Why was it forgotten so quickly?

>>149400871 (OP)
I forgot

>>149402289
Same and Fry sounded like shit, checked out after 2 episodes.

Nobody was asking for Futurama to come back, the show ended perfectly in 2013. When it did come back, most people didn't care and the people that did were left with mediocre, boring episodes of current event references like the Covid episode and the Amazon one.

I wish shows would just end. Nothing that comes back ever comes back good. Its like they all go to the Pet Sematary

>>149400871 (OP)
Cause it was boring as shit and very derivative. The humor is also very dated in this edgelord era. It was just trudging on and on and oooon, without any of the wit or pacing or desire to tell a story or a good joke of the original. Whole thing felt like some washed up star in his fifties going back to play in some teen romcom that made him famous, just to show that he "still got it"

Its even more aggravating, because Futurama got so many chances with the constant revivals and constantly kept blowing them AND it got a big wrap-up and a sendoff anyway. It felt so bad, like disinterring a corpse that was resting in peace in the afterlife with his family to make it go back being a 9 to 5 wagie.

>>149402423
Also, this. When you start doing contemporary references as content, it means that the writing team has been blown and they have expended all their good ideas and running on fumes now. Presentrama fucking sucked.

>>149400871 (OP)
They ran out of new episodes.

>>149402423
>>149403286
You wanna know the saddest part? It's not even like you can blame the new writers for Futurama being boring now. Most of the staff for this latest revival were veterans; they're just outright incapable of matching the narrative & comedic quality of the show they breathed life into decades earlier.

The best possible people spearheaded these Hulu seasons and they STILL turned out disappointing and lame.

>>149400871 (OP)
I watched the whole first season, but the Squid Game episode got me to drop it altogether. Felt like it was written by AI

>>149400871 (OP)
It was mostly just "Okay" with some eye roll worthy episodes, and a couple fun episodes thrown in there. It's pretty much more of the Comedy Central seasons just feeling a bit off because you can notice the voice actors are getting older.

>>149400871 (OP)
I never even finished catching up with the first revival. And I used to binge my DVDs of S1-S4 so often I'd probably seen every episode more than a dozen times each.

>sounds like shit AND looks like shit
They messed up the episode concepts AND the execution of said concepts, it's practically unwatchable

>>149402520
Creativity is dead. People don't want new thing, they want old thing over and over and over again. Old thing safe and familiar. Old thing good.

>>149405140
Not even the writers fault, futurama was a done show with all the possible character development and concepts done two revivals ago. I liked quite a number of episodes of those new seasons, and quite a few endings too, but we all seem leela and fry get together in the series finally so many times by now, there ins't really a lot else they can do without some major shift in the status quo, and that's no guarantee they would not just ruin everything in the process anyway.

>>149402423
This to be honest. Despite its rocky track record, I still loved most of Futuramas run. But it's not like other shows that got killed in their prime. It has a fair amount episodes that we can binge every few years when we're bored, and the characters are frankly a product of their time anyway, it feels wrong to here stupid idpol shit come out of their mouths, same with Hulu Animaniacs. They just don't fit in our modern gay timeline.

>>149400871 (OP)
Only ten episodes dropped. That's like two months. I think it would be better if the show pivoted to serialized storytelling and leaned into the lore.

I didn't even realize that they made a second revival season already. Guess I had better get to watching it.

>>149405481
The blame very much falls on the writers. Futurama is a big enough IP that I'm sure they could've taken greater risks with this latest revival what with it being a streaming exclusive. They could try a more serialized approach or commit to wrapping things up. I doubt Hulu forced them into a corner and "wouldn't allow them to experiment." Hulurama is the fault of the writers, 1000%.

>>149400871 (OP)
Everyone sounds old and tired.
Sometimes, dead is better.

>>149405481
This is true. Futurama is simply done. The characters did their growth, all the storylines finished, all the jokes were exhausted, the setting was completed. There was simply nothing to do with the old and tired characters who were already wrapped up before into a happy end.

