Matt Groening Talks About Futurama's Comeback

Joel Keller writes "When I was at the Television Critics Association press tour earlier last month, I briefly talked to Matt Groening about Futurama's comeback. I posted the interview to TV Squad a couple of days ago. The man behind the Simpsons and Futurama talks about the latter's comeback, the fun of doing sci-fi in a comedy format, and a few words about the first episode to air on Comedy Central."

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All I ask

[hsmith]

All I ask is don't make it fucking suck like the new Family Guy.

Re:It Died Because It Was Boring

[curmudgeon99]

It was crude. It was not witty enough to make it as a cartoon that looked like it was drawn by somebody's feet.

Guaranteed to suck...

[evilviper]

I loved Futurama, but I loved Simpsons and Family Guy as well...

Season 13, Simpsons jumped the shark, and turned into pointless, mindless, painfully un-funny crap, and Groening has done interview after interview saying how he thinks the show is better than even now, even though the ratings have dropped.

Family Guy was hilarious originally, but after Fox brought it back, there hasn't been one good episode. It's really a rip-off, by someone who didn't understand why the original was funny to begin with.

Now we're combining the destructive powers of Fox, and Groening, into a show that had already really dropped off at the end of its run, and ceased to be funny for most of the final season.

I can't see how this could possibly turn out good in any way.