Futuramais back(again ) , babe , and io9 has an exclusive snip to share from next week ’s sequence . Titled “ Quids Game , ” it see a jam - carry Planet Express ship chaffer a mysterious planet that contains an accurate replica of Fry ’s childhood abode — on the occasion of a memorable natal day party he and his champion must re - live … with a macabre twist . If that sequence titlesounds familiar , well … that ’s no happenstance .
Ata press roundtable at San Diego Comic - Con last weekend , io9 stimulate a chance to askFuturamaexecutive producer David X. Cohen about “ Quids Game . ” Obviously , it draws on a sealed smasher Netflix series , but as with mostFuturama stories , there ’s another level below the pop - culture point of reference . “ We have someSquid Gamefans in the writers room , including myself , obviously , ” Cohen said . “ [ But ] we like to take everything and make it one gradation removed . So we ’re not plump to say this is a computer memory ofSquid Gameor something . We ’ll do our sci - fi variant of it so that people who are not familiar with the original , or if 10 old age [ have ] clear and hoi polloi [ do n’t get the reference ] , they ’ll still love the show . So it requires no background noesis inSquid Game . ”
He keep on . “ But that ’s the inhalation evidently , to take some free childhood thing and do it to the death . And I guess one other thing I always find tinct just about the whole sci - fi premiss of being in the future — and any metre traveling — is that when you go into the futurity , you ’re always depart clobber behind when you’re able to not go back . It ’s sort of like our own lives ; everyone like they could go back to something in their life sentence .
Fry re-lives a childhood birthday in the next episode of Futurama.© Hulu
So I always feel like there ’s something mechanically aroused when you do instalment like that , where you ’re see Fry ’s puerility and you experience , like , ‘ Oh , he left all these people behind a thousand years ago . ’ And we get to remind the hearing a little chip of that basic premise , that his erstwhile living is gone , but it intend something to him . I do think you get extra emotion , even in a goofy installment [ where ] the great unwashed [ are ] die allow and right and then explaining that . But it ’s touching , I think , because of that hook to Fry think his puerility . ”
Watch “ Quids Game , ” the second installment ofFuturamaseason 12 , August 5 on Hulu .
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