Futurama Season 4 Update from David X. Cohen

Robotron2084 writes "Just goes to show that the best animated tv show around has some of the savviest producers around. Futurama producer/co-writer David X. Cohen posted this message on alt.tv.futurama recently. Interesting tidbits for futurama addicts to munch on while we await the season premiere on Dec. 9th. David talks about the prestigious awards they've received, upcoming guest appearances, and the banned christmas episode. I guess the fox executives were a bit scared of 'kwanzabot' at first, but they'll finally be airing a double-Xmas dose on Dec. 23rd!!"

Comments

Futurama is rising, Simspsons is declining

[mcarbone]

perhaps it should watch an episode or two of _The Simpsons_

Not if you watch an episode or two from the last few seasons. I think it is pretty clear to all Simpsons fans that the last 3 or 4 seasons of The Simpsons show signs of aging. Compared to these recent seasons, Futurama is a far superior and funnier show. However, Futurama still does not surpass Simpsons during its height; i.e., seasons 4, 5, and 6 (maybe 3).

Then again, Futurama's very first season was about as funny as an above-average Simpsons season. So if it has a season 4 comparable to the Simpsons' season 4, we're in for a real treat.

Re:Futurama is rising, Simspsons is declining

[thesolo]

Not if you watch an episode or two from the last few seasons. I think it is pretty clear to all Simpsons fans that the last 3 or 4 seasons of The Simpsons show signs of aging.

Funny, Season 12 had the highest ratings since Season 6...There goes that theory.

P.S. My favorite season was definitely 4 ;)

Just thought I would get ready. . .

[Newt-dog]

If you are in anticipation of the kick off of a new season - Here's a place to catch up on the latest gossip and even download a wallpaper for your puter. For those of you into ASCII art, they even have a few pics for you. If you are looking for a few original sketches or cells you might want to look Here.
But if your a real die-hard, you can download a few MPEG episodes Here at around 220 meg per episode (also 56k'er versions available for the bandwidth impaired)
I for one like the snappy comebacks and the semi-adult humor. My personal favorite is Bender drinking and smoking cigars!

Newt-dog

Bah!

[Yakman]

That sucks, here in Australia we haven't even had Season 3 shown yet. I've resorted to downloading DivXs from Morpheus to feed my habit. Although I just noticed the next story down from this one is about Kazaa shutting down, I wonder how that will affect Morpheus.

Anyone know if/when 7 plans to show Season 3 here?

Re:Decoding the Alien Alphabets

[Zocalo]

You could try the revamped Cant Get Enough Futurama site at http://www.gotfuturama.com. They have pretty much the entire old CGEF site back on-line now, including the Alien Language codecs - it's in the "Interactive" menu section.

Slashdot is powered by Fry and Bender

[scrutty]

Check the http headers

506 $ lynx -source -head http://slashdot.org | grep X-
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000
X-Bender: There's nothing wrong with murder, just as long as you let Bender whet his beak.

There's either a X-Fry or an X-Bender with a random quote each page.

Thank god!

[BillyGoatThree]

Week after week of homoerotic "sports" were beginning to make me think Futurama wasn't coming back. Unfortunately it won't be THIS Sunday. *sigh*--another Junkyard War rerun it is, I guess. I wish they'd kill off that idiot Tyler and bring back Robert.

Re:The Family Guy

[Jaycatt]

I definately agree... I still enjoy the Simpsons, and occasionally they have something completely unexpected (my favorite part of animated shows since that kind of thing is very hard for live action to accomplish). Futurama more so, for the same reason (being set in the future leave open all sorts of possibilities for weirdness). However, Family Guy has surprised me almost every single episode with something like Stewie suddenly breaking into a Broadway dance number or one of the characters carrying on in some sort of odd tirade... Just last night I laughed my head off at Peter being in a small glass enclosed box and struggling for air as he lets one go. Sure, it's just a fart joke, but who would've expected that? I even had to rewind at the end of the episode to watch it again right away.