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One Last New Episode of Futurama
Ant writes "Futurama's last new episode airs tonight at 7:00 PM on Fox." If you're missing your fix, there's a Futurama website with entirely too much Futurama info.
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Can't Get Enough Futurama
-be right back-
fox can bite my shiny metal ass
I love that show. It was on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim for like a month, but now it's on TNN (I think TNN) at 1:30 am and 1:30 pm (Central time).
At least we can always have them on DVD.
As I grew older, I definatly got more into Futurama then the Simpsons, even though I've been watching the Simpsons since 1990.
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How about testing those links before posting the story.. Yea, you can bit my shiney metal ass too. --dan
i can't say it ever gripped me. i enjoy it. watch it now and again when tivo records it for me and generally find it very funny but for some reason it never had that "must see the next episode now" magic.
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I recently cancelled Sky Sports and Sky Movies, but I still watch Sky One (the basic entry package in the UK)? For Buffy - whoops - oh I know - Futurama - oh dear.
Here's a mirror of the site:
Can't Get Enough Futurama
-be right back-
The package said "Windows XP or better. Pentium Class Processor or better"... So I got a Mac with OS X
Could somebody start up some bit torrents? High quality, please, and one season per torrent.
How is this "sweet juicy justice?" I think it's as unjust as hell to cancel such an intelligent and funny series that many, if not most Slashdotters love.
This guy is way out there
One comment's up and already the gotfuturama.com site's down.
I'm sorry to see Futurama go. It started getting really funny, and I will use "Bite my shiny metal ass" in response to silly feature requests for many years.
I bought the first episode DVDs already. *Sigh* and I will buy the rest when they come out...
Futurama was without a doubt the greatest and funniest tv series I have ever seen. I'm also not surprised about the amount of Futurama quotes I see in sigs here on Slashdot. Check my friends list, most of them have them :-)
Bite my shiny metal... OH NOOO!
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Is it just me or do the posts proclaiming "mirror" actually have no such link to a mirror?
While I thought Matt played it a little too cute with the Fry-Leela connection and almost all the subplots involving Bender, any episodes with Zap Branagan and Kif were works of pure genius that rivaled even The Simpsons.
Futurama (made by Matt Groening) was a lot better than Simpsons ever was. Though i'm sure that will start a holy war.
:(
The simspsons was geared a lot towards children usually, where I always felt Futurama was more for adults (Any one remember the death by snu-snu joke in the amazon woman episode?)
Oh well, just another shining example of how Fox knows how to cancel the best shows: Now i've lost my family guy AND futurama fix
- tristan
much like Family Guy, another good cartoon gone. All that is going to be left is crappy reality shows on TV :-(
GotFuturama had too much information. Now it's /.'d and has effectively no information.
Why is it that the good shows never last? For example, Family Guy was hilarious, but Fox cancelled it because advertisers were reluctant to run ads on such an edgy show. Now they are taking down Futurama, which is consistently funnier than this newest season of The Simpsons. And shows like King of the Hill, of which only the first season was funny to me, is still going strong. And don't get me started on that prime-time soap opera known as Friends.
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I tried searching for the full seasons on DVD, but I could only find volumes of episodes, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (not yet released).
Unfortunately, this was my first thought when I awoke this morning. I suppose we can all only be thankful that Fox now has more room in their schedule for "reality" shows, When Car Chasing High-Speed Animals are Attacked by Couples Married by America, and some other nonsense about objects removed from people in emergency rooms.
I truly am disgusted with television, and really only look forward to The Simpsons and B5 reruns. I can't see anything coming up that remotely appeals to me.
At least now they'll have thirty more minutes available for more lowbrow, idiot level programming... Good thing. People might start to think that the networks were actually trying to provide good entertainment in exchange for all of that publicly owned broadcast spectrum they've been granted exclusive use of for the last 75 or so years. Maybe it is time to take that spectrum back?
After all, those licenses were granted to provide a broadcast service "in the public interest", but when was the last time you saw something on TV that wasn't crap? You could even argue that the majority of commercial broadcasting actually makes people more stupid. That can't POSSIBLY be in the public's interest.
