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Category Archives: Futurama
Focused on the Future
We’ve now seen all of Season Twelve of Futurama, which I think is part of the ninth production season because of all the weirdness with how the show was originally aired. I noticed that, while there were still some commentaries … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Big Bang, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Humor, Monsters, Science, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Toys | Tagged aliens, amy wong, beanie babies, bender bending rodriguez, bender's game, bill nye, buggalo, cara delevigne, chatbots, coffee, encyclopedia brown, fashion, hardy boys, hedonism bot, hermes conrad, hypnosis, jack-in-the-box, john steinbeck, kif kroker, kyle mclachlan, levar burton, lrrr, mermaids, moths, nancy drew, ndnd, philip j. fry, pin the tail on the donkey, planet express, professor hubert farnsworth, robert burns, robots, scruffy the janitor, starbucks, tim gunn, tintin, turanga leela, vampires |
The Future’s Got It Covered
I’m not entirely sure how many new Futurama episodes Hulu ordered, but I do know that they’re going to wait before airing the next batch. So here are my thoughts on the ten episodes we’ve had so far. The Impossible … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Babylonian, Cartoons, Celebrities, chemistry, Christmas, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Health, Holidays, Humor, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Religion, Science, Technology, Television, Toys, Voodoo | Tagged aging, aliens, all my circuits, amazon, amy wong, barbados slim, bears, bender bending rodriguez, bitcoin, borax kid, calculon, coolio, coronavirus, cryptocurrency, cubert farnsworth, democratic order of planets, dr. john zoidberg, dune, dwight conrad, hulu, kif kroker, kwanzaabot, lamassu, mermaids, nibbler, omicron persei 8, parasites, philip j. fry, planet express, professor banjo, professor hubert farnsworth, professor ogden wernstrom, robot mafia, robots, santa claus, saturn, tardigrades, the ring, turanga leela, turducken, ursa major, vaccines, weebles, worms, zapp brannigan |
The Lion Shall Lay Down with the Lamassu
With the appearance of Lamassu on the latest Futurama episode (although I haven’t been able to find a picture of them online as of yet), I thought they might be an interesting concept to look into, although I’m not really sure there’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Babylonian, Buddhism, Cartoons, Etymology, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Judaism, Magic, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Persian, Religion, Television | Tagged abenaki, achaemenid empire, angels, anu, apsu, cherubim, demons, donkeys, enki, enuma elish, glooscap, gopathas, griffins, lahamu, lahmu, lamashtu, lamassu, lamia, lilith, mercury, pamola, pazuzu, shedu, sphinx, tiamat, yalis |
Not Pumpkin Pie!
Beth and I are back from California for the second time in a month, and from this year’s OzCon International, the first full one since 2019. I think the Friday programming might have been shorter than in previous years, but … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Futurama, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atticus gannaway, beetlejuice, changelings, cinar, david hulan, dina schiff massachi, dorothy gale, dumbo, earthworm jim, elephants, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, fairies, faith, filmation, freddy fogarty, glinda, hungry tiger, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, ken mclellan, lollipop guild, marsupilami, mombi, munchkins, nate barlow, neil cuadra, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, peter hanff, phineas and ferb, professor wogglebug, puns, return to oz, rugrats, ruth cuadra, ryan bunch, sam milazzo, sarah crotzer, sawhorse, school days in the land of oz, spirituality, te craft, ted eshbaugh, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the oz kids, the tik-tok man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the tin woods, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the west, zoe o'haillin-berne |
Hi, I’m Elfo!
I watched the first season of Disenchantment when it was still pretty new, then didn’t get around to watching any more until the fourth was about to come out. And we don’t yet know whether there’s going to be a … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Futurama, Humor, Magic, Names, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged alva gunderson, bender bending rodriguez, demons, disenchantment, elfo, elves, john dimaggio, king zog of dreamland, luci, matt groening, mermaids, philip j. fry, princess tiabeanie, satan, steamland, trogs, turanga leela |
Foes and More
It’s weird how the Irish religious festival of St. Patrick’s Day became mostly a day for drinking a lot here in the States, but that’s how these things often work. I don’t drink that much, but I did wear green, … Continue reading →
Posted in Celtic, Christianity, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Television | Tagged aesir, balor, bres, cessair, cichol grichenos, conand, cuchulainn, elatha, eriu, fergus lethderg, fir bolg, fomorians, gann, giants, ireland, jotuns, lebor gabala erenn, leprechauns, lugh, morc, nemed, noah, nuada, partholon, sengann, slavery, st. patrick's day, titans, tory island, tuatha de danann, vikings |
Winners and Choosers
After looking at the notion of people chosen by the gods, I became curious as to how the concept of a specific person being the Chosen One originated. It’s a pretty common trope in fantasy, someone being prophesied to save the world … Continue reading →
Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Babylonian, British, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Characters, Christianity, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mario, Mythology, Oz, Philosophy, Religion, Semitic, Star Wars, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged anakin skywalker, andrew heller, aragorn, armor, bender's big score, brain spawn, carrot ironfoundersson, chosen ones, chosen people, dark king, darth plagueis, darth vader, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, emperor palpatine, epic of gilgamesh, erdrick, fate, final fantasy mystic quest, flood, gilgamesh, glinda, gondor, hammurabi, how the wizard came to oz, hyrule, jedi, jesus, king arthur, king david, kylo ren, link, lord of the rings, middle-earth, nibblonians, oedipus, oz: the great and powerful, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, prophecy, return of the jedi, sith, swords, time travel, utnapishtim, voldemort, weapons, witches, wizard of oz |
Mega Mega, Right Back, Messages!
In my ongoing quest to watch old video game cartoons, I found the entire series of the Ruby-Spears Mega Man show. This ran from 1994 through 1996, when I was in high school, and I remember watching it with my … Continue reading →
Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Futurama, Mega Man, Music, Names, Technology, Television, Video Games | Tagged beat, cut man, dr. albert w. wily, dr. mikhail sergeyovich cossack, dr. thomas xavier light, eddie, garry chalk, guts man, ian james corlett, jurassic park, mega man 4, mega man 5, mega man x, proto man, reploids, robot masters, robots, ruby-spears, rush, spark mandrill, vile |
Ariel View
I’ve looked at quite a bit of fairy lore over the years, but one character I hadn’t really addressed is Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, largely because I hadn’t read it. I recently did so, and I also found out that … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Futurama, Gender, Greek Mythology, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Nursery Crime, Oz, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Roman, Television, Theosophy, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, alexander pope, angels, ariel, belinda, bible, caliban, demons, elementals, fairies, gnomes, hans christian andersen, isaiah, j. l. bell, john milton, king lear, lucifer, mermaids, nomes, oberon, paracelsus, paradise lost, philip j. fry, prospero, rosicrucianism, sycorax, sylphs, the fourth bear, the little mermaid, the rape of the lock, the tempest, titania, umbriel, uranus, uriel, witches |
Groening Goes Medieval
Disenchantment – I took a while in watching this still relatively new Netflix series created by Matt Groening, but I’m caught up as of last night. It’s an animated comic medieval fantasy, and as such the jokes focus largely on … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Families, Futurama, History, Humor, Magic, Middle Ages, Television, The Simpsons | Tagged demons, disenchantment, elfo, elves, king zog of dreamland, luci, matt groening, princess tiabeanie |