C&C - "Futurama" Season Five - Week Two [11/10 - 11/13]

[livingfruitvirus]

Week 2 of new Futurama. this week it's.....

11/10 - "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" [4ACV06]
11/11 - "Jurassic Bark" [4ACV07]
11/12 - "Crimes of the Hot" [4ACV08]
11/13 - "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" [4ACV09]

A fairly recent ep is tonight. we also have the emmy nominated Jurassic Bark on Tuesday. and ill just warn you - if you thought the season 3 and 4 episodes tugged at your heart strings too much, you are NOT ready for Jurassic Bark.

[mjsmith]

Sure tonight's episode is fairly recent (Being the next-to-last episode aired). But, the great thing about tonight is:

TV Party Tonight end credits that we wanted to see!

Haven't seen tomorrow nor Wednesday's episodes, but, tomorrow's will surely get a lot of fuss here! :shrug:

Thursday's, I like that one. :D

[DianaGohan]

Only DianaGohan can make the Futurama Episode Review of "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television" And change it from it's original form to the one for AS.

I found this episode to be very funny. Not the funniest of the Season, and there's only really humor here (no emotion, but you'll have that in the next episode, oh believe me on that buddy) but it was good humor. In fact, I would say this is the Bender episode of Season Five. He'll have some others coming up that aren't nearly as good. The versions of the Fox Executives and Bender being a bad role model for kids were good jokes (Espically The Beta Executive who kept rolling dice to predict the lineup (("Game Shows are back in!") and Bender making an annoucement at the end of the second act to not committ the "cool" crime of stealing) and I liked the return of Cubert and Dwight (and Hermes and Farnsworth F.A.R.T group. Yeah, the name was kind of a dead joke giveaway but they did a pretty good spoof on how "Soccer Moms" would act in situations like that) in this episode. Not a whole lot the rest of the cast did though. And the real FOX executives wanting this episode to be the last new Futurama episode ever shown kinda signifies they do want Bender and the rest of the cast off of T.V. Good thing Cartoon Network Does. They even aired the TV Party At The End You Didn't See At Fox. I give this episode an A.

[JTurner954]

Finally, the character responsible for The Pitts has been revealed.

What a great episode. It poked at TV, the viewing audience, actors, writers, and did it while constantly making me laugh. Not only did it showcase Bender, but it brought back my second favorite character on Futurama: The Hypnotoad (@@@@@@@@@@@@@). And it ended with a message that sums up how I feel about TV. There was nothing bad about this episode,IMO. Overall grade: A+

[candy17]

Week 2 of new Futurama. this week it's.....

11/10 - "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" [4ACV06]
11/11 - "Jurassic Bark" [4ACV07]
11/12 - "Crimes of the Hot" [4ACV08]
11/13 - "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" [4ACV09]

A fairly recent ep is tonight. we also have the emmy nominated Jurassic Bark on Tuesday. and ill just warn you - if you thought the season 3 and 4 episodes tugged at your heart strings too much, you are NOT ready for Jurassic Bark.
I am, since my FOX affiliate aired it during the summer. I didn't cry at the end of it but it was majorly depressing.

[shoujoaifan]

Poor Bender ends up being just plain funny and weird (not that there is something wrong with that of course) instead of funny and weird AND a few touching moments in the epi's with him as lead. FORTUNATELY, he does get those oh so sappy moments in ep's where its based on everyone or if he's a supporting character.

Not that I didn't like this of course. It was funny and well written, even without the dual message at the end in that parents should stop their own kids from watching stuff they don't approve of instead of blaming their irresponsibility on the TV networks, and the fact that people usually watch whatever is on the boob tube when they're bored :p

[~square~]

i had seen Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV on Fox once. meh. i dont really like the new episodes. those kids are annoying and now it doesnt focus so much on Fry, like it used to. hmmm i liked that episode though, because Bender IS my role model...*sigh*

[Quagmire]

I'm not really that big of a fan of the Bender-centralized season 4 and 5 episodes, although this particular one wasn't that bad. They created him into the Homer Simpson of Futurama. They needed more Fry and Leela.

I did like Fansworth and Hermes making fun of their kids popularity, and the Professor's Cool Meter (OH YEAH!!!)

