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Futurama: Can it be True!?
foolinator writes "Wired News has reported that Futurama could be making a comeback! From the article: "Last year, Futurama and Family Guy reruns did so well that it's likely both shows (which Fox killed in prime time) will produce new episodes."
" Now if only I could get more Firefly, TV might be worth watching again.
"Good news everyone, we're canceled!"
Stewie Griffin: [After Lois tries to feed Stewie his broccoli "airplane style"] Damn you, Damn the Broccoli, and Damn the Wright Brothers.
I hope someone at Fox got the axe for cancelling the two shows in the first place.
to the people that had Futurama canned...
Kiss my shiny metal ass....
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Bite my non-shiny non-metal ass!
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
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Sheesh, did they have to change the name of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/whatever again?!?
Ah, Zoidy, what are we doing without you?
Passing anatomy 101?
Zoidberg: Now open your mouth and let's have a look at that brain. (Fry opens his mouth) Zoidberg: No, no no no, no, not that mouth. Fry: I only have one. Zoidberg: Really?
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This isn't the sig you're looking for. Move along.
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!!!!!!!!!
Except he's a giant killer robot santa with joy-seeking missiles
Everybody sing along now!
He knows when you are sleeping,
He know when you're on the can,
He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan!
Ohhhhhh
You better not breathe,
You better not move,
You're better off dead, I'm telling you dude,
Santa Claus is gunning you DOWN!!!!
Run for your LIVES!!!!!
God I love Futurama
"Cheeze it!" - Bender
1. Create insanely funny, brilliant show. Allow critics and internet forum readers to rave about said brilliance while it airs on FOX.
2. Allow FOX to cancel your series after a few seasons.
3. Send out a couple of DVDs that sell millions of copies.
4. Air reruns on Cartoon Network that become insanely popular.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
*Buzzing Sounds* (Together) We will reinstate Futurama... All glory to the hypnotoad.
Wow! web based petitions really do work!
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This has been tried before but the artist's hands got very sore half way through the show.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
TV: All Hail the Hypno Toad. MMMMMMMM
Fry: This show has been going downhill since season 3.
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I don't know why it's doing so poorly! All we did is move its timeslot around and then preempt it with sports that its target audience doesn't want to watch.
[as] is like the nice, sweet geek friend who loves a girl (great cartoons) who's with a horrible boyfriend (Fox). He treats her wrong, and she runs to her geek. But as soon as she's feeling better, the dumbass boyfriend wants her back.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. Part of me says "woo hoo! New Episodes!" But another part says "Now it will be in the mainstream again, complete with lots of disgusting, annoying commercials and no funny cards."
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Painstakingly drawn before a live audience!
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
"No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live, it's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists."
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
I think when you said censatized you meant sensitized by which you meant desensitized and were really after the word inured.
Otherwise you're totally right.
Please note, there are no laugh tracks in any of the above shows
Not yet. Anyone remember when Comedy Central picked up "Sports Night" and added a laugh track to it? It was downright creepy.
Imagine someone taking your favorite drama, and adding a laugh track to the 'funny' parts.
Bones: "Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor not a cement mixer!"
[laughter]
Cipher: "I don't even see the codes anymore, just blonde..brunette"
[laughter]
Luke: "More than you can imagine"
Han: "I can imagine a lot"
[laughter]
Dumb down tv programming
?
Profit!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
The first time I saw it luagh-tracked, it was all I could do to watch in mute, slack-jawed horror. Then my friend took me too a celebrirt baseball game with Casey in it, because she thought he was cute. Meatloaf stood in the outfield blowing plumes of water, and at some point commented on the fact that I was wedged between two girls in the stands.
What was I saying?
Oh, yeah. Laugh track bad. And Adult Swim is the best thing to happen to television since my decision to stop watching The Simpsons (which was a brilliant revolution in observed quality). I'm sure I'd enjoy more Futurama, but this is one of the few times that I have to say I wouldn't mind it staying dead. The last episodes were beautiful, and provided closure for me, and getting more would be like getting back with an old girlfriend for a year of awkward attempted romance, knowing full well it couldn't last.
I am Hennifer Lopez, and I like tacos y burritos.
Nice to see that Futurama may have a second chance at getting pre-empted for football every week and shuffled throughout the Fox lineup until Ethan Fucking Edwards couldn't find it.
This is still Fox we're talking about people. If both Futurama and Family Guy do end up coming back, don't expect the second coming or anything. They'll get some hype when they first come back, get thrown into some God awful time slot when American Idol: This Time It's Personal goes on the air, and will be forgotten by 90% of this country inside of 3 weeks.
... I'm so excited I wish I could wet my pants!
-Turkey
Director: The network Execubots are coming!
Calculon: Dear God!
[Enter three huge clunky robots on tracks.] Betabot: Presenting the president of the network.
Network President: Greetings gentlemen, you already know my Execubots. Executive Alpha, programmed to like things that are seen before.
Alphabot: Hey hey hey.
Network President: Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule.
[Betabot rolls two dice.]
Betabot: More reality shows.
Network President: And Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.
Gammabot: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors?
Network President: Now, who put this obnoxious dancing robot on my network?
Director: We were about to fire him sir.
Network President: Silence hack! We've been monitoring our Nielsen families carefully and during the 12 seconds Bender was on screen, viewer eyeball focus was up 90%.
Calculon: Sir, children watch this show. Bender's no role model, he's a filth monger!
Network President: At our network, we love filth! Filthy rich that is! Being filthy rich that is! [He laughs. something fizzles towards the Execubots from the president and they all laugh with him.] "Bite my shiny metal ass" could be a catchphrase.
Alphabot: 80% likely.
Gammabot: It will play in Peoria.
[Betabot rolls his dice.]
Betabot: Gameshows are back.
Sig removed because it was obnoxious
Yeah, and Jimmy Kimmel gets her.
Hey, Sarah! If you wanted fat and not funny, I could have toned down my sense of humor for you, baby!
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Actually, if I remember correctly, it was McGuire, Barry Bonds, and Jason Giambi, and most definitely priceless. Brought back memories of an episode they did a few years back when they did the same spiel to the Ramsey Family and OJ and they were talking about killers.
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They're called puppet shows. Yuck.
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"Clerks" the animated series was alternately "filmed before a live studio audience", "drawn before a live studio audience", "filmed by a live studio audience", and "drawn by a live studio audience". Having it drawn by the live studio audience is a good idea. It saves a lot of money.