{"id":20915,"date":"2023-04-24T21:56:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20915"},"modified":"2023-04-24T21:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T01:56:59","slug":"futurama-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/futurama-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Futurama (season 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;The United States is part of the world.&#8217; &#8216;Wow, I have been gone a long time.'&#8221; &#8212; Leela &amp; Fry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Futurama<\/strong> season 2, aired in 1999-2000<\/p>\n<p>When Bender sells his body because the price of titanium goes up, he comes to regret it. When Professor Farnsworth turns 150, he decides since he doesn&#8217;t have much longer to live he&#8217;ll create a clone to continue his work. When they go fishing and the giant fish pulls the ship to the bottom of the ocean, Fry sees a mermaid. Bender runs into the Robot Mafia, and starts working for the Donbot.<\/p>\n<p>I like how people from our time are still around in the future as heads in jars.<\/p>\n<p>Great characters include Morbo the news anchor, Lrrr from Omicron Persei 8, Zapf Brannigan, and Mom the head of Mom&#8217;s Friendly Robot Company. On the other hand, Fry and Amy&#8217;s stupidity and the sadness of Zoidberg&#8217;s life can be a bit much.<\/p>\n<p>One more quotation: &#8220;Like most of life&#8217;s problems, this one can be solved with bending.&#8221; &#8212; Bender<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back&#8221; Hermes has to find Bender&#8217;s memory in the huge Central Bureaucracy. In &#8220;The Problem with Popplers&#8221; humans are shocked to find out that the delicious things they&#8217;ve been eating are actually the young of the Omicronians. In &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; Mom presses the &#8220;rebel&#8221; button on her remote and all the robots made by her factory rebel against humans. In &#8220;War Is the H-Word&#8221; Fry and Bender sign for the military in order to get a military discount &#8212; but then war is declared.<\/p>\n<p>Guest voices include John Goodman, Rich Little, Al Gore, and Stephen Hawking.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, and Phil LaMarr.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve watched it.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/futurama-season-1\/\">season 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;The United States is part of the world.&#8217; &#8216;Wow, I have been gone a long time.&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Leela &amp; Fry Futurama season 2, aired in 1999-2000 When Bender sells his body because the price of titanium goes up, he comes to regret it. When Professor Farnsworth turns 150, he decides since he doesn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[68,16,5,8,11],"class_list":["post-20915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20915"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21090,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20915\/revisions\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}