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3ACV10: Where The Buggalo Roam
First UK airing: Sky One, 7:00pm, 21-4-02
"Now remember, Kif, the quickest
way to a girl's bed is through her parents. Have sex with them
and you're in."
Hooray! Amy finally broke through the 400 lines mark!
In 49 episodes (bearing in mind 'A Tale Of Two Santas' has managed
to slip by Sky's radar, dammit), that's almost 8.5 lines per
week! (Huh, doesn't sound quite as impressive put that way.)
So, the big question now is, will she crack 500 lines by the
time the series ends?
Well, it's a big question for me.
So, what did I make of this year's Amy show? Or, more
accurately, last year's Amy show, thanks to the deliberate
'hiatus'-inducing stupidity of Fox's schedulers. (Hey, does that
mean there'll be a this/next year's Amy show? Or a last/this
year's show next year? Or a this year's and next year's this
year, or a last year's and this year's next year? Hey, this is
nearly as confusing as time travel!) Well, I liked it. Not a
world-shaker by any means, but it was fun and fast-paced, the
plot was there to advance the jokes rather than the other way
around, and even the characters who weren't playing a major part
in the story (which in an unusual change included Fry, Leela
and Bender!) all had their moments. Even Hermes got in a couple
of good gags, and how often does that happen? Fry's parade
of "Where?" jokes wore a bit thin, but Zoidberg continually
abusing the Wongs' hospitality worked because each time the joke
was repeated, it built on the last time. I can't say I'm surprised
that even Amy got mad about it eventually. Who'd want to be related
to Zoidberg?
Other funny parts: the Pepto-Bismol (and Fry having
it slathered around his mouth while he eats), Zoidberg and the
caviare, Bender's rant at Fry's ghost story, and Leela taking
time out to squirt her eye full of Optrex. The business with
the Slurm can was a great reversal of the expected joke (which
I was expecting even though I'm British! I obviously watch too
much American TV) as well.
The big news of course was that Amy and Kif haven't,
y'know, done it yet. And thanks to Fox, they've been dating for
a year! Maybe she doesn't deserve her past reputation. After
all, the only person we know she's got off with is Fry,
and he's just the slut of the universe! (I'm sure that, by 3002AD,
human society will have advanced enough to include male sluts.)
There was plenty of stuff for detail fanatics to pick
up on about Amy and her family, and it was good to see a part
of Mars that wasn't Mars University for a change. Liked the bit
about the Great Stone Ass of Mars, as well. Because the whole
'Face on Mars' thing is a bunch of arse!The designers
and animators seemed to have a lot of fun with the show as well,
right down to little details like the horseshoe on Kif's belt
pointing in an unlucky direction. Will he ever get a break?
Wait, what am I saying -- he's dating Amy! The bastard!
By the way, Bender (or John DiMaggio -- the DVD revealed
that he sounds just like Bender!) just has the greatest cruel
and filthy laugh imaginable. I wish I laughed like that!
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