Futurama - "Lethal Inspection" - Talkback [7/22]
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For those talking about baby Bender, what about how Bender de-aged in Teenage Mutant Leela Hurdles? I think this is a case of broad strokes.
imtoodrunktorideahorse
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It's a cartoon, it doesn't have to make sense.
Darph Bo Bo
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No offense, but that's no excuse.
King Sarcasm
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Why not? It's a cartoon, and the writers needed this particular event to happen, so it happened. Similar things have been done on The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, and any other number of cartoons out there. It's just the way things go.
kunal jadhav
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The thing is that not many people see Futurama as the kind of show that would associate with that kind of nonsensical wackiness.
abe_elifarrar
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I've seen this excuse before - it's just a cartoon, it doesn't have to make sense. Lame. Of course it does. The best Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks etc. films follow the same storytelling rules live-action films do. I'm not going to lower my standards or expectations just because the thing I'm watching is a cartoon. That's insulting to me and to the art form. If an event in a cartoon makes me question what's happening, I really don't think that's my fault. The fault is lazy or bad writing. I watch the Simpsons, South Park, very occasionally Family Guy, Spongebob and I can't remember anything in them that made me pause and question what was happening (except that Spongebob has been acting more obnoxious than he used to, but that's just annoying, not illogical). This episode of Futurama made me do that. It's the episode's fault, not mine.
Are you seriously saying this, that the show owes you better than this? Sounds like you need to go back and watch The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show again.
And yes, Futurama is a show that holds a certain extent of realism, more so than shows like Family Guy and the current era of The Simpsons(remember that show started off being very grounded in reality as well). But that doesn't mean that the show can't have a certain amount of fantasy in it, and hell, it really isn't the first time Futurama has done a cartoony joke like that. Fry gets a pipe jammed through his stomach in one episode. Could that not be considered cartoony? The Planet Express ship, and building itself has been seen destroyed, yet they later appear unscathed. Could that not be considered cartoony?
So no, I'm still saying that since it's a cartoon, it doesn't have to make complete sense, and that you're taking it too seriously. And so, since there's no point arguing any longer, I leave you with this joke from the classic Simpsons episode Boy Scoutz N The Hood.
Bart: "The guys who wrote this episode don't know squat. Itchy should have tied Scratchy's tongue with a taut-line hitch, not a sheet bend."
Lisa: Oh Bart, cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic."
And yes, Futurama is a show that holds a certain extent of realism, more so than shows like Family Guy and the current era of The Simpsons(remember that show started off being very grounded in reality as well). But that doesn't mean that the show can't have a certain amount of fantasy in it, and hell, it really isn't the first time Futurama has done a cartoony joke like that. Fry gets a pipe jammed through his stomach in one episode. Could that not be considered cartoony? The Planet Express ship, and building itself has been seen destroyed, yet they later appear unscathed. Could that not be considered cartoony?
So no, I'm still saying that since it's a cartoon, it doesn't have to make complete sense, and that you're taking it too seriously. And so, since there's no point arguing any longer, I leave you with this joke from the classic Simpsons episode Boy Scoutz N The Hood.
Bart: "The guys who wrote this episode don't know squat. Itchy should have tied Scratchy's tongue with a taut-line hitch, not a sheet bend."
Lisa: Oh Bart, cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic."
The killbots are also as dumb as a box of rocks.
Lord help Mom if the transmission of her orders to the killbots got cut off midway. For example if Mom ordered the killbots to 'destroy Mom's Friendly Robots' enemies' that message was cut off at, "Destroy Mom's Friendly Robots..."
Anyway, good episode, with a nice ending for Hermes.
Lord help Mom if the transmission of her orders to the killbots got cut off midway. For example if Mom ordered the killbots to 'destroy Mom's Friendly Robots' enemies' that message was cut off at, "Destroy Mom's Friendly Robots..."
Anyway, good episode, with a nice ending for Hermes.
But they do have to make a little sense. I watched Futurama when it first aired, and stuck with it for awhile. But eventually I walked away from it because it got too stupid. The characters behaved in a very random manner; all that seemed to matter were the jokes, and they weren't all that good. I was hoping that the new Futurama would avoid those pitfalls, but this episode has me worried. If it has too many dud episodes like this one, I'll be walking away again. Wonder how many people will do the same, and get the show cancelled again? We'll see.
donnie_shaffer28
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You know, this is only but one of the bits John K. actually hates about current animation. Things making sense.
lostandlonely
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I'd say the Farnsworth Parabox alone disproves this statement.
