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Futurama to be Resurrected?
KingDaveRa writes "Futurama could follow in the footsteps of Family Guy and re-enter production more than two years after it was axed. The animated series, brainchild of Simpsons creator Matt Groening, ended after four produced seasons amid lackluster ratings and broken scheduling on broadcast network Fox." From the Reuters article: "Reps for 20th Century Fox have declined to comment on the news, but Variety says initial negotiations have begun. If revived, it's unclear exactly which network would air the new episodes. While Fox housed the original series, the show found new life once reruns began showing on the Cartoon Network. Comedy Central subsequently snapped up the off-air rights and will exclusively air the repeats beginning in 2008. " A follow-up to Groening and Cohen's recent comments.
Good news everybody!
Woot!
I cant wait to start watching Futurama again...
Futurama could follow in the footsteps of Family Guy and re-enter production more than two years after it was axed.
Well, i'm waiting... what did they ax it?
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Fuck them. It's a pity Fox ends up with such draconian ownership of shows, or Groening could have brought new Futurama episodes to a better network. Now he's once again at the mercy of their idiotic policy on show cancellations.
--Chag
lackluster ratings and broken scheduling on broadcast network Fox.
How much did the latter cause the former?
...about the resurrection of Farscape and Firefly for an "F" trifecta!!!
Futurama is being resurrected and you're talking about Ariel Sharon?! You disgust me!
I wish they could just resurrect shows on Cartoon Network. Unfortunately, that's probably not possible.
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But where is my damn Firefly series =(
As cool as more Futurama episodes would be, I think the last episode was just perfect as a Last Episode. In fact, some of the almost-last episodes were so good that I just dont' think it could be anything but a step back.
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fox does a horrible job at getting the word out to the correct people. family guy was an amazing show. and i was getting annoyed with going to my friends, asking if they saw last weeks episode and they reply with 'whats family guy?'. futurama was the same thing. no one felt like watching it or didnt know about it until it hit dvd/adult swim. i fear arrested development will fall into the same pit.
How long until we get something definite?
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It's always had high ratings!
Compared to the Simpsons at Season 4 or the Simpsons now? I've watched all of season 17 of the Simpsons so far and it's just not funny any more - it's become a vaguely amusing sitcom.
Maybe if Futurama is brought back and becomes a sucess, Fox can finally kill off the dying cash cow that is the Simpsons and put it out of its misery.
We have our priorities here . . . if we cared about politics, trapped miners or egregious violations of law by our elected officials, we'd all be surfing CNN.
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...Oh wait that was The Simpsons. In that case, each pound of dark matter weighs over 10,000 pounds!
...a provision stating that Futurama will NEVER be scheduled anywhere near the timeslot of a God damned football game.
I don't know how many times I sat down to watch a TiVo'd episode of Futurama, only to discover that what was recorded was the last 20 minutes of some stupid NFL game.
THAT is why it got poor ratings, because the FOX idiots stuck it in the 7pm Sunday death slot.
~Philly
Fox could save themselves a lot of trouble by just not cancelling these shows in the first place. Low ratings for a critically-acclaimed show? How about better promotion and not jacking around with the schedule? The word-of-mouth behind these programs makes people want to watch them, but that doesn't do much good if new viewers can't find the proper time slot.
...which I have found to be, frankly, terrible compared to the show. It's not that Bongo comics can't do better. Their Simpsons comic, when I read it, seemed very much like episodes of the show. Just, Futurama is pretty awful. Here's hoping they _don't_ use that as inspiration for the initial run of episode sor it _will_ get canned again.
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Robot Chicken's pretty good (and Venture Bros. is awesome) but I tend to think Adult Swim's Flash shows are overrated. You can only take that kind of absurdist comedy so far, and some of them (12 Oz. Mouse) are actually painful to watch. I wonder if anyone will remember them in ten years, as there's a good chance that once the novelty's worn off, they'll go downhill fast.
But I'm pretty stoked about the prospect of Futurama returning.
Hate:
The werecar, killer santa, and holophoner are some of the gayest concepts ever.
The alcohol-fueled party robot who finds electricity (drugs) are bad, is just plain stupid in its false drug-warrior duality.
The Fry-Leela love thing just seems forced for mainstream consumption. Fry is better at oblivious than smitten. The main character interaction seems the most flawed to me.
Love:
Branigan and Kiff. Give them their own show and make the other characters side-lines.
Amy Wong and Family. Love that interaction.
Zoidberg the Jew Crustacean. Loved the side-stories with the old Hollywood production and his attempts at breeding.
Hermes and Farnsworth are always good for a line or side story. Shredded, you say?
All in all, I think FR suffered from being Groening's least dark effort. FR needs more cynical and darkness.
Darnit, I never read the subject line first, and had to backup to figure out WTF you were talking about. Bravo Hypotoad you have stolen my life from my once again!
Regardless of where the viewer support comes from (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network in this case), the people at Fox obviously percieve that there is a sizeable percentage of the viewing population ready to see more of the antics of Frye, Leela, Bender and a cuddly alien that excretes spaceship fuel.
Nice to see Fox is finally coming around and bringing back the shows they cancelled that everyone loved.
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I don't think the time should be wasted on this show, when it could be better spent elsewhere.
And you're referring to time better spent... watching television?!?!
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This guy has been doing this Ariel Sharon troll all day long. Not even a politics zealot could be doing this, so I say it's the GNAA or something. Fuck off moron.
Firefly, Farscape, Family guy, Futurama
What do these shows have in common? These are great shows that were killed before their time due to poor decisions of TV execs. Everything from showing the series out of order to playing musical timeslots to abruptly killing the series without advanced warning, these shows were actively campainged against by the execs ( although I can't imagine why you'd want to mess up a money maker ).
