Official Futurama Thread - Futurama back in '08 -RK has 2 years to afford cable

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okay last week i watched the entire series 4 boxset of which i had not seen any episodes prior and i got to thinking....

maybe Futurama is a better show than The Simpsons.

thoughts/arguments?
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Gamblour.

i'd love to agree. especially with the "maybe" part of it.
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deathnotronic

I never could get into this show. I thought it was a shitty ripoff of the simpsons. I want to watch it again to see if I like it more now. What's a good season/disc/episode to watch?

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Quote from: themodernage02okay last week i watched the entire series 4 boxset of which i had not seen any episodes prior and i got to thinking....

maybe Futurama is a better show than The Simpsons.

thoughts/arguments?

I think the cast of Futurama is more likeable.  It might just be season after season talking, but The Simpsons chracters feel like script lines to me.  Although Futurama definitely has its fair shair of one liners, the characters feel generally more round and I feel more intamite with them, including the characters in minor rolls.

It's such a fucking tough call and I wouldn't want the Russians aiming a gun at my head and telling me to pick, but I can see the argument being made.
Raven haired Linda and her school mate Linnea are studying after school, when their desires take over and they kiss and strip off their clothes. They take turns fingering and licking one another's trimmed pussies on the desks, then fuck each other to intense orgasms with colorful vibrators.

Pubrick

Quote from: themodernage02okay last week i watched the entire series 4 boxset of which i had not seen any episodes prior and i got to thinking....

maybe Futurama is a better show than The Simpsons.

thoughts/arguments?
by far. here's why:

Quote from: PubrickFuturama is the only cartoon, that understood intimately what the simpsons did and was trying to do sumthing NEW with the possibilities.
they are complementary shows. Futurama has the distinction of starting out AND going out on top, quality wise. it never lagged. Billy West said in  a recent Onion interview "[Futurama] writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes."

like i've said before, futurama is almost MADE to be rediscovered. it was less about "current pop trends, and appealing to the masses by way of special guests (current simpsons) and fickle humor (family guy)" than it was about "the ppl who really care about GOOD television." as generations pass and the definition of a 'quasar' becomes basic knowledge, more ppl will realise who this show was made for. in this way, the simpsons will be looked at as The Great Ancestor From A Time Long Ago, and futurama as The Visionary Child Prodigy. both are universally applicable. one showed us the absurdity of surviving in an all-too-human world (the universal microcosm of Springfield); while the other was quite literally about the value of humanity in an alien world..

Fry saves the universe, twice.
under the paving stones.

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yes.  it is just so damn smart.  i guess the thing that pushes it over the top for me is that the simpsons is confined to springfield.  thus, in recent seasons they have gone farther and farther in absurd directions to mine for comedy, but futurama is limited by nothing.  with the shows premise they can truly make fun of ANYTHING and have it fit with the show.  i'm not trying to trash the simpsons or anything, i just had that thought that futurama is probably better though hugely more underrated.  when it first aired i watched the first few episodes and just couldnt get into it.  the characters seemed forced and the weirdness was too weird.  a year or two later i started watching and just thought it was great.  granted the show did get better but even when i go back and watch the first few episodes now, they're great too.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Ravi

At first I didn't particularly care for Futurama, but a few years ago I started watching it again and was struck by how smart and funny and even emotional it was.  The one where Fry finds his old dog is a quite touching episode.

Watching the first episode now, it still holds up well for me.

There are so many levels of humor, yet the jokes are integrated into the story and characters, so it doesn't feel like a volley of random gags and one-liners.

Gamblour.

P, that post is why I read mostly all of what you write....mostly.
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cron

now it's official. YES.

Comic-Con 2005: IGN DVD Exclusive - Futurama Direct-to-Video Greenlit
Bender, Fry & Co. set to return.
July 15, 2005 - In the first of IGN's exclusive Video Blogs direct from San Diego's Comic-Con International, voice actor Billy West (Fry, Zoidberg, the Professor, and many more voices for many more shows) revealed to us that a brand-new direct-to-video Futurama movie has been greenlit. Not only that, but there is also an option for a second movie as well.

With the model established by Family Guy's return – where a direct-to-video movie eventually spawned the show's return to Fox primetime as well – could the much-missed Futurama also be on the way back to a set near you?
context, context, context.