I'm looking forward to tonight, because I missed the 1st half of Jurassic Bark. At least there are some promising episodes on this week.

[Exatron]

i had seen Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV on Fox once. meh. i dont really like the new episodes. those kids are annoying and now it doesnt focus so much on Fry, like it used to. hmmm i liked that episode though, because Bender IS my role model...*sigh*

The fourth season focuses mostly on Fry, just like two of the show's other three seasons. Bender only has a disproportionately large number of episodes in McSeason 5 because Fox chose to sit on most of Bender's season 4 episodes for a year.

[mjsmith]

Looks like Tuesday's episode is going to have a lot fuss over here.

Better get your Fishy Joe's Extreme Walrus Juice ready for it :eek: !

[Alaskanbullworm]

Tonights is my favorite episode. Got to love that little runt.

[Duke]

I like Bender's magic tricks.

Heh, the dog actually nodded to Fry's proposal.

Bender has a point. Protests really don't work.

I find it hilarious that they kept the dog in a breifcase.

Bender + Zoidberg = Funny.

Nice cameo from Quebert.

I like the additional scenes for Episode 1. Makes up for the unused animatic stuff in Episode 1.

Poor Bender, he gets no respect. Well, yes he does, but still...

I always found it weird how Fry's house is so banged up on the outside and so nice & tidy on the inside...

Leela & Amy wrestling is cool in my book. :anime: :D :evil:

I see Poochies haven't advanced too far in 1,000 years.

Nice twist with the molten lava and Scruffy.

So he's 40% Dolomite, 40% titanium, 30% iron, 20% zinc, what else is Bender made out of.

Now we know where Fry gets his idiocy from.

That song sucked, though the ending itself was nice.

[The Landstander]

http://burns.thefinaldimension.org/otn/sad/mecry.gif

[Menion420]

err Jurassic Bark was a sad episode...........didn't like the end at all... they shoulda cloned the dog anyways.

[EightOh]

http://burns.thefinaldimension.org/otn/sad/mecry.gifI concur.

[Dogasu]

:( Sad dog=sad episode. Works every time.

[Chuquita]

Ah, the humor I remember from Futurama is back! :D


Such a SAD ending though! *sob* :(

*has a dog of her own*

[Chrono1995]

Wow. I'm really glad I decided to watch this episode. I loved the ending, and thought it was really well done. I can definitely understand why this one was nominated for an Emmy.

[MJC]

One of the saddest pieces of animation ever... :(

[Rei]

This is the second time I've seen Jurassic Park and I was still about 5 seconds away from crying. There were some funny moments but it was great for the emotional ending. Only The Luck of the Fryrish comes close to matching the feeling it gave me at the end.

[EightOh]

Anyone else feel the urge to pet their own dog after that? :(

[Jowy Blight]

Having never seen this episode before, I must say that was the saddest episode of Futurama I've ever seen :( With Luck of the Fryrish a close second.

[JTurner954]

Tuesday's episode was good/ok. I get annoyed when Futurama becomes sappy; not because it's sappy, but because it gets very sappy. I was really digging the episode learning about Seymour the dog and Bender as a magician; I even liked the idea of cloning the dog and watching Bender go into the pit to save Seymour. But then there's that ending. I think it was too much going into overdramatic.

Still it was a good episode, but I'd think I'd feel better not seeing a rerun of it (Frye's past just gets weirder and weirder. This time I think I saw an eye inside the garbage before Frye was frozen).

Overall grade: B-

[Exatron]

So he's 40% Dolomite, 40% titanium, 30% iron, 40% zinc, what else is Bender made out of.


A 0.02% nickel impurity. It's what made him him. All of that adds up to 150.02%.

Now, can someone please explain how that episode could lose to "Three Gays in a Condo". To borrow an old robot expression, does not compute. Everything was leading up to the ending. Cloning Seymour would cheapen his death. He died being the best possible dog anyone could ask for. Fry made the correct decision with the knowledge he had. It wasn't "right" from our perspective, but that was the entire point. And, no, this episode was in no way sappy. None of Futurama is.

[DianaGohan]

The Emotional (And For Some Reason, Non-Emmy Winner) Futurama Episode Review of "Jurassic Bark".

