The "I feel really bad" moment was heartbreaking. The way he repeats it, as though he's searching for a more illustrative way to say it, but can't find one. All that colourful, rapidfire Boston bravado rhetoric about everything in the world - but when it comes down to the core of how he feels inside, he has no words…

It's definitely the introduction of ♫ Thuhhhh Space Pope ♫

"I'll always remember you, Fry MEMORY DELETED" is a joke with such perfect razor-sharp timing. The more obvious route would have been to linger on the sentiment for a couple of seconds, then undercut it - but Futurama chose to deliver it as a near-instantaneous one-two punch. And it's SO much more hilarious for it.

Just based on the summary, the Liu episode sounds like a parody of a Star Trek spec script by a socially inept trekkie with a huge crush on Lucy Liu. Every now and then Futurama episodes make me step back and say: "wow… they *made* that? and it *worked*?"

Though I agree that Ragnar's monologue was off, and the terrible line about his "agenda" really took me out of the show for a moment too, I don't actually think the plot is that bad overall. I figured it out just a few minutes before that scene, when it became clear the siege was going to fail, and felt confirmed by…

For a moment there, I was sure that the guy they conned with the half-dollar was going to turn out to be one of the Davis & Main lawyers

It's a beautiful moment because it's even *more* mundane than a legal search code: it's just his printer code for running off copies of all the cases (she mentions it's about $300 worth of printing, or some-such). And I suspect it still may come back to bite Jimmy somehow.

I fear we may be building to the trauma that breaks his courage.

On the DVD commentary, they explain that there was a whole sideplot leading up to the weird jai-alai shot, but it was cut. Notice how some of the worm city inside fry is made out of silverware? There was originally a running gag about Fry eating all the silverware for some reason, leading Hermes to eat with/out of an…

Yeah, I'll grant you that, no contest.

I often cite this episode as having one of the best "voice in the crowd" gags of all time. When Fry is about to cut his medula oblongata, the noisy pleas from the worms peter out with the utterly glorious Phil LaMarr (I think) reading of "W-w-w-waiiit a minute man!"

You'll learn how wrong you are when the whole verdict gets overturned on appeal.

CLONE HIGH! Scudworth:

I didn't like the third segment either until I remembered what it was: a child's retelling of Game of Thrones based on how they would have absorbed the show.

During the scene with the judge, I thought the whole point was going to be that the billboard dispute *also* got her to say that they can't stop Jimmy from using his own name, which was all he actually wanted.

"You can’t call him inconsistent"

I only watched the phone scene twice, then came here in the hopes you'd explain what was going on…

"how to live with yourself when you just can't help subverting society's expectations because of who you are deep down inside"

I think it's more that when it's topical, how much you enjoy it is always going to rely partly on how much you care about the topic in question and how much you agree with South Park's take on it.

Hugo is one of the characters who, though I love him at times, will always be overshadowed by his Home Movies counterpart. Let's face it, there's a lot of Fenton in Hugo, just as there's a lot of Walter & Perry in Andy & Ollie — and I don't really have a problem with that but I like the originals so much more.