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Summary: An artful first season
Review: Although Futurama really hits its stride in season 2, this collection of 1st season episodes is still filled with dense verbal and visual humor and it's fun seeing how the characters began their development. Matt Groening's "Life In Hell" attitude permeates each episode as it should and the result is the usual hilarious and cynical view of human behavior. The extra features, which include deleted scenes, are great for any fan as even the scenes that were cut from the finished shows are funny.
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Summary: The TRUE picture of the future...
Review: Fry is accidental cryagenic frozen and ends up in the year 3000. After that just toss the logic out the window. A one-eyed alien, a hard-drinking robot, a great-great-great-forever nephew and a brave new world to explore! The first 13 episodes, each with full-length audio commentary which is as funny as the episodes themselves. PLUS delected scenes, a behind-the-scenes featurette and lots of other extras. While the series is making fun of sci-fi, it is also sometimes very serious, dealing with issues of romance, sin and racism against robots. OK, OK, the series doesn't take much of anything seriously. There are suicide booths, Robot Washes, anchovies, a Robot Hell, New New York City, living heads, liquid aliens, addictive soft drinks and invasions of Earth.
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Summary: Had to come back for the Crushinator...didn't you?
Review: Nothing to say other than: The BEST SHOW EVER!Eat me: The Simpsons
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Summary: Superb - a barrel of fun
Review: Excellent compilation. I laughed until my sides ached! When the second one came out I immediately bought it on the first day. Matt is at his best.
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Summary: THE FUTURE ROCKS
Review: Futurama is a fantastic animated show by the creators of the Simpsons.
This show stars Fry, a 21 year old delivery boy, who, on New Year's Eve 1999, gets cryogenically frozen for a thousand years.
There, he meets Leela, a one-eyed, purple haired alien, and Bender, and alcoholic, foul-mouthed robot who bends things.
They join up with Fry's great great etc. nephew Professor Farnsworth, and become the new crew for his inter-galactic delivery service.
There they meet Amy Wong, a rich mechanic, Hermes, a Jamaican bureacrat and Dr Zoyberg, a pink, sandal-wearing person withh weird little dangly things above his mouth and claws.
Episodes include some of my favorites.
Fry and the Slurm Factory- Fry wins a competition very much like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, only its with Slurm, a drink Fry's addicted to.
Inside, they discover a horrible secret about SLurm's origins. (Keep a look out for the Grunka-Lunkas, Oompa Loompa's only disgusting)
A Flight To Remember- The gang go on a ocmpany vacation on the maiden voyage of the world's largest pleasure Liner, the Titanic. Bender discovers love, and Fry and Leela come SO close to kissing.
Hell Is Other Robots- Bender, after becoming addicted to electricity, joins a religion, but after sinning heavily goes to Robot Hell. Fry and Leela have to rescue him. (A very godd musical number is thrown in)
A must for Groening fans.
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Summary: Greatest unknown series ever!
Review: Hmm...Where to start my love for this series. Some of the best jokes ever produced my Matt Groeing apperead on this series. For the untrained, Futurama was a series about a pizza delivery kid who accidently falls into a cyrogenic freezer where he lay dormant for a 1000 years and reawoken in the year 3000. This series has been known for it's great jokes such as an alcholic, kleptomatic robot known as Bender who bends things. The special features aren't very well except for the feature commentary provided by Matt Groeing, Joe DiMaggio, Billy West, Chris X. Cohen, etc. The commentary is cheerful and brightful plus quite witty. The animation perfectly blends 3-D and 2-D animation beautifully. The series has a dark tone on some of the episodes but always lightens the mode later on different episodes. My favorite so far would have to be "Hell is for other robots", which Bender jacks on with electricity and than joins Robology to clean his sins. But Bender goes back to his sinful ways and goes to Robot Hell where Hank Azaria voices the devil. For the extreme Simpsons fans, Hank is the voice of Homer and others. Hank actually sings a song about Robot Hell in this episode which to be is amazing because ,techinically, Homer is singing. My final grade: A+!
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Summary: A MUST Buy!
Review: Any fan of Futurama cannot go wrong with this. The video is crystal clear and the audio superb. This is the way it was meant to be watched - and of course, all commercial free. The extras are great. All this release does is make fans thirst for the next release. Fox - you should've never let a good thing like this go.
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Summary: This is where the Simpsons humor went in 1999
Review: If you a fan of the Simpsons, you know that the show hit a weak patch back in 1999-2001 or so. Why? Well, here's the answer. The genius of the Simpsons shows up in every episode here. Only the 13th episode would rate below 4 1/2 stars. Amazing work. If this series wasn't preempted every Sunday night by football overruns, it'd be regarded as an all-time classic. I picked up the Simpsons 3rd season, and the two seasons of Futurama. As much as I love the Simpsons, that's still in the shrinkwrap as I watch these DVD's.
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Summary: Fox knows not what a gem this is
Review: Explain to me how a show as popular and good as Futurama gets canceled, while a stupid show like Joe Millionaire gets extended? Futurama is just as funny and as good as the Simpsons. This is perhaps the best show to ever be canceled.
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Summary: Amazing series
Review: It's no surprise that Matt Groening himself prefers Futurama over The Simpsons. This show rocks.
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