Futurama aired its special vacation installment on Sunday , represent three tales that put a craze 31st century spin on Christmas , Hanukkah , and Kwanzaa . The episode celebrated not just the holidays , but also the show ’s characters … in the most lethal path possible .
“ Holiday Spectacular ” , like the early “ Anthology of Interest ” episodes and The Simpsons ’s “ Treehouse of Horror ” serial , is a three - part , out - of - continuity sequence where the show ’s normal rules do n’t use . The show ’s creators have said that , because Futurama is such a crazy population to start with , it ’s a fate difficult to severalize stories that could n’t just happen in the even universe , and the writer here come up with a novel answer : kill off the main characters every single time — and confuse the wipeout of the intact major planet into the buy two of those clock time .
But before that – the song ! Each holiday – Xmas , Robanukkah , and Kwanzaa – gets it own strain explaining its rich tradition , only some of which are being made up on the spot . For Christmas , there ’s the murderous upright cheer of the genocidally judgmental Santabot . Robanukkah sees Bender filter millennium of rich Jewish tradition into an excuse for a pair fembots to get embrocate up and squirm for a few hebdomad . And Coolio returns as Kwanzaabot to endeavor to convince someone – anyone – that Kwanzaa is n’t completely ridiculous .
The songs all end up sending the Planet Express crew on a charge that will end in their frightful deaths . Santabot orders the return of coniferous trees , but the only seed leave on Earth are laced with deadly super - germs . Bender realizes the crude oil oil colour take for the oil color wrestling wo n’t last for the entirety of Robanukkah , and so take the crowd drill into the Earth ’s burden for the last slivers of oil vegetable oil on the planet . And the pauperization for Kwanzaa beeswax candle force the crowd to return to the pernicious elephantine space beehive that almost killed Fry and Leela a few years ago . you could guess how all this ends .
“ Holiday Spectacular ” is a self-coloured episode of Futurama , not quite reaching some of this season ’s early highs but offer luck of ripe gag . The Xmas installment is credibly the imperfect of the three , perhaps because I did n’t quite know what to look yet . Once you image out each story is go to stop in the gang ’s terrible deaths , they gather a lot more momentum and twist comic energy , because now the dramatic satire is dial up to eleven .
Bender ’s Robanukkah taradiddle is particularly root on in its epical pointlessness – he more or less admit he ’s just establish the holiday up , all he desire to see is a couple hooker oil wrestle , he admits at one detail that any vegetable oil would in all likelihood do , he does n’t learn any example from the gang ’s fossilisation , and – in a concluding , canny nod to what I ’m told is the dead on target meaning of Hanukkah – the petroleum oil did n’t just last a few workweek , it lasted 500 million years , making everything that come before completely unnecessary . You ’ve start to look up to the audacity of a story like that .
This episode also sees yet another return appearance by former Vice President Al Gore . Whatever else you might think of him , he ’s establish a very reliable comic presence on the show , and I ’m more than a little disappointed we wo n’t actually see the show ’s promised return featuring Gore as Captain Lance Starman . His coming into court at the gas pedal post in the Robannukah segment is a highlight of the show – his clueless postulation for solar energy and faux - shamefacedness as he necessitate to make change for a Nobel Prize are a couple of the instalment ’s beneficial gags .
I ca n’t call “ Holiday Spectacular ” an outright classic , but it ’s an abominable fate of fun , and its misrepresented celebration of holiday violence is laborious to resist . ( It ’s also have Bender in a scarf and mitten , which is just outrageously cute . ) It ’s not been this good to be a Futurama fan in a very , very long time . The show is , by all accounts , doing well for Comedy Central , and the last time of year proved the show is still capable of belting out the classics .
If you do n’t take care me bringing yet another vacation into all this , I ’d say we Futurama sports fan have an awful circumstances to be grateful for . I suppose all that ’s left to say is happy vacation , and a felicitous new year of Futurama . I never thought I ’d get to say that again .
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