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David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama
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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(Would have been more dramatic in all caps, but the filted doesn't like it.)
Well, I'm writing this from a non-HD ready country, so I haven't checked for myself. I'd like to ask, nerdy enough slashdotters, how did they solve the issue of Amy's obscene tattoo, which wouldn't be visible on lo-def TVs, now that there's HDTV?
For those who don't know it yet, if you view the raw headers of slashdot, you'll find Futurama quotes.
I'm so excited Futurama is back that I hardly can contain myself!
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
*drool*
the hypnotoad is everyones favorite minor character
all hail the hypnotoad
(Quote) We will also be shedding light on several lingering questions from the original run, including ... Seymour the dog. (/Quote)
Oh Man, oh man, oh man! Jurassic Bark, the episode featuring Seymour the dog, has to be one of the best written pieces of television I've ever seen, as well as one of the saddest. Look, I'm a grown man, and every time I see that episode, I cry. Anything that can do that is good television.
Oh, yah. If you can't tell, I'm REALLY excited about the return of Futurama.
If we can just get him to handle elections... Oh wait, thats why we have
Diebold machines.
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
He has got nothing on the brain slugs. I'm sure once you try one, you'll see how much better than hypnotoads they are. Email me and I will send you a complementary brain slug of your own. Brain slugs also make the perfect x-mas gift. Axe me nice and I will send you a whole gross.
> "you techno-hedonist nerds all deserve to die..."
You first!
that I feel like I was mauled by Jesus
I was so excited when I saw this, I almost dropped my bowl of Bachelor Chow.
One down, two to go!
(frell you if my sig can't let you guess what I mean)
You can't take the sky from me...
.... To do the new Star Trek animated series. It would likely be better than anything that the guys that are currently responsible for the series could come up with.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Wow, I would hate to see what happens after you heat about the 22 minute hypnotoad special...
3 degrees of separation from Vladimir Putin
...or posting on slashdot.... all glory to the HYPNOTOAD
...but not busy enough to NOT post on slashdot *thumbs up*
I just slurmed my pants a little.
and posting anonymously to piss people off would be one of those?
Check out the cave on the east side of lake Hylia. Strange and wonderful things live in it.
In fact, a recent poll of fans ranked hypnotoad as one of the most lickable characters on Futurama.
My favorite thing is that I made up 3 t-shirts after reading the wired article that pre-viewed the show. The best was a pic of Bender and the caption..." When you're built for DC, AC is like really clean acid." Then they made a show about bender abusing electricity and I nearly pooped myself.
Best quote ever in the show was" I get it the engines don't move the ship around the universe they move the universe around the ship." Thanks to that concept I have finished my FTL ship and have been vacationing on a small moon orbiting a planet made of fat. No dickheads, I won't share.
I prefer the brain slugs. ::dazed voice::
I have a suggestion for an opening tagline on one of the new episodes:
"Now with 20% more synergy!"
Anyone else have a suggestion?
Everyone knows the Dnyarri came first! These Futurewhatsis people, they're just stealing the Dnyarri's thunder! Yeah!
Except, uh, Dnyarri don't take over people's minds with hypnotism or frighteningly powerful telepathy or anything. Nope! Of course not. That's absurd.
Futurama is my favourite show of all time. There are a few that come close, but even after watching every episode about 10 times, I will still watch a Futurama re-run over a new episode of something else I like if they are on at the same time. I can't get enough. Maybe it's a medical condition.
Just out of interest, what is everyone's favourite character (main or side character, it doesn't matter). I think mine would have to be Dr Zoidberg. Every time he scuttles off screaming "Wooooop wooopwooopwoop" I burst out laughing. A close second would be Morbo.
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
I doubt it will. I like Family Guy, but Futurama's got much better fundamentals. Better characters, better actual stories (as opposed to joke hooks), and Family Guy has never actually affected me emotionally like several of the last season Futurama episodes. I think they'll be fine.
