| | "There's a television cartoon called Futurama that I want to talk about. At times it's hilarious, and the half hour shows are packed pretty tight."
Although the Simpsons and Futurama are obviously meant to be satire, the characters in these shows are thoroughly depressing. They always seem to wallow in there own misery. Homer of the Simpsons and the Robot in Futurama especially. They constantly whine about their lives that always come to nothing or celebrate absurd pathetic victories like being able to dislodge a chocolate bar from an automatic dispenser.
I think Matt Groening has made a career out of making people laugh at the trivial and mundane in life - with nothing else to offer. The philosophy of his stories is that there are bad things that happen to people in life that are unavoidable. If they except their pathetic lot in life then they will be happy. So I am not at all surprised that during "freedom day" his characters blindly accepted it when their bones were broken by strangers.
You could just imagine Homer after recieving a broken bone going cross eyed, crying "Doh", and then moaning about how unfair it all is after it is clear that he is powerless to change it.
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