From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   OK I guess? I can't help but view this in the context of Family Guy's Simpsons   
   crossover of only a handful of weeks ago, and it seems a little unnecessary, a   
   little desperate (for continuing making Futurama), and a little too soon/too   
   much at once.    
   Surely it had to be known both crossovers were in the works, and even if   
   neither show wanted to stop making theirs one could have waited some, right?   
   (There's a Simpsons episode that's still waiting over a year to air.) Anyway,   
   I guess it seemed fine,    
   and as a fan of both this and Futurama I enjoyed various little gags, but it   
   seems like it would be better done as a short segment (possibly non-canon) or   
   a cute DVD bonus or something. The Critic crossover may have done better by   
   being more restrained,    
   not carrying over every single thing, etc. Also there were a (small) number of   
   goofy moments that just didn't seem to fit (or, like tetherboy, were just   
   horrifying), and somehow for all the stuff they had to pack in it was still   
   super short.   
      
   Well anyway I am trying not to be TOO hard on it - it was fluffy fun, and the   
   beer ending was oddly sweet.   
      
      
   A handful of notes, not nearly everything observed... and not getting into the   
   paradoxical ways each setting is its own show within the other...   
      
      
   DYN:   
   ...there are some floppy disks in the time capsule that are not seen going in   
   (maybe there was a deleted scene, or it wasn't totally empty to start with)?   
   ...Bender's head access door is visible early on?   
   ...a Canyonero 2014 billboard, apparently just to remind us what year it is?   
   ...Bart's birthday is established as Feb 23?   
   ...the fairly viable Hypnotoad solution is abandoned for no particular reason?   
   ...Kodos was previously established as female, but now Kang seems to be too   
   (in defiance of Starship Poopers at least) or else he doesn't care what LRRR   
   says?   
   ...the Futurama cast was listed in alphabetical order, as usual for these   
   things?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   9F04: Bait/Bart backpedaling a bit like "bathing beauty"   
   3F10: Bender gets a Pin Pals shirt   
   2F31: Homer's "my ears are burning!" made literal, and also in a crossover   
   episode!   
   4ACV07: Seymour/Panucci's/that sad song (see below), really? also defying all   
   geography since as far as I can tell they didn't go to NYC in the present   
   6ACV20: the Professor/Farrah Fawcett calendar image is in the background   
      
   Meta   
   -Homer/Bender designed by the same (lazy) person   
   -The skin color difference is kept, as opposed to the typical way we've seen   
   Futurama characters shown in yellow in their brief Simpsons appearances   
   (compare also Jay Sherman, yellow); it is not mentioned at all, however (the   
   Family Guy episode kept the    
   difference but Peter wondered if the whole town had jaundice)   
   -Life in Hell references in the initial rabbit appearance (somewhat) and their   
   graffiti   
   -Butterfingers are used as bait (though it's not really a thing Bart lusts   
   after in the show itself)   
   -FXXX (or FXXXX?) satellite in the future, presumably another nod to the   
   recent FXX acquisition of hacked-up Simpsons episodes   
   -30th Century Fox logo at the end instead   
      
   Bender should clearly be able to make Gs on that dot matrix display; a more   
   clever joke might have been about how lower-case letters with descenders (such   
   as, oh, a non-initial "g") actually do look funny on them...   
      
   Interesting timing: the most recent South Park episode (aired 11/5/14),   
   "Freemium Isn't Free", was about "freemium" games, a topic Homer discussed.   
      
   Can anyone read the "tasty human burgers" sign in the credits? Like Amy's   
   obscene tattoo it's not something I can make out in standard def (and it's too   
   quick to have read live).   
      
   There was a credit for Sally Stevens performing "I Will Wait for You" and "A   
   Natural Woman" but I don't recall hearing those; actually, I recall the former   
   because an instrumental version was heard when Seymour was seen, but this   
   makes me curious. Did I    
   miss something or were these maybe in some deleted scenes?   
      
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