Futurama Was Never About The Future

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How are the 2020s bearing out the 'end of history'? …To shreds, you say?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:35 1A, The end of history....
6:06 1B, ...and Futurama
14:36 1C, It's about 1999
18:39 2A, Can Futurama work in 2023?
19:14 2B, Staying current
21:00 2C, Returning to 1999
25:51 2D, 20th century ethos
29:15 2E, What it looks like we're getting
31:18 Conclusion
Links to videos / web pages shown or discussed:
the-avocado.org/2021/03/07/fu...
www.columnblog.com/p/throwing...
www.jstor.org/stable/24027184
www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
www.newyorker.com/books/under...
KZfaq:
Johnny 2 Cellos' video: • Futurama's (1st) Reviv...
Folding Ideas on NFTs: • Line Goes Up - The Pro...
(financial desperation talk happens in the last chapter)
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company and later revived by Comedy Central. The series follows the adventures of the professional slacker Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years and revived on December 31, 2999. Fry finds work at an interplanetary delivery company, working alongside the one-eyed Leela and robot Bender. The series was envisioned by Groening in the mid-1990s while working on The Simpsons; he brought David X. Cohen aboard to develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox. In February 2022, Hulu revived the series with a 20-episode order expected to premiere in 2023.

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@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

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@Melvinshermen 10 ай бұрын

Once again smudcast is back

@MarkFin9423 9 ай бұрын

One of the only things that futurama/Fukuyama didn't predict with the eternal 1999 with everything being the same/rehashed was that there would be so little problems that people would decide to make their own problems creating a new culture that eats itself to the point that anything 20 years ago is considered taboo with a lot of labels attached to it. Instead, people would rather tear down the current culture and rehash historically failed ideas(like how well rehashing 80/90s movies is doing "sarcasm") to slay an imaginary dragon that doesn't exist beyond the landscape of social media, even if it harms society and/or it benefits corporate monopolies (sorta like that mom episode in futurama).

@nothanks9503 9 ай бұрын

No crypto owes it’s success to drugs being illegal trust me I know the people who were buying stuff with bitcoin when it was worth like 4$

@onearmedbandit84 10 ай бұрын

Starting a discussion about whether or not the upcoming Futurama reboot can make it in 2023 by invoking Francis Fukayama's 'The End of History' is peak video essay, and I say that in the best way possible.

@shotinsarajevo 10 ай бұрын

When he said "meet Francis Fukayama" I actually screamed lol

@drewt1717 10 ай бұрын

I agree. What an insightful, well constructed and executed discussion! Wow! I laughed, I cried, I pondered, and my perspective on the topic was shifted by the end. Well done in many many ways!

@nothanks9503 9 ай бұрын

Great premise garbage shoe horned pro China conclusion

@mr.impressions1370 7 ай бұрын

It's not a reboot I find it more like a continuation of the show

@golem778 10 ай бұрын

To me futurama was always a mirror of the world 1000 years before, it wasn't ever stuck in 1999, it always was stuck in the events and atmosphere of when the episodes came out

@drewt1717 10 ай бұрын

100%. And still is faithful to that now, apparently.

@jacksonfurlong3757 10 ай бұрын

Futurama was never about the future being good, if anything it was pretty damned dystopian.

@marocat4749 10 ай бұрын

That ad gag ight b one of th reasons t not let musk do brain chips.

@zainmudassir2964 10 ай бұрын

He assumed it will be US dominated world but China Russia and even Middle East is challenging them and becoming multipolar , leaving the US dollar

@l.h.1429 10 ай бұрын

@@zainmudassir2964Leaving US Dollar would be less significant for their power fall than much people thinks

@marocat4749 10 ай бұрын

@@zainmudassir2964 i dont see rusia or china currently making it there, not twith that regimes

@toyotaprius79 10 ай бұрын

I thought it was superimposing the 20th century in the 31st. But honestly, we're only 22 years into the 21st century and we're still vaguely recognising it, especially when you crop out the internet.

@tamaralevi6076 10 ай бұрын

After hearing both about 50 times in this video, I feel pretty confident that Groening titled the show after Fukuyama. Not literally, but they sound very similar on purpose.

@Spongebrain97 10 ай бұрын

The end of history bit is interesting because growing up in the early 2000s, that was what the vibes were in the late 90s history textbooks at school. To where they were still riding off the high of the end of the Soviet Union but before 9/11 happened. In hindsight that old mentality is ironic because it thought that liberal democracy under American capitalism would just coast on by forever and didn't factor in the rise of China, more recessions, growing wealth divides and the re-emergence of fascism. I think can all be tied to late stage capitalism which is the exact opposite of the end of history narrative

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

Interesting! Thank you for sharing!

