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"The episode is over, and Professor Stephen Hawking will live forever in this future."
Speaking of the hottest sci-fi cartoon at the moment, it is "Rick and Morty", which began airing in 2013. The combination of home animation x super brain hole makes this animation get an IMDB rating of 9.3.
You may not know that just three months before the grandchildren appeared, the most well-known and well-received sci-fi animated comedy on American television screens at that time, "Futurama", had just come to an end.
The animated series has won 7 Emmy Awards, 7 Annie Awards (the highest honor in the field of animation in the world), 2 Writers Guild of America Awards, and has been listed in many authoritative media best lists, and even certified by Guinness as the most acclaimed animated series of the time in 2010.
What is the style of this critically acclaimed sci-fi animation?
Although the character's skin color is not yellow, this drama is definitely a driving guide for the old driver of the galaxy.
Does this style of painting make you think of something?
Yes, "Fly out of the Future" and the most "yellow" animation in the United States, "The Simpsons", are exactly the same door. In the mid-1990s, with the success of The Simpsons, producer Matt Gröning, at the request of Fox Television, collaborated with one of the writers of "Sim", David S. Thompson. Together, X. Cohen created this sci-fi animation drama that many people still remember.
After Disney acquired Fox at the end of last year, many media pointed out that Disney was not interested in the film IP of "X-Men", but the copyright of Fox TV works. "Flying Out of the Future" was used to refer to Fox's television works, which shows its influence.
"Fly out of the future" is called the sci-fi version of "The Simpsons" by many people. In addition to the animation style similar to "The Simpsons", the story of "Flying Out of the Future" is also based on satirizing daily life and social culture in the United States.
The difference is that the sci-fi setting allows "Fly out of the Future" to have more brain holes. As a result, someone commented, "The Simpsons are for all Americans, but Flying Into the Future is for science fiction fans around the world."
This animation tells the daily story of science fiction backgrounds.
On the last day of 1999, when the world was counting down to the new millennium, the pizza delivery brother who lived in New York, Philip J. Fry was accidentally locked in a cryogate and woke up a thousand years later.
In the 31st century, after many destructions and reconstructions, the Earth became a multicultural world. In human daily life, there are not only robots and mutants, but also races and life forms from all over the universe.
The date may be a purely conscious body without a body.
The most popular TV show is the brainless romance drama "My Whole Circuit" starring robots.
Hypnotic toads are the most popular pets. People also deliberately opened a TV channel for it, which was broadcast 24/7 so that you didn't feel the passage of life at all.
Fry, who had been frozen for 1,000 years, still became a courier in 2999, joining his distant room Zeng Zeng Zeng Zeng Zeng... Nephew Professor Phadsworth drives planetary couriers. And his colleagues are:
One-Eyed Captain Tauranga Lila.
Lila grew up in an orphanage, and because she had only one eye, she had always believed that she was an alien orphan abandoned on Earth.
A robot courier and chef for all evil, Bender.
The most popular character in the show. It discriminates against non-machine species, and dreams of "killing all humans", but from time to time it will be found out by conscience.
The stereotypical bureaucratic accountant Hermis.
Hermis is a member of the Earth Bureaucratic Association. This association prides itself on demotion and shame on promotion. Hermis was promoted from level 36 to level 37 because he was not bureaucratic enough.
Alien doctor Zuo Eberberg, who looks like a lobster.
Dr. Zo Eberberg will remind you of a doctor at the University Veterinary Hospital. This alien doctor who has traveled thousands of miles to Earth has a very tragic past and has been living in the dumpster of the alley.
Amy Wang, an Asian-American rich second-generation intern from the Martian colony.
This pampered big lady can let go of everything in front of true love, although this true love is a tadpole-like alien.
Although it has steadily occupied the title of the most cattle science fiction animated comedy for more than a decade, the production and broadcast of "Flying Out of the Future" can be described as bumpy, and the culprit is the well-known mythical drama terminator Fox Television.
On March 28, 1999, after two years of negotiation and preparation, "Flying Out of the Future" finally aired at Fox. The show's first season had very good ratings, being only slightly lower than The Simpsons in its class, and its competitors included hits like South Park.
In "Flying Out of the Future", the classic logo of Twentieth Century Fox has also become the thirtieth century. Fox is also the show's most frequently satirized object.