You know how P.Oed I was when this episode didn't get the emmy over the Simpson's "Three Gays Of The Condo?" Very. In my honest opinion, while The Gay Simpsons episode wasn't that bad of an episode (although it has VERY little replay value) it was still a fairly good episode, but this episode is a masterpeice, one of the absolute gems of Futurama. And yet it was still tossed aside, and on Futurama's last year chance of getting an Emmy. And now, seeing this episode for the second time in nearly a year, I'm beyond pissed

I'M OUTRAGED!!!!

This episode was the perfect mix of humor plot and drama that most comedy's try to have, but more often then not, fail in it. Hell, the ending of this episode easily beats out any dramtic moment the Simpsons had since Mid Season 7. But a bit more on that later. Now I'm still ranting on how Futurama was robbbed of it's rightful award. However, for the sake of becoming boring, I'll skip that and get to the review.

Since this was one of the more dramatic episodes, I have a good deal to talk about in my drama section. First off, you could really feel for the relation Fry had with his dog. Both pretty much losers living on the edge of society with nothing to really look forward, until they found each other. It was really touching to see Seymour wait for Fry everytime he was gone, and then try and look for him everywhere. As was Fry trying to get back his dog in the future and then trying to save him from being burned in the lava. And don't think that it's just Fry and Seymour having some emotions. Bender does as well. First thinking that Fry being with his dog was an attempt to spite him, Bender realized that Fry truley did love his dog and that he had been wrong. Bender even risked his own life to try and save Seymour and prove that he really was Fry's friend. And then the ending where Fry realizes that Seymour lived 12 years without him and didn't want him cloned, thinking that Seymour wouldn't remember him. Watching that scene the first time I saw it, I thought "Well, here comes some joke to dissprove that" and was half right. It disproved what Fry said, but despite some of the comical refrences in it (The O in Ponuici's nearly falling on someone, the guy cutting down the tree in the front of the store) it was from humor. It was instead a standing testement to an animal's loyalty to a friend, waitng and hoping he would return and come back to him after 12 long years. It's a theme kind of done before, but I have never seen it done so well, or touching. I admitt that on watching that sceen for the first time, I did cry, and nearly came close to hear. It's just incredibley powerful, and looking back on it (sorry to meniton this again) it beats out the entire episode of "Three Gays Of A Condo" and while were at it, half of Season 14 of the Simpsons with it combined. It's a pretty straightforward scene, and may not have the multiple opinions you could have about that some anime dramatic scenes do (like the love angels in Inuyasha) but I think that's what makes it better. It gives a message simple enough for anyone to understand and shocks with how powerful that message is. Incredible stuff.

Oh yeah, there is also humor in this episode. A lot of it actually. Bender's magic act, Fry explaining his Pizza Delivery day's to the visitors in that museum, Seymour being named after SeymourAsses (The Classic Simpsons joke from Moe's prank call. Gotta love the refrence), Fry preforming the hussle in order to get the fossilzed Seymour back, Bender preforming his act with Zoidberg as the assistant, Farnsworth showing off the cloning machine to everyone ("The cow says... MOOOOOOOOOOO!") Bender thinking Fry bought Seymour's dog toys for him, Leela and Amy wrestling in order to pratice for hand to hand combat if they're weapons are knocked out of they're hands, Bender's Robopuppy ("Robopuppy commence chirping for 2 hours") Fry trying to beat up Bender for throwing fossilzed Seymour into the lava, Bender breaking up (bodily) when trying to get Seymour, and Farnsworth throwing the Ice Swan in the lava to get rid of it. The past scenes were good, but none of them really stood out (except for previously above stated one) but they had they're purpose and contributed wonderfully to the plot. All in all, a great episode that gets on of my highest ratings ever. A++.5

[Jowy Blight]

(Frye's past just gets weirder and weirder. This time I think I saw an eye inside the garbage before Frye was frozen).

I'm not going to spoil anything but that was infact an eye. You'll find out about it on a later episode.

[DianaGohan]

Next Monday's Episode To Be Percise. Another great episode, BTW. Not as good as this one though (although you'd like it more Jturner54 considering it's not as "sappy".)

