10 Things You Learn Rewatching Futurama
4. How Good It Was At Ending
Endings are hard. There are many great shows whose endings confuse (Mad Men), are hugely controversial (Seinfeld), or are just straight up bad (Game Of Thrones). Endings can be very divisive, but Futurama dodged that bullet.
Futurama certainly isn’t alone in having a good ending, but what’s incredibly impressive is that it managed to end four times without a single bad one. Rewatching everything in one go, you realise just how impressive that is.
Two of the endings, Into The Wild Green Yonder and Overclockwise, are a little meh. Solid endings, but not legendary. Most TV shows would bite your hand off for a solid ending though.
It’s the other two, The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings and Meanwhile, which have really cemented Futurama’s status as the television finale king.
Devil’s Hands sees Fry get the Devil’s hands and write a holophoner opera, all about Leela. When the Devil takes his hands back, only Leela remains in the audience as their holograms walk into the sunset.
Meanwhile, Meanwhile sees a time stopping accident involving Fry’s proposal to Leela, and time freezes for all but them. They get a lifetime together, before the Professor emerges to start it all over again.