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David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama

Posted by Zonk on from the everybody-loves-hypnotoad dept.

eldavojohn writes "Toyfare has a short but exclusive interview with co-creator of Futurama David X. Cohen. There's a lot of information about how they plan to continue the series. He also reveals they're halfway through writing the new season and just starting animation. When asked about his favorite minor character of the show, Cohen responded 'Hypnotoad. By the way, we are looking into producing a full 22-minute episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad for the DVD release. I am serious.'"

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  1. About the "X"... by Bones3D_mac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those of you who never watchd the full set of commentaries on the Futurama DVDs, there's an interesting story behind the "X" in David X. Cohen's name.

    Back in the late 90's, he attempted to register his real name, "David S. Cohen", with the writer's guild. However, they already had a David S. Cohen registered with them. Due to the rules of the writer's guild, all names registered with them must be unique to avoid confusion. So, David decided to change his name over to David X. Cohen for identification purposes.

    So what's the meaning of the "X" in the name? Not a damned thing! It was chosen entirely because it was weird enough to be easily recognizable.

    --


    8==8 Bones 8==8
  2. Re:Check slashdots' headers by defile · · Score: 5, Interesting
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:15:40 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29
    SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
    X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005000138
    X-Bender: Curse you, merciful Poseidon!
    Cache-Control: private
    Pragma: private
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    Wow, you weren't kidding.

  3. Re:Seymour the Dog! by defile · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yeah, they pulled a fast one on many of us with that episode. I mean, here we are, watching one of the funniest TV shows ever, and they spring that tear-jerker, heart-warming ending on us. Gads! See...just thinking about it and I'm about to start bawling again. :'(

    When I watch Futurama, it's usually on late at night and sometimes I pass out near the end. Every time I've watched the episode with Fry's dog, I've passed out right at the ending and woken up to a everyone else in the room crying. Happened three times now.

    I don't think I ever want to see the ending.