Futurama is BACK on Comedy Central, WITH NEW EPISODES!!!

I think you meant back on Comedy Central?

ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD.

As soon as I get back in country, I am buying these.

Yup, definitely Comedy Central.

That's old news! Like, past week's!

Ahh yeap, my bad. I read an article earlier today that said the new episodes would be airing on Fox. After checking, they did indeed air on Comedy Central, not Fox. I didn't even know about any new episodes until last night. Luckily I was able to catch up by watching them (Legally) Online.

Whoa! Dude! Flashbacks!

I hear it's.... different.....

Na, the two episodes I've seen so far were pretty awesome. Same voices, same writers (as far as I know), same feel. Seems just as "classic" as it was before too me.

I'd say that of so far so good.

Ay Caramba!!!!

Ohh, it's from other show... It will be better to see The Simpsons again... Bender will never compare with Homer...

So what!!!!   A 30 second preview of an early episode was more than enough for me. 

An ADULT cartoon???  Bullshit!!!  Bloody inane and childish, to say the least.

I'm surprised they have 30 second previews back in the 19th century.

South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy to name a few.  The concept isn't new.

Yeah, I much preferred the 5 minute gladiatorial previews, however.  Back in the day, it was truly something to see a hungry Christian eating a lion

Yup, more childish, inane crap.  The concept isn't new... but the creators of 'Family Guy'  'American Dad' and the like need to be hung by the gonads 'til dead.  Regular crucifixion is too good for 'em.

I promise you that this would sell a lot of tickets today.

How about Shakespeare?  Lots of traditional "gutter" humor are todays "classics" (ie only people with their head in the clouds reads/listens to the damn stuff), for the sole reason that it was popular back in the day.  I like Futurama because it is really well done.  I like South Park for the social commentary.  I like Family Guy because of Stewey's quest for world domination.  Sadly I rarely (and for the past year never) got to watch any of these shows due to lack of time and/or circumstance... but I do look forward to being able to watch them again at some point.

All obey the hypnotoad.

If shows like this were not around, maybe most of the younger adults in this world would not be functioning at the level of a 12 year old as has been noted in many studies.  All shows of this type are trash. 

Not having a functioning sense of humor doesn't make the shows trash

it just means that they have trash for humor.

harpo

The Lucille Ball Show was popular back in the day... don't mean to say I'd sit and watch it, though.  Listening to that woman's squawky voice made me want to strangle her  For the same reason, squawky voices, I'd rather watch Shakespeare's Hamlet or Othello than Lavern and Shirley.  Those two I also would like to have strangled the moment they opened their mouths. "Squawk squawk, squawk, squawk"

They may very well have been popular back in the day, but frankly, (and I was in my early 20's when it first went to air here in Oz), I'd rather have watched octogenarian nude tennis.  Dropped ball retrieval might have been a shock to the system, but preferable to much of what TV executives/producers deem is entertainment on TV... back then AND nowadays.  Most of it is mindless garbage, that if it were converted into pig swill, I'd shoot my pigs to save them the indignity of having to eat it.

I feel for you if this is what you look forward to.  If these are entertainment highlights in your life, then I think it's tragic, to put it bluntly.  Seriously, I find all these 'so-called' adult cartoon shows a complete insult to my intelligence and I have to agree wholeheartedly with Lightstar:

When I say regular crucifixion is too good for the creators of this animated drivel purporting to be entertainment, I meant it.  The world has been corrupted far too much already.  In fact, I've been rather curious about several Chinese tortures I read about.  To see them being applied in real time before stringing the guilty up by their gonads would satisfy that curiosity.

As for social commentary, South Park is little more than a social disease.  However, if social commentary is what you want, perhaps you could take in documentaries and watch current affairs programmes that deal with the REAL world.  As Lightstar alluded to before, various studies indicate that many young adults are not reaching full mental maturity because their brains have been addled by too much inconsequential crap on TV and in the movies.   And we wonder why the world is in ruins.

Oh and before anybody tells me to lighten up, it makes my blood boil to see this world going down the shit shute because Hollywood's influence has impacted on society in a negative and derogatory way.  The fantasy is incessant, and our young people have difficulty distinguishing between right and wrong, truth and fiction, because the once defining lines have been blurred beyond recognition.  Hollywood's quest to go bigger, better, faster, longer, etc, etc, may have taken cinema going into the 22nd century with meaner, nastier special effects, but it also has a downside. 

