what am i even doing

There’s a late-season Futurama episode where Professor Farnsworth gets into an argument about evolution vs creationism with another scientist. Obviously, we as an audience are supposed to wholly side with Farnsworth and think that the creationist is a moronic buffoon.

The problem here is that the writers of this episode conveniently forgot that God is real in the Futurama universe. He’s an actual thing that actually exists out in space. Bender has met God, and spent several days hanging out and talking about the nature of the universe with Him.

While the writing of the episode makes the creationist guy out to be totally in the wrong, and much of the humor is derived from how ludicrous his claims are, in-universe, he’s totally correct. The claims he’s making about a God creating the universe are verifiable scientific fact, based on what had been previously established by earlier episodes of the show.

(Do not construe any of this to mean that I support creationism. I don’t. I am merely pointing out and deconstructing a bit of bad writing in a show that I'm not fond of.)

In one of the (terrible) later season Futurama episodes, someone travels back in time from the even-more-distant future to stop a robot uprising. They succeed in doing so, only to then be wiped from existence because, if they stopped the robot uprising, they future they came from wouldn’t exist, so they wouldn’t be able to travel back in time to stop it in the first place, creating a paradox that erases them from existence.

The thing is, it’s explicitly shown that they travelled back in time using the machine language time code. And the whole point of the machine language time code, as established in a previous season, is that it negates paradoxes.

In the second episode of Futurama, a big part of the conflict comes from Fry and Leela being stuck outside on the Moon’s surface and they have to find shelter before nightfall or else they’ll freeze to death.

But like.... they’re on the Moon. The Moon rotates so slowly that nightfall takes, like, a week. This really shouldn’t be the kind of thing to suddenly sneak up on them out of nowhere.

What’s even the point in getting invested in things anymore?

Everything I enjoy eventually disappoints me anyways, so why bother?