My favorite episodes are the Fry-heavy episodes. Especially Parasites Lost and The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings. The top 2 on my favorite list.
My least favorite are Leela and especially Dr. Zoidberg-heavy episodes. A Taste of Freedom, That's Lobstertainment!, Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love?, all on my worst-of-the-worst stinkers list.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
> there are more important things than some jagoff cartoon
Hmm, I could argue that 'jagoff' is a reference to South Park, another cartoon show. Very interesting. You think Futurama is total crap, yet you think a show with giant jewish aliens performing freaky alien sex on each other is worth referencing. You know, I think if you kill yourself now you can still catch the early bird special at the IHOP in hell. You should get right on that.
That episode still chokes me up...actually, I watched it once on TV and never again. That track on my DVD has never been played.
Blar.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
God i might be blind in one eye and poke myself in the other with the remote on the night that futurama comes back on tv. I vote they get their butts into gear, bring out the whips and shackles, get them to work asap! hopefully by the time it comes out, people will still enjoy it :D im sure i will, but i want a 2007 release... say jan 1st? come on guys who is with me!
I did a little jig and an *oh snap* just reading the title. Do the Hustle!!!
Posted by yintercept - "...science...[is] the study of the 'divine creation.' "
This is just great news. Simpsons and Family guy are good and all, but the world hasn't been the same without the old Planet Express crew.
Bender: You know, I was God once.
God: Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
Great Zombie Jesus, how can you submit a news story about new Futurama and not use Prof. Farnsworth's catch phrase?
What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.
Somebody needs a hug.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Blame Canada, Blame Canada..
I didn't know that Candada had a Pride Week.
Have fun eh.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Am I the only one who read the announcement and thought "Good news everyone!"
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
Moan. Nice.
Now I gotta yank out my Futurama DVDs...
It's an ok episode, not funny enough for my liking.
You can't handle the truth.
And to think, David, you gave up a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley for the obscurity of a career writing silly cartoons. Have you no ambition? :)
Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
Favorite Hermes quips:
...Right after I flush some tings."
3. "I'm gonna go home and relax, the traditional, Jamaican way - a glass of warm milk and a good night's sleep."
2. "What's that you're hacking off? Is it my torso? It is! My precious torso!"
1. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. MY MANWICH!!!"
5. "That's not a cigar. Uh... and it's not mine." 4. "I'm calling the police!
You got it wrong:
All... hail... our... hypnotoad... overlords.
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
...At least its not the Simpsons!
captainarseconkers@googlemail.com
I'm sorry in advance for feeding the troll.
Godless heathen.
...I wonder how long it took Mr. David X. Cohen to write *that* episode :)
"False hope is why we'll never run out of natural resources!" - Lewis Black
you techno-hedonist nerds all deserve to die in an anthrax attack
:)
That'd be great! With me being vaccinated against anthrax, maybe then I could get a sweet job
I was messin around with googlepages
http://networkzombie.googlepages.com/
"there are more important things than some jagoff cartoon"
I did an experiment where I spent a lot of time simply worrying about North Korea's nuke program. I read about it until my eyes bled. I bitched on various websites about it. I even had a T-Shirt made. In the end, the results were surprising: I couldn't stop the bomb!
So.. yeah.. Futurama makes more productive use of my time.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Just think about what it would look like...
: Fry, you didn't do any delivery today. : You think that's bad ? Remember the time I won a date to Urectum with Gary Coleman's head ?
Leela
Fry
Yeah, no. Let's hope not, indeed.
for once, I am in alignment with the world -
hypnotoad rules -
rb
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ah honey, we're all resplendent - Bill Mallonee
This trivia contest is over!
:)
Cheers.
I completely agree. Futurama's humor is episode derived, whereas the Family Guy humor is completely independant of the episodic content. FG basically comes up with great scenes or one liners, and puts them into the episode randomly (as flashbacks or whatever).