PBS has some good stuff, maybe History Channel, but what else? Along the same lines, when was the last time you heard a radio program (besides NPR) that wasn't the same recycled viagra jokes/top 40 playlist as every other station on the dial? Granted, Clear Channel is making plenty of money, but what about the public, the people the broadcaster's were entrusted to serve?
Who did what now?
That still doesn't make it justice.
How about something like "from the Morbo demands more episodes dept?"
That quote should even be obvious to you w/ your learning disability, Fry.
This guy is way out there
I don't think Futurama ever got a fair chance from viewers, who expected "the Simpsons in the future." It's too bad that the series wasn't able to fun for fourteen years, like it's counterpart. I would have watched them all. BTW - was anyone else repeatedly dismayed to see the show preempted by football ever season?
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...will the DVDs of later season Futurama episodes have the last 20 minutes of a football game, followed by the last 10 minutes of the episode?
The site is not really down. THey just slipped in a blank index.html file.
You can view the full site here...
http://www.gotfuturama.com/index.shtml
Knowing FOX, they'll replace it with a reality TV show where they strand about 40 70 yr old women on island or something.
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Taken from the site itself..
By the way, this last and final episode ties in neatly w/ this episode
This guy is way out there
get it now.
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Pay attention to the message at the very beginning of the show. It reads "See You On Another Channel".
i loved that futurama had no restrictions. each show could be about anything, and could be as absurd as they wanted it to be. also, there was one major difference to the simpsons for instance: the show is back to normal not at the end of the episode, but at the beginning of the next. they don't have to bend the story to fit that restriction.
There is a futurama game in the works titled Futurama- The Game. Release date is Aug 15, and so far impressions have been quite favorable.
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I too downloaded every episode of simpsons, futurama, family guy and other shows. But now that they're all coming out on dvd in better quality than most downloaded eps, i'm buying thoses. I think all of futurama should be out by next year and the rest of family guy will be out next month i think. Also to anyone whos interested, the complete run of Firefly will be out on DVD Dec 9th, loads of extras and the 3 episodes that never aired in the US. There are also talks of a movie.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
another taste of sweet sweet candy I've got Volume One - Volume Two is released on 8/15 - already pre-ordered. Why try and decipher which channel is going to carry Futurama this month. It was Fox-13, then Cartoon Network Adult Swim - now it's TBS? Diced to ribbons and idiotic.
I am about to reveal my political affiliations, but personally I think that some of the best RADIO programming is talk radio on the AM side. FM side, I usually listen to NPR.
Now, on topic: FUTURAMA ROCKS! I hope someone else picks it up.
We should all write FOX and tell them to keep it. If I were an exec and between 600,000 and 1,000,000 (or heck, 100,000) people all called/wrote/emailed that they wanted a show, I'd keep it! (based on the premise that each call/mail represents the opinion of at least 100 other people).
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Watch it tonight and then you will understand, assuming your local station doesn't throw up a logo in the wrong place.
As for me? "Cancel this season pass"...
'See you on some other channel'
I particularly loved the kegelcizer machine in 'Why must I be a crustacean in love'. Shot of a grunting woman's face and some weights shooting up in the background for a few reps. That entire episode, really. The scuttling Zoidberg is always a hoot.
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..the Tracy Morgan show. Even at the age of, I'm guessing 8, he has been providing entertainment with his comedy show. Good for you, Tracy Morgan, good for you!!
Slashdot's server admins seem to like Futurama quite a lot, the server sends out an extra HTTP header with each query. e.g. X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk! X-Fry: They're great! They're like sex except I'm having them.
I read the description.. This one isn't a new episode, I saw it during the last season. Could it have been that your Fox station didn't show it because of football?
AC
Here's an interesting part from the site: ... this very site A short excerpt:
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Looks like Futurama executive producer David Cohen has been busy giving interviews the last few days. In this IGN front page linked article, he talks about what he did in the meantime, what he wants to do in the future (including a movie project with Ken Keeler - the writer of tomorrow's final episode), the long-shot hope for continuing Futurama with Cartoon Network, the slightly better Futurama movie possibility, the upcoming Season 2 DVDs, the Futurama Video Game and
IGN DVD: Has there been grassroots fan efforts to save the show like there was with other series?
