Idle big devil tier list9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() One of Futurama’s many series finales that weren’t (this one written in the event that Comedy Central didn’t renew the show for another run of episodes), “Overclockwise” turns Bender into a hypercomputer with near-omnipotent abilities. This early season-two episode introduces one of the few historical heads to become a recurring character, one exploiting the wonderfully stupid technicality that no body can be elected president a third time.ģ6. “A Head in the Polls” (Season 2, Episode 3)įuturama never gave us anything as profound as the Simpsons episode that perfectly sums up the Democratic and Republican Parties or that Treehouse of Horror with Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, but The Simpsons never gave us Richard Nixon’s jowly severed head. As exciting as the future may be, there’s something sad about seeing your wildest dreams commodified, and at its best, Futurama never forgets this inherent bittersweetness in a show that also has robot hookers.ģ7. Zoidberg, Amy Wong, and Hermes Conrad and adds some early pathos to the central concept. “The Series Has Landed” introduces the B-squad characters Dr. Episode two is a direct follow-up that sees them land on the moon, now transformed into a cheap theme park, and it proves the premiere’s success wasn’t a fluke. “The Series Has Landed” (Season 1, Episode 2)įuturama’s second episode is aptly named, as the pilot that launched the show ended with the trio of main characters and Dr. The episode also features one of the most relatable lines, at least to anybody who has ever had to write for a living: “It took an hour to write I thought it would take an hour to read.” Who among us?ģ8. It’s primarily interested in introducing the memorable Lrrr, ruler of Omicron Persei 8, to the series. “When Aliens Attack” pleasantly riffs on alien-invasion movies like Independence Day, relying on broader genre homages (such as the destruction of a bunch of monuments arranged on Monument Beach) rather than overly specific references that sometimes bog down these sorts of things (though it does nail Ally McBeal with Single Female Lawyer). “When Aliens Attack” (Season 1, Episode 12) Jokes about gender aren’t always Futurama’s forte, but here they’re infused with the right amount of parody.ģ9. “Law and Oracle” is a pretty standard spin on the classic animated-sitcom trope in which the main character gets a new job for one episode, but Fry’s time as an agent in the New New York Police Department is a fun riff on Minority Report and features Chief O’Manahan, an unsubtle but hilarious gender swap of the dick-swinging police captain. That said, some post-cancellation episodes are all-timers (including one of the best of the entire show, which we’ll get to in 30-odd entries). Most are perfectly serviceable, but they’re too content to be self-referential, resting on a clever premise without fully developing it or the characters, who frequently feel like stock versions of themselves instead of people (or robots or aliens) actually living in the 31st century. It’s hard to say exactly what’s wrong with these episodes. It’s like The Simpsons’ decline in quality, only for this Groening show, there’s a clear demarcation, rather than just a vague sense that it happened somewhere between seasons eight and 13. “Law and Oracle” (Season 6, Episode 16)ĭespite Futurama’s being revived so many times, almost all of the episodes after its initial cancellation are lacking compared with the first four seasons. The 100 episodes that didn’t make the cut? They can bite my shiny metal ass.Ĥ0. At its best, Futurama is hilarious and heartfelt, and the greatest episodes tend to not just make you laugh they make you actually, truly care about a delivery boy, a one-eyed mutant, and an alcoholic robot. And good news, everyone! We’re ranking the top 40 of the series. ![]() Not counting the new Hulu episodes, which premiere today, there are 140 half-hours of Futurama. It’s the third time Futurama has been revived: The show was first canceled in 2003 when it aired on Fox, brought back for a series of direct-to-DVD movies that were chopped up and turned into season five later in that decade, picked up again by Comedy Central in 2010 for three more years, and finally resurrected by Hulu a decade since we last saw Fry, Leela, Bender, and the rest of the Planet Express crew.Īll those revivals mean that despite the show’s being off the air for about half of the quarter-century since its debut, there are a lot of Futurama episodes. Fry, who wakes up in New New York in the year 3000 after being cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years, Futurama has been on ice - but Hulu is bringing the Matt Groening–created animated sitcom back for another rival, having ordered 20 new episodes. Welcome to the world of tomorrow … again! It’s fitting that, just like its main character, Philip J. ![]()
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