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Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return)
Svippy writes "As revealed last summer, Futurama will be returning this year, and while there were conflicts about the cast of the show in the late summer of 2009, a deal was eventually secured. Last week, Comedy Central confirmed the airing of the first episode, 'Rebirth,' will be 24 June 2010. Several other details related to plot and production have surfaced over the months, and for those interested, a full article is available on the subject."
One of my favorite shows of all time, though most of the recent movies were kind of disappointing. The first one was good though.
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Dr Zoidberg: Yay! So I didn't lose my job!
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with Everyone Loves Hypnotoad at #1 of course.
This means I can go ahead and order another case of Soylent Soda!
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No doubt, Comedy Central had to kiss some shiny metal ass.
Have gnu, will travel.
Futurama's humor was meant for the waning years of the 90's when the world was scared of Y2K and still revered Star Trek and Twilight zone as pinnacle of science fiction. When one eyed purple aliens and rich asian chicks were still 'hot' - and not in a weird way. It was a time when a young man could still dream of being a delivery boy in space, and maybe, just maybe it was possible (the US was rich and had all those mars landers planting flags). A time when no man would envy another, and there would be sexbots for all. It was a simpler time. Futurama is dead to me now.
Fox can bite my shiny metal ass.
"The present may stink, but at least now we can look forward to a better yesterday."
- Fry, Futurama
(More at http://www.quoteaddict.com/quotes?search=futurama)
Hey folks, can we please stop linking to previous Slashdot stories? When I click on the link "Futurama will be returning this year", I want to read the actual press release, or article, or whatever. I don't want to read last year's Slashdot dupe.
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Brain slugs would totally kick the asses of hypnotoads, hands down.
a. Brain Slugs have their own political party; the Brain Slug Party. Where is the political arm of the Hypnotoads? They are soft on politics!
b. They are quiet. Have you ever had a hypnotoad try to sneak up on you? All you hear is BZZWAAAAAZAAAAAAWAAAAWAAAA. You never see the brain slug coming, until it's too late.
c. They're so damn cute.
Accepting your (futile) arguments.
"My great unfulfilled ambition - to do my own amusement park - is really why I am doing Futurama. I'm not kidding. If this show takes off, I'm going to do an amusement park." - Matt Groening, Wired 7.02
That, and getting "Life In Hell" online. (For God's sake man! It's an intern, a scanner, and a Facebook page!)
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Now I have a reason to be excited for my 24th birthday!
The only franchise "Reboot" I've liked is Reboot iself.
Futurama is perfection as designed; a good mix of classic cel and modern CGI animation, the perfect mix of fart jokes, puns, and science and math humor, as well as subtle story arcs (well, mainly the on-again off-again almost-romance between Fry and Leela, Fry's being the most important "person" in the Universe, and Nibbler's continual influence on keeping society going) that don't cause you to lose interest if you miss a few episodes, but add lot to the show.
I hope the "rebirth" doesn't mean a Tim Burton or Lucas-style franchise reboot.
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Thank god it's in high def! Now maybe we can finally see Amy's erotic tattoo!
Seriously though, who cares. The CGI portions will improve but honestly standard-def is just fine for Futurama. I'm not complaining mind you, I just don't think high def is that big of a deal for an animated series made up mostly of classic 2D line drawings. But then again, my frame of reference for high-def animation is Comcast's overly-compressed 720p feeds, so I may be completely off base.
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Futurama? Futurama? What about reboot? When are they going to bring back reboot? When are they going to reboot reboot?
You all still have Zoidberg!
Fox killed Futurama by bad scheduling. See, they put the show on various slots Sunday nights, but because of the variable length of NFL football game coverage, the Sunday night lineup was often damaged by running late, being joined in progress, not being shown to the whole nation, and other problems. The only rules were that The Simpsons must run untouched at as close to 8pm ET as possible.
Furthermore, they killed several shows by putting them on Friday nights during the spring and summer... because not only is that a traditional slow night for TV viewing, but Fox-owned stations in New York (the biggest local TV area), Boston (4th biggest) and other markets showed local baseball games on most Fridays, causing new episodes of serial series to air in the late-late-night timeslots in those areas.
Fox has fixed these problems by allowing Fox Sports to control the network up until 8pm ET on Sundays, filling the gap between the end of the games and the set signoff time with a postgame show called The OT when needed. West coast affiliates are left on their own until 8pm PT, and the entire nation sees the Sunday lineup from 8/7-to-10/9 as they should. Fox has also stopped buying local baseball packages for their owned stations and encouraged other affiliates to get out of the local sports broadcast business.
Many geek favorites like Futurama and Sliders got caught up in this mess. It's nice to see that the producers of such shows have found other outlets that treat them better.
"It's like a movie, with this happening in it!"
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"I had the most wonderful dream! And YOU were in it!"
I wish firefly would rebirth and return.
Note the nick.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
This can only lead to Futurama being canceled again. I swear they are just playing with our emotions!
I wonder how many episodes we will get now about the evils of file-sharing and even worse, free news sources from the lovely Fox network and its dark overlord.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Why has no one mentioned that almost everything in the movies sucked? If they continue down that line, the new episodes will, more or less, not be worth watching. It's like the movies were not made by the same people who made the original! (but they were, weren't they?) The jokes generally were not anywhere near as funny as those in the series. But the worst part was that they actually just seemed not to care for the overall story, characters and feel from the series. Some examples: - Why SUDDENLY is the mighty race of Niblonians all captured by Mom?! How does that fit with them, more or less, knowing everything and saving the universe in the series? - Why are the Niblonians defeated by "the mighty brooms" of those scammer people? It just doesn't make sense. - Why is Bender suddenly a murderous psychopath. He throws his own son into burning lava?! Those who wrote that seem to forget that, yes, Bender is "evil" but you have to be able to think he is alright deep down. You can't really think that when he burns his own son. - Why are many of the animations made a lot more gory? There is no need for that. There are parts here and there that are actually disgusting. - Kiff gets KILLED! I mean WHAT? OK, he gets revived but it still sucks. The list goes on (but not here!). In general, I don't think the movies are hated as much as they deserve. They suck, plain and simple.
Oh man... I misread your nick as "knuth" not "kurth", and the thought of Don Knuth doing a Futurama/Professor Farnsworth reference had coffee coming out of my nose.
Funny AND painful.
DG
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Can Comedy Central reset their clock. I hate it when the dvr records a show of them only to have the last 2 minutes cut off. Let them standardize it with everyone else.
Put Futurama back on Adult Swim.
Magnum e was much better. But we all know that Magnum i was the best.
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Futurama is filled with gems but the one that got me the most was Zoidberg at a party saying
"I fertilized the caviar for ya!"
When and where will these episodes be airing in Canada? Teletoon?
...And Zoidberg.
Because I want to see what Amy's obscene tattoo is.