I just watched the first episode of the new Futurama season and the running gag was their attempt to make fun of the Hulu streaming network (Fulu)… in the year 3023. Not only that, but they also parody Black Mirror which itself parodies Netfix (Streamberry) in their latest season.
What is up with all of this meta stuff? Does anyone actually enjoy it? Is this really the quality of TV prior to AI taking over the writing?
I feel like an old man yelling at the clouds right now ☁️, but look what they did to my boy, Futurama!
I haven’t seen the new episode, but this sounds like the same joke Futurama has made in both of its previous revivals. Bender’s Big Score opened with the crew lamenting that the Box Network cancelled their delivery license. Rebirth opened with the crew noting the comedy in the random wormhole from the end of Into the Wild Green Yonder happening to be Earth’s central channel for shipping. So this isn’t entirely new to Futurama.
I haven’t watched the latest Futurama, but from what I remember of its early seasons, isn’t Futurama always like this? Or in general, any Matt Groening show?
Yes. It is always like this. The OP either missed the point of the previous seasons entirely or never watched them and chose to bag on a show for being ‘meta’ that has been that way since it began.
The entire eyePhone episode. Mom_santo_ corporation? Decision 3000? Futurama is more color commentary than anything else!