@onearmedbandit84 10 ай бұрын

I often wonder how capitalism would've been able to continue without the sharp authoritarian turn America took after 9/11. In 1999 you had the absolute trainwreck that was Woodstock '99 which could easily be argued as the best microcosm for neoliberalsim ever conceived and anarchist black blocs, union members, and environmental activists basically united to shut down the WTO's meeting in Seattle later that year with both events funnily enough being put down with heavy law enforcement and National Guard involvement. Hell in 2000, Rage Against the Machine held a protest concert outside of the Democratic National Convention which was violently broken up by LAPD, and they even breifly shut down Wall Street performing on the steps of the exchange for a music video directed by Michael Moore. Looking back it really felt like the entire canvass of of the post-Cold War world was falling in on itself with the absence of a proper enemy to rally against.

@Spongebrain97 10 ай бұрын

@@onearmedbandit84 think all of the negatives would've happened eventually and was unavoidable. Almost every modern day problem from the environmental collapse to gross wealth inequality and subsequently democratic backsliding stems from neoliberalism being allowed to reign supreme

@calebmarmon1310 10 ай бұрын

@@Spongebrain97And let’s be honest, neoconservativism and plenty other right wing forces were just waiting for their chance to make some big changes.

@onearmedbandit84 10 ай бұрын

@@Spongebrain97 I agree. Looking back at how the Democratic Party progressively leapfrogged to the right on economics as did the Republican Party on social issues every election cycle for the past 30 years it most likely would've been inevitable.

@ElectrostatiCrow 10 ай бұрын

Franscis Fukayama watching the 2008 financial crash, war in Ukraine and rise of China happening in the 2000s Franscis Fukayama: "The risk I took was calculated. But man am I bad at math."

@beardlyinteresting 10 ай бұрын

This showed more depth in Futurama than I'd ever thought of. An excellent video essay brought to you by Bachelor Chow, it's what man craves.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

now I’m picturing influencers in 3000 hawking bachelor chow like hellofresh

@walpoleandworcester 10 ай бұрын

I just saw the first episode of the Hulu revival and it was funny as hell. Same writers as the previous seasons, and they haven’t missed a beat. Episode got pretty insane and I think the format of Hulu works very well for this show. Can’t wait to see more. Billy West seems to be getting back into his characters so he sounded a bit off at first but other than that, I enjoyed what we have gotten thus far.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Looking forward to checking it out myself!

@camelopardalis84 10 ай бұрын

How were you able to watch it already? Some early access thing?

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

@@camelopardalis84 the first episode is out today (on Hulu, Star, or Disney+ depending on location)!

@JoelFeila 10 ай бұрын

Fry should be in his late 40s. Keep that in mind Fry is now 48.

@l.h.1429 10 ай бұрын

Since the last reboot, he has not aged so I think he has 38 like in 2013

@lynntaylor9681 10 ай бұрын

I know. He's a few years older than me and I'm 43. Pretty sure in one of the eps it said he was born in 1976.

@MegaManXPoweredUp 10 ай бұрын

Technically, he's about 2 × ♾ + 48

@propheinx2250 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like Fry should be Lars by now... minus the larynx damage.

@Felix.Dragon. 7 ай бұрын

If fry has to be in his 40's then Homer Simpson should be 68

@parthasarathipanda4571 10 ай бұрын

'History has ended' is kind of a overconfident statement for anyone to make, in hindsight atleast...

@redleaderantilles1263 10 ай бұрын

God even just thinking about spending time reading or contemplating Fukayama is giving me chills. Great video, hope the damage wasn't too severe

@joseffort7749 10 ай бұрын

When i watched futurama originally 25 years ago i never took the characters exemplifying bad attitudes for then or accepting a bad status quo as indicating approval of the world it was satirizing. I felt it was a reflection of the apathy that in fact would lead to the future to be the same as the past and was meant to cause an awareness not to do that. I have seen several younger people looking back at futurama and making this mistake.

@bobsonny 10 ай бұрын

have you considered that maybe you were the one who is making a mistake in how you read the text and, just maybe, other people's takes could be valid?

@abigfavor 10 ай бұрын

I never thought that Futarma was supposed to be an accurate prediction. I thought it was a satire of today and thinking the future would save us, from any of it. There's still racism, sexism, poverty, crime and any number of other small problems that are still present in the future.