Cohen: There have been huge efforts but the network hasn't been too interested. There is an online petition that as far as I know is the largest petition in TV history to save a show, and there's a Web site run by fans called GotFuturama.com. That site ended up being the central location for fans to go to, and I admit that I go there to see an air date or something I've forgotten. They have a link to it (the petition). I think at one point they delivered a hardcopy to Fox executives which must have been the size of five Manhattan phone books. (laughs) And before questions flare up, I think he got the thing about the Game Cube Futurama video game wrong. All signs still point towards no go there.
I guess it's just me but I never found Futurama or the Simpsons or any of the like to be even slightly entertaining. Same with South Park. It's not just the cartoons, just about everything on TV lately sucks. I know that TV got the nickname "Boob Tube" not for it's intellecual content. But why must the intellegance level go down year after year?
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It's going to be sad that I won't have Futurama on my Sunday nights any more (at least I won't have to suffer through King of the Hill afterwards). But thank god for Matt Groening and his DVD producion staff at Fox. The Simpsons and Futurama DVDs are some of he best released and reflective of how much Groening likes his fans.
If you look at other TV show DVD sets, Groening's collections can beat just about anyone out there. They are reasonabley priced (around 30-40 bucks at most stores) compared to some TV shows selling their sets at $80-100. The production quality is great, so you don't have to suffer through bad transfers (although there was an initial pressing problem with Simpsons S1 that was fixed). And probably the reason I love them the most is the fact that Groening and his boys sit down and do commentaries on all their episodes. They know that you can watch all the episodes and get a laugh out of them, but the thing that keeps you coming baack is hearing them shred their episodes to pieces. We've all seen Simpsons and Futurama on synidcation long enough to know a lot of the old episodes by heart, but the commentaries are pure genious. So it might be sad that the TV shows are leaving us, but props to Matt for a dedication to kick ass DVDs
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There's an interview with Futurama Exec. Producer David X. Cohen on IGN
Here's the story
Rips of pre-air feeds of this episode in mpg and xvid format have been out for more than a day. The episode was funny as hell, such a pity that this show has to end while Simpsons (which for the most part is desperately unfunny now) was renewed for another two seasons...
Does that not say season finale? What am I missing? From http://www.fox.com/schedule/showinfo/futurama/fut_ 418.htm
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If anyone would like to use the opportunity tonight on the last episode to drink and salute the years Futurama has been on, I have a Futurama drinking game on my website that's handy for when you want to drink until you reboot.
/shameless plug
Unfortunately, like Family Guy, Futurama fell victim of Fox's scheduling stupidity. Family Guy was put up against Fraiser, and Futurama got bumped around, cancelled by football, and so much worse. Both of them ultimately lost many viewers due to these blunders. If Fox was intelligent, they would have put it on right after The Simpsons, and moved Malcolm in the Middle to some other day. That way fans of the Simpsons could watch Futurama afterwards, in a sort of Groening Hour of Power.
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I got it from usenet yesterday from alt.binaries.multimedia.futurama
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
That line is delivered so well (I would say casually, but Morbo isn't exactly casual) that every time I hear it I can't help but laugh. It shows that all the writing that made the Simpsons (at least in the early years) carried over to Futurama.
Here's hoping that the Simpsons can retire gracefully when their contract is up, and that Futurama shall rise again!
OK - who'll post Bittorent link first? :)
Now if only Sky One didn't put "Sky One Brand New" in the top left *and* a red blob in the top right (don't ask - you're supposed to press the red button on your remote, but it doesn't go to a Simpsons/Futurama section of their interactive digital TV stuff, but just to the main menu !). Luckily, the blob can be removed by a rapid press of the Red button followed by Backup, but you can't get rid of the 2 line logo in the top left :-(
I also hate that they shove in 3 repeats of The Simpsons on consecutive Sundays and then a brand new episode, then 2 repeats, then a new episode, then a repeat, then 3 new episodes and so on - a total guess as to whether the episode will be new or not (so I just record them all and check them out later).
