Bender: Any idiot can be a TV writer.
Calculon: Many are.
Ironically, this bit at 16:35 best explains this episode. The jokes are cliché, slapstick, and pointless (like Farnsworth cutting Leela's ponytail out of nowhere and then wearing it; or Leela pushing back Bender's hand and it randomly swings to hit Zoidberg; as if it's a children's cartoon) and at least for me, they all fall full flat. It's as if a group of writers are desperately trying to mimic what the show was like in its glory days, but really don't have a clue. They've made a checklist of the kind of jokes to squeeze in for each character, and that's how they've made what is, in my opinion, the worst episode since the very beginning of the show.
The timing of the jokes is off sometimes by half a second or a third, but that's enough to make it look forced and enough to show that the director's have lost their touch.
In the end, the most ironic bit is Fry's words at 22:45: Don't reboot a show if the quality is not gonna be there.
(To the writers: do this if you've been taken against your will and need to be rescued ✊✋)
Calculon: Many are.
Ironically, this bit at 16:35 best explains this episode. The jokes are cliché, slapstick, and pointless (like Farnsworth cutting Leela's ponytail out of nowhere and then wearing it; or Leela pushing back Bender's hand and it randomly swings to hit Zoidberg; as if it's a children's cartoon) and at least for me, they all fall full flat. It's as if a group of writers are desperately trying to mimic what the show was like in its glory days, but really don't have a clue. They've made a checklist of the kind of jokes to squeeze in for each character, and that's how they've made what is, in my opinion, the worst episode since the very beginning of the show.
The timing of the jokes is off sometimes by half a second or a third, but that's enough to make it look forced and enough to show that the director's have lost their touch.
In the end, the most ironic bit is Fry's words at 22:45: Don't reboot a show if the quality is not gonna be there.
(To the writers: do this if you've been taken against your will and need to be rescued ✊✋)