REVIEW: All the Presidents' Heads

[Stretch_Dude]

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We are on a freaking roll here. Loved this one, start to finish. Great premise, clever new way to time-travel, and funny, funny, FUNNY.

Did I mention it was funny? Fry's logic for having a night job, the party at the head museum, the various colonial misunderstandings of what Bender is, everybody speaking in goofy British accents, the 'Ead Museum, and biggest of all, a British Zoidberg doing a silly walk. Harold Zoid himself couldn't do comedy that good!

Thumbs freaking up on this one.

[Gulliver63]

I have to agree that this one was wildly funny, from start to finish. Two of the gags hit me right where I live. Firstly,

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the family tree.

My wife and her sisters are all genealogists, and I just got done drawing a poster of one of these things on Wednesday for their family reunion. Secondly,

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Andy Warhol. As you can see by the main page, I just uploaded a cartoon where the PE gang makes a delivery to "Planet Warhol" about two weeks ago, not having a clue that this was going to end up in an episode.

This could be the funniest one yet this season.

[kaspired]

All thumbs way up on this episode! I've watched it twice, and laughed out loud both times. Plus all the different costumes, and the subtle gags

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On the newspaper "Bears Maul Market", Boston - "Big Dig Starts tomorrow"

You can't miss the Monty Python bits

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"Ministry of Silly Walks", Zoidberg was perfect for that.

Did you spot Doctor Who? And serious points to Gulliver for Andy Warhol.

Excellent episode! This entire season has been really really good. Can't wait for next week.

[c_nordlander]

Funniest episode in a long while (possibly since "Benderama"). Not all the jokes worked for me, but the vast majority made me laugh out loud.

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I laughed a lot at "Lars", and I didn't even care for that movie.

I thought the mechanism behind the time-travel was a bit silly, but other than that, the plot was pretty strong. Kind of a well-worn storyline, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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My interest waned a bit once they got back to "modern day" New New York, mainly because of the awful British accents and some pretty old stereotypes. British!New New York looked pretty awesome, though. Nice quick Doctor Who ref.

The visuals were particularly fun in this one. From the various old-fashioned outfits (I love Bender's antenna-queue) to the various new settings, to the excellent pastiche of Monty Python animation. Oh, I love it. David was a pretty good new character, too.

Dr. Cahill had a big role in this one. Seems like she's firmly gone from "one-shot" to "recurring character".

Definitely one of this season's high-water marks so far. And maybe the problem is that American people have too much correctional dentistry until you look like chipmunks

EDIT: Hey, the long "S" shouldn't have a crossbar!

[Gulliver63]

I'm assuming everyone has seen it (or owns it), but much of that humor goes back to the mighty Crossover book. I could kick myself...I missed the Dr. Who gag until I watched the clip again on Facebook.

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I still like where Amy offered up kippers on a tray.

BTW, my daughter even enjoyed it, and she's not much of a fan.

[missy_misery]

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This one was just plain good-intention-ed silliness from start to finish. The Big Dig groundbreaking joke made me laugh my butt off.

Only this show would try to squeeze as many Dr. Who jokes into this episode as they possibly could. Brava.

[archonix]

I'm still trying to work out what exactly made this episode so much better than the others. It had something that a lot of this season hasn't quite had. Any ideas?

[c_nordlander]

Jokes that were funny?

[missy_misery]

It was snappy and had a lot of good catchphrases.

(Who among us has not said "Bender bit a poo penny!" out loud)