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on Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:34 PM
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GrumpySimon writes "Good news everyone!
Straight from a one-eyed alien's mouth - 13 new episodes of Futurama have been confirmed by Katey Sagal on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show. All the original actors have signed up too."
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In case you haven't heard, Futurama is coming back — in like 2008, so don't go channel-flipping in hope quite yet. This is the first interview Billy West (who voices Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Zoidberg, and other Futurama characters) has done since the announcement. Realize, too, that Billy has also been the voices of Ren and Stimpy and hundreds of other animated characters over the years, and old-school Howard Stern fans will remember that part of his career, too. Ask Billy about anything you like; we'll send him 10 top-moderated questions (and maybe he'll answer a few extra ones of his choice, too). We expect to post his answers Wednesday, the day after Freedom Day's 21st Century predecessor, the 4th of July (which, sadly, is not known for nude hot tub parties). Meanwhile, to tide you over, here's a little MP3 voice montage Billy did in his home studio just for Slashdot.
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YAY! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:YAY! (Score:5, Funny)
Fry: This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened.
Leela: Actually it did. But thank God nuclear winter cancelled it out.
Re:YAY! (Score:5, Interesting)
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I just think of it like I did the Simpsons in some jokes. Lisa once stated the Springfield Oil Field is 3 times the size of Texas. This means either they live in Alaska (possibly, I need to consult a map for scale) or it's a joke because it's too ridiculous to be true.
Re:YAY! (Score:4, Insightful)
I suppose there's no real need for that sort of continuity, as long as the continuity for the main characters broadly fits together, and it gives them more room for humour without being penned in by what they did before.
Logic? (Score:5, Informative)
PS: best episode ever: Jurassic Bark.... poor Seymour the dog.
Re:Logic? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:5, Insightful)
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While I applaud it, I remember the resurrection of Ren & Stimpy and how it just wasn't quite the same anymore. The making of a popular series can often rest on the frenzy of creating the episodes and the chemistry of those at work on it. Add an interruption, time for other projects and influences, what will become of pulling the team back together? Will it be the same, or will it be like, "well, Bender saying, 'bite my shiny metal asee' doesn't totally suck, but it's just, you know, different now."
Other news in the It's About Time Department:
In other good news, finally on DVD, Yellowbeard! Arr! July 27 for USA & Canada [amazon.com] or July 10 for UK [amazon.co.uk] No word yet on extras, like Group Madness, the documentary of making of the film.
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's not because the writers got worse. It's 'cause you got better. Or at least, I did. I can't stand the old Ren and Stimpy episodes now.
Just like Family Guy, Futurama still cracks me up. If they make more, I'll still like 'em.
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:4, Insightful)
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The difference is that Family Guy and American Dad are funny the first time you watch them while the Simpsons and Futurama are funny every time you watch them.
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Futurama humor and plot development is actually quite clever, especially since (like Arrested Development) some of the jokes and plot twists aren't revealed until later episodes (e.g., Nibbler's being present but unseen in the first episode but upon subsequent viewings after seeing "The Why of Fry" (4ACV10) it becomes obvious Nibbler was there and that plot line was planned from the beginning).
Oh, and the Dave Matthews Band does not rock.
Anyway, if this is actually true, I shall no longer refer to Fox as Faux and I shall no longer say that Faux can bite my shiny metal ass. Furthermore, I shall have to now watch Fox's crap reality shows because I've repeatedly sent them emails promising to watch their crap reality shows and buy from their crappy sponsors if they bring Futurama back as a series. I wonder if watching just one episode of American Idol or whatever crap they're airing now will fulfill that obligation, or is that like making a deal with the devil?
Anyway, here is what I really posted to say:
<Amy>Yay!</Amy>
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:5, Insightful)
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I bought seasons 1-3½ on DVD which contains the original John K. episodes and the obvious downfall episodes after he was fired and Nickelodeon took over. All I can say is that the original first season still cracks me up, but everything afterwards is a sharp downwarn decline.
The interesting thing is to watch the episodes with the audio commentary by John K. Suprisingly, he does commentary on episodes after his departure, and he really gives a lot of insight to help understand why anything after season 1 simply was garbage. To hit a specific comment of yours, "two minute ultra-grotesque stills": it was something new and unique to R&S. In the early episodes, you can see how those scenes helped build storyline, express context or otherwise simply drive a concept home. However, most people took these scenes at face value and just thought, "ooh! he's got a booger!" or something like that. Yeah, it is accessible at that level. Unfortunately, this is the level that the post-Spümcø felt they needed to continue and exaggerate. To put it in John K's words when seeing a gross close up of Stimpy in a season 2 commentary, "ugly for the sake of being ugly". In other words, no purpose to the scene like there would have been in season 1 episodes.
