The latest episode of “Futurama,” titled “The Prince and the Product,” is the show’s seventh anthology episode, and it’s the weirdest one to date.The “Futurama” anthology episodes began back in the series’ second season with “Anthology of Interest I”, and featured stories that were too outlandish, even for the already-bizarre show.
The conceit behind the anthology format, at least at first, was merely to sensationalize the drama in a 1950s style, complete with an over-the-top announcer (Maurice Lamarche) yelling things like “You’ve seen it! Now you can’t unsee it!” As the show progressed, however — and the showrunners wanted to get even wilder — the conceit fell away, and anthology shows would be presented just for fun.The episode “Reincarnation“, for instance, merely featured a trio of segments in different animation formats.
One was a black-and-white Ub Iwerks-style cartoon, another appeared to have been animated on an Atari…
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