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TV: Futurama

I remember watching the pilot when it first aired, but the show didn't really grow on me at first. I like it much more now, all the more so because it's full of sci-fi in-jokes. For instance, in the episode where they fight the crew of the Enterprise (TOS), before they attack each other Kirk rips his shirt. Anyone who's a fan of TOS knows that Kirk frequently got his shirt ripped. ;)
 
My favorite cartoon, ever, hands down. I even have a list of funny quotes saved on my HD (not to mention 90% of the icons in my dock feature futurama characters) ...

Enjoy :D

"Its just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"

"You're watching Futurama, the show that doesn't condone the cool crime of robbery."

"Bite my glorious golden ass!"

"Sweet Zombie Jesus!"

"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooohh! Suddenly you've gone too far!"

"Oh, they say madness runs in our family. Some even call me mad. And why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood..."

And one of my alltime favorites "A superpower drug you can rub onto your skin ? Wow! You'd think it would have to be freebased!"
 
at first i wasn't really in to futurama, but from catching the occassional rerun at night on adult swim i got hooked. bender, the professor and zoidberg make that show hilarious.

by far my favorite episode is the "robot house" where bender and fry go to college. anything that highlights bender is usually great, such as robot hell and when he falls in love with the ship's computer.

on a side note, family guy used to make me laugh my ass off but the suckitude of these newer episodes took a bit of the shine off the old ones. as far as simpsons goes, they're like freud. not everything stands the test of time, but they got there first and did it best in the long run. i'm a simpsons fan for life.
 
"Extra! Extra! Worlds greatest opera sucks!"

"Your music's bad and you should feel bad."

"Stupid "what if machine"! It isn't even worth the gold it's made of."

"p: That damn time machine alone set me back 15 years.
z: If only it'd work, so you could go back and not waste your time on it."

"Now, I'm not saying Professor Farnsworth is old, but if you consider his age, he's likely to die soon."
 
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I love the 'Roswell That Ends Well' episode. when they capture Zoidberg and disect him. he says "don't cut that, I need that to speak." the doctors all look at each other and he starts sawing faster. hysterical!
 
can it be! Futurama really is making a comeback, on Comedy Central.

they mention Futurama in one little paragraph in a huge article on CNN.com about the Simpsons never ending show...

Groening's schedule is especially full these days. Besides his work on "The Simpsons," he and partner David Cohen are bringing one-time Fox series "Futurama" back to TV with new episodes on Comedy Central beginning in 2008.

linky to the really long CNN.com article
 
I'd like to stangle the write of Banquo's article for using the word "skein" over and over and over. :X:X:X:X:X
 
I absolutely love the fry story arc (the day the earth stood stupid, the why of fry, roswell that ends well (i think thats it)). it seems to me the very reason for the existence of the show is to tell the sotry of fry, the most important person who has ever lived. all of the other side adventures just round out the universe, but that story is the true story of futurama.

such an amazing show
 
from what i've heard the original plan was to make several straight-to-DVD movies - now they plan on airing them as four-part episodes to make like a 12 episode season.. i haven't heard about that Bender's Big Score thing though...
 
quick google and voila:

http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/58/21458.php

This really looks like a case of back to the Futur!

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like Futurama will return since it was taken off the air in 2003. Kicking off this resurgence will be Futurama: Bender's Big Score which "will be released Nov. 27 directly to DVD."

Futurama: Bender's Big Score is "the first full-length Futurama feature based on the TV series; three more films will be released individually through 2008, all with the original creative team and voice cast on board."

The story of Bender's Big Score "centers on the Futurama crew fighting to save Earth in an epic battle against nudist alien Internet scammers. Bender the robot soon comes under the alien's spell and is sent back in time to loot the Earth of its greatest treasures; at one point he runs into Al Gore, who guest stars as himself, during the 2000 presidential recount. Other guest stars include Coolio and Sarah Silverman."

In addition to this, Futurama looks like it is going to come back to TV "next year with at least 13 episodes being produced for Comedy Central."
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Fox was stupid to ever cancel that show in the first place. They have years worth of their horrible reality shows, but go and got rid of futurama?

Glad to hear it might be coming back :D not that I mind watching it late on comedy central though.
 
It's official, "Futurama" is coming back with Comedy Central delivering an order for twenty-six episodes to run over two seasons says the trades, confirming and adding additional detail to a scoop that first emerged at Collider yesterday.

Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's much loved sci-fi cartoon comedy aired from 1999-2003 on Fox but the 72 produced episodes have proven such a DVD sales success and ratings hit in repeats on Comedy Central that four direct-to-DVD releases were ordered and released in 2007 & 2008.

The cable network has now given the order for this new batch of episodes with all key voice cast members expected to return for the new episodes, along with the series' core writing team.

Groening and Cohen are said to be already working on stories for the new batch of episodes which pick up where the last special, "Into the Wild Green Yonder", left off with the main characters fleeing death and flying into the unknown.

The specials were criticized as somewhat lacking mainly due to the near feature length format of the stories not suiting the style. Cohen says "what we will try to do is go a little bit back to pure comedy, characters and sci-fi", while Comedy Central's programming VP David Bernath says "There is nothing like new, self-contained episodes week to week. This is all about reinvigorating the franchise, giving it a new burst of energy."

The first half of the new episodes are slated to premiere on Comedy Central in mid-2010.
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14375/-futurama-gets-26-new-episodes
 
'Futurama' cast in limbo
Original actors may not return for new episodes
By Nellie Andreeva
July 17, 2009, 03:11 PM ET

When the "Futurama" characters come back for new episodes on Comedy Central in mid-2010, they may sound different.

That is because producing studio 20th TV is proceeding with auditioning new actors after failing to reach an agreement with the original voice cast: John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Tress MacNeille and Katey Sagal.

"We love the 'Futurama' voice performers and absolutely wanted to use them, but unfortunately, we could not meet their salary demands," the studio said in a statement Friday. "While replacing these talented actors will be difficult, the show must go on. We are confident that we will find terrific new performers to give voice to (creators) Matt (Groening) and David (Cohen)'s brilliantly subversive characters."

20th declined further comment but sources indicated that the voice actors had been seeking at least a tenfold increase of what they made when the animated series ran on Fox from 1999-2003.

The studio approached the original cast members after reaching a deal with Comedy Central in June to produce 26 new episodes of "Futurama."

Sources indicated that it is still possible that the two sides may come to an agreement.

20th TV will hold a "Futurama" panel during the upcoming Comic-Con which will feature producers, including Groening and Cohen.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ibdf529f18374f6c965f140dbc42e7419

Way to ruin it already. :X
 
Yeah, yeah, the same thing happened with The Simpsons. That seemed to work out well. :\

I honestly don't the writing is there anyway if they do come to an agreement (considering the last movie).
 
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