Ok, a couple of people have stated that the reason Family Guy got cancelled was because no advertisers wanted it. And obviously from reading this thread and from the petition site, there are hundreds of thousands of Futurama fans out there.
Do you think it would be realistic for them to continue making the series directly to DVD?
Think about it. I know that I along with most of my friends either own, or are planning to own all of the Family Guy/Futurama DVDs in addition to having downloaded copies of the shows beforehand (and they say piracy is killing the industry.. pfft!).
I'd be more than happy to keep buying (yes, that's right.. spending actual $$$) seasons of Futurama and Family Guy if they went straight to DVD.
Actually, I've probably only managed to catch Family Guy being aired maybe half a dozen times, and Futurama not much more than that. I think that for shows (like these) where there is great demand, but not really a spot in the lineup, marketting straight to DVD should (if they were smart) be a valid alternative.
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Reasons why:
(1) The Why of Fry - Fry is the most important person in the universe. He was actually sent to the future on purpose to stop the evil brains from destroying the universe after they know everything about it. How sweet is that?
(2) The episode where the professor creates a mutant superhuman basketball team to compete with the space traveling globe trotters. Because he created the superhuman team by accelerating time with some chronotron, time slips started occuring during the viewing of the cartoon.
(3) Captain Brannagon, Bender, Zoidberg?
(4) The giant squid everyone ignores at the dinner table...oh wait, thats Family Guy.
Anyway, Futurama is an excellent blend of cartoon scifi / boozing / geek jokes. It has a much bigger world than The Simpsons (any time period, really, and the whole space that is the universe), and Matt Groening definitely wants to write for it, and has fresh ideas for episodes. Also, what about the star trek Futurama episode? I hate star trek, and it was still hilarious.
"Recursive bipartite matching"- try it!
I realized that I was a fan of, ahem, the guy when he drew up "Life in Hell" in the underground music magazines about 2/7 of a lifetime ago, give or take. Matt Groening! Yeah. Wow. At least I don't yet have Alzeimer's, but I wonder. Then he went mainstream with "The Simpsons", which I watched religiously (along with "...Next Generation" and "L.A. Law"). Then I just fell off the couch as in potato. I also got sick of the commercials (AM talk pinheads, FM hit music formulae, etc.), turned off the radio, and (almost) never got around to turning it back on.
I learned a while back never to flatter myself by thinking I am unique and never to disparage myself by thinking I am weird. What I need to do is to find my pop-clueless peers. Who has not seen more than a minute per viewing of Friends? Who has missed all episodes of Futurama? Who had to use the Web to learn the meaning of J-Lo? Who learned what an Anna Nicole Smith was only weeks ago? I am not the only one. Can't be.
Horror stories of this parent comment most welcome. How far under a rock have you lived, folks?
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This guy is way out there
"FOX can bite my shiny metal ass!" *takes puff off cigar*
Oh get a grip.
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Oh whyyyyyyyyyy?!?!?!?! Fox is killing Futurama with Death by Snu-Snu!
(Yeah, ohwwwww, Yeahhhhh, ohwwwwww)
Anyone know of some good irc rooms for Futurama Discussion? I remember sitting in an irc room during the superbowl with a group of other 'educated' folks discussing what was happening with the game.
It'd be nice if there was something like that for Futurama as well...anyone know of one?
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Simpsons has been going on forever and we're starting to take it for granted (because the last few seasons before this one were totally horrible) at least this way itl stay on top forever. Maybe they'll do a movie or something. who knows.
whenever they bring back a cancelled show it always ends up worse anyways. gargoyles was brought back as the goliath chronicles and the animation was hideous. star trek was brought back.. and who remembers those episodes!
It also makes DVD collection easier when theres only 5 sets to collect.. and thatl mean Groening and the rest can get to work on pumping out the simpsons DVD's (ive pledged to purchase up to season 8)
I shall leave you all with some great futurama quotes.
Hermes: Baby needs a new pair of shoes
Zoidberg: To hell with your spoiled baby! I need those shoes!
Fry: Thats IT! You can only take my money for so long before you take it all and I say enough!
