Futurama: Season 1 - Episode 6: 'A Fishful Of Dollars' (1999) - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

Futurama... What can I say about this show that hasn't already been said? I mean this show is truly epic... in that it parodies every epic Science Fiction medium known to man!

Unfortunately, I have since discovered that this show has been cancelled yet again, but you know what? During the run of this show that Matt Groening (The Simpsons) created, we saw a lot of funny moments, and parodies of some other great Science Fiction mediums, (including Star Trek.)

And, 'A Fishful Of Dollars' (1999) is another hilarious episode in this classic series!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="360"] The Planet Express crew as they are celebrating Fry's new fortune![/caption]

Written by: Patric M. Verrone (Pinky & The Brain) & Directed by: Ron Hughart (American Dad). Starring: Billy West (The Looney Tunes Show), Katey Sagal (8 Simple Rules), John DiMaggio (Adventure Time), Pamela Anderson (Baywatch), Phil LaMarr (Pulp Fiction) & Lauren Tom (Batman Beyond: Golem).

This hilarious episode tells the story of how Fry (Billy West), after heading over to the bank and checking up on his old bank account from the 20th century, ends up discovering that with all the interest after 1,000 years, that not only is he no longer mega poor... But he is mega rich!

This effects the Planet Express crew in different ways, but in the end all Fry really wanted was a place that reminded him of the century that he had been forced to forget... But after shunning all of his friends, a cruel manipulator behind the scene will help Fry get the one thing he truly missed from that area, and the friends that he loved from his current century back to enjoy it !

In the end, this episode is pretty awesome, and if you check it out, I think that you might find that you like it as well!

http://youtu.be/9PJNlmk5Yik

Futurama Episode: 'Space Pilot 3000' (1999) - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

If you liked the show, The Simpsons, then I think you might like this, conceived in the mid 90s by Simpsons creator, 'Matt Groening', and released in 1999, Futurama is an awesome TV series that tells the story of a delivery boy by the name of, 'Philip J. Fry' (Billy West) who ends up being cryogenically frozen and sent to the year 3000, where his entire world is flipped upside down living in the future, but finds some sense of normalcy, working for his descendant on his brother's side, and living and working with his best friend (who is a robot), as well as working with a Bureaucrat Rastafarian, an Asian Martian, a Mutant, a Decapodian, who all end up being his friend!

Well, Space Pilot 3000, tells the story of how all of this came to be, what I mean by that is the fact that this hilarious story tells the story of how while delivering a Pizza on New Years Eve on 1999 to a cryogenics lab that was a prank call, ends up being frozen and then forgotten about for 1,000 years... When he gets to the future, he is excited to find that he no longer has to deal with his ultimately crummy life that he had before he was frozen...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Fry as he realizes... 'He ain't in Kansas no more!'[/caption]

But when Leela (Katey Sagal), tries to give him his career chip Fry escapes and gets involved with a suicidal bending robot by the name of Bender Bednding Rodriguez (John DI Maggio), and the two of them get in to some hilarious hijinks while they try to escape from Leela... But ultimately this episode is how the crew of the Planet Express comes together!

Now the truth is, is this episode is not as funny as the future episodes are, but it is still a very funny episode,  and was put together real nicely, but the best part of this whole episode, is that it demonstrated what was to come, and it is something that you definitely would look forward to!

So if you are looking for a hilarious good time, and a fun series to get started in, then why not this out? you might find that you like it... I Know I did!

http://youtu.be/bOM0Jwg2CEw