Society has become desensitised thanks to Hollywood, and now there is little that shocks us anymore, meaning that mankind can do meaner, nastier things to itself and hardly anyone bats an eye.  And with instant 'entertainment to constantly gratify us, we do not think for ourselves anymore,  but more and more do the bidding of those people with the most power and/or influence. Many of those people are the powers in Hollywood, and they need to be brought down several pegs or ten... before their decadence brings civilisation to its knees.

It can't happen??  Yeah, tell that to the Romans... all the other decadent societies that have since fallen by the wayside.  There must be restraints, and ours have become fewer and fewer.

Starkers, it's so painfully obvious that you've never bothered to watch the show (Futurama) if you liken it to South Park.

Don't for get Video Games.  They turn children into killing machines.

Geesh.  This reminds me of how my father use to hate Seinfeld.  Absolutely refused to give the show a chance.  That is until he was forced to live off a generator for a month (NE ice storm in '98) and it was the only thing on.  After that he thought the show was hilarious.

Later,
LAR

seems we have fans and foes of these types shows my suggestion is to we go to our respective corners and agree to disagree... 

"Opinions are like arse holes, everyone has one and none of us thinks ours smells like poo."

Why hate the people who liked it as their entertainment?

Having a sense of humor does help.   So does working for 14-16 hours a day oftentimes six days a week when I'm home, and being deployed much of the rest of the time (I just moved up to staff a couple weeks ago after 22 months on the line, which is why I have had considerably more time to post on these forums).  Entertainment sitting down is the key.  And clearly you haven't bothered to actually watch the shows you are so quick to criticize as being "a complete insult" to your intelligence.

That is a load of crap.  There is always something wrong with young adults according to the older generation.  Always.  I know numerous people who are either extremely effective officers or enlisted men operating in environments most people have difficulty comprehending who love these shows.  I know plenty of "young adults" who are currently most of the way through a doctorate or law school who enjoy these shows.  I know plenty of idiots who love these shows too.  That being said, I know plenty of idiots who do not love these shows, and are much older.  Being old doesn't make one wise or intelligent.  It can, but it doesn't mean that it will.

I've probably dealt with more of the real world than you have probably ever imagined.  We watch entertainment to ESCAPE the real world, or get a satirical view of it, as is the case with South Park.  Because it is funny.

Oh please.  Mankind hasn't changed in the last few decades.  You want to know the difference between now and then?  Now it gets beamed into your living room live with the world news at six.  Then it was just small detachments of colonial troops slaughtering rebellious natives to get their point across, or two tribes nobody has every heard of massacring one another in the middle of the jungle that nobody ever heard about. Without an independent camera crew there to record it though, what did you have?  A vague knowledge about what is going on.  Your mythical "good old days" never existed, except in your memory.  You want to talk about fantasy?  Let's talk about your vision of the past.

Um, no, I've never bothered to sit and watch it.... but I don't need to in order to liken the two shows.  Both are mindless drivel and should have been canned 0.0001 seconds into the first episodes... as with all the other animated crap on night-time television.  Evening viewing has come to a dreadful state when cartoons as pathetic as these are considered adult entertainment.

Um, yeah, there's another piece of drivel I can't stand.  Seinfeld is about as funny as an upchuck in a balaclava.... NOT.  And unlike your father, I wouldn't give it a second chance because that's all I could get for a while.  No siree, I'd just switch the set off and find something else to do.  In fact, I watch probably less than 10 - 12 hours of TV per week these days... and by the time you take out the news and current affairs, 6 hours of rugby league, it don't leave much time for much else, do it?  

Nah, given that 60 - 70% of TV nowadays is reality and/or lifestyle crap, it's hardly worth turning the TV on.

And yeah, repetitive violence in games and movies is not healthy for impressionable children, they eventually become desensitised to it... and that can't be good for society.  Anyone who thinks otherwise has rocks in their head.

Ah, but I have no illusions there!!!  Anyone who consumes as much curried cabbage as i do knows only too well the poop shute ain't smellin' of any roses.