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Futurama Returns
GrumpySimon writes "Good news everyone!
Straight from a one-eyed alien's mouth - 13 new episodes of Futurama have been confirmed by Katey Sagal on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show. All the original actors have signed up too."
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I love the smell of Slurm in the morning - it smells like ... walrus!
While I applaud it, I remember the resurrection of Ren & Stimpy and how it just wasn't quite the same anymore. The making of a popular series can often rest on the frenzy of creating the episodes and the chemistry of those at work on it. Add an interruption, time for other projects and influences, what will become of pulling the team back together? Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
Other news in the It's About Time Department:
In other good news, finally on DVD, Yellowbeard! Arr! July 27 for USA & Canada or July 10 for UK No word yet on extras, like Group Madness, the documentary of making of the film.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
All thirteen episodes will come in a suppository!
Complete with New shinier, easily bitable metal ass.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Hip, hip, huzzah! Hip, hip, huzzah! Hip, ah screw it.
Sweet Zombie Jesus!!!!
They've been VERY naughty this year. Now they must be trying to make up before Xmas.
Ryan Fenton
Cuz the actors never get it wrong.
P.S. I feel like it's some futurama reference that my CAPTCHA was "breeder." Is Slashdot trying to say something about the human race?
I wonder if this will affect the 4 movies that are currently being planned. Ride the Walrus!
ah but the whole use of celebrity heads was lame. Discuss
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That's too bad. Sure, I'm sad it ended, but it DID end well. Go figure what'll happen now.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
You're not supposed to admit that kind of thing...
Let's hear it for ancient readme files.
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I know, that sounds sad, even for a geek, but what can I say: Futurama is my favorite show and if you don't like it, you can bite my shiny metal ass.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Part of the appeal of the Simpsons is how they are a "real" family. They are more realistic than alot of tv families out there, especially the #1 show when the Simpsons came out, The Cosby Show.
Phil Hartman was never in Futurama. He died in 1998. Futurama started in 1999.
I don't get why any of the comedy animated shows are even cloe to popular
They are funny for a lot of people. Pretty simple really. For me the simpsons is just smile funny these days, whilst family guy makes me laugh out loud quite often. I don't like American dad though. Each to their own.
Phil Hartman was never on Futurama. Are you thinking of Phil LaMarr?
I think the issue is exactly that they don't have to worry about what happened last week if the writers don't want to. That the characters don't have to age. I live in the real world. When I watch TV I don't want reality. I want something different. Something to tickle my imagination. And the surreal world of many cartoons is great for that. A show like Doctor Who doesn't appeal to me as much, because I would much rather pick up a book and supply a much cooler image of a sci-fi world in my own head.
That being said, Futurama isn't the best example to be picking on for nothing ever changing. The series did have an advancing plot and the important events of previous episodes did matter in future ones. Individual events didn't matter as much, but the evolution of the character's relationships to each other definitely progressed based on the events of the show. I also felt it was much better written then other popular cartoons and didn't rely as much on mind-numbing pop-culture references.
Well personally, it comes on like around 11 for me, I'm almost ready to go to bed but not quite yet, I have nothing important to do but If i go to sleep right then and there i'll toss and turn for the 30 minutes anyway. I find the show amusing, and while I do not laugh out loud at the jokes, I do enjoy them, and I would love to see more seasons as watching these reruns will eventually dull out ( but not yet !) . Better than anything else I can watch that hour, god forbid I watch the selective reporting (ie report bad things only ) news channel.
The problem is that everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, even when they don't.
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Futurama does have order to it, and I can't think of any time where it just leave you right where you started with no explanation. Some examples of things that carry between episodes:
- Nibbler shows up and sticks around, the order of those episodes has some significance
- Leela's parents are discovered, then are characters on the show after that.
- Farnsworth's clone is created and is in future episodes.
Just to name a few.
typically everything that happens is straightened out by the end of the episode as needed. It's just not in the typical cartoon genre to have numerous-episode-arcs, because reruns are not often shown in order.
And PS, the "OMG PONIES! AND NEW FUTURAMA EPISODES!!" is *really* old news. I assume this number of episodes is really just the dvds that were mentioned months ago. It's been on adult swim bumps for awhile now.
Does this make me happy?
Is the space pope reptilian?
In Soviet Russia, backwards is everything.
Dude - It's just a cartoon.
Noone's really saying that Futurama is better than Dr Who, but that doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. Plot? No way. Funny? Absolutely! More importantly, it's just entertaining.
That's something I love about these kind of shows. You don't need to make the investment to watch them. I hate it that I can't watch a lot of "running plot" shows because I know I'm going to miss a bunch of them. With Futurama/Simpsons, I can just watch them if I'm free.
Humour is like colour; I can't explain to you WHY I like blue, I just do.
Even if you try to persuade me for hours that red is a much better colour, you won't be able to win me over.
In short, nods to classic bits of comedy coupled with a great sense of absurd and sprinklings of science make a cartoon I love to watch. I love the voice-work in Futurama too, great characterizations.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
It's funny simply becuase it is. I enjoy the more scientific humour of the show. Things like winning by a quantum difference (I know I'm misquoting this) being responded with things like: "No fair! You changed the result by measuring it" It adds a humour for the physicist in me. Regards, Alunduil
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Trying to explain why the above example is funny is like trying to legislate common sense.
Both attempts are certainly futile.
If I were you I just wouldn't worry about this too much and just wait for the year 2008 and use one of those America's favorite Stop 'n' Drop booths.
You can't handle the truth.
Katey was on the late late show on Tuesday night, why did it take until Thursday night for this to get on slashdot?
/. within the hour of it being said.
I'm disappointed. I would expect this sort of news about Futurama to get on
Someone please explain to me how this sort of thing is more popular than something with a real plot or something which is really funny?
