How were the Comedy Central seasons of Futurama?

episodes range from 100% unfunny to pretty decent

I swear they did the same "x was actually a robot!" plot twist like four times. Absolute garbage writing. Jake's Noods Goldman was a part of the Comedy Central crew, which might explain that.

Bad
Most episodes are awful, some fuck with the characters so bad they become unlikable
Some episodes are extremely pandering, some people like it but I find it nauseating, it's all did you guys like fry missing his dog? Did you like him figuring out his relationship with his deceased brother????? Well we can't wait to show you his mother, his father, his late aunt and his distant cousin, it's extremely cheap to the point it's offensive
Some episodes bring along the whole cast wich is the biggest sign the writers of the show don't understand and can't write the characters, they try to make up for it by having so many characters on screen there isn't a single quiet moment
Sometimes tho, when they aren't trying to be precancelation Futurama which they can't pull off or be funny which they can't figure out or be too original which they don't know how to do they do manage a good episode like the one in which they travel to the future, the song sucked tho

Decent but not great, I remember it getting pretty woke for a few episodes

There was one episode where that was obviously an intentional gag they did over and over
the biggest issue is they stopped sounding or acting like each other and became all the same.
You're dead right with some of those criticisms. in fairness though we had already seen his parents in past flashbacks.
can we assume that when the actors demanded more money, they had to hire cheaper writers, just like simpsons?

They had Leela make a comment like "I haven't been this disappointed since Tron Legacy" and it just is so bad for Futurama to make pop culture references like that. Especially from a not Fry character

The worst thing about shows like this or like 2000s-era Simpsons is they can't even keep straight which characters/parts of the setting are their mouthpiece and which are the strawmen, so they get them mixed up and it's ten times as annoying as either one on its own.

There is a period where they tried to make Amy the new Fry. I remember Amy being used a lot more

>with the exception of The Late Philip J Fry which is up there with the best of them
You know, I agree. The late Phillip J Fry is honestly one of the best in the series.

>manage a good episode like the one in which they travel to the future, the song sucked tho
Forward time machine song was good. For a parody of the song in the year 2525, it was good.

The first season back was obviously script idea left over from the Fox days. Lots of jokes that were several years out of date. It did eventually pick up steam, though. And the worst episode of Futurama is still better than a lot of television.

3 good episodes for every 10. I don't know why they just took to doing pop culture shit that's already stale. Who even gives a shit about Susan Boil anymore?

This. Remember the zombie Simpsons episode where Homer becomes the voice of god and rants about Fox News?

This. It felt like the later day Rick Morty episodes

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I saw Network. Sounds about right for a parody in the zombie age.

The shift towards more topical pop culture references was kind of out of place at times, especially because some of them became dated almost immediately after they happened (e.g. Susan Boyle, although it did kick ass they got Craig Ferguson to do the voice lol). The writing wasn't as sharp but some of the episode conceits were still interesting, like the anthology of nature episode. Eventually the show knew it had run its course, and ended with a good final episode tying up the main love interest.

yeah it feels like squandered potential but it still hits hard
i'd sit through the worst episodes of fox seasons before 90% of cc

Not funny, often cringy

Before my last rewatch I thought that, after the first few episodes, which were already dated while being produced, they was pretty decent - not on par with the OG seasons, but standing on their own.
But then I actually rewatched them, and honestly, sometimes I wondered "do I actually want to watch Futurama now?", something that NEVER happened when I went through the Fox seasons.

I don't remember hating it but it wasn't very memorable. The old seasons were a lot better.

Pretty clear that they were running low on concepts and ideas to play with.