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It might've taken several seasons but finally Futurama did what seemed impossible for this franchise... it made a terrible episode.

The episode consists of 3 vignettes with the cast all being turned into toy versions of themselves (Wind up toys, hot wheels and rubber ducks respectively) all of which are linked together by a story about Leela falling in love with the prince of space.

Now you might be asking yourself what exactly a story about Leela falling for the prince of space would have to do with vignettes about toy version of the Planet Express crew... and you can keep asking yourself that because there is no connection, which is where the majority of the problems with this episode lie. There is no reason to keep cutting to the vignettes, no reason to leave the central story of the prince and Leela and yet it keeps happening. The first time it happened I was worried I'd hit the remote and skipped to another episode but no, there's no connective tissue between any of these. At least in the Anthology Of Interest episodes they kept cutting back to the.crew asking the 'what if' machine questions which justified the shorter segments. This doesn't have that, it just randomly pops up without warning.

Maybe if any of the vignettes were funny it would help but they're not, one of them is just a parody of The Ring but everyone is a hot wheel car for some reason, another one is a Romeo and Juliet parody but everyone is either a rubber duck or an egg and the other one is about everyone being wind up toys and Fry's spring is slowing down so he's dying... and that's it, that's all the vignettes, they are all randomly connected by the idea of everyone being toys but they also have no reason to be in this episode at all.

It's like someone had two rejected scripts for the show and randomly mixed together the pages to create this monster. It's an episode that's so bad that it shouldn't have even gotten past the first table read.

The idea of doing a friars club style roast of famous historical figures AS other famous historical figures is actually a really fun idea. Getting a bunch of comedians, or comedian-adjacent-people, to put on an exaggerated character for half an hour can lead to a fun time and create some weird images. I would suggest that most people got interested in this by the trailer with a clip of Gilbert Gottfried as Adolf Hitler, it has the potential for great stunt casting and when it hits that potential it does something special. Seth Green as David Bowie or John Stamos as John Wilkes Booth are actual comedic highlights... everything else, no.

There are two big problems with this show, and one of them is Jeff Ross. I'm sorry, Jeff Ross isn't that good a comic. he has 5 jokes and edits them slightly for every roast and he is a horrible piece of casting. Its name brand recognition using a person with no brand recognition outside of this niche market of roasts and the fact that he walks out every episode and isn't a character just makes it a tonal mess.

The scripts were clearly written in an afternoon by two people who threw it together using set dressing and costumes that they borrows from a nearby community theatre. This is dumb but with some actual love, care and production values this could be something special. Instead it's just... mostly painful with sparks of brilliance that is begging to be let out. If they keep doing this, they need to put Jeff behind the camera, up the production values and work harder on the scripts... or, don't? Just, just don't make more of this.

This film is literally a 90 minute porno hiding behind a 2 hour art film. Everything about it is bad. The editing is horrific, every single shot is separated by a half second of a pure black screen. The script is bad. BAAAD. No one has anything resembling a likable personality, there is no plot, the dialogue is stupid at best. The acting... well, these people weren't hired for their acting talent. They were hired because they were willing to get naked and have unsimulated sex on film. This film shows random sex scenes every chance it can. Also it's homophobic and transphobic, there is a scene played totally for laughs where the main guy freaks out over a transgendered woman. OH and if you're an epileptic, avoid this because the director seems to enjoy giving people seizures with random flashing lights.

Literally the only thing about this that's in any way well done is the sex, and you can see better sex in actual porn films. Just go rent a porno, you'll get more enjoyment out of it and you won't have to deal with this horribly made 'film'.