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Futurama, Vol. 3

Futurama, Vol. 3

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Futurama, Vol. 3
Review: Futurama has been a good show since 1999. When it ended I never thought that big of it but after a while I wish it came back. Here are the episodes of volume 3.

04-Feb-2001 Amazon Women In The Mood
11-Feb-2001 Bendless Love
18-Feb-2001 The Day The Earth Stood Stupid
25-Feb-2001 That's Lobstertainment!
04-Mar-2001 The Birdbot Of Ice-Catraz
11-Mar-2001 Luck Of The Fryrish
01-Apr-2001 The Cyber House Rules
08-Apr-2001 Insane In The Mainframe
22-Apr-2001 Bendin' In The Wind
06-May-2001 Time Keeps On Slipping
13-May-2001 I Dated A Robot
09-Dec-2001 Roswell That Ends Well
23-Dec-2001 A Tale Of Two Santas
06-Jan-2002 Anthology Of Interest 2
10-Feb-2002 Love And Rocket
17-Feb-2002 Leela's Homeworld
03-Mar-2002 Where The Buggalo Roam
10-Mar-2002 A Pharaoh To Remember
17-Mar-2002 Godfellas
31-Mar-2002 Futurestock
07-Apr-2002 A Leela Of Her Own
14-Apr-2002 30% Iron Chef


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best season of Futurama ever!!
Review: This is my favorite season of Futurama, because it has some of my most favorite episodes ever. They are:

The Luck of the Fryrish
Parasites Lost
Insane in the Mainframe
Roswell that Ends Well

If you own Family Guy or the Simpsons on DVD, then you better buy this because it's a great addition to your TV collection.


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best seasons
Review: Futurama was one of the best, most creative show to hit airwaves, and season three had some of the best episodes.

Disc One
Amazon Women In The Mood: Fry, Bender, Kif, Leela, Amy, and Zapp find themselves trapped on a planet ruled by man hating women. 3/5

Parasites Lost: After eating an old sandwich at a truck stop, Fry's body becomes infected by parasites. 5/5

A Tale of Two Santas: After Santa gets frozen into the ice on Uranus, Bender must take over his duties.5/5

The Luck of The Fryish: Fry searches the ruins of old New York for his lucky clover, but discovers that his brother stole the clover, along with his name.5/5

The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz:Leela refuses to participate in a delivery, making Bender captain. 3/5

Bendless Love: Bender falls in love with a coworker at a bending plant, only to discover that she use to date Flexo. 4/5

Disc Two:
The Day The Earth Stood Stupid: Evil brains attack the Earth, and only Fry is immune to their powers. 5/5

That's Lobstertainment: Dr. Zoidberg's uncle persuades Zoidberg into producing his latest movie. 2/5

The Cyber House Rules: Wanting to fit in, Leela has another eye grafted onto her head. 4/5

Where The Buggalo Roam: Kif retrieves Amy's parent's buggalo herd, but they still won't accept him.3/5

Insane In The Mainframe: Fry and Bender get sent to a robot asylum. After Fry leaves, he thinks he's a robot. 5/5

The Route of All Evil: Hermes and the professor's clones open a delivery service, and begin doing better than their dads. 3/5

Disc Three:
Bendin' In The Wind: Bender becomes broken, and with the help of Beck, launch a tour to inspire other broken robots. 3/5

Time Keeps On Slipping: The professor creates super powered mutants to beat the Harlem Globetrotters. To do this, he needed to use a special chemical, and now, time is randomely skipping. 5/5

I Dated A Robot: Fry downloades a Lucy Liu bot. 4/5

A Leela of Her Own: Leela becomes the first female blernsball player. 4/5

A Pharoah to Remember: Bender becomes the sadistic ruler of Osiris 4. 4/5

Disc Four:
Anthology of Interest 2: Bender discovers what it would be like to be human, Fry lives in a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she had found her home. 4/5

Roswell That Ends Well: This Emmy Winning episode finds the Planet Express team launched back in time to 1947 Roswell, New Mexico. 5/5

Godfellas: Bender gets launched out of the ship, and becomes God to a race of aliens. 3/5

Future Stock: A frozen guy becomes CEO fo Planet Express. 3/5

the 30% Iron Chef: Bender competes in a cooking contest against Elzar. 4/5

The definite highlight of season three is Roswell That Ends Well, or Insane In the Mainframe, but season three also has several other classic episodes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Can't get enough of that Futurama!
Review: This is the third season, 22 episodes on 4 discs, with extras, audio commentary on all episodes and much more. These are some of the best episodes, with Amazons, parasitic worms, the return of Sanata, penguins, evil brains, Hollywood magic, insane robots, buggalo herds, an army of Lucy Liu robots, blernsball, 1947, and cooking! Even the warnings and ratings at the start of each DVD is great.
But of course, what I wanted was Bender. Bender as god, Bender meeting God, Bender as a Iron Cook, Bender as a folk singer, Bender as the Tin man, Bender as a father, Bender as a Pharaoh, Bender as an insane bank robber, Bender as a penguin, and Bender as a human.
In the commentary of episode 17, "A Pharaoh To Remember", Billy West and John DiMaggio are Fry and Bender - giving the characters a chance to talk during a commentary! And episode 19, "Roswell That Ends Well", has two audio commentaries!
I can't wait for season four!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: not as great as the simpsons at all....
Review: Futurama was a great show,but season 3 saw it enter some of the overly sentimental territory that The Simpsons has been mining for the last several years.'Parasites Lost','The Luck of the Fryrish','Roswell that Ends Well','Time Keeps on Slippin',and 'Insane in the Mainframe' are highlights,and are reason enough to buy the entire season.On the other hand,'That's Lobstertainment','The Route of all Evil','Godfellas','Future Stock','Bendin' in the Wind' and 'A Pharaoh to Remember' are among the worst episodes of the series.It's hard to imagine some of the latter episodes being made by the same team who made brilliant (for the most part) season one and two episodes.

My advice would be to buy this season if you love the show (and,hey,if you love the show,you've already bought this!),but if you're a more casual fan,buy season one or two,which are both more consistently strong.When Futurama was at its best,it was probably the best thing on tv.Unfortunately,when it was at its worst,as in a few of these episodes,it was quite boring.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Tough Review
Review: I loved Futurama. It's cancellation was likely one of the few I actually cared about.

This review is a tough one, though. On one hand Futurama hit some peaks in this season. Some of the episodes match anything The Simpsons could through at them, notably the award winning Roswell That Ends Well. Other stellar episodes include Fry becoming intelligent via parasites, a sentimental Fry learning how his brother dealt with his diesappearance, and the superior intellect of the Harlem Globetrotters.

There are some downers, though. Another Zoidberg episode showcases why he's hysterical for one liners yet not outstanding to wrap an episode around. The same with Bender - though I tend to find him the funniest character, and some of the Bender episodes are classics, here we have some that show why Bender is often funniest as an addition to a scene rather than the scene as a whole.

Overall you'll laugh very hard at this series, as long as you're a fan of the brand of humor found in shows such as The Simpsons, Malcom in the Middle and News Radio. Contrary to many opinions you needn't be a Sci-Fi fan (I loathe the stuff myself), you simply need a working knowledge of pop culture. This season falls flat at times, and lacks the overall consistency of the prior seasons (yet is more consistent than Season 4), but has peaks higher than all the prior seasons.

Worth owning and watching repeatedly. Remember to watch those commentaries, too, they tend to be a bit crazy and very rewarding.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best season
Review: with "time keeps on slipping", "luck of the fryrish" and the episode where fry gets worms in this one, its the best one so far. has my three all time favorite episodes. a must have!


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