This is why I don't watch TV anymore ( in fact, I don't own a TV ). I purchase DVDs, and I get to watch things ad free through liberal use of dvd decrypter and dvd shrink.
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Have you ever noticed this? If the show is on Fox, is good, and if its title begins with F, it is f*cked. Family Guy, Futurama, Firefly. If this is true, though, 2/3 of the trifecta will have been resurrected. But we all know Firefly is never coming back.
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There are certainly benifits to bringing old shows back, mostly a known audience and fewer development costs, but in terms of entertainment I find that these shows add very little.
I enjoyed Family Guy, but face the facts. It was cancelled because it pushed too hard (When you wish upon a Weintstein), and clearly they show was nuetered before it was let back on the air.
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I respectfully disagree. I place Futurama above Family Guy, Simpsons, ATHF, Sealab, Robot Chicken, and Home Movies. Superior to all in animation, writing, acting, and plot. And it had an amazing mix of emotional moments and hilarious comedy. And an absolutely stunning number of tie-ins, in-jokes, frame-jokes, etc.
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Futurama was a good tv show that basically got knocked off the air because of long football games if I remember correctly. It was never consistently scheduled so I never got into the habit of watching it.
Trifecta means three.
They already did Family Guy, so that would make four.
I don't understand how Family Guy was re-lauched when Futurama wasn't. While I enjoy Family Guy, I think Futurama is an overall better show. The humor is more developed, the artwork is cleaner, and the concept is fun. Family Guy just feels like a dumber Homer Simpson combined with acid flashbacks. Which I do find funny, but not mroe than Futurama. Granted, I'd like to see Bender and Stewie in a cameo scene. From each show, they are my favorite (if not the best) characters.
"But honestly, it's not that good of a show. Compared to the Simpsons, it doesn't come close. Against Family Guy, it pales in comparison. And the other shows for that age range are Aquateen Hunger Force and Robot Chicken, which are much more interesting than Futurama."
What are you talking about? So you like Family Guy and Simpsons better. So what? Have you flipped through your cable channels lately?
Even if you like said shows better, Futurama is more than worth bringing back considering it's infinitely better than 99.5% of what's on tv.
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I would be the happiest girl in the world!!! I love the Simpsons Futurama and Family guy. But give me choice and i'll pick futurama every time.
If you think simpsons is better than futurama, I don't think you're getting most of the jokes. The simpsons, especially in recent years, is the cartoon for the masses. It reuses the same material time and time again. Futurama is the cartoon for nerds. The references, the science jokes, the time paradoxes, all make it an interesting intellectual viewing, while still being light enough to be enjoyable if you don't get them all.
As for comparing it to family guy, I'd argue that the genre is so vastly different, it'd be similar to comparing classical and punk rock. I love both, family guy for the mindless craziness and belly laughs and futurama for the "oh...I get it...hehehehe" type.
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You're right of course, my apologies. I guess God isn't prepared to save his mass-murdering posterior, so it's up to science! I vote for mechaSharon
In the future, everyone votes for mechaSharon. That is, until he's defeated by Richard Nixon in the year 3000.
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There really isn't much more info here than the last time /. covered the issue.
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I can't wait till the re-release, but how about pre-empting football for cartoons for a change? I'm sick of having to watch men tackle one another and grab each other's pigskins for an hour just to find at the last minute that Futurama's been dropped, postponed pretty much until the stupidbowl.
Is will the original writing staff be re-hired, this is what really made the episodes in the first place, I remember reading somewhere about the high number of PH.ds and MBAs they had working on the writing staff, not that degress automatically mean anything, but I thought it was interesting given the type of jokes that I would often laugh at but my wife would have no clue what was funny about them...
for that line of thinking, Ariel Sharon is dying and yet here you are posting on Slashdot forums about how much people posting on Slashdot forums are disgusting you. I think causality just collapsed again.
As long as it doesn't turn into a partisan political mouthpiece like "Family Guy" has. If I want to see one-sided political humor, I'll read "Doonesbury."
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First Family Guy, Now Futurama. Woot.
Now they need to show reruns of Voyagers, Automan, and Manimal, and see if the resurrection magic strikes thrice (and quatrice?, quince?)
Wait, nobody ever likes that stuff.
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On the other hand, Firefly had an amazing half-season on Fox before it got cancelled. I personally think it was the best sci-fi show ever made, and I've seen many. So it's Firefly they should be talking about, not Futurama.
I think you're very much mistaken.
Simpsons has been on a very steady decline since about the time Futurama cmae out (even before than, perhaps). The SImpsons was very much running out of steam and while Futurama channeled some of its style and wit, it also brought a lot of fresh ideas to the table. I feel like the first few episodes are a bit slow, but after that I feel pretty much the entire run compares very favorable with even the Pax Simpsona (say seasons two through six).
As far as Family Guy is concerned, during both program's initial runs I might ahve agreed with you. But especially when they are put back to back, it is obvious how much intellectual humor is in Futurama. It ages well becaues in someways it is a standard sitcom, but with a sharp sense of humor and intellectual writing. Family Guy mostly relies on shock value and easy jokes. While they were funny, its not a show I personally can watch over and over again (and this is discounting the post cancellation Family Guy, which lacks even the heart of the original). Family Guy simply does not stack up well - Futurama's humor is smarter, better written, and ages much better. Care was taken with Futurama and it shows.
Furthermore, Futurama had some of the best animation on TV. Unlike the poor art of Family Guy (the creator of Ren and Stimpy lambasted FG for it's art style, saying any 10 year old can do it, according to FG's wikipedia page), Aqua Teen (which I love, but still, is no prize pig as far as animation is concerned), Futurama was extemely well done and even the first season looks good these days.
