Covid, NTF, streaming. Am i getting old, or has the show always tried this desperately to make jokes about the newest thing? It doesn't age well. I've been watching the old seasons and can't detect this.
shareNo, this isn’t Futurama. It’s probably not even written by humans anymore.
shareno, this new Futurama sucks. they are just rehashing the past 10 years...
shareThat was one of the more interesting running gags on this show. Matt Groening followed a similar trick that many sci-fi writers have done, in holding up a mirror to today's society, but using an alternate setting for it. Plus he, like many sci-fi geeks, loves making references to popular science fiction franchises, or just pop culture in general.
It's interesting that the show claims to reveal New New York in the 31st century, over 1,000 years after the 21st, and yet almost nothing really changed, save for slightly more advanced tech, and people can travel around the galaxy now. And there are aliens.
I guess the show sort of pokes fun of the idea of, "the more society advances, the more things stay the same."
However, I did kinda find it dumb that people living 1,000 years in the future still had crappy brick buildings in NNYC, they still had issues with consumerism and relationships, there were still poor people in the population, there was still pollution and environmental issues going on, etc.