After the recent release of King of the Hill’s latest season, it has become kind of obvious where Futurama’s popularity is at the moment. Despite my strong love for the show, it doesn’t seem to be getting as much attention as it used to. Think about it, the show has returned, we have had a total of 30 episodes, and almost no memes as a result.

There have been many changes present, while in the later Comedy Central revival episodes, an entire season without Cubert and Dwight even getting mentioned. This season, we see Amy’s children in almost every episode, while Cubert and Dwight each get pretty substantial roles in some episodes. I find this strange since clearly the show is not catching on with the youth. 

This show is still trying to be as topical as ever as well, with issues such as Evangelicalism, youth screen addiction, and of course, the biggest problem in our society, the fact that tall women don’t date shorter men. I think many fans will be happy with this, as there have been numerous complaints about how some of the more recent seasons included trilogy episodes, which are not included in this season.

Despite this, I would still consider this to be a pretty decent season, but its quality decline is still pretty visible. It’s not a massive decline like classic Family Guy compared to some of the more recent episodes. It is more like comparing Classic Simpsons to Season 14 or 15. It’s not top-tier programming, but it is still very much watchable. I would still watch this over half of the current animation domination lineup. 

For what it’s worth, I still think this show’s strongest quality is its humor. The jokes in the show still get really good laughs out of me, such as Farnsworth starting a religious cult of Science and Lee and Fry linking up ala Pacific Rim to Bender to fight a giant Kaiju. However, there are some plots that do not work, such as Fry adopting a duo of Polar Bear cubs, or the alien with a pizza place running a city council campaign, or the constant appearances of Barbados Slim despite working better as a one-off character. We also get a pretty lackluster episode in the form of Zoidberg getting adopted by Leela’s parents, which shows off how we are supposed to always see Zoidberg in agony because he is not a good person. 

I do think what keeps my attention is mainly the strong laughs, though. I am starting to get annoyed by how we are getting multiple Fry and Leela relationship crisis episodes in a season, although I admit I found them arguing about how much they have in common to be comical and quite relatable. The main problem is how many of these episodes just feel the same as older ones.

The World Is Hot Enough, may have been a sequel to Crimes of the Hot, but it didn’t do too much differently. While Wicked Human was a more religious-based version of A Clockwork Origin. We even get a slight copy of a Simpsons episode in The Trouble with Truffles as we see Bender take up truffle hunting. Thankfully, he does not remember the time travel episode where he met The Simpsons, since that episode had used Bart to hunt truffles. However, the ending to Trouble with Truffles was pretty similar to The Simpsons episode. Still, some episodes have better plots than others. The second half of Destroy Tall Monsters was a great parody of Toho movies, and The White Hole featured a funny tribute to the Alien franchise.

I feel these episodes fit in just fine with the other 160; it is just a shame that the show doesn’t seem to be as much in the popular consciousness anymore. It is still well worth binging with the other ones, and I would still recommend against skipping this season for the binge watchers.

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