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Futurama Returns!

Posted by Zonk on from the teach-me-to-love-you-squishy-poet-from-beyond-the-stars dept.

Random BedHead Ed writes "Good news everyone! After a five year vanishing act the sci-fi spoof Futurama returned this week with a direct-to-DVD feature. Wired has an article about its return, including the story of the show's origins, a behind the scenes gallery, interviews with creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and some interesting trivia. For example, did you know the ship has an overbite like a Simpson's character? Or that the show's title is taken from an exhibition at the 1939 Worlds Fair?." We just talked about this a bit the other day, too, in reference to a great interview on TVSquad.

226 comments

  1. Forget the DVD! by explosivejared · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll just pirate my own copy with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the pirated movie!

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    1. Re:Forget the DVD! by EvilMonkeySlayer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      To take a slightly more serious note on piracy/copyright infringement. As soon as I heard the Futurama dvd was coming out this November I asked for it to be bought as a christmas present, however a few days ago I discovered it was coming out in November in the USA. I'm in the UK here, and it actually comes out on dvd sometime in 2008.
      It doesn't take many guesses for what I did and no, it wasn't flown over my magic carpet...

      We'll see if in 2008 I still have the impetus to buy it when it comes out, considering the nature of the internet and how it's stupidly easy to get this kind of stuff nowadays I wish companies would wake up and start doing their releases simultaneous or near simultaneously worldwide. (especially when they're in the same damn language with the only difference of one being NTSC format and the other PAL)

    2. Re:Forget the DVD! by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 1

      In fact, forget the pirated movie!

      Be careful what you wish for, dude. Those hookers will beg you to burn a copy for them, and once you've done that, they'll make you bend over and whip your ass in shape because you've done something... ehm, naughty.

      Oh wait, where's that party at again?
    3. Re:Forget the DVD! by AbRASiON · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Couldn't agree more, with the way the internet works the world has changed, region coding is fucking stupid (especially for games consoles) and releasing TV shows and movies later (by a large degree) often just costs them sales.

      1 week is fine but months or more? their loss.

    4. Re:Forget the DVD! by networkBoy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Also, how much does the format matter anymore?
      I can play PAL or NTSC (never tried NTSC-J, but it should work, and SECAM doesn't work) on my TV and it doesn't give a shit, just plays (PAL forms a border on the top and bottom). I'm in the US and I assume this isn't the norm here, but in the UK with SCART, doesn't NTSC work, albeit with a touch of overscan?
      -nB

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    5. Re:Forget the DVD! by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As a massive Futurama fan who greatly looked forward to buying each season on DVD on release date, I empathise completely. Not having even a confirmation that there will EVER be a Region 2 release boggles the mind (AFAIK, perhaps a R2 release has been confirmed recently?). The funny thing is that all 4 DVD seasons came out here in Europe before North America, apparently because the show had such a big European fanbase so it was a good testing ground.

      Like you, I resorted to other means to watch this first movie, something I (almost) never do on principle. I believe that good work should be paid for, but I wasn't willing to wait possibly over a year to then find out I'd just need to import anyway. I'll definitely be buying the DVD if it's ever released in R2 though, not because I thought the film was amazingly good, but because the Futurama DVD commentaries were always fantastic and very very funny.

    6. Re:Forget the DVD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If the only difference in releases was the encoding, I would be a hapy customer.

      But when I (a region 4 person) find out that most of the DVDs I have bought over the years come without all the many extras on USA (and Japanese) releases... well, then I'm a pissed off customer.

      I just can't work out why extras on DVDs differ so much by region. It isn't a case of music release rights, because most of these extras just don't have music like that in it - I'm talking about things like behind-the-scenes documentaries, minidocs, commentaries etc.

      Compared to the minefield of trying to work out which DVD region offers the better purchase for a fan (even ignoring the multiple version release scam), a difference in release dates between countries seems minor :)

    7. Re:Forget the DVD! by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just remember, it takes months and years to sign distribution deals in other countries. And there is a shortage of talented voice actors and translators who can translate American English to UK English. How many people do you know who understand the minute differences between pants and trousers? Between a truck and a lorrie? Don't even get me started on Canadian English. Adding all those "eh's" into the end of each characters lines requires digitally lengthening each episode by 5 minutes.

      Okay, leaving tongue-in-cheek mode to make a technical point: Back in the VHS days, you had to translate media between PAL and NTSC. Today, there's no reason a DVD player can't handle both. The DVD players can already rescale the video, frame rate no longer has anything to do with "tracking" or "synching." So the PAL -vs- NTSC excuse doesn't hold water any more. Especially since that conversion can be done in real time on a midrange PC these days.

    8. Re:Forget the DVD! by fuzzix · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Okay, leaving tongue-in-cheek mode to make a technical point: Back in the VHS days, you had to translate media between PAL and NTSC. Today, there's no reason a DVD player can't handle both. The DVD players can already rescale the video, frame rate no longer has anything to do with "tracking" or "synching." So the PAL -vs- NTSC excuse doesn't hold water any more. Especially since that conversion can be done in real time on a midrange PC these days.
      Most people will still have region locked players. Here in Ireland it's more expensive to buy a region locked player than an evil region free mpeg4 player (about 50 euro last I saw) but most made their purchase a couple years back when this wasn't the case.

      So, 2008? They must be encoding the region 2 version on an Oric 1 from tape.

      An aside, I bought a region 2 uncut Evil Dead box set some years back (on the cheap - I'm not really the boxed set sort but this was Evil Dead...) I was perplexed by the length of the three films... each was about 3-4 minutes short. "Hmmm... the pencil in the ankle scene is intact... there's the tree doing its thing... what's missing?". I got my clue when Bruce's "Groovy" in ED2 was a little higher pitch than I remember. The ~24 frames NTSC version was "accelerated" to 25 frames - when I refactored the framerate the movies matched the uncut lengths exactly. How common is it to just squish the movie rather than recoding it to the correct pitch/length?
    9. Re:Forget the DVD! by yakumo.unr · · Score: 1

      I came across the first TV that I've ever seen in the UK that looked like it was built after 1998 that doesn't do NTSC just the other day, I was very surprised, it really is that rare for them not to be fully capable.

      Every DVD player I've owned had NTSC/PAL or Auto modes selectable too, though on some content (mostly noticeable on anime) it auto selected incorrectly and the curved edges were noticeably jagged.

    10. Re:Forget the DVD! by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't even get me started on Canadian English. Adding all those "eh's" into the end of each characters lines requires digitally lengthening each episode by 5 minutes.

      Out of sheer frustration, many of us Canadians have learned American English. The missing "eh?" makes listening like reading messages in all-caps, but this is the price for an early release.

    11. Re:Forget the DVD! by samwh · · Score: 1

      Pretty common, although more PAL dvds are using this now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2.5E12:3.2C_or_2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3_pulldown I don't get why they don't just put 24000/1001 fps film on the disc... would save space.

    12. Re:Forget the DVD! by AngryLlama · · Score: 0, Troll

      How massive are you?

    13. Re:Forget the DVD! by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 1

      The irony here is that the original series was out on DVD in region two about two years before it was out in Region 1. It's so stupid, but any way they can screw, annoy or harass the customer is good if it can make a couple extra bucks.

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    14. Re:Forget the DVD! by hedwards · · Score: 1

      To take a slightly more serious note on piracy/copyright infringement. As soon as I heard the Futurama dvd was coming out this November I asked for it to be bought as a christmas present, however a few days ago I discovered it was coming out in November in the USA. I'm in the UK here, and it actually comes out on dvd sometime in 2008. That's unfortunate, puts my having to wait an extra day due to back order into perspective.

      It tends to be really bad when the studios pull that kind of crap. It is truly unfortunate, and it ends up being the producers of the music/movies and such that lose out rather than the labels or studios directly.

      I would have hoped that with the transition to digital systems that we could all have systems which were designed to interoperate between continents rather than continuing to localize international media. It couldn't possibly have been much of a challenge to make DVDs that would play on both Pal and NTSC sets or to have the players convert them.
    15. Re:Forget the DVD! by blackest_k · · Score: 1

      depends entirely on the kit your using.
      I have seen NTSC DVD display perfectly, in black and white, or in colour with an audio sync issue. (all of these can occur on the same TV DVD combination). Some setups are unable to be set correctly. There is also the region coding problem some DVD players do not have codes to allow region switching.

      On the other hand DivX copies seem to be flawless... Hopefully the DVD release will be collectible and well supported by sales.