The Simpsons is a bit of a send up of the family sitcoms of its periods, while Futurama riffs on Friends and Seinfeld style shows of the 1990s. The sense of humor is far more bizarre, but its grounding in some sort of reality means it pairs up really well on adult swim with shows like Aqua Teen.
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Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly, and Wodnerfalls all had great DVD sales, yet Fox axed all of them.
Who the hell is running Fox's programming dept these days?
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... my Fing-Longer, I could activate the What-If machine, and see what would happen if FOX brought back Futurama.
Instead, I'll just enjoy the syndication, instead.
If they bring it back, it would be pretty sweet if they did it in 16:9 HDTV. Fox already airs a lot of their shows in HD, why not a cartoon?
At least Arrested has a good time slot now. I don't think they will get bumped around as much this spring (damn you prison break!)
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Disagree. Futurama wasn't consistently funnier than the Simpsons in their prime, but it was close. Futurama was much better than the Simpsons episodes that were airing concurrently, though, by a longshot.
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A Futurma comeback has been mentioned before and every time I've found myself thinking "Oh how kick ass is this gonna be?!!!" But then I have to wonder if it'll be the same Futurama that we've all come to love. Besides a heaping helping of cash, what else is there to motivate Groening into continuing the series? He's always been vocal about his dismay of the Fox execs cancelling the show in the first place. That seems like a big chip to carry on one's shoulders, though I suppose a few extra 0's on a paycheck can put a smile on anybody's face. I just hope his love of the characters and fanbase are enough to ensure the series returns to it's former glory.
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Agreed. In Family Guy, I can get almost every joke in one sitting of the episode. Futurama, OTOH, I've seen each episode probably 5-10 times each, and I usually spot a new joke that I didn't catch on to before.
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Intellectual humor? Most of Futurama's jokes are blatantly obvious and aren't what I would consider to be intellectually stimulating or even particularly creative. Please give contrary examples if there are any.
I've liked all three shows in their time, Family Guy, Futurama and the Simpson. Even King of the Hill has some great moments. However, it's Family Guy I just don't get the fan following for. The formula is so tried that the jokes have to be extremely funny not to make me wince.
My biggest problem is the bad comedy writing. MacFarlane's idea of a seguay(sp?) is to say "this is better than the time..." and queue random nonsensical joke skit. Do the "almost like that time.." thing 500000 more times in one minute. God I hate that bit. It's just a way to have an in-show skit without doing proper writing to make it actually funny.
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See people? The joke is funny, the rest of it isn't.
Now, if you read through to this point, flame on.
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Personally, I prefer Futurama over every show that you list there. The only one that comes close is the Simpsons, and that's tough to judge since the Simpsons has 15 (?) seasons worth of material.
Futurama was a strange show. It was always hilarious - but sometimes it was intelligent (Announcer: "And we have a quantum finish!" Professor: "No fair! You changed the outcome of the race by measuring it!"), sometimes it was WAY out there, sometimes it was sad and touching (I dare you to watch the episode with Fry's dog and not tear up a little). And on top of all that, sometimes it was actually REALLY good sci-fi! That's a very rare thing on TV.
Also Zoidburg was friggin hilarious. All he had to do was walk on the screen and I was already laughing.
Lets face it: Fox Execs are dumber than the average viewer.
Sure most regular people dont get or catch the joke after joke after joke that shows like Arrested Development have in them.
Smart humor is dead. At least on Fox it is.
Kinda fitting since Fox News is on for the sole purpose of dumbing-down america with slanted 'news'.
If you havent figured it out now, just buy the DVDs, and hopefully Arrested Development and smart shows like it will move to some sort of On Demand syndication system.
Speaker: And the winner is ... Number 3, in a quantum finish.
Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
I'm sure the masses just don't get this kind of stuff. I'm surprised it made it as long as it did. But here's hoping *Raises glass of Benderbraü*
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For Futurama to return, the studio would need to re-sign the show's production team, as well as voice stars Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio.
Quite honestly, who cares so much about the voice talent? I mean, it would be nice to have them back too, but it's the writers that matter. Family Guy had some voice changes in the early years and it wasn't a big deal... but they brought the show back from cancelation with sub-par writing and now it's really just fan service. The straight-to-DVD "movie" was especially bad. What made Futurama good more than anything was that it was smart and funny. The first season shows were the best by far.
If they're just going to bring the voices and art back to milk a few more dollars out of the brand, I say don't bother. Either do it right, or don't do it at all.
You came on a topic about Futurama and bitched about Ariel Sharon? You disgust me!
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"And it had an amazing mix of emotional moments and hilarious comedy."
Agreed. I'm afraid to say I actually shed a tear over the fate of Seymour the dog.
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* When a show's schedule changes, let one last show air in the old time slot, with "we're moving!" notices every time the show goes to or comes back from commercial.
* Support their own programming by cutting down on informercials and re-airing episodes of prime time shows late and early, with "if you missed it..." plugs.
* Put them online or on iTunes and let people share them x number of times, so they can spread shows around.
(As for Arrested Development, I love the show and have watched every episode numerous times. Afternoon Deelite is still hard to beat. At the same time, I wonder what kind of staying power it has or if it *should* go on for more than two seasons-- a lot happens on the show, so why does the end have to be doom and gloom? I'd love to a LITERAL shark-jumping moment (maybe Buster, in a leather jacket, loses a foot?) in the second to last episode, with Henry Winkler there to save the day (and get hired back as the family attorney).)
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!"
you forgot their timeslot to.
Sundays at 7 (6 central), perfect time for a show to fail, seeing as how Football always seems to run over that time.
Let's not forget fox's wonderfull advertising of the show aswell, I saw all of 2 commercials for the show during it's 4 year run.
The series revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy, who is accidentally frozen for a thousand years. He wakes up in the year 3000 and befriends sassy one-eyed pilot Leela and cranky robot Bender, who both work for an intergalactic delivery service run by a distant nephew of Fry's.
Leela worked at the Chrionics lab, getting her job with the delivery service at the same time as Fry.
Bender was ending his carrier as a bender, rather drastically, when he met Fry. Also joining Planet Express at the same time as Fry and Leela.
My last shred of faith is shattered. How are we ever to trust the news media again!?
Next they need to bring back Sliders. And not the Sci-Fi channel version which sucked. But the original, that would be a good day.
I had a feeling you'd mention that. But it's not funny. It's not even really intellectual. It's just a cheap one-liner that anyone whose ever glanced at a pop-sci magazine, news article, or TV program would get. Futurama is full of these blatant jokes with no coherence, consistency, or proper set-up.
In the Slurm episode, when we see Bender's innards, I noticed his brain was a 6502. That was quite amusing and a funny little "easter egg" if you will but despite being memorable, it didn't make me laugh at loud nor did it redeem the show for me. The rest of the episode was just a cheap Willy Wonka parody.
I have to chime in here. I hate that stupid show with the happy meal characters. I have a lot of friends who watch it, and when I've sat down at watch it with them, I've never seen them laugh at it. The premise sounds like it could be funny, but it never is. Maybe it's meant to be surreal, but it really comes off more as a lousy attempt at humor rather than absurdity. It's just lame joke after lame joke. And when friends recount plot narratives, the idea seems like it could be funny (remember the time meatwad did ...), but they don't actually laugh.
I can't believe the show is as popular as it is. I think it *could* be funny and a lot of people believe in it and are waiting for it to be funny. But it's not. Somehow it acquired some hipness and everybody thinks they have to watch it in order to be "with it".
That character Carl really could be funny, but he never does anything funny!
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There are probably 31,415,927 different deus ex Farnsworth contraptions that could undo that entire last episode and make everyone forget it ever happened.
My three year-old daughter loves Futurama. Her favorite character? Bender, naturally.
Bender. Bender Bending Rodriguez. The whoring, hard drinking, foul-mouthed bending robot. I put the over/under at 3 months past her 18th birthday when she first dances on a brass pole for dollar bills.
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I will always miss Harry Goz, Captain Murphy from Sealab 2021. The shows (WITH captain Murph) were almost all hilarious, very much less so when he passed away.
I don't get 12 Oz. Mouse, Squidbillies is a bit too 'stupid' for me, and ATHF is hit-or-miss, usually miss.
But I can watch Futurama, Family Guy, Venture Bros, Sealab, Harvey Birdman, and Space Ghost over and over again, and still enjoy them. And probably will for years to come.
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If Matt Groening had any brains, he would avoid Fox like the plague. Same goes to other innovative show creators like Joss Whedon.
I don't know what goes on over there at Fox, but how many decent shows have been axed for no good reason and others left on inperpetuity. Are you telling me that Kind of the Hill has had better ratings then Firefly?
Fox doesn't realize the benefit of a small but loyal fan base. Even if shows like Firefly or Futurama only have a few million viewers, they are usually viewers that tune in faithfuly every week. With that kind of dedicated fan base, you can focus more targetted advertising to a generally similar group of viewers. This opposed to a shows like American Idol that, while having 20+ million viewers, are so varied and wishy washy (only watching the show until their favourite contestant is axed) that you can't find any common advertising ground to target the viewers. In the end, you can actually get more money for advertising slots for cult shows like X-Files, Buffy, and Futurama because advertisers know there is are at least a few million Geeks faithfully watching every week that probably would want to buy some electronic underwear with PDA capabilities.
But Fox, in general, has been abysmal in terms of promoting innovative programming and instead dumping tired cliche sitcoms (at a time when sitcoms are dropping faster then flies on crap) and keeping long running and tiresome franchises like the Simpson's and King of the Hill on forever. Fox is realizing they are losing an audience, and so now have to rely on pulling up past successes in order to fill their timeslots.
But if Matt had a brain, he would can the Simpsons and bring Futurama to another network and end any relationship with Fox. Even if Futurama was reserected, Fox will probably keep it going sporadically until they find some other Malcom in the Middle, Married with Children, Simpson's, King of the Hill, American Dad, War At Home clone devoid of talent to replace it.
Quick poll. Does anybody still watch Fox these days?
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That is all that I ask
I don't know how many times I sat down to watch a TiVo'd episode of Futurama, only to discover that what was recorded was the last 20 minutes of some stupid NFL game.
That's nothing compared to the time I was TiVo'ing an episode of Family Guy and got a special message from the President!
In Fox's defense, though, they do appear to be airing a post-game special called "The OT" for the purpose of handling the game's run-over. It airs during that hour that they never schedule the game to last until, but always does.
Now Zoidberg is the popular one!
Really, I even wrote about it back then:
...and I see this trend as being a 'good thing (tm)' since it puts the 'voting power' back to the fan, and not to the flash in the pan audience who always needs a new reality show to latch on to. (can't wait until Arrested Development gets brought back, not that it's gone yet...but the clock ticks...)
Futurama to return?
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Is ANOTHER Simpsons knockoff/spinoff/show. This confirms Simpsons as the 'Mad Magazine' of TV. We're coming up to Simpson's 2nd DECADE soon (if you inlclude the Ullman appearances). I got sick of it like 10 years ago, because, like Robin Williams and Mad-Libs, they just make the same jokes year after year and insert different names to match current events.
Why everyone else hasn't grown out of it, too, is beyond me.
Dump that lame comedy show (forgot its name). Put it after The Simpsons and before Family Guy. 8:00 to 9:00 is now Matt Groening's hour. Also, you get two hours of animation domination on Sunday nights! Perfecto. :)
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Fox would never allow something like that to happen.
