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- English: Dolby Digital Surround
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English - Hearing Impaired, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Commentary - English |
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- Deleted scenes
- Teaser trailer
- 3 Theatrical trailer
- 19 Audio commentary
- Featurette
- Photo gallery
- Animated menus
- Storyboards
- Animatic
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Futurama Season 4 |
30th Century Fox/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment .
R4 . COLOR . 390 mins .
PG . PAL |
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TV decision-making people are extremely unclool and splung-headed. How else could you explain the axing of Futurama after a mere four series', while other shows seem to drag their tired, saggy butts around our screens for absolute eternities? Yes, bad news everyone, this set contains the final production season of 18 episodes of the total of 72 ever made. Die young, stay pretty and all that stuff. Well, except perhaps for Professor Farnsworth. These final outings for the crew of Planet Express and various other folk in their rather massively big orbitty thing offer up a varied package of laughs, pop culture references, geeky splats and even genuinely tender moments. If you wish to know more historical stuff about it all, click on one of the links to the right and check out what we blathered on about in regards to any of the previous season releases. We're busy people here you know, we can't hold youse meatbags' scaly hands and wipe your noses all the time! Anyway, mell out, pull up a groove and get fabulous with the last (sniffle!) collection (sob!) of Futurama (blub!) episodes (fnark!) ever. Well, unless they somehow do a Lazarus on us... Disc 1
- Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
Summary: Amy and Kif¡'s relationship gets even weirder when the greener of the two becomes pregnant. Ah, but who's the mother?
Classic line: "Yes, I programmed it in for you. Four million lines of BASIC." - Kif.
- Leela's Homeworld
Summary: Winning the 'Orphan of the Year' award at the Orphanarium leads to Leela discovering the secret of her parentage...
Classic line: "I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside, where it can fester quietly as a mental illness." - Leela.
- Love and Rocket
Summary: After Planet Express Ship is given an upgrade, she and Bender have this thing going. But when she catches he of the shiny metal ass cheating on her, she doesn't take it too well...
Guest head: Lucy Liu
Classic line: "In order for me to get busy at maximum efficiency, I need a girl with a big 400 tonne booty." - Bender.
- Less Than Hero
Summary: After sustaining injuries from Pi-kea assembly, Leela and Fry discover Zoidberg's 'Miracle Cream' has superhero like side-effects, so they team up with Bender to do the superhero thing...
Classic line: "Should superheroes commit a crime? Even to save lives? I need moral guidance. Bender?!" - Fry.
- A Taste of Freedom
Summary: It's Freedom Day again, a time to do whatever you want. Zoidberg revels in it, but discovers that eating the flag is pushing things too far, especially when he's sentenced to death...Â
Classic line: "I'm swelling with patriotic mucus!" - Zoidberg.
Disc 2
- Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV
Summary: Bender wangles his way into a role on robo-soap All My Circuits, however new protest group Fathers Against Rude Television aren't too jazzed with his style...Â
Classic line: "That was so terrible I think you gave me cancer!" - Calculon.
- Jurassic Bark
Summary: The pizzeria where Fry worked is part of a 20th century exhibit at the Museum of Natural History - complete with his dog, Seymour, in petrified form. Farnsworth believes he can clone him, but Bender is jealous...Â
Classic line: "Fry, it's been three days - you can't keep boogieing like this. You'll come down with a fever of some sort." - Leela.
- Crimes of the Hot
Summary: Global warming is increasing and damn is it hot! It seems it's all Farnsworth's fault, as his prototype robot had lousy emissions controls, so all robots are damned to destruction. Unless...Â
Classic line: "Morbo is pleased, but sticky." - Morbo (gloviously!)
- Teenage Mutant Leela Hurdles
Summary: It's decided crabby old Farnsworth needs to be 'youthasised', a process involving a special tar bath. An accident sees all the crew treated, reverting to their youths - with a good side effect for Leela...
Classic line: "The fountain of ageing? It's just a legend. Still, they called the tooth fairy a legend and now it's head of the FBI." - Professor Farnsworth.
- The Why of Fry
Summary: Thinking he's a non-important nothing when Leela dates the mayor's aide, Fry discovers he's actually the most important person in the universe, thanks to Nibbler...Â
Classic line: "Did everything just taste purple for a second?" - Fry.
Disc 3
- Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Summary: Fry travels to forbidden planet Omega 3 to retrieve old Star Trek episodes, not realising the show was outlawed centuries before for its corrupting influence...
