I have gotten a habit of reading a bit to my 7 years old sister some tales by Hans Christian Andersen and I'm honestly surprised by her taste. She adores "The Tinderbox".

So Edison invented TMZ?

"I came here to save my wife and my two children and... seven billion lives... it's too much. I just hope I'm, I'm smart enough and brave enough to save three."

Exactly. They are sacrificing the willing suspesion of disbelief for the sake of a cheap laugh with a quick joke that will be forgotten in five years. Which is very low on the writer's sake since we know they can be brilliant and witty.

I watch it on Fox Latin America, so I only have seen Season 6 so far.

"The Late Philip J. Fry" and "Reincarnation" proves that the new episodes still can be a pretty smart and imaginative show, but then you have "Attack of the Killer App" and "That Dark Katz" that push them down, really down...

Though Futurama itself is a modern classic, I some of the new episodes too topical and too cheap for getting a laugh than before, which sadly spoils a bit older greatest ones.

This seems oddly fitting.

This makes me wonder what Don Draper thinks of Star Trek.

Why do you destroy my dreams, io9? :( I only wanted immortality! Is that too much to ask?

By the way, just to show peasants were indeed capable of not only revolting but giving noblemen a full-on war... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros

This always made me wonder, though. How did they elected the Minister of Magic? Did they have magical political parties or just voted in people every X-number of years? Though the Wizard World seems quite underpopulated, though.

What about an Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune? (Mandatory Monty Python reference)

Quite true. It reminds me of Farenheit 451, where the only books available where cheap cliffnote versions of book to appear smarter.

I think the second experiment came to be in a small Welsh village...

Coming from Venezuela, I believe this is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one side, the advancements on the last decade have been proverbial but it has also forced a line between us in the Third World and people in the First World. Especially with programmed obsolensce.

The thing about the Starship Troopers remake is that you either go with the Verhoeven vision poking fun at the politics behind it or the Heinlein vision playing all painfully straight. You can't do both.

I feel I need to point out "Money" is not Monosyllabic.

Yeah, my bad.

Fascinating example of Orientalism. For a moment I thought this would about George Psalmanazar, a man who claimed to come from Taiwan, spoke a made-up calendar and followed a made-up language.