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Futurama DVD: Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection DVD
I finally got a chance to watch this collection of 4 of the viewer all time favorites, that span all 4 seasons of Futurama. This collection came out at the end of august and features 4 epsisodes and all new commentary. The commentary is really what is worth it, as the epsiodes are already avaliable on seasons 1-4, not to mention regualry shown on TBS and cartoon network, not bad for a show that FOX cancelled cause nobody would watch it. Anyways the collection is great escpecially the commentary by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. the title is slight misleading as there really aren't any monters (except Al Gore), plenty of robots one gigantic infact. The orginal title:"Monster Robot Maniac Fun Explosion" was changed by the wise people at FOX. The chance to really hear wht the creators of the show think relfect on the show 4 years later in some cases in really interesting and gives a really good idea of what is involed in writing and producing and episode such as these.
The collection includes "Hell is other robots" in which "Bender" the robot charater turns to religion to fight his addiction to electricity and is then condemed to hell when he fails to abide by it. Hell apparenty is under "Coney island" and is filled with robots which feels vey similar to one of the tree house of horror episodes they do with Hhomer on that other show of theirs. "antholgy of interest 1 " whihc is 3 what if propositons, the best of which poes fun at Al gore and Stephen Hawking. the third epsidode "roswell that ends well " beat out south park, simpsons and king of the hill to win an emmy in 2002. The episode revoles around the fact that fry goes back in time and meddles in his past. The last epsidoe is form seson four and is either the last or near the last in ther series and is mostly about "Fry" and leela's relation ship and visites a lot of jokes that were set up in the first epsiode. Called "The Sting" it is about someone getting stung, go figure. this episode was also nominated for an emmy.
If someone was thinking about getting into this series and wanted to check the show out i would highy recommend watch this dvd, ( it's only 10 at amazon) it got great shows and great co0mmentary and is a real departure from that other show they do.
posted by Will Olivier @ 9:57 AM
3 Comments:
In my opinion, Futurama was a great series but many can argue that. Unfortunately the show aired during prime time watching hours and had pretty stiff competition. Futurama can always put a smile on somebodys face and who knows maybe it will accurately depict the future (hope not anyways).
Its really neat when the creaters put extras on dvds, because they provide you a way to look at the cartoon through their eyes. I think it also makes the show come alive in some ways because you are aware of what is really going on behind the scenes. I agree with Mike in the fact that Futurama was a hard show to catch due to is time slot, but when I had the chance to watch it, I always enjoyed it.
Simpsons is better. actually I could not really tell you which I think is better now that I read your blog. When Futurama first came out I was totally against it I did not want to watch it or claim I had seen a preview of it, but then I watched it and was pleasantly suprised. It is not the greatest but it offered up something different and was just as funny as Simpsons.
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