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My fiancee and I sat down to watch the first episode, and when Bender s**t a brick, we were hooked! Unfortunately, it isn't good subject material for my seven year-old, but he still tries to sneak in and watch it. Is it shown in England, also?

The show is pure genius. My wife and I love it too. I can't get enough of robot humor.

The Simpsons is still fantastic too. In fact, I just read a review in National Review (the most famous Conservative magazine) all about the Simpsons, and how great it was. It is one of the only cartoons that continuously pokes fun at the silly liberal elements that pervade our society. Besides that, Futurama and the Simpsons are the most clever shows on television.

Yup! The Simpsons and Futurama are both intelligent humour, which I think is the best kind, and if I may say so without causing offence, doesn't come out of America frequently
The animation in Futurama is of an exceedingly high standard. I'm pretty sure much of it is done in 3D on a computer, to get those sweeping-through-cities look.
Unfortunately Sky One in Britain have a very erratic scheduling system for Futurama, so I've missed a lot of the second series.

Hmmm... I'd vaugely heard of the show, I think, but I've never seen it... I suppose it hasn't trickled through to UK terrestrial TV yet.

Never mind... it'll probably turn up in a year or so.

Sigh.

26199 (wondering whether they *do* show it, and he's just being dense)

Certainly tis really good, grew on me a lot after several episodes - getting to know the characters etc. The animation is superb, keeps the charm of the Simpsons but much flashier.
Someone said that the Simpsons is one of few programmes to poke fun at silly liberal elements of our society - it pokes fun at the even sillier conservative elements too, rather a lot.
For programs that poke fun have you ever watched or listened to anything by Chris Morris - The Day Today, Brass Eye, Blue Jam or Jam. He's infamous for announcing live on Radio 1 that Michael Heseltine was dead, since then he was only broadcast if his name wasn't connected to the advertising of the program. In Brass Eye, of which about half was cut by censors before airing, he managed to get a Conservative MP to ask in parliament if cake could be made illegal (yes cake!). His latest series, Jam, was broadcast without adverts in the middle and was quite possibly the darkest most twisted anarchic humour ever to be broadcast - the sort of thing that could only be made in Britain and never shown on TV in the US. The man is a genius - though admittedly not to everyone's taste!!! Find out and check it out!

Sorry Alaska just realised you said cartoons - not TV shows, oops!
Anyway Chris Morris is worth checking out.
Anarchic cartoons, the wonderful Ren and Stimpy could be marvelously subversive at times. What about South Park - that pokes fun at just about everyone?

Love The Simpsons but Futurama leaves me cold, perhaps it's because Homer and I are of a similar age and, he caricatures my age group perfectly, Futurama is for kids I think.

Actually, if you watch the show, you can see a lot of similarities between Fry and Homer.

Oh, they don't show it on terrestrial. The very thought!

When we commoners do evetually get it either:

(a) In a sudden bid to get actual people to actually watch the channel, C5 will buy the rights to the show, meaning that the likes of me and, apparently, 75% of the rest of the nation will not get it.

(b) The BBC will get it, but only the first series. They will play it every Wednesday, or in a double-bill with the Simpsons, and will repeat the same episodes over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

(c) C4 will surprise us all by buying the show (as they did with the Buffy cash-in Angel) and being generally good about it, probably putting it on Friday nights or the endearingly innane T4.

Though if C4 do get it, they'll put adverts in every five minutes, lasting for ten minutes each time.

No the BBC will get it, show it on Thursday afternoons at five o'clock unless there's snooker, tennis, underwater hang-gliding or cross country bungee jumping to be seen.

But if ITV get it, they will interfere with it halfway through to give the lottery results.

Yeah. Have you seen what they're doing now? They're putting football on in between sponsor messages and adverts. How am I supposed to be influenced by consumer propagander if they're interrupting it with football?

It's on C4 on Tuesday eves, Thursday eves and Sunday Lunchtimes.

My favourite line so far: Fry is defending the 20th Century and reels off loads of inventions. Leela then points out that all the inventions he said were from the 19th Century, to which Fry says 'Yeah, well they probably copied them from us.'

As far as I know there's at least three seasons of Futurama, but I've only seen the first in it's entirety. Sky One seems determined not to show the others, apart from an occasional lonely random episode from season two.

It's like the Simpsons - they seem to show that in a random order and not series-by-series.

<BB<

And they refuse to sell them all too - only 'selected' episodes. I'd like nothing more than to have all the episodes of Futurama on tape, bought or recorded. I got the first series, but there's no hope for the second and third.

you have forgotten downhill dancing and freestyle chess !