However, Fox TV failed to ensure a stable broadcast time for the show, which seriously affected the ratings of the show. Although the average episode on IMDb in the fourth season remained at 8 points, the ratings dropped to half of the first season. Fox used this as a reason to cut him off.
I don't know if the writers wrote this plot in the first season, did they ever think that Fox's big guys were not as smart as this monkey in the renewal matter.
In 2003, just two years old, adults bought the four-year broadcast rights to "Flying into the Future" from the animation channel Advanced Swin. Although it was a rerun, the stable and regular broadcast time not only allowed the show to gain more viewers, but also brought about a surge in DVD sales, which eventually led to the production of the show's four major movies and the restart in 2009.
Rick & Morty is also an anime for Advanced Swim. Creator Dan Harmon has paid tribute to "Flying Out of the Future" more than once in the play.
In 2008, the well-known American comedy channel "Comedy Center" bought the broadcast rights of "Flying Out of the Future" and restarted the production of the show the following year. On June 24, 2010, the day season 6 began, the ratings of "Flying Out of the Future" became the channel's top of the year, and set a record for the channel's Thursday premiere.
In 2013, due to a channel strategy change, Groening and Cohen reached an agreement with Comedy Central to end the show in season seven. Although in the eyes of Comedy Central, "Fly out of the Future" has a happy ending, the two creators said in an interview that they still have a lot of 31st century stories to tell, and may return in the form of web dramas in the future.
The final episode, Meanwhile, is one of the most perfect endings in history, and the one that best represents the essence of the show: both classic comedy and emotional, and leaving the audience with (undeserved) expectations.
However, the return that fans were looking forward to did not arrive. Instead, when "The Simpsons" celebrated its 25th anniversary, it gave "Flying Out of the Future" a chance to return to its old club after a gap of 11 years.
Season 26, Episode 6, titled Simpsorama, is the official commemorative collection approved by producer Matt Gröning. The title of the film was also changed to the title of "Flying Out of the Future". The official complaint of "inspiration-depleted drama and halfway waist cutting off the crew" has exposed the identity of Groening's number one fan of "public instrument private use".
In the episode, the Planet Express team collectively travels to the town of Springfield, and the Simpsons prevent future destruction. Frye and his party are obviously cameos, but they perform the momentum of the home stadium, making the episode unique in the weak 26th season with a high score of 7.9, and becoming the highest-rated episode of "The Simpsons" since season 24.
"Fly out of the future" is ill-fated, but the quality is stable. The reason for this is that the show is more faithful to Matt Gröning's adherence to the principles of cold humor, storytelling jokes, and pop culture encyclopedic Easter egg narratives.
The famous American film professor Howard Sauber once summed up three ways to write jokes in comedy in "The Magic of Cinema": the most common is a witty joke or nonsensical spoof, followed by a reversal of the familiar meme (or common sense), and the most difficult is to tell a funny story.
Writing jokes with stories is difficult because not only does it need to follow a three-part structure—using the first two paragraphs to establish a pattern and the third paragraph to overturn that pattern—but it also has to be a reasonable story that starts and turns. The principle of this way of making people laugh is emotional resonance, not the tickling physiological response that the first two methods rely on.
The first episode of "Flying Out of the Future" shows us a textbook case.
At 11:36 on December 31, 1999, as the world was celebrating the approaching of the new millennium, Fry was sent to deliver food.
Although the opening of the first episode set in 1999 does not seem to be science fiction at all, the use of the most classic Star Trek Terrier at the beginning indicates that the Easter eggs of this show will be too much for you to count.
As soon as he went out, he first met his girlfriend who had split his legs and was broken up, then lost his bicycle, and when he arrived at the delivery place, he found that he had been tricked and no one ordered food at all.
Fry, who had achieved nothing, was hit on New Year's Eve, but all he could do was complain.
When he thought that his miserable day was finally coming to an end, he accidentally fell into the cryogenic compartment behind him. When I woke up again, 1,000 years had passed.
Fry, who walks out of the freezer, realizes that his family, friends, classmates and colleagues... All the people who knew him were dead, and sighed from the bottom of their hearts.
