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Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again

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Every time this happens, I am initially a little disappointed. It hurts every time it ends, every new series isn't quite as good as Jurassic Bark. Still, every time this happens I'm filled with joy. I wonder how many young folks will discover this series for the first time through the new one and go back and enjoy all the old ones.

X2. The movies and then new seasons were okay, but in a different way where they kind of seemed to be caricatures of the original run.

Jurassic Bark is always the mentioned best episode with Futurama, but it (and Luck of the Fryish) is just so sad. Not that they aren't good episodes, but the Luna Park episode in season 1 (with Bender assaulting the mascot, the "moonbillies"), then Bender getting hooked on electricity in Hell is Other Robots and even Mars University with Gunter's classic line (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqjv0mHpapk) are all great. Godfellas and Pharoah to Remember are also underrated.

Prisoner of Benda was pretty good from the latter seasons, I thought.

The second finale was really good, too.

I enjoyed the later seasons, although I'm the type that would prefer a relationship to gradually decay until you don't have any interest rather than cut your losses while it's still good.

If we took this same approach to star wars and killed the franchise during episodes 7-9, we would have never gotten The Book of Boba Fett.

Hulu should've built their own Futurama, with black jack, and hookers.

Isn't that Rick and Morty?

people always compare the shows but a few superficial similarities aside I found Rick and Morty to completely lack the sincerity and humanism of Futurama. To a large extent it is toilet humor and edginess with some very heavy-handed dramatic moments thrown in.

It's also Dan Harmon going way off the charts with meta storytelling and jokes to the point where you yearn for straightforward comedy.

Which I guess is why they're making this show.

Futurama can still get pretty meta. The first five minutes of the last reboot were about how those responsible for their cancelation were ground into Torgo's Executive Powder.

I think a better example of a return to straightforward comedy would be the King of the Hill reboot.

Also kindof wild to think of telling 1997 me that there would be new episodes of Futurama and KotH 25 years from now.

After watching the misery that has been the Flanderization of the Simpsons and its complete decline I'm quite happy with King of the Hill staying out of remakes and anything that would straight up destroy the treasure that it is.

Has there been more recent news since this?: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/king-of-the-hill-reboot-greg-dan...

The two aren't even close to being comparable. Rick and Morty has a lot of good ideas, but the two main characters themselves are just fundamentally annoying, there's nothing to balance it out.

Speak for yourself, I think it's better.

I think we can all agree that they are different shows

This is the Internet, that might be asking a lot :)

It's quoting Bender specifically, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubPWaDWcOLU. "Yeah well, I'm gonna build my own themepark, with blackjack, and hookers. Infact, forget the park" when he's thrown out of the moon themepark.

Oh nice! Thanks for the call out.

The Futurama Series Finale was the most perfect ending Fry and Leela deserved and doing anything more with the IP will dilute that.

Out of curiosity by "Futurama Series Finale" do you mean Season 4 or Season 7?

I'm almost positive they mean season 7 a.k.a. the most recent finale.

I don't know,towards the end ( season 7?) I felt that the makers of Futurama lost interest in the series.

Seasons in futurama are variable - Disney puts it as 10 seasons, with the films being season 6

There were great episodes in the post films, on the whole id put 95% of episodes as good or excellent, very few haven’t stood the test of time, before or after the films (although I wasn’t too keen on the films themselves, especially the undoing of Jurassic Bark)

Good news, everybody!

Whenever I see this, it's never actually good news.

Fox News, everybody!

Isn't supposed to be: "Good news, everyone!"..?

Kind of a bummer that the article got that one completely wrong....

Man, Futurama had the perfect ending. Why mess with that?

The Devil's Hands, and to a lesser extent, Wild Green Yonder would also have been fine places to leave it had it stayed ended there. Even if Bender's Big Score had been a standalone movie that would have worked too. So based on their track record, I'm confident they can park it nicely when this revival ends too.

Yeah, this was my instinct as well. I was worried when they came back last time, and was left super pleased with the gift that was given. Even if they mess up this time, I can just ignore it and move on with my life, but the chance that it's as good as it always was, or that a new generation will be excited about it is worth it.

When you say perfect ending, do you mean season 4 or season 7?

A lot has happened in the science, and space technology sphere since 2013, should be great to mine that in new Futurama episodes.

There have been several endings, devils hands, wild blue yonder, clockwise and Bender’s prediction and Meanwhile

I am confident that they will be able to continue to make great episodes and end them if needed.

Not sure if this is a publicity stunt.

Or the best news I’ve had all week.

Shut up and take my money

(Like seriously I’m not american, what’s Hulu? I get my streaming fix on Disney Plus)

At least in Europe (some?) Hulu content is on the Star section of Disney+, including Futurama.

Sadly, I think you mean;

Shut up and take my cryptocurrency

Any word on how it will be distributed internationally or does it just say “torrents” between the lines?

Disney+ most likely.

I'll be in my angry dome

To shreds you say?

huzzah!

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