Just as exciting is tonight’s new episode of Futurama “Cold Warriors,” which shows Fry incubated the long-lost germ for the common cold into the 31st century, long after its extinction! Of course the cold shouldn’t affect Bender as a mighty robot, but how might our favorite scheming mechanical man look to take advantage of the situation? Hoarding all the beer in the interest of preventing contamination? Purifying the air with the sweet smell of cigar smoke? Perhaps a quiet showing of robotic floozies for morale’s sake? We’d bite his shiny metal ass any day of the week, and there’s nothing weird about that at all.įuturama will soon explore Bender’s greatness in even more detail with the upcoming episode “Overclockwise,” which sees the robot advanced to the point of near-omnipotence. Yet even so, Bender’s greatness and best moments can’t be tarnished by his trademark lack of morality.
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Now, if you'll excuse us, we have some binging to do.Futurama's Bender wrestles up some of the series biggest laughs through his unrelentingly selfish nature and infinite capacity to down booze, smoke cigars and ignore the welfare of his fellow meat bags.
With that in mind, perhaps the best way to honor "Futurama" is not to keep begging for more, but simply to continue appreciating it for millennia to come - and given the series' continued success via syndication, streaming, and even a mobile gaming venture, it seems certain that fans will be flying the friendly skies with Fry and the gang for the foreseeable future. No matter how many time-shifting devices and/or scenarios you encounter, it's important to appreciate what you have while you have it. After all, one of the key narrative threads throughout the show's largely remarkable 140 episode run was that time is finite. Not just because "Meanwhile" was one of the best and most effective series finales in the history of television, but also because such fond farewells are so rare in an era when networks and streamers always seem to have their axes at the ready. In all honesty, we can't help but feel that new "Futurama" episodes would seem extraneous in the wake of that finale. And it's why - even after that unexpected gift of a 52 episode revival - "Futurama" fans still clamor for more comically cosmic adventures with Fry, Leela, Bender, Hermes, Doctor Zoidberg, and the rest of the Planet Express gang. It's a big reason the series' storied legacy only grew (along with its fanbase) in syndication, which led Comedy Central to revive the show in 2010. The show's blend of low-brow humor, high-minded insight, and raw, unabashed emotion is what helped make "Futurama" a cult hit in its initial run on Fox. Rating challenges and cancelations aside, every step of the way, Groening and company consistently made " Futurama" that rarest of animated series that could just as easily make you double over in laughter as openly weep into the cosmos. It also saw the perpetually ratings-challenged show get canceled by Fox after five glorious seasons, only to be reborn at Comedy Central nearly a decade later, then canceled again after an additional four seasons. The series' fractured run saw it cop a handful of Emmys, score a fiercely devoted fanbase, and make a legitimate case for being one of the best animated series of all time.
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