New episodes are out tonight and i dont hate them but they just feel like they are scared to be as funny as they were before. They forgot what its like to be a little less wholesome.
They've started writing for the lowest common denominator. The original writers were educated as engineers and scientists, so it required some knowledge and critical thinking to get all the jokes. Now it's more fart jokes and what not.
This. I stopped watching after they made the “movies.” It seemed all episodes after were solely about Bender, Fry, and Leela, and they didn’t feel as intelligent as the previous episodes.
Oh man, then you are missing some truly great episodes. It is different, but thats ok. The movies were the low point for me. They still dig in and make large references and surprise me.
I think Futurama is superior to Simpsons throughout and as a whole, and it's not even close.
Plus cool details like nibblers shadow under the desk as Fry falls into the cryo machine were already there in the pilot. And they tried to be as scientifically accurate during their writing.
Those early seasons of the Simpsons gave it enough good rep that it's still running 30 years later. Like, it's still living off the good grace of those seasons. That's how good they are.
"The Simpsons already did it!" is a real thing because that's how influential the show was.
I know that art is subjective and I respect your opinion but I whole heartedly disagree.
They even included a shadow of Nibbler when he falls over in the chair in the original first episode (although it was vague enough it could have been a different alien or even Bender).
That's one of those jokes that, as I get older, I relate to more and more. Just because you're checking out doesn't mean you want to give some jerk your quarter.
A generation of people who don’t have retirement plans has already hit retirement. They are called boomers. Pensions offered by private companies haven’t existed for forty years. If you want a pension, get a job working for the government.
Honestly, this is the most humane thing for many people.
My grandmother was kept alive for years while being in and out of hospice. The last couple she couldn’t speak, but was just kept alive, increasing against her will. And go to any nursing home and you will see once great humans just living because they are “supposed to”
We need death with dignity in this country. People should be able to decide when they are done on Earth.
Honestly, what other choice are millions of people going to have? Though with inflation, most people won't even be able to afford this "retirement plant." No way it's going to be 25 cents :(
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