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    16. Re:Forget the DVD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      And there is a shortage of talented voice actors and translators who can translate American English to UK English Hehe. I love Bender:
      "Bite my shiny metal bottom."
    17. Re:Forget the DVD! by networkBoy · · Score: 1

      I love my phillips dvd player.
      plays Divx/Xdix vcds and if you put in a real DVD you press (on the remote only curiously) stop, stop, play and shazam, the movie starts. No trailiers, no BS, just the movie.
      Furthermore, no region issues yet. Only issue it has is it doesn't like PAL DVDs as it is an NTSC player with no option in my version of firmware (fixed in an update, but then they broke Xvid compatibility)
      -nB

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    18. Re:Forget the DVD! by thegrassyknowl · · Score: 1

      Okay, leaving tongue-in-cheek mode to make a technical point: Back in the VHS days, you had to translate media between PAL and NTSC. Today, there's no reason a DVD player can't handle both. The DVD players can already rescale the video, frame rate no longer has anything to do with "tracking" or "synching." So the PAL -vs- NTSC excuse doesn't hold water any more. Especially since that conversion can be done in real time on a midrange PC these days.

      Towards the end of the VHS era multi-format units were practically everywhere. There was no need to recode because the video player would extract the signal from tape just fine regardless of format. The only issue was that back then televisions that played many standards were less common than they are now.

      What really shits me is that most DVD players can output PAL60 (PAL coding at 60Hz) and most televisions will sync to it. So really there isn't even a frame rate conversion rather than a small colour adjustment.

      What shits me even more than that is that most DVD players and most modern (within the last 10-15 years) televisions will handle practically any TV standard you can throw at them in the interest of the manufacturer being able to make one model and sell it in many places rather than many different models.

      There is nothing stopping them just whacking the NTSC video on a disk and calling it region zero (play anywhere) and being done with it.

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    19. Re:Forget the DVD! by splashbot · · Score: 1

      Spot on. I dont like course language but I understand why you used it here.

    20. Re:Forget the DVD! by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 1

      Better than: "Bite my shiny metal fanny", though ...

    21. Re:Forget the DVD! by Ilgaz · · Score: 1

      To take a slightly more serious note on piracy/copyright infringement. As soon as I heard the Futurama dvd was coming out this November I asked for it to be bought as a christmas present, however a few days ago I discovered it was coming out in November in the USA. I'm in the UK here, and it actually comes out on dvd sometime in 2008.

      It doesn't take many guesses for what I did and no, it wasn't flown over my magic carpet...

      We'll see if in 2008 I still have the impetus to buy it when it comes out, considering the nature of the internet and how it's stupidly easy to get this kind of stuff nowadays I wish companies would wake up and start doing their releases simultaneous or near simultaneously worldwide. (especially when they're in the same damn language with the only difference of one being NTSC format and the other PAL) Someone wonders if the media companies are huge plastic company shareholders too.

      Put it on a private torrent tracker with a fixed price, license a multi platform torrent engine such as Azureus and make a dedicated "Futurama downloader" which will offer the same thing in Mpeg 4 or a plain DVD ISO file. I would pay the exact same price which I would pay to that DVD.

      I wonder if these sounds really "futuristic" to media companies that they insist on selling mpeg 2 packaged in plastic.

      I actually know (non technical) people downloading pirated copies of their own original DVDs so they can watch it on their media players.

    22. Re:Forget the DVD! by twistedsymphony · · Score: 2, Informative

      1 week is fine but months or more? their loss.

      It's not a technical issue, it's not even a marketing issue, it's a political issue.

      There is a strict and time consuming certification process that needs to take place before you can sell media in the UK and other parts of Europe... Region coding aside I'm sure most studios wouldn't mind doing a simultaneous or release or a staggered release separated by only a few days, but when big brother needs to taste test everything before they let you have it... well that can cause massive delays.

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    23. Re:Forget the DVD! by sortius_nod · · Score: 3, Interesting

      actually, it's no loss for the makers of Futurama. They even aknowledge the fact it will be pirated - to be honest, without it being downloadable (pirated or not) Futurama would have nowhere near the fanbase.

      I personally know of at least 10 people who would never have seen futurama if I haddn't given them copies or reccomended they download it. Because of Fox's retarded attitude towards Futurama when it was being aired for the first time, it seems that most people remembered it as "that show that the dude who did The Simpsons made... gotta love the robot" and that's pretty much it. Without being given copies to watch they would never have become fans.

      I downloaded it, sure, I also downloaded, then bought, all 4 previous seasons. I have every intention of buying it when it comes out here in Australia, but we're usually behind the US and the UK, so I don't see us getting it until 2009.

    24. Re:Forget the DVD! by cheater512 · · Score: 1

      SECAM is just PAL with a few tweaks.

      It works fine. Every VCR, DVD and TV made in the last 5 years or so can do both easily.

    25. Re:Forget the DVD! by cheater512 · · Score: 1

      Umm no, the delays are all the industry's fault.
      Region codes were designed to try and enforce the delays since the regions are geography based.

    26. Re:Forget the DVD! by vuffi_raa · · Score: 1

      futurama is one of those things I actually like owning dvd copies of- even though i *cough* saw the movie about a month ago- I will still prolly buy the dvd since I own all of the seasons on dvd already-

    27. Re:Forget the DVD! by vuffi_raa · · Score: 2, Funny

      Out of sheer frustration, many of us Canadians have learned American English. The missing "eh?" makes listening like reading messages in all-caps, but this is the price for an early release. I DON'T SEE HOW YOU THINK THAT OUR SPEECH PATTERN IS ANY DIFFERENT FORM YOURS?!!! NOTHING IRRITATING HERE!!! WE ARE JUST AS CULTURERED AND SOFT SPOKEN AS YOU CANUKS!!!!!!
    28. Re:Forget the DVD! by doctormetal · · Score: 1

      ..- and to sell it at a ridiculous higher price.

      The only reason for the existence of region code is greed.

    29. Re:Forget the DVD! by h4rm0ny · · Score: 1


      Confirmed. I bought a season box set after having watched a few episodes online. Had obviously heard of it from reading Slashdot, but hadn't seen it. Not necessarily saying that widespread piracy is a good thing or that my experience is universal... but that's definitely one sale down to people posting episodes online.

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    30. Re:Forget the DVD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'll just pirate my own copy with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the pirated movie!
      ...and the blackjack!
    31. Re:Forget the DVD! by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 1

      lol.. yeah that would probably get it banned in the UK and lead to many confused americans wondering why.

    32. Re:Forget the DVD! by Cheerio+Boy · · Score: 1

      How massive are you? "YOU WATCHED IT! YOU CAN'T UNWATCH IT!"

      *ahem*

      Ok...I'll just get my hat...
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    33. Re:Forget the DVD! by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      My player happily plays PAL on my NTSC (tube) TV, but not everyone's does. Plus, I have to admit that the video does have a perceptible "stutter" when it is doing the conversion. IIRC, this is because the "conversion" just doubles-up every like 3rd frame. I imagine that there is a similar effect when you convert from NTSC to PAL.

      I don't know what kind of fancy-shmancy scheme they use for the professional conversion, but it doesn't have these effects. I'm also not lucky enough to have a digital TV, so I don't know if all of this "refresh rate" nonsense is moot if you have such a set, but I can't imagine why an LCD TV couldn't accept an arbitrary frame rate.

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    34. Re:Forget the DVD! by MSZ · · Score: 1

      In case of R2 it's mostly laziness.

      Typical DVD on sale in EU will have additional audio tracks in regional languages. If you try to do it for whole of EU it will be over 10 of them. Also additional subtitle tracks. So no space for extra features...

      Of course they could issue versions for each country, with only local audio addition and then extras would fit, but it's too much work, logistical problem, people will buy anyway (US publisher's version: those ROW heathens should be happy to get it at all even if it's two years later).

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    35. Re:Forget the DVD! by zippthorne · · Score: 1

      I always wondered why the DVD format isn't just a lossy compressed giant 3D matrix of RGB triplets. Motion would correspond to a volume in 3-space, and you could get whatever framerate you wanted just by slicing the rectangular tube to arbitrarily thin slices.

      The trick is to define your compression algorithm so that frames don't just fade into each other, but objects define regions. Like the pimentos in an olive loaf.

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    36. Re:Forget the DVD! by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 1

      My cheapshit Syntax Olevia LCD TV will sync to anything. It can handle NTSC, PAL, and SECAM, component input from 480i to 1080p (including PAL-style progressive/interlaced modes). It will tune ATSC or DVB-T (selectable in menu). It also runs on 100-240V, 50 or 60 Hz.

      It's pretty clear than the manufacturers don't want to make two products.

