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Futurama Cancelled (Again)
eldavojohn writes "Bad news everybody. According to Entertainment Weekly, Futurama has been cancelled (again). The renewal of Futurama back onto television was met with great fanfare but sadly it appears that Futurama's luck has run out for a second time. The second half of season 7 will air from June 19th to September 4th and that will be it."
Wait. there will be no more 'Good news everyone!'
Facts are useless, they can be used to prove anything.
The newer episodes just haven't had that same flare the older ones did.
A couple of them even felt forced.
Better end a series on a decent note than to drag it on forever (Simpsons, Family Guy, etc)
Honestly not a bad run for any show. Can't see a reason to complain.
Don't bring a show back unless you can do it at similar quality as before. Family Guy is a great example of the right way to do it. Futurama is the wrong, sad, terrible way.
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Maybe folks can petition asking Netflix to pick it up?
Or... we can just let the show die and make room for new ideas and shows. I loved Futurama, but it's OK for shows to end, even good shows. It's better to die out than to see a show that drag on way too long.
Let the show die. The direct-to-video movies were by and large second rate, and the new season, while it had some high points, just didn't have the charm of the old seasons.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Doesn't matter if they've been slipping. Throw in enough lame geek in-jokes and the fanbois will beat a golden path to your door.
Right now, all the online content providers are looking to content creators to get brand lock-in.
Who's gonna bring Futurama back from the dead again?
Amazon?
Hulu?
Google?
Netflix?
It's inevitable.
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Is it bad that I read that in Bruce Willis's voice, complete with the trailing expletive?
Speaking of fun plots, they should have done one in which they unfreeze John McClane (voiced by Bruce Willis, of course). He falls for Leela, but keeps calling her Leeloo. Then he happens to be at a spaceport when they discover that an asteroid is heading towards earth, and the only way to stop it is to foil the terrorists who have taken the spaceport hostage so that he can steal a ship and mine the asteroid. Meanwhile, he is constantly being annoyed by Dr. Zoidberg who keeps talking in a high-pitched voice while wearing a light blond wig and a bizarre leopard-print suit.
Spoiler: it ends with the Earth blowing up when the asteroid hits it.
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Fine, I'll go make my own TV show! With blackjack! and hookers!
In fact, forget the TV show!
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Futurama is brilliant, especially when pitted against the.brain dead "Ow my balls" class of reality of television.
The new seasons had excellent character growth and development. While the original series was great, it was childish and down right infantile at times, the movies were awkward like the teenage years, and the two new seasons were the beginning of a quality adult audience show. It is one of the ONLY animated shows on television at the moment that caters specifically to the 18-25 demographic, and it's smart too. Take the mathematical proof they created for the show. When was the last time any television show created a tangible real world theorem?
It seems the operators of the Panama Wormhole, Earth's Comedy Central channel for shipping, are making the same fateful mistake as the idiots at the Box Network.
Cute Kid: Hubert (who was added explicitly as the annoying 'cute' kid.)
Wedding: That's the last episode, according to the rag sheets
Inexplicable actor replacement: WELSHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ok, granted, it was a guest star, and was done only because James Doohan politely declined to do the Star Trek episode)
So other than that you've got Jumping the Shark, which most folks would call the movies. I'd fine with the show either way. It had a nice run, even if the comedy central episodes didn't quite have that mind blowing awesomeness (which, who knows, maybe after a few years in reruns they'll develop.)
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Apparently those of us viewing it at my house have souls made of sterner stuff. Maybe it just seems enjoyable compared to Seth McFarlane's triple parade of misogyny, but I get more laughs per 22 minutes out of the Simpsons current season than most of what's on television.