Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Futurama: "War is the H-Word"

Futurama is a funny cartoon created by the same man who made the Simpsons: Matt Groening. The basic premise of the show is about a young man named Frye who gets cryogenically frozen on the new year's eve of 2000 and wakes up 1000 years later. The world is now full of robots, mutants, and aliens, and he has to get used to the new world order. In this particular episode, "War is the H-Word", Frye and his friend Bender the robot join the army and have to fight in a war against a planet inhabited by Balls. The balls mainly just bounce around and look silly, which makes us laugh because sometimes people laugh at foreign things they don't understand. Whenever the Balls speak, the only verb they use is Bounce, and bounce means everything. This episode is used to poke fun at people who would rather laugh at things they don't understand that try to understand them.
Groening, Matt. "War is the H-Word." Futurama. Adult Swim. 26 Nov. 2000.
here is a link to the episode

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