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David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama
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on Thu Dec 14, 2006 04:01 PM
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from the everybody-loves-hypnotoad dept.
eldavojohn writes "Toyfare has a short but exclusive interview with co-creator of Futurama David X. Cohen. There's a lot of information about how they plan to continue the series. He also reveals they're halfway through writing the new season and just starting animation. When asked about his favorite minor character of the show, Cohen responded 'Hypnotoad. By the way, we are looking into producing a full 22-minute episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad for the DVD release. I am serious.'"
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Hypnotoad (Score:5, Funny)
CLAP
CLAP
(Would have been more dramatic in all caps, but the filted doesn't like it.)
Re:Hypnotoad (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.fodors.org/)
1) I was joking about Futurama lifting from Star Control rather than from Asimov.
2) You really, really, really think I didn't know that Asimov came before PC Games?
Ok, I guess toothpicks really do need instructions.
Re:Hypnotoad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hypnotoad (Score:5, Informative)
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
hdtv? (Score:1, Interesting)
(http://www.hjf.com.ar/)
Check slashdots' headers (Score:5, Informative)
For those who don't know it yet, if you view the raw headers of slashdot, you'll find Futurama quotes.
I'm so excited Futurama is back that I hardly can contain myself!
Re:Check slashdots' headers (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://michael.bacarella.com/ | Last Journal: Friday November 01 2002, @06:19PM)
Wow, you weren't kidding.
Re:Check slashdots' headers (Score:4, Informative)
(http://jlarocco.com/)
#!/bin/bash
lynx -head -mime_header http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] | sed -n '6s/^X-//p'
All Hail the Hypnotoad! (Score:2)
of course (Score:3, Funny)
all hail the hypnotoad
Hypnotoad is hardly a minor character (Score:5, Funny)
Seymour the Dog! (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh Man, oh man, oh man! Jurassic Bark, the episode featuring Seymour the dog, has to be one of the best written pieces of television I've ever seen, as well as one of the saddest. Look, I'm a grown man, and every time I see that episode, I cry. Anything that can do that is good television.
Oh, yah. If you can't tell, I'm REALLY excited about the return of Futurama.
Re:Seymour the Dog! (Score:5, Insightful)
You son of a bitch, why did you even have to bring it up.
Re:Seymour the Dog! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://ronanian.googlepages.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday August 15, @04:54PM)
They live long, but you wish they wouldn't. Well, _I_ wish they wouldn't.
The damnfool idiots need surgeries all the time, produce twice their body volume (that's twelve times their body weight) in feces daily (most of which they do indoors; these days they have their own room with a doggy door and a sheet of rubber under a scrap carpet), and never shut up. Oh, and they smell awful (must be from rolling around in shit). For awhile, in their own room, they were quiet, but lately they've taken to fighting with eachother...
My wife got them before we were married. I wish she had gotten a hypnotoad instead. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
Re:Seymour the Dog! (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://michael.bacarella.com/ | Last Journal: Friday November 01 2002, @06:19PM)
When I watch Futurama, it's usually on late at night and sometimes I pass out near the end. Every time I've watched the episode with Fry's dog, I've passed out right at the ending and woken up to a everyone else in the room crying. Happened three times now.
I don't think I ever want to see the ending.
Re:Seymour the Dog! (Score:5, Informative)
Cheers,
TdC_VgA
Re:Seymour the Dog! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.biglumber.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 18, @12:25PM)
Hypnotoad (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday August 20 2003, @10:39PM)
Diebold machines.
About the "X"... (Score:5, Interesting)
Back in the late 90's, he attempted to register his real name, "David S. Cohen", with the writer's guild. However, they already had a David S. Cohen registered with them. Due to the rules of the writer's guild, all names registered with them must be unique to avoid confusion. So, David decided to change his name over to David X. Cohen for identification purposes.
So what's the meaning of the "X" in the name? Not a damned thing! It was chosen entirely because it was weird enough to be easily recognizable.
Re:About the "X"... (Score:5, Informative)
Hypnotoad sucks! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm so excited ... (Score:4, Funny)
Woohoo! (Score:1)
Nerdgasm! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday September 09, @10:43PM)
(frell you if my sig can't let you guess what I mean)
Perhaps Mr. Cohen should be the one.... (Score:2)
Oh god I love this show (Score:2)
Best quote ever in the show was" I get it the engines don't move the ship around the universe they move the universe around the ship." Thanks to that concept I have finished my FTL ship and have been vacationing on a small moon orbiting a planet made of fat. No dickheads, I won't share.
