Cloverfield
02-02-2007, 07:54 AM
This is what someone said that about futurama saying it really irritaes them
I find it strange that no one has complained about this here (as far as I know). I've said this elsewhere (on Jump the Shark), but, as much as I like this show IN GENERAL, there was one part of it I almost always really disliked, and one particular side of it that I really LOATHED. First, the disembodied heads of late 20th Century celebrities joke, which was usually really squeezed in edgewise, sometimes in a really embarrassing way. This was already a sort of science fiction cliche (except for the celebrity part) when the show started, so if they had done it once in a great while, and if they had MADE FUN OF the cliche (in a friendly way or otherwise), it would've been so much better. Instead, it was usually worked into episodes that could have really done without that. But one part of it that I REALLY HATE is this - the disembodied head of Richard Nixon bit. It isn't sympathy for him, it's that I think that ninety-something per cent of Nixon jokes (at least, since he stopped being PRESIDENT), regardless of the writers, have been really, really LAME ones, partly because the people who write them act as though he's STILL president - like those SNL ones with Dan Aykroyd (someone I normally like a lot), where he's plotting to somehow become president again. Almost a kind of paranoia about him (which is funny, since paranoia was supposed to be HIS problem). And Futurama seemed to take its cue from those SNL sketches - his head, surrounded by "minions," trying to rule the world. And for the reason I just mentioned, it's probably EASY for comedy writers to imagine the whole thing, since they don't seem to think he's gone anywhere! And I hate that, not satisfied with putting it in the first episode, and so many others, they had to squeeze it into the LAST one, with that (to me, at least) embarrassingly "preachy" joke, with the devil taking him to hell. The reason I'm complaining about it right now is that last night I stumbled on an episode I'd never seen (that sort of Nixon as "Robocop" one), and I wished I'd KEPT ON missing it. If they do bring back Futurama, I really hope they leave out the "head" jokes in general (as opposed to doing them here and there, IF they do something really witty with them), and I hope they leave out the dreary Nixon jokes altogether!
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I find it strange that no one has complained about this here (as far as I know). I've said this elsewhere (on Jump the Shark), but, as much as I like this show IN GENERAL, there was one part of it I almost always really disliked, and one particular side of it that I really LOATHED. First, the disembodied heads of late 20th Century celebrities joke, which was usually really squeezed in edgewise, sometimes in a really embarrassing way. This was already a sort of science fiction cliche (except for the celebrity part) when the show started, so if they had done it once in a great while, and if they had MADE FUN OF the cliche (in a friendly way or otherwise), it would've been so much better. Instead, it was usually worked into episodes that could have really done without that. But one part of it that I REALLY HATE is this - the disembodied head of Richard Nixon bit. It isn't sympathy for him, it's that I think that ninety-something per cent of Nixon jokes (at least, since he stopped being PRESIDENT), regardless of the writers, have been really, really LAME ones, partly because the people who write them act as though he's STILL president - like those SNL ones with Dan Aykroyd (someone I normally like a lot), where he's plotting to somehow become president again. Almost a kind of paranoia about him (which is funny, since paranoia was supposed to be HIS problem). And Futurama seemed to take its cue from those SNL sketches - his head, surrounded by "minions," trying to rule the world. And for the reason I just mentioned, it's probably EASY for comedy writers to imagine the whole thing, since they don't seem to think he's gone anywhere! And I hate that, not satisfied with putting it in the first episode, and so many others, they had to squeeze it into the LAST one, with that (to me, at least) embarrassingly "preachy" joke, with the devil taking him to hell. The reason I'm complaining about it right now is that last night I stumbled on an episode I'd never seen (that sort of Nixon as "Robocop" one), and I wished I'd KEPT ON missing it. If they do bring back Futurama, I really hope they leave out the "head" jokes in general (as opposed to doing them here and there, IF they do something really witty with them), and I hope they leave out the dreary Nixon jokes altogether!
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