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Futurama Confirmed on Cartoon Network

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bite-my-shiny-metal-ass dept.

MrChubble writes "A quote from the cartoon network Adult Swim FAQ: "Starting January 12th the block will be extended to five nights a week (Sunday-Thursday) 11pm-2am et/pt and FUTURAMA will be added to the schedule." Sounds like fun to me." Jamie asks: it's nice to get confirmation of reruns, but will they be buying new episodes? Anyone know?

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  1. Fist Sport! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bite my red-raw, distended ass!

  2. Adapting anime for a new feminist millennium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have mixed feelings about anime. On the one hand, it's nice to see the influence of east-Asian art in American popular culture for a change (perhaps as retribution for what we did to Japanese folk music with disco). On the other hand, anime (especially manga) has historically been no better than pornography: it systematically dissects women into their component anatomical parts, except they're just fictionaly women. Now, this may be changing with the times, and there is a new crop of feminist apologists who'll tell you there's nothing wrong, that it is no more degrading to women than to men and that people of all genders are avid consumers. But again, to draw an analogy to pornography, it may just be that women are starting to internalize oppression.

    There's nothing inherently wrong with the medium; just in how it's been realized and implemented. If only people were more aware of the intrinsic relationship between art and effects on society as a whole, then we might be a little slower to choose to make that buck at the expense of our common weal.

  3. Boy by DeadSea · · Score: 0, Troll
    Running 5 times a week, it will repeat in what, 3 weeks? How many episodes of Futurama are there? It seems like fox was always pushing it off for their weekly special or the football game.

    I used to watch fox almost exclusivly, but now they don't have anything I want to see. It looked like they would hold me a bit longer with Futurama, but then they dropped it. Thank goodness for cable. Now I like The Learning Channel and Comedy Central.

  4. Re:arrgh!! by dinivin · · Score: -1, Troll


    Maybe because Family Guy was one of the most annoying pieces of trash on TV?