Fry: Leela, Bender, we're going grave-robbing.
Bender: I'll get my kit!
Fry: I betcha Leela's holding out for a nice guy with one eye
Bender: That'll take forever. What she oughta do is find a nice guy with two eyes and poke one out.
Fry: Yeah, that'd be a timesaver
Bender: Another classic science fiction series cancelled before its time (referring to star trek)
(posting as a reply to my post to avoid it being drowned in the masses of replies to the main article)
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(I posted the parent post too soon, sorry.)
:-)
I used this quote to indicate why Futurama has so many inside jokes that appeal to the Slashdot audience
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
It's worse than that. It isn't just ratings, demographics are very important. A show can get cancelled even if it has good ratings. As far as advertisers and network executives are concerned, many viewers are irrelevant because they are too young, too old, too poor, or other factors that make the viewer undesirable.
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After Simpsons (the present) and Futurama (the future, duh!), will we get Pastorama from Matt?
And then, if he mistakingly creates a story incompatible with The Simpsons and Futurama, will there be time shockwaves?
Could we get alternative timeline Simpsons where Homer is Flanders and Flanders turns to be like Mr. Burns?
Will Fox linuxize all its internal servers?
Will my money last till the end of the month? -- *sigh*, I guess this must be one of those common constants among all parallel universes...
The editors have unlimited mod points, we have no chance.
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The final episode of Futurama is posted to alt.binaries.multimedia.cartoons in SVCD quality MPEG-2.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
I want Futurama and Firefly back
obvious flamebait but.. having the setting in the future isn't the only thing that makes it different. futurama is geek humor. its good shit, but not the popular strategy. the world is getting smaller and if your taste doesn't fit the wide part of the curve your assed out
bite my glorious golden ass.
Hell of a shame.
Heh... it was interesting, when Final Fantasy X's Wakka opened his mouth and made Bender noises. I didn't know at first that they're both played by the same voice actor. After that I had a hard time differentiating the two!
But I digress. It's a sad reflection on today's entertainment that Futurama's gone. They're too busy reviving old ideas (T3 and Blake's 7 as recent examples) for anyone to enjoy new material. Music is similar - it's been a long time since I heard something original (in the UK at least) rather than a rewrite of some older song.
It wouldn't be so bad, but remakes are generally not good. Enterprise is a terrible prequel to Star Trek TOS, Randall and Hopkirk was OK but nowhere near as good as the original, more recent Dr Who = bad, Terminator 3 destroys the "warm feeling" very final ending of T2 and sucks at it, and no doubt Blake's 7: A Rebellion Reborn will have little going for it. (How the hell can you have B7 without Vila or Orac?)
Rant has gone off course again! But I feel rather strongly that remakes of existing material is what's destroying entertainment that's relatively new.
>obvious flamebait but.. having the setting in the future isn't the only thing that makes it different. futurama is geek humor. its good shit, but not the popular strategy. the world is getting smaller and if your taste doesn't fit the wide part of the curve your assed out
:-)
Perhaps, but I'd still like to see more from Matt Groening...something like I said before, AKBAR & JEFF and other classic stuff from the BIG BOOK OF HELL and other Groening pre-Simpsons sketches.
Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about. That it Groening at his best, not Futurama, which probably will sign a deal to get it shown on TECH TV, hopefully with new episodes.
After all, Futurama would look great right after TECH TV's daily dose of the "Thunderbirds."
Given that I thought the show had been cancelled at least 2 years ago, I've had enough time to grieve and have gotten over it.
Now you tell me that the show is just being cancelled after tonight?
That's like watching your dog jump out in front of a car, thinking he's dead, and your parents keeping him locked in the basement for 2 years.
First the dog, now this?!?!
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Did anyone else notice the witty saying at the bottom right before the credits?
See you on another channel
hahahaha! That is really great. Hopefully this isn't the last we'll see of Futurama...