Of course, this is a cartoon we're talking about, so it wasn't trying to save the world or teach you to eat your vegetables or anything; it was meant to be stupid humor for you to laugh at. All I'm trying to say is that this really was a groundbreaking show in cartoons and the first season was really something special in its own way. Unfortunately, that "magic" (if you will) was completely mis-interpreted and lost in subsequent episodes once John K. no longer oversaw production.
Re:Restrike while the iron is still warm? (Score:4, Interesting)
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But I still get a huge kick out of Log (tm), Powdered Toast Man, Lummox herds, lambasting the materialism and exposing the fetishism in western society, and the fact that the show could ever have been marketed as a kid's cartoon to start with.
Thank you. The thing a later half generation doesn't seem to get is this was fairly cutting edge, underground stuff. Why Nick even picked it up is beyond me, it should have played late evening on Viacom's other network MTV, as Beavis and Butthead did. RnS (as it was referred to back in the day) was a huge hit with the college age group. Little kids could laugh at the nose-goblins or Mr. Horse sniffing a pan of Gritty Kitty, but the content wasn't really intended for them. John K. waged epic battles with Vanessa Coffey, who would eventually get him the sack, which dramatically altered many finished cartoons, which then went back to the shop for some modification and as John once said, just to mock Coffey, they'd make no sense, like the butchered PC Looney Tunes of the 70's.
Family Guy Season 4+ sucks. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Better News Everybody! (Score:5, Funny)
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YES ! (Score:5, Funny)
Three cheers for Comedy Central (Score:5, Funny)
choice quote (Score:5, Funny)
Re:choice quote (Score:5, Funny)
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I was gonna do this as a Halloween costume. I was going to paint my face up all gray/green and rotting, sores and all, wear a white robe, and a crown of thorns, and get a couple broken 4x4s tied to my arms like I broke my way down from the cross... but every time I described it, all I got was this look of horror, even from non-Christians.
Same thing with the Christopher Reeve loose fitting Superman suit and a wheelchair idea. This was before he was dead, of course, I know poor taste when I giggle uncontrollably at it.
Trick or treat
Feel my feet
I can't.
*sigh*
Re:choice quote (Score:4, Funny)
Re:choice quote (Score:5, Funny)
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As an avid watcher of the reruns on TBS and CN, I just gotta say, you're misquoting. The correct quote is
"Sweet Zombie <weird, unnatural silence while the lips keep moving>"
Re:choice quote (Score:5, Funny)
- Bender
Santa is real! (Score:5, Funny)
They've been VERY naughty this year. Now they must be trying to make up before Xmas.
Ryan Fenton
I believe it 100%!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
P.S. I feel like it's some futurama reference that my CAPTCHA was "breeder." Is Slashdot trying to say something about the human race?
Movies? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good news everybody! (Score:5, Funny)
-Richard M. Nixon's head
HYPNOTOAD LIVES (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HYPNOTOAD LIVES (Score:5, Funny)
*sigh* (Score:3, Insightful)
I have a reason to live again (Score:3, Funny)
Does this make me happy? (Score:5, Funny)
Is the space pope reptilian?
Re:Why so long? (Score:5, Funny)
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Welcome back! (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Welcome back! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Welcome back! (Score:5, Funny)
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Everyone must hear this news! (Score:5, Funny)
Who needs comedy central? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Who needs comedy central? (Score:5, Insightful)
also, your model doesn't work for new shows.. if your model was in place before Futurama, it would have never been created.. people won't donate to a show they've never heard of and have no idea if they'll even like it.
Re:Who needs comedy central? (Score:5, Funny)
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That's because some episodes are painstakingly drawn before a live audience!
Re:Who needs comedy central? (Score:5, Informative)
You bitch needlessly. All the tools you need are but a few hundred dollars away!
1) Registering a domain name and getting cheap-ass hosting costs less than a few hundred dollars per year.
2) You can put a link to your project on your slashdot sig and get surprising amounts of attention that way.
3) You only need to come up with an idea for a show, and recruit some star talent. Really, you're on your way already, since you have a business plan that's pretty detailed!
Unless you aren't serious about your business plan. Maybe you wouldn't know a real business plan if it kicked you in the nards. Maybe the idea of actually doing anything outside your mother's basement scares you. In which case, your post is just so much whining and incoherent noise on a populate public blog. There's lots of that already.
The proof of whether or not you have a good idea is in your ability to make it reality. Otherwise, it's just so much hot air, and thanks to global warming, we have more than enough of that.
But, I suggest you give it a try. You'll either succeed, or learn lots about how the world around you works - either way, you win, and win BIG.
requesting more snoo snoo (Score:4, Funny)
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Here here! (Score:5, Funny)
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2 F's down, 1 to go! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:2 F's down, 1 to go! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2 F's down, 1 to go! (Score:5, Insightful)
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