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:yabbse-thumbup:  :yabbse-thumbup:  :yabbse-thumbup:

dvd is changing everything.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

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it may be even better...

Inside Move: 'Futurama' may get new lease on life / Toon with a past may get new life on Fox TV
Source: Variety

"Futurama" may live to see the year 3000 after all.  Talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to revive the animated skeinskein, which takes place in the next millennium, much in the same way "Family Guy""Family Guy" found new life after cancellation.

The studio is in early discussions to put "Futurama" back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning skein -- although it's too soon to tell where those segs might end up. A reprep for 20th Century Fox TV declined comment.

The final original episode of "Futurama" aired on Fox in August 2003. But since then, the skein has found new life -- and fans -- via DVD releases and repeatedly high-rated airings on the Cartoon Network.

"Futurama" remains popular enough that Comedy CentralComedy Central even stole away off-netoff-net rights to the show's repeats late last year; it will switch to the laffer cablercabler in 2008.

A similar resurgence in interest for "Family Guy" persuaded 20th Century Fox TV to revive that show, which has produced two seasons of new episodes and a DVD since coming back from the dead. "Family Guy" now resides as Fox's Sunday 9 p.m. tentpole.

"Futurama" scored three Emmys in its five-season run, including the 2002 award for animated series. But it lived an unusual existence on Fox, with short seasons, late launches and long gaps between airings. That allowed Fox to air five seasons of "Futurama," even though technically only four were produced.

"The Simpsons""The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and "Simpsons" vet David X. Cohen were behind "Futurama," which bowed on Fox in March 1999. The animated skein revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy who's accidentally frozen for 1,000 years. He wakes up in the year 3000 and befriends cyclops Leela and cranky robot Bender -- all of whom work for the intergalactic delivery service run by Fry's distantly descended nephew, Prof. Farnsworth.

Before "Futurama" comes back into being, however, 20th first must secure deals with the show's production team, as well as voice stars including Billy West (Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela) and John DiMaggio (Bender).

Meanwhile, even after the cancellation new "Futurama" stories have continued to be churned out via the "Futurama" comicbook, published by Groening's Bongo Comics imprint.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

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All shows have great quotes, but I think Futurama had some of the best.

"WITH MY LAST BREATH... I CURSE ZOIDBERG!"

"What do we want?!"
"FRY'S DOG!"
"When do we want it?!"
"FRY'S DOG!"

"Zzzzz.... Kill all humans..."
"Bender! Wake up!"
"Fry! I just had a wonderful dream! And you were in it..."
"Um, you can go back to sleep."
"Zzzz.... Hey there sexy mama... wanna kill all the humans?"
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

cron

'dirt doesn't need luck'
since the second half of the second season, each episode was one long quotable masterpiece.
context, context, context.

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Billy West Confirms Four FUTURAMA DVD-Movies??
Source: AICN

Cartoon icon and former Howard Stern sidekick Billy West - who voiced Fry, Farnsworth, Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan on "Futurama" – appears to have posted major news on billywest.com, and it took till now for it to filter down to us:
Posted: 19 January 2006 at 4:44pm | IP Logged
HERE'S GREAT NEWS!
Here's the official word on Futurama!!
[Creator/showrunner] David X. [Cohen] phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project is a done deal! Here's the word from DX--- There are 4 DVD movies that we'll start recording at the end of July or August. Full feature length FUTURAMA movies. Everybody is excited to get back together--as I am!

Into the Future,
Billy


Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

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Last night I caught the beginning of Futurama, and I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.  It was an episode I haven't seen in a long time, but I remember it was making fun of the Twilight Zone and this guy is working at a casino and gets hit by a car and wakes up to find out it's a dream and then plays the slots and gets BAR-BAR-BAR and tries again and gets the same thing and is like "wait a minute!  I'm in heaven! I really am dead!" And then a guy that looks like Satan comes up and he's like "Oh no! I'm in hell!" and then the guy pulls a curtain back and he's actually on an airplane with a window seat next to the wing and there's that monky gremlin thing tearing wires out of the wing and he starts panicking, then someone holds a mirror up to his face and he finds out he's Hitler.

What a great show.
"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye