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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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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.
Futurama (made by Matt Groening) was a lot better than Simpsons ever was. Though i'm sure that will start a holy war.
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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
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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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?
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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If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
It's being a bit of a jerk to bypass a measure they've obviously put in place to avoid horrible rape by the slashot hordes. :(
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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" but for some reason it never had that "must see the next episode now" magic. "
For me it was because Fox kept pre-empting it for football. That and the 7pm time-slot was actually kind of hard to catch. Simpsons had me programmed to be ready at 8. Man I was addicted to that show when it was on right after the Simpsons.
What really bugged me was that they showed Star Wars one Sunday at 5pm. Futurama would normally have been on at 7pm, following Star Wars. Seems like a pretty damn good lineup, dontcha think? Nope. We got two eps of King of the Hill that day.
I can understand that Futurama didn't do it for ya, but I feel rather strongly that Fox really blew it when it came to giving Futurama a chance to develop a strong audience.
"Derp de derp."
FOX has some really good shows, and some really lousy shows, unfortunately they seem to focus more on pumping out a lot of lousy shows rather than focusing on the really good ones. Simpsons has taken a significant downturn in the last few years (since reality tv came out...coincidence? maybe). They seem to have gotten better this last season, but seasons 12 and 13 were really quite pathetic. They've also had several really good shows (imho) that they just didn't care about and dropped because nobody was watching or whatever -- except it was impossible to tell when the shows would be on...no wonder. Futurama and Family Guy both fit into this category.
Let's just hope they don't blow it with their next good idea...and enough with the reality crap people! If I wanted reality, I'd go out...TV is supposed to be a break from reality.
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.
I know the whole "Jump the Shark" thing is overdone, but with the Simpsons, I can point to exactly the moment when the show jumped for me.
It was when the doctors found Homer was stupid because he had a crayon jammed in his brain. Removing it made him smart, but there was a difficult period of adjustment, so at the end of the episode, he put the crayon back.
That's not funny. That's f*&cking tragic and depressing.
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I finally realized that Fox was actively trying to kill Futurama when they pre-empted the show for post game football. I just hope the newer episodes make their way onto Comedy Central.