It's a truely sad day,
Futurama has been cancelled. CNN celebrates the show in its demise:
The line between clever and stupid
"Futurama" informs us that, a thousand years from now, advertisements will be beamed into a sleeping person's dreams.
"That's awful!" says Fry. "It's like brainwashing."
"Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?" asks Leela.
"Not in our dreams!" replies Fry. "Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And T-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!" Even when the "present day" of 3000 appears enlightened, any such sign of progress serves to underscore the follies of the "past."
For instance: Remember garbage, that signature of the 21st century? They don't in the future. No one knows what garbage is.
"We recycle everything," Leela boasts to Fry. "Robots are made from old beer cans."
"Yeah," adds Bender, hoisting a brew, "and this beer can is made out of old robots!"
It falls to Fry to share long-lost techniques for littering. Just as, on another episode, he draws on 20th century logic to argue that TV should avoid all cleverness, since "clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared."
As viewers eons from now may discover, "Futurama" never bothered to take its own advice.