[mjsmith]

I'm not going to spoil anything but that was infact an eye. You'll find out about it on a later episode.

It'll be on Monday Night.

Did anyone seen Nibbler's and Fry's shadows is shown on the shot which the chair fall down? :rolleyes:

[shoujoaifan]

What can I say that hasn't been said? It was a good, touching, dramatic, and funny episode of Futurama. When I first saw this awhile back and even now I was thinking if only Fry knew so he could clone Seymour so he could live the life he never had-except that wouldn't really be Seymour and as others have said it would indeed cheapen his very tragic, very slow life/death.

I guess if we want to nitpick we can bring up the fact that Fry's parents seemed to be very concerned for their missing son, even though they supposedly told the police not to waste money searching for them and how they wouldn't let him go to public school so not to waste the taxpayer's money according to Fry's old girlfriend.

But then again they did seem concerned in "The Luck of the Fryish" and could've given up hope and told the police not to bother.

It also seems that Fry had to get past high school to get into the Conney Island school (not that it really helped much) and Mars University, and Futurama only seems to pay attention to continuity for really small details if its important ( like Bender's off-again-on-again symptoms from magnets).


Besides, I would rather have a caring set of parents for Fry than otherwise, ALTHOUGH it would've helped if they weren't so stupid as to not look up at the fricken tube :p

[mjsmith]

The Emotional (And For Some Reason, Non-Emmy Winner) Futurama Episode Review of "Jurassic Bark".

You know how P.Oed I was when this episode didn't get the emmy over the Simpson's "Three Gays Of The Condo?" Very. In my honest opinion, while The Gay Simpsons episode wasn't that bad of an episode (although it has VERY little replay value) it was still a fairly good episode

Actually, it was repeated last Sunday, after the Return of Mona Simpson one.

And yet it was still tossed aside, and on Futurama's last year chance of getting an Emmy.

Acutally, The Sting on through the remaining episodes (As well as last night's episode) is up for next year's Emmy. :D

[ButteredToast]

This is the first time I've ever gotten to see this episode.

I'm depressed now. :(

Especially remembering the very end when Seymour finally laid down and closed his eyes for the last time...

:(

Ugh... I need to stop before I start bawling again...

[David Lucas]

Did anyone else hear Yoko Kanno's song from a good 12 episodes of Cowboy Bebop playing in their head as they watched that final montage?

The one where Hex The Chessmaster dies in the last 5 seconds?

That was the saddest thing I've ever seen on cartoons, I just recently got my roommate hooked onto the show and he yelled out after it was over:

"Yo! That's ****ed up!"

How did this show get cancelled?! God I hope Cartoon Network can do somethin about this.....

[Sketch]

That was a sad episode... I think I've actually seen it before on Fox (a rare thing when it comes to Futurama).

Do my ears diseave me or was that Peter Cullen as Fry's father?

[ClockStomper]

My first time seeing it, and I loved it. Good humor (no-half assed humor like most of this season) good amunt of emotion. The episode structure was almost exactly that of "Luck of the Fryish" only Fry never learns the truth this time, and that makes for a better episode.

I'd hardly call the ending "depressing", though, I think some people are easily traumatized (if you consider this is what you consider depressing, I know 5 moves off the top of my head that actually are depressing and would make you hide under your bed in the fetal position until you slowly died.)

Anyone notice that robo puppy was just Zoidburg' voice with a silly electronic effect?

[livingfruitvirus]

That was a sad episode... I think I've actually seen it before on Fox (a rare thing when it comes to Futurama).

Do my ears diseave me or was that Peter Cullen as Fry's father?

john dimaggio

[CaptainRed]

Okay, that was just wrong.

With this episode Futurama takes the art of telegraphing its moves and kicking the hell out of its characters for no apparent reason to a new level.

And I stayed up to watch that...

*honks hugs and whatever else*
Cappy Red

[Anime Guy]

That song sucked, though the ending itself was nice.

Are you referring to the one where the dog keeps waiting forever? Because I loved that song. The ending theme kinda ruined the moment though. They should've kept playing that song about waiting.

[~square~]

http://burns.thefinaldimension.org/otn/sad/mecry.gif

my point exactally

i cried.

no, im serious.

damn bender.

and i said he WAS my role model...

