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.

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Futurama returns

[thrillseeker]

Well, bite my shiny metal ass.

Re:Futurama returns

[perp]

Good news, everyone!

Re:Futurama returns

[roman_mir]

is it a suppository?

Re:Futurama returns

[dynamo52]

Not so good after all

In another post on the blog, Billy West says:

Guys,
I'm sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD's but I appearently had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must've died or something.

All eyes on the skies,

Billy

Good news, everyone!

[ari_j]

I was going to have to make my own cartoon...with blackjack...and hookers.

Shouldn't the article title be more like...

[CMU_Ken]

"Back to the Futurama"?

Now it's time to kill The Simpsons

[Nicky G]

OK -- Family Guy is back, American Dad is getting pretty decent IMO. Futurama is returning.

PLEASE kill The Simpsons already. The longer it goes on, the darker the future is for all of us.

It's really coming back?

[scoser]

Crazy theories one, regular theories a billion!

HTTP headers

[RonnyJ]

The best news is that means fresh quotes for slashteam to hide in the source code.

Here's an example of one (hidden in the HTTP headers that /. returns):

X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk!

Re:HTTP headers

[cyranoVR]

Some more:

X-Fry: Please, Mr. Nixon! We're appealing to your sense of decency!

X-Fry: There's a lot about my face you don't know.

X-Fry: People said I was dumb but I proved them!

X-Fry: You mean Bender is the evil Bender? I'm shocked! Shocked! Well not that shocked.

X-Bender: Fry, of all the friends I've had ... you're the first.

X-Bender: Comedy's a dead art form. Now tragedy -- THAT'S funny.

X-Fry: Make up some feelings and tell her you have them.

Discovered these while playing with Firefox plugin LiveHttpHeaders. I, for one, am shocked and appalled that they are wasting our bandwidth in this manner!

Sweet!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, Futurama, I love you more than the moon, the stars, the... POETIC IMAGE #36 NOT FOUND.

You left out the most important part

[despisethesun]

In fact, forget the cartoon!

Re:You left out the most important part

[KrisW]

In fact, forget the cartoon!

...and the blackjack.

Re:You left out the most important part

[wed128]

...and the hookers

i don't think i get the joke...

You people....

[morganix]

You people disgust me! There is currently a war in Iraq, american rights being taken away daily, a buggy operating system on almost every computer, and starving children in africa. With all this going you call another 16 episodes of a cartoon news? Blah!

/me Makes fun of the war in Iraq, votes for bush, starts up Windows XP, and eats half a sadwich discarding of the rest while watching futurama.

Re:You people....

[Symp0sium]

No we call another 26 episodes news.

Loved the show, not happy about this.

[Don_dumb]

Please dont do this, let it be for gods sake.
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 -

"Always leave them wanting more."

Re:Loved the show, not happy about this.

[portwojc]

Futurama is different though. The viewers didn't leave. The network did.

You're watching Futurama...

[Osirius]

The show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery.

This is great news for all us nerdlingers. For those of you who don't know already, here's a look at the backgrounds of some of the writers on the show:

J. Stewart Burns: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992. His senior thesis was on "The Structure of Group Algebras." He received his master's degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1993.

David X. Cohen: Graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1988. He received his master's degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1992. He published the following article with Manuel Blum: On the Problem of Sorting Burnt Pancakes. Discrete Appl. Math. 61 (1995), no. 2, 105--120.

Ken Keeler: Graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1983. In 1990, he received his Ph.D. in applied math from Harvard University. The title of his doctoral thesis was Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation. He also published the following article with Jeff Westbrook: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.

Bill Odenkirk: Has a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1995.

Jeff Westbrook: Majored in physics and the history of science at Harvard University and he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1989. The title of his doctoral thesis was Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University and also worked at AT&T Labs before writing for Futurama. He published the following article with Ken Keeler: Short Encodings of Planar Graphs and Maps. Discrete Appl. Math. 58 (1995), no. 3, 239--252.

And with that the show also has some great voice actors (Billy West, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Dave Herman...), a great 3D department (praised for its ability to blend 3D scenes almost seamlessly into 2D backgrounds), and the show even uses a full orchestra to record its music (composed by Christopher Tyng). And with the huge scope of ideas possible in the SF universe the show is set in, I imagine it'll take a long time yet for this show to burn out.

Re:You're watching Futurama...

[qbwiz]

Exactly. Just like how actual scientists have degrees in scientology.

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