You're missing something really obvious: different people have different tastes, and having different tastes than yours does not make somebody stupid or wrong. Just because you don't like these shows doesn't mean they are not "really funny".
You don't like them, and that's fine. Your tastes simply don't line up with the majority, and there's nothing wrong with that. Where it becomes wrong is when you become a condescending ass about it.
In a nutshell, shows like Simpsons, Family Guy, The Critic, and Futurama make me laugh, and greatly entertain me for their 30 minute duration. Okay, there's a dud episode every now and then, but for the most part they're really fun. And funny. There have been a few scenes from these that would just make me laugh a few days later when I would think about it, for instance.
The fact that it bothers you that Lisa's mental acuity isn't entirely consistent from one episode to the next sort of implies you're greatly outside the demographic they're looking for, in which case I'd suggest stick with the shows that really make you happy. I watch these shows for their comedic value, not for a consistent basis upon which to do a comparative literary analysis.
Similarly, there are shows that other people love that I can't stand at all (eg Everybody Loves Raymond). it's all your own personal tastes. Regarding not liking the Simpsons, my Mom cannot get into the Simpsons either. She's tried and either doesn't get the jokes or just doesn't think they're funny whatsoever.
That said, at the end of your post you mention other shows that are 'really funny'. Can you give an example? I'm not trolling you either, just curious what you find funny.
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You apparently didn't watch much of Futurama, in that case. Time actually did advance over the course of the show, starting in 3000 and ending in 3004. Relationships between characters also changed over time.
As for why Futurama is popular.. you may not find it funny, but a lot of people do. I, for one, like that there's a lot of geek jokes in there. One that I can think of off the top of my head was that there were a pair of books in the background of one scene labeled P and NP.
Stewie: "What magazine are you From?"
E! Weekly rep: "Entertainment Weekly"
Stewie: *Cracks neck*
As much as I disagree with GP, I think you just disproved your own point.
Why would you seek out an explaination of why something has value when you see no value in it to begin with. Chances are you, you just don't like it, and thats OK. Lets hope its not coupled with a *desire* to avoid things because they're popular .. but don't feel bad for not liking something. Each and every one of us can't see the value in something that other people do see a value in, what is important is just to respect that if other people see a value in it, then there must something to it. You don't need to understand it to give credit to it.
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It's about time! I love Futurama but you can only watch that show so many hundreds of times.
So...you've never seen "The Simpsons"
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
Maybe its just me, but I don't get why there is always one guy who feels the need to ask questions like this, or alternatively state that he hates a particular obscure thing. Its not like anyone is trying to shove Futurama down someone's throat. It is like going to a Star Trek convention and standing around saying, "You know, I really don't understand the appeal of this show!" There are a ton of shows on TV that are not Futurama - why not go watch one of them instead of commenting here to the effect that you don't like Futurama?
Hell, there are a ton of other Slashdot articles you could be commenting on. Perhaps you could have found one that interested you. But no, you had to click on the Futurama article just so you could post a comment musing about the lack of appeal Futurama has for you.
It kind of reminds me of people who love Windows and hate the Macintosh. OK, your favorite computer platform has 90+ percent of the market, so why go seek out places online where Mac people congregate and try to rain on their parade? They have less than 5% of the market. Leave them alone. Hell, I've seen people go onto Atari ST forums and say ridiculous things to the effect that the Atari ST is long dead and ST enthusiasts should just move on and get a Windows PC. Was that you?
When you see a kid playing with a balloon, do you have an uncontrollable urge to go and stick a pin in it?
There are a lot of things that do not appeal to everyone. Sane people ignore them. Personally I have no interest in Chritianity. That doesn't mean I show up to church every Sunday and say, "You know, I just don't understand the appeal...could you explain it to me?" It would be gouche and idiotic to do so.
"Not trolling"? Bite my shiny metal ass!
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One week Lisa will be super smart and a veggie and the next week suddenly she's as dumb as Bart and eating a pork chop. So WTF?
If your after continuity then stop watching cartoons.
Someone please explain to me how this sort of thing is more popular than something with a real plot or something which is really funny?
If we all liked the exact same things then there would be only one tv channel and simpsons and futurama would be on 24/7
serenity now!
Perhaps I'll breed some kind of albino shouting gorilla...
flamebait...
My take was that it was consistant that Lisa was a little hippie shitdisturber. Maybe you watched an OLDER episode where they haven't yet developed that trait? Simpsons is popular because it's older than most of the audience. It came out in the late 80s. I was babysitting kids born in the 90s who liked the show even though their first memories of the show were probably from 1996 onward.
Futurama is funny because it's silly and creative. Family guy is funny because it's a bit more adult and off the wall. South park is funny because they're highly objective and use hyperbole.
That doesn't mean EVERY episode is comedy gold. But normally people tend to watch the series not just specific episodes which means watching the occasional shit-fill-the-season-out episode.
Tom
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Ok that's indeed great news... the sad news is Futurama is still dependent on Comedy Central. Why do shows still need this kind of deals? Idealy this would happen: There is an official Futurama web-site, they say they want a new season, they need US $ X to produce it. They sell shares on their website or through ebay using a dutch auction in order to finance the project. Geeks buy them. They make the episodes. They realase them on the internet in a non DRM format and using bittorrent so they don't have to pay for bandwith. People pay a small amount of money to download the .torrent file. If they want to pirate it anyway nothing will stop them so why bother with protection.
Many people download that great show, the benefits are given to the shareholders.
Everyone is happy.
That's really what the RIAA really is affraid of. Artists now have a way to have vertical control, marketting, distribution etc. They claim to fight piracy but really want to make this come as late as they can. Once the artists realize they can actually make more money by short circuiting the distribution cartels
a) price will also fall for the consummer
b) more competition of works, more quality
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and brannigans antics
One week Lisa will be super smart and a veggie and the next week suddenly she's as dumb as Bart and eating a pork chop. So WTF?
