Best. Futurama Anthology. Ever.

Yes , yes , it ’s a high cake . Futurama has a history of great anthology render that deal out daring stories . Still , the last episode of the season leap agilely over that bar and nation with its hands , flippers , and fins triumphantly in the aviation . Futurama endure perfectly friggin ’ nuts over nature documentaries and it ’s grim and great .

Last night ’s Futurama finale was two episodes back - to - back . I can see why they nestled the first instalment in there . Despite hold the greatest Star Trek captain ever voicing on of the characters ( although I was lamentable I did n’t get to try him say , “ Tea . Earl Grey . Hot . ” ) , 31st Century Fox was a lackluster instalment . Through various contrivances , the bunch line up themselves at a fox Richard Morris Hunt . Leela is against fox hunting , and it ’s a hatful of fun to see the Hunt Master ( voiced by the great Patrick Stewart ) and his courtly room of pushing her into a ditch . When it turns out to be a automaton fox , Leela is fine with the hunting , but Bender find he suddenly cares about animal rights . The fox hunter terminate up hunt Bender , and the Planet Express crew , led by Leela , terminate up vindictively hound down the destructive automaton fox . The instalment has a few right write augury and visual jape , like Bender render to change his scent using “ Newmar ’s Own Catnip , ” but it ’s never going to be on anyone ’s top ten , or even top fifty , list of episode .

The second episode , “ Naturama , ” is fan - freaking - tastic . Several time during the first segment of the three - part anthology , the people in the room with me turned to each other and said , “ This is eldritch . ” Not in a hostile room , or even a confused path , but in a way that stand for that this was unlike from anything we ’d seen before . And if Futurama is meant , as a show , to do one thing , it ’s to show us stuff we ’ve never interpret on other show .

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The anthology is framed as a nature documentary , “ common of Omicron Presents Wild Universe . ” The first segment has the Futurama ring as Salmon River . It then shows the life cycle of Salmon River , throwing in a star - crossed honey story of Fry and Leela as salmon from different streams who wish to engender together . A villainous Zapp salmon is waitress in the wings to be Leela ’s lover when Fry ’s nature wo n’t lease him follow Leela to her spawning grounds , and there are cameo by Lrrr and NdNd as bear . The 2d involve the plight of Hubert , the Pinta Island Galapagos tortoise , trying to regain the only other tortoise of his subspecies on the island . The last story has beta manly elephant seal Kiff going up against Bender the Beachmaster for the love of Amy .

The fact that the show ’s writers clearly decide to jettison the “ future ” theme of the show entirely so they could compose hilarious tale is great . It let us see the same graphic symbol in a Modern light . There ’s plenty of comedy fodder in the genuine animals themselves , but the material stand - out is the narrative of the nature documentary about them . It mock the semi - largeness of most nature narrations , which disclose in with a rhapsodic descriptions of what ’s happening when you just want to watch the show . ( “ Looming ahead is nature ’s falls : The Cliff of the Waters . ” ) More significantly , it punctures the nifty , mystic , “ circle of life , ” stuff that nature shows spout , and openly allow in that nature is pretty nasty . The practiced part are the conclusions : “ And so the interminable cycle of life come to an end – meaningless and forbidding . Why did they live and why did they kick the bucket ? No reasonableness . . . . For in the terminal , nature is horrific and learn us nothing . ”

Brilliantly put .

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