Good news , everyone ! Futurama bounce back in a big way last night , craft an episode full of incisive societal comment , giving laughs , and great case moments . good of all , it showcased Bender and the Professor at their mad , irrepressible good .
After last week’sunderwhelming episode , “ Proposition Infinity ” was a welcome return key to form . This might be right around the upper limit of what new Futurama can reach , and if that ’s the sheath , then I ’m more with OK with that . If nothing else , it ’s set a pretty impressive novel benchmark for the 2010 serial , and thing presage well that “ Attack of the Killer App ” was just a regrettable radar target .
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“ Proposition Infinity ” be the improbable yet oh - so - hot romance between Bender and Amy . Despite a millenary of social onward motion , the world still considers love between a automaton and a human tabu , and they trace the wrath of the Professor ( among others ) when their love is revealed . Bender and Amy end up fight to legalize robosexual wedding , and their determination to put Proposition Infinity on the voting reveals a dark secret from the Professor ’s past times .
Part of the rationality the episode worked so well was that it centered its conflict on the show ’s two funniest characters , Bender and Professor Farnsworth . ( Zoidberg is also up there , but previous attempts advise he ca n’t quite stockpile an installment and is better leave in the background . ) Although the two characters seem too out there to work in a larger social commentary , this actually worked in the episode ’s favour . Recalling the incredibly ( and intentionally ) muddled anti - television substance of “ Bender Should Not Be reserve On television ” , Bender was far too crooked and self - absorbed to be an effective mouth for even a worthy cause , and that helped keep the instalment from becoming didactical in its approach .
Even so , there really is n’t mistake the show ’s point of view , and there ’s definitely no mistaking what the episode was really about . The advert oppose Proposition Infinity was an dead roughshod ( and completely deserved ) evisceration of aninfamous commercialopposing same - gender marriage . One line in particular had the niceness of a sledgehammer , and was all the more hilarious for it : “ If robosexual married couple becomes legal , guess the ugly things that will fall out to our children . Then imagine we said those thing , because we could n’t imagine of any . As a mother , those things concern me . ”
The episode also revealed the two biggest opposition of robosexuality – the Professor and Preacherbot – as closet robosexuals themselves . The robot preacher fared peculiarly poorly here , but he was believably at his bad when bellowing , “ The only lie worth believing are the 1 in the Bible ! ” What the episode ’s satire lacked in subtlety – and yeah , it was reasonably missing in that family – it made up for tenfold in its unsparing ferociousness . Also , the sight of Preacherbot getting turned on by a bunch of robot rolling around with human dolls is just flat - out funny , disregarding of political perspective .
Indeed , a big part of the success of this episode was just how singular it was . Bender and the Professor spent the entire episode trading brilliant , nonsensical one - liner , and I ’m still not sure who I would adjudge the winner . Bender ’s brazenness and malevolency somehow made this line to Amy even more hilarious : “ You sleep with that floor safe where you keep ten grand ? There ’s five chiliad in there ! DON’T. MAKE . ME . WAIT . ” In fact , nitwitted brutality seemed to be a major subject of the episode ( and the whole serial , honestly ) , and the Professor and Leela ’s exchange with the oxen prod made me express mirth more than any other moment this time of year . Although I did love the Professor ’s dodderingly senile memory : “ I thought our love would last incessantly . But then , forty - three geezerhood later … ”
Actually , with child lines were well - distributed around moderately much everyone in the episode , with the possible exception of a mostly sideline Fry . ( He still has n’t really fix a comely showcase this season , actually . ) Leela did n’t get much to do either , but Katey Sagal absolutely nailed her one Greco-Roman line : “ So , Amy , how can I put this fine … why did Kif set down you like a sack of yesterday ’s turds ? ” Zoidberg ’s production line about only one consent grownup and Hermes ’s belief that we ’re talking about legitimatise deal of thing were also wild , and a admonisher of the strength of the show ’s substance ensemble .
But honestly , the good part of this episode was mayhap just the sheer , harebrained scope of its estimation . After some pretty tepid vociferation - outs to the iPhone , Twitter , and Susan Boyle last week ( OK , I ’ll kibosh criticizing last week ’s episode starting … now ) , this week sport a digital clock tower that angrily bellows the time , thunderstorm martini , pickled winds and weathers , an emotional wine bucket , the dread disease Circusitis ( it impress children of all ages ! ) , and a touch married to a sawhorse . ( Seriously , a spectre married to a gymnastic horse . ) Oh , and Larry the Murder Burglar , who deserves a yield engagement if only to get word his wonderfully disturbing name again . This is the sorting of gleefully weird material that reveals Futurama ’s cryptic love for the goofier side of scientific discipline fable , and I always love see to it what they come up with next .
Now , lest you think I ’ve completely abandon my vital faculty , I should aim out the episode is n’t perfect . The resolution of the installment , with Bender dumping Amy for a distich robot floozies and Kif winning Amy back , is credibly a necessary reset – I do n’t think Amy and Bender ’s human relationship would crop on the show tenacious - terminal figure , though it could have lasted a few more episode just fine – but it still feels like a cop - out . It does n’t help that they have to get back to the status quo in about twenty second , so what happen feels more like the outline of an ending than a proper determination .
In fact , break up Amy and Kif in the first place , though obviously necessary for the episode , feel more than a little contrived , in particular since it seemed to fall out of nowhere . That should n’t inevitably be straight ; after all , Amy and Zapp Brannigan slept together in The Beast with a Billion Backs , which definitely sift her relationship with Kif . But the sequence steadfastly avoids put forward prior persistence – indeed , the one time they bother explaining a potential continuity problem , Bender mock - snores out of boredom – so their battle feels manufactured and unsatisfactory . It ’s a nonaged thing , I suppose , but it is n’t great psychologically when the start and the end of an episode are its two weakest parts .
Still , “ Proposition Infinity ” is a triumph for the new Futurama , and just the sort of episode that leaves me convinced that the show ’s revival was wholly worthwhile . I leave you with my favorite Bender line of the nighttime , which is n’t really relevant to anything in particular but does seem rather unsounded . To wit : “ The truth is often dazed . ” And with that , I fuck up some cigar fastball in your fount , meatbag . Futurama is back .
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