;)
It's less confusing if you watch the episodes in order.
It's funny because it's poisonous.
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Spoilers, dude!!!!
Maybe it's just me but, I don't get why futurama is popular.
Because it's not about you.
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Actually... I find the container labelled "Condensed Milt" much more interesting, and very disturbing.
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First Family Guy, then Futurama. Where's Firefly?
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My reply was in response to the GP's post suggesting Phil Hartman was one of the actors who worked on Futurama. He wasn't.
The character Zapp Branigan was written for him, but he died before they started production, so Billy West took the part instead and happen to play the character in a similar way to Phil Hartman's audition.
Okay, so all of the original actors have signed up. But what I'd like to know is if all of the original writers have signed up.
...DRM'ed. "Geeks don't want DRM, geeks want Futurama (just see @ the Internet) so we will release new episodes of Futurama to sell DRM to those bloody nerds..."
This is the only reason for Fox to start it again.
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This is not a flamebait... this is bloody serious... Just wait'n'see.
You obviously don't have a sister.
Lots and lots of Morbo laughing at puny human misery!
I don't think there's anything to explain. Different people enjoy different humor. I enjoy non-sequitors and absurdist humor. I think the "real plot" shows are not funny. They just bore me. But I don't ask you to explain that humor of them to me because it's never going to make it funny to me.
Stop the Slashdot Effect! Don't read the articles!
Wait, I can't decide whether to mod you up or down. Were you with the parent, or against?
Professor: Good news everyone. While Fox's quality programming is out of our reach, Comedy Control has decided to take us for some new episodes.
Fry: Don't you mean Comedy Central?
Leela: No, Comedy Control. Comedy was outlawed in the year 2045, during the Great War with the Neptutians. Comedy Control comes around and kills everyone involved with animated shows.
... I don't get it. Where's the usual downside following "Good news everyone!"? Do we have to go and wrest the episodes from giant killer bees, or something?
yadda-yadda, I'm too good for animation
perhaps its the big stick up your shiny metal ass?
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Silence!!!
Futurama does indeed have long-term plot elements, more so than most live action television shows (and at least comparable with Doctor Who and its Daleks and Cybermen). Generally the plot centers around Fry.
- Fry and the Brains (and the Nibblonians)
During the series it transpires that Fry is the only human being capable of resisting the psionic attacks of the Brains, a group of free-flying brain beings that want to take over/destroy the universe. Fry's brain waves are different from other peoples because Fry, as a result of events in the episode "Roswell that Ends Well", is his own grandfather.
In the first encounter with the Brains Fry is abducted by Nibbler, who is not only Leela's pet, but also an agent of the ancient and stupendously powerful Nibblonians (which explains why he was the only one of his kind on the planet where he was found). Nibbler explains Fry's abnormality and assists him in fending off the Brains' attack on earth. After Fry succeeds Nibbler wipes Fry's memory (everyone else was too stupefied by the Brains to remember what happened) and resumes his life as Leela's pet.
Later, in The Why of Fry, we learn that Fry was not frozen by accident. In fact Fry was brought into the future by Nibbler, whose much younger self was present on New Years' Eve '99, and who gave Fry the nudge that tipped him backwards into the cryogenic chamber. In this episode Fry is press ganged into service to destroy the Brains' ultimate project, a device that will acquire all knowledge in the universe and then destroy the universe to prevent its knowledge from becoming outdated.
Once Fry is inside the Mega-Brain and has activated the bomb with which he is to destroy it, the Brains reveal what Nibbler did to Fry and offer Fry a choice - he can stay there, blow up the Mega Brain and vanish along with it due to the failure of his escape scooter, or he can let the Mega Brain catapult him back in time to the space-time nexus centred on his own fall into the cryochamber.
Fry elects to travel back, and in fact initially prevents Nibbler from knocking him into the tube, until Nibbler persuades him that he should sacrifice himself and fulfill his predestined mission, because...
- Fry Loves Leela
Fry has an unrequited passion for Leela throughout most of the series. In a sense there is a lack of follow through here, because they do pull kind of a "will they/won't they?" thing, but Fry does succeed in communicating the depth of his feelings at times, and when he wins the devil's hands and uses them to make a holophoner opera in Leela's honour Leela realises that Fry has a depth of character and feeling that is concealed by his physical and social clumsiness.
- Leela and Her Parents
As someone else mentioned here, Leela's parent enter the series late in the piece and stick around. In fact I was surprised that nobody responded to the "straight from the alien's mouth" in the article by pointing out that Leela, as we discover when her parents emerge, is not an alien but a mutant, whose xenolinguist parents left her at an orphanage with a note in an invented alien script, so that she would be taken for an alien and avoid the apartheid-style restrictions places on mutants. This is a major shift for Leela both in the sense that earlier episodes made much of her search for her species and homeworld, and in that at least two episodes towards the end of the series are heavily concerned with her relationship with her newfound parents.
- Amy and Kif
Amy, the engineering student from Mars, and Kif, Zapp Brannigan's XO, fall in love early in the series and their developing romance is the subject of multiple episodes throughout subsequent seasons.
i'm sure there are other examples of long-term continuity that have slipped my mind, but really nobody could accuse Futurama of forgeting its past.
Dude, why would you want to stick a pin in a kid?
Stirring defence of Futurama and the Simpsons there. But I think you're pretty much wrong in everything you say. To respond to your three main points:
1. The characters in the Simpsons are surprisingly consistent; the clearly distinct characters and their traits are one of the shows great strengths. Lisa is BOTH intelligent AND a member of the archetypal working class family; these are not mutually exclusive, and the show is subtle enough to deal with this.
