Futurama? More Like Lameorama.

Set in the year 3000 about a space delivery crew, Futurama is nothing but a joke of a show. Critic Matt Seitz states that Futurama has nothing to be modest about, but in reality it’s all just one big laugh at the idea of a cartoon. Seitz states that Futurama contains well written dialogs that can be seen as “postgraduate-thesis humor” and fifth-grade-lunchroom spit-take humor”, but we all know that even third graders would not find a single line in the show funny. The overall plot of the show, a delivery boy from the 20^th century traveling through time by accidental freezing in a cryogenic freezing chamber, just makes no sense at all! Especially with how the Groening decided to show New York City becoming ruins, destroyed by aliens, and rebuilt, how would old New York be underlying beneath New New York? This show does not create a smooth flowing transition between every bit of information released. Not only does Futurama begin badly, it ends in the same way.

The final season of the show makes an attempt at never ending love. Throughout each and every episode there seems to be a closer approach to the long played out love story between Fry and Leela. The little love set up between the two of them is merely a showcase of Groening’s feeble attempt to gnaw and play with the emotion of love. Not only to get Leela to love Fry, but also to get the viewers to fall in love with the show. This is only a failed attempt at something that never even had a chance at greatness. The little story of a boy meeting a one-eyed alien girl and a robot after traveling to the future is a complete fantasy. Also, Fry changing the lives of both the girl and the robot to become rebellious and rather than the “You gotta do what you gotta do” motto of the future, is complete nonsense. One man does not have the power to change the course of the future of the world even if he is from the past.

Futurama was canceled four seasons in and should have stayed that way. It’s attempts to bring out the visual and verbal humor of pop-culture references are weak compared to simple dialogue and tangential cutaways scenes like Family Guy or American Dad. These are the shows of true genius that depict true humor, cultural references, and successful closure. Unlike these shows, Futurama actually ends their show. Groening chooses rather than continuing endlessly and milking the show for everything it could have been worth, he choose to give a series finale and just give up. Groening creates a show with worthless relationships between the main characters. Unlike Family Guy where family bonds are stronger than anything else in the world, Futurama attempts to play with the viewer emotions. Futurama is a joke of a show that should have been canceled as soon as it started. It should have never been given the chance to boot back up in the form of direct-to-DVD movies, or given the chance to be aired on TV by Comedy Central. Luckily it isn’t aired on every other channel, paid and free, like the better cartoons by MacFarlane. The satiric attempts at pop-culture references, sci-fi references, and literary references were all for naught because the show turned into just an all-out-blow-out.

Critic Review:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/seitz-futuramas-final-frontier.html

















Ps. I hope the sarcasm is realized throughout the blogpost. This is actually THE greatest cartoon of ALL time. Ever.