    37. Re:Forget the DVD! by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      I think the main reason is that the source material is composed of discrete photographs taken at 24fps. Many DVDs encode only this information, and just tell the player to repeat certain frames...

      Another is that you'd have trouble building an affordable player that could decode it, and the gain would be marginal since in the end you would just be doing interpolation.

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    38. Re:Forget the DVD! by Movi · · Score: 1

      Sir, please stop spreading such Bullshit. SECAM differs from PAL or NTSC for that matter in almost every way. For starters, PAL or NTSC only code the colour, and their variance like BG or DK code the luminocity. SECAM is a whole system and codes everything. Also, PAL and NTSC use Frequency Modulation to code colour, while SECAM uses Amplitude Modulation. This is also the main reason why SECAM "lost". It was much cheaper and easier to mix two NTSC or PAL signals, not so for SECAM.

  2. And may I be the first to say... by CaptainPatent · · Score: 4, Funny

    All Hail Hypnotoad!

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    1. Re:And may I be the first to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! (now with original sound)

    2. Re:And may I be the first to say... by jomama717 · · Score: 1

      Why was this modded troll? Is there something I don't know about "r33b.net"?

      If my machine is botted because I couldn't stop looking at the hypnotoad for two and a half hours I'm going to be pissed. Then again, it would still be worth it...back I go!!

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    3. Re:And may I be the first to say... by Octopus · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the link, but it just isn't the same without the loud distorted white noise.

  3. I hope by zsouthboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    the dvd comes with "contents of space-wasp's stomach"

    1. Re:I hope by Facetious · · Score: 1

      Mmmm. Slurm. [roll-eyes upwards, let's tongue hang out] Aaaaagggggaaaaaaaaaaaggggghh.

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  4. I downloaded it by neoform · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I admit, I downloaded it, but I'm definitely buying it first chance I get simply because the sales of the movies are what could possibly bring back the series..

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    1. Re:I downloaded it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yeah right. its people like you who make sure tv is nothing but LCD crap. Thanks jackass!

    2. Re:I downloaded it by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I downloaded it too, but I live in Australia. they dont even have a release date set here (region 4) yet. stupid media companies and they archaic "regions". if you dont want to sell it to me when it comes out, dont expect me to buy it a year later when you decide my region can finally have it.

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    3. Re:I downloaded it by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 2

      I'll buy it for you and ship it to you if you want. I'm in the US. And I'm not going to hose you. Just a huge Futurama fan.

    4. Re:I downloaded it by jonwil · · Score: 1

      Aussies who want it can always buy it from a site like www.dvdpacific.com :)
      But yes, I do agree that its stupid that the studios dont make this stuff available to the people willing to pay perfectly good money for it.

      And they wonder why people download this stuff from p2p or buy from import shops like DVDPacific.

    5. Re:I downloaded it by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 3, Insightful

      thanks for the offer, but no thanks. I'm fully aware I could import it myself from umpteen different sites but it's an unnecessary hassle. companies who make their customers jump through hoops end up losing customers.

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    6. Re:I downloaded it by kentrel · · Score: 1

      Stop whining about how they're forcing you into piracy, and just buy it over the internet like a normal person.

    7. Re:I downloaded it by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 1

      Not to discourage you from buying it, and thus proving there is interest, but aren't new episodes already purchased by either Viacom (for Comedy Central) or Time-Warner (for Cartoon Network)?

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    8. Re:I downloaded it by SendBot · · Score: 1

      I bought all the dvd's at once a few years ago. I'm not really the person to collect dvd's or cd's. I find that compared to encoded files on my hard drive they're cumbersome, prone to failure, and slow to access. For what it costs to procure these "info disks", I find it to to a poor value, particularly in resale.

      But I bought futurama because the network never really gave it a fair chance during its original airing. They had it in a crappy, moving time slot and never promoted it enough. I paid all that money to give send a message:

      "You were mistaken in cancelling futurama, so I appeal to your greedy side in hopes that you will find it profitable enough to produce future episodes"

      I was thrilled to see news about these movies and now I'm glad to see them out!

    9. Re:I downloaded it by MerrickStar · · Score: 1

      I can understand this. Much like everyone buying to make a point that, "We like it, we want it back. Here's my money to encourage you." I think (intentionally or not) the parent is making a point through a similar medium, in the sense of "I want it, but you're not acting in a manner considerate of worldwide interests, so when I can buy it here, I won't"

      Unfortunately, I think that sort of protest is as likely to produce a desired result as it is to produce a, "well, no one there is buying it, so we won't put any future effort into simultaneous release in the future" result.

    10. Re:I downloaded it by zsau · · Score: 1

      Because legally, we're not allowed to do that? The US is region one, Australia is region four. Most people have multi-region players, but my understanding is they've been illegal since we got a so-called free trade agreement with the US a few years back. Both options are piracy. Why should I pay to pirate, when I can pirate for free?

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    11. Re:I downloaded it by friedo · · Score: 1

      Only the four DVD movies (chopped up into episode form) have been bought by Comedy Central. If they do well then they may order another season.

      Interestingly, they only bought the cable rights. The broadcast rights could still be bought by Fox.

    12. Re:I downloaded it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ITYM GCF. HTH HAND.

    13. Re:I downloaded it by BakaHoushi · · Score: 1

      What the studios and labels don't want you to know is that they OWN the import shops. Then they just need to stamp out the FREE forms of piracy and they're free to sell the imports at thrice the price, and once more when it FINALLY comes overseas!

      I don't know what scares me more, the idea that people would do this or the idea that somewhere someone already is.

    14. Re:I downloaded it by ross.w · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, you can still get multi region players. When the Consumer magazine Choice tested DVD players recently, they marked down the ones that weren't multi-region

      In a lot of cases though they'll play every region except 1, possibly because of that Free Trade shafting.

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    15. Re:I downloaded it by MBraynard · · Score: 1
      Yes, using the internet and money is def. a huge hassle. No wonder pirating it using the internet and not money is such an attractive offer.

      Thieving git.

    16. Re:I downloaded it by thegrassyknowl · · Score: 1

      Stop whining about how they're forcing you into piracy, and just buy it over the internet like a normal person.

      Some of us don't have region free DVD players and can't be arsed with the extra expense of finding a region free solution or a new player. It's got a lot to do with the artificial limitations the media companies put in place a long time ago to try and gouge the consumer.

      I agree with "that guy" when he says that if it ain't available in R4 on the release day don't expect me to buy it when they finally (if ever) get around to it. Not a technical choice, but a moral protest against the wank that is region coding.

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    17. Re:I downloaded it by lucas+teh+geek · · Score: 1

      well sure, I could buy it via mail order, and be charged as much in postage as I am for the dvd, and have to wait 10-15 days for the fucking thing to get here, while people in the states drop by their local shop and pick it up for half as much and watch it tonight. sounds fantastic, let me just bend over and grab my toes for the corporations while I'm at it

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    18. Re:I downloaded it by batkiwi · · Score: 1

      So you've acquired Australia region distribution rights?

      OR are you talking about doing something that is technically just as illegal as downloading it...

    19. Re:I downloaded it by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 1

      It's illegal for me to personally buy it (Amazon already shipped me my personal copy, since I preordered it) and sell it to someone in a different region with no markup and drop it in the mail? Since when is that illegal?

    20. Re:I downloaded it by kentrel · · Score: 1

      Because legally, we're not allowed to do that? The US is region one, Australia is region four. Most people have multi-region players, but my understanding is they've been illegal since we got a so-called free trade agreement with the US a few years back. Both options are piracy.

      You're very very wrong. Region locked players are ILLEGAL in Australia, not the other way around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
      But, hey, don't let the facts get in the way of getting something for nothing. Any justification, correct or otherwise, eh?

      Why should I pay to pirate, when I can pirate for free?

      It seems neither option, neither paying for it not getting it for free will stop you from whinging. Will you ever stop crying?

    21. Re:I downloaded it by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 1

      Is the PS3 region unlocked in Australia then?

      I seriously doubt it's *illegal* to sell one, just uncommon.

    22. Re:I downloaded it by zsau · · Score: 1

      The links Wikipedia points to are from 2001, before the free trade agreement of 2004; when implemented in law, this would presumably have over-ruled the Trade Practices Act in that regard. But the Wikipedia page on the FTA in the "intellectual properties" section says a government report described the digital restrictions management section as containing significant, absurd and lamentable flaws. The relevant sections haven't been implemented in law. These sections were probably the ones I was thinking of, so it seems I'm wrong, though not for want of trying on the part of American media companies.

      It seems neither option, neither paying for it not getting it for free will stop you from whinging. Will you ever stop crying?

      Turns out I'm probably wrong and it's still legal to buy region-free DVD players. In which case I'm happy enough to pay for them. (Honestly, I've been happy enough to pay for them in the time being too; it's easier and less immoral even if it was (so I thought) more illegal, and I like to support movies and tv shows I like because they're often less popular ones.)

      Oh wait --- you probably never expected me to admit to when I'm wrong. If it makes you feel better I'll take it all back and say "American media companies want to treat me as a fourth-class customer so I'll treat them as fourth-class companies and do what I want".

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    23. Re:I downloaded it by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 1

      I thought about getting the US version, but I can't "fix" my DVD drive without voiding my warranty (iMac), and last time I check, there wasn't any "fixes" for my particular brand of DVD drive available anyway (MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J).

      The funny thing is, I'd really like to pay for it. But I'm probably not going to. It's just so ironic what the MPAA has ended up doing. They have a funny way of rewarding customers who'd like to do the right thing. Morality aside, you'd think they'd be on the ball simply because it means more money for them, which is really all they care about at the end of the day. Complete and utter morons...

      Thankfully, there is always BitTorrent.

    24. Re:I downloaded it by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 1

      Ok, I can understand the argument with regards to the MPAA. But if you don't financially support the programming you enjoy (for example, I buy Family Guy seasons, bought Futurama, bought Firefly/Serenity), then those types of shows without huge generic viewership are always going to get shitcanned.

    25. Re:I downloaded it by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 1

      Well, sometimes some of us feel that telling everyone we won't pay for stuff for whatever reason is the only way to get people to listen.

    26. Re:I downloaded it by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 1

      Let's assume "us" means the entire Slashdot user group (which we'll estimate at around a million just for round numbers). That's still less then 1% of the US population. A small market. As a small business owner, I really don't want to market my product to someone who feels that a homegrown solution is "better", even if it means it's more expensive, less reliable, and carries no support. And the market seems to agree with me (Tivo VS. MythTV, for example).

    27. Re:I downloaded it by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 1

      Well, when I mean "us" I mean anyone who has wasted time and money because of such things as DVD region codes. As for the rest of your comment, I'm not quite sure what your getting at.

  5. oblig. by niteice · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Zoidberg!

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    1. Re:oblig. by beckerist · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      why do people mod offtopic when they themselves don't even know what the topic is?

    2. Re:oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ...says the guy who then gets modded offtopic. Hell, this probably will be too.

    3. Re:oblig. by Some_Llama · · Score: 1

      "why do people mod offtopic when they themselves don't even know what the topic is?" (Score:1, Offtopic)

      exactly.. also as frustrating is when people mod things as insightful. (crosses fingers)

  6. Great show, decent movie by Synesthesiatic · · Score: 4, Interesting
    One thing I've realized about Futurama is that, unlike most "adult cartoons," it actually has a lot of heart. The episodes about Fry's brother, his dog, Lela's parents, and of course the whole Lela and Fry subplot are quite sweet, and you it actually give a crap about the loserish characters.

    As for the movie, the story wasn't amazing, but there was a huge amount of fan service in it. To the point where only an avid fan could really appreciate it. I was so overjoyed to see new content that it was pretty easy to overlook the flaws.

    1. Re:Great show, decent movie by explosivejared · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Lela and Fry subplot are quite sweet
      I say this with all seriousness! It is one of the greatest "romances" I can remember in any show, movie, what have you. The show actually made me care about a love subplot, and that never happens. It was so painful for the both of them, and as a typical nerd, I related to it so much. It was such a funny yet touching ride. I know this offtopic as opposed to the random show references (I'm guilty of doing that with the first post already), but I am completely serious. One of the best fictional "romances" ever! Period.
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    2. Re:Great show, decent movie by nomadic · · Score: 3, Insightful

      One thing I've realized about Futurama is that, unlike most "adult cartoons," it actually has a lot of heart. The episodes about Fry's brother, his dog, Lela's parents, and of course the whole Lela and Fry subplot are quite sweet, and you it actually give a crap about the loserish characters.

      In the end I think that's what makes Futurama past the Simpsons in terms of quality.

    3. Re:Great show, decent movie by Unoriginal+Nick · · Score: 5, Insightful
      The episodes about Fry's brother, his dog,...

      I have all the DVDs, and I still watch the repeats on Adult Swim once in a while, but I'll never watch "Jurassic Bark" again. Saddest. Ending. EVER.

    4. Re:Great show, decent movie by Rosyna · · Score: 3, Informative

      I'll never watch "Jurassic Bark" again. Saddest. Ending. EVER.


      Eh, spoiler, but the movie makes it a lot less sad. Perhaps it's for people that couldn't watch the episode without crying.
    5. Re:Great show, decent movie by gardyloo · · Score: 1

      I love lamp!

    6. Re:Great show, decent movie by zolaar · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Seconded.

      That episode made me cry, and just thinking about it now made my eyes well up. No joke.

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    7. Re:Great show, decent movie by xenophrak · · Score: 2, Informative

      The plot for that episode was taken from the tale of "Hachiko."

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko

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    8. Re:Great show, decent movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'll never watch "Jurassic Bark" again. Saddest. Ending. EVER.

      Strange -- that's precisely the reason why I watch such things *more* often. Entertainment for me is that which inspires strong emotion.

    9. Re:Great show, decent movie by 13bPower · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Kind of less sad once you see this new dvd... Not that much though.

    10. Re:Great show, decent movie by pak9rabid · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I agree. I don't normally get emotional during a movie/show, but gd..everytime I see that I wanna start bawling.

    11. Re:Great show, decent movie by pak9rabid · · Score: 1

      The plot for that episode was taken from the tale of "Hachiko." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko

      Man, and Futurama isn't listed as one of the references...tisk tisk...guess I'll have to do something about that.
    12. Re:Great show, decent movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I doubt it, the whole weepy stories about faithful animals are a dime a dozen in Asia. Now if that dog gets fosilized while retaining it's memories... then I'll agree.

    13. Re:Great show, decent movie by DeadDecoy · · Score: 1

      Apparently you haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies. If your heart doesn't shatter, you're not human.

    14. Re:Great show, decent movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The plot for that episode was taken from the tale of "Hachiko." NONSENSE! I see no mention of a pizza shop, Leela wrestling Amy, or that rough, tough mineral Dolemite ANYWHERE in that story! Once again, the internet has LIED TO ME!
    15. Re:Great show, decent movie by endlessoul · · Score: 1

      I wholeheartedly agree. That episode is my least favorite for that reason. It's so damn sad.

    16. Re:Great show, decent movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This episode broke my soul for a while, it was horribly sad. I watched it once, i'll never watch it again.

    17. Re:Great show, decent movie by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 1

      I agree, but I also have to say I'm going to be annoyed if they keep dragging it out much longer. I felt a few twinges of it during the movie already. They can only hash out the same things so many times before it gets to be overly paint by numbers.

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    18. Re:Great show, decent movie by fzammett · · Score: 1

      I feel this way about Ned and Chuck on Pushing Daisies... I think most people consider Romeo and Juliet to be the gold standard in tragic romances, but I think Ned and Chuck displace them at the top of the list. How in the BLUE HELL can you not watch that and just be so profoundly sad for them? Put yourself in their place and try not to be sad. Fry and Leela are similar, although separate for different reasons (Leela's an ass).

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    19. Re:Great show, decent movie by poopdeville · · Score: 1

      It was sad, and monumentally boring. I wasn't impressed.

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    20. Re:Great show, decent movie by Lord+Ender · · Score: 1

      I say this with all seriousness! It is one of the greatest "romances" I can remember in any show, movie, what have you.
      Yeah, I heard it was already nominated for best romance scene involving a mutant cyclops.

      Personally, I'm just glad Fry got to nail Amy... gives me hope...
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    21. Re:Great show, decent movie by Shinu · · Score: 1

      I must add and concur that Jurassic Bark is the ONE AND ONLY ONE episode of Futurama that I will turn off from the TV if it is playing on Adult Swim!! **POTENTIAL SPOILER** Even despite the events in the new movie that numbs out the sentiment that someone has later replied of.

    22. Re:Great show, decent movie by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 1

      How was it painful for Leela? I like the character, but seriously, she's kind of a bitch to Fry... how many times does she learn that she'd be very happy with him if she only gave him a chance?

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    23. Re:Great show, decent movie by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 1

      I was apparently originally in there and removed, Presumably because the editor didn't like Futurama.

