With nothing better to do, I buried my carcass in the six-pillowed bed and inhaled at least as many episodes in one lounging. Preposterously, it wasn’t until 2007 that I sat in a hotel room, bored out of both membranes, and found the interstellar balm of a Futurama marathon on Comedy Central. In the post below Peters explores the vocabulary used on the show Futurama.ĭue to my immersion in humanitarian endeavors-or, possibly, an Olympian capacity for beauty sleep that is unfettered by beauty-I came late to the Futurama party, which started in 1999. And be our Facebook chum here.Mark Peters, the genius behind the blog Wordlustitude in addition to being a Contributing Editor for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and a language columnist for Babble, and the author of Yada, Yada, Doh! is our guest blogger this week. Read our review of episode 18, Silence Of The Clamps, here.įollow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here. The laughs aren’t as numerous as previous instalments this year, but you will hoot at the incestuous tone of the aforementioned Popular Slut Club. Yo Leela Leela is most definitely in the meta category of Futurama episodes, and whilst not as scathing or defined as similarly-themed stories, it’s still incredibly relevant and thoughtful. The lessons for kids and moralities, not a new facet of kids’ TV, it should be noted, are addressed too, most notably when Leela, after her attempt at redemption, finds everyone involved is better off, despite the dubious intervention of reality TV.
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Here, the trope returns with statements like, “We all know any TV show that’s even slightly good gets cancelled, sometimes two or three times,” whilst also acknowledging the demographics of children’s shows with, “It looks so cruddy their ironic, hipster parents will love it.”
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2003’s Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV, for example, showed the makers’ contempt for the industry they worked in, as the series came to its first end. The twist comes when Leela’s inspiration is brought to light.įuturama has, throughout its time, displayed some hilarious and, dare I say, satirical volleys at television. The Humplings deal with moralities, such as singing about the “ninety-eight words they don’t say” (like “penis” and “gay”). The episode title, Yo Leela Leela, is, as you may have surmised, a reference to US kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! which Leela’sRumbledy-Humpis a parody of (not unlike the UK’s In The Night Garden or Teletubbies).