@marocat4749 10 ай бұрын

And adsss, the prospect of being ssending ads in dreams is scary :( ok there are a lot of that i just find tht very eary.

@camelopardalis84 10 ай бұрын

Other small problems? As in "other problems which are also small" or as in "other problems that, unlike the others I listed, are small"?

@kaganozdemir4332 10 ай бұрын

futurama always implied that humanity sucked, and it would continue to suck even harder in the future. it was much darker than say rick and morty but it was not so showy about it, it was much more implicit.

@abigfavor 10 ай бұрын

@@kaganozdemir4332 agreed. I love Rick and Morty also but its more about personal social dysfunction instead of continued societal dysfunction.

@melodysoundy7627 10 ай бұрын

@@TalkwithLinaWhilst genderbender was harmful I still think Family Guys was a lot more harmful in my opinion.

@Korra228 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes you just gotta let go of a good thing and let it end

@leephillips4402 10 ай бұрын

The Simpsons won't leave, Futurama keeps coming back, I wonder what Disenchantment's thing is gonna be.

@kanna-san. 10 ай бұрын

It got cancelled iirc

@leephillips4402 10 ай бұрын

@@kanna-san. I didn't hear that but I'm familiar with Netflix so I believe it.

@lued123 10 ай бұрын

@@leephillips4402It hasn't been officially cancelled or renewed, but one of the writers said the next season was almost finished. So it's really weird and nebulous.

@leephillips4402 10 ай бұрын

@@lued123 Adult Swim saved Tuca and Bertie then re-cancelled it again pretty abruptly, think that could happen again?

@camelopardalis84 10 ай бұрын

@@leephillips4402 Maybe they literally set fire to all existing copies of five already finished seasons, so they could use it as a tax write-off when airing these episodes would have made them less money.

@TheFiresloth 10 ай бұрын

Great points about the end of History. Another potential problem is the fall into shallow parody. For example, in Futurama, besides the jokes about 90-00's society and the fairly unique human drama, you could easily see the cultural sci-fi influences and references made by the show.The doomerist, moralistic stories of the 50's, the utopian sense of wonder of Star Trek, the playful, fairly shallow arcade game-like approach of the early 80's. All things the writers knew and liked. These weren't simply used as "hey, I understood that reference" jokes, they actually set the tone. Compare that with Disenchantment, supposed to parody fantasy tropes and genre. There is... nothing. Vague fairytale vibe, your odd Game of Thrones or D&D winks thrown in there, Dung Age stereotypes, steampunk and smurfs for some reason... The show does not know what it is talking about, and it is hurting the story. And I'm afraid this will creep in this new Futurama. As a genre, scifi is not super active. What are they gonna reference ? Dystopian black mirror ? Mindscrewie annihilation ? There's not much to go from.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

I do like Disenchantment, but you’ve got a good point here about these shows having a different type of engagement with their respective genres/influences

@marocat4749 10 ай бұрын

more radical progressive cautious optimism?! I think to stay any worth it futurama has to get more star trek i think. Maybe genuine star trek in dystopia with enough cynicism?!

@crimsonmask3819 10 ай бұрын

Futurama doesn't need to update its sci fi references; they were mostly old when the show began, and there's a ton of retro sci fi to mine for _those_ concepts. Plus, it has its own worldbuilding to fall back on. That said, there are still pulpy trends that might get a few jabs, like the litrpg/gamelit genre that's exploded in the last fifteen years.

@DocKrazy 10 ай бұрын

Man. I do remember back in school, thinking something to the extent of "can't wait for more historic events to happen so I can witness them" I swear I was being sarcastic, people. It was sarcasm!

@experienceevents6951 10 ай бұрын

I just caught up on futurama and this was the exact type of thought provoking content I was hoping I’d find on KZfaq

@fastfacts727 10 ай бұрын

I just wanted to say this was an absolutely fantastic, well thought-out video essay, one of the best I've watched this year. You've earned yourself a new subscriber, keep up the great work sir.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much :D

@Yoshimitsu4prez 10 ай бұрын

This and king of the hill I think really could work with a reboot in the modern day. Both shows excelled being so present in the times they were made, with biting commentary on various issues from great, likeable characters. The one way to NOT do it is trying to 1:1 recreate that original success which, imo, is impossible.