..which is no surprise to anyone, was the broken scheduling.
People schedule when they want to watch something, with Fox however, during this period, it became sorta random for viewers. However many fans that it did have we turned off since it had become an impossibility to find when to watch it.
I think you have that backwards.
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it had an amazing mix of emotional moments and hilarious comedy.
The best example for this is Jurassic Bark. If you haven't seen this episode yet do not read about its ending unless you want to spoil a great experience.
If Fox had just given that (and Family Guy) a real timeslot where you could see it every week, maybe they'd have made more money off it.
Absolutely. Fox bungled Futurama like no other show before. Even my Tivo couldn't keep up with the continously changing schedule. The reason it got low ratings is that absolutely nobody knew when it was on.
When it started getting aired on Adult Swim, I was finally able to see a whole season or two of shows that I have never seen before. Not for lack of trying, mind you, it was just impossible to know when they aired them.
Family Guy, however, I never did understand why they cancelled it. It had a decent timeslot, and it was getting increasing numbers of viewers. They just shot it down before it built up a large audience. These days it seems like they cancel a show if it's not an instant hit, which is stupid, of course. Firefly was totally mishandled by airing the episodes wrong (you can't do that when there are story arcs and characters to be developed). They shot down Wonderfalls, a terrific show, after only 4 episodes that *nobody knew about* because they failed to advertise the thing!
Fox just has the most amazing bunch of idiots running the network. It's simply incredible how dumb these decisions are.
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It's been going downhill since season three, though...
Whats with football fans anyway?? ITS THE SAME FUCKING SHIT EVERY GODDAMN WEEK! Nothing different or even -slightly- interesting ever happens during a football game. Some overpaid self-important asshole throws a ball & some other overpaid self-important asshole catches it & people think its the fucking rapture. Dont you ever get tired of watching millionaires chase a goddamned ball??
I guess theyll do anything for another excuse to drink cheap beer & yell about stuff.
I am not sure if Fox really understands the potential for TV shows. The cancel some good cartoons, then Cartoon Network picks it up, they gather a huge cult following then fox wants them back. DAMN YOU FOX....DAMN YOU!
[quote]Ariel Sharon is dying [bbc.co.uk] and you lot are here talking about Futurama?! You disgust me![/quote]
I'm going to file that under: "Who give's a Jim-Daddy fcuk?"
Now go play in traffic.
I love/hate Fox. I love 'em for producing some of the coolest television shows. I hate 'em for cancelling nearly every show I've liked, except the Simpsons, which, as said elsewhere here, I lost interest in a decade ago.
Maybe Fox needs to start treating their programming executives like they treat the audience. Change their workdays and hours around randomly without telling them. Don't tell anybody in the company who they are or what their jobs are. Then just up and fire 'em.
But seriously, Fox needs to clean house. They need to develop a new set of business practices with regard to programming. I mean, think about it, over the last ten years, how many shows that you liked has fox cancelled. How many shows that you hated ran forever?
I mean, you'd think they'd have figured it out by now, if you don't promote a show, and you reschedule it randomly it will fail. If you don't let the show run a few episodes so that the audience can get to know the characters, it will fail. I mean, c'mon, it's television programming and marketing. It's not rocket science.
The final episode was a good series ending.
To do new shows now now would take away from that.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I mean, the voice talent alone. You have to get the people that do the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Leo Wong, and various other people. I mean that's 5 people right there you have to re-hire!
Can they find all these guys again? They could be anywhere! They may all have scheduling conflicts or something...
waiting for someone to state the obvious about this of course
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You've absolutely hit the nail on the head. I used to live (aswel as attend school) in a small town where... erm, the general population was as confused about anything beyond farming as Fry was when he witnessed his first game of Blurnsball. A friend of mine and I used to spend our spares in the "cafeteria" watching Futurama and just talking about whatever. Sometimes a few people would join us in watching Futurama and at every nerdy joke, or technical joke, or anything above and beyond the mainstream there failed to be anything out of them. Not even a snicker. Of course they got the slap stick side of it. If Fry got hit, burned by eating Bender's sterno-nicoise, or if Kif was forced to look up Brannigans, uhh skirt? Or if Kif falls off the roof after an Amazonian pokes at him.. They laugh. There were even people who called us losers for watching Futurama, because it wasn't funny. Regular people couldn't see the true hilarity of it. Part of me wishes new episodes would go straight to DVD instead of being aired on tv. No one can screw around with their timeslots then, those that truly appreciate the series will be able to watch them over and over again with no worry about a football game taking valuable Futurama-Time. I dunno, I'm kinda off on a tangent here. Fact is you've got it completely right, the humour is just too intelligent for the mainstream. Kind of saddening, isn't it.
My comment was a pithy pop-culture reference intended to generate a laugh response, commonly known as "a joke" among the higher-level anthropoid species.
In this context, the choice of language was perfectly cromulent.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I think about 3 of those characters are played by the same guy.
FOX really needs to put Futurama into the Sunday slot between the simpsons and family guy, and just get rid of "The War at Home." That way, you get a steady stream of viewers that either like the Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, and American Dad, or are just too lazy to change the channel. That would be the situation now, except for it being "The War at Home" and all... I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired of giving that show second chances...
Please, tell me Firefly is next!
Seriously, I know they had 2 Megs, what're some of the other changes?
I have faith that Hitler will sodomize you with a cactus in the next world.
...Fox can finally kill off the dying cash cow that is the Simpsons and put it out of its misery.
Right, because it would be better if Fox cancelled the show that makes them the largest piles of cash.
The Simpsons may not be as good as it was in the glory years, but it's still averaging a healthy 10 million viewers a week. And it's also one of the most recognizable shows on television, which makes it attractive to advertisers.
The entire television situation can be boiled down to this: the people watching the shows are not the customers, they are the product. The advertisers are the customers. And whether or not a show stays on the air has everything to do with economics. If not enough people watch, then the show is pulled. Period. With the numbers the way they are, cancelling a show may piss off two or three million viewers, but that's ok; this other show we have gets FIFTEEN million a week!
These television executives are not stupid; after all, they did get very rich off of a totally ad-supported revenue stream. The intelligence of the writers is still up for debate, but their job is only to get you to watch, not to create art*.
You can have art, or you can have business. But you can't have both.
*There are of course exceptions to this rule, when great writing and lots of people watching converge. But they are very very rare.
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This is surprisingly similar to the exact same story 15 days ago...
How many times do we have to post a story that about "Futurama possibly being restarted but no one knows for sure"
Big ones, small ones, some as big as yer 'ead!
Give 'em a twist, a flick o' the wrist...
Fox to approach the negotiations with some humility.
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I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
After all the acclaim and awards, Fox actually did the right thing by not only renewing it but also giving it a GOOD time slot (Monday primetime) and decent advertising. The show is just not getting watched by people.
I think this is simply a case where the general public doesn't want to watch something so different and unconventional.
Well said.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force is definitely "hit-or-miss, mostly miss" as stated by another poster. Having said that, there are 2 episodes I liked, laughed at, and still laugh at, the MC Peepants episode and the Happy Time Harry one with uncredited comedian David Cross.
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I know this wont come back but it was an awesome show and it of corse was cancled when it was the best! and waht about The Inside.... now that could happen it wasfuckin' awesome but they canceled it aftewr only like 3 damn shows! I thaught that was one of the best shows fox had but they're retards and cancel good shows!!
Oh, man. I'm getting tears welling up just thinking about that ending.
I haven't watched that episode since it aired. That track on the DVD is collecting dust.
Wrong, at some point he was defeated by either Jack Johnson or John Jackson, the clones.
Ariel Sharon is dying and you lot are here talking about Futurama?!
Please, Futurama is way funnier than Sharon. I mean, what good jokes has he ever told? I have no interest in watching video of him, and if Fox puts him on for half an hour, I won't be watching. You reality TV fans must have brain damage.
that keeps getting told to get the "F outta here".
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Fox is leading the way for showing how old-style TV content and programming just won't work in the new digital, downloadable world. The network producers are still "selling" TV shows based on advertising dollar. The drive seems to be what can be produced for the most eyeballs so they can get advertising $. They don't seem to appreciate the niche market and targetting strategies which currently works for the web -- ebay is the biggest niche market there is. Quality/Niche shows like Firefly and Futurama may not get as many eyeballs to begin with (never mind the time slot mixups or the last-minute preumpts for football) but the audience is loyal and certainly can be target marketed to probably with better success. I understand that it's expensive to produce a TV show (hence the upswing of reality TV) but the model doesn't work anymore, not if there's a market they're not fullfilling. I don't and never watch football so where's my TV? Where's my chance to be marketed to? Though to be honest, given a choice, I'd bittorent and skip all the commercials. So where's the drive to change the model? How about having the niche audience pay for the show's production as have been bruited about on the Firefly.fan net. $1M/episode, how many fans are willing to put their $ where their mouth is to fund the production for further seasons of their cancelled favs?
I have been watching a lot of Harvey Birdman lately and have found that on an intellectual level it is somewhere between Simpsons and Futurama. Both cartoons have amazing potential - Birdman for the ability to draw upon the vast resources of former Hanna-Barbara cartoons and Futurama for the endless number of scenarios possible with a futuristic show.
Look at Doctor Who - it had such a long running in part because the storyline could be endlessy open-ended. Birdman is a postmodernist's dream come true with witty new interpretations of semi-bland cartoon art. But Futurama coming back, that is something I hope to see - but as others have said I hope that they don't screw it up (i am very leery of sequels - Star Wars jumped the shark with Return of the Jedi in my book).
YA RLY!
The episode where Fry writes the opera for Leela is about as good as it gets. The whole running joke with what is 'irony'? Was just too good. The robot devil's serendipitous plot to get back his hands from Fry. I've seen that episode at least 15 times and I laugh long and hard with every viewing - that episode is completely packed solid with jokes and jokes within jokes.
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I don't know. Visiting the Temple Mount a few years back was pretty funny.
Well, regardless, it's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: "I'm against those things that everybody hates."
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
See that is your problem. Always hoping for something to happen in the next world rather than focusing on making this one a better place.
Stop buying the propaganda, Israel is not without sin. The Nazi's treated the Jews just as bad as the Israelis treat the Palestinians.
So, keep on walking around with you head stuck up your ass in this life!!!
Disclaimer: I love futurama - probably my favorite cartoon, when taken as a series.
The problem with Futurama is that it's soooo hit and miss. Family Guy isn't intellectual, but it's almost always funny, if you like the dick-and-fart jokes. Futurama, when it's on, is funny and intellectual, more than anything else on TV. But, when it's bad, it's fucking terrible.
Seriously, take a look at season 5 of Futurama:
Jurassic Bark (best episode of the series)
Devil's hands
The Why of Fry
The Sting
But, look at the rest:
Kif gets Knocked up a Notch
Less than Hero
Spanish Fry
and the big one... Bend Her
These episodes are unwatchable.
That's why I don't even juxtapose FG and Futurama. It can't be done. When you put an episode like "Time keeps on slippin'" next to a Family Guy episode, Family Guy looks retarted. When you put "Bend Her" next to FG, you wonder how the Futurama episode got on the air.