2. Futurama IS better than Dr Who whichever way you spin it (allowing for taste), and its PLOTS are amongst its great strengths. When you compare the Simpsons to Futurama, one thing that is very apparent is that Futurama has much more comprehensive, less formulaic, better written storylines. The episodes, and the series, feature an internal logic which is stronger than the Simpsons, or indeed almost any other comedy other than Seinfeld or Arrested Development.
In many cases the humour is directly derived from the strength of the plot. For example, Fry travels back in time and becomes his own grandfather. As a result, he is unique in the universe, and his uniqueness ties in to the whole Nibblonian vs Brains subplot. Similarly, Leela's origins story is tightly woven throughout the various episodes and across the series. I know for a fact that Groening, Cohen and co set out to write lengthy thematic arcs which in some cases spanned series 1-4 inclusive.
If you think it's a plot-less cartoon with jokes, you're not really watching it.
3. Well, this basically explains why you think what you think. I agree to the extent that each episode of Futurama is self-contained. However, they are also intricately linked with other episodes, and you miss a lot of important context and detail from some episodes if you treat them as a one-off 'adventure'.
Try watching Futurama, in order, from start to finish. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Read Pynchon.
but it was just a joke. You must be a riot at parties.
Great. Good to see the Actors are on board. What about the writers though? I have to imagine the highly talented futurama writers found new homes that have been enjoying their talent for a while.
The best news I've heard for several month!
Holy crap! I can't believe it-- someone was actually watching Craig Ferguson!
On the other hand, having a sense of humor does not mean that you laugh at everything.
please not have jumped the shark please not have jumped the shark please not have jumped the shark
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I'd have to say mostly - you can't compare Futurama to the Simpsons.
The second of the two jumped the shark a while ago - although it came back from the groaner pile a bit it never compared to Futurama which was just getting a decent groove when Fox pre-empted it into oblivion.
After Futurama came out - the Simpsons seemed just wholesale tame by comparrison and even in some of the comentator tracks on the DVDs you could see where Matt G.'s passion was going (or at least more of it). It's not just the geek factor - it's the ubber geek factor that made it great among other things. Plus not having to be tied down to earth led to a much broader swath of possiblities - continuity be damned. Or at least horribly twisted if one recalls brain-burners like the Farnsworth parallel universe boxes. That was a particularly fun episode.
I don't really know where I'm going with this so I'll just stop now.
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Except that Futurama is genuinely funny. Plus it actually had somewhat of a continuing story, and some very touching moments. In one of the last episodes, Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee, and after drinking the last one, essentially becomes enlightened. Time stops, he just looks around, nods, and proceeds to fix everything. That's a beautiful moment. Few shows have that AND the level of humor that Futurama did.
Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option.
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Good news on the surface but until it is confirmed the original writers have signed up I won't be keeping too many expectations of the new series.
The actors can be replaced, the writing team can not - not if you want to keep the same style of humour.
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and when I sat next to him at Family Guy Club airings in the biggest hall on campus, my side would be splitting, when he'd be like, "what? I don't get it." He simply didn't grow up with the same cultural references--the "zeitgeist"
My wife doesn't get FG & Futurama either. But then, she's normal.
Except for marrying me.
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I for one welcome obscure references that few recognise.
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Ooooohhhh no. I fell for this one before...
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It must suck to be you.
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It's like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All winter long the grasshopper collected acorns while the octopus sat on the couch watching tv and mooched off his girlfriend. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns, and he also got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
ER.. Lisa never reverted back to eating meat after she became veggie that I remember.
You must be... oh, never mind.
but the flesh is soft and spungy..
I can't help but feel that it's because of me that the show has been optioned (correct word usage?): You see, I bought the first two DVD sets just over a week ago, right before the actors were re-signed! *takes a bow*
It is upon this occasion that I will venture to make the obligatory reference: woop woop woop *scuttles* woop woop woop *scuttles*
I hope they also get back some of the original writers from seasons one and two; in my opinion the quality of the writing went downhill in seasons three and four, to the point where it was probably just as well to call a halt. (There were some good episodes but the jokes and dialogue just weren't as funny.)
(There were four seasons of Futurama made, though in the USA they were screened in a slightly odd order.)
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Well if he explained about Robot Santa then I'm sure they had been good, rather than face his violent rampage through their christmas...
But I am not going to stand by while someone tears down classics like Ren & Stimpy in order to ego-masturbate.
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If this is yet another false hope, I'll go ahead and make my own Futurama.
With blackjack and hookers!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Dude, why would you want to stick a pin in a kid?
;)
Spoken as someone who has never tried it. Geesh.
ok, I can accept that, but I hope at least they resign Richard Nixon.
whoa! I mean re-sign! RE-SIGN Mr. Nixon! We miss not having you to kick around any more.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
that's why I love the Slashdot 'Funny' mod. It always lets me know when to laugh at a joke, so I don't feel left out.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
If we all liked the exact same things then there would be only one tv channel and simpsons and futurama would be on 24/7
You've visited us here in the UK then?
Mod parent up... or down. I need someone to tell me which.
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:)
Actually I think his taste does line up with the majority, unless you mean the majority here.
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South park is funny because they're highly objective and use hyperbole.
Don't you mean objectionable? They are different. South Park is NOT objective, whatever it would mean when applied to a cartoon. They very opinionated, rude and crass. Somee people like it, some don't. I don't. Others do. Big deal, but objective it is not.
OTOH, Futurama was a great show, and I'm glad they are bringing it back. Now, if they would only bring back other good shows.
