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Tell GR: The Simpsons Or Futurama?

Posted on Wednesday, August 1 @ 17:43:49 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

So what'll it be? Matt Groening's creations, with their overbites and bulging round eyes, have been entertaining us for decades. It's time to kill one and celebrate the other.

Whether we're talking about eyePhones or Monorails, Fry or Lisa, Hermes Conrad or Otto Mann, it's time to decide. If you've got a favorite episode that secures victory for one or the other, be sure to share that with us too. It's time to decide...

The Simpsons or Futurama?

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Comments

Sourdeez
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Futurama
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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Simpsons, Lemon Tree episode or anything with Sideshow Bob

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 6:08 pm
The original 4 seasons of Futurama, since other than The Simpsons Movie, it's what I've watched the most.

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Jobin_Wendy
Joined: Mar 2012

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Simpsons, before season 18, and I guess some episodes after that point. Hilarious.

But the Futurama movies were fantastic. Bender's Big Score was extremely funny.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Futurama
^

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Futurama, came back from the dead and 2 channels fought over the license to play its reruns.

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LawnGnome
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Futurama, though both need to be retired soon.

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crazydanO5
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 9:47 pm
I concur.

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Bretimus_v2
Joined: Jan 2009

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Simpsons because it's so expansive. There is literally so few items that they haven't touched on and it's chock full of some of the best moments in animated TV.

I've always liked Futurama, but it's so narrow in it's scope of interpreting the world through the lens of sci-fi. That being said, nerds do love fan service.

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Archer picture I don't know what you wrote but I like it already

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TheMindlessType
Joined: Sep 2009

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 7:56 pm
If I had to choose right now - Futurama.

But compare the entirety of Futurama vs The Simpsons season 2-9 and I think The Simpsons would win hands down. The problem is, after season 9 the quality really began to sink. They felt too much pressure from the popularity of family guy and really became an entirely different show. Homer lost his relatablitity, the show became less heartfelt, and it no longer became quotable in public. Sure it's still "popular" but it's culturally irrelevant.

Futurama may also be culturally irrelevant, but today it's more enjoyable than The Simpsons are.

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daverabbit
Joined: Oct 2008

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 8:25 am
Pretty much this. I would put the first 300 episodes, give or take, of The Simpsons up against any tv show for best of all time. But the recent years drag it down so much that if you're viewing complete bodies of work I will give Futurama the nod as of today.

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sbiscuit
Joined: Mar 2011

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 8:34 pm
I agree as well. The Simpsons was among the best animated shows of all time until Season 10 or so (maybe started going off the rails even a bit earlier). But at this point more than 50% of the series is unwatchable. Futurama is a far better series now.

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yorky
Joined: May 2002

Posted: Aug 3rd, 2012 at 7:02 pm
This! I agree completely.

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sg4real
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Simpsons FTW... never really cared for futurama

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Jobin_Wendy
Joined: Mar 2012

Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 at 10:16 pm
One of the funniest things I remember from The Simpsons was something so slight, yet so ridiculous, that I remember it above every other Simpsons moment: in the episode where Marge opens a pretzel business and hires the mob for protection, things spiral out of control, and the family comes home to find Homer knocked out, a note pinned to his head with a thumb tack. To read the note, Bart pulls the thumb tack out, removes the note, and then sticks the thumb tack back in Homer's head.

For some reason, that was the funniest little detail I can remember watching in any show or movie, ever. It still makes me giggle a little bit.

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Rougarou
Joined: Apr 2012

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 12:02 am
Both are exceptional, but Simpsons should win because you can say there wouldn't be Futurama without Simpsons. BUT... if those are the only two shows playing for twenty-four hours, which would I watch? Futurama

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 12:28 am
www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/no-right-answer/5116-The-Simpsons-vs-Futurama
My opinion on the matter: Doesn't matter both are great and both are bad

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dirty_f
Joined: Nov 2010

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 2:16 am
Futurama. Its animated comical sci-fi. 'nuff said.

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Alex_Osborn
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 6:01 am
Meh. Never got into either.

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MasterRabbi
Joined: May 2007

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 6:07 am
Futurama: Finger-Longer

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 7:29 am
Good news everyone! I've chosen The Simpsons

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ReinhardtBII
Joined: Oct 2007

Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Fantastic reference.

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phantomasko
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Aug 3rd, 2012 at 7:16 am
Futurama, i dunno why.....i guess less kiddish to me

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inferno003
Joined: Jul 2012

Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 3:49 am
wow... this is a tough choice!
i grew up with Simpsons and have always enjoyed the show...
but in the last year, i have watched a lot more futurama...

so if its all time id have to pick simpsons... but, as far as which one i see my self watching more, its fururama... it's just more entertaining...

the show that needs to die is the retarded & overrated family guy!!!

ill take futurama & beavis & butthead & some south park over that crap any day!

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