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Original Futurama Cast Seals Deal With Fox
Svippy writes "As we discussed earlier, 20th Century Fox Television was attempting to recast Futurama. As it turns out, this was just part of a big negotiation ploy, and the original cast have now completed their deals to return with the show's new episodes. For those of you who did not follow the story, a chronology of the events and reactions from the cast members are available at Infosphere and Voice Actors in the News. Series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen said, 'We are thrilled to have our incredible cast back. The call has already gone out to the animators to put the mouths back on the characters.'"
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
"The call has already gone out to the animators to put the mouths back on the characters." An Eiffel Tower reference from WWII? The operators purportedly had the elevators working again 10 minutes after Paris was liberated. Very nice.
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
Although I knew the only real possibilities were the original cast returning or the show not being made.
Even though we have the proverbial "500 channels", there's still as much a lack of good creative shows as ever, and Futurama fits that bill perfectly. Newt Minow's "vast wasteland" is alive and strong!
Especially since the #1 show "American Politics" got a whole new set of writers but has still managed to get even dumber than ever... ludicrous plots, inane dialog, stories so far-fetched no one would ever believe them in real life...
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Fry- Can I come back at severely reduced pay?
Hermes- Of course! In fact, severely reduced pay all around!
Let's hope life didn't imitate art. These people are worth it. Heck, I'll even watch the commercials ... in my dreams.
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Almost makes me want to head to the store right now and pick up some Torgo's Executive Powder.
ZOIDBERG SEZ: Your idea is bad, and you should feel bad!
This show was never all that gre-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
So ah, if he wants his last name to be pronounced like "Greyning" then why does he spell it so that it looks like it should be pronounced "Growning?" Seriously, by what rule of English grammar does "Groe" sound exactly like "Grey"??.
From the same english rule that allows for words like Phoenix (unless you pronounce this Fow-nix). Words where oe is pronounced as "ee" are from the "ioticized omicron" spelling in Greek, ÎÎ, which was originally pronounced like "oy", but is often simplified into just an "ee" sound or similar.
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No offense to the voice actors... They're great, of course...
But I'd rather have the original writers back. Any word on them?
And you thought Family Guy bashes Fox in their episodes?
So ah, if he wants his last name to be pronounced like "Greyning" then why does he spell it so that it looks like it should be pronounced "Growning?"
Why does he spell his last name correctly as it appears on his birth certificate? I don't know why anyone would ever consider doing that.
Yes.
Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.
Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".
They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.
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What does English grammar have to do with a German name?
So much ignorance in your post as to make my head linguist head spin, but this is the sentence I'm picking:
Seriously, by what rule of English grammar does "Groe" sound exactly like "Grey"??
Um, none, for a few reasons:
1) This is what "grammar" means. Clausal structure, etc.
2) The word you're actually looking for is orthography .
3) Finally, and this is a big one, English orthography wouldn't apply to a German name. One of the reasons spelling is so difficult in English is that it is a loanword slut. It hangs around at the linguistic docks, taking any wayfaring word spelled in roman characters home. It is the reason we have one of the largest vocabularies on the planet, but also the reason why spelling is difficult. I'll take it, though. It beats the socks off of the Academie francaise, which exists to keep foreign words out of French in favor of made-up French equivalents that no one uses. It also beats the Japanese system of ghettoization by the use of a different character set for foreign words. And it is simpler than the daunting task ahead of Chinese speakers, who have to find characters which have a similar sound, and whose meaning at least has something to do with the word in question. Overall, English's flexibility and open nature is a key to its strength.
So there's that.
A mention of Checkov actor, Walter Koenig, is appropriate here.
And also of House Minority Leader John Boehner. Or Wayne Newton's song Danke Shoen.
It seems to be American English standard for German names that have an o-umlaut or oe (which is the same thing; the umlaut started out as a small e laying on it's side on top of another vowel) to pronounce it like "ay", instead of like the German sound English lacks or even "ur", which is more like how I think most English speakers hear o-umlaut.
p.s. Curse /. and their lack of support for non-ascii characters.
That's a very odd explanation, considering "Groening" is a German surname. Here, it is technically "gr" + o-with-umlaut + "ning," where the o-with-umlaut is pronounced like an "eh" sound in your mouth while your lips are shaped like you're making an "oh" sound. However, to make things easier for the Alemanophobes in the audience, we alter it to English phonetics (the o-with-umlaut does not exist in English).
My surname has the exact same sound in it.
Technically, "oe" came before "o-with-umlaut." It was "oe," then it became "o-with-e-on-top." Because of the way an "e" looked at this point in German orthography, it became "o-with-two-parallel-vertical-lines-on-top," which became "o-with-umlaut." This is the same way we got a- and u-with-umlaut. You can see this in old script for "schoen" at Wikipedia: (schoen, scho-with-e-aboven, scho-with-umlautn).
IMO, unless they get Dave Herman back, it's not the whole cast. That guy is awesome. His regular voices like Roberto, Mayor Poopenmeyer and Dr. Wernstrom are all hilarious, but also he's got range: he can produce amazingly different voices for all those one-time characters he does, whom you don't really remember, like Leela's martial arts sensei Fnog.
Also it's silly to focus just on the voice acting cast. I don't know their names, but I know it takes a huge crew of talented artists and writers to make the magic happen, and I hope all those talented people come back. It would be bad to cut back on the visual and writing talent to pay for the voice talent. The last thing any of us want is 26 half-baked, mediocre episodes. Better the show should end at five good seasons.
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