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I'm astonished that Futurama has lasted this long. I only watched the first four seasons, and always found it to be pretty good, just not great. There was nothing truly funny about the show, and compared to the Simpsons there are only a couple funny characters (Fry, Bender, and Zap). Some of them are just downright annoying, and not really funny (Hermes, Amy, and yes I even found Zoidberg to become tiresome over time).

I wouldn't even rank it in my favorite ten animated shows, and found no real reason to watch it when it came back based on how poor the movies in-between were. I guess it had a pretty easy path thus far, as Mad Men suffers from the same fate as The Wire (not enough viewers), but it should get bounced this round I believe.

Although I don't find The Hangover that funny either. When I saw a trailer for it yesterday in a theater and people began to laugh I almost wanted to stand up and shout how unfunny the entire trailer was, and how everyone is being suckered in again by the same damn movie (only worse, since it's completely unoriginal now). Maybe I'm missing a sense of humor when it comes to junk like that I guess.