It wasn't random. It was character informing.
Bender is upset that his behavior got him kicked out. He threatened to start a competing institution, and use what he thinks is a great draw for ther customers (blackjack and hookers). He then decides tha those things are much more appealing on their own, and abandons the idea of competing entirely. He's true to his nature and demonstrates how the were right to kick him out. And he's better off as well since now he can do the things he enjoys.
It's the character traits that are funny.
It's like Hank Hill responding to a question about being gay with "Hwhat? No! I sell propane." Its not random at all.
He needed to explain it because you are a moron. It doesn't actually require explaining
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Anonymous
morons not getting jokes doesn't make them unfunny it just makes you a fricking moron
10 months ago
Anonymous
He explained subtext, shit that flies over the head of morons like you
10 months ago
Anonymous
I'm also responding because you're colossally moronic.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I'm piling on to agree with the consensus that you are a moron who required an explanation because you thought the joke cited was just absurdist, "random" humour, rather than a funny insight into Bender's character.
And what they demand to be paid more for. Shit like this, Velma, Netflix Cowboy Bebop, The Witcher, Clone High Season 2, etc. Garbage demoralization propaganda made by people who hate you.
I remember when it came back the first time there was that “Birther” movement episode about the 2012 election, it would be like if they made an episode in 2004 about John Kerry being too European. Idk I’d probably blame the success of Family Guy for why they feel comfortable being needlessly topical.
south park's whole shtick was being made within a week of a pop-culture reference
now the laters seasons have stopped doing that after the 2016 election episode;
they made an episode based around bill clinton becoming the first gentleman, then trump won and they ending up having to rewrite a ton
now they take way longer to make an episode
Only Matt Stone is israeli.
Trey Parker is something much, much worse- a white race traitor.
After the Day of Reckoning, traitors like Trey Parker will go before enemies like Matt Stone.
>original run >timeless episodes that rarely touches upon them current day modern culture meaning each episode can be watched even 20 years later without missing the joke >post season 4 >dated unfunny pop culture references mocking then current political issues which were cringe and dated even at the time
>dated unfunny pop culture references
I can't stand that fricking shit, it's so lazy. If I remember correctly the creator of Oz wanted to create his own slang for the show so it wouldn't become dated. Hence why they called drugs "breasts".
My wife has never seen the second X-Files movie even though I warned her it was awful. We made it to the part where they went into the FBI office and Skully and Mulder both looked at a picture of President Bush and looked at each other it played the X-Files theme. Seriously? Bush jokes? I know it came out during that time but fricking Christ it's so date. Can't wait for 20 years from now to watch an older movie and it have Trump and Covid jokes.
the show’s whole concept is parodying classic sci-fi but they abandoned that pretty quickly once they decided they could bring back anyone as a head in a jar
That scene in I Want to Believe was so weird and unfunny. What was the point? Bush was an alien? It was so strange he was president that Mulder and Scully were so incredulous they had to go speechless and mug for the camera whenever they saw a picture of him?
The 65 year old israeli producer went into the gen z writers room and told them “make one about men getting waxed and it hurts them thats so funny its like austin powers haha”
>Manscaped. Get it? Like the product? Get it, consumer? Men groom their body hair and it’s called manscaping isn’t that weird?
65 yr old boomer in the writer’s room
The problem with cartoons being topical is that it usually takes 9 months to complete a episode. So whatever they're trying to talk about has already been discussed to death months ago. The only cartoon that can get away with this is South Park because Trey and Matt start working on an episode just 5 days before it's scheduled to air.
oh please, they were doing episodes about vegans and eating meat and shit when that was in the zeitgeist, everyone is just a gay and hyper meta aware now, so just talking about something recent is a le trope in and of itself le-self
Very different and the fact you think they are comparable is very saddening. Veganism is a life choice not restricted by setting or politics. The "pandemic" was not. In 50 years I can watch a vegan episode and still it will be applicable.
Vegan episode would be like doing a troony episode in 2023. If they were gonna do a vegan episode now in 2023 it would mandatory include references to: beyond meat, impossible burger, Bill Gates, carnivore diet and Jordan Peterson, at the very least.
Idk if I articulated that right what I’m saying is they could make an episode about trannies in the same way they made an episode about vegans, like South Park goth/emo/vamp episodes, but if they were going to make an episode today about veganism it would include numerous specific and very dated pop culture references.
So did the writers not realize that you're supposed to put funny and interesting stuff in the trailers? Is this meant to be a tax write off that loses money by getting 0 viewers?
Futurama's run its course. They've exhausted most of the possibilities they can do besides cheap low-effort references to current events but in the future
No get fricked if you're still watching the show you get what you fricking deserve.
First.Post.Best.Post.
