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Futurama Movie Set For November 27

Posted by kdawson on from the on-a-bender dept.

kevin_conaway writes "TV Squad informs us that the new Futurama movie will be available on November 27. The show will return as a full-length, high-def film sold on DVD. It will be followed by three additional films, and each film will be divided into four episodes, each to be aired on Comedy Central. So, that's 4 DVD movies or 16 new episodes."

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  1. Oblig. by Jack+Malmostoso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good news everyone!

    1. Re:Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sweet zombie Jesus!

    2. Re:Oblig. by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was with you until you used a racist slur against people from Mongolia. Seriously, is that fucking necessary?

      Oh, sure, you bleeding hearts whine about the poor oppressed Mongols now, but you'll be shitting your pants and crying for your mama when the horde is breaching your walls.

  2. Finally by Tykho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Life is worth living again!

  3. Oh thank GOD! by doyoulikeworms · · Score: 5, Funny

    That saved me a trip to the suicide booth!

  4. Re:misnomer by bob8766 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wasn't even going to bother getting this DVD, until I saw the Hypnotoad. Now I want 10 copies!

  5. I never really.. by daydr3am3r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ..understood as to why Futurama never really took off to the mainstream as Simpsons did. Especially with the declining quality of the latter and the pretty much consistent high quality of the former. Must be the sci-fi tag that works like a repellant: "Oooh I want gonna laugh you know, but can't, it's sci-fi fer christ's sakes!..."

    1. Re:I never really.. by dakameleon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Lack of instant broad family appeal. The Simpsons has a character everyone can identify with, but Futurama has quirky characters that aren't as broad in their reach. I for one say Futurama is far funnier, but then I land smack-bang in its target audience, so I would wouldn't I.

      --
      Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
  6. Re:The Velour Fog by vranash · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing about Zap is straight, except MAYBE his bagging of Leela, and we all know that's only because he mis-interpreted being 'introduced to a one eyed friend' :)

  7. Futurama Movie Trailer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The trailer shown at the comic-con is online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEtZHOj4vHo

    Cancelled by the 'Box Network'!

  8. Re:The Velour Fog by Scott+Wood · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you just hate it when someone follows up a joke with another joke, and the humorless git who posted the original thinks the other person "just didn't get it"?