The World is Hot Enough

It was just one big thing about how climate change is bad and it does it badly. The episode is just shoving a message down it throat. The crazy thing is they did the same type of episode in the past but a lot better and I enjoyed it. But this one just sucks and it gets stupider by the moment and it feels like a lot of nonsense.

I'm one of the few who has enjoyed a lot of the Disney Futurama. This episode though? Nope.

In 30 minutes I must have chuckled once, maybe twice. The jokes are SO low effort. Like beyond the bottom of the barrel. As others have said, it's a reused concept, it's been done better before so many times, and it forgets the episode where they moved the planet.

It's interesting because the recent fast fashion episode was a GREAT commentary on climate change as a whole. It was nuanced and subtle whilst having multiple interesting plot threads and great visuals. This is the opposite. Utterly unappealing. I'm just glad Futurama is still a yo-yo show rather than only episodes like this.

I was very much looking forward to the new season, god knows why, the last season gave us precious little reason to be hopeful... The first episode this year was ok-ish, but in the original run, it would have barely broken the bottom 5.

So ok, I get it, climate is getting warmer. But I have been around for "The Inconvenient Truth" (remember how we are not supposed to have seen any snow in Europe for a couple of years by now?) and the accompanying "Crimes of the Hot" episode was fine, not to say great. Loved the ice cube gag, which of course made zero sense. But then, they solved the climate warming problem by moving the Earth away from the sun, which the current writers ignore (just like Fry's birth year in the rubbish Squid game episode). I get it, it's a dumb cartoon show, but either you have continuity, or you don't.

So about this episode, it's P. R. E. A. C. H. Y !!!! Trust me, if someone is on the climate-"oh god, we're all going to die"-catastrophe train, you don't need to convince them, and for the others, you'll just turn them off, by forcing this (well meaning, no doubt) message so hard down their throats, that it's hard to breathe. So who is this for then? And what's next? A "Orange Men bad" episode? Or how about Biden is demented? I don't care. I don't want my Futurama political references any more recent than Nixon, anything else isn't entertainment, but political education. If you don't like it, go to reddit and have a circle j*rk there in your favourite partisan bubble.

Following a great season debut, this satirical episode followed suit, making me laugh to tears with its sharp satire, good jokes, and even old characters from earlier seasons (that biologist who hates all living things). As I wrote above, the main value of this episode is satire - specifically satire on the uselessness of environmental organizations (especially if Mommy bought them), people's hated of each other (but not bears), and of course, global warming, which requires dropping a huge piece of ice into the ocean or blowing up one volcano every week. I was also amused by the fact that Pompeii has become an attraction, and the victims of that tragedy have become exhibits to take pictures with! "Tragedy + time = comedy," as one web cartoon series said. Fry's attempts to become a mother to wild animals also looked funny and cute, didn't they? In short, the episode is truly brilliant, and to avoid wasting IMDB's computing power (for the sake of the environment): enjoy watching!

Other reviews have already said this, so I won't belabor the point, but this episode was laugh-out-loud funny for about half of its runtime. It's fine to want to preach about climate change, but as others have said, *Futurama* has been there, done that, and did so in a much better way.

It honestly reminds me of Hulu's reboot of *Animaniacs*, which was also hilarious but overly political. *Pinky and the Brain* did a great job (as they always have), but the Warners really blew it.