The Prince and the Product

Well, this wasn't good at all. I agree with most people that I just basically gasped at what was going on. It's basically three short stories, but this time there was a frame up. It was Leela falling in love with the prince of space (movie reference?) and then these random stories appearing with the characters as toys. I mean, it was just too random a way to tell stories. Leela just seems to randomly dump Fry, but it does say she was under a science spell.

That's pretty lame. I was wondering how long these stories would go on. It just seemed like one pointless story after another. I guess the car one was the best. I guess reincarnation was the theme? What did that have to do with the frame up? *1/2.

I am sorry- I am a long time fan of futurama, but this was one was just terrible.

Not funny at all. Each "toy" vignette was annoying, irrelevant, predictable, and generally stupid. I found myself looking forward to the ending and not caring at all about the main plot.

Although the characters have been fairly one dimensional for a while now, they are now just caricatures of themselves whittled down to just a few dumb catchphrases.

It was a struggle to finish and in general makes me very worried for the future of the show. If they are this out of ideas, why bother to bring it back in the first place?

They missed, Big Time!

I loved both the Saturday Morning Fun Pit and Reincarnation episodes, as well as the Anthology of Interest I and Anthology of Interest II, but this was bad!.

The obscure non-canonical episodes have been some of my favorites, but this one didn't hold a candle.

Even if they scrapped the pointless King of Space sub-plot, it would have blown, but that plotline, as well as the so-called twist and shoddy ending were so beneath even the worst Futurama episode. I think they were going for an Amazon Women on the Moon non-sequitur style of cohesion, but it was bad.

Even the toy subplots were poorly written. The car one had a couple of laughs, but the robot and rubber duck/weeble wobble bits felt like they were written by a first-year intern.

This season has been hit or miss, which I can deal with. It's my fourth time on this ride, but this is my least favorite Futurama episode, ever and I've never had one before today.

Honestly, if this episode ended with text saying "Written by A. I", I'd give it way more stars. That would have been a clever nod to supporting the current writers' strike and a great illustration on why good writers are so essential.

In fact, they could have made a whole funny wrap-up segment of an A. I/robot printing the final page of the episode's script and calling it their masterpiece. Would have fit really well with the universe, their show's comedic style, and the current climate around A. I. in media.

But this episode didn't do any of that. So I can only assume humans wrote it. Which easily makes it the worst episode in the entire series, hands down.

This is by far the worst episode of Futurama so far. It was incoherent, disjointed, failed to provide a reference for the framing device (the delivery to the King of Space) and had all of the characters behaving completely out of character just for the sake of a lame story. The worst part was the handwave at the end with the professor saying it was a "science spell" in the last seconds.

They are now treating their fans like idiots, who have become used to tightly-written scripts with well thought-out plots and clever dialogue, but Hulu got their mitts on it and gave us this.

Like most here, I've been a day-one fan and watched most episodes episodes multiple times because they are so well crafted, they deserve re-watching. This season? Absolute garbage. Lazily written with no regard to the fans who kept up with it for two decades.

This is a shameful way for this series to go out on. This is Matt Groening's property and still has considerable clout to make sure that this could have been the best season to go out on, but he decided to say f--- it all, I got paid, and I can't be bothered any longer.