[EightOh]

Are you referring to the one where the dog keeps waiting forever? Because I loved that song. The ending theme kinda ruined the moment though. They should've kept playing that song about waiting.Yeah, it did. I muted it.

i cried.

no, im serious.Same here.

[Lonestarr]

This was also my first time seeing "Jurassic Bark" (crappy Fox scheduling). The episode was pretty funny, even though Bender was a borderline a-hole in this. The ending was pretty sad, and I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought the end song was beautiful. They should've played it over the credits.

How this lost the Emmy, I will never understand.

Grade: A

[candy17]

This is the second time I've seen Jurassic Park and I was still about 5 seconds away from crying. There were some funny moments but it was great for the emotional ending. Only The Luck of the Fryrish comes close to matching the feeling it gave me at the end.
Well, what about the episode where Leela finds out that she's a mutant. That's sad in the same vein as Luck of the Fryrish and this episode (and possibly some parts of The Sting, but I'm not sure).

Yes, this episode had a sad ending, but I think there's a lesson to be learned in this episode:

Katrina and the Waves' "Walkin' On Sunshine" sucks noodles.http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[The Gunnshuu]

Among the best that Futurama has to offer. Humor where it counted, and an ending that tugged at the heartstrings. Seymour and Bender stole this episode for me. A+

[StrangerAtaru]

Just had to comment that outside of "Luck of the Fryrish", this has to be one of the most heart-wrenching episodes in the whole series. I loved the relationship that occured between Fry and his scrappy little Seymour, even if Bender was trying to be oblivious to the whole thing and ends up being obnoxious to it. (its like robots think they are man's best friend in the future, even if many of them would easily want to kill all humans....) What made this episode even more heart-wrenching is how they were easily able to balance between the comedic and sad stuff, making each revelation seem even more and more worse. (including the last scene supposedly between Fry and the dog at the pizza restaraunt, the dog searching for Fry, the scene with the parents (who should have known something had happened to their son...then again some time does pass between this and the scene in "Luck of the Fryrish") and of course the ending. (strangely enough, the tune sounds like something used in the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", a very sad French film about love, loss and the passage of time...which makes it appropriate for the final montage) And of course, I loved the "non-obligatory, but they did it anyway scene with Leela and Amy wrestling.....

[J.C.]

How this lost the Emmy, I will never understand.

And to "Three Gays Of The Condo," one of the worst Simpsons episodes to ever disgrace the series. I guess the Emmys figure that anything that deals with the topic of homosexuals = Television Gold.

Bender was defiantly a borderline ******* during this episode, but he redeemed himself when he saved Seymour's body after explaining how he thought Fry didn't really care about the dog and was just trying to make him jealous. Not ashamed to say I shed my share of tears at the ending, as I've always had a soft spot for dogs. There's nothing more I can add to the talkback for Jurassic Bark that hasn't been said, except to point out it's my second favorite episode of the entire series behind "The Why of Fry."

Grade - A++

[Anime Guy]

And to "Three Gays Of The Condo," one of the worst Simpsons episodes to ever disgrace the series. I guess the Emmys figure that anything that deals with the topic of homosexuals = Television Gold.

That or anything that makes a random gay joke.

Bender was defiantly a borderline ******* during this episode, but he redeemed himself when he saved Seymour's body after explaining how he thought Fry didn't really care about the dog and was just trying to make him jealous. Not ashamed to say I shed my share of tears at the ending, as I've always had a soft spot for dogs. There's nothing more I can add to the talkback for Jurassic Bark that hasn't been said, except to point out it's my second favorite episode of the entire series behind "The Why of Fry."

Grade - A++

I thought it was great how Bender learned that the most efficent friends aren't always someone's best friend.

I didn't cry at the end because the song didn't last long enough. I came pretty close though. If it was played during the credits, I would've cried. I just started crying now because I was thinking of that beautiful song. http://burns.thefinaldimension.org/otn/sad/mecry.gif
That sums it up right there.

[Spastic Minnow]

Leela: "I'm going in!"
Farnsworth: "Professor! Lava! Melt!"

