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The Why of Fry: Interactive

As The Why of Fry is likely to trigger a bit of response, both the episode reviews and the episode capsule are already up, now that it aired on the East Coast. If you haven't seen it yet, beware that these include heavy SPOILERS. Be strong and wait the few hours.
Quotes, sounds, framegrabs and - Andie willing - trivia will be there by tomorrow morning.

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FryGuyApr 6th 2003, 00:00
Awesome episode. I'm glad this one made on the air before the season ended. It really brings everything together. Except of course why Leela is "the Other One". Sure going to miss the show.
SDMorehouseApr 7th 2003, 00:00
I had to blink twice to convince myself that I was watching a NEW episode of FUTURAMA. That is, one that hadn
SilentGhappyuntilnextSundApr 7th 2003, 00:00
Kick-ass episode! I always love to see a episode dealing with time-traveling. It was funny when Fry said that he looked fat when he was watching himself in the year 1999. Oh, good memories!
Now we have to wait about six weeks before a possible Futurama could be aired. It sucks now that next week an water-downed KotH will be on Futurama timeslot. And the week after a X-Men 2 preview? What the hell? This goes to my theory that anything that replaces the Futurama timeslot I will hate or bitch about. To hell with Fox and that stupid programmer bitch(showing middle finger at Fox). Too bad no one can challenge their crummy ways of doing business.
[-mArc-]Apr 7th 2003, 00:00
Sadly, the Nielsen ratings for yesterday's episode were really low (3.8/6). Don't remember it to be that low before.
fdrApr 7th 2003, 00:00
good episode....I find it cool that this must have been planned from the first episode because when fry falls in and gets frozen, you can clearly see nibler's shadow on ground beside the chair. You can also see nibler's eyeball in the garbage can and his and fry's shadow under the desk in Jurassic Bark. Awesome Writting!!!!
RandalApr 8th 2003, 00:00
Definitely one of the best episodes IMO. I love how it tied together so many points of the show, in such a succinct manner. It's an episode like this which makes me really want to buy the majority of News Corp stock so I could force them to keep it on the air.

BTW, of course the Nielsen's are low for Futurama now. No one knows when an episode, new or old, will air. Fox has screwed the pooch on cancelling this show. It's just now finding it's audience. Most animated shows take a long time to work into a groove, I'm actually surprised that they were able to do it so quickly with this show. Hell, I didn't find the Simpsons funny until mid-way into the 3rd season. For me, this one only took like half a seson to get going. I still can't believe they're going to keep KotH on and take this off. Man, I swear if Fox had just left Futurama after The Simpsons, instead of Malcom, this would not be happening. Because, I know that Malcom would have found it's audience if you placed even at 7:30. Jeez, sorry but I just needed to finally rave about this.
BrainSluggoApr 8th 2003, 00:00
I just saw the IMDB.com article mentioning that Disney's "Atlantis" flopped (again) Sunday night, coming in fourth in the Nielsens. Does that mean "Futurama" slapped down "The Wonderful World of Disney" that week?

"You are watching FOX. Shame on you!"
--Jay Sherman
SRMApr 8th 2003, 00:00
Great episode! Tied a couple of ends but opened yet a few more.

As for the ratings, well that can be chalked up to Fox's non-existant promotion of the show.

If it wasn't for this great site, I would probably be as clueless as a Fox Executive... Nah, nobody can be that clueless.