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Isn't that Rick and Morty?

It's quoting Bender specifically, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubPWaDWcOLU. "Yeah well, I'm gonna build my own themepark, with blackjack, and hookers. Infact, forget the park" when he's thrown out of the moon themepark.

Oh nice! Thanks for the call out.

The two aren't even close to being comparable. Rick and Morty has a lot of good ideas, but the two main characters themselves are just fundamentally annoying, there's nothing to balance it out.

Speak for yourself, I think it's better.

I think we can all agree that they are different shows

This is the Internet, that might be asking a lot :)

people always compare the shows but a few superficial similarities aside I found Rick and Morty to completely lack the sincerity and humanism of Futurama. To a large extent it is toilet humor and edginess with some very heavy-handed dramatic moments thrown in.

It's also Dan Harmon going way off the charts with meta storytelling and jokes to the point where you yearn for straightforward comedy.

Which I guess is why they're making this show.

Futurama can still get pretty meta. The first five minutes of the last reboot were about how those responsible for their cancelation were ground into Torgo's Executive Powder.

I think a better example of a return to straightforward comedy would be the King of the Hill reboot.

Also kindof wild to think of telling 1997 me that there would be new episodes of Futurama and KotH 25 years from now.

After watching the misery that has been the Flanderization of the Simpsons and its complete decline I'm quite happy with King of the Hill staying out of remakes and anything that would straight up destroy the treasure that it is.

Has there been more recent news since this?: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/king-of-the-hill-reboot-greg-dan...

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