Excellent episode but I do have to admit that on this viewing (I somehow saw it on Fox) that it loses alot of its impact and I saw faults I let go before. Fry's decision not to revive Seymour was somewhat sudden, Bender was a tremendously annoying @hole, Seymour seemed to die naturally, not "flash fossilized" and for some reason an unecessary Zoidberg line really bugged me. (I think it was someone asking what what was going on and he merely said something like "Nothing's going on, nothing at all")

But still, the effect of a dying loyal dog is touching and there were plenty of excellent jokes throughout.

B+

[Bogey B]

One of the saddest pieces of animation ever... :(
apparently you havn't seen the groovienians (sorry had to)

this was a good episode not a fav but what can i say ot had solid story with great humour (professer, lava, hot!) it gets a b+

[NachoHat]

the tune sounds like something used in the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg",
That would be because it was a song written for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Anyways, definitely one of my favorite Futurama episodes. How anyone could give that Simpsons episode the emmy over this boggles the mind. I haven't personally seen that episode but frankly, this gives even some of the best Simpsons episodes a run for their money.

Oh and I think that last scene may have been the first time a TV show has ever made me cry.

[Samurai Karasu]

I hate to break all the sadness but...

"SCREW THE TURTLES"

"NO DON'T SCREW THE TURTLES! SCREW YOU!!"

That was nessecery, you were all getting too mushy.

[JTurner954]

Decent episode. The story was a little silly with the giant ice cube, but entertaining nevertheless with the appearance of Richard Nixon and Al Gore (along with some cameos by past robot characters like Fender). And of course you can't go wrong with more screentime with Bender.

Not as funny or emotional as yesterday's show, but it did entertain me a little more (especially after watching a less than average episode of South Park earlier). Overall grade: B

[DianaGohan]

It's Not A Crime Or Hurting Global Warming To Episode Review Futurama's "Crimes Of The HOt" At Least That I know of.

This Episode Was The Season Preimere Of Futurama's Final Season. I'll Give You Three Guesses Why, And None Of Them Count. The Only reason I figure on why this episode got the honor being a season premiere was because Al Gore guest voiced in it (Yes, the actual former vice preisdent. Not a sound alike, not Bob Dole, but the actual enviormentalist Al Gore). That's the only reason I could figure that this mediocre and at times boring episode got the nod. Well, let's go into reasons why first.

Okay, the drama part of this episode was that Bender was willing to die for a creature he shared a common trait with (a turtle). Also, this was probably the only Bender episode in Season 5 that didn't feature a version of "Jerkass Bender". He was the nicest he really got here, so that's kind of a plus.

However, there's not much else good about this episode. I admitt, the plot works and is carrirred out well enough, but sometimes it takes to long to get going (It took over 11 minutes to get to the convention when it could of easily been cut down to 6) and at other points it went against the continuity (Mainly Global Warming. In other episodes it was referred to as not even happening or being cancelled out by Nuclear Winter and yet it's shown here. Also, I had some problems with the regular robots being about 50 or so years old. At least it ties in well somewhat with "Mother's Day" but still, it feels awkard to me). Also, while the ending with the robots exhausting gas to push away from the sun makes sense when compared to the show, it felt kinda tagged on. Well anyway, there were a few humourous moments (Bender going to Holland trying to save the Turtle, being pushed on his back when he said that one of his weaknesses was that he could't get up when directly on his back, the Professor's exuses for not going to the convention, Fry and Gore commenting on not liking the part of Farnsworth's story where he was making out with Mom, the robot party (lot's of cameos of robots from other episodes there), Bender vrs Robot Preacher, the headless Agnew body (did his screams remind anyone else of the Mummy's from Aqua Teen Hunger Force's "Love Mummy"?) and the year being extended another week. However, none of those were really LOL, but rather CTMSAMO (Chuckle to Myself Slowly And Move On). All in all I give this episode a rather disappointing grade of B-.

I did get a good idea from this though

FAKE Post Futurama Card-

Too bad that Futurama didn't have a robot
party here.

Imagine all the fun we could of had.

(Silohuettes of Bender, Jiro, Big O, Dorothy, Red Canti, and a Mech Suit from "Blue Gender" appear with a bunch of other robot sillohuettes).

