Futurama - THE RETURN?

xoxox

Thanks to Channel Ten, I've ended up rewatching a lot of my Futurama box sets in recent weeks...

HERE'S GREAT NEWS!
Here's the official word on Futurama!!
David X. 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,

holy shit, i never knew the Asian Jackee girlfriend from Bad Santa also did Amy's voice

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/CitizenGatsby/bender_alcool.jpg

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/697/697339p1.html

No New Futurama
Voice actor misinformed about show's return.
by Eric Goldman

March 21, 2006 - In a move that has to be a big disappointment to Futurama fans, voice actor Billy West has recanted his earlier statement that the animated series would be returning with new episodes. On his website West apologized, explaining that he'd been misinformed and that 26 new episodes of the show will not be produced as he'd previously announced.

West added that there is still hope for a Futurama DVD project of some kind, as had been rumored before.

The science fiction oriented Futurama ran from 1999 to 2003 on Fox, and was created by Simpsons mastermind Matt Groening. West voiced the lead character Fry. Though it never matched the success of The Simpsons, the show continues to have a very loyal following. We'll be sure to keep you updated on any new word of further Futurama projects.

HRAYYY!!!!

awww....

HRAYYY!!!!

awww....

HRAYYY!!!!

OH EIGHT OH EIGHT OH EIGHT

You know you're a nerd when you start reckognizing his voice in those "additional voices" roles.

*Roswell That Ends Well (Fry "did do the nasty in the pasty")
*The Why Of Fry (these two essentially function as a two-parter)
*The Farnsworth Paradox
*the one where Fry finds his dog and Leela almost rips all her clothes off
*The Series Has Landed (CRUSHINATOR)
*Parasites Lots (also kind of a two-part when watched in conjunction with...)
*The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings (Dan Castellaneta as the Robot Devil, so good)
*Crimes of the Hot
*the one where Bender drifts through space and meets God
*the one where Zap Branagan battles the NEUTRAL MENACE

I'm sure I'm forgetting some crucial ones.

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/28/comic-con-futurama-panel-report/

"Futurama is back, and now we know in what form. The show will return on November 27th as a full-length high-def film sold on DVD. It will be followed by three additional films, and each film will be divided into four episodes each to be aired on Comedy Central."

Watch me explode with happy.

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!

well done.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender/index.html

Building your own beer-brewing Bender, with electronic brain and remote control.

good god

iirc

sic will correct me

maybe it's the simpsons long long decline or just that they're not on netflix and so i haven't seen an episode in forever (except for one or two newer ones, eg i saw the portlandia one), and haven't seen a peak one in over ten years probably or maybe it's cuz futurama was never a huge phenomenon but i think i might have more of a sentimental attachment to futurama than to the simpsons.

I think one of my fave gags in the new seasons was when the killbots were chasing Bender and Hermes, and they revisited an earlier gag whereby all the killbots would too easily be set off shooting if they heard "shoot" or "fire" or similar from anyone around.

TO wit one killbot says to the other "well, I don't see how it serv..." and is cut off with the other shouting "DID SOMEONE SAY HOWITZER" and shooting him to pieces. I almost died.

...I may well have touched on that gag upthread I imagine.

they got really gratuitous with the nudity/sex jokes, found it kinda irritating

there were times they did seem to catering to segments of the internet i'd rather not think about

never forgave them for that episode with the dog

Ha. I changed my FB profile pic to that today and got "oh fuck you" as a comment among others :D

By "to that" I mean a pic of seymour lying down sadly.

I can't even think about that episode without getting upset.

Hah. It was co-directed by Steven Spielberg.

That may be like the biggest sucker-punch episode in the history of television.

Jurassic Bark is on now ;_;

Hah. It was co-directed by Steven Spielberg.

I've never heard that before and Wiki doesnt back it up, where'd you hear that?

On the other hand, morbid roffle:

According to the DVD commentary, the original idea for the episode was to have Fry's mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but this idea was scrapped after it was thought to be too upsetting to the audience.

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2-D drag racing episode legit great!

These last few episodes they're running out are worth a look-see.

"we're supposed to have a date at the adults-only pancake house"

"You know who I really hate? That monkey with the hat that we haven't seen in years."

"nature's waterfall. The cliff of the waters".

Just watched the new one with the Omicronians last night. Great! The whole scene at the White House was as good as anything on classic Futurama.

ya just watched the last few and i'm surprised by how fun they've been, certainly didn't expect that after the previous mini-season.

