Tachyon
DOOP Secretary
I was half asleep when I listened to the Overclockwise commentary, and don't recall whether they discussed that point.
Beamer
DOOP Secretary
I'm still amazed that, after 20 pages, we still haven't discussed decorated army veteran General Futurama. The man is a freaking HERO, for cryin' out loud!
Shame on you, PEEL. Shame on you.
Quantum Neutrino Field
Liquid Emperor
So, I have constructed this interesting proof, which should bring some hope: Let f be function f: N -> N, f(n) = n describing seasons of Futurama. With all the current seasons, n∈{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}. t is a variable describing time, t∈R. Now, if we consider limit of f(n), when time goes on forever1 . So, when t -> ∞, lim f(n) = ∞. However, the question remains, what's n, when f(n) -> ∞? We must look the question from a different angle to get a sensible answer in a context of Futurama. We can easily see the significance of the number pi (denoted as π) in Futurama and considering that there is two numbers in binary number system (0 and 1), we should look into their quotient π/2 , since they seem relevant. The quotient can be thought as an angle: π/2 radians = 90 degrees by definition. So, looking the question from an angle of 90 degrees: when f(n) = ∞, we can only assume that n = 8.Season 8 confirmed. □1 A necessary assumption to take, as it's all we have right now. Result doesn't require fixed value of t.
Scrappylive
Liquid Emperor
Good news: I had a very productive day.
Bad news: The buses stopped running (again) and so I am stuck in the city (again).
Good news: Fox is showing Futurama all day today.
Bad news: It's in Spanish.
Good news: I can understand it, and even if I couldn't, I already know the episodes well enough to watch it on mute.
Bad news: They're currently playing Law and Oracle, which features
my least favorite character of the series.
Good news: They're currently playing Law and Oracle, which features tons of cool visuals and a pretty neat storyline.
transgender nerd under canada
DOOP Ubersecretary
I love Season 1, but it does seem a little restrained, calm, and in places, hesitant. The show was still finding its feet, so I suppose these are all natural things. But compared to some of the late greats (eg; TLOTF, TKOS, RTEW, TLPJF) those first three episodes in particular do seem a little smaller and less grand in scope or ambition.
None of that does anything to my unashamed love for it. Season 1 was the reason I became a fan, after all. Season 2 was what cemented my love for the show firmly in place (and I think that WMIBACIL in particular should get most of the credit for that), but Season 1 was our introduction to the show, before the writing staff had gotten used to what they could really do with the universe they'd been given to play in.
Futurama felt established from the get go. Established, yes. But also unexplored, which was an odd and engaging combination. It was always clear that there would be more to discover about the show's universe in the next episode, however far along its run the show got. There was no danger, in the beginning, of running out of good ideas (the curse that turned The Simpsons from a brilliant show into something to switch over from).
Which made it all the more jarring when something that wasn't good slipped through, into the show. But thankfully, there were relatively few of those moments.
Wait, are we eulogising Futurama? When did we collectively just accept that it was dead? That's not like this place at all.
Beamer
DOOP Secretary
Every episode of season 1 is a world-building episode in some way. Throughout the season, they establish multiple things that become a prominent part of the Futurama universe, and/or little character traits that become the focal points of episodes in subsequent seasons. Season 1 is essentially just an extended pilot for the series as a whole. I'll agree it definitely feels different from the rest of the show (the pacing is slower, it's still finding its feet on both the comedy and science fiction fronts, and the staff don't quite have things like character models or voices down just yet), but the same can also be said of most comedy shows' first seasons. The difference between season 1 of Futurama and what the show became is still not quite as distinct as, say, season 1 of The Simpsons and what that show eventually became. I agree that season 2 is excellent for the most part, though. They really start to flesh out all the characters (hell, it seems as though the writers made a conscious decision to give every character their own episode at some point in season 2), and although they didn't quite strike the balance of comedy and emotion that practically defined the later seasons, they have the show's humour down pat by the time they reach season 2.
Beamer
DOOP Secretary
They were still cheap and easy, and about as subtle as an exploding planet. I expect more from Futurama, simple as that.
Beamer
DOOP Secretary
I always enjoyed the "the device that lets you speed or slow the passage of time" in Bendin' in the Wind (not actually a Hermes line, but still, a great example of how to successfully do a marijuana joke in a tv show).
Scrappylive
Liquid Emperor
My grin grew greater as I continued watching that video.
And also, let's post this video from the same channel because why not that's why.
Man, I really wish Billy West was starring in a show again. He's so talented.
SolidSnake
Professor
I know I'm sort of late to the party concerning the weed jokes. I do find them to be much more subtle in the Fox Era. With that being said, the only really good one I can think of from the CC era would be when Amy said "A big fat roach" and Hermes said "What? I thought I put that away!". Gets me every time.