It's a cartoon, these things happen, dude.
It's a cartoon, these things happen, dude.
GwendolynC
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Bart also said "Cartoons don't have to make sense" when he and Lisa were watching an anime.
Joe Cooker
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Hermes didn't create Bender. He only approved Bender's design (despite his flaw) so Bender could leave the factory and not be dismantled.
I doubt the majority of the show's viewers is that obsessed over every little detail. Based on what I've been reading here in this talkback, it's only you and 1 other poster who are 'sweating the small stuff', as it were. I don't think the show's fans in general care that much.
Does a baby robot make sense? No, it doesn't. But it doesn't have to, because Futurama is a animated show done in humor, therefore every little thing about it doesn't have to make perfect sense all the time. Anyway, it's been done before: in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", Bender was de-aged along with the other characters, though robots don't age like people do nor do they have skin, so really the aging tar really shouldn't have had any affect on Bender, but that would've worked against the story. But nearly everything about the robots on Futurama doesn't make sense when you think about it: take Tinny Tim. Who would build a robot just to be a poor orphan? Or Santa-Bot. Why doesn't Earth's armies just fly to Neptune and destroy Santa-Bot once and for all? After all, he's just one robot, and everyone knows where he lives, so why doesn't DOOP do something about him? Earth had no problem driving the alien balls off of their own planet in "War is the H-Word", so why can't they just go Neptune and take out Santa-Bot? And wouldn't an insane asylum for robots ("Insane in the Mainframe") be a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Wouldn't it just be easier to demolish and/or recycle them all? Or when Calculon Jr. malfunctioned in "Bender Should Not be Allowed on T.V.", why did they hold auditions for a new robot child when they could have just replaced him with another identical model? In that same episode, one robot kid had a pushy robot mother, which also doesn't make sense since robots wouldn't have parents and siblings the way humans do unless someone built a set of robots to be a family unit, but it parodied a scene in Mommie Dearest, so it was necessary for the joke.
My point: the writers have always taken liberties with logic in order to make the stories work. This isn't a new thing for Futurama or dozens of other cartoon shows. So I don't see the point of holding the show under a microscope and criticizing it for something which has been going on for years now.
In all likelihood that just won't brought be up again. Honestly, I think some of you guys take these shows way too seriously. There's no need to be so obsessed with logic and episode-to-episode continuity. Sometimes you just have to roll with it. Futurama is just a comedy cartoon, folks. Take it easy and enjoy it for what it is.
I doubt the majority of the show's viewers is that obsessed over every little detail. Based on what I've been reading here in this talkback, it's only you and 1 other poster who are 'sweating the small stuff', as it were. I don't think the show's fans in general care that much.
Does a baby robot make sense? No, it doesn't. But it doesn't have to, because Futurama is a animated show done in humor, therefore every little thing about it doesn't have to make perfect sense all the time. Anyway, it's been done before: in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", Bender was de-aged along with the other characters, though robots don't age like people do nor do they have skin, so really the aging tar really shouldn't have had any affect on Bender, but that would've worked against the story. But nearly everything about the robots on Futurama doesn't make sense when you think about it: take Tinny Tim. Who would build a robot just to be a poor orphan? Or Santa-Bot. Why doesn't Earth's armies just fly to Neptune and destroy Santa-Bot once and for all? After all, he's just one robot, and everyone knows where he lives, so why doesn't DOOP do something about him? Earth had no problem driving the alien balls off of their own planet in "War is the H-Word", so why can't they just go Neptune and take out Santa-Bot? And wouldn't an insane asylum for robots ("Insane in the Mainframe") be a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Wouldn't it just be easier to demolish and/or recycle them all? Or when Calculon Jr. malfunctioned in "Bender Should Not be Allowed on T.V.", why did they hold auditions for a new robot child when they could have just replaced him with another identical model? In that same episode, one robot kid had a pushy robot mother, which also doesn't make sense since robots wouldn't have parents and siblings the way humans do unless someone built a set of robots to be a family unit, but it parodied a scene in Mommie Dearest, so it was necessary for the joke.
My point: the writers have always taken liberties with logic in order to make the stories work. This isn't a new thing for Futurama or dozens of other cartoon shows. So I don't see the point of holding the show under a microscope and criticizing it for something which has been going on for years now.
In all likelihood that just won't brought be up again. Honestly, I think some of you guys take these shows way too seriously. There's no need to be so obsessed with logic and episode-to-episode continuity. Sometimes you just have to roll with it. Futurama is just a comedy cartoon, folks. Take it easy and enjoy it for what it is.