this show was never the legitimate look at good and evil that it was supposed to be, but season 2 came pretty close. the concept has always been interesting and intelligent, but they've never had writers who could do it any justice.

agreed that the first 20 minutes felt like set-up to a punchline. and while the reveals were funny, the real punchline - him getting detained by police - was predictable, not so timely, and then made way too obvious by somebody saying "I guess times haven't changed"  … ugh! there were a couple other too-obvious…

if i remember correctly, Huey and Dewey only broke a couple arms, but poor Louie cracked his skull open.

and note that jesse's not winning…  perhaps unable to control himself at such a speed?

isn't sonic the hedgehog the perfect video game for them to be playing when the plot jumps into high gear ?

Like 95% of the great moments from Ducktales, this joke comes from a Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comic from the 40s or 50s. In the first issue of U.S., Scrooge is able to swim through his cash but when the Beagle Boys try to do the same, they knock themselves out cold.

definitely.

is kevin nealon wearing a rug?

the plot may have been schematic for a Curb episode, but it's pretty unusual for a season finale. how many CYE season finales have been this short? or without Larry winning in some sense? i thought it was funny - as was the whole season - but sort of disappointing anyway…

Yeah. Besides, God number one explained it. This is reincarnation. it would have made no sense, given that explanation or the title, if this ended up making sense within the canon and being resolved.

overarching story is stretching it. but this episode is most closely related to the christmas episode from last year, right? a trilogy with no framing device where all the segments are closely related thematically.

yeah, the first segment was fun. the whole thing was pretty much a nod to the Fleischer bros - especially obvious in Leela's pronunciation of girl (a la olive oyl), the can of mushroom-something (can't remember), the reference to betty boop, and the pretty darn good looking layered background on the comet (see Popeye…

are you coming on to me?

but those episodes were hardly going for emotion. they just had maybe 15 second emotional bumpers at the end. and futurama has been doing this since the 1st episode (also see: the 2nd episode, the 3rd episode).

Yeah, diamondium has been mentioned before. This episode was produced a year ago, so it has nothing to do with the recent discovery. On the other hand, we all knew finding diamond stars, planets or comets was theoretically possible before this discovery so there is a scientific basis anyway.

lukewarm season?

The joke is that the cartoon was obviously made for a Japanese audience, but then translated for a Western one. So the Japanese locations were given English names.

oops. said the same thing above (and later and not as well) before scrolling down and reading this. yes, seems awfully fishy. especially the part about snow white being pregnant.

the comparison is bound to be made (read an interview where they talk about snow white being pregnant and wielding a sword, both concepts that Fables has previously done). also there is the suspicious matter of the same network buying the rights to produce a Fables TV show and having a pilot written….     creative…

just thinking the same thing. how much more tension can be squeezed out of the gus/walt conflict? gus'll be the one to go, not hank. the hank/walt conflict has yet to really take off — maybe that'll be next season.