@onearmedbandit84 10 ай бұрын

Considering the, to say the least, problematic politics of Mike Judge's Beavis and Butthead reboot I do not have confidence that a hypothetical reboot of a show centered around a conservative white dude living in suburban Texas would bear any such fruit.

@leephillips4402 10 ай бұрын

@@onearmedbandit84 well Mike Judge can only write what he knows, that's why The Goode Family was such a flop.

@onearmedbandit84 10 ай бұрын

@@leephillips4402 There's also the much-loved eugenics propaganda piece, 'Idiocracy'. But generally I am immediately suspicious of any satire produced by any comedy personality who peaked during the Clinton era.

@leephillips4402 10 ай бұрын

@@onearmedbandit84 I wouldn't say Mike Judge has peaked, people just keep giving him money to rehash stuff he'd already given satisfying conclusions to and he keeps taking it instead of working on new projects.

@Joseph-gi6bw 10 ай бұрын

I'd also include that these topics were also major topics in their time, I argue that most have grown bigger since the original premiere. Just like King of the Hill; they both curtel to a certain population Geographic of the world as well as to the Populations most able to make a global change (i.e. middle class, right-wing, southerners [for us Americans], and Melenoleus world wide) I do believe That these populations still have massive power for global change; possible even more so today?

@talitanaka 10 ай бұрын

I feel like the most 1999 thing Futurama 11 could do is have all the current events going on in the background and have the gang have their usual adventures completely ignoring the world falling apart around them and complaining in a tone deaf way like NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe

@minestar2247 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that would be interesting

@billyrigby4839 10 ай бұрын

After watching the new episode I see they go full into 2023. And it was good. And fun. Classic Futurama.

@sirducksworthythe3rd842 10 ай бұрын

It still works, most people still watch the episodes that exist so far over and over

@grapeshot 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I hope it does well. I'm definitely going to watch it.

@tofersiefken 10 ай бұрын

I'm honestly more excited about Futurama coming back for an 11th season on Hulu than I am about any of the Star Wars shows on Disney+. I may have to renew my Hulu account.

@TheFreakDownStreet 10 ай бұрын

So many shows from the late 90s/early 2000s just hit so differently now. “Har har, everything will be fine,” style jokes just seem so incredibly daft.

@sum8601 10 ай бұрын

great analysis! its kind of represents a quandary with shows like this, do you acknowledge the present and provide witty takes on it, or do you focus on more base, humanistic stories and wrap them up in escapism. In a lot of ways id say "the Orville" has a very similar working concept to Futurama and has managed to successfully comment on the present in an organic, thought provoking manner whilst also providing base level fun/drama with silly sci fi themes to get lost in.

@yeah.cheers 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic video essay, one of the best I've seen on KZfaq

@PillarofGarbage 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@mandalorianhunter1 10 ай бұрын

Imo Futurama can always be a timeless show because certain topics and themes they bring up just work. The emotional gut punches along with the Even it's not about the future, recent events could always have a impact on the subject of episodes

@kipbong-un1152 10 ай бұрын

The most accurate thing Futurama predicted was pop cultural stagnation. Afterall, what is a nostalgic revival really but putting a dead celebrity's head in a jar?

@robdeakin1166 10 ай бұрын

Excellent content as always thank you.

@MegaTheftV 10 ай бұрын

My biggest worry is that it might be too self referential, what I mean is that it's gonna reuse old jokes instead of having the charm that most episodes had. In the revival before the most recent one, the first few episode had that and it was putting me off until it seemed to figure out its own identity and we got more and more banger episode the more it went off until the finale. I'm optimistic though, I'm hoping that even if the early episodes in this revival are "haha bender asshole and don't care", "Fry dumb", "no one likes zoidberg" I'm hoping eventually they'll reach move past it and get it's charm back

@davehandelman2832 10 ай бұрын

Very very nicely done!!

@profoundpronoun4712 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic brother! ❤

@glubysnot6152 9 ай бұрын

4 weeks later I return to share my opinion: yes! The new season is amazing! Haven’t seen a new all time favorite, but very solid episodes that haven’t missed a beat.

@JaimeValladares00 8 ай бұрын

This season has been terrible, what are you on?

@GomerJ 10 ай бұрын

Great essay, honestly. I’ll just say I’ve always seen Futurama as a show about the future that is secretly a show about today, rather than a show about the future that is secretly about 1999- which to be fair is oversimplifying your argument which is more about the stalling of progress- so I honestly think lampooning current issues isn’t really that out of line for the original mission statement of the series and is probably the way to go. The previous reboots may not he as strong as the original run but I still enjoyed them and I’m fine with the direction as long as the writing is still sharp. I think the first 2023 episode was a mixed bag but there’s still some really clever lines in there. (Having a bit about a writer’s room was kind of unfortunate timing, though the larger context of the scene is pro-writer so it wasn’t as big an oof as it could’ve been).

@orlandowright2323 10 ай бұрын

Perfect timing, I'm currently re-watching Futurama right now. On season two.

@FilmsProphet 10 ай бұрын

every time you drop a video im reminded why you've made my fav channel

@agenerichuman 10 ай бұрын

Futurama will probably be fine if they kept decent writers but i expect it to be a step down in quality. My fear for the show is it's going to be too late to the game about a lot topics and that would certainly make the show less relevant. I also fear they're undermining the show's legacy by necessitating a third ending for the show. Futurama ended perfectly 2 times. That's a feat that almost no show has ever done. It seems impossible they'll be able to end it perfectly a third time. I don't want Futurama to end like a wet fart. I want that perfect ending that balances humor, feeling, and a celebration the show. Let's face it, most revivals are subpar and even amazing shows botch their revivals. Futurama was still funny after it's revival but it was a major step down. I highly doubt they're going to be able to live up to the high standard set during the original run or even the standard set by the first revival. With that said, I'm still going to try it. I just hope it doesn't ruin its own legacy.

@luluscaglione 10 ай бұрын

Agreed. Also I would like to point out the irony here: Futurama being a show about the "end of the histroy" (even mimicking its author's name - futurAMA, fukuyAMA) being recicled into something new but not really. Honestly, if streaming services gave a shit about putting out good animated shows with social commentary on it they would keep the new series that are appearing and being cancelled after a season or two. To me this will fall flat and late to most societal problems of today and hulu won't care about putting good writting in It (I doubt they will pay for this, too). All they want is hop on the very overused nostalgia train and get more subscriptions during the month the series will be launched.

@marocat4749 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, we can hope they talk about strikes i guess, but it ended well 2 times. As scifi the shouw could do a lot but the revivals got weaker every time, probably writders running out of fresh stuff. unless they go full onstikes and union taks which ight make it relevant :( but i wnt tolet it go.

@havis6831 10 ай бұрын

the new episode was so funny im literally laughing my ass of at, "phillip j fry i... wait what?" the episode was greath cannot wait for the next one!

@TD-Industries 10 ай бұрын

Societies can be cyclical. Why would it be hard to imagine the future society portrayed in Futurama dealing with something similar to the progression of ours?

@literallynothingatall8175 9 ай бұрын

I have always loved futurama and always been a big fan, but these first few episodes feel pretty shallow compared to the other seasons, but i WILL keep watching hoping they get deeper into things.

@BradyRamaker 10 ай бұрын

Fukuyama's assertions were always incredibly arrogant and basically a "nuh uh" to the cataclysmic, world-ending inherent contradictions of capitalism. The climate collapse wrought by liberal capitalism's market-driven overproduction is not some hiccup or speed bump on a perpetual liberal future. They are not only a material existential threat, but a cultural one. To reproduce an ideology, its efficacy must be tangibly demonstrated for would-be adherents. The proof's gotta be in the pudding, and it ain't anymore. Within the imperial core itself, mass disillusionment with the system is rampant, and entire generations are seeing it as the farce it is, nevermind at the Imperial peripherary. Millenials are characterized as being sold the American Dream only to have it turn to ash in their hands, whereas Gen Z hasn't even been promised anything, seeing the whole thing as a bad joke. Gen Alpha will think of it as some fairytale. They won't really get the cultural references in Futurama as anything more than absurdist non sequitirs. Fukuyama sounding defeated brings me schadenfreude. What a smug thing to pretend, that we had it all figured out when we couldn't even solve homelessness.

@g.f.martianshipyards9328 10 ай бұрын

Excellent. Couldn't have written it better myself.

@redleaderantilles1263 10 ай бұрын

amen to all of that. It is crazy that anyone bothers talking to him post 9/11 honestly. His response to that was just "oh that sucks, but I'm still right". Hell the fact that the dream come true for POS like him, NAFTA, happened and immediately cause a leftwing revolution to take over a chunk of Chiapas to this very day is telling. The reaction to the supposed domination of liberal capitalism started as soon as the Eastern Bloc was being collapsed. It is just that now Liberal thought-leaders are finding it impossible to treat Iran or China or Venezuela as some bump that they can crush as they continue towards their goals.

@netanelaker4437 10 ай бұрын

Beautifully written. There's nothing more to add, just beautiful.

@God_Is_An_Atheist 10 ай бұрын

I can already see the inevitable claim by idiots that Futurama went woke (even though it always was) and that this is somehow bad.

@camelopardalis84 10 ай бұрын

Cough cough, Futurama is horrible when it comes to trans stuff. And it's not like they haven't had trans episodes. They just fucked them up mostly.

@c.d.rstudios4691 10 ай бұрын

@@camelopardalis84yeah, the trans episodes like bender becoming a woman and everyone swapping genders was shit

@camelopardalis84 10 ай бұрын

@@c.d.rstudios4691 There's a video essay by KZfaqr Lily Simpson on the topic. Maybe you're interested. Maybe you know it already.

@God_Is_An_Atheist 10 ай бұрын

@@camelopardalis84 Tbh, I haven't watched Futurama in years and I was 12 when it started airing in '99. I know that it was fairly progressive and even anti-capitalistic at times, but I was still ignorant on trans issues last time I watched it (maybe 7 or 8 years ago). So I can only hope they'll do it better now, but as a cis man I leave the judgement to the people who have to deal with transphobia and bigots on a daily basis.

@camelopardalis84 10 ай бұрын

@@God_Is_An_Atheist Firstly, I need to tell you that recently, I was met with what was apparently genuine disbelief in a comment section of another video that when I mentioned that I remembered the 1990s. As a person who likely also does, do with that piece of bizarre information what you will. Secondly, yes. Trans people are the ones to judge those things, but I really do get where that one trans person I've seen talk about it in the aforementioned video is coming from. It's very, very understandable. So I feel like I can judge Futurama negatively on that front. I've had it explained to me how the show did badly. And I also see that some of it probably came from a place of innocent (enough) ignorance.

@desireecole8240 10 ай бұрын

So ready for the new season of futurama

@robertmiller9735 10 ай бұрын

I read "The End of History", or possibly some reaction article, I forget, at the time. It amazed me that someone so smart could be that naive. A lot of today's issues-the defeat of environmentalism and the fascist new wave, for instance-were obvious to anyone who was paying attention. Probably since the 1970's, even, but I wasn't an adult then. I admit I didn't predict anti-vaxx, but in retrospect it is an obvious side effect of the war on science.

@lexqqy4032 10 ай бұрын

I am excited for a new season of Futurama.

@Ben-rd3mg 10 ай бұрын

This dude being my age explains a lot about some of this channels takes. Fellow based socialist?

@dyne313 9 ай бұрын

Don't forget Illegally dissolved. The Soviet Union was Illegally dissolved, and Russian standard of living dropped precipitously.

@monstermoo4191 Ай бұрын

I'm 29 and remember a 4th grade science teacher telling our class that it was "absolutely ludicrous" to think there wouldn't be flying cars by the time we're adults. It does almost seem to speak to the, I don't know if I should call it idealism or naivety of that era... Coming off of pagers and land lines, I don't think poor guy could have predicted we'd be getting the same cars and phones re-released with slight tweaks for the next two decades because corporations realized they make more money that way.

@drewt1717 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, the entire "can it work?" question is entirely subjective. It will work for those who are amused by satire, and it won't work for those who take themselves and the world too seriously. Which is EXACTLY the same today as it was in 1999. And the fact that the world and it's people continue to grow and change means that years from now, people will look back at season 11 as a new cult classic addition (albeit further removed from its predecessors). What I'm getting at in a roundabout way is "the more things change, the more they stay the same". And that is the essence of Futurama at it's core. It's probably one reason why everyone involved with the show decided to return; older, wiser, and more convinced than ever of the truth of that old saying.

@musicfromtheworld5987 10 ай бұрын

Just watched the first episode of the new season. And I really enjoyed... IT IS FUTURAMA! What did you expect? A good introduction to the new season.

@chadjones1266 10 ай бұрын

Thanks again

@Im_Absolute 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for tha video

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the watch!

@ajh22895 10 ай бұрын

I didn't think much of the first episode. It was just Killer App but with streaming services. Compare this to the one with Napster where it explored its topic through multiple dimensions. And yes, it did explore the constant drive for more content that underpins today's world, but overall felt contrived.

@BearTechNation 10 ай бұрын

Interesting... I think the crux is that the future has arrived and is yet to come. There's a lot of mileage left in Futurama.