>>149405140
Because, it was impossible to match it from the start. If you worked on any creative project before, you know that the energy of a fresh project just starting out, just hitting its stride, just getting big is impossible to match, all the energy, all the open-ended opportunities, all the possibilities for growth with no prior expectations laid on you. Its just pure fucking flow. Going back to a tired old IP to reheat it and having to manage all the already built up "lore" and fan expectations and having to stay on track is digusting in comparison. Also, even with the same writers there is a difference between young twentysomethings, just starting their careers right out of college, dynamic and eager to prove they are hot shit, wanting to make a name for themselves and established career men with families in their forties and fifties working on the same dinky shit. Look how it happened to South Park, where Matt and Trey are forced to work on their university project in their fifties

>>149400871 (OP)
Because it sucked. I couldn't even finish the Amazon parody episode it was so boring. That's never happened to me with a Futurama episode before.

>>149400871 (OP)
Because it was shit.
>>149402289
FPBP

>>149406433
There's still plenty to explore with Futurama. Like Hermes being the homewrecker of LaBarbara's and Barbados Slim's marriage, Bender realizing he's softened, and learning how Mom got so damn powerful.

>>149406630
Who the fuck cares about any of those?

>>149406716
I do. I want to see new sides of characters. Usually Hermes is straight-laced by-the-books, but he had the gall to woo LaBarbara to get her to cheat on her husband and eventually leave him. It expands the universe and further develops the characters. Don't you want to know what "the other" actually is?

>>149406806
Come the fuck on son. This isn't War and Peace. It was meant to be a funny cartoon.

>>149406866
Dude, you're on /co/. We overanalyze shit here. I can ask for details to flesh out the world and explore quadrants that haven't been touched upon.

>>149407069
The details you are asking for are uninteresting

>>149405442
Old thing being brought back WOULD be good if they remembered what made it good in the first place.
They take old thing and slap new thing on it. Look at what happened to new Animaniacs.

>>149407069
Yeah but for a cartoon that was all one-liners and throwaway jokes at its apex, it eventually reaches a critical mass where the lore becomes more cumbersome than beneficial to the humor. It’s hard to do slapstick and crude jokes with characters that have wikipedia pages that rival the world wars in length.

>>149400871 (OP)
People complaining about "Why did KOTH need a continuation" while ignoring the fact that Futurama's 3rd (or 4th?) revival is what was really unnecessary. Let the fucking show die.

>>149407069
But there is nothing interesting to overanalyze. Its not funny, its not novel, its not engaging, its not going anywhere, nothing will come of it, so why go into uninteresting details of tired old characters? Human attention and funding for cartoons are finite, spend them on something better.

>>149400871 (OP)
I didn't know this was a thing

>>149400871 (OP)
>Why was it forgotten so quickly?
People were hyped by it and when they realized it sucked they just ignored it. I'm surprised they managed to make some of the worst episodes in the series.

>>149402423
Disagree
I think it ended perfectly with Wild Green yonder

>>149400871 (OP)
I liked it.

>>149400871 (OP)
I've watched every episode of every season of Futurama of Hulu and I haven't even bothered to watch clips of this one. It's a zombie of a zombie at this point and should never of been brought out of it's coffin.

>>149412335
*besides the hulu episodes, I meant

>>149400871 (OP)
No naked Leela's or Amy's butt like the previous seasons

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>>149405987
Amy is SO ridiculously hot!!!

>>149402520

Dead is better.

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>>149412528
Based

>>149405987
>Hulurama is the fault of the writers, 1000%.
This. Besides, it also felt like they repurposed rejected scripts or unfinished drafts for the episodes. The Beanie Babies episode being the most obvious example.

i dont like current events and writing animated shows around them is not funny

>>149412495
>>149412528

>>149407377
King of the Hill is one of the few animated revivals I'm willing to let slide because it takes the opportunity to go through a significant time-skip that shakes up the overall setting and premise. It feels less like "making more episodes just because." That's the vibe I get from Hulurama, Phineas and Ferb, Gumball, and Regular Show especially. Three of those had perfect send-offs, and one only needed a finale movie at most.

