Everything after season 5 is hollow, like the jokes are being written with a laugh track in mind. Its just not as clever. This season is no exception.

Consider Old man Waterfall defending Zoidberg: “I request a Satanic funeral.” “Boooo!” This the culmination of a running joke about American freedom values to “do what you want, but not like that.”

To season 6 opener: “Professor, my Fry-fro…”

To be fair. Old Futurama episodes first 5 seasons were also on actual topics those days, and music groups etcetera. Only difference is that today something is not fresh after 2 months in spotlight and Futurama episodes takes somewhat longer time than that to produce, especially when considering the strike last year I think it was.

Not a fan of the episodes that riff on “the current hot topics”: nft, eye-phone, etc.

Having said that, they better than no Futurama!

I’m enjoying them.

Completely agree.

Yeah I think the first episode did a great job of explaining why NFTs are stupid haha

I love anything that flashes back to Fry’s old life. It was genuinely a funny episode as well.

The third is so brilliant. Absolutely loved it.

I don’t have anything to add because that sums up my thoughts as well

I might skip the first episode on future rewatches, but the other two were fun

I liked the last season for the most part, but the episodes were very hit or miss. And I feel like this one was another miss. Hopefully the other episodes will be better.

Episode numbering inconsistencies are the single best weapon against the convenience of piracy…

Or S08E11 if you’re going by Wikipedia’s numbering scheme. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_season_8

I had a moment at the start of the episode where I thought I had pulled up the wrong season. It felt like I’d seen it before, especially with the outdated subject matter. Not many people care about NFTs anymore. Not many people ever really did. And they didn’t even bother to create any context for why this was happening 1000 years in the future (unlike in, say, the global warming episode).

I didn’t hate it, but it seemed odd. Perhaps this was originally intended for a much earlier release? Wasn’t this originally presented as a single season split into two releases? Now they’re officially called season 11 and season 12 on Hulu.