing in real life and not in the opera, that was a bad choice, somehow they could have done something better.
But it does suprise me it is actually a very funny episode but people seemed to decide beforehand that the show was definatley going to be lacking in humour as it was more emotional, but it actually wasn't but its often peoples opinion
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Teral

Helpy McHelphelp
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« #36 : 01-09-2004 10:33 »
« : 01-09-2004 10:33 »
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Originally posted by PCC Fred: Bollocks! I had no problem enjoying "A Leela of Her Own", just as I had no problem enjoying "Homer at the Bat" five years previously. Exactly. I'm not from America, and I don't know much about baseball, beyond the absolutely basics, but I loved " A Leela Of Her Own". I don't need to know all there is to know about baseball to recognise a good sports joke when I see one, and the zingers at the Mets, well just substitue the Mets with your favorite sports team and they'll work equally well. Same thing with people who don't know Trek (although I wonder what rock they've been hiding under) but still enjoy WNFHGB. Or those who like "Love And Rocket" but haven't read/seen "2001 - A Space Odyssey". Some other less liked episodes I love: "Leela's Homeworld", "Bendin' In The Wind" and "Kif Gets Kocked Up A Notch".
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« #37 : 01-09-2004 10:47 »
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Less Than Hero falls under the same umm.."thing", you don't haveto be into Baseball/Star Trek or Super Hero stuff to enjoy it, but to really apprechiate the ep i think you do. It was eons ago where i saw some Star Trek stuff but WNFHGB is still one of my all time favs, wasn't at first but it really growed on me Originally posted by Ozor Mox: I really liked Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch, I thought it was a good story. Having removed my Amy bias, I still can't see why everyone hates it so much. Same here, i thought it was pretty funny, only downside was the cheesy ending
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Professor

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« #38 : 01-09-2004 13:15 »
« : 01-09-2004 13:15 »
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I loved that too and i didn't think the ending was particulary cheesy
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