Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Futurama season 12, episode 3!
Summary
Futuramaseason 12 attempts to maintain continuity with the original seasons, but it forgets about one of season 10’s best episodes. Despite the show having the same DNA,Futuramahas gone through some major changes since it was revivedon Hulu for season 11. While most of these changes have worked, there have been some rough patches throughout the two modern seasons, as seen in this season 12 episode.
Futuramaseason 12, episode 3 features an intriguing mystery in whichFry has been replaced by a temp worker, but none ofthe Planet Express crewnotices it. The episode slowly feeds information to the viewer, allowing audience members to solve the mystery on their own as the show goes on. However, once the puzzle is finally complete, avidFuturamafans may notice that it hinges on something that completely goes against aFuturamaseason 10 episode.
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Fry Went On Vacation In Futurama Season 10 (But Season 12 Forgets About This)
In “Fry And Leela’s Big Fling”
Futuramaseason 12, episode 3starts off 23 years in the past, with Fry going on vacation and being replaced by a temp worker. When the episode catches up to the usualFuturamaseason 12 timeline, Fry mentions that he wants to go on vacation again, saying that he hasn’t been on one in 23 years.
However,Fry has been on vacation since 23 years ago, with aFuturamaseason 10 episode entirely centering on this.Futuramaseason 10’s “Fry and Leela’s Big Fling” sees Fry and Leela go away on a romantic vacation, with Amy and Zoidberg covering their work while they are gone. Although this vacation turns out to be a front for a human zoo, it is still a vacation, one Fry and Leela completely forget about in season 12.
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Season 12’s Futurama Error Highlights The Biggest Problem With The Show’s Continuity
There Is Too Much To Keep Track Of
Hulu’sFuturamarevival has attempted to stick closer to continuity than previous seasons, with the streaming format allowing the show to stick to a more linear story than it has in the past.This has mostly been a good change, with storylines like Leela and Fry’s relationship as well asAmy and Kif’s kidsbeing more fleshed out. However, errors like forgetting about the season 10 episode highlight a major problem with this plan.
Futuramaseasons 11 and 12 have to retroactively take 10 seasons of stand-alone episodes into account, and it is almost impossible to keep track of all these storylines. It will be incredibly difficult to come up with any continuity that won’t contradict one of the many episodes from the show’s past, meaning that small errors like this are something that will have to be accepted by theFuturamafanbase.
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Futurama is an animated science fiction series that follows Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from late-20th-century New York City. He is accidentally cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and becomes an employee at Planet Express, a delivery service in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