Guest heads: Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koening, Nichelle Nichols
Classic line: "Another classic science fiction show cancelled before its time." - Bender.
- The Sting
Summary: A spot of interstellar vicious-beekeeping goes horribly wrong when a baby queen Leela snatches kills Fry. But her dreams tell her he's still alive...
Classic line: "Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?" - Fry.
- Bend Her
Summary: Bender becomes Coilette, a fembot, to win at the 3004 Olympiad. When the matter of a gender test arises, he asks Farnsworth for the snip - later attracting the advances of Calculon...Â
Classic line: "This top makes me look fat. Is it trampy to go on a first date nude?" - Coilette.
- Obsoletely Fabulous
Summary: The Professor's new purchase, Robot 1-X, threatens to render Bender obsolete as he's not compatible. Fearful of an upgrade, he becomes a castaway...Â
Classic line: "Behold my hand-crafted purity. The modern world can bite by splintery wooden ass!" - Bender.
Disc 4
- The Farnsworth Parabox
Summary: The crew's entire perception of reality is thrown into question when Leela looks in a box Farnsworth wanted destroyed - a box containing a parallel universe...
Classic line: "Now, now. Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything." - Professor Farnsworth.
- Three Hundred Big Boys
Summary: Zapp Brannigan's defeat of the arachnid home world results in a silk surplus, meaning 300 bucks for everybody. Numerous ways are found to spend it...
Classic line: "The loot, the loot, the loot is on fire!" - Richard Nixon's head.
- Spanish Fry
Summary: While camping, Fry's search for Bigfoot sees him kidnapped by aliens. He returns without his nose, or "human horn", and discovers they're big on the black market as an aphrodisiac...Â
Classic line: "I want my nose! I don't wanna have to teach a new one to shoot milk when I laugh." - Fry.
- The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Summary: Cursing his stupid fingers for his inability to master the holophonor, Fry makes a deal with the robot devil for his hands. Can they help win Leela's love?
Classic line: "You're not nice!" - The Robot Devil.
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Blug! Not surprisingly, as with the previous three seasons things are still designed to fit snugly onto the confines of 20th century 4:3 television set screens. Still, it's not worth tromping off to the angry dome over, as otherwise things look decidedly non-snuffular. Once again the picture is decidedly clool, brightly coloured, as sharp as Bender's tongue (erm, voice chip?) and exhibiting nothing worth noting from the spluh-tacular world of aliasing and blemishy things. The 2D and 3D elements continue to work together as beautifully as the finest holophonor creation, with perhaps the only bum note being the subtitles, which tend to crushinate some of the personality - and often humour - from what's actually being said.
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As our puny audio-delivering technology has yet to catch up with 30th century trickery such as Dolby UltraDigital Prological 44,710.68, all we receive is Dolby Digital 2.0, with a wee bit of surround encodingment type stuff. Still, at least we don't have to buy all those speakers, let alone find hidey-holes for them. In all it's a decidedly 2D experience, delivering little in the way of stereophonic thrills and spills, and little more when pumped through a Prologic system, with the subwoofwoof remaining virtually petrified. Still, dialogue is, as always, clear and non-meh inducing, and sits well within the musical creations of Christopher Tyng and the selection of classical music from 20th century composers such as Young MC, Van McCoy, KC and the Sunshine Band, Tom Jones and even Pizzicato Five.
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This is it - no more to come. So take a pill, buy it, put in pride of place on your shelf next to the other three boxes, tenderly remove it from said place every so often to partake of the animated excellence contained within - or build a scale model Planet Express building out of it if that tickles your fancy. But if you're a fan of superbly written, brilliantly realised animation, you'll want to call this your own. No spluh!
LINK: http://www.dvd.net.au/review.cgi?review_id=3689
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"Mell out, pull up a groove and get fabulous with the last (sniffle!) collection (sob!) of Futurama (blub!) episodes (fnark!) ever...Â" - Amy Flower |
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- DVD Player:
Pioneer DV-466-K
- TV:
Loewe Xelos 5381ZW 81cm 100Hz
- Receiver:
Onkyo TX-DS494
- Speakers:
DB Dynamics Eclipse RBS662
- Centre Speaker:
DB Dynamics Eclipse ECC442
- Surrounds:
DB Dynamics Eclipse ECR042
- Subwoofer:
DTX Digital 4.8
- Audio Cables:
Standard RCA
- Video Cables:
Standard Component RCA
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