Into the Wild Green Yonder (Notes)

All righty, everyone, its been a long time coming, and you (haven’t) been asking for it, so I have given you all what you didn’t ask for– the notes to the final Futurama piece, “Into the Wild Green Yonder”! Enjoy… now, I am off to print off these copious notes in preperation for that pie-in-the-sky…

Busting the Freezer (A Futurama 5000 Update)

After about a year and a half– give or take a couple of months– I have finally finished taking notes to every episode of Futurama— cheers! I am proud to have made it to this moment. There were times that I didn’t think I would be able to continue with the project or where I…

Meanwhile (Notes)

(Well, here it is folks. The final noted episode of Futurama for my project Futurama 5000! It has been a long time coming and I am happy that through thick and thin, we have made it to this point. It feels like an accomplishment, getting through all of the episodes; along the way, we have…

Stench and Stenchibility (Notes)

For the past four seasons– years– Zoidberg was dating Zindy; it would have been nice for the writers to casually reference her in some way before now. Zoidberg’s life savings is three dollars. Darn. He really should have saved a bit from his massive winnings at the casino. The NNY bus station also serves as…

Murder on the Planet Express (Notes)

One of the rare episodes where we see common non-antagonistic contradictions boil over into the social sphere. There isn’t anything to say about the dynamic between the crew members but it is almost humdrum poetic that such trite differences bring raise to such a trite response: humdrum corporate trust building. I love that Scruffy has…

Game of Tones (Notes)

Planet Z-7: destroyed by the Nibblonians. The Nibblonian ship arrives on Arbor Day. Neat to know. Sound can now, apparently, travel through space. Unless the ship is low enough in the atmosphere for sound to carry. Thought Spikes: disposable cones that the user sticks in their head and connects with another person for private communication….

Leela and the Genestalk (Notes)

Tex 1138: a redneck bar. Also, everyone just has cowboy hats lying about. Weird. Squidification: another terrible disease of the future. Eek. I’m not even going to get into why “old Bessie,” the spaceship, is treated like a cow and entrusted to Fry. Gotta fill out that mythology racket somehow. Momsanto: I remember from the…

Assie Come Home (Notes)

Peebles Alpha: one of the few surviving planets of gangster and the like. It is good to see some criminal worlds survived after Leela dumped all those chalky candies into the quaser. Also, I will just assume that so-called “criminal” planets exist because they act as a release valve for the dystopia that otherwise is…

Calculon 2.0 (Notes)

The process to revive Calculon is truly representative of the whole mythology of man. Just as robots have a heaven and a hell and are made in man’s image, they are representative of man’s longing to bring the dead back to life as well. Science is mixed with magic and the occult but the ability…

Saturday Morning Fun Pit (Notes)

(Like all anthology episodes, this episode I will be tackling only those bits of the episode that could, realistically, be applied to the series in general without obvious canon issues becoming evident.)   I love how in the future, the parents of the future have become so-complicit in this kind of politically correct, anti-violent ideology…