Apparently FOX likes dismissing all their good shows; Futurama, Firefly, Titus (I liked it, Stacy Keech Kicked ass) I would say that we should all boycott FOX, but I know that won't happen, Too many people like the Low brow entertainment of Joe Millionare and Temptation Island. I'll personally won't be investing anymore time in shows that go on FOX until Gail Berman is removed from the network. RIP Futurama, We'll see you on DVD.
was when the devil made that dramatic return to hell with Nixon's head. I lost it when I saw him running by in the next scene.
Who are you?
I dont know what you people are complaining about, this just means that now we can have even more quality fox programming, like BONZAI!
ok really, why is that garbage even on the air.
...this doesn't compare the the far worse cancellation of the Clerks animated series. That show was hi-fucking-larious, but ABC (bad network in the first place) put it in a horrible time slot (I think it was at like 9:30 or 10:00). They aired two episodes, then cancelled it.
To be fair, it wouldn't have been funny at all to people who haven't seen Clerks, so it didnt' really appeal to many people. But it could have lasted a lot longer if they had put it on Fox or even HBO or something and given it a decent timeslot. They made 6 episodes, and they're available on DVD for like 15 bucks, complete with intros for each episode by Jay and Silent Bob and commentaries by Kevin Smith. High quality.
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Or it could be the the-system-fails-again department.
I never miss an episode, on any channel...
I was shocked. Apparently getting getting Approximately 4.48 million (Firefly), or 5.17 million (Futurama) or even 5.96 million people (John Doe) to watch a show on average is grounds to take it off the air because it's a failure.
I don't know about you, but I sure am impressed by anything which can get even a couple of million people interested in it.
You'd think *someone* could come up with a business model to continue to produce these shows.
I don't think the Simpsons S1 problems were completely fixed with S2. What bothers me is that the Simpsons DVDs are interlaced, and obviously captured from a composite source (you can see artifacts around color edges, especially text -- "dot crawl"). I think they just took the 1/2" video masters and digitized them.
... it's like film, it's an inherently progressive source. I don't really know the details of how animation works but it would be nice if they could go back and redo the cartoons in progressive video.
Now this stuff is animation
I think you'd see a big difference if they went back and really remastered it.
I submitted this story earlier. Mine had a catchier headline: "Bender is dead!"
"Derp de derp."
Oddly enough, in Australia it is possible to get whole-season box sets of Farscape for around $AUS 125 (about $US 80) - there are only 4 or 6 discs in the set (can't remember now, and it's at home). Of course, they're Region 4, you'd need to have a multi-region player to see them. Places like Atlantic DVD and EZY DVD ship internationally.
(as if it wasn't obvious, when DVD region-encoding got created, all the major countries were assigned, then Region 4 was created as the "Arse End of the World" zone. There are far fewer releases in R4 than for the other zones. Australians (and probably New Zealanders) pretty much have to have multi-region players.)
David.
Why can't we make our own Futurama, Family Guy, etc. episodes? I'm willing to create the site, host it, etc. if anyone else is interested.
http://www.bedoper.com if you need to contact me about it.
I really don't know why, I think it was the way that noone was sympathetic on the show. I couldn't really like any of the charaters and alot of them just flat out annoyed me.
On the other hand, I was really getting into Futurama and had no idea it was being canceled until I read this. I think Fox is making a bad move here as the ONLY time I actually interrupt my PC time to pay attention to TV anymore is their Sunday night line-up. Other than that, TV watching is for times when I need to be passive like when holding my infant son or getting ready for work. Those times are usually filled with History Channel or CNN.
It's not over yet people.. There's a total of about an episode worth of cutscenes in the PS2 Futurama game. There's a (slim) chance for a movie and also the faint possibility for Cartoon Network to resuscitate the show.
Why on earth is this moderated as a troll? The guy isn't saying "FUTUR0M0R SUX" but instead says that it sucks and then presents extremely reasonable arguments as to why he doesn't like the show. I feel somewhat the same. They try for the same sort of irreverant humor as The Simpsons and with the same animation and some of the writers. Groening himself has often said that the point of Futurama was to be able to do wacky story lines and interesting sets but keep the style of The Simpsons. The fact is that The Simpsons got lucky with the actors. Picture The Godfather with B movie actors. It just wouldn't have the same impact. Clearly some of the characters and actors on that show aren't up to par with The Simpsons. Bender and Fry clearly carry the show, while Katey Segal's character and the voices of Zoidberg and the Professor are weak at best, and irritating more often than not. I think that the jokes are weak, but they could certianly be helped a great deal by a good voice behind them.