Opening tagline (Score:2)
I have a suggestion for an opening tagline on one of the new episodes:
"Now with 20% more synergy!"
Anyone else have a suggestion?
Oh, come on. (Score:2)
Except, uh, Dnyarri don't take over people's minds with hypnotism or frighteningly powerful telepathy or anything. Nope! Of course not. That's absurd.
Glagnar's Human Rinds (Score:2)
(http://www.tlm-project.org/)
Futurama is my favourite show of all time. There are a few that come close, but even after watching every episode about 10 times, I will still watch a Futurama re-run over a new episode of something else I like if they are on at the same time. I can't get enough. Maybe it's a medical condition [slashdot.org].
Just out of interest, what is everyone's favourite character (main or side character, it doesn't matter). I think mine would have to be Dr Zoidberg. Every time he scuttles off screaming "Wooooop wooopwooopwoop" I burst out laughing. A close second would be Morbo.
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Favorite episodes (Score:2)
My least favorite are Leela and especially Dr. Zoidberg-heavy episodes. A Taste of Freedom, That's Lobstertainment!, Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love?, all on my worst-of-the-worst stinkers list.
Yeah, so its coming back... in 2008 (Score:2, Funny)
I did a little jig and an *oh snap* (Score:1)
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome! (Score:1)
Bender: You know, I was God once.
God: Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
Good news, everyone! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good news, everyone! (Score:5, Informative)
(http://doghole.blogspot.com/)
Berkeley (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday May 10 2007, @01:10PM)
Hermes rocks! (Score:1)
5. "That's not a cigar. Uh... and it's not mine." 4. "I'm calling the police!
Well... (Score:1)
22 minute episode of the Hypnotoad, eh? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday October 26 2005, @02:15PM)
Tribute (Score:1, Funny)
http://networkzombie.googlepages.com/ [googlepages.com]
the world is right again (Score:2)
hypnotoad rules -
rb
Favorite episode? (Score:2)
(http://zaphodforpresident.com/)
Of course "Jurrasic Bark" makes anyone with a working heart choke-up, but which is your favorite episode?
I vote for "Time Keeps on Slippin'". I love how this episode f*cks with every convention it can.
Absolutely *nothing* is at stake!
Farnsworth at his best:
And an ending that packs an emotional punch:
Did you see it? Did you see it? [cue Globetrotters theme]
David X Cohen is cool! (Score:3, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Thursday December 02 2004, @08:18PM)
He responded politely and promptly - was pretty cool too, I also found his commentary on the Futurama DVD's to be excellent.
Once we hit this bullseye... (Score:1, Funny)
Checkmate.
I'm not sure how Futurama would be without good ol Zapf Brannigan
What special features do you want on the DVD? (Score:2)
(http://www.gis.net/~cht)
And not that cop out "from the side so you just see her butt and some side-boob/no nipple" stuff!
No, we want full frontal naked Amy!
Full frontal naked Leela would be good, too.
But NO naked Zapp. Sweet Zombie Jesus, that would be bad! Very bad.
Oh, my.
Yes.
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.yeahblah.com/)
You first!
Re:More Futurama? (Score:2)
(http://www.upaut.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday February 12 2004, @06:22PM)
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Who gives a f--- (Score:2)
(http://enharmonix.blogspot.com/)
Re:I'm too busy with Pride Week events... (Score:2)
Re:More Futurama? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.yeahblah.com/)
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:1, Funny)
Re:new episodes of Futurama... (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Saturday August 18 2001, @11:04AM)
Re:new episodes of Futurama... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:1, Interesting)
Hmm, I could argue that 'jagoff' is a reference to South Park, another cartoon show. Very interesting. You think Futurama is total crap, yet you think a show with giant jewish aliens performing freaky alien sex on each other is worth referencing. You know, I think if you kill yourself now you can still catch the early bird special at the IHOP in hell. You should get right on that.
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:2)
(http://www.gemstate.net/friends | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @10:32AM)
Re:I'm too busy with Pride Week events... (Score:2)
(http://www.gemstate.net/friends | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @10:32AM)
I didn't know that Candada had a Pride Week.
Have fun eh.
Re:new episodes of Futurama... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday June 12, @07:38PM)
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:1)
I'm sorry in advance for feeding the troll.
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.geocