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Matt Groening Talks About Futurama's Comeback

Posted by Zonk on from the you-seem-malnourished-are-you-suffering-from-internal-parasites- dept.

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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  1. All I ask by hsmith · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    1. Re:All I ask by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Actually, don't make it suck like ANY season of Family Guy. Here is every single Family Guy script ever written...

      Peter does something stupid.
      [Peter] "This reminds of the time where X happened.
      Jump cut to X.
      Repeat.

      Hey "writers," just throwing random pop references together in flashbacks DOES NOT a funny show make.

      Family Guy...It's like the Simpsons, for retards.

  2. It Died Because It Was Boring by curmudgeon99 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why does every boring TV show deserve a re-birth. Let it die.

    1. Re:It Died Because It Was Boring by curmudgeon99 · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    2. Re:It Died Because It Was Boring by Puff+Daddy · · Score: -1, Troll

      You're an idiot.

  3. This is pretty lame by bendodge · · Score: -1, Troll

    I find it pretty pathetic that a TV show made it to a Slashdot article. Free advertising, anyone?

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  4. Re:Go Back On Your Lithium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's pretty lame to support/explain your own joke as an AC dude.

  5. The most important question by jbrader · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did you get to ask him if it's going to suck as hard as the last several years of the Simpsons?

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  6. mod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    steadi7y fucking

  7. bizna/tch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    dying. See? It's 3ought the farm... sorely diminished.

  8. mod do3n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NETBSD POSTS ON

  9. Guaranteed to suck... by evilviper · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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