Speaking of, why did they have to ruin Alias for the last season? It was like, "Oh, this is our last season, let's make sure that everyone is glad its over so they aren't being tortured by bad writing, poor plots, obvious devices, terrible scripting, and unbearable directing. Oh, and to top it all off, let's get rid of all the original cast as much as we can, so that by the time the show is over we'll only have two or three left. Then we can forget to close major plot lines, like with Vaughn, and nobody will care because they'll be so glad its over!" At least they won't be bringing that back (I hope).
FWIW, I would love to see Firefly again, even without Wash and Shep, although I never felt like they really cleared up Shep's past the way I would have liked. The movie rocked though, and I wish there were more.
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Every night at 8pm we watch Futurama reruns on Teletoon (even though I have all the dvd's, go figure). He loves Bender (or 'bot bot') as he refers to him, but then again who doesn't love Bender? He will be very pleased that the show is coming back!
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
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I think I've seen pretty much all Simpsons episodes and I can't remember any episode in which Lisa was as dumb as Bart or in which she was not a vegetarian.
Perhaps you could refresh my mind and proof you're not talking out of your anus, as I currently suspect you are.
As for Dr. Who; I don't like it. But that's no reason to suggest Dr. Who's drivel for the masses with the odd geek joke thrown in to keep you happy. It just isn't my taste.
And as for the explaination why Simpsons is more popular than shows with real plots and really funny material. I guess your definition of "plot" and "funny" is just different from most people's.
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What I want to know is, will they maintain the real time thing? I heard they planned to actually have people get older as the series went on. Certainly the years advanced as far as 3004 by the end of the first series, and Professor Farnsworth advanced from 158 to 161 years old. So will it be 3006/7 in the new series? If so, will any of the characters have visibly aged (Cubert and Dwight in particular)? And what will have happened in the intervening years?
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This is all well and good, but Slashdot's already gotten my hopes up once by saying that Futurama's returning, then beaten me to a bloody pulp when I find out it isn't really true! I'd like to actually see some episodes to prove it. You still have Zoidburg, you all still have Zoidburg!
I keep it in a box under the bed.
The last time
On that note, I would personally love for Futurama to return but I won't get my hopes up.
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What Futurama episode is a dud?
--Curious
Doug: In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a
xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he
produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to
believe, that this is some sort of a [the three nerds chuckle]
magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got
fired for that blunder.
June: Uh, well, uh...
Homer: I'll field that one. Let me ask you a question. Why would a
man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time
watching a children's cartoon show?
Doug: [embarrassed pause] I withdraw my question. [starts eating a
candy bar]
As long as they don't try too hard like Family Guy is doing. I have to say, Family Guy these days is boring as anything. First three seasons were mint, but what they're coming out with now is total crap. Previously it was edgy, but funny. Now they just go for offensive for the sake of offensive. The plots are horrible, and just aren't trying.
-M
when you see the word 'Linux', drink!
Wow - that's great news! I'd phone my friends to tell them, but I swallowed my mobile phone again.
RTFM; please, I beg you.
Most shows have some kind of continuity and Futurama does. Sure they'll be a bit random and break rules at times (take that Bender is made of 40% of Zinc, 40% of Titanium and 40% of Dolomite- 120% for those of you who are reading this early in the morning), but in general unlike the Simpsons, the show progresses. The characters age, have different birthdays, refer to events in the past. You'll also notice the love between Fry and Leela developing. Take the later episodes like 'The Sting' where Fry takes a giant bee for Leela, and the many loving things they do that continues to bring them closer, as well as the same thing on the Amy side.
PS: best episode ever: Jurassic Bark.... poor Seymour the dog.
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First they better put it in a timeslot that doesn't get screwed! Hard for anyone to watch when it was consistently being bumped because of football.
Second, Family Guy has done quite well since being restarted.
"She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a Bistro!"
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Zapp Brannigan
She's a mutant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela's_Homeworld
FYI, they were probably referring to the author John Milton (often referred to simply as "Milton"). Instead of (or in addition to) condensing his writing, they condensed his name.
Hmmm, an inside joke for both English majors _and_ Biology majors. Not bad.
Pushing ALL the buttons today!
Angleyne: You can't bend that girder - it's unbendable! Bender: Well I don't know anything about lifting, so that ju
Billy West did Nixon, Zoidberg, the Professor, Zapp Brannigan, and Fry. He did such a good job that the first time I saw the show, I didn't realize he was doing all those characters until I saw the credits.
Doubt it.
Even if either tanks or gets in the way, they can afford it.
They're all back at severely reduced pay, remember!?
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Thou hast besquirted me, O leotarded one.
That's a SURE sign it's bullshit. If it really was happening, he would never know.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
"Noone's really saying that Futurama is better than Dr Who"
I'll say Futurama is better than Dr. Who(the tv show on SciFi).
I havent met the first person who thinks Dr. Who is even remotely good!
horrible writing, and even worse special effects.
the history of the world
To quote Fry in "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
Fry: Uh, could I have some Slurm please?
Glermo: No food or drink allowed on the tour. You'll have to wait until you're partying with Slurms McKenzie.
Fry: When will that be?
Glermo: Soon enough.
Fry: That's not soon enough.
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"Good news everyone! Straight from a one-eyed alien's mouth"
What one-eyed alien? I don't remember any one-eyed alien on Futurama.
A one-eyed mutant maybe, but no alien.
Technoli
They say everybody loves that guy...
8:00.
NBC.
No, on your television.
No, 8:00, on NBC.
> Personally I have no interest in Chritianity. Perhaps this will help: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32294
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
HUZZAH !
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?
The family guy. That show has consistently gone downhill since it got on mainstream tv.
Why read the article when I can just make up a snap judgement?
The Harold Zoid episode. A couple good moments with Leela and Fry trying to find parking, but otherwise a dud.
One week Lisa will be super smart and a veggie and the next week suddenly she's as dumb as Bart and eating a pork chop. So WTF?
Reruns don't always show in their production order.
You can't take the sky from me...
It seems like the new episodes are going to be broadcast on Comedy Central, not Fox, so Faux can continue to bite your shiny metal ass.
Blue sucks!
You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly, sir. Bravo!
Thank God one of the 5 people that watched Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show passed this on to those of us who read Slashdot.
To quote pinky: yeah but ... "apply north pole to what?" :)
It was a great episode. Forgot about that one. Though that was 10-11 years ago by now.
-M
when you see the word 'Linux', drink!
that's not really a continuity error.
When they said "You never had a single nuclear war" they were refering to people in the 21st century/Fry's time (80's - when he got frozen in 99), if anything they continuity error would be that his house was in the same condition in the year 3000 as it was in the year 2000.
Plus it's a cartoon, there's more leverage in them cause they work on getting that joke across but if they were to do it then it would cause problems for an earlier episode.
,br> They might of found data later to, Remember the second (or was it third?) coming of Jesus wipped out a lot of optical media.
And now for the unresolved plot lines of Futurama, all of which I am hoping to see picked up in the new series:
-Fry loves Leela
The most obvious over-arching story during the series was Fry's adoration of Leela and Leela's continuous indifference to Fry. Obviously this IS something which is meant to work out with a happy ending. Episodes such as "Parasites Lost", "The Farnsworth Parabox", "Time Keeps On Slippin'" and the series finale, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" make this pretty clear.
The question is how they'll eventually get together. Leela keeps rejecting Fry because he doesn't have a lot to offer. He's a dumb, dropout delivery-geek - she's a smart, attractive spaceship pilot. Alternate/previous Frys have managed to get close to Leela with romantic gestures: a diamond scrunchie, a holophonor serenade, a love message written in stars. There's another key point, and that's Leela's oft-mentioned but never-seen ex, Sean. In "Devil's Hands", she describes Sean as pasty, unambitious individual whose redeeming feature was his skill as a jazz saxophonist. So it seems like creativity, specifically musical creativity, is the key. The problem is, even though he works hard at it, Fry doesn't even have musical skill. Not as far as his hands are concerned, at any rate. Nor can he sing. Or draw. And he won't artificially enhance his skills if this distorts his personality - "Parasites Lost" makes this clear.
The solution? Either Fry will come up with some other amazing romantic gesture, or he'll find a musical instrument he CAN play well. Or perhaps he'll find some other, more successful creative outlet.
-Fry is the single most important person in the universe
This arc was intended to occur from the very beginning of Futurama's production. "Space Pilot 3000", act three of "Anthology Of Interest", "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", "Roswell That Ends Well" and "The Why Of Fry" are the relevant episodes. Thanks to his being his own grandfather, Fry is the only person in history to lack the delta brainwave, making him the only person able to fight the evil brainspawn on behalf of the Nibblonians. Fry has twice defeated the brains, but as Nibbler wiped his memory of the events of "The Why Of Fry", he doesn't remember the second time and possibly not the first either.
At the end of said episode, Fry remarks, "If you ever need a saviour again, just ask." Nibbler replies, "Oh, we will. We will." Presumably Fry will need to fight the brains at least once more. And obviously it must be the brains that he fights: against any other foe, Fry is all but useless.
Earlier in that same episode, Fry mentions Leela and Nibbler remarks, "Ah. She must be the other. You must not give up on her..." and promises to help Fry make things work with her. This suggests not only that Leela has some critical part to play in saving the universe next time around, but also that much more hangs on Fry and Leela getting together than just Fry's happiness. These two arcs are obviously strongly linked together.
Side note: while "Anthology Of Interest" is mostly non-canon, the spacetime warp which tears open as a result of Fry failing to be frozen is very important. During "The Why Of Fry" the enormous brain explains: "There is a nexus point between universes at the space-time where you entered the cryogenic tube." Here's why: if Fry fails to enter the tube, he fails to go to the future. If he does that, he isn't present at the supernova and doesn't go back in time, where he doesn't sleep with his grandmother, meaning Yancy Fry is never born and so Fry himself is never born either. The result is a paradox which, as seen in the "Anthology Of Interest" story, destroys the whole universe.
How Fry and Leela's fates are linked, and what shape the next (final?) brainspawn threat will take, remains to be seen.
-Morbo
Newsmonster Morbo is an extremely poorly-disguised spy for his (unnamed) home planet. His race is plotting to take over the Earth. Will they ever do it? Will
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But we have heard this before. Billy West made the same statements and he retracted them. This might suggest that there is some momentum in the Futurama camp to make it live again. However; I won't believe it until Fox airs Futurama sporadically at 7:30 on a Sunday night, preempted by baseball or football, following another dismal episode of King of the Hill, with little to no advertising or promotion ensuring that the show fails to capture a large enough audience so Fox believes it a failure and yanks it off television once again.
Why does anybody work with Fox? Fox is the bigget show killer of all time!
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Interesting... I always took that joke as a shot at the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. Specifically, going after the folks who complained that the votes in Florida shouldn't be recounted.
What I should have said was nothing.
I think they tend to show both sides of the debate. It just happens they pick popular debates for which the side they eventually blast is stupid.
Take for instance the anti-smoking one. They clearly show that there are other evils out there [like fast food] that are just as bad for children as smoking. The one where Cartman becomes a cristian rock star is pretty much dead on. The anti-hippie one as well. Same with the anti-walmart.
Sure they use hyperbole but that's because it's a 30min cartoon and they have to entertain by exageration. If they just said "smoking is dumb but so is fast food" it wouldn't be as funny as "smoking is bad, being a fat zealot is stupid and hypocritical".
