Futurama, Vol. 1

Rating:
Summary: A Good Start, but...
Review: The other volumes are better. In spite of this, it still remains a smart buy. The Good News: There are four hilarious episodes: "Love Labours Lost in Space," (featuring the best Zapp Brannigan dialogue of all time) "I, Roomate," (with some very funny apartment gags) "A Big Piece of Garbage" (A parody on overdramatic disaster films like Armageddon), and "Fry and the Slurm Factory," (which just feels like a classic). The Bad News: The show starts off a little shakily, many of the secondary characters are underdeveloped, the voices sound different, there are occassional long and awkward sections without humor or wit, and finally, there are only 13 episodes. For me, its easy to see why Futurama did not catch on with popular audiences: the sci-fi theme can be off-putting, and the humor is sometimes over the heads of many people. However, another element that hurt Futurama was that its much anticipated first season was the weakest. The Simpsons also had a weak first season, but there was no crazy anticipation, and it had time to grow and mature without intensive scrutiny. Futurama had too much hype in the beginning to deal with an on and off season, and unfortunately that's just what happened. But don't let that deter you; knowing what you already now (that Futurama becomes a great show), you can cut Volume One little slack, and enjoy everything almost as much as the other volumes. Plus, there are those great episodes that I already mentioned, my favorite of which is "Love Labours," strictly for Brannigan's before/after seduction talk. Overall, not as good as the rest, but still recommended for the fans. Newcomers should start with Volumes Two or Three to see Futurama in full swing.

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Summary: Celebration of BENDER!!
Review: Was it ever really fair to compare this show to THE SIMPSONS? When it came on the air, SIMPSONS had several years of maturity behind it. THE SIMPSONS was in its stride, big time. And we all loved the characters, and were capable of being moved by them from time to time.

But remember how awkward they were in their first year or two? FUTURAMA actually never really went through such a time. It had its identity pretty firm right off the bat.

The characters were never meant to really touch us. The show is fast paced, deliberately cynical and more directly satirical. Hence, it doesn't warm the cockles of your heart like the SIMPSONS can.

But it sure was FUNNY! And some of the characters are up to snuff with the greatest of all time. Zach Brannigan, the clueless captain, is a joy whenever he made his cameo appearances.

And Bender is one of the funniest ever. His voice is hysterical, and certainly his attitude is priceless. His line about "gaydar" became an instant classic.

If you've never discovered FUTURAMA, but you like THE SIMPSONS or KING OF THE HILL, then you owe it to yourself to try these guys out. And if you remember the show with fondness, a revisit through these well-done DVDs is worthwhile.

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Summary: Futurama is the best show ever
Review: This and family guy are the best shows ever. They brought Family Guy back i really hope they take back Futurama it would be the best show ever.

Sooooo if any 1 reads this and nows some one on the show or on fox please help my dream come true

Rating:
Summary: Futurama, Vol. 1
Review: Good show but it sucks that it got cancelled. I used to watch it a lot but since it ended I don't even watch the boxsets. I'm into the Simpsons more but who cares I would watch anything that Matt Groening makes. Here are the episodes of volume 1.

Disc One:

Space Pilot 3000 (3/28/99)
Episode Two: The Series Has Landed (4/4/99)
I, Roommate (4/6/99)
Love's Labour's Lost In Space (4/13/99)
Animatics For "Space Pilot 3000"
Script/Storyboard for "Space Pilot 3000"

Deleted Scenes:
Two scenes from "Episode Two: The Series Has Landed"
One scene from "Love's Labour's Lost In Space"
Two scenes from "I, Roommate"

Disc Two:

Fear Of A Bot Planet (4/20/99)
A Fishfull Of Dollars (4/27/99)
My Three Suns (5/4/99)
A Big Piece Of Garage (5/11/99)
Hell Is Other Robots (5/18/99)

Deleted Scenes:
One scene from "My Three Suns"
One scene from "Hell Is Other Robots"

Disc Three:

A Flight To Remember (9/26/99)
Mars University (10/3/99)
When Aliens Attack (11/7/99)
Fry & Slurm Factory (11/14/99)
Featurette
Interactive Still Gallery (stills and video)

Deleted Scenes:
One scene from "When Aliens Attack"

Rating:
Summary: Not the simpsons...
Review: Okay, definitely along the lines of the same kind of humor as our favourite yellow family. But what made the Simpsons great was at the end of the day they were a real family. I think Matt would have done better with this series if the animations weren't drawn so similiar to the simpsons characters. Saying that, I love Futurama. What Matt does do well, as any creator/writer is invent unforgettable and lovable characters like :

Fry - Immature young man who suddenly finds himself awake in the year 3000 after accidentally falling into a cryogenic Tube. Spends most of an episode trying to hit on a one-eyed sexy alien chick.