The Adult Swim Robot Party
Would Have Seriously Rocked.

As long as someone brought
the robot smokes.

Big O REALLY needs those smokes.

[Party Swim]

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[anakin876]

Did anyone else have what seemed to be serious stellite feed problems? The whole episode was ruined by the bad digital errors we were getting through the whole episode

[Duke]

Not me, though I only have basic cable...

[Eddie G.]

It was an okay episode, it was interesting that the Professor was the father of modern (modern future) day robots, some people might feel this doesn't fit in with some of the past history given in the show... but it works for me. I figured that was really Al Gore, I believe his daughter was a writer for the show so that might explain how they got him. Bender is such a hit and miss character though, he is either incredibly hilarious or annoying... last night he was annoying.

P.S. I wish Flexo had been at the robot party thing.

[Anime Guy]

I heard someone singing "Walkin' on Sunshine" at school today. Weird.

[mjsmith]

I figured that was really Al Gore, I believe his daughter was a writer for the show so that might explain how they got him.

Yes, in a way. Kristin Gore is his daughter, and an Story Editor in the final Production Season. She also wrote Leela's Homeworld. He was on before, in AOI I. Hence his appearance in last night's episode. :)

[JTurner954]

Good episode. Lots of one-liners ("Our duty is clear", "think, you disco duck"), a funny story with aging (Zoidberg's transformations were great), and a side story where Leela can spend more time with her parents (all without being sappy). I also enjoyed the sight gag with Florida.

Overall grade: A-

Two weeks of Futurama and each episode has been good;therefore, I have one question: Have any of you heard any news on the release of another Futurama DVD box set?

[DianaGohan]

This Episode Review is Not Familiar And If You Think It Is You Can Go To Hell! It's Futurama's "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles".

Okay, this is an old review. I'll make * to show what I added now

Admittley, I was surprised to find a decent amount of emotion in what I thought would be an all comedey episode. Since all of this is out of production code, it makes more sense to see so many episodes revovling around Leela and her mutant parents. (THe CN premiere of "Leela's Homeworld Last Wendsday, The only other new March Futurama episode "Less Then Hero" and this one *This review was made in March remember, so it makes sense then*). I thought it was very sweet for Leela to want to not grow up and instead stay young and be with her parents. And her scarificing her youth in order to save the crew was very nice as well. I wonder if the writers will have any more stories involving Leela's parents, or will this be it. *Apparently, that was it. Oh well, 3 episodes is still pretty good. More then Hermes ever got*

