While watching Futurama I have never: smiled. giggled. smirked. laughed. been amused.

Leela: What are we delivering?

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Something without which no ribbon-cutting ceremony could proceed: the ceremonial oversized scissors.

Leela: We'll get them there as quickly as we can.

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: All right, but don't run with them.

I laughed at that for days.
 
It's alright, Bender is great. I just don't see the big deal about South Park, just looks stupid. I know and I "get" alot of the jokes, they are pretty up to date with their material and shit, but just don't enjoy the style. Really surprised it's so highly rated by so many,
 
Southpark's occasionally brilliant.

Futurama's good too. Anyone who doesn't find it at least slightly funny clearly has no soul
 
I love Futurama. I'd go so far as to rank it alongside seasons 2-9 of The Simpsons as the greatest animated show ever.

Southapark can also be good but the writing is never quite as clever and the preachiness can put me off a bit.
 
Family Guy is like a mix of:
The Simpson
South Park
and The Office.
It encapulates so many different types of comedy, it's very, very good.

Futurama can be good but can be boring(the Zap Branagan ones are interminable), there also don't seem to be many episodes about.
 
gh78 said:
Family Guy is like a mix of:
The Simpson
South Park
and The Office.
It encapulates so many different types of comedy, it's very, very good.

Futurama can be good but can be boring(the Zap Branagan ones are interminable), there also don't seem to be many episodes about.
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If thats true than how come i love the The Simpson's, South Park and The Office, but hate Family Guy??

Also there aren't many Futurama episodes knocking about because it got cancelled after season 4.
 
I didn't know there was a Futurama film knocking about either.

Am downloading now
 
The series was revived in 2007 as four straight-to-DVD films that will be split into a sixteen-episode fifth season. Comedy Central has entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as new episodes in an episodic format.[1][2] Comedy Central began airing Futurama on January 2, 2008,[3] and started with new episodes on March 23, 2008.
 
Benders movie was alright but it was just too much Futurama in one hit.

Zoidberg is class.

Why would they want all the robots to go onto one island? Its a trap is why!
 
Wibble said:
The series was revived in 2007 as four straight-to-DVD films that will be split into a sixteen-episode fifth season. Comedy Central has entered into an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television to syndicate the existing episodes and air the films as new episodes in an episodic format.[1][2] Comedy Central began airing Futurama on January 2, 2008,[3] and started with new episodes on March 23, 2008.
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Thanks wikipedia.
 
Shotgun raisin said:
You should[1] give Wibble [2] more credit[4][5].


The problem with Bender's Big Score was that it spent too long establishing the characters. There wasn't enough Futurama for my liking.
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yeah i just remember wanting it to end about 20 minutes earlier then it did... i might have had somewhere to go though :P
 
gh78 said:
I don't know, I've never understood why so many people hate Family Guy.
What are your reasons?

I mean just watch this:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/63282/Family_Guy_Osama_bin_Laden
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Its all a bit in your face, obvious humor. Loads of name dropping, and too much of " remember when...." or "like the time....". No real plot to the episodes either.

Also there is a lot of references to American culture, which just goes totally over my head.
 
Alot of randomness in Family Guy, relies heavily on 'zaney' segways. Mind you i like it.

The william shatner stuff is brilliant.


Shatner: This iwll be a dangerous mission, one of us will surely die. With us will be Mr Spock, Captain Zulu and Ensign Ricky

ricky: crap
 
1871_Biscuit said:
Its all a bit in your face, obvious humor. Loads of name dropping, and too much of " remember when...." or "like the time....". No real plot to the episodes either.

Also there is a lot of references to American culture, which just goes totally over my head.
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The America culture refences go totally over my head aswell but I definately wouldn't say it is obvious humour, it can be far more subtle than The Simpsons or South Park. There is alot of good dialogue and anti-jokes (when they don't do the obvious thing). Watch the link I posted, that's not obvious homour.

I have never understood the South Park argument that the jokes don't fit in with the storyline, so what, it's just a cartoon comedy.
 
Futurama was brilliant. That could have been carried longer than the Simpsons given that they had the whole universe to work with, not just a wrung out family. There was nothing better than the first few seasons of The Simpsons mind.