@NeXaSLvL 10 ай бұрын

very interesting angle to look at the series very philosophical

@jeremyusreevu237 10 ай бұрын

Futurama is such a great show, and I'm glad it's still here in the year of 2023. Also, Zoidberg is easily my favorite character. He's just the absolute best!

@fightthepowerman 10 ай бұрын

8:30 oooo, look at Rishi Sunak over here, *buying* food. Next you'll boast that you can afford your electricity bill or that your youngest item of clothing is less then 5 years old.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

as long as I don’t think about the electric bill it can’t hurt me

@keanes8608 8 ай бұрын

Oh no, if this is how things are going to be… I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

@kblixt 10 ай бұрын

No limits to revivals. They just have to written, performed, & produced successfully. With a general 75% audience acceptance rate

@wagenbach 10 ай бұрын

The fuck do you mean years?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!?!

@cherminatorDR 7 ай бұрын

Now, some might call me an irresponsible parent, but my 5 year old daughter loved Futurama

@frocco7125 10 ай бұрын

Man, the 90s feels like a crazy era frozen in time the way you explained it.

@Gurgamo 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, I feel better.

@PhillipLemmon 10 ай бұрын

I saw it and it was great.

@hughobyrne2588 10 ай бұрын

I mean, "We're the best!"? Yeah, that's part of every culture, and absent sufficient time and objective analysis of the culture and how it develops, each culture's "We're the best!" has about equal weight. But... "We're the best, for all eternity!" - man, that takes an incalculable amount of hubris.

@basqye9 9 ай бұрын

I guess Fukuyama's entire career can be summed up thusly: “Camus can do, but Sartre is smartre." -- "Yeah well, Scooby Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter!”

@frigidphoebe9571 9 ай бұрын

9:13 Switzerland invented a suicide pod in 2021 so only 13 years late

@forgottenredemption4970 9 ай бұрын

Now a discussion on philosophy wasn't what I was expecting. However I love it. I heavily disagree with his philosophy as I'm and my modern contemporarys are what he claimed would be gone. I'm a socialist and believe in change. Not just in it but that it is fundamental to humanity. In history the only things that do not change... Are dead. The fall of the Soviet union does not mean socialism is gone. But that the debate between socialists of militant revolution and evolutionary socialism is settled. In every Western government there is a socialist party with some measure of political power. We are not gone but changed. Now I believe that Futurama will play into one of it's key strength. It's characters and social commentary. And indeed the first 2 episodes show this. A much stronger focus on the people in the show and world. There is such a place for it as such shows have become the highlight of many in todays world. The end of history is in itself... Ended.

@nicolechampeau8432 10 ай бұрын

Ron Popeil invented what we think of as infomercial selling. He had a bunch of small kitchen appliances that he invented.

@caxzrockz 10 ай бұрын

i really liked the 1st episode

@PhilipJackson03 10 ай бұрын

This was perfectly done. I watched Futurama way before I got into politics and read up on the end of history. So you put the show in an completely different perspective for me. But you’re conclusion is correct, the reboots trailer already showed they’re likely going to be making cheap jokes only relevant to the time and will age poorly. I fully expect the reboot to get mixed reviews at best and bad at worst. However I’ll be cautiously optimistic because while things have changed since 1999 there is certainly a great deal of material to make for a good reboot, it’s just a matter of what the writers new direction will be.

@JBIsrael 10 ай бұрын

They make that “dibs” joke again in one of the movies but they updated it to “iPod” which is also now outdated as well :)

@LiveWire937 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, this perfectly articulates the reason I was completely indifferent when I heard news of the reboot. I loved Futurama when it was relevant. Tried to watch it again last year and... I mean it'll always be good, technically, but it doesn't feel like these characters *matter* anymore. They don't have anything meaningful to say about the modern world. Everything they represent has changed too much. they can try to reboot it as many times as they want; for me the show will always end at the cardboard sides of my 10 season box set.

@davidpaul1970 10 ай бұрын

In the immortal words of the great Bender Bending Rodriguez... Shut up.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

In the even more immortal words of Bender Bending Rodriguez, ‘bite my shiny metal ass’

@dissonanceparadiddle 10 ай бұрын

I feel like anything weird that changes in the first episode is either early installment weirdness or as time goes on fry stops seeing the world though the oh man everything is new lens and instead sees it as it is. Mundane just like our Time

@kaydenl6836 9 ай бұрын

Bro I’m crossed af rn, just getting out of a shower, and that beginning confused the FUCK out of me

@EvanC881 10 ай бұрын

Great video. A lot of people in this comments section missing the point. From me it gets a 10/10.