Filled with hope, Frye looked forward to starting a new life in the new world. But he never expected that the job assigned to him by the computer was actually a courier. When Lila, the assignee, is about to implant him with a professional chip, Frye is not convinced and runs away again.
In order to escape, Fry put Lila in the freezer where he stayed, and originally wanted to lock her up for a thousand years, but then he thought about his own encounter and set the time to 5 minutes. There are also many such "sudden warmth" passages in the play, which is the most appreciated place for drama fans in addition to funny and sci-fi brain holes.
On the way, he meets Band, a robot who wants to commit suicide, and with his help escapes the police. Lila, the assignees who hunted Fry all the way, was touched by his will to resist and joined the strike squad. The three arrive at the home of Professor Fazworth, Fry's great-time (unknown number of generations), and successfully escape from Earth with the help of his spaceship.
Police officers at the New NYPD gathered around the professor's house as the spacecraft disappeared into fireworks celebrating the new millennium.
The three fleeing men on board the ship unexpectedly get a legitimate position from the professor. Frye was excited to be a member of the spacecraft, after all, his wish since childhood was to be an astronaut. However, in the end, he found that the new job was still a courier.
But isn't driving a spaceship to send a courier or sending a courier?
This episode is a good example of the comedic style of "Flying Out of the Future", on the one hand, each episode will tell a complete (and usually very good) story, and as the plot progresses, the baggage that fits the plot or setting is constantly shaken. In the end, no matter how tricky or difficult the characters encounter, there will be a happy ending.
This kind of "happiness" usually does not make the audience laugh, but makes people understand and even reminisce endlessly. Because it can connect with the audience's familiar life experience and social culture, thus triggering emotional resonance.
For example, the story of the first episode is based on the emotional basis of Frye's sense of fatalism that he cannot escape the profession of a courier, but eventually drives a spaceship to deliver a courier, making up for or even reversing the sense of powerlessness brought about by fate. And Fry's fate of accepting a courier because he can drive a spaceship also shows some irony.
In addition to the heartfelt depiction of life experiences, "Flying Out of the Future" also has Matt Groening's favorite and best social satire. From soap operas to big businesses, from carbonated drinks and fast food to relationships, every story can make you smile after a hidden satire.
For example, in Season 1, Episode 12, the alien king Lrrr, who is addicted to earth soap operas, invades earth because the earth signal is interrupted and cannot see the end of the story.
Lrrr leads his men on Earth, saying that if they don't let it finish watching the soap opera, they'll destroy all the places of interest on Earth.
However, the backup of the show was destroyed centuries ago, and the task of saving the planet fell to Frye, the only one who had seen the show.
Frye was to blame for the interruption of television. By the way, there was also a routine hack of Fox TV.
So under the direction of director and screenwriter Frye, planet expressed the second half of the episode to Lrrr. Lila changed the word arbitrarily because she thought Fry's script was ridiculous. Frye stopped the show, explaining why only his story could save the planet.
This paragraph is probably the screenwriter's true words.
In the end, the farce directed by Frye actually saved the earth, and Lrrr, who knew the ending, returned home satisfied.
In addition to the advanced comedy techniques, "Fly out of the Future" as a science fiction comedy, the use of science fiction terrier skills is also incomparable to ordinary dramas. In this play, the screenwriter sets up easter eggs in three main ways.
The most common easter eggs that are not related to the plot.
For example, when the mascot of Moon Park greeted Band, Hender poked his eyes with a beer bottle, paying tribute to the first science fiction movie in history, "Journey to the Moon".
This isn't the only appearance of Moon Face. On Fry's second visit to Moon Park, Band poked two beer bottles into the mascot's face.
Even if it is the ordinary operation of burying Easter eggs, the screenwriters are determined not to play cards according to the routine, but to make the Easter eggs cleverly combined with the plot as much as possible, without distraction, to bring surprises to the audience. For example, the common Star Wars terrier has been played out of tricks.
The weapon of police enforcement in the 31st century is the lightsaber in Star Wars, but when the lightsaber is opened, it only acts as a normal stick, not the lethal weapon in the original book.
The base of the "brain-rebuilding" of the universe's most evil creatures looks like a Death Star. This is the same shot of the spoof of the Spaceship entering the Death Star in Star Wars.
The elders of The Nebul Star, who rebelled against the "brain reconstruction", were all dressed up as Jedi masters.