People who tend not to like South park are the same folk who tend not to watch it or pay careful enough attention. Sure if you watch only 5 mins of any one episode you won't get the message and therefore take it all out of context. But I can do the same with the bible. Watch this
If a man lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
OMG the bible says we should kill heteros!!! OMG PONIES!
Taking shit out of context makes you look ignorant and stupid.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Have been waiting for this for ages... I just hope they kee the humor of most of the old episode's
-- http://blog.troublenow.org/ Just a reference base
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Wonder Falls, Andy Richter controls the universe and Keen Eddy were great.
The Pitts was the worst thing I have ever seen...
... Tell my wife, Hello.
I Like Pie...
I was up in northern California a few years ago, visiting my grandma. We had often made family trips up there when I was a kid growing up in New Mexico, but due to the shortness of vacation time, never saw much of the surrounding country, instead spending our limited time socializing with relatives. Because of this, my grandma decided to take me around to do some sight seeing. Among the places that we stopped was the Chico Dam. It was nice solid dam, with lush vegetation on the banks, and behold, fish trying to jump over the dam. After a closer look I noticed a fish ladder coming from the base of the river.
:)
I had seen these on the discovery channel before - they were designed create a detour so the fish could swim up and around the dam to mate upstream. I followed the ladder from the base of the dam as it wound up the hill. Along the way were signs describing the different fish in the river, and I spotted several of the varieties among the travelers. I was struck with a sense of awe watching these fish. With such determination and perseverance they swam, often doing everything they could to keep in place against the current, but slowly and steadily jumping up one step of the ladder at a time.
I followed the fish ladder to the top of a hill, where it went into small building. Ah I thought, this must be where they tag the fish for studies. I bent over to one of the large windows to block the glare from the sun. A metal rod rammed through the fishes head, and it was thrown limply into one of two piles. Workers grabbed the fish from one pile and and sliced open their gullet with a smooth swipe, causing orange gunk to fall into a bucket. At the other pile, workers were squeezing a white liquid from them. I stood there dazed for a moment, and then looked down and saw a little plaque that stated that the orange stuff was called roe, and the white stuff was called milt.
That, my friend, is the day I learned the term Milt
I later learned that all the fish swimming up the river would have died naturally after mating anyway, that only a small percentage make it this far up the river, and that the number of fish born at this hatchery far exceeded the number that would have been born naturally. So it was a good thing, if a bit shocking for the uninitiated. I also learned that fishing is for suckers - why hassle with nets and lines, when you can have your dinner swim to you.
My favourite bit is where Bender is meshing programs with the ship. He's running away from the ship's program through a circuit-board maze, and runs up against a diode facing the wrong way.
That's the type of humour you won't find on Family Guy.
Last post!
So there's my question: what happens if a brain slug latches on to a hypno-toad? Who would win? My guess is, we all would lose.
"The deep-fried Mars bar is a symptom of a wider crisis." -- Nutritionist Ann Ralph, on the Scottish diet
Evolution wasn't a stinker. I like to think of it as about 75% of Ghostbusters, which still makes it a damn funny movie.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
I hope not, because they left Fry and Leela's relationship in kinda an odd place. Skipping years would suck.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Bender will fish a shark out of his own body and beat the crap out of it, then feed it to Nibler.
You can't handle the truth.
Taking both sides of a debate (which is not what you demonstrate with that example from what I can tell) is not necessarily objective. And yes, they are objectionable--I am not necessarily referring to their take on different religions or anything like that, but I am more referring to the language and whatnot. I know this comes as a shock to many people, but there are a good number or intelligent adults that don't really like to hear crude language. I tend to ignore it, but I don't really like to hear it. One of the main reasons I don't watch South Park.
OTOH, I do understand that they make sometimes valid points about interesting hot button issues. I just don't always care about those issues.
FWIW, I fully agree that the Bible or anything else, is easily distorted. I wasn't trying to do this with South Park or anything else. Just saying that the way it was worded didn't seem right. I'm still not convinced that it is.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)
So to all the people who complained about Ren & Stimpy Adult Cartoon Party "not being like the original Ren & Stimpy": YOU'RE WRONG.
Adult Cartoon Party is far closer to the original than Nickelodeon's watered-down versoins. In fact, many of the episodes for SpikeTV's Ren & Stimpy Adult Cartoon Party were actually Nickelodeon episodes that got censored out of existence!
Ren & Stimpy Adult Cartoon Party is the true realization of the artists original vision for Ren & Stimpy. That SpikeTV only produced 6-8 episodes IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Remember, in the pre-pilot, they fuck a baby's head. It was never supposed to be a pleasant show.
I have spoken.
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The show didn't replace with Seven. It was in the 'valuable life lesson' stage, where they were trying to _teach_ you to never let visitors go out for cigarettes and leave their child in your home. Especially when your wife wants another kid. It's an important thing to teach the future parents of this world. They need to include something similar on Sesseme Street.
-M
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She's no one-eyed alien, she's a one-eyed mutant. Boy, you'd think nobody here had actually watched the show when it was on.
They're taking their dog to get its two shots before it's too late. You're taking your dog there too, right?
"Leela keeps rejecting Fry because he doesn't have a lot to offer. He's a dumb, dropout delivery-geek - she's a smart, attractive spaceship pilot."
Leela has as much trouble in the romance department as Fry does. Perhaps moreso. (Aside from Zap Brannigan.)
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
They didn't bring the show back completly, but they did at least do a mini-series and wrapped up all the loose ends.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
The show didn't replace with Seven.
Well you're right, they didn't replace with Seven, they added him on to sort of replace the 'child element' of the show though.. whether it was as a lesson or not.. Kinda like Olivia didn't REPLACE Rudy (and have you seen her lately? wow..) but she took her place as the 'cute little kid who does cute little kid things like call 900# joke lines'..
