Oh no my boy what have they done to you Slurms

Was absolutely great. A little too much advertising for the platform we are actively watching it on, but an absolutely great return to form. Nothing felt forced and all the jokes landed well.

Loved the “scarry mirror”

Good News! Kidnap the actors and get back here at once.

Best line in the ep

Lol at people reporting this post for misinformation. Futurama season numbers have always been ill-defined and now we just have to live with it. Be thankful you’re not in the UK where the DVD ordering made it even weirder.

There is new Futurama coming out. Be less cranky and more excited!

Only one episode?! Now I have to binge at least 9 older episodes!

I mostly liked it. The joke that got me the hardest was probably the robot standup comedian.

My only complaint really was that they pulled an “oh no fry is dead but wait he’s not” again which the writers really started to like to do in like every other episode after the first reboot, so I hope this doesn’t become a running theme in every episode.

I thought it was great! Maybe a few too many nods to their reboot, but they felt veiled enough to remain funny. Sounds like we might get another movie?! I’m so excited to have Futurama back!

i love how everyone was theorising about how the time skip would work and they fully gloss over it cause it doesn’t actually matter.

I expected to be disappointed. I am so glad it was as good as ever

Good news everyone!

It really wasn’t bad. I liked how they recalled the tear-squishing ending of the last season and picked up immediately in the same scene. I was a bit afraid they would something like “ohhhh, somehow futurama returned. <unspecified>” and yet they went with the setup the writers left 10 years ago and it worked. I also appreciated them referencing the WGA strike, and this must have been a last-moment change, since the protest started only in May while I believe either Billy West or John Di Maggio confirmed the original voice work for the first part was done back in 2022.

I liked the meta aspect of it, it was very futurama and anyone who says its bad probably doesn’t remember or has never watched the show before. I have to say however that it felt a bit much halfway through the episode. I think this should have been a short sequence of jokes or one 5 minutes long scene at most; did not have to make an entire episode around the show rebooting after a decade. Yes, we get it: it’s funny how it got cancelled and rebooted so many times by so many different networks.

Having said that though, I honestly expected worse and have high hopes for the remaining 19 episodes.

I generally don’t like meta episodes like the jokes in the show reflects on the real cast and writers. The self awerness usually ruin it for me. R&M did it well with the train episode, but I didn’t like it too much here. Not only that, the entire advertising if Hulu was a bit much.

I mean the idea is great, they tried to tell us, the audience, that times are changed and the world have changed with all the pc, me too, gender awerness, etc. And showed even a bit of concern. Also that they laugh at themselves with all the reboots and breaks. But I just didn’t like how it was served. I wish it was an interview and not an episode (they laughed about that as well with the "that’s too smart joke) and just write an episode like the know, without being afraid of all the pc and do on.

It wasn’t bad I still enjoyed it, but as I said it felt to meta and self aware for my taste.

Any one feels the same?

Binge no less than 10 episodes in a single sitting…got it.

As a long time fan, that t’was pretty good :)

That writer’s joke… oof. What a bad time for that joke to air