In addition to the easter eggs that have nothing to do with the plot, "Fly out of the Future" often spoofs the classics to tell new stories. Star Trek, Minority Report, Yin and Yang Demons, Atlantis... Even Titanic is not immune.
For example, in the episode "No Fans Have Gone", the title "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is clearly a tribute to the classic opening line of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in tribute to Star Trek.
In this episode, Fry, after hearing that Star Trek has become taboo on Earth in the 22nd century because of the birth of a fan cult, runs to the Celebrity Heads Museum to ask Spock actor Leonard Nimoy for verification.
The "Celebrity Head Museum" is one of the basic settings of "Flying Out of the Future". Celebrities throughout history have placed their heads in a jug of water to achieve immortality. Many celebrities make cameos in the show in this way, and they are voiced by themselves.
Nimoy told Fry that in that tragedy, not only were all Star Trek fans killed indiscriminately, but all information about the show was also sent by rocket to the Omega 3 galaxy in the cosmic forbidden zone.
The other actors in the play also couldn't stand the unfair treatment and eventually fled to Omega 3. Only Nimoy stayed because he had just signed a new apartment contract at the Museum of Heads.
Frye sees the lonely Nimoy and decides to risk his life and sends him to Omega 3 to reunite with his friends. Upon arrival, the group was surprised to find that the planet was simply a large Star Trek set. And those human head friends who fled the earth 300 years ago actually have a body again.
Nimoy also recovered his body with the help of the purely conscious creatures that dominate the planet. But he soon realized that the purely conscious creature was an avid interstellar fan who helped him rebuild his body only to force him to continue performing. If he resisted, he would be killed. So the group embarked on a journey of escape again...
Of course, according to the laws of Star Trek, only the red coat can (will) die.
The writers not only borrowed characters and plots from the original Star Trek series and planted a large number of Easter eggs, but also used the show's typical narrative routines — crew members go to unfamiliar planets, encounter unknown alien attacks, and finally escape safely — as if writing a new episode of Star Trek.
There is another storyline in this episode, where Fry and his party are tried for touching the Star Trek taboo. In addition to matching the plot, this clue also shows the show's attitude towards "fan culture". On the one hand, by depicting the Earth government exterminating star fans, it criticizes the discrimination of mainstream society against subculture lovers, and on the other hand, it satirizes those brain-dead fans who have lost their minds by enslaving the actor's avid alien fans.
Fry, who is usually confused, has become the rational responsibility of the show, and the screenwriter has also borrowed his mouth to send a wave of confession to the original Star Trek series.
This is the perfect practice of Matt Geller's creative philosophy and original intentions. He himself has bluntly stated in an interview:
The show is ostensibly a silly comedy, but beneath these jokes is his philosophy of social culture and the science fiction concepts he promotes.
As for the last type of Easter egg, it is the most obscure operation in Flying Out of the Future.
As a brain-opening science fiction animation, it is inevitable that people will criticize where it is unscientific. The way the show fights back against these incomprehensible styles is to arrange a large number of Easter eggs that pay tribute to science in the plot. This is also the way the screenwriters show off their academic qualifications in a low-key manner. After all, the members of this screenwriting team have a total of 3 doctorates, 7 master's degrees, including many high-achieving students majoring in physics and computer science, and can also form a Harvard University alumni association.
For example, the Loew Number Cinema, which the characters often go to, is the Alev number in the spoof set theory.
As for what the Alev number is ...
Professor Fazworth also explained "Witten's Dog" in class, paying tribute to Edward Witten, who has made great contributions to string theory and quantum field theory.
This "Vuitton's Dog" is also a tribute to Schrödinger.
And when it comes to quantum physics, "Flying Out of the Future" will never let go of nature and Stephen Hawking. Professor Hawking appears twice in the show, one of which is as an immortal can of human can. In the game "Flying Out of the Future: Tomorrowland", released in June 2017, Professor Hawking also appeared again.
Professor Hawking died on March 14, but at least he has gained immortality in Flying Out of the Future (Hawking has inspired countless science fiction works, including The Three-Body Problem).
Whether you are an ordinary drama fan or a veteran science fiction enthusiast, you can get enough pleasure and emotion through this not-so-long cartoon. (Reprinted with permission)
This article is from: Overhead