I found Fraiser funny, Young ones, Bottom, Black Adder, Black books, The IT crowd if we're talking stuff you'd know or at least could Google, but I also enjoy stuff like Keroro Gunsou and Panda Z, which are comedic animes based on the giant robot genre in Japan. So it's not like "oh it's a cartoon it can't be funny". I'm not trying to say Simpsons isn't funny, I'm just saying at best it's a weak smile and at worse it's just "oohh pretty colours".
Maybe it's just that I like characters to be constant and keep incharacter, where you don't seem to have this in Simpsons.
I also hate Raymond, I'd rather fuck a bulldozer's exhaust than watch it.
I like muppets.
I think that I gravitate towards animated comedy series because they usually don't have those damn laugh tracks.
Yea thats why my name is made up of two animated characters names. Well fucking done you. You just completely owned yourself.
I like muppets.
Yawn!
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
And you will be punished for your error!
Don't underestimate the power of The Source
for the record, that was intended entirely as a joke, treating Married With Children as a lesson-teaching show. Yeah- Seven sucked.
-M
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Sadly, it ain't gonna happen. Nick made sure that the experience of creating Invader Zim was as traumatic as possible for all involved. I think that the end result was absolute brilliance (parts of my house are like a shrine to Invader Zim- it's kinda scary really), but nobody involved has any interest in picking it back up. *cries*
:-)
As a side note, you probably already have the DVD box set, but in case you don't the first volume is now available on the iTunes Music Store.
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
Agreed. I can't be in the room when Jurassic Bark is playing, and I'm a heartless monster!
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
I figure sometimes Lisa just acts dumb, I do it ALL the time for so many reasons.
Neices asking for help with homework, I instantly know that 24*8 is 192, but I think it through, slowly, aloud, so that my neices learn something from the process.
Also, for the 'Scotty' method, if you make it look easy, they'll think your job is easy.
And nobody likes a smart-ass. I bet most of the people reading this are thinking "He's not that smart, he's just trying to look smart"
I think the Zap Brannigan incident qualifies as trouble in Leela's romance department.
Or they digitally edited the first episode before rebroadcasting it.
but there are HUGE GAPING HOLES in the ongoing plot.
In one of the first few episodes their career chips are taken from an envelope labeled "Contents of Space WASPS Stomach", while in the later episodes they try to complete the previous failed misson, and find the last ship in a hive of "Space BEES".
(I suppose that the envelope may have been mislabeled, or as Lucy Lawless said: "It was a wizard.")
I would be just fine if they ditched Farnsworth's clone and Hermes kid, they were by far the least entertaining characters.
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
Are we sure this time?
for the record, that was intended entirely as a joke, treating Married With Children as a lesson-teaching show. Yeah- Seven sucked.
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Hey now you're getting personal, my parents used that show to teach me about morals and being an upstanding successful human being..
Just noticed a trailer for Al Gore's new epic at YouTube which was produced and voiced by the Futurama crew. Enjoy - unless it's been posted already - in which case enjoy again:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5BjrOi4vF24
"I'm so angry I can't even remember to close my italics tag."
20 seconds? You don't give me much credit for being able to type at a reasonable speed.
Seriously, though, the "20 seconds" wasted on making a wise-assed remark about how I don't find the show to be very funny (and the additional seconds spent replying to you) pale in comparison to the 3 or 4 hours of TV viewing I spent trying very hard to give that show a fair chance, out of respect for the writers and voice talents involved.
It mostly suffered from the same disease as "The Critic" (the failed cartoon featuring the usually-funny Jon Lovitz), in that the writers seemed to think that (not so) obscure pop-culture references are automatically funny, even if they are not used to say anything funny or witty. The formula gets old very quickly.
So I ask again, not rhetorically, will it be funny this time around?
Because that would be awesome. I like it when comedies manage to be funny.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Well, this thread is either going to be one person saying this is good and one person saying it's bad, or otherwise we all get to express our opinion :-P
:)
As someone who only started watching the series after it was cancelled (and then watched at least one every night until he had seen them all) I am tentatively excited about this
Just don't mess it up. It ended so well.
What is this, Digg? Link to the story, not some fuckhead's blog: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/back_to_the_fu turama_entertainment_don_kaplan.htm
So why not spend 20 seconds writing the letters instead of making snide comments intended to annoy the people who saw what you didn't see in it?
Because it amuses me to make a snide comment every once in a while.
I think you're confusing Futurama with Family Guy.
With you there. "Family Guy" sucks hard.
Don't feel bad, though, I didn't get Austin Powers the first time around.
Okay, I can see somebody thinking Austin Powers was not funny. It's not for everybody. But to not get Austin Powers??? It's an hour and a half of fart and dick jokes disguised as a spy-movie parody! I think you must be the first person I've ever meet to say they didn't get it right away.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
actually yes. i went for a week and stayed for 3 years.. what can i say, im an aussie!
serenity now!
Wow... good eye. Thats only one of the million sight gags that make the show great to watch, and great to re-watch. I really appreciate the effort of the writers and animators. Seriously, 1 in a million people is going to appreciate that (myself excluded), but there is a joke for the nerd in everyone. One of my personal favorites is bender getting strung out after seeing 1010011010 in the mirror. I hope to god Rough draft continues the animation, and X. Cohen and his band of writers are still involved because they made the show absolutely timeless. Even if it didnt appeal to the masses, the creativity and hard work should be commended. Good work rupert, you fixed f*&k up number 2. We'll talk about arrested development later.
Fine! I'll make my own Futurama episodes! With Blackjack! And hookers!
In fact, forget the hookers and the Blackjack!
Aw, screw the whole thing.
Isn't Morbo just a send up of bad '50s era rubber suit space monsters? He looks like one I remember from back inthe day. I figured all his dialog was based on those kind of old films, not any immpending invasion by some unknown alien race.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.