The thing is, though, sometimes I like that part of family guy. Family Guy has been milk-out-the-nose funny on multiple ocasions. And even bad episodes of Family Guy are fairly funny. This is contrasted with Futurama, which in every way you think matters is "better", more sophisticated humor, better written, but A.) It's never made me laugh so hard my milk was in danger, and B.) Let's face it - there are some freaking great futurama episodes, but when it's bad, it's BAAAAAD (bend her, obsoletely fabulous, bender should not be allowed on TV, etc).
Which leads into the Bender Paradox: Bender is consistantly the funniest character on Futurama, as long as he is a side character. Bender CANNOT carry an episode. Every bender centric episode is horrible.
~Wx
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Of course "Jurrasic Bark" makes anyone with a working heart choke-up, but which is your favorite episode?
I vote for "Time Keeps on Slippin'". I love how this episode f*cks with every convention it can.
Absolutely *nothing* is at stake!
Farnsworth at his best:
And an ending that packs an emotional punch:
Did you see it? Did you see it? [cue Globetrotters theme]
barack to the future?
You ARE crazy. You filled it with same sex animal couples. There are some parts of the bible I agree with and parts I dont!
I emailed him once after finding his address out there on the net.
He responded politely and promptly - was pretty cool too, I also found his commentary on the Futurama DVD's to be excellent.
the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards.
Checkmate.
I'm not sure how Futurama would be without good ol Zapf Brannigan
The bender paradox is not true. As evidence, I submit to you, "Hell Is Other Robots."
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
There's something beautifully ironic about spelling 'dumbass' wrong, don't you think?
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
I just toothpasted my pants a little.
- - -
Leela: How can you trick people into drinking something that comes out of your behind? It's disgusting.
Slurm Queen: Is it? Honey comes from a bee's behind. Milk comes from a cow's behind. And have you ever used toothpaste?
Fry: Whose behind does that come from?
Slurm Queen: You don't wanna know.
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
in translation :-) /. and there _are_ hordes of 13yos here, isn't it true?
but a smilie would have clarified things -- after all, this is
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
Point conceded, although arguably that was fry centric.
In looking at my origional post, I don't think I really got across the point that I really, really love futurama. It has a much higher replay value than Family Guy. I just wanted to point out that some of the Futurama eps are painfully bad.
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I just wanted to mention that a couple of months ago I had a chance to meet Billy West at a SciFi convention and he was extremely nice. He was just a super guy, very friendly and happy to talk to anyone who wanted to talk about his work. He told me that he was really happy to be working on Futurama again. It seems that everyone connected with the show enjoyed working on it.
#1: NAKED AMY!
And not that cop out "from the side so you just see her butt and some side-boob/no nipple" stuff!
No, we want full frontal naked Amy!
Full frontal naked Leela would be good, too.
But NO naked Zapp. Sweet Zombie Jesus, that would be bad! Very bad.
Oh, my.
Yes.
Guaranteed! This comment 100% Anthrax free!
Hypnotoad was viewed by someone wearing a brain slug?
Would it make a difference if the brain slug was also looking at hypnotoad?
Well...clearly I need a life.....
A goal is a dream with a deadline
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I always like the one with Bender as a god when he was ejected into space.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
Idle Hands are the Robot Devil's Playthings is arguably Bender-centric, and is a good candidate for Best Episode Evar. Godfellas is a great episode, and 30% Iron Chef isn't bad. Bend Her is a good episode, too.
So sorry, but thanks for playing.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
Hmm, I could argue that 'jagoff' is a reference to South Park
You'd be dead wrong if you did. I grew up with that phrase. I don't know how wide-spread it is outside the Pittsburgh area, but one surprisingly easy way to turn it up is in Mr. Belvedere, which was ostensibly shot in Beaver Falls, and therefore was replete with yinzer neologisms. The problem with playing the etymology card is when it turns out you don't know what you're talking about, you look dumber than if you hadn't opened your mouth at all.
Please stop feigning knowledge you don't actually have.
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