“ Saturday Morning Fun Pit , ” is another anthology episode , which makes it great . What makes it even greater is that Nixon is in control this time . I should n’t yearn for a Nixon presidency , but the show make an irresistible fount for it .
Anthology episodes of Futurama are the jewels in the summit . They discharge the Maker from story and plot and countenance them just do weird things with conception that they know well and love greatly . “ Naturama , ” which parodied nature documentaries , was last time of year ’s unspoiled episode . “ Saturday Morning Fun Pit ” takes a shot at older childrens ’ cartoon .
This last segment works best ( No crime , George . ) exactly because it boast Nixon as the unapologetic supervillain he is . Ever since the election instalment , when he crowed , “ estimator may be double as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as intoxicated and stupid as ever . The only one who ’s convert is me . I ’ve become vitriolic and , countenance ’s face it , dotty over the years . And once I ’m swept into office , I ’ll betray our fry ’s organ to zoos for inwardness and I ’ll go into people ’s house at night and bust up up the position ! ” he ’s been one of my favourite characters . “ Saturday Morning Fun Pit ” is second after cherished moment of his greatness .
It start when a superior general comes in and yield him the TV remote control . Nixon says he ’ll grant him the Purple Heart ; the soldier points out that he was n’t spite , and Nixon shoots him in the shoulder and drops him through a sand trap door before yelling happily , “ Let ’s look on some cartooooooooons ! ” In between instalment he screams at hippies and bullies the headless Spiro Agnew . When he finally gives up on editing the GI Zapp animated cartoon and runs a PSA , it ’s of him and the headless Spiro Agnew intercept two Thomas Kyd from fighting over a chunk , ripping the orb in half , and driving aside , laughing as the tiddler cry . There ’s something compelling about that bottomless well of petty wickedness . It ’s hypnotic . If there were any mode Nixon would run again , I could n’t trust myself to do the correct thing .
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