It might've taken several seasons but finally Futurama did what seemed impossible for this franchise... it made a terrible episode.
The episode consists of 3 vignettes with the cast all being turned into toy versions of themselves (Wind up toys, hot wheels and rubber ducks respectively) all of which are linked together by a story about Leela falling in love with the prince of space.
Now you might be asking yourself what exactly a story about Leela falling for the prince of space would have to do with vignettes about toy version of the Planet Express crew... and you can keep asking yourself that because there is no connection, which is where the majority of the problems with this episode lie. There is no reason to keep cutting to the vignettes, no reason to leave the central story of the prince and Leela and yet it keeps happening. The first time it happened I was worried I'd hit the remote and skipped to another episode but no, there's no connective tissue between any of these. At least in the Anthology Of Interest episodes they kept cutting back to the.crew asking the 'what if' machine questions which justified the shorter segments. This doesn't have that, it just randomly pops up without warning.
Maybe if any of the vignettes were funny it would help but they're not, one of them is just a parody of The Ring but everyone is a hot wheel car for some reason, another one is a Romeo and Juliet parody but everyone is either a rubber duck or an egg and the other one is about everyone being wind up toys and Fry's spring is slowing down so he's dying... and that's it, that's all the vignettes, they are all randomly connected by the idea of everyone being toys but they also have no reason to be in this episode at all.
It's like someone had two rejected scripts for the show and randomly mixed together the pages to create this monster. It's an episode that's so bad that it shouldn't have even gotten past the first table read.
The episode consists of 3 vignettes with the cast all being turned into toy versions of themselves (Wind up toys, hot wheels and rubber ducks respectively) all of which are linked together by a story about Leela falling in love with the prince of space.
Now you might be asking yourself what exactly a story about Leela falling for the prince of space would have to do with vignettes about toy version of the Planet Express crew... and you can keep asking yourself that because there is no connection, which is where the majority of the problems with this episode lie. There is no reason to keep cutting to the vignettes, no reason to leave the central story of the prince and Leela and yet it keeps happening. The first time it happened I was worried I'd hit the remote and skipped to another episode but no, there's no connective tissue between any of these. At least in the Anthology Of Interest episodes they kept cutting back to the.crew asking the 'what if' machine questions which justified the shorter segments. This doesn't have that, it just randomly pops up without warning.
Maybe if any of the vignettes were funny it would help but they're not, one of them is just a parody of The Ring but everyone is a hot wheel car for some reason, another one is a Romeo and Juliet parody but everyone is either a rubber duck or an egg and the other one is about everyone being wind up toys and Fry's spring is slowing down so he's dying... and that's it, that's all the vignettes, they are all randomly connected by the idea of everyone being toys but they also have no reason to be in this episode at all.
It's like someone had two rejected scripts for the show and randomly mixed together the pages to create this monster. It's an episode that's so bad that it shouldn't have even gotten past the first table read.
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