12 Funny Star Wars References From Television
Today, in honor of Star Wars Day (“May the 4th be with you.”), we’ve gathered together 12 funny references to Star Wars from your favorite television shows. Read on to relive your favorite moments from the sci-fi franchise in parody form. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day, MoviesFuturama to End This September
Let the waterworks commence. read more
Found in: TV, News7 St. Patrick's Day-Themed TV Episodes
This year, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, we're highlighting seven St. Patrick's Day-themed episodes from some of our most-beloved sitcoms. Read on to relive your favorite St. Paddy's Day moments in television. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day, TVFuturama Writer and Walk Hard Director Bringing Animated Show to Fox
According to Deadline, Fox is bringing writer Lew Morton (Futurama) and director Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher)—who previously worked together on the Judd Apatow TV series Undeclared as well as 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story—are back together to develop a show for the network called Wentworth Hall. It will center around a group of oddball college students running rampant at a once-distinguished university. Morton and Kasdan will executive produce the series.... read more
Found in: TV, NewsFuturama: "31st Century Fox"/"Naturama" (6.12/6.13)
WIth that, another season of Futurama is finished, along with my conflicting feelings about this season—and all seasons since the show's return to Comedy Central. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsFuturama: "Viva Mars Vegas" (7.12)
When Futurama is parodying a genre, it’s usually a mixed blessing. Its parodies are usually tight and pretty spot-on. The show’s writers almost always know how to make an exciting version of a genre, but that’s because they also stick pretty closely to formula, more intent on parodying the idea than in bringing something really revolutionary to it. In this, Futurama has replaced its forebear The Simpsons as the best spot for these things, playfully poking fun at movies and TV through reasonably good genre parodies that are good for quite a few laughs. But the downside of this is... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsFuturama: "Near-Death Wish" (7.10)
When it comes to Futurama‘s cast, Bender is the guts, Leela the head and Fry the heart. Of course he’s more complex than that—which is a blessing considering that every successive season of The Simpsons or Family Guy flattens out their characters—but as the show’s gone on he’s transitioned away from being just a cipher for the 20/21st-century audience. It’s no coincidence that Fry’s involved in practically every episode of Futurama that has emotionally significant notes. He may be stupid, but he has real emotions.... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsFuturama: "Free Will Hunting" (Episode 7.9)
What’s great about a show like Futurama, which isn’t beholden to any particular science-fiction ethos, is that it can encompass pretty much any contradictions it would like without anyone particularly caring about them. Setting up these contradictions actually serves to spur the show on to creativity, asking its writers to explain various phenomena that don’t seem to make sense together. “Free Will Hunting” takes one of these issues to task: that the show has allowed Bender to be as much of a random, surprising character as anyone else on the show, yet he’s also a robot who has to follow... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsFuturama: "Fun on a Bun" (Episode 7.8)
The Comedy Central seasons of Futurama have been caught between the episodic nature the show was initially founded on and the heaping pile of continuity that’s been building into that show after more than 100 episodes. The show wants every episode to stand alone and to start and stop in the same place, in the typical sitcom manner. But the science fiction trappings of Futurama hate that and really want to build a universe for these characters to live in. “Fun on a Bun” is an episode that’s really caught between that conflict and does a good job making fun... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsFuturama: "The Six Million Dollar Mon" (7.6)
A good episode of Futurama doesn’t have to have a good science fiction concept to work from, but it certainly helps. And to a certain extent, an interesting enough premise manages to redeem an episode that doesn’t have particularly big laughs, as with the case in this week’s episode, “The Six Million Dollar Mon.” Of course humor remains the most important part of Futurama, but the show’s ability to take any premise, regardless of how far-fetched it might be, remains one of its strengths—that an episode based on a character slowly transforming himself into a robot is relatively tame is... read more
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