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Oh my god! Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod! OH…MY…GAWD! Futurama’s back in a big way! Compared to this, Family Guy coming back is like a turd coming back when the toilet overflows. I’ve perhaps never been so excited in my life. Holy cow do I love Futurama; I’m even prepared to call it a better show than The Simpsons.

Bender’s Big Score is the first of four direct-to-DVD Futurama movies, and if the quality of this one is any indication of what’s to come then we’re all about to add the four greatest DVDs in history to our collections. For fans of the TV series, it’s got just about everything you could want.

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On the one hand, “Treehouse of Horror V” is an episode of the TV show The Simpsons and not a movie, so it shouldn’t really count for review here. On the other hand, go fuck yourself. In our TV intensive society, the annual Simpsons Halloween special has become something of a tradition along the lines of A Charlie Brown Christmas; the particular holiday season isn’t complete until you’ve seen it. Granted, the new “Treehouse of Horror” episodes have aired after Halloween a number of times in recent years, so the holiday season actually was complete before you saw it, but I maintain it didn’t seem complete. Thus, I feel like a “Treehouse of Horror” review is not only justified but necessary, and baby I can’t fight this feeling anymore.

Of the many Halloween specials The Simpsons have thrown our way over the years, the fifth one is doubtless the best. It aired in the show’s sixth season, squarely within that “golden era” of seasons three through eight, and a big heaping helping of that gold went right into this show.

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