The pop culture references aren’t interwoven into a story. Everything revolves around the theme decided for an episode, like cryptocurrency or something.

There arent events from the universe or born of characters emotion… it’s just this linear march forward where the writers have x amount of time to cram in jokes surrounding a certain topic.

It’s pretty pathetic. I could write better Futurama.

Sorry I’m not going to put a lot of effort into this but just check out the plot if “kif gets knocked up” from season 4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kif_Gets_Knocked_Up_a_Notch

The universe events like getting a delivery job. The character emotions changing the plot unpredictably. The new direction of the episode where the viewer doesn’t know what will happen next.

Versus this episode: open episode in planet express building and start with a few jokes and then kif walks in and says what the rest of episode will be about.

Gotta say though, Zapf Brannigan will always be funny. Bless him.

Just a stupid platform for jokes instead of a universe where unexpected things happen and stories are compelling. And they are bad jokes that sacrifice themselves to either be relevant to current meme ideas or to be like the original Futurama episodes.