[the_af]

How I loved Futurama! Much like with the Simpsons, it will helpfully provide a quote for anything, and its hyper focus on scifi and adventure made it more interesting to me.

Though I'm a fan of the first "age", before the movie(s) and cancellation. I heard bad things about the later seasons, and don't want to taint my memories of the show by watching them.

[jerf]

The average may have trended down, but the variance went up, and some of the best episodes are in the later seasons.

I'd suggest looking at episode ratings or something and cherry-picking. It definitely was not some sort of total tanking or anything.

In fact, I'd call it the only case I've ever seen of trying to "bring the band back together" that largely succeeded. Not 100%, no, but they did much better than average.

That said, when the show ended for the last time, I was satisfied.

[dfinninger]

I rewatched the whole thing last year. It’s one of the few shows that I can really rewatch the whole thing start to finish. I like the series more as it goes on.

IMDB ratings seem to agree with your sentiment (7ish out of 10 opposed to the 8ish of earlier seasons). But watching through the series start to finish I didn’t notice any drop in how much enjoyment I derived from the show. I definitely don’t think it will taint your memory.

And as another sibling post said, the send-off episode always tugs at my heart.

I’d recommend finishing the series if you enjoyed the earlier seasons.

[the_af]

Will do! Thanks everyone, you and the rest of the commenters, for changing my mind :)

[bullfightonmars]

Through multiple watches, I've come to really like Bender's Big Score and The Beast with a Billion Backs. They are very different than the normal 22 minute episodes, but they have a lot of depth that you don't normally get in regular episodes.

The later seasons have few worthwhile episodes, notably:

* S6 - EP7 - The Late Philip J. Fry * S7 - EP26 - Meanwhile (Series Finale)

That said, I agree with you, most of my favorite episodes are from the first four seasons.

[MikeLumos]

Oh yes, The Late Philip J. Fry is about the forward time machine, what a masterpiece! Probably my favorite episode in the whole series.

There was also an amazing song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1drY3A418

[ZeroGravitas]

Original that it parodies for those not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYvtRmgA4o

[atomicnumber3]

As someone who watched them first in college about.... 7 years ago, I thought all the seasons were consistently good. There's really not many episodes I'll skip if shuffling.

[krylon]

Futurama gave me the kind of unfortunate habit of starting with the German equivalent of "Good news, everyone..." when telling users about something bad.

People who did not know Futurama found it puzzling, but it was just so funny I could not resist.

Also, I think the "second age" of Futurama was as good as the first one. I loved the series finale.

[linkdd]

The final was just amazingly beautiful, I'd recommend you watch it anyways :)

[spfzero]

Loved the first four seasons, but the rest were still Futurama. If you really enjoy it, you’ll enjoy all of it.