DVD Menu Analysis.

Futurama Season 4 DVD Menu.

(Left to Right) Futurama Season One & Four DVD Menus

Throughout Futurama's journey to the DVD format has always been shaky process. The first two seasons didn't have 'Play All' options, and having to go through two menus to get to the 'play feature' button was unnecessary. The menu's where also static with some diegetic sounds but after the release of third season they started to change up the design.

From season three onwards they finally added a 'Play all' feature to go along side the individual episode selection. Also in season four there were still static menu's with diegetic sound, although they add a random little animation. It usually comes down to an image siding a cross screen.

There are commentary for more or less all the episodes with the creator 'Matt Groening'. Which is a letdown since that most of the creators aren't involved in production. It would of been insightful to hear the cast talk about there time on the production, although some of the commentaries with Groening are interesting but I would of preferred two different commentaries so you could hear both the pre-production, & production of Futurama.

The DVDs do have 'Deleted Scene', which is the only thing they did right durning first two season. The deleted scenes are the pretty much what you would expect. The deleted scene's menu listed all the scenes that also has a 'Play all' function. But beyond the 'Standard' features, such as 'Scene selection', 'Play all, & etc... there isn't many features such as 'Directors Cut' and 'Behind the scene' stuff. Which is a shame since most DVDs come with this a standard, and with a show like this it shame there isn't any behind the scenes.

All the Futurama DVDs have had some sort of 'Easter Eggs' hidden within the menus. Most of the 'Easter Eggs' can be found when clicking on different objects in the background, for example on one of the Easter eggs is activated by clicking on one of the finishes in the background. Although all the Easter eggs are character bios of actors and writers, which isn't something people would want to continually go back and find. Since there isn't any 'Behind the scene' stuff this is a shame that the Easter eggs are bios.