@netanelaker4437 10 ай бұрын

The show that can imagine the end of the world, but can't imagine the end of Capitalism.

@rexlumontad5644 10 ай бұрын

Futurama: "I CAN SEE THE FUTURE!"

@frocco7125 10 ай бұрын

I never thought how well the end of history narrative fits futurama.

@jamesorr4061 10 ай бұрын

When I got disney plus i was pretty shocked when Futurama became my 7 year old's go to Saturday morning cartoon and he's now woked his way through the whole of it.

@otterpoppin 9 ай бұрын

Uh, it’s definitely not appropriate for a 7 year old lmao

@jamesorr4061 9 ай бұрын

@@otterpoppin He seems okay😬

@DailyBasicG 9 ай бұрын

No matter the year the people are the same, it will work.

@detoxfidelity 10 ай бұрын

I’m losing my mind, what show intro is that text from at 0:46?

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

It's just stock footage - could be anything, I suppose. Now that you mention it, it reminds me of The Big Bang Theory's opening - could you be thinking of that?

@billblake9665 10 ай бұрын

Its only a few hours away.....it will feel as long as the last ten years have felt welcome back old friend woo hoo best day ever

@harry664 10 ай бұрын

Another great video dude, keep it up

@cwcpants140 9 ай бұрын

As far as the suicide booth: Canada legalized assisted suicide so now, that hits a bit different lmao

@Joseph-gi6bw 10 ай бұрын

@cboehm24 10 ай бұрын

Well-crafted video! I have always taken Futurama to be a harsh critic of capitalistic society in our current timeline, not a statement of its victory in the future. The "sameness" of Futurama is driven by logistical necessity (we want gueat stars to play themselves=heads in jars) and the ever-present human condition.

@jonathansuber1551 10 ай бұрын

Well the first episode did a decent job of staying true to the heart of with Futurama is. I wasn't disappointed but I wasn't impressed either it was like a good episode from season 1

@drewt1717 10 ай бұрын

Agree. And just like before, we'll probably grow to appreciate it more and more as it ages. Futurama has always been a show that seems to become more appreciated after it's no longer relevant to current events that are taken overly seriously.

@MulberryDays 10 ай бұрын

just caught up on If Books Could Kill... opens up the yubtub to find new video essays... Fukuyama?! here too?! Michael Hobbes was right. this shit is *pervasive*

@RealWolfmanDan 10 ай бұрын

It was John Jackson vs Jack Johnson

@drewt1717 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad someone pointed out that correction.

@Tacom4ster 10 ай бұрын

Maybe like Star Wars, Futurama owned by Disney, will be a shallow husk of memberberries jam nostalgia baiting for the purpose of capitalism

@paranoidmarv 10 ай бұрын

I hope not. I think I saw Oscar Isaac die a little when he had to utter the line, "somehow, Palpatine has returned." Rian Johnson was right to throw it all away with The Last Jedi. I don't know if Futurama can do the same. At that point, they'd be treading into Rick and Morty territory.

@Tacom4ster 10 ай бұрын

@@paranoidmarv Im one of the few leftists that's not a fan of The Last Jedi

@MulberryDays 10 ай бұрын

i love that this video was interrupted to bring me an ad for Disney's Haunted Mansion, a reboot of 2003 Disney's Haunted Mansion, itself a cash grab based on Disney's Haunted Mansion attraction, a part of the theme parks based on the Disney media empire. the empire built by retelling old folklore. because capitalism cannot create; it can only iterate like a shitty AI built to generate profit.

@PillarofGarbage 10 ай бұрын

Very fitting!

@fledglingbodhisatva4821 9 ай бұрын

Prediction: Canada will have the booths within 10 years. Subsidized by the government.

@tomasinacovell4293 10 ай бұрын

The minimum wage went up about $0.35 since 1999? But Fukuyama recanted, and while he never changed his party striped, he does not think "the rich" are being taxed enough like say a neoliberal booster like Michio Kaku would.

@terrencebanfield9791 8 ай бұрын

I watch a lot of manwa videos and I love futurama. How is your music identical to manwa videos yet you’re talking about futurama?

@PillarofGarbage 8 ай бұрын

Most of the background music here is from KZfaq's royalty-free audio library. I'm not familiar with manwa myself but I imagine they get their music from the same place