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Futurama Returns
riflemann writes "Another 26 episodes of Futurama will shortly go into production! This news comes from none other than Billy West (voice of Fry) himself, in a short post to his own message board. No further details are available, except that it's likely to be on TV, not straight to DVD." The best news is that means fresh quotes for slashteam to hide in the source code.
Futurama
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Bender already flirted with Robotology in one episode, I recall.
Going back to shows (or films series) has never worked, yes I love Futurama, but once something has stopped, dont try necromancy.
TV shows should *never* give the viewer what they want, Star Wars EPI-III anyone? The last two Red Dwarf series (bringing back Rimmer) were horrible. Niles and Daphne getting together was at the point when Frasier turned bad
When will people learn from the example of Seinfeld, Fawlty Towers, the Office (the real one of course)? They all stopped before the viewers had started going.
The moral of the story is -
If this were really happening, what would you think?
Let's hope they have episodes about geeky issues such as:
... I have more but I'll leave that up to /. to madlib....
Bender gets a firmware upgrade that includes DRM which can't be uninstalled without breaking the law... ie: circumventing DRM laws
Fry searches for pRon on Google and gets targeted by the Feds in their anti-granny porn investigation because he searched for porn stars from the year 2000.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
While the X-Fry and X-Bender quotes are nice, where are the X-Zoydberg zingers?
"What? My mother was a saint!"
This is great news, and certainly cause for Futurama fans to rejoice. All the same I'd be just as exited if were to turn out to be true that Billy was going to reprise his role as the Jackie Puppet. I swear every time that freakin' puppet opened it's mouth I'd end up laughing so hard that my stomach hurt and my eyes watered.
;)
Also, it is just me or is there something not funny about a Futurama thread that consists mainly of Futurama quotes? Oh well, I guess we can at least look forward to the next phase of the Scientology wars, Scientology vs. Robotology.
Don't you have someone you'd die for?
I think this is an excellent example of how powerful the masses have become in affecting entertainment, and to a greater degree corporations in general.
Medieval times: jester makes everyone laugh but the king. King has jester beheaded.
Modern times: show makes everyone laugh but company has show cancelled. Show does astromical DVD figures and comes back.
It's a testament to the power of the masses' will. The almighty buck is powerful, but the almighty buck plus thousands of people writing Fox to call them idiots is even more powerful.
P.s. Don't stop calling Fox idiots.