The Prince and the Product

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.

I don't have to go back to check... This is the worst episode of the entire series, absolutely, without a doubt.

IMDB is making me write a full 600 characters about this garbage, but it doesn't even deserve 10.

I'm truly perplexed as to how the creators of such a formerly great show could spew out such awful, rank, garbage. Have they grown to hate their loyal audience? The "A" plot - maybe? - was stupid, sexist, predictable, and absolutely not funny. The many "B" plots were all entirely bereft of humor, cleverness, or any charm whatsoever.

This could not have been a greater misfire. I'm sad.

This is one of the most bafflingly terrible episodes of television I've ever seen. I genuinely have serious trouble even beginning to understand the motivations behind its creation; neither A-plot not B-plot makes particular sense nor relates in any significant way to the other, instead relying on a complete failure of a wacky anthology to tack pathos onto the A-plot much like a negligent landlord slaps fresh paint over black mould.

I have never written an IMDB review. I never felt the need to, before now. But this season has been astoundingly bad and this episode is arguably the lowest point of the entire show. Given how poorly some early episodes have aged, that is quite the achievement.

And the thing is... I love Futurama. What happened? How did the creatives in charge of this season fail so comprehensively to recapture what made the show special in the first place? It's a shame to see. There desperately needs to be some sort of major staffing shakeup for future seasons.

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.

So far the new season has been rather average with a few hits and misses here and there, but this episode specifically was just bad.

It's not out of the norm for Futurama to create a mix of stories and pull them into one episode, e.g. Anthology of Interest, but in this episode specifically they tried to awkwardly gel concepts together in a strange multiverse approach, it almost felt like they were trying to do what Rick and Morty do, but in the worst possible way.

Overall this episode is structurally disappointing, but it also lacks any real laughs to at-least make it entertaining. It's a Farcry from the excellence of the Anthology of Interest episodes of this he past.

I really hope the next episode course corrects.