>>149413208
koth isn't interesting because the timeskip places it in the here and now and here and now sucks and isn't interesting in the exact same way futurama isn't interesting
I don't wanna hear about covid, trump, biden or trump again, I don't wanna hear about tiktok and any of this other shit
everything after 2008 I just want to tune out I don't give a fuck about it.
I will however say I wish koth had a more conclusive ending being as the finale played out like it was just another episode.

>>149400871 (OP)
Are past-prime adult cartoon writing genuinely the lowest form of content? I'm not talking about the edgy stuff, I'm talking about how it feels like it's the only medium you can get away with having no structure, no boundaries, no setting or concept even
When John K mocked The Simpsons, he said it was only a cartoon because their jokes alone weren't strong enough to carry a stand up. Of course, this is a very retarded way to think about how comedy actually works and he was just jealous, since he himself couldn't carry any of his projects without a leash and got bested by several others that came before and after him with better or worse animation. But when watching zombie Simpsons/Family Guy/Futurama, it literally feels like I'm being bombarded by the material that wasn't good enough for a stand up show, there is so much of it that one outta ten jokes will make you chuckle, but the packaging is just deplorable like a gas station sandwich. There shouldn't be a fictional media where you can picture the writing room coming with with ideas. Characters fee like joke and pop reference receptacles, there are a lot of anthology episodes for lazy parole, no setup, no pay-off, and everytime you do something lame you can go meta and say "ha! That was lame aimiright audience??"

>>149414243
Is there anything really funny nowadays that isn't spicy?

>>149413208
I'm willing to give it a try because Mike Judge is still attached to it and the majority of what he's done has been good IMO. Plus the Beavis and Butthead reboot was surprisingly good. I do like that the time skip allows for new stories with the same-ish cast. Although I think they're in cursed territory now since so many of VAs have died.

>>149400871 (OP)
The first episode was enough to make me give up. It was everything I and I think many others feared. I doubt it got any better based off titles ans summaries of other episodes.

>>149402423
It should ended at season 4. A few good episodes after but generally speaking the decline began at the movies and it's been downhill ever since.

>>149400871 (OP)

Not enough Amy fanservice.

>>149406806
>I do.
No you don't, you're just being argumentative faggot.

>>149400871 (OP)
First hulu season was okay, nothing good, but nothing bad. Second was mostly bad, I stopped watching it after the second or third episode. The NFT episode was just awful, it wasn't funny, and when they had it released NFTs had been all but forgotten making it a dated reference and the jokes stale

>>149413340
I think koth had a nice ending. It's not like their regular lives in suburban Texas have an 'ending' because they're just normal people. Having a nice moment between hank and bobby like this was about as satisfying an ending as this show could get because what else could you do?

>>149400871 (OP)
I forgot this even existed. Never watched it but I'm curious; do they ever have Trump show up like Groening promised back in 2018?

>>149402520
Sometimes dead is better.

>>149412495
>>149414565
It's weird because the last season had this joke with the fanservice nurse, so I know they're capable of catering to us coomers like they used to.

>>149413208
The news of a Regular Show revival pisses me off the most because JG Quintel LITERALLY gave Warner Bros Discovery a new show that had a ready-made fandom due to RS's success having made him a household name. But instead of nurturing that show they killed it unceremoniously only to quickly turn around and keep Quintel shackled to his first series whose cancellation he'd clearly made peace with.

I hate every single person celebrating "their favorite show coming back." That Bowie montage was a thing of beauty, but most people just can't seem to let things rest. It's why Shrek 5 is a thing.

>>149414531
There was a Bender matador episode that was decent, but the rest was mostly memberberries or topical ideas without even trying to put a creative 31st century spin like in the OG run.