Think about it this way: how many times has a friend of yours ruined a really funny Chris Rock bit because he says the same words with a poor delivery?
i have never before, nor shall i dare say, ever again by myself with no one around spontaneously shoot milk out nose and laugh out loud at the funniest cartoon character of all time.
Huzzah!!! Someone is noticing me! (/Zoidberg)
i am truly bent that my TiVo shall no longer grab for me the funniest and best written 22 minutes of my TV viewing week. Fox can bite my shiny metal ass for cancelling Futurama
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Just watching Cartoon Network's Adult Swim - the text intros said: - They Goofed - And viewers ran - Like gazelles chased by cheetas - so Futurama returns tomorrow (Monday) at 11:30pm Neato.
In one episode, that Bender is powered by a 6502.
Its obvious that Fox wanted to make Sunday the wacky family time. Simpsons, Family Guy, Malcolm in the Middle, all those lame Malcolm knock off's (which I never saw so Im not so sure). Anyway, they wanted to 'fix' Futurama- they made Groening add a kid so he added the Prof's clone kid Cubert- and if you notice that the kid is particulary insipid- thats cuz Groening didnt like it. Of course it didnt help that they got an entire season behind and fired the writing staff. Geez Fox, couldntcha keep your mits off.
I dont do meaning of life questions.
Is there a better description for FUTURAMA?
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Just because it's a "Geek Humor" as you dubbed it, doesn't mean it's not funny at all.
Futurama is funny even if you're not a "geek".
"its good shit, but not the popular strategy."
Just because it's not another "reality based" television program or any other "stereotypical" television programs, it doesn't make Futurama any less popular.
The known fact is that there are a small group of people who in essence don't give a damn about Futurama. They are FOX NETWORK EXECUTIVES.
Why even bother putting a program into your programming wthout any intention to promote it.
It's a surprise that Futurama last 5 TV seasons (4 production seasons). With lousy time slot, and being the redheaded stepchild of FOX Programming Schedule (pun intended - FRY), Futurama is doomed by the third season (quote of sarcasm: "This show has gone downhill since the third season" - BENDER SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED ON TV)
FUTURAMA, it does NOT suck!
It's merely mistreated by FOX (CRAP as described in The Simpsons - when Homer bought Animatronix-imightmisspelledit- stocks and he said: "What is this CRAP?" - "FOX
Oh well, just another shining example of how Fox knows how to cancel the best shows: Now i've lost my family guy AND futurama fix
Geez, lets not forget Dark Angel and Firefly. And I'm betting "Keen Eddie" will soon get the axe. I'm sure they're even more causualties. They're probably repressed memories waiting to explode on my consciousness.
And doesn't an Almighty Deity make them suffer like ABC? (for killing Cupid...)
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Futurama has exhibited the same inconsistancy as the simpsons, more so even... even in one single episode, they might seem to be on a constant hilarious track then drag it down with sappy melodrama. Some episodes (like the Leela-Parents one) are almost totally awful melodrama. Sometimes one episode is quality gag after quality gag... sometimes entire ones are flat except for one or two lines... Just like the Simpsons of nowadays.
My question is: many of you seem to consider it to be a SMARTER show; why?
If you want to make an argument based on the depth of the repsective refrences (or, debatably, namedrops), consider the following: (admittedly rushed and brief)
I will agree that Futurama OCCASIONALLY (much less now then at the beginning) had a lot of fantastic GEEK REFERENCES, which I quite enjoyed... I won't mention the overly obvious; one I liked, mostly used in the first few eps, was the overabundance of owls in NNYC... a blatant nod (I believe) to Philip K. Dick / 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'.
BUT geek references != SMART, at least in my book... Simpsons, as well as the constant pop culture refrences, has many literary and political gags which are probably nearly as obscure, considering... witness the episode where John Updike was ghostwriting for Krusty.