Is still a billion times better than Reddit and Morty.
I haven't seen the new season, should I? I ask as a fan.
Comedy TV shows just feel badly aged in 2023 when all humor has been outsourced to Internet memes
>tv show references pop culture instead of creating it
So it’s just like the original show?
"forget the blackjack and the hookers" is a quoted thing
nothing in this new season will be
Haha I remember how random that was so funny
>dude remember when nuturama referenced american idol singer and eyephone?
Did someone really swap the faces
But why
i swapped the text
its literally the joke
gigachad brainlet vs virgin braincel
It wasn't random. It was character informing.
Bender is upset that his behavior got him kicked out. He threatened to start a competing institution, and use what he thinks is a great draw for ther customers (blackjack and hookers). He then decides tha those things are much more appealing on their own, and abandons the idea of competing entirely. He's true to his nature and demonstrates how the were right to kick him out. And he's better off as well since now he can do the things he enjoys.
It's the character traits that are funny.
It's like Hank Hill responding to a question about being gay with "Hwhat? No! I sell propane." Its not random at all.
If you need to explain the joke it's not funny.
He needed to explain it because you are a moron. It doesn't actually require explaining
morons not getting jokes doesn't make them unfunny it just makes you a fricking moron
He explained subtext, shit that flies over the head of morons like you
I'm also responding because you're colossally moronic.
I'm piling on to agree with the consensus that you are a moron who required an explanation because you thought the joke cited was just absurdist, "random" humour, rather than a funny insight into Bender's character.
wait he's serious
let me laugh even harder
The original run didn't continually rely on making jokes about current issues in 1999.
What? They are still making this? But the finale was perfect, why??? Just frick off.
finale had me tearing up
Matt Groening needs money to pay for foot rubs now that his friend Jeff isn’t hooking it up anymore
>pandemic
>crypto currency
>dune
>gay Zapp Brannigan
>Alexa
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Where's the bloody jokes? None of that was funny.
What ever happened to Disenchanted? Matt Groening's other failed project.
>failed project.
Yeah those failed 4 seasons and the upcoming failed 5th season.
Not a single part of this trailer was funny. Sad!
What's your favorite trailer?
None. Trailers are dweeb tier
Are they still making episodes of futurama?? Why do I only see posts about episodes thay are 20+ years old
>crypto country
>explovid-23
>mom alexa
>mom fulfilment centres
>dunc worm
>time-travel revisiting old stories
i'm not looking forward to it
Amazing. That was awful. Are they affected by the writers' strike?
This is the content the writers wanted to continue making.
And what they demand to be paid more for. Shit like this, Velma, Netflix Cowboy Bebop, The Witcher, Clone High Season 2, etc. Garbage demoralization propaganda made by people who hate you.
>thing makes reference to current thing
>roll my eyes and sigh
I don’t get it, was it like this in the past when those references were still current?
I felt the same about the baseball episode of the simpsons, and all the other celeb cameos
I think it’s just autism
Classic simpsons basically worshiped any celebrity they had on the show.
At least they didn't have them play themselves
Unless they were baseball players
Which was kino
I remember when it came back the first time there was that “Birther” movement episode about the 2012 election, it would be like if they made an episode in 2004 about John Kerry being too European. Idk I’d probably blame the success of Family Guy for why they feel comfortable being needlessly topical.
southpark too
south park's whole shtick was being made within a week of a pop-culture reference
now the laters seasons have stopped doing that after the 2016 election episode;
they made an episode based around bill clinton becoming the first gentleman, then trump won and they ending up having to rewrite a ton
now they take way longer to make an episode
southparks entire shtick was doing poopoo jokes
they are both israeli
its no coincidence that they align entirely with child raping israelites
Only Matt Stone is israeli.
Trey Parker is something much, much worse- a white race traitor.
After the Day of Reckoning, traitors like Trey Parker will go before enemies like Matt Stone.
>current events
they learned nothing from the last season
Plandemic
>original run
>timeless episodes that rarely touches upon them current day modern culture meaning each episode can be watched even 20 years later without missing the joke
>post season 4
>dated unfunny pop culture references mocking then current political issues which were cringe and dated even at the time
What was wrong with season 5?
>dated unfunny pop culture references
I can't stand that fricking shit, it's so lazy. If I remember correctly the creator of Oz wanted to create his own slang for the show so it wouldn't become dated. Hence why they called drugs "breasts".
My wife has never seen the second X-Files movie even though I warned her it was awful. We made it to the part where they went into the FBI office and Skully and Mulder both looked at a picture of President Bush and looked at each other it played the X-Files theme. Seriously? Bush jokes? I know it came out during that time but fricking Christ it's so date. Can't wait for 20 years from now to watch an older movie and it have Trump and Covid jokes.
