10 Things You Learn Rewatching Futurama
2. It’s Of Its Era
1000 years is a long way into the future. Even now, only 1.9% of the way between when Futurama premiered and the year Season One was set in, things have changed a lot. Obviously the referential style of the Comedy Central era dates itself as a trade off for trying to be relevant, but even the more timeless original series’ episare actually quite of their era.
It’s the same of any futurism, really. What the 1960s thought the 2000s would be like is just the 1960s but ‘more futurey’. Jokes about Amazon being risky and very little on social media or data hacks are already not what we’d now expect of the future.
The glaring one is President Nixon. However you feel about Trump, it’s undeniable that he’s not your typical President. Ooh, there’s an endlessly quotable crazy criminal in the White House who hates everyone and is hungry for power! It has less impact when a lot of people think that of Trump already.
They have Mom as the capitalist monopoliser, and Attack Of The Killer App makes a comment on iPhones, but there’s a lot more would be explored these days too. It’s great TV, but it’s inescapably early ‘00s.