Judging by google score (which I will admit are biased towards scifi geekdom as opposed to literati):
"John Updike" 59,800
"Philip K. Dick" 132,000
(as of 0328.11.08.2003 MDT)
I love Zoidberg. He's my second favorite character( after Bender, of course). I don't even think it's going out on a limb to say his voice is pretty good, too.
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Fox is good at sabotaging shows.
Dark Angel's first season had some pretty good ratings. It appears that the ball was starting to roll for a show called firefly. One of the execs liked that more than Dark Angel and Fox couldn't afford to run both at the same time. So a choice was made to kill Dark Angel by moving it to a friday 8pm (central) timeslot. Coincadentally the shows largest viewer demographic was out on dates at that time. The ratings plumeted.
Me, being the dateless wonder that I am still watched the show and it was just as good if not better than the 1st season.
But they managed to kill it off and replace it with firefly. Cameron (Terminator, Titanic) was pretty pissed, and was thinking of going to another network to pitch a mini series so he could atleast finish the story instead of being truncated like it was... nothing ever came of that.
I really liked that show and surprisingly it had nothing to do with Jessica Alba being majorly hot.. in the first season she didnt look all that great anyways.
"a really funny Chris Rock bit"
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Minor correction - the public voluntarily chooses their programming based on what is available and what is pounded into their brains with advertising.
If it was simply left up to people to decide, then timeslots wouldn't be an issue. Networks can clearly push whatever shows they want, and bury the ones they don't like.
Don't give "people" too much credit.
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Actually taking out the crayon made homer of average intelligence, you find this out when he bemoans the world for treating a man with a 105 iq badly.
Put poor food in front of a hungry person and they'll eat some of it, that doesn't mean they like it or that they prefer it. TV only provides a limited number of choices due to their "Me Too!"-ism. My cable provider forces me to by all sorts of crap. Here is a partial list of what they provide:
1. Mainstream TV channels (NBC, ABC, etc): Friends clones and other canned laughter sitcoms
2. Fox: "Cops" and other assorted human misery passed off as entertainment for the Bread & Circuses public. I think the Seinfeld and Simpsons reruns are keeping them in business.
3. The History Channel: The Hitler and "War Toys for Boys" Channel (I give them credit for the Ancient Warriors series)
4. The Discovery/Learning channel: The Egypt and Tyrannosaurus Rex Channels
5. Home Shop For Crap Channel: TV for bored housewives with credit cards and jewelry fetishes
6. Telemundo: If I was Spanish I'd appreciate it probably. Seems to be mainly Novellas anyway.
7. E!: Drunk half-naked tourists in clubs screaming "This place is WILD!" into the camera plus the obligatory drag queen shot. Should rename itself "T&A!"
8. MSNBC: "The liberals control the media but we are impartial journalists! Now, a sreaming match on why we shouldn't criticize the president condensed to a few sound bites..."
I could go on...
On the positive side:
1. Bravo and A&E: Some good movies and original shows.
2. PBS: Good when they aren't on a pledge drive (Celine Dion anyone?) and are taking a break from dry British dramas.
3. CNN: Generally do a good job with the news but I wished they'd get rid of all the crap that clutters the screen.
4. Comedy Central: Avoid their movies (Up In Smoke again!?) but they have The Daily Show, Insomniac and some good comedians.
Basically my cable company doesn't provide me with any way of voting for what I want so I'm at their mercy as to what they put in their packages. I have to buy a lot of junk to get a few gems.
I have a recording form sometime before March 2001 where he says the following:
"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" - Lewis Black
Do you have it wrong, or does he drift? hmmm.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
So I guess I'm a day behind and missed the final episode of Futurama. How was it? I wasn't a dedicated fan but I would watch it if it happened to be on. It was pretty funny. Too bad it's now "pasturama." (Dorky I know)
the people who moderated my post [above] obviously didnt actually consider what it said and/or they dont watch those channels.
Shows about Hitler, shows about Bridges, they are interesting, you fuckers. They are also in no way related to shows about gay interior decorators. I actually want a Hitler and Bridges channel, you are a fuckhead, and reply to my post instead of moderating it, you fucking idiot.
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