David X. Cohen gives a Reddit AMA (link to Topiama which hides the twits)

If they gave you the option of writing a Futurama spin-off, which minor character's adventures would you choose to follow?
5. By: likeaversion

A: We thought about this quite a bit... the one we almost attempted on several occasions as a "one episode" spinoff was the Zapp & Kif show. That's an example of an episode I always wanted to do that we still didn't get around to, even after the four bonus seasons on Comedy Central. My glorious dream was to do a Star-Trek-style episode where we stayed with Zapp and Kif's mission the entire time, and just have them run into the Planet Express crew in passing at some point. We would have also done a full new version of the opening credits and all. We never quite figured out the story for this one. Also we were nervous that people would get confused and angry, and throw things at the TV. I guess we panicked and chickened out. Now I feel bad.

Q:
What's a storyline that you love that won't see the light of day now that the show was cancelled?
12. By: GopherInWI

A: Josh Weinstein and I had a great idea for an episode involving a character moving (and talking) backward in time. The story was great, but it was exceedingly complicated, and it had one other minor problem -- it wasn't funny at all. Very grave and creepy. We spent three full days talking about it, though. Painful. Often when we get un-cancelled someone gets a new take on one of these half-dead ideas and suddenly it works. We'll see!

Pouring one out for Zapp and Kif show.

LOVE that these final episodes are killing it... "I don't know which I like more... Original, or Type II!"

there's much to be said for an affectionate parody but i loved how brutally unaffectionate the saturday morning cartoon parodies were. the scooby doo one especially.

could deal with a lot less Zapp Offbrandhartman than is already in the show tbh.

the character is funny and billy west does a great job channeling hartman but pretty much every time he pops up for me it's another sad little reminder that phil hartman is gone

I've been real impressed with these last few (the initial "return" episodes were certainly decent but a little spotty)

OMG that Calculon episode was hilarious. So much so I had to go make an img macro.

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that'll be my Cup-a-Soup. It's been microwavin' longer'n I can remember.

that ending :'''(

song sounded like it could be on the new kanye album

well done

"listen to Orange Joe!"

Also omfg at bender TAPDANCING ON A DEAD LITTLE GIRLS CORPSE.

ha, yes. that, fry being reduced to a pile of bloody viscera, and a few other moments, this season wasn't afraid to go daaaaark.

the last episode was nice, I AM SATISFIED.

Saw the final ep last night and I also am satisfied. It could go on if they wanted to restart it, but it left nothing hanging. That's a pretty damn skilful bit of writing.

Not directly related. But perfect.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_circus/2014/02/07/zoich_sochi_olympics_2014_meet_the_futurama_themed_faux_viral_sochi_mascot.html

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/five-ring_circus/2014/zoich.png.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.png

"Staring into the hypnotic, loyal eyes of this weird furry toy, we were conquered by its magnetic inner strength."

mixed feelings about this

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/04/simpsons-futurama-simpsorama-crossover/

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i'm kinda floored by how good the last season of this show was. they were firing on all cylinders by the last 3-4 episodes especially. very last episode ranks as one of the best series finales i've ever seen.

I still need to see these. I can't remember what kept me from watching the last season, but I got distracted.

Yeah they ended the show beautifully - wrapped up neatly, appease the fanbase, yet leave it open for follow up if required.

The last few were indeed great - Bender tapdancing on a 5 year old girls corpse was just 0_0

Ooh good, they're waiting for me on Netflix.

"Wow. Whatever just happened really makes you think."

New season on Hulu indistinguishable from early seasons.

"Uh, I'll go dispose of this medical waste... with a little butter and lemon"

And now, rereturning

https://gizmodo.com/futurama-season-13-release-date-streaming-2000632133

So, this Hulu season has been frankly unimpressive to me. The main reason being, they've pulled a "self-references are the best jokes!" schtick over and over every episode! Instead of a batch of new stories and/or gags, we've had:
- Bender is once again a Giant Robot (ffs they even reused the "falls down dead against a building" animation from 30% Iron Giant or whatever it was called)
- world is getting too hot, rehash the giant ice cube joke, somehow completely forget they'd alredy fixed this issue by moving the planet further from the sun?
- Robot mafia made the same "the entire robot mafia" joke
- science vs religion
- bunch of the same gags involving the pizza aliens

The only one I found completely refreshing and unique was the brakes-off "this is gonna be ALL MATHS NO EXPLANATIONS numbers episode. That one was something quite different!