    24. Re:Great show, decent movie by DJNW · · Score: 1

      Well, well... there's a 'faithful dog' story *everywhere*, isn't there?
      Greyfriars Bobby

    25. Re:Great show, decent movie by Hic+sunt+leones · · Score: 1

      I think that episode was based on the scene in Book 17 of Homer's Odyssey, where Argos the dog recognises his master after 20 years of absence. He has been waiting for his master to return, and when he finally does, Argos dies a relieved and happy death.

      At least, I always thought of the Odyssey whenever I watched that episode... maybe it's just because I'm a total classics nut.

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  7. When's the next one come out? by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe there were 16 episodes that were made (and Bender's Big Score covers 1-4 - the production numbers mark it as season 5).

    However, I can't seem to find any details on the next one in the series... I'd love to mark it in my calendar so I don't forget.

    1. Re:When's the next one come out? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      On the audio commentary, they said about six months.

    2. Re:When's the next one come out? by nine-times · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah, I read elsewhere that the movie was created in the first place to be easily edited down into 4 episodes (but they tried not to be too obvious) because it will actually air on Comedy Central as the first 4 episodes in a new season. They'll have enough new episodes to fill out the rest of the season, and if its viewership is good, it could be picked up as a normal show again (by Comedy Central this time).

    3. Re:When's the next one come out? by Leiterfluid · · Score: 1

      There was another article I read earlier this week that mentioned while Comedy Central bought the cable TV rights, broadcast TV rights were still up for grabs.

    4. Re:When's the next one come out? by EMCEngineer · · Score: 1

      I sure hope this happens. It would be much much much better than most of what's on Comedy Central - Drawn Together, Sarah Silverman, a thousand showings of Blue Collar Comedy Tour, etc.

    5. Re:When's the next one come out? by saxoholic · · Score: 1

      Yes, Comedy Central ordered 16 episodes to be released as 4 straight to dvd movies, which will also be aired on comedy central.

    6. Re:When's the next one come out? by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 1

      Maybe the Box Network would pick it up =)

    7. Re:When's the next one come out? by randomiam · · Score: 1

      IMDB thinks that the last three movies will be released in 2008. I imagine that we're gonna get about one a quarter. reference

    8. Re:When's the next one come out? by Some_Llama · · Score: 1

      "I sure hope this happens. It would be much much much better than most of what's on Comedy Central - Drawn Together, Sarah Silverman, a thousand showings of Blue Collar Comedy Tour, etc."

      I've always took it as a reflection of the average intelect of american television viewer ship.. I mean how can you explain Futurama being canceled and Family Guy extended ad infinitum?

  8. Hard to Find by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is anyone else having a helluva time getting a copy? I went to three stores in Boulder, CO on Wednesday. All had carried it, but were sold out (and I heard that a fourth was in the same boat). Is this a local phenomenon or is this just selling that well? If so, excellent... except the part where I can't get a copy.

    1. Re:Hard to Find by ArcherB · · Score: 1

      It's at the top of my Netflix queue, but is listed as "Very Long Wait". Looks like you're not the only one having trouble getting it!

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    2. Re:Hard to Find by Volante3192 · · Score: 1

      Got my copy yesterday from a So. Cal. Best Buy. They had a good...oh...50 there and this was Thursday.

      However, they were all tucked back in the FOX on TV section, which is the farthest DVD section from the new releases. There were ZERO in the new release area...maybe people just gave up when they didn't see anything in the new release area...

    3. Re:Hard to Find by CheshireCatCO · · Score: 1

      I actually asked employees at all three stores and they checked their computer systems. They were out, good and proper. Maybe Best Buy (or SoCal, perhaps) just got 'em all? ;-)

    4. Re:Hard to Find by Zaphod2016 · · Score: 1

      Bought via amazon.com on release day, got it Thursday afternoon. No delay, no hassles.

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  9. Thx for the wiki reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    kinda new here & didn't know why we were referring to an exhibition at the 1939 Worlds Fair (old news, ya know?) so the wiki link really helped clear things up! kthxbye!!!

  10. To watch and to buy by adona1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a review here of the new DVD. The general gist is that it's good - like an extended episode - but doesn't come across as a feature length movie. Needless to say, most of /. will probably download it and make their own minds up, but agreeing with posts above - if you like it, spend the handful of dollars and ensure that more gets made. It's worked before.

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    1. Re:To watch and to buy by aslate · · Score: 1

      I've already torrented it and am waiting for the UK release of it to purchase a copy, but there's just no mention of it even coming our way. I'm sure it will but it would've been great to have got it coming before Xmas.

    2. Re:To watch and to buy by ildon · · Score: 1

      I already bought and watched it, and it's good, but my problem (and my brother's) is that it's just too long. It's paced like an episode of the TV show, but it's 90 minutes long, and so it just feels like it drags on and on like it will never end.

      That was our only complaint, though, and it is minor.

    3. Re:To watch and to buy by OnlySlightly · · Score: 1

      if you like it, spend the handful of dollars and ensure that more gets made. Shouldn't that be "A Fishful of Dollars"?
  11. will there be a cameo by... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the Zune Tattoo Guy??

  12. More owls and underpants. by roman_mir · · Score: 1

    Actually good news, everyone!

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  13. Everybody Loves Hypnotoad! by WombatControl · · Score: 4, Funny

    The DVD has the single most awesome DVD extra ever -- an entire half-hour episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad (with commercials). It's worth watching just to see the 30th century commercials...

    I'm still waiting for the Season 1 DVD box set with all 365 episodes myself...

    1. Re:Everybody Loves Hypnotoad! by koalapeck · · Score: 1

      I might need to buy it for this reason alone!

    2. Re:Everybody Loves Hypnotoad! by mpeg4codec · · Score: 1

      I agree, this is by far the best part of thALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

    3. Re:Everybody Loves Hypnotoad! by Smordnys+s'regrepsA · · Score: 2, Funny

      Meh, this show really went downhill since the 3rd season.

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  14. The Secret to Futurama's success by ArcherB · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From TFA Groening says:

    "The operating principle of Futurama was that you can do a joke that 1percent of the audience gets, as long as it doesn't derail the enjoyment of the mass audience," Cohen says. "And that 1 percent becomes a fan for life." You also see the same formula in Dennis Miller's material. You only get 1/5 of the jokes, but that one make you feel so smart that you become a fan.

    I didn't care much for Futurama until one night, I was watching an episode where Bender jumped off a "See where the stars live" tour bus and kept knocking on Calculon's door. Finally, after the third or forth time, Calculon asked him, "Do you have an extra goto ten line?"

    I've been a fan ever since.
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    1. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 3, Funny

      My all time favorite example of this is in the were-car episode.

      One of the portraits is of a robot with a decidedly 19th Century British naval officer look to it.

      The nameplaque on the portrait is:

      Commodore LXIV

      Truly, I all but fell out of the chair when I saw that.

      If by some chance, the writer who came up with that sees this, THANK YOU for the compliment, that people watching FUTURAMA would be intelligent enough to get something as subtle as that, and would appreciate it.

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    2. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 1
      You also see the same formula in Dennis Miller's material. You only get 1/5 of the jokes, but that one make you feel so smart that you become a fan.

      Not really. The other 4/5 makes you disgusted at yourself for ever listening to a right-wingnut idiot like him. So you don't.

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    3. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "...Finally, after the third or forth time, Calculon asked him, "Do you have an extra goto ten line?""

      Is there something special in the line that I'm not aware of? Sounds like many other computer-geeky lines (that many of us love) employed in the show...

    4. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by matthewsmalley · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Subtle, or just aimed at a fairly niche audience?

    5. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by iknowcss · · Score: 1

      According to Wikipedia, it's a reference to the old BASIC programming language. GOTO 10, if I remember correctly, would basically have taken you back to the beginning of the program.

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    6. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 1

      Subtle, or just aimed at a fairly niche audience?

      Both. I missed it in the episode, but want to watch it now just to see it myself. But most people are outside the /. niche.

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    7. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by Wudbaer · · Score: 1

      Oh my god. I got the joke without having to resort to incomplete explanations in Wikipedia ! I did the GOTO 10 thing myself, back in the day ! I AM OLD ! *breaks down crying*

      Now get off my lawn, damn kids *mutter*

    8. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by El_Oscuro · · Score: 1

      Haven't we seen something like this before on /.?

      10 ? "Post funny joke about Futurama"
      20 ? "Bitch about being too old because we know BASIC (damn I'm old)"
      30 ? "*Breaks down crying*"
      40 ? "Profit!"
      50 goto 10
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    9. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by pipingguy · · Score: 1

      Right. Asking if he had an extra one is just silly, because the process GOTO 10 would never stop. That's the joke. Oh crap, I've just explained a joke, bad form. GOTO ["Asking if he had an extra one is just silly..."]

