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[Ari]

Watching a couple episodes of the New Futurama and comparing it to the new Bobs Burgers, it's clear Futurama now fully suffers from the Simpsons and Family Guy name drop referenceitus.

Bobs Burgers did a bohemian grove episode but with Mr Fishodor and his friends in place of a supreme court judge. If you had never heard of bohemian grove the episode works perfectly as it devolves into a potentially cannibalistic drug frenzy. They do do a few too many 'The family plays out a movie' for my taste but it's at least presented as just that, the kids/Luise using the fantasy of a movie they just saw to deal with an emotional situation.

Futurama seems to have instead gone for, what if our world, but Futurama instead and that's just it. What if Bitcoins and gig work exists, but make it Futurama. Seems like something the AI will do a great job replacing.

It feels like if 2023 Futurama came up with the suicide booth, it wouldn't be a dark comment on the future that shows us what kind of character Bender is as he tries to cheat the cartoonishly overkill murder booth, but instead would be called NeuralLink, Lyla would dismiss it as useless because it only works on monkeys, and we would never hear of it again.