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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. Hypnotoad by epsilon720 · · Score: 5, Funny
    All glory to the hypnotoad!


    CLAP


    CLAP


    (Would have been more dramatic in all caps, but the filted doesn't like it.)

    1. Re:Hypnotoad by agami · · Score: 5, Informative
      http://r33b.net/ For all your home hypnotoad viewing needs.

      ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

    2. Re:Hypnotoad by krakelohm · · Score: 5, Funny

      Gesundheit.

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      You are all a bunch of idots.
    3. Re:Hypnotoad by feepness · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wrong. Star Control = 1991; Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus = 1953.

      1) I was joking about Futurama lifting from Star Control rather than from Asimov.
      2) You really, really, really think I didn't know that Asimov came before PC Games?

      Ok, I guess toothpicks really do need instructions.

  2. Check slashdots' headers by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

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    I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
    1. 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.

    2. Re:Check slashdots' headers by jlarocco · · Score: 3, Informative

      #!/bin/bash
      lynx -head -mime_header http://slashdot.org/ | sed -n '6s/^X-//p'

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      Maybe not
  3. of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    the hypnotoad is everyones favorite minor character

    all hail the hypnotoad

  4. Seymour the Dog! by Calmiche · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (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.

    1. Re:Seymour the Dog! by 0racle · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Ya I hate that episode, and by hate I mean I don't like feeling depressed for hours after it.

      You son of a bitch, why did you even have to bring it up.

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      "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
    2. 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.

    3. Re:Seymour the Dog! by tdc_vga · · Score: 5, Informative

      For those of you who don't know the episode is based on Hachiko the famous Japanese Dog who returned to the Shibuya train station in Tokyo for 11 years in an attempt to greet his dead master. So I don't know if I'd say it was the best writing ever, but a nice adaption from reality and a damn fine episode.

      Cheers,
          TdC_VgA

    4. Re:Seymour the Dog! by bitt3n · · Score: 3, Insightful

      well.. I don't know if you can say that they copied from that. After all, Odysseus' dogs waited ten years (or whatever it was) for him in the Odyssey, and then died promptly upon his return to Ithaca. Does that mean the Japanese dog was copying Homer?

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      how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
    5. Re:Seymour the Dog! by thc69 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Try owning dachshunds. That'll fix that problem.

      They live long, but you wish they wouldn't. Well, _I_ wish they wouldn't.

      The damnfool idiots need surgeries all the time, produce twice their body volume (that's twelve times their body weight) in feces daily (most of which they do indoors; these days they have their own room with a doggy door and a sheet of rubber under a scrap carpet), and never shut up. Oh, and they smell awful (must be from rolling around in shit). For awhile, in their own room, they were quiet, but lately they've taken to fighting with eachother...

      My wife got them before we were married. I wish she had gotten a hypnotoad instead. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.

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      Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
    6. Re:Seymour the Dog! by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, no, no, Homer is in the other show.

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      As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
    7. Re:Seymour the Dog! by Itsacon · · Score: 3, Insightful

      My favourite tearjerker has always been `Luck of the Fryrish', but maybe that's because I don't have a dog, and I do have a brother...

      It is ranking no. 2 though...

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      I take life with a grain of salt...a slice of lemon and a dash of tequila
  5. 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.

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    8==8 Bones 8==8
    1. Re:About the "X"... by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Futurama DVD commentaries are seriously funnier than the shows sometimes, which is saying something. David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler are huge nerds, and John DiMaggio and Billy West are just plain hilarious.

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      LOAD "SIG",8,1
  6. Hypnotoad sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. I'm so excited ... by Vaibhav_Locke · · Score: 4, Funny

    that I feel like I was mauled by Jesus

  8. Nerdgasm! by Scrameustache · · Score: 3, Funny

    One down, two to go!

    (frell you if my sig can't let you guess what I mean)

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    You can't take the sky from me...

  9. Re:More Futurama? by DaveM753 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just slurmed my pants a little.

  10. Hypnotoad is hardly a minor character by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fact, a recent poll of fans ranked hypnotoad as one of the most lickable characters on Futurama.

  11. "No, it isnt'" by Lurker2288 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I prefer the brain slugs. ::dazed voice::

  12. Re:new episodes of Futurama... by Jerf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  13. Re:new episodes of Futurama... by slashbob22 · · Score: 4, Funny
    We can't dunk ..
    but Futurama's got much better fundamentals
    Zap: Oh that's Rich. Stop it your killing me. [gets hit] You're really killing me.
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    Proof by very large bribes. QED.
  14. Good news, everyone! by Dorceon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great Zombie Jesus, how can you submit a news story about new Futurama and not use Prof. Farnsworth's catch phrase?

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    What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.
    1. Re:Good news, everyone! by Babbster · · Score: 5, Informative

      It would be inappropriate since news about new Futurama episodes is actually good. Now, if the story was about said episodes being cancelled, THEN "Good news everyone!" works just fine. :)

  15. Re:new episodes of Futurama... by Viper+Daimao · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who read the announcement and thought "Good news everyone!"

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    "In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
  16. Berkeley by Frisky070802 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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? :)

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    Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
  17. Re:Glagnar's Human Rinds by spike1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

  18. Re:Who gives a fuck by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)