The Creator and casting of Futurama expose what lie ahead for the show ’s twenty remain episodes : mentality - switching , mutant rights , improbable fondling , Futurama reborn three time over , and , yes , Fry and Leela . All that , plus our idea on this week ’s installment !
At a press conference before the Futurama panel , Godhead David X. Cohen and Matt Groening confirm Comedy Central is breaking the 26 - episode order into two season , with the final episodes of the show ’s new ravel not airing until summertime 2011 . They noted that the reviews and paygrade have both been very respectable thus far , although there was no talk of what it would take to get further episodes from Comedy Central , or what the timeline on that decision would be .
David X. Cohen stressed how much they ’re enjoying working with Comedy Central , saying they ’ve receive no censor government note so far . In fact , he say the only note they did get back was when a censoring spaceship bleep one of the reference , and they necessitate what word had been bleeped … because they could probably just say it on Comedy Central .
As for what dwell in front , they pretermit some challenging hints . They strain that next calendar week ’s installment , “ The Late Philip J. Fry ” , is one of their preferent episodes ever , and an idea – the Professor and Fry travel into the far future on a forward - only time simple machine – that Matt Groening has wanted to do for a long clock time . This installment will also render to the Fry and Leela relationship ( and trickily allude to Fry being his own grandfather ) , although the show is really going to deal with Fry and Leela in the 2d - to - last instalment , which is the de facto serial publication close .
And what ’s the last installment , you ask ? In a regaining to the anthology territorial dominion of the Tales of Interest episodes , the twenty-sixth episode will see Futurama born-again in three altogether different animation styles . If that is n’t enough awesome for you , the 100th episode will see Leela team up with Devo to oppose for mutant rights , another anthology will be a trio of “ phantasmagorical holiday musical environmental narration ” featuring Coolio and Al Gore , we ’ll see characters snog that you never thought would lock rim ( one of which is Dr. Zoidberg , who I ’m not certain even technically has lips ) , and one sequence all about the fibre switching bodies requires the Professor and the Harlem Globetrotters to devise a numerical theorem that will be left bare on a blackboard in the installment , as the ultimate test for the show ’s nerdiest fans .
And now , our thoughts on this hebdomad ’s episode , “ Lethal Inspection . ” ( Sorry for being late – the rabidness of Comic Con does n’t allow a lot of fourth dimension for TV watching . ) This was another of the new time of year ’s firm efforts , mate off Bender and Hermes on a quest to find the finical administrative official that had approve Bender despite the fact he ’s faulty . Some of the storytelling felt a little sloppy – it was a bit weird to introduce the thought that Bender has outright backup transcript and then now reveal that , no , he actually does n’t , and the b - story about Leela as filling - in bureaucrat was less than an afterthought – but the precarious setup did get us to a luxuriously rewarding episode .
Part of what made this episode succeed was its ability to mine the show ’s mythology without feeling needless . The show did n’t just call back to Dr. Zoidberg ’s ink defense mechanism , it unleashed the biggest and most ridiculous ink attack ever , ended with a jolly “ Goodbye friend ! ” as he scat off . We did n’t just pass to Hermes ’s Olympic limboing past – it was practically high-minded to his world power this time around . The decision to not disregard former jokes about Bender being work up in Tijuana was n’t just satisfy in how it linked the show ’s past times with its present , but it also gave the instalment a great , exotic billet to chat and an chance to explore comedic district we have n’t really seen before on Futurama .
And then there was the Central Bureaucracy . Something as basically slow as bureaucratism is n’t the easiest thing to wring humour or emotion out of , but “ Lethal Inspection ” follow at both . The mammoth Rubik ’s cubicle was another spectacular setpiece for the show after last week ’s da Vinci ballistic capsule , and the scream of fall administrative official really sell the gag . The twist ending , in which it ’s unwrap Hermes himself was Bender ’s mysterious inspector , was n’t exactly shocking , but it was the sorting of emotional reveal that the show has done so well in episodes like “ Leela ’s Homeworld ” or “ Jurassic Bark ” , and it ’s a will to the confidence of the storytelling that they can hit a similar emotional beat with something as relatively unremarkable as young Hermes approving the bad Bender . ( It helps that infant Bender was so damn precious . )
Honestly , if you had told me the most emotionally fulfil episode of the new season would focus almost entirely on Bender and Hermes , I would have dismissed it as derisory . And yet , here we are , and it ’s proof Futurama can still withstand expectations . Indeed , between this and everything we ’ve see at Comic Con , it sounds like the show ’s still got plenty of surprise left .
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