Bender's Big Score... Bad News Everyone

Okay, so I love Futurama. LOVE it. I own all of the season's on DVD and have probably seen each episode at least four times. I think it's one of the sharpest, funniest shows of all time. I thought that the new Futurama DVD would carry all of the old wit with it but, well, it was really pretty un-funny.

Gone is the wit of death by snu snu, the long lost city of Atlanta, and escapades in the Lovenasium with the Velour Fog. The humor was all replaced by pointless cameos and "jokes" like scammer aliens singing "Hey, hey, hey. We took your stuff" to the tune of Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye".

What happened?

It's like the Simpsons where the first few seasons were hillarious, though the later seasons became completely dull, shallow and unwatchable!

 

No bender saying, "Will that be my place... or you", no Prof. Farnsworth saying, "I knew I should have shown him 'Electro-Gonnorhea, the Noisy Killer'", no Fry saying "I’m not a robot like you. I don’t like having disks crammed into me… unless they’re Oreos, and then only in the mouth".

I think they're trying to do well selling the DVD so that Fox will pick them up again. There are three or four DVD's coming, each of which will be sliced into small chunks and showed as "episodes" on Comedy Central.

I personally want Futurama to be on TV again, but the REAL Futurama, with the original writers. A poor script with the original voice actors doesn't do it for me.

See, I didn't even see the Simpsons movie because I think they stopped being funny long ago (the old episodes still crack me up). I can watch episode after episode of Futurama and still be rolling on the ground laughing, but I don't think there was a single time in the movie that had me more than just chuckling a little (the funny joke [singular] was when Bender said the tatoo on Fry's butt made him feel like he was staring into a smelly mirror).

I'd say "at least we still have Scrubs" but it's been put on hiatus now, too.