Rate and Review: "Viva Mars Vegas"

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The crew attempt a casino heist to recover stolen goods from the robot underground! Discuss!

[ManiacalRoboKiller]

It was decent a 4/5! I will give longer review tomorrow.

[The Angry Animated Comedy Nerd]

I liked it much better than most of the episodes we've been getting.. not to say that in a bad way.. just that we've been getting a lot of 8/10 episodes.

Anyway,
It was funny and well written, and Zoidberg was totally awesome.

The only thing that bugged me was Mars being just fine again with no explanation; but Josh W. (the writer) stated that this issue would not be brought up from that other Mars episode (that he wrote as well.)

Overall a 10/10 from me.

[irvine_11]

A rather meh episode. The plot was a little too fast-paced and disjointed for my taste and the twist with the invisible Zoidberg was a little weird for my taste. Ehh... I'll rate it a 3/5 (C+) because I feel generous. Still better than The Butterjunk Effect.

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

I actually thought the fast pace helped the episode. It had an energy and flow to it that kept me interested, but at the same time took itself light-hearted/goofy enough for me to enjoy gags I otherwise might not like when the robot mafia are driving by earth and the don suggests they drop off the money in the dumpster and acts annoyed when his grunt asks him to clarify. The only thing that kinda bugged me was how inky Zoidberg just happened to stay dirty until the end despite being in the tub with Amy eating a bar of soap in the second act, but I'm willing to overlook it. Amy was actually fun to watch here too which doesn't happen too often. I honestly still don't think it is a 5/5, but I don't really think ANY episode from this underwhelming run deserves that, but I'll give it a 4.5/5 rounded up for the poll and say it was the episode I enjoyed the most from this run so far.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

First good episode since the premieres. 4/5.

[Shaunbadia]

This was a very fun episode. I admit the beginning with Bender just saying "Earth's boring" followed by them heading to Mars was one of the worst things I've seen in terms of getting the ball rolling, but aside from that I have very little to complain about. I thought Amy was a real cunt until the bathtub scene (I'm sure @D DEBBS will be over the moon about more female nudity). The chart room was great, especially Bender's "Why have we never been in this room before". The Robot Mafia delivered some great moments and Zoidberg was just awesome.

I still don't like the fact that they just ignored the whole Mars thing from "A farewell to arms" but I'm just gonna assume that it found it's way back to where it more or less was to begin with.

Oh and something just occurred to me....if all Zoidberg needed to do was take a bath to return to normal, then why didn't he become visible when he took a bath with Amy?.....For argument's sake I'll just assume he didn't actually scrub himself and was just sitting still in the water and eating the soap.

Anyway I'm gonna give this a 5/5 on the basis that it was a very silly yet well executed episode as well as being one of the seasons best. Much in the same vein as why I enjoyed "The book job" episode of The Simpsons.

[Purple Unicorn]

7/10

Not a bad episode at all. Didn't pop out as one of the best, but wasn't one of the worst. I liked another Zoidberg/Amy interaction as it brought some great developments in their relationship. I would have enjoyed this episode more but I'm not a big fan of robo mafia and some plot holes kept bugging me all the way through. But Overall, it was damn fun to watch and the live-intro felt refreshing.

Surely better than last week offering but certainly not the best of the season.

[D DEBBS]

M-E-H and, once again, we see a character naked (Amy).

[Shaunbadia]

M-E-H and, once again, we see a character naked (Amy).

I gotta ask you this.....why do you get so bent out of shape about nudity on Futurama?

[Semaj]

The pacing was much better in this one.

One thing about Amy in these latest episodes is that she's not as klutzy as she used to be. A bit of character growth since finishing her doctorate's studies.

Quite a good episode.

4.0/5

[cymek]

I'm glad they brought back Hypnotoad. Long time no see.

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

This one was really really good. I tought it would be like hang over when we saw Fry with a tatoo but finally it was not that. The idea of Amy was really good and I enjoy an episode with Zoideberg in the center of it. I give 4/5 to this great episode.

[Dobbie]

I just caught this. A very interesting take on Zoidberg's character in this one. Maybe one of these episodes where the Crew actually like him? Well Amy certainly showed concern for him and later actually understood how it feels to live like him. The ending was actually somewhat 'touching' but only because I liked how nice Amy was to Zoidberg. I like it when the Crew randomly hate on him, but I also like to see them treat them as a friend at times and I thought this episode captured that aspect very well. Both Amy and Zoidberg did not disappoint in this one!

Speaking of Zoidberg, he really has improved since the rebirth of the show. Say what you want about the current Futurama episodes (by the way, I like most of them, even though most of them aren't as good as the classic Futurama episodes) but they really worked on his character positively. The songs he sings, the roles he plays (billionaire, hero, etc.) and the dialogue they use on him are quite good! In the old days, Zoidberg was a funny background character that could bring a cheeky smile during an episode but now he actually does something...interesting. A character on the up!

However, I did feel that the episode was kinda rushed at some points. The Robot Mafia had no story on how they stole the money and they didn't seem to remember the Crew at all (Hello Clamps! Zoidberg did cut off your clamps a few episodes ago!) which I thought was lazy, but I did like the cheesyness of some of the scenes ('Earth's boring!', 'Let's go Mars!', 'Yeeeah!' was so random yet somewhat well done!).

A few minor flaws: How did Amy come up with such a plan? She's not exactly the smartest...(loved the chart room joke though!) And how did Zoidberg stay invisible despite 'taking a bath' with Amy earlier?

All in all, a decent episode with some interesting character development between two characters that haven't really interacted with each other, Zoidberg gets better and better with every passing episode and there was a few gems (the where do you think I'm pointing at?, the chart room, what's rent?, Nelson! Thank god you're here Hermes!, Zoidberg playing roulette). 3.5/5