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A Big Piece of Garbage When the city of New New York discovers that a ball of garbage from the 20th century is headed their way, they must make all efforts to stop it before it destroys the town, some more seemingly counterproductive than others. One of the things I love about The Simpsons is its biting social commentary wrapped up in a believable and relatable story. You look at episodes like "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" or "Much Apu about Nothing" and really see the master crafting skills of the writers. This is a skill they have long since abandoned, but we're not talking about that. Anyway, Futurama so far has appeared to be more immersed in making jokes about its future world and playing around with it. This is the first episode where I really see them taking a stab at a social issue; namely, the human waste problem. How does it hold up? Pretty damn well! As usual, there are plenty of jokes concerning the 30th century thrown in, as well as callbacks to the 20th century. Love the pile of Bart Simpson dolls on the garbage ball. On top of that, there's a surprisingly potent story concerning the professor and his place in the city. This is the first time, I think, that they've really explored Farnsworth's character, and it's done really well. I love his characterization as this befuddled, often confused but well-meaning scientist. They also have a lot of jokes in his part of the plot; I love the reveal that he had already built a smell-o-scope well after the conference has ended. This review cuts a little short, but honestly, there's not much I can say about this one. It just plain works. It really feels like it's taking a piece out of that Simpsons humour style, and being the fan of that show that I am, I can really appreciate that. Apparently the entire episode is also a spoof of the movie Armageddon, which I've never seen, but I didn't need to understand the references to appreciate the episode on a whole. A surprisingly solid episode for its ominous title. Full of laughs and just a fun ride all the way through. 9/10 Scattered Thoughts and Observations: Where were Amy and Zoidberg in this episode? We see Zoidberg later for a quick joke about his eating preferences, but at the opening meeting, only Hermes gets a line in. Oh well, can't have everyone be fully present in every episode. I love the reveal of how old the professor, and basically everyone else at the scientist conference, is. Just another subtle detail to distinguish our world from the one a thousand years into the future. "A MINUS-MINUS!" is going to haunt me for a while. Such a ridiculous, yet chillingly delivered line. The informational video on what happened to all the garbage in 2052 is pretty much perfect. I love the cut to porn in the end. Of all the jokes that could have been dated, that certainly wasn't one of them... I could go on and on about all the great jokes here. While I couldn't give it a 10/10 because "Love's Labours Lost" set a bar ridiculously high, this has certainly secured a spot in my Top 3 so far along with "Fear of a Bot Planet". Great episode.

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It helps that the writers are basically forced into "witty" with Homer's job-of-the-week being a critic. The episode is saved by its one-liners, as you said, but I can't picture most of these lines coming out of Homer's mouth. They're a bit too clever for him, I think.

"Sorry Marge, I'm afraid this gets my lowest rating ever: seven thumbs up."

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Eh... it was alright? I suppose it's good to hear Todd's current thoughts on Drake for a full video after being so wishy-washy about him before.

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FROZONE'S WIFE IS BACK Y'ALL

The way Channel Awesome went about doing all of this feels so insidious to me. I'd almost call it deliberate sabotage, but with the site's history of incompetence and all the other shit that has surfaced because of this (the JewWario thing), plus Malcolm and Tamara adamantly defending the site, that seems unlikely to me. I mean, if this truly was all deliberate, that makes Michaud an even more evil son of a bitch than we gave him credit for.

The Blockbuster Buster for top meme of 2018

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