If you are at all interested in biting satire, you're probably already a fan of Futurama. As it was a program of undeniable quality broadcast on the FOX television network, it was, naturally, cut down in its prime.
Although, given the lackluster nature of the four full-length films that would follow the show's cancellation, maybe it was for the best. Perhaps it is better to go out guns blazing, rather than die a slow, painful, excruciating death.
Death being a metaphor for decline into mediocrity. I shouldn't poke fun. A recent episode of the Simpsons was actually quite good. (This was largely thanks to a Julius and Ethel Rosenberg joke that freaking kills it.)
Where am I going with this? Nowhere, as usual.
But there's a particular episode of Futurama known as "Crimes of the Hot." A satirical condemnation of humanity's inability to achieve true sustainability even 1000 years in the future, the episode also features one of the best robot sex jokes ever.
And who can forget the best explanation of Global Warming ever:
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