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Nonsense! Futurama is like Shakespeare and Ibsen; it works on all levels. Well, not quite like Ibsen, but still, I did read somewhere (here, I think) that while they do try to cram in as much "high-brow" jokes as possible, they won't let it detract from the story.
Most of the humor in Futurama is of the "everybody gets it" variant. I can't immagine Zack Brannigan being anything less than hillarious even if you've never heard of Star Trek. And then you get the "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" lines that really are the icing on the cake, and makes Futurama rather unique in the field of humorous cartoons. Where else do you get pinball references, Titanic parodies, quantum physics jokes and booze and hookers in such a neat package?
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sorry this AD stuff is OT, but Steve, thank you! must run home to TiVo asap...
I am not as "geekey" (geeky?) as some people I know, and I am sure I missed a lot. But I still enjoyed the show.
I think a lot of people got at least part of the humor quite a bit of the time. Also, the plots were well written with interesting moral story lines.
The "experts" who measure the popularity of such programs got it wrong as they did "Star Trek", because of their faulty ways of measuring viewership.
But like you, I will prefer seeing the DVD's rather than watching all the commercials, like I do "Count Duckula".
Bill
...the first season contains countless references to Family Guy and how it is an inferior show.
Yes, Yes, we get the fact that these characters were all played by Billy West. Unfortunately he is currently busy with the wild success of the Ren & Stimpy adult party cartoon and will not be able to work on Futurama again.
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Everyone has their favorites. Personally, I thought "The Sting" was eh. But I love "Less than Hero". (Kif gets Knocked Up had moments, "evil Lincoln!", but I agree the other two pretty much all stunk.)
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it's a suppository.
You can't handle the truth.
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I wish I could rate this funny...
...you could rate it redundant though...
Parent is actually not(!) offtopic.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
-FL
Anyone that doesn't get the episode Jurassic Bark is just dead inside. Regardless of edyookayshun.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.
-FL
Allrighty then... here's your big chance. Please dazzle us with an example of your humor that IS intellectually stimulating, or particularly creative.
I'm thoroughly confident that it will be worth the wait.
Try the Futurama Adventures even my dumb as a dodo Sociology roomate liked it.
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since it was originally on Fox, and picked up by Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, those would be the most likely two networks to air the new episodes.
You make some interesting points, but you seem to have overlooked one important fact:
The PRIME way Fox makes money on their shows is advertising dollars. If they offered downloads, they'd make money that way, but it is the production company itself that makes money on the toys, DVDs, and other merchandise. Now, if Fox is the production company, then, yes, they do make money on the merchandise. I don't think that is the case, though, for Futurama, Family Guy, or Firefly.
Most of the voices are of the writers or producers or script writers themselves, so rehiring wont be neccesary. Mostly the same guys as work on The Simpsons series.
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Also; i love family guy, but it isn't broadcast here.
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Yes, Futurama is coming back!
:-)
All hail Bender! All hail Bender!
More death by snu-snu!!!!
Sorry, but I just had to get that out of my system.
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I wasn't suggesting that FOX offer downloads. I was suggesting a completely different model all together that cuts out the networks. The artists/producers like Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, David Boncho etc. would go directly to their audience, us, and sell us their ideas/shows/content. We vote with our wallets. It would be content on demand. They're the ones that should earn the $ anyway, not the networks or the publishers who are constantly complaining about the investment risks vs. reward equation. If enough $ gets the show/project greenlighted, then the shows can be bittorented or otherwise delivered -- new viewers will have to watch the targetted ads prior to getting the feed.
Completely agree with you. While I love most of Adult Swim's shows (Harvey Birdman is genius), Futurama just had the advantage of full funding from a real network. They hired some great people to write and act for the show, and I hope they manage to bring them back.
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ok, pure speculation, but....
i would assume they get the brunt of these complaints because they have had shows jump to cable channels with far smaller promotion budgets and they become hits. not just for viewers, but the DVD sales. that makes you wonder what Fox did wrong. (also people are still angry about firefly and think it could have had a good run... maybe John Doe too)
didn't fox also have Stargate initially? that show just keeps going on cable. if the current team was running Fox TV the same way years ago i am sure the X-Files would have been axed in one or two seasons. there are people now just as upset that Arrested Development was axed. the producer(s) said they want to move it to another network/cable/anywhere, and as far as critic approved cult TV shows that is definitely one of them. i think it's too weird for the average TV watching dullard. the lack of a laugh track may also make them uncomfortable. some people have to be assured something was funny.
I can't stand that episode. I have to turn it off everytime it comes on. It all goes fine and dandy until that last little montage, and then you're sitting there left half-crying screaming "WTF?! NOT FUNNY! NOT FUNNY AT ALL! LESS SAD MORE FUNNY *sniff*"
...but I like them both.
I admit, at first, I thought American Dad was a pale imitation, but it has found a place of its own now.
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Huh, and I thought I was the only one that could actually be tear jerked by that episode. It's truly saddening at the end and every time I see it, I make a point to take a looong time during the last commercial. Geeks have hearts too!
Artificial ones!
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Ariel Sharon is dying
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"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
I dunno, in some kind of sphere?
... and then they built the supercollider.
The Leela/Fry story-arc is way more tearjerking and emotionally compelling. A dog that can bark 'Walking on Sunshine'? That's small potatoes compared to the parasitic worms, the holophone, the Devil's Hands, moving the stars into a giant love message. the alternate universe where Leela and fry are together just because of Leela's coin-tosses and ghost stories.
But I agree with your gist. Futurama is a great love story, not a homage to trivia and slapstick.
... and then they built the supercollider.
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In the episode where Bender becomes a wrestler (Raging Bender), they go to a movie and are making snide remarks when an annoyed Crow T. Robot from MST3K tells them "Don't talk during the movie" .
The only MST reference I've ever seen on TV...outside of MST3K....The Master approves...
he was Cryogenically frozen.