      OMG, I just remembered that I *did* do some Basic programming over 30 years ago (or was it on a HP calculator?) but never became a programmer.

    10. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by patches · · Score: 1

      Well actually, there is no requirement that the first line of the program start with line number 10. This is standard practice, however there were many times that I remember working on a program and realizing that I forgot something and would add a line 5 or maybe multiple lines under 10.

      Patches

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    11. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by ArcherB · · Score: 1
      "...Finally, after the third or forth time, Calculon asked him, "Do you have an extra goto ten line?""

      Is there something special in the line that I'm not aware of? Sounds like many other computer-geeky lines (that many of us love) employed in the show...

      It would go something like this:

      10 PRINT "Hello World"
      20 GOTO 10
      RUN
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World
      Hello World Get it now? It was friggin hilarious!

      10 PEEK around
      20 POKE doorbell
      30 PRINT "Calculon! I'm your biggest fan"
      40 GOTO 10
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    12. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by grumling · · Score: 1

      10 Sin
      20 GOTO Hell

      I chr$(2665) Mom*

      "Hey Hey! Ho Ho! 100110!"

      "Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Get the human"

      *Technically, it had a different number maybe from an old basic, but I don't have access to the episode in question

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    13. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1

      Look closely at Bender's brain when the professor shines the Z-ray on it in the episode with the Slurm factory. Specifically, look at the model number of the CPU: 6502

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    14. Re:The Secret to Futurama's success by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 1

      Caught that the first time. It's the little geek/nerd things like that, which made FUTURAMA such a favorite with the /. crowd.

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  15. Buy it. Watch it. Love it. by dbolger · · Score: 1

    I just finished watching it, and it is top notch all the way. I was mildly concerned that after two years the writing staff would have lost their way, but this was in my opinion on par with the best of Futurama, and I've got/watched every episode. If you watch the show over the course of its seasons, you can see the wonderfully complex threads and story arcs that run through it. The some of the characters are amazingly deep and the mixture of laugh-out-loud funny or zany episodes to emotionally touching ones makes the show entertaining and lovable. This movie is a continuation of that pattern. Because it is a bigger deal than a normal episode, it is jammed with references to its past, but manages not to make it obnoxious. For example, Fry's dog appears in several scenes, which to a casual viewer might not mean much but is a very nice reference to see.

    I know, I'm probably coming off a little over the top, and I have been waiting for this for two years, but I could not be happier with the movie. I have spent time eagerly waiting for media before (new Beatles single, Star Wars Episode I, etc), and I have often been disappointed. This is not one of those times.

    If you love Futurama, you will love Benders Big Score. Go buy it, now! :)

  16. binary (possible spoiler-warning) by bumby · · Score: 5, Informative

    A previous episode of futurama has had a binary-joke. Benders room number is $ in binary ascii.
    So when I saw the binary code here I instantly tried to figure out what it said. It turned out
    the message was really IN the binary this time.

    001100
    010010
    011110
    100001
    101101
    110011

    s/0/_/g
    __11__
    _1__1_
    _1111_
    1____1
    1_11_1
    11__11

    It's the spaceship, from above! Fixed font would be recommended :/

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    1. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by jx100 · · Score: 1

      To me, it looked like binary counting..
      001
      010
      011
      100
      101
      110

      and then mirrored across the right side.

    2. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      actually, it's a ascii bender! Straight ON! EVEN BETTER!

    3. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Er, no? The "legs" are much too short for Bender.

    4. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by camperdave · · Score: 1

      Boy, you 10 really have too much time on your hands.

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    5. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It just looks like a regular mirrored count

      1 001
      2 010
      3 011
      4 100
      5 101
      6 110

    6. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by marcosdumay · · Score: 1

      people used to create fonts by putting such kind of data at specific memory positions at old Z80 architectures. That was how most games used to do their graphics.

      I'm only sad because it is not an 8x8 matrix :( I couldn't put that character at my TK90X

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    7. Re:binary (possible spoiler-warning) by Garabito · · Score: 1

      And you sir, win the geekest post of the day. Congratulations!

  17. CUNT! DAMN SPOILER! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    DAMN YOU! YOU CUNT!
    I mean that from the bottom of my heart!
    I'm so fucking mad that I put on caps lock!

    SPOILER WARNING GOES IN THE SUBJECT LINE.

    captcha text was "incurred"
    YOU HAVE INCURRED MY WRATH!!!

    1. Re:CUNT! DAMN SPOILER! by Culture20 · · Score: 2

      Parent should have been modded +1 Informative, not Flamebait.

    2. Re:CUNT! DAMN SPOILER! by RealGrouchy · · Score: 2, Funny

      YOU HAVE INCURRED MY WRATH!!! Ah, I see they brought Morbo back, too.

      - RG>
      --
      Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
  18. I bought the dvd the day it came out by kithrup · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was rather disappointed with it. It had some funny moments, for sure, but for the most part, we were bored. Maybe we had too-high expectations (Godfellas is my favourite episode, and we'd just watched it on Cartoon Network), but it was just... enh. Not really bad, but not particularly good. Not something that would make me want to bring the series back from the dead.

    1. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by stox · · Score: 1

      I just bought it this week, and I would have to agree with you. It was mildly amusing, but it wasn't real funny. I was disappointed.

      --
      "To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
    2. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by orkysoft · · Score: 1

      Yep, it felt like one giant re-run to me too.

      --

      I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
    3. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by CCFreak2K · · Score: 5, Funny

      Attention, Groening. We are reasonably satisfied with the events we have seen. Overall I would rate it a C+. OK, not great. As a result, we will not destroy your planet, but neither will we provide you with our recipe for immortality.

      --
      "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
    4. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I thought it started out good, but the pace slowed down greatly after the funeral, and it was boring me to tears, until it finally picked up again with the space battle. They really needed to cut a bunch of crap in the middle out. Starting with BOTH musical numbers.

    5. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by OzRoy · · Score: 1

      I felt the same way as you. However, I just watched it a second time and I liked it a lot more.

      I'm now willing to say that Futurama is indeed back and I can't wait for the next movie to come out :D

    6. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by brogdon · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "I was rather disappointed with it. It had some funny moments, for sure, but for the most part, we were bored."

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that way. It seems like they were trying to hard with the writing, and adding too many subplots to a movie that already has some complicated time-travel stuff going on seemed like a mistake.

      I would imagine the fact that they plan to cut each movie up into four discrete episodes in order to air them on Comedy Central is responsible for some of these issues. I wish they had either chosen to do them as episodes alone or as just a movie. It's too much to ask of your writers, otherwise.

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    7. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Way to overact, Zoidberg!

    8. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by trytoguess · · Score: 1

      Have to agree, personally I found the villans extremely irritating. Not to mention while a few dumb people in a show can be amusing, when the entire cast acts as stupid as Homer Simpson, I just feel disgusted (I needs my straight man).

    9. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by glwtta · · Score: 1

      but it was just... enh. Not really bad, but not particularly good.

      Don't you hate that? I was ready to love with all my heart, or hate it with a fiery passion, but instead it's just kinda "meh".

      I think the main problem was trying to stretch an episode to an hour and a half, that's just not a good format for that kind of show. I really wish they had gone with the usual tactic of stringing together three mostly unrelated episodes with some flimsy pretext. If it ain't broke...

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      sic transit gloria mundi
    10. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you kidding me? "I'm Jewish and I'm undead" is absolutely the highlight of the movie. Why is there a Chanukah Zombie? Why would he have a TIE Fighter (aside from the fact that he's voiced by Mark Hamill)? It's genius, the whole second musical number. The rest of the movie, not so much.

    11. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by kimvette · · Score: 1

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that way. It seems like they were trying to hard with the writing, and adding too many subplots to a movie that already has some complicated time-travel stuff going on seemed like a mistake.


      They actually address that in the commentaries. They acknowledge the story is complex and you have to follow closely, but also that the following DVDs will not be so intense in that regard. This DVD was designed for hardcore fans who stop on frames to catch the more subtle jokes, watch it repeatedly to catch background jokes, and so forth.

      I thought it was fantastic.
      --
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    12. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by kimvette · · Score: 1

      minor spoiler at the end of this post

      The musical numbers in this one seem forced - yeah, it's the way it was intended, but it really comes across that way perhaps more so than they intended.

      My favorite musical scene from Futurama is from "Hell is Other Robots" when Bender is in Robot Hell and Fry and Leela are descending into Robot Hell. My second favorite is from "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (what was until recently the season finale).

      I think the explanation to Seymour's being encased in dolomite was pretty funny.

      --
      The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
    13. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by Calmiche · · Score: 1

      Whew. I thought I was going to be branded a heratic. It was okay, but not great. All in all, it was a fan service episode. They brought back every major and minor character. Heck, even Mom was in the spam popups. By the way, make sure you still frame through those, they are funny! " for the price of i", and "Watch Comedy Central" was the last one.

      They cleared up a lot of questions, the plot wasn't that hard to follow, but there weren't as many intelligent jokes as I would have liked. Again, it was mostly references to previous episodes. (Hundreds of them!) Again, just fan service.

      Farnsworth's "Equation of Time" is a real calculation, used to show the difference between what a sundial will read at different latitudes during the year, compared to actual time.

      We will see about the next one. The estimate I heard was a new movie every 6 months. A little sparse, but better than nothing.

    14. Re:I bought the dvd the day it came out by torkelo · · Score: 1

      I saw it last week with a a bunch of friends and we all thought is sucked pretty badly. I mean we laughed at 2-3 places but in the whole it was very boring. I cannot understand the favorable comments on imdb. Thank God for Family Guy, that show nows how to be funny!

  19. World's Fair by fm6 · · Score: 1

    ...the show's title is taken from an exhibition at the 1939 Worlds Fair?. Beside the point. How could you make a show like this and not have a "...rama" title? Otherwise, Homer Simpson might not watch it!
  20. I also downloaded the movie by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 1

    And had it preordered via Amazon.

    A previous poster noted that Bender's Big Score is a major hunk of fan service.

    Why not, already?

    We kept the interest alive via the high ratings on [adult swim] and by buying the DVD sets, not to mention all the fansites.

    I think that one aspect of BBS is that it is a "thank you!" to, and recognition of, all the FUTURAMA fans who kept the faith and kept the interest in the series so high.

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    1. Re:I also downloaded the movie by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 2, Funny

      And had it preordered via Amazon.
      Amazon: "Package for...I.C. Wiener?"
      Chris: "Ha! Ha! Ha!"
      Amazon: "That not funny! For that I kill you!"
      Chris: "And what are you going to do? Death by snoo-snoo?"
      The Amazon has smashed Chris into the ground. All his bones shatter.
      --
      The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
    2. Re:I also downloaded the movie by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 1

      "Oh, God! You're killing me!"

      Best laugh I've had all week!

      Thank you!

      Anyone with mod points, I'd appreciate it if you'd mod Mr. Hacks up a few points.

      --
      Guaranteed! This comment 100% Anthrax free!
  21. Watched it today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'll not say much for fear of spoilers, but I will say that I watched it today and whilst it's not as good as the original TV series it's still quite likeable. Only quarm: too many digs at Fox, which while justified do get a little tiring. Don't take your eye off the screen for a moment or the whole plot will be be lost to you. 7/10.

  22. I'm glad I didn't pay for that by spiffmastercow · · Score: 1

    I searched for it locally, and when I couldn't find it, I downloaded with the full intention of purchasing it ASAP. Then I watched it, and it was a huge disappointment. Instead of coming up with new jokes and humorous scenarios, it just makes references to old episodes and beats a dead horse with the theme on spam/phishing.

    Oh well, maybe the next DVD release movie will be worth buying.

  23. Re:Old News, Everyone! by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 1

    "Why is /. always the last to know these days?"

    Slashdot doesn't actually go and find news, the news is delivered to it via user submissions. For this reason, it'll never actually 'break' news. It's really more of a blog than a 'news site'.

    Disappointing, I know. Frankly, though, it's been like this for YEARS. There's nothing to bitch about, here.

    --

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

  24. You raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Upon reading the headline I thought the series was coming back to television. I've known about the movie for quite some time.

  25. Then whatever you do by geekoid · · Score: 1

    Never rent 'Day of the Dolphin'.

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    The Kruger Dunning explains most post on /. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
  26. All Glory to the Hypnotoad! by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 1

    You will buy this DVD. The Hypnotoad commands it!

    A few months later...

    Oscar presenter: "And the Oscar goes to [monotone] The Hypnotoad."
    Al Gore: "Lousy Hypnotoad! My plans to conquire the world have been foiled!"

    --
    The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
  27. "Bender's Big Score..." by siglercm · · Score: 1

    ... was the name of an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair? Whaaaa....???

    Oh, you mean "Futurama...."

    --
    sigfault (core dumped)
  28. Highlights by StefanJ · · Score: 1

    * Fry giving up his super-parasites (shades of Bear's Blood Music!) to see if Leela will love him for himself.

    * Fry uncovering the truth of about his brother's assumption of his name and heroic career. Oh, man!

  29. the torrent was by old+and+new+again · · Score: 0

    online 7-10 days before the actual release, i guess they went "chuck" on this one and they released it themselves

    --
    Live Electronic Music
  30. X-Bender by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 1

    X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005000184
    X-Fry: Hardy Boys: too easy. Nancy Drew: too hard!
    X-Bender: Listen up, cause I got a climactic speech.
    X-Fry: I'm going to continue never washing this cheek again.

    Nothing quite like slashdot HTTP headers.

    (wget -S http://slashdot.org/ )

    1. Re:X-Bender by yanyan · · Score: 1

      Mod parent +1 interesting! I actually chuckled when i saw slashdot's headers! :D

  31. torrent of "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can't find one anywhere w/o downloading a 4gb rip of the entire disc. I don't have the bandwidth for that!

    Any ideas?

  32. I am very confused by it by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 1
    Warning! There may be spoilers ahead, so I'll put in a little padding.
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    The time travel story left me very confused. I have not been able to figure out what makes a given Fry a duplicate or the original. In fact, I don't see how there is anything that could be called a duplicate under that time travel system. Does it have something to do with it being "paradox-free time travel"?

    So, for example, when Hermes sent Bender back to kill past Hermes and bring his body back to the present, that is the kind of thing that would "normally" cause a paradox. Is the resolution of the paradox that it is a duplicate Hermes that Bender kills? In general, if you do something in the past that would create a paradox, is a duplicate created to prevent the paradox?

    1. Re:I am very confused by it by GersonK · · Score: 1

      More spoilers in the explanation below. But really, why are you reading this deep if you haven't seen it? The "paradox free time travel" was more of a comedic and dramatic device to parody the paradoxes and seeming paradoxes that usually crop up in popular time travel tales than an attempt to eliminate them. In the commentary, they talk about how the "paradox free time travel" started off as an over the top comedic device, but as they went along in the writing process, they kept on trying to clean up the plot holes. The only "paradox correction" the time code makes is that is if you travel back from time T2 to T1, creating a new timeline/parallel universe/whatever you want to call it, you must once again travel back from time T2 to T1 in the new reality or you are doomed. (And it's the you that was already in the timeline at time T1 that becomes doomed, not the one that appeared in the bubble at time T1). Bender probably did pull a very confusing maneuver to get the duplicate body for Hermes. (I assume he went back to before the start of the movie, grabs Hermes and travels further back in time with him. Upon emerging from the time code the second time, he then leaves the Hermes he just traveled with to get decapitated by the saber. He grabs the other Hermes from the time he just emerged at and keeps him from traveling back in time with Bender in the first place, thereby creating a paradox and dooming him. He waits to catch up to the point Hermes asked for the body, and delivers it to him, having decapitated it himself. I actually suspect in the next movie we'll find out he did something even more complicated and there's at least one more Hermes floating around.)

    2. Re:I am very confused by it by gooman · · Score: 1

      I think that was the joke.

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      "Kittens give Morbo gas!"
    3. Re:I am very confused by it by cmdr_tofu · · Score: 1


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      It's all very clear if you look at the laws of hypercausality, quantum-doomliness and pay
      attention to your multiplicands and not just that showboating globetrotter math.
      If you are concerned about which double is the duplicate, simply slap a doom-o-meter on them
      and you will know which is the dupe and which is the original!

      Couldn't be more straightforward! And if you don't understand it well you can kiss my
      doomed front-butt!

    4. Re:I am very confused by it by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1

      In the words of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song:

      "If you're wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, just repeat to yourself: 'it's just a show, I should really just relax.'"

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  33. 'Good News, Everyone!' by DeusExCalamus · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that usually, in the Futuramaverse, anyway, mean bad news?

    --
    "...Sleep comes like a drug in God's country Sad eyes, crooked crosses in God's country..."
    1. Re:'Good News, Everyone!' by xant · · Score: 1

      Not really. The professor used it pretty much every time he had something to say.

      He was quite senile.