The Trump jokes aged the worst. Episodes of stuff from 2017-2019 are unwatchable. Oof that one Always Sunny episode about the 2020 election…
the show’s whole concept is parodying classic sci-fi but they abandoned that pretty quickly once they decided they could bring back anyone as a head in a jar
That scene in I Want to Believe was so weird and unfunny. What was the point? Bush was an alien? It was so strange he was president that Mulder and Scully were so incredulous they had to go speechless and mug for the camera whenever they saw a picture of him?
>I have a boil on my leg that can sing
>her name is SUSAN LMAO XD
The original run had plenty of contemporary references. The difference is that the writing was good back then. That's all that matters.
There were a shitload of pop culture references but were written well. If you didnt know who Emeril was you'd still get why Elzar is funny.
Ah yes, years late and weak anyway despite being years late, just like the Futurama of old
Don't get it.
The 65 year old israeli producer went into the gen z writers room and told them “make one about men getting waxed and it hurts them thats so funny its like austin powers haha”
Zoomers don't grow chest hair so they wouldn't get it anyways.
The girls do thanks to hormone therapy
it IS very boomer humor
90s slapstick
low blow.
>90's slapstick
zoom bro, you do know "slapstick"'s been around for like 100 years in America right? Every heard of Vaudeville?
which is why i said
"90s".
all that stuff from that time has a certain feel and I think the wax gag was popularized in that era
>gen z writers room
Where do you morons get this shit?
>Manscaped. Get it? Like the product? Get it, consumer? Men groom their body hair and it’s called manscaping isn’t that weird?
65 yr old boomer in the writer’s room
I just wish the colours werent so saturated. This looks like itll start hurting your eyes after watching an entire episode.
how many female writers? whenever it's shit like this I always imagine it's some c**t having written it
>only 77 years until we're in the same year as Futurama
Where did the time go, bros?
Try 977 years you likely baiting moron
>Try 977 years
No thanks, double it and give it to the next guy XDD
Umm, dude, it’s actually a million years
NOOOO a show cant reference the worst epidemic in the last hundred years!!
They're referencing the spanish flu?
Spanish Flu was 1918 (101 years before COVID)
Checkmate anon
Did Futurama ever cover AIDS?
they're referencing the typhus epidemic?
They are referencing muslims?
Why would
>in the last one hundred years
To us, in 2023, matter in a setting that takes place 1000 years in the future?
Did they start production years ago?
I can't bring myself to watch the trailer this just feels so depressing and I don't want to hear how old everyone's become
They all sound pretty much the same except Leela who sounds kind of off
The problem with cartoons being topical is that it usually takes 9 months to complete a episode. So whatever they're trying to talk about has already been discussed to death months ago. The only cartoon that can get away with this is South Park because Trey and Matt start working on an episode just 5 days before it's scheduled to air.
I think people were pretty burnt out on pandemic stuff even 9 months ago though
Probably even 2 years ago
This is brutally out of touch
The real problem is no one wants to watch a cartoon for "topical" plotlines. If I want topical I'll open up the news
I really didn't care about futurama
It insists upon itself
Please don't fondle my breasts in the concentration camps.
oh please, they were doing episodes about vegans and eating meat and shit when that was in the zeitgeist, everyone is just a gay and hyper meta aware now, so just talking about something recent is a le trope in and of itself le-self
Very different and the fact you think they are comparable is very saddening. Veganism is a life choice not restricted by setting or politics. The "pandemic" was not. In 50 years I can watch a vegan episode and still it will be applicable.
Vegan episode was zombie futurama
Vegan episode would be like doing a troony episode in 2023. If they were gonna do a vegan episode now in 2023 it would mandatory include references to: beyond meat, impossible burger, Bill Gates, carnivore diet and Jordan Peterson, at the very least.
Idk if I articulated that right what I’m saying is they could make an episode about trannies in the same way they made an episode about vegans, like South Park goth/emo/vamp episodes, but if they were going to make an episode today about veganism it would include numerous specific and very dated pop culture references.
FRY GET IPAD
have no fears we've got stories for years !
So did the writers not realize that you're supposed to put funny and interesting stuff in the trailers? Is this meant to be a tax write off that loses money by getting 0 viewers?
new writers don't understand how to do comedy?
The frick is everyone taking about, Futurama ended almost 20 years ago.
Is this one of those joke fanfic threads?
COVID SHIT AGAIN DOES IT EVER FRICKING END HOLY FRICK ITS NOT FUNNY, IT WASN'T CLEVER AND IT DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING
OMG is that one-off character #6923?!?!
Futurama's run its course. They've exhausted most of the possibilities they can do besides cheap low-effort references to current events but in the future
At least we'll get lewd drawings of Amy from this, right?