"From the article: Cryogenics is a branch of physics (or engineering) that studies very low temperatures or the production thereof."
In order to be frozen, would someone need to produce cold temperatures?
Cryoics is the act of perservings someone for future revival.
Cryogenics would be how it was done.
Considering that Fry did not undergo vitrification, it is questionable if the term "Cryoics " even applies here.
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Dr. Zoidberg: Now open your mouth and let me look at that brain.
Dr. Zoidberg: No the other mouth.
Fry: I only have one.
Dr. Zoidberg: Really?
-- The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I just kept my finger out of there!
Nitpick: technically there was no "Season 5". All those episodes were leftovers from season 4; the DVD sets organize them properly.
It's simple. Shows that don't make the license cost plus profit get canned; sometimes they get canned for failing to meet hurdle rates of return or opportunity costs (what you could make in ad rates with another show).
Networks don't have the viewer as the customer. They have advertisers as their customers cause that's who pays the bills. Of course demos and willingness to pay to reach them enter into it but it's also a numbers game.
Specialty netlets on cable like Sci-Fi are another matter. They pay a LOT less for licensing so can live off lower rates (and in return they give advertisers tightly targeted demos). So a show that is a "success" in a cable environment probably gives up a great deal of licensing money in moving there or compared to being on a major network.
Even then show producers (all the big studios) run a deficit of about $1 million per episode with the hope that they will make it up with: syndication sales; DVDs; foreign sales.
Futurama is easy to start up again; you're just talking voice work which is cheap and easy; cheap animation abroad. It certainly could have been done just as easily on Cartoon Network or something.
But the bottom line is that you will NEVER see a show "targeted towards a niche viewership" being successful unless it has a niche cost. You're talking cheap and easy animation. Hourlong shows just cost too much; even the cheapest run around $3 million per episode, shooting in Canada or some other subsidy haven.
Are you mods blind or just stupid?
Are you trying to say that advertisers do NOT specifically advertise at certain times or on certain shows? Think about it...would a beer company ask to advertise on "sesame street"? No, they'd ask to advertise when the football's on, and most likely any station would agree to this. Don't believe me? Turn your TV on at one in the morning...if your country is anything like mine, it will be chock-a-block with dating agency services ads and (for some reason) ringtone ads. It's the same with futurama.. If Fox were running an hour and a half block of fairly nerdy cartoons (FuturamaThe SimpsonsFamily Guy), then I would think that that's the FIRST place people selling pants-with-integrated-wifi would ask to advertise. If Fox would just realise that these shows target an ultra-specific demographic (especially one notorious for their disposable incomes) and the viewership is particularly consistent, then there would be absolutely no reason not to fund these shows.
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I don't understand the time slot conflict. An 8:30 timeslot is PERFECT right now. You get Groening's Simpsons/Futurama duo followed by MacFarlane's Family Guy/American Dad combo. The perfect "animation domination" as they tried to call it.
Not sure if that was meant as a juke or not...
Because all those voices were done by one person, Billy West.
Without him, it will fail.
Good news everybody, they found Billy Wests head in a jar preserved from one thousand years ago. Now we can start remaking them again ... plus there is a can of anchovies with it. We're rich!
Indeed the story of Leela and Fry was quite emotional and indeed sad! But, at the end of The Devils Hands are Idle Playthings, we are led to believe they eventually did get together (without a diamond scrunchie I might add.) In Jurassic Bark, we find out Seymour waited YEARS for Fry to come back, until finally giving up and lowering his head and closing his eyes one last time. Though I guess that doesn't explain how he was fossilized standing up... We also learn Bender is 40% Dolomite, thus making him 150% of bending greatness. (40% Titanium - A head in the Polls, the aforementioned 40% Dolomite - Jurassic Bark, 30% Iron - 30% Iron Chef, and finally 40% Zinc from Fry and the Slurm Factory. However, Bender mentions he's not a good calculator in the episode The Cyber House Rules... which is impossible, because when he meets Flexo in The Lesser of Two Evils, he's able to determine that both he and Flexo's serial numbers are expressible by the sum of two cubes) ... I'm going to bed now, clearly I've looked too far into this.
Well, why don't they just make an Ariel Sharon's head and feature it on Futurama?
You know, I love futurama as much as the next geek, but CBS runs "60 minutes" at 7pm on sundays, and it is always being run over by football. And it's still one of the top rated shows.
Check out Hi-5 on TLC in the early morning. My daughter loves the show!
What, me worry?
Zoidberg: Now open your mouth. <pause> Zoidbreg: No, your other mouth. Fry: I've only got one mouth.
He effected a bored affect.
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They cancelled Ken Burns' "The Civil War" after just one week.
True, but it took a decidedly weird turn when the war ended after just a few episodes.
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Ariel Sharon is dying and you lot are here talking about Futurama?! You disgust me! Woot! He deserves it, the war mongering lot, next up Dubbah and the lot..
Damn, I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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Showtime had Stargate:SG1 initially, IIRC
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It's never overrun by football. They start it after the game ends and push everything else that night back by the same amount.
But it's just not believable enough (considering this is a show about a Pizza delivery guy who goes to the future!). I think it's more likely that Seymour went back for the pizza scraps, and "Walking on Sunshine" was actually Fry's hallucination induced by 80s pop music and Coca-Cola. The Fry and Leela story is one that happens every day, today, in the past and in the future. Even Fry admits this when he decides not to revive Seymour. It's a dog, they love food.
... and then they built the supercollider.
So, there is hope for intelligence on television after all! This is one of the better shows on these days, and these days intelligence is a lost art on both television and radio (e.g., the real reason Howard Stern moved to satellite was probably mostly to get away from all the stupidity, government regulations, etc.).
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