      --
      It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
  34. The SAME formula? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "The operating principle of Futurama was that you can do a joke that 1percent of the audience gets, as long as it doesn't derail the enjoyment of the mass audience,"

    You also see the same formula in Dennis Miller's material. You only get 1/5 of the jokes, but that one make you feel so smart that you become a fan.

    One of these things is not like the other.
    1. Re:The SAME formula? by darien · · Score: 1

      Which one?

  35. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You need a new career chip or something?

  36. No joke by XanC · · Score: 1

    I happened to see that episode the day after my 7-year-old dog died suddenly. I can do without "entertainment" like that.

  37. Basis of theme music by Tronster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Came across the link below on here, or possibly digg:
    Psyché Rock

    It's the song "Psyché Rock" by Pierre Henry which has such a strong similarity to the main Futurama theme music, I'd find it hard to believe that it didn't inspire the theme.

    1. Re:Basis of theme music by arkhan_jg · · Score: 1

      They originally intended to licence psyche rock for the theme song, but were unable to. In the end, they had Tyng do a tribute version.

      --
      Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
    2. Re:Basis of theme music by slurry47 · · Score: 1

      Thanks man! I've been thinking the same thing for years -- I just couldn't remember the name or anything from when I saw it on late-night MTV.

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      Dirt doesn't need luck.
  38. Re:Its About Freaking Time! by Xman73x · · Score: 0

    Damn 5 years year of waiting for this..I could've sworn it was longer then that Because I have ever single DVD Boxset.1999-2001?..Sad..That is more then 5 years ago right?..I think yes!..Anyway Are they only making dvd's for now on?..If so that kinda sucks I miss the TV show!..And I do remember them talking about doing the Seasons 5-6-7-8!..So what happened?..If its one thing that I can't stand about Cartoons are the stupid immature crap on Adult Swim!..I do like Robot Chicken and Drawn Together sometimes but mostly I watched Futurama and Robot Chicken and thats it!..I don't understand why in in heck can't they make a 80's Cartoon Network!..And if they think the 80's are dead! There stupid an example would be The Return of the 80's Franchise's Transformers,GI JOE,Thundercats Voltron-Go Bots-Mask-KnightRider-Alvin And The Chipmunks The Carebears etc.-And there all being made into movies!..for 2007-2011!..God I miss the 80's!..

  39. Bite my shinny metal ass! by TeamSPAM · · Score: 1

    Saw this figure in the Wireless catalog today.

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  40. Wow, you're talking about this now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I thought it was another Futurama feature that's been put out since "Bender's Big Score", but it IS "Bender's Big Score" that you're talking about. This has been out for over a month online and I didn't even get it at first because I didn't know it was new. I don't like "Futurama" by principal. It, along with the loss of Conan O'Brien and Brad Bird, is the MAIN reason for the Simpson's zombie like existence. Groening killed off the Simpsons by diverting his talent to Futurama.

    1. Re:Wow, you're talking about this now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, bullshit. The Simpsons started sucking 1-2 years before Futurama came about. And it's only gotten worse since Futurama was canceled. So how exactly does that work again?

  41. It will take awhile for them to figure it out. by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 1

    A quote from TFA:

    It might be a very brief window when DVDs are so powerful. If the show had been on 10 years earlier, we'd be dead. A few years from now, when Internet speeds are better, maybe one person buys it and shares it with a hundred of their friends.

    Or maybe right now, you can release it on the Internet along with a region-free DVD, and Fox becomes irrelevant? Because right now, Internet speeds are plenty good enough for BitTorrent to work, and wouldn't it be great if it was your medium, instead of only for piracy? Is the creator of Futurama really that fucking clueless?

    Well, except that Fox probably owns at least some of the Futurama IP, so they won't let that happen, because they don't want to be irrelevant.

    --
    Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
  42. waiting for High Def by garbletext · · Score: 1

    I pirated the dvd, I'll admit. But that's because I plan to get the high definition version that they've assured us is forthcoming, and I refuse to pay twice for the same content. The original announcement, an interview I read with David X Cohen, and the commentary track have all confirmed the future existence of said HD version, probably on Blu-Ray (20c Fox prefers Blu-Ray, not HD-DVD, right? Although I'd pick up a cheap HD-DVD player for this alone, especially since the next 3 will be on the same format).

  43. Buy it on amazon Jingle by psychicsword · · Score: 1

    Bender: Blibidy Blob is on some some amazon shop a shopa jamazon. [More nonsense words] OH YEA!
    Narator: New on DVD Bender's Big Score
    Santa: Buy it on amazon right now. [Pulls out guns and shots]

    Video this was taken from can be seen here

  44. Does it matter? by Cyno01 · · Score: 1

    I'm all for high def, but with something like relativly simplistic animation, it scales remarkebly well. Is there going to be any extra detail lost in the non-hd version? I have an HDTV, and i think i'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a good digital cable feed, the HD channel, a downloaded divx file, or a DVD of something like the simpsons or other simply animated show.

    --
    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
    1. Re:Does it matter? by garbletext · · Score: 1

      Well, I just bought the DVD, and difference between it and the file I had downloaded, which was a pretty decent rip, was very noticable. Animation does scale well if it's simple. Futurama uses a lot of CGI, and even their hand drawn scenes can be quite detailed. I think that putting 4x the number of pixels into this movie would make a big difference.

      If you can't tell the difference between an HD channel and a downloaded divx file, you probably need to get one of those magnifying glasses from Brazil, because on a decent sized tv, those two are night and day.

  45. Import and unlock your DVD player by ed · · Score: 1

    Google your DVD player, find out how to unlock it and order the Region 1 from the US

  46. Well, you can see Amy's obscene tatoo. by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 1

    I am just waiting for the EU/JP release, with full frontol alien nudity of the female kind.

    Says it all really that the US is fine with multiple horrible murders, but not nipples. Offcourse in europe we are different, we welcome nipples, but balk at the slightest bit of blood.

    The japanese? Well, they got some tentacles in the movie.

    --

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    You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.

  47. Trivia by Bones3D_mac · · Score: 1

    The trivia stuff mentioned in the article can already be found on the commentary section of the first four dvd sets. It's well worth listening to if you get the time. It's not boring and dry like most dvd commentaries are typically known for. The voice actors and writers aren't being held to a script and seem to be having fun with it.

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    8==8 Bones 8==8
  48. no spoilers by ehlo · · Score: 0

    Recently, we have seen several full-length features from our favorite TV-series. Family Guy, the movie. Simpsons, the movie.

    One thing both of these lacked were going back and not only recalling, but intertwining our favorite side-characters into the plot.

    Futurama does this beautifully and we see not only commonly featured side-characters, but characters that hard-core fans will rejoice to see, and I _wont_ give any examples here, because every element of surprise in this movie is what makes it worth watching.

    I want to stress that I was very critical to the idea of a movie after such a long pause, and I was a die-hard fan. I signed the online petition all of those years ago when it got canceled (rumor has it all those signatures got printed and transported to box the CEO of FOX into his office, but thats only a rumor as far as I know). Having said this, I want to ensure everyone that even if you go into the movie with high expectations - they will be exceeded.

    The plot may seem tangled, but the writers don't leave anything out. Nothing is "forgotten", like in Lost.

    If you watched the TV-series, you will love this. If you didn't - tough luck (but you will probably wind up loving it anyway). Its literally a celebration of all of the five seasons aired on television, and its impressive that they did this without repeating anything.

    All of the old themes are brought back - its like the show never went off the air. You will straight off the bat be able to re-identify with characters and feel the same way about the show you did all of those years ago.

    The ending is _beautiful_.

    This is for the fans.

    FUTURAMA - -- ---- ---- STAY DEAD!

  49. To anyone who says the movie isn't awesome - by Progman3K · · Score: 1

    Bite my shiny metal ass! (Caution - spoilers)

    It was the best script so far!

    It had nods to "By His Bootstraps" (on top od the dozens of usual obscure and nerdy references)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps

    And it managed to avoid paradoxes!

    I love it to bits!

    One thing; I knew immediately who Lars was, but it made me like it even more!

    I'm used to people who don't get it saying "It's not so hot" because it only works on one or a few levels for them, but for me, it WAS worth the wait and I found it gratifying and wonderful!

    Thank you David X, Matt and everyone else. I am very happy.

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    I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
  50. Doctor Who by mr100percent · · Score: 1

    So far, I've seen them parody every major scifi thing, from Star Wars to Star Trek to Soylent Green. Why no Doctor Who jokes? Can anyone remember when they made a reference to one?

    1. Re:Doctor Who by g253 · · Score: 1

      Well, how about Leela?

      Here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_(Doctor_Who)