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>>149412528
>>149412747
A sexy back can go a long way...

>>149402423
>>149403286
The show always did current event pop culture related shit.
They literally had a Napster episode in the 90s
There's an episode about global warming
There's a Titanic parody episode
Theres an iron chef parody
Beck has a celebrity episode

>>149415769
Is Titanic current events for you? What a way to out yourself, Dracula.

>>149400871 (OP)
Heheh look at Fry wielding that hair dryer as if it were a pistol, his lack of intellect is endlessly amusing lol

>>149400871 (OP)
It wasn't good but it wasn't insultingly bad either. It was just boring.

>>149416611
Speak for yourself. I was insulted by Hulurama's low quality on all fronts. It couldn't even do the bare minimum of at least looking COOL visually. Feels like their budget was slashed in half.

>>149400871 (OP)
Short answer.
>Please. I beg of you. Please let me retire.
Thats why.

>>149402423
Futurama came back again because Hulu couldn't make more episodes of Animaniacs'2020, so they had to use what Disney own and thats why we got more Futurama and King of The Hill episodes.

>>149411895
like hell you did

>>149418072
DIE

>>149400871 (OP)
Is it cancelled again? I haven’t watched a single Hulu Futurama season and probably won’t. The original series was good enough.

>>149412692
I wonder how much of this can be blamed on shrinking budgets and accelerated production schedules. This sort of shit happens when writers need to crank out more scripts in less time.

>>149400871 (OP)
because American Chad still beat Virginrama
this image is outdated btw, but if you actually look up both shows' respective episode counts, my point still remains

>>149414422
>Although I think they're in cursed territory now since so many of VAs have died.
It didn’t stop Twin Peaks

>>149417391
This. It’s probably why everything got worse (writing included). People want to blame creators, but when execs demand things be done faster and cheaper, shit starts to slide.

>>149418796
they're going to announce a sneak peak of a new season at this year's SDCC

>>149418896
Theres another season? As in season 10?

The absolute irony of people whining about Futurama beating a dead horse while using the exact same talking points and phrasing ad nauseam.

>>149415769
That's true but those episodes were a lot more clever about integrating a current thing into their episode's plots than Hularama was. It's not clever to just write "what if Covid in the future and everyone wears masks and has to work from home" or "what if NFTs in the future was like the gold rush". There's no real satire cause the premise is how far they thought it out, and there's barely any good jokes or good character moments either.

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>>149418895
Hulurama definitely seems like it was a rushed production. The animation is the most obvious example, along with the surprisingly quick turnaround despite DiMaggio's delayed voice records. Still doesn't excuse the writing being so shit, though. They're only delivering 10 episodes a year now, so I expect the creative team to do a better job of filtering out the weaker ideas and refining jokes in the existing episodes.

>>149414643
yeah, maybe you're right, it's not like we can really end it on a big budget action two parter like evangelion, but I still just feel they could've done better.

>>149419747
Amy cleavage has my entire SOUL

>>149400871 (OP)
Because even at its best it was only on par with the average episode from the Comedy Central revival seasons, and barring that one terrible anthology episode about toys they made for some unknown reason, there was nothing so bad that it would be remembered in a negative way, either.
It's like new Seasons of the Simpsons, they just aren't that worth discussion.

>>149415769
Those were almost always the weakest episodes though.
The Napster one is by far the worst episode of the FOX seasons. The Al Gore global warming one also.
Then stuff like the eyephone and the other 'topical' ones from the Comedy Central seasons were also mostly bad.
It was disappointing that they never moved on from those when making the Hulu seasons

>>149400871 (OP)
I mean the last season of Futurama aired in 2003 so if anything it wasn't forgotten quickly at all, we still remember it fondly 23 years later

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>>149412747
>>149415738
>>149420543
I love my wife Amy so badly I want to cuddle naked with her everyday.

>>149422103
Hard same.

>>149400871 (OP)
it sucked