While this episode had some emotion, it was still mostly comedey. The first act started great, with Farnsworth's search for his lost Gargoyle. He was in pure senile old man funny mode here, with his comments on women driving, going 35 miles an hour when the ship can go 99% light speed (I thought it could go faster then that though. How else are they able to travel between the planets so fast if they can't even go total lightspeed?! Oh well, plotholes plotholes *I learned later that in an episode I hadn't seen on Fox called "A Clone Of My Own" where they explained that light speed had been increased, so once again I have to say CN RAWKS!!!* ) and then stopping by that diner in order to get the 2:30 dinner (In the state of Florida. Very funny sign there to "Welcome to the state of Florida Feel free to make fun of Old People, Disney, and Recounts" or something to that extent). The crew trying to get the Professor to get the youth treatment so they wouldn't be irrated by his old age was pretty funny (Espically Leela's "We won't force you until I finish speaking this sentance. Jump him!" was the best part) but I really didn't like the spa treatment. The woman was more intresting to look at then hear *Looking at it again, she looked a lot like Emril's species, and probably was related to his, but I digress*, and the gross out joke with Farnsworth's skin seems more Simpsons Season 10-12 then Futurama. The plot got good again though when Bender decided to take over ("Like most of live's primitive movements, pulling is just a *should be "an archiac"* form of bending" was a great line) and then causing that oil spill that caused the crew to be young. The storyline then moved great there, with Leela trying to make her parents treat her like a teenager, Farnsworth complaining about being young again, Zoidberg in his evolving stage, Amy's Father making fat jokes about her, Bender being a rebel (It does raise the question though of how he became young. After all, wasn't he born the same way he looks now ((As seen in "Bendless Love")). How could he have aged if robots never really age. Okay, more nitpicking plotholes, but it still dosen't make that much sense *Actually, based on ideas and theories, the RNA in Bender's system reverted him back through all his protoype forms. Why else would his last form be a CD with the blueprints for a bending robot?*) and Fry trying to take Leela on a date (Espically the Star Wars Episode one pod racing sendoff and the Mutated Moose ((From Archie Comics, well the regular Moose anyway) and his girlfriend Mindy. Of course, the plot got even better and funnier when Farnsworth tried to change everyone back to normal, and only made everyone younger and younger. Espically funny were all of Zoidberg's stages of development, the ageomeder hiting 8 and saying happy birthday, and Leela reading stories to the Futurama kids (Which may actually have a little bit more merit then the Fake Saturday Morning Line up says it would have *There was a thread on the General Animation board where you gave ideas for animated shows that you would never want to see. One of them was called Futurama Kids*). Leela saying to punish her for instead of letting her go with her friends (Or drink Tequila, which was a fairly funny running joke by Leela's dad) and then sneaking out was not only funny, but kind of says a lot about regular teenage relationships, cliched as the saying is. The end was probably the best part. The kid professor taking the Futurama babies to the pool, and Zoidberg getting so old he started to produced his own siblings, which one of them got in the pool because he likes attention was a nice visual and audio gag (Although the visual part ((as seen by LivingFruitVirus *LivingFruitVirus provided a screencap of the episode in the orginal talkback*)) is kind of sickening, in a funny way). Finally the whole crew becoming their age, and Farnsworth being reunited with his Gargoyle was a nice end. Espically the final scene where the gargoyle explains to his son how he became free, and has nasty plans for the country of France. All in all, a stellar episode that will hopefully become a show classic *It was kind of a classic, and one of the better episodes of Season Five, although nowhere near as classic as "Jurassic Bark" or "The Devils Hands Are Idle Playthings*. A+

Next Week: The Answer To Why Fry's In The Future, Someone In The Crew May or May Not Die, Bender Experiments with his gender and then gets a degrade on an island. All that in week three of the Futurama 5th Season on Fox.

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[AVianes]

I remeber wanting to see tonights episode the first time i saw the commerical on fox, and now I have seen it, and it was very entertaining. Favorite part Zoidburg's progression back to childhood.

[mjsmith]

I like tonight's Teenage Mutant Leela Hurdles a lot, specially the Zoidberg turning younger, and the teenaged Leela (With freckles to boot!).

Can hardly wait for next week's batch, specially, The Sting, one of my favorites of Season 5. It'll tug your heartstrings, just like Jurassic Bark have give us, plus it give me a smile for it. :p

[ClockStomper]

I don't understand at all how Bender de-aged, the fact that we saw him come off the assembly line fully aged non-withstanding.

[Anime Guy]

I don't understand at all how Bender de-aged, the fact that we saw him come off the assembly line fully aged non-withstanding.

The professor said that the tar attached to his robot DNA or RNA.

[Matt Hazuda]

The professor said that the tar attached to his robot DNA or RNA.THat, and it's a cartoon, not everything has to make sense. http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Duke]

THat, and it's a cartoon, not everything has to make sense. http://forums.toonzone.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif

After all, Matt & co. only care about continuity when it fits the plot. If it doesn't, who cares?

[J.C.]

Two weeks of Futurama and each episode has been good;therefore, I have one question: Have any of you heard any news on the release of another Futurama DVD box set?

The next volume will be coming out in the first quarter of 2004, according to tvshowsondvd (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=829).

[Spastic Minnow]

Back when this came out on Fox someone came up with a decent cartoon logic explanation for why Bender was getting younger. Instead of Bender himself getting younger what he was doing was going through previous designs and software versions of the bending unit.

[StrangerAtaru]

I think that they mostly just had Bender "de-age" just to have him be like everyone else....even if the Bending Units are born as their adult forms. Meanwhile, I wonder about the tar's effect on Zoidberg, considering in a previous episode we saw a "kid Zoidberg". My guess is that for his race, the tar makes him "de-evolve" to previous forms opposed to turning him into a kid....or, like "The Simpsons", they just don't care about continuity.