Leela - One-eyed sexy alien chick. Would do better things with her life if she weren't surrounded by idiots.

Bender - A Bending robot who is an Alcoholic, Callow and a Cleptomanic. Has more of a love life than his peers.

Amy - Token asian chick who coincidentally resembles an asian chick in the year 2000.

Dr Zoidberg - A crustacean who is coincidentally a doctor. Unlucky in love, life and money.

The Professor - a really old guy who looks like he's born in the year 2000. related to Fry in some menial way.

Hermes - an overweight Jamaican who loves to just hang.

Definitely worth the buy.

Rating:
Summary: great show and dvd
Review: This is a great show and the dvd is very good. The commentaries are worth listening to and are a lot better than the simpsons' commentaries. Also, if you look closely at Fry falling into the cryogenic freezer in "space pilot 3000" you will see the shadow of a certain re-accuring character. This will be explained later in the show's fourth season. In conclusion, this is definitley worth the money and I suggest you get it now.

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Summary: For my taste Futurama is the funniest show ever.
Review: Futurama never let me down. It was unpredictable... wild... silly... and sometimes filled with great pathos. If you didn't see it during its First run on Tv then you have a lot of fun and laughs in front of you... this is the place to start. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Best New TV Series
Review: Futarama is the best new TV series. If you only watch "Simpsons", "Family Guy", or "King of the Hill" then what the heck is wrong with you. Futarma is so funny on so many different levels. They have so many guest stars like Pamlea Anderson, a couple Star Trek members, and the voice of Richard Nixon. The three disc collection contains episodes 1-13.

The show is about Fry (Phillp) who a loser pizza delivery boy that has nothing to live for. His girlfriend leaves him he always gets fake deliveries. He ends up getting frozen for 1000 years. He wakes up in December 31, 2999. He goes out nd meets a robot and ends up running into Leela which joins him for the rest of the show. Fry trys to find a reletive in the future. He finds Professor Farnsworth who is some 100 year old man which ends up being his nephew. He hires them as his delivery crew on go on all kinds of exciting and funny missions. Here is a list of the episodes and what there about:


Disc1
1.Space Pilot 3000
After an accidental cryogenic freezing, Fry awakens at the dawn of the year 3000. With the help of his two new friends, a swearing robot, and a cute one-eyed alien named Leela, Fry defies his life assignment as a delivery boy. He tracks down his great-great-great-etc. nephew, Professoe Farnsworth, who hires the three to work for his intergalactic delivery service.

2.The Series Has Landed
After delivering a pacgage to an amusement park on the moon, Fry shows Leela how to appreciate the celestial body. Meanwhile Bender finds a little robot romance with a farmer's daughters, which puts the whole crew in jeopardy.

3.I,Roommate
Fry is such a slob that he is forced to move out of the Planet Express offices. But friendship makes for strange bedfellows when he moves in with Bender and discovers the nuts and bolts of living with a robot.

4.Love's Labours Lost In Space
On a mission to save endangered animals from a collasping, lonely Leela meets legendary starship captain Zapp Brannigan - who (at least in his own own opinion) is the universe's greatest ladies man.


Disc 2
5.Fear Of A Bot Planet
While delvering a package to a planet inhabited by robots, where humans are killed instantly, Bender becomes intoxicated with the robot lifestyles and must choose between becoming a celebrity of sorts or saving his friend's lives.

6.A Fishful Of Dollars
Fry discovers he's a billionaire because his savings have been accruing interest for 1,000 years. Caught up in the excitement of his riches, he squanders his fortune to buy an unopened can of anchovies - extinct since the year 2200. What he doesn't realize is that Mom, the head of mega-conglomerate, will do anything - even use Pamela Anderson's head in a jar - to get her hands on those anchovies.

7.My Three Suns
The crew visits a planet inhabited by liquid aliens. Fry, after delivering a package under the scorching heat of the planet's three suns, finds a bottle of cool blue liquid to quench his thrist. But when that liquid turns out to be the civilization's ruler. Fry finds he has become the new leader. Initially drunk withpower, he soon discovers his life is in danger and must turn to his friends to help him dry out.

8.A Big Piece Of Garbage
A gigantic ball of garbage carelessly launched off earth in the 21st century returns on a collision course for NNYC and Fry and the crew set out on a mission to destroy it.