Venture brothers is great as well.

Cannot stand Family Guy or South Park. Utter rubbish for me.
 
gh78 said:
I don't know, I've never understood why so many people hate Family Guy.
What are your reasons?
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Parts of episodes are badly written and puerile (for example the old neighbour who appears to be gay, his jokes are just boring and stupid also his voice is poorly done). They often rely on throwing in constant irreleavent jokes to hide the poorly thought out storyline, none of the the main characters have any depth, a lot of the humour is crass, obvious and poorly observed. I used to defend Family Guy a lot but it didn't do itself any favours with the newer seasons, the Soth Park satire episodes were painfully accurate in my opinion.
 
MehdiMahdavikia said:
Parts of episodes are badly written and puerile (for example the old neighbour who appears to be gay, his jokes are just boring and stupid also his voice is poorly done). They often rely on throwing in constant irreleavent jokes to hide the poorly thought out storyline, none of the the main characters have any depth, a lot of the humour is crass, obvious and poorly observed. I used to defend Family Guy a lot but it didn't do itself any favours with the newer seasons, the Soth Park satire episodes were painfully accurate in my opinion.
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I really don't watch cartoon comedies for the storyline, I watch it becuase it makes me laugh, I don't even think there is a problem with the storyline.
The characters do have depth, in what way do they lack depth in comparison to any other cartoon?
The humour is most definately not obvious there is always something unexpected.
I am a big fan of South Park but have never understood that 'cartoon wars' episode, why are jokes that don't link in with the storyline a bad thing?
 
gh78 said:
I really don't watch cartoon comedies for the storyline, I watch it becuase it makes me laugh, I don't even think there is a problem with the storyline.
The characters do have depth, in what way do they lack depth in comparison to any other cartoon?
The humour is most definately not obvious there is always something unexpected.
I am a big fan of South Park but have never understood that 'cartoon wars' episode, why are jokes that don't link in with the storyline a bad thing?
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The reason the simpson's is so successful is because the characters have such depth and the story lines are usually excellent. When the jokes aren't funny, you carry on watching because you want to find out what happens to the characters. If you take homer and possibly bart, out of the simpsons family, the rest of the characters arn't particularly funny, but are just there to bounce idea's off homer(bart). The Simpson's family is one that most people can relate to and if anything are a parody of ourselves. A funny dad, misbehaving kids, House wife, baby.

This is where family guy fails. I don't give a shit about any of the characters whose personalities are thin and the charactors are all to exaggerated and implausible; a talking dog and a talking baby who wants to kill his mum. How can you relate to that. Family guy relies on random humor, which unless your 10, isn't all that funny.

Even South Park, the characters are all relatable to, even though some of the story-lines can be ridiculous.
 
1871_Biscuit said:
The reason the simpson's is so successful is because the characters have such depth and the story lines are usually excellent. When the jokes aren't funny, you carry on watching because you want to find out what happens to the characters. If you take homer and possibly bart, out of the simpsons family, the rest of the characters arn't particularly funny, but are just there to bounce idea's off homer(bart). The Simpson's family is one that most people can relate to and if anything are a parody of ourselves. A funny dad, misbehaving kids, House wife, baby.

This is where family guy fails. I don't give a shit about any of the characters whose personalities are thin and the charactors are all to exaggerated and implausible; a talking dog and a talking baby who wants to kill his mum. How can you relate to that. Family guy relies on random humor, which unless your 10, isn't all that funny.

Even South Park, the characters are all relatable to, even though some of the story-lines can be ridiculous.
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It seems we look for very different things in comedies. I do really like the simpsons and south park but neither make me laugh as much as Family Guy. I do see your point it is nice to follow the characters in the simpsons and some South Park episodes are epic but Family Guy is laugh out loud nearly all the time and that's what makes it so brilliant.
We can all like different shows but I will protest when the humour in Family Guy is accused of being obvious.
 
Leela so what are we delivering?

Proffessor farnsworth honey... ordinary honey

Leela that doesnt sound hard

Proffessor farnsworth you fool! this is no ordinary honey!
 
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