New Futurama!

[Mr. Analog]

Haha, pretty good:

• I was really disappointed with the first bit, I'm not a huge fan of rubber-hose animation but their decision to convey narrative through dialog did not mesh well and the animation was not nearly fluid enough. I realize they're on a budget but the selection of stock music didn't fit very well (especially since some of it wasn't produced until the 70s, not that most people will know or care)
• The 8-bit video game treatment was much deeper than I thought it would be, lots of clever nods to so many games at once it will be hard to catch up with it all haha. Sadly they recycled the same joke twice (regarding resolution) which in itself was recycled from Season 1 (episode 6), oh well, the rest is really quite good
• The nod to anime was CLEARLY the winner here, not so much for the story but for the adept knowledge of so many cliches, I'm willing to bet most "animu" kids didn't get about half of it but for my segment of neckbeard-dom... well all I can say is; Sandy Frank, wherever you are, this episode is for you!

Great way to cap an awesome season!

[Lazybones]

I enjoyed all 3 styles, but probably the 30s B & W the best.

Lela's pun based advances on Fry where rather funny as well in the 8-bit style.

[Melbosa]

Agreed this season has been fantastic!

[Mr. Analog]

That's for sure, they brought it back with a bang and ended with a bang.

I'll be buying this DVD set for sure!

[Tom]

I may have to agree with your findings, I didn't really think the rubber b&w disney/wb style was all that great, the only line I remember still is what the bullhorn said. I really liked the 8bit game style and the anime. So much picking on crappily dubbed giant robot anime's its not funny.

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah, they were going for early Disney / Fleisher (maybe a dash of TerryToons) and it didn't quite work, ah well, the rest came off pretty well

[Darren Dirt]

Yeah, they were going for early Disney / Fleisher (maybe a dash of TerryToons) and it didn't quite work, ah well, the rest came off pretty well

curious to see this ep now ; ^ above ^ reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=family+guy+disney+universe

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah, they were going for early Disney / Fleisher (maybe a dash of TerryToons) and it didn't quite work, ah well, the rest came off pretty well

curious to see this ep now ; ^ above ^ reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=family+guy+disney+universe

Man, I wish it was that well done.

[Thorin]

So...  Should this be watched in the order it was produced or in the order it was aired?  To see the difference, visit Wikipedia and click the column headers to order by episode number or air date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Futurama_episodes#Season_6_.282010.E2.80.932011.29

Why can't they just show 'em in the order they were created?  <sigh>

[Mr. Analog]

Well, with Futurama there's almost no continuity so... it doesn't really matter I guess.

[Thorin]

Yeah, I'm gonna watch 'em in broadcast order.  Which means I need to rename files to have a different episode number.  Well, except for the ones that were already numbered in broadcast order instead of production order.

Anyway, watched the first four episodes of season 6 and WOW I'm glad it came back and WOW I'm glad it's just as funny as before!

[Mr. Analog]

Some of the stuff works even better now, it feels like they have a bit more comedic freedom now (I don't know why that is, but it is)

[Thorin]

Some of it is lost on people that don't get what it's based on, though.  Like when Leela and Zap have to save Earth from V-Giny - there's the V-GER joke (gotta be a trekkie), the Wonder Woman Invisible Plane joke (gotta know Wonder Woman), the 50s-style space shows in Zap's dreams (gotta have seen the old 50s space shows), etc.

Although I s'pose it's no different than the content from the first season.  Once it's done downloading, Ima go watch it all!

[Melbosa]

Some of the stuff works even better now, it feels like they have a bit more comedic freedom now (I don't know why that is, but it is)

Well they are on a pay-to-view network now, versus fox which was a mainstream network.  So they can swear full now, nudity if they want, and politically they don't have to be correct in any form.   Basically it could be Matt's version of Southpark if he wanted.  I'm glad it isn't, but I too noticed how much more "freedom" they seem to enjoy with their plot lines.

[Darren Dirt]

Haha, pretty good:

• I was really disappointed with the first bit, I'm not a huge fan of rubber-hose animation but their decision to convey narrative through dialog did not mesh well and the animation was not nearly fluid enough. I realize they're on a budget but the selection of stock music didn't fit very well (especially since some of it wasn't produced until the 70s, not that most people will know or care)
• The 8-bit video game treatment was much deeper than I thought it would be, lots of clever nods to so many games at once it will be hard to catch up with it all haha. Sadly they recycled the same joke twice (regarding resolution) which in itself was recycled from Season 1 (episode 6), oh well, the rest is really quite good
• The nod to anime was CLEARLY the winner here, not so much for the story but for the adept knowledge of so many cliches, I'm willing to bet most "animu" kids didn't get about half of it but for my segment of neckbeard-dom... well all I can say is; Sandy Frank, wherever you are, this episode is for you!

Great way to cap an awesome season!

Now that some time has passed, the Futurama Wikia has that episode in detail... thoughts?
http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Reincarnation