9.Hell Is Other Robots
Bender puts his sinful lifestyle behind him when he joins the Temple of Robotolgy. But after returning to his old ways, he is banished to Robot Hell where, in a musical extravaganza, he faces the Robot Devil and endures tortures unimaginable to man.


Disc 3
10.A Flight To Remember
Professor Farnsworth treats Planet Express crew to a vacation on the largest, most luxurious space cruise ship ever built - the Titanic. Once in space, love is in the air as Bender falls for a beautiful robot Countess and Fry dates both Leela and Amy. Captain Zapp Brannigan sets a course for adventure when he decides to steer the Titanic through a swarm of comets, or as calls them, "the icebergs of the sky."

11.Mars University
When Fry returns to college to prove he can be just as good of a dropout as he was in the Twentieth Century, Professor Farnsworth surprises him with a dorm roommate, a super-intelligent monkey. Meanwhile Bender, a legend of the robot fraternity "ERR" leads a revenge of the robot nerds.

12.When Aliens Attack
The Omicrons threaten to destroy the earth if they can't see the last episode of the lost 20th Century TV series "Single Female Lawyer" starring an unmarried human female, who wears very short miniskirts, struggling to succed in human man's world. Because the last episode was destroyed by someone spilling beer on the transmitter (Fry), the crew from Planet Express must deliver their version of single Female Lawyer.

13.Fry & The Slurm Factory
Fry opens a "Slurm" beverage container bearing the golden bottle cap and wins a tour of the "Slurm" Factory (a la "Willy Wonka") to see how the world's most deliciously addictive soft drink is made. Wandering off from the tour, Fry is horrified when he accidently discovers the top-secret ingredient that makes "Slurm" so impossible to resist.


Rating:
Summary: Amazing New Series
Review: Buy this at all cost. This is an amaizing new series!! You must have this show if you are a "Star Trek Fan" or a "Lost in Sapce" fan, or even a "Dallas" fan!! This series goes beyond the ordinary and explores the absolutely absurd, not leaving any previous series untouched by its satire and extrodinary wit.

Watch it................it will take you back to a time, long, long ago..to a galaxy far, far away, and to a dream sequence that even Pamela Ewing would be envious of!!


Bryan

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Summary: You don't need to be a nerd to love Futurama, but it helps!
Review: Futurama is an intelligent show that can be enjoyed by just about anyone, but it is also incredibly nerdy (the robot apartment numbers are all in 1's and 0's to go with their binary coding). I mean that in a good way of course! Nerds need their own show too! This, of course, means that there are jokes in this set that many people will never understand. That's fine, because this set is so jam-packed with jokes, you may not even realize you've missed some.

Futurama, in case someone actually doesn't know, is from Matt Groening, the man who brought us "Life In Hell" and much more importantly, "The Simpsons." And I think it's fair to say if you like "The Simpsons" you'll probably like "Futurama" too. Like the Simpsons, it has a large cast of characters with the Matt Groening trademark yellow skin and four fingers. The show's humor is also similar to the Simpsons in many ways, although obviously the Simpsons never did so many science fiction jokes.

In the first episode, we meet lowly pizza delivery boy Phillip J. Fry (usually simply referred to as Fry) working on the 31st of December, 1999. Long story short, Fry ends up getting frozen in a tube and wakes up to find himself in the year 3000. There he meets the beautiful cyclops Turanga Leela, and the thieving cigar smoking robot Bender. The three of them end up working at an intergalactic package delivery company for Fry's great, great (let's skip a few great's here) nephew Hubert Farnsworth. Other notable members of the Futurama cast you'll meet in Season One include: Amy Wong (a clutz from Mars), Dr. Zoidberg (a lobster alien who smells like he eats garbage and does), Hermes Conrad (a Jamaican accountant), Zapp Branigan (a bumbling idiot of a space captain who seems to have a thing for William Shatner), and Kif Kroker (Zapp's lackey).

From the quirky notion of celeb heads living in jars ("I don't do that anymore" is Leonard Nimoy's response when asked do his infamous hand signal from "Star Trek") to brilliant spoofs of movies ranging from "Animal House" to "Titanic," there is truly something for everyone in Futurama's first season, and unlike "The Simpsons" first season, Futurama got it right from day one.

Featuring the voice talents of Billy West ("Ren & Stimpy"), Katey Sagal (Peg from "Married With Children"), John Dimaggio and more truly top-notch voice artists.

Every episode in this set includes commentary, which is often funny and informative. Don't miss out.