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Futurama Rumored To Return On Comedy Central
avajcovec points out a brief note on Collider.com that Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes of Futurama. Quoting: "Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that 'Futurama' production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward. This should be a welcome surprise to fans of the show who have already gone through the series' cancellation and resurrection as direct-to-DVD movies."
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Though still technically a rumor at this point, word is that 'Futurama' production offices have already opened and that casting is about to move forward.
Let's hope it's all the original cast. Wrong-sounding Muppets where no picnic, either (to paraphrase Family Guy).
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As long as they get the original cast and no restrictions imposed on the show with regards to somebody thinking about "the children" :)
I have a feeling that after a few days we will be able to cut and paste entire scripts from episodes from all the posts... Just a weird feeling...
P.S - Casting? Uhhhh, that's been done. Long time ago. If they change the voices, that would be a bit too much. They did not change the voices for the movie, why the hell start now?
They may have been "Direct-to-DVD", but I don't think it took them long to then go "and onwards to Sky TV as multi-part episodes". I know there aren't many Futurama episodes, but Sky seem to have played the "Direct to DVD" ones more than normal!
I can't believe you equate Robot Chicken (or any of seth macfarlane's work) with Futurama
They're both goofy but robot chicken is a sequence of short attention span non-sequiteurs ditto w/ family guy.
Futurama has tonnes of very intelligent and subversive themes, and actual plots.
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I wonder if it will continue from where Into the Wild Green Yonder left off.
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Admittedly, "The Beast with a Thousand Backs" or whatever it was called did more to creep me out than to amuse me. That being said, as a literary critic I can't agree with the assertion that a single second of any episode of "Family Guy" could be classified as "meh." For thousands of years comedy has not developed past Aristophanes -- indeed, fewer than a hundred years ago the great cultural historian Edith Hamilton compared the popular entertainment of the previous generation to his oeuvre. The cutaway scenes in Family Guy represent the first departure from classical comedy I've ever been aware of. In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
So there's that.
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Now that you explain it that way, it seems so obvious: I just think it's funny because I enjoy watching it and it makes me laugh by respectfully parodying beloved memes. But since you don't get it, it must be objectively un-amusing, therefore I'm obviously just mired in cognitive dissonance.
Now that I think about it, I nearly busted a gut laughing at Galaxy Quest, so I guess by your measure that must suck harder than a Thai ladyboy trying to fund her final op.
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From the first film they seemed to get progressively worse, both in terms of story and in terms of jokes. I know they had fewer writers working on them but the jokes weren't as snappy the plots didn't flow properly (Benders Game was the worst for that) and they relied too much on references to previous jokes and stories, one of the worst things about post season 10 Simpsons was how insular the humour became.
If it was because they struggled to fill the running time than a new series could be brilliant. If it's because the current writers aren't a patch on the original team, it could go the family guy route of being stale almost immediately after it returned to screens.
For thousands of years comedy has not developed past Aristophanes -- indeed, fewer than a hundred years ago the great cultural historian Edith Hamilton compared the popular entertainment of the previous generation to his oeuvre. The cutaway scenes in Family Guy represent the first departure from classical comedy I've ever been aware of. In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
So there's that.
Oh so you haven't heard? I was under the impression that everybody had heard that latest news of a certain avian variety.
... there are several episodes that are just un-funny. Just because you cut to something completely apeshit crazy during a sketch doesn't mean it's fun to watch or entertaining. Yes I go "what the fuck?", yeah I think "that was brilliant" but I don't laugh. If I see a joke and go "That was good" but no smile ever crosses my face ... it's not that good. I've seen every episode of Family Guy and American Dad ... high, drunk and completely sober. Some of them are just awfully bad. Painfully predictable and can't be saved by a two second cutaway to a giant chicken beating a guy. Then again ... the entire last season of Simpsons didn't have more than a handful of good jokes in it. Maybe I'm getting a little overfed and/or spoiled.
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As for the Futurama movies I thought most of the plot was too irrelevant and merely spooned in to stretch it out to 90 minutes format on all four occasions. Had they told two distinct stories per 90 minutes instead of shoe horning all of them into one I thought it would have been much more enjoyable but who am I to argue. Still love the movies.
Futurama Season 1, Episode 5 "Fear of a bot planet" is based on a short story by Stanisaw Lem. David X. Cohen, the head writer of Futurama, acknowledged that Stanisaw Lem is among his favorite Sci-Fi writers.
A new season of the show could represent good news, assuming that the writers still have sufficient material not yet exhausted. The movies had a lot of potential but just seemed not to translate to movie length well. Part of the problem with having movie length episodes was that it constrained the writers to working with overarching plots. Less comedic punch, under utilized, diluted characters and greater reliance on cheap gimmicks. The show just works better in 23 minutes. On the downside, the last season of the show had some really poor episodes (bordering close to average Family Guy episode on the crap scale), so if it turns out that those kinds of episodes are the best the creators can do, count me only reluctantly and perhaps inconsistently in.
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How many years has it been? By now, all the actors will be older and they won't look the part. It will be worse than Harry Potter or Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
Family Guy's use of cut-away humor is the same tired old "Let's insert a random fantasy!" crap that's been going on in every prime-time |/FOX\| comedy, and to a large extent many comedies on other networks, since at least Ally McBeal. (Why was Arrested Development cancelled? the cut-away humor was done in flashback/callback form, rather than fantasy)
Funny things can happen in cut-away humor, but the cut-away itself is lame.
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Comedy Central took Futurama away from Adult Swim who faithfully aired it for years in syndication. Adult Swim fans were the sole reason Futurama was revived. Adult Swim doesn't seem to get one bit of gratitude from Comedy Central or Fox. I love Futurama, but I'm not going to turn my back on Adult Swim and reward Comedy Central by watching it anymore. If I get withdrawals, I'll just Netflix it.
Have we been watching the same Family Guy? Which episode are you referring to where there's a two-second clip of the chicken fight saga? I don't recall one less than a minute.
Actually it's Stanislaw Lem. He's Polish (like me) and we don't use the letter v .
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Translation, if you watch Futurama you likely setup elaborate courses with loops and death defying jumps for your prized matchbox cars.
If you watch Family Guy you probably just smashed the shit out of them between two cinder blocks and laughed about it for the rest of the day.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
> In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important
> writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
Well now we know. Seth MacFarlane is the hypnotoad.
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Family Guy's use of cut-away humor is the same tired old "Let's insert a random fantasy!" crap that's been going on in every prime-time |/FOX\| comedy, and to a large extent many comedies on other networks, since at least Ally McBeal. (Why was Arrested Development cancelled? the cut-away humor was done in flashback/callback form, rather than fantasy)
Funny things can happen in cut-away humor, but the cut-away itself is lame.
This was painfully obvious to me in the first few weeks of [adult swim] after the switch to Family Guy from Futurama. The cutaways have funny things in them, but the show as a whole is inferior to Futurama is so many ways. It's just so forced.
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In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare...
Is that you Seth?
Yeah, well he wasn't expecting it.
The cutaway scenes in Family Guy represent the first departure from classical comedy I've ever been aware of.
They did the exact same thing in Parker Lewis Can't Lose. I'm no scholar, but I'd find it hard to believe that's the first time it's been done.
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