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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.)
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
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.
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
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...
...or posting on slashdot.... all glory to the HYPNOTOAD
I just slurmed my pants a little.
In fact, a recent poll of fans ranked hypnotoad as one of the most lickable characters on Futurama.
I prefer the brain slugs. ::dazed voice::
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.
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!
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.
Or we could just watch the Futurama episodes in which Zap Branigan, et al., appear and pretend they constitute the new Star Trek animated series, and it would still probably be better...
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
My weird Futurama reaction: Every time I watch an episode with Zap in it, I get misty thinking about how that character should have been voiced by Phil Hartman...
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.
There're too many good characters to pick one favourite... But one of the best lesser charactrers has to be...
Lurr of omicron persei 8.
Woaaaaa... I think there was something funny in that hippy...
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
"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)
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
sig?
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.