Tag: Maurice Lamarche
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Futurama Season 11 Parodies The Ring And Five Nights At Freddy’s
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…
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Futurama Season 11 Just Inverted The Plot Of A Classic Episode
This new “Futurama” season has been anything but shy about satirizing hot topics in 2020s culture. The latest one? “Cancelation,” or powerful people being ostracized/held accountable for misuses of authority. The episode’s title is the blunt: “Zapp Gets Canceled.”Zapp Brannigan (Billy West) is a starship captain in the Democratic Order of Planets (Doop). Befitting the…
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Futurama Season 11 Smuggles Some Its Best Satire Yet Inside A Stilted Critique Of Cancel Culture
Of all the rude, crass, self-absorbed, ridiculous, inappropriate criminals on “Futurama” — that is to say, most of the characters on the show — none is more worthy of censure than Captain Zapp Brannigan (Billy West). Zapp works for Doop, an organization similar to the Federation from “Star Trek,” but far more trigger-happy and willing to…
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The Classic Hollywood Inspiration For Matcluck, Futurama’s Alien Chicken Lawyer
This post contains spoilers for “Futurama” season 11 episode 8.On top of its hilarious main ensemble, “Futurama” is home to a stable of eccentric recurring characters, ones who could only exist in a science-fiction comedy like this. One of my favorites is Matcluck, better known as the Hyper-Chicken. Matcluck (voiced by Maurice Lamarche) is a…
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Futurama Season 11 Brings Back The Angry Dome, One Of The Show’s Best Random Gags
Episode 2 of “Futurama” season 11, “Children of a Lesser Bog,” was a sequel to an episode from back in season 5, “Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch.” Amy Wong (Lauren Tom) and Kif Kroker (Maurice Lamarche) had children, but Kif’s species (the Amphibiosians) live as tadpoles in a swamp for 20 years before maturing.…
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Two Fan-Favorite Futurama Characters Came Close To Getting Their Own Spin-Off
“Futurama” is a show that has had several different lives throughout its existence, which now extends for close to 25 years. One thing the beloved animated series has never had though? A spin-off. But it wasn’t for a lack of discussing such a thing, and it turns out a spin-off series came close to happening…
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‘Pinky and the Brain’: Now Is the Perfect Time for a Movie
Steven Spielberg’s Animaniacs introduced us to a wide variety of new, fun characters which, along with Tiny Toon Adventures just before it, brought back that element of WB zaniness that endeared their Looney Tunes cast to generations. Animaniacs had recurring gags, and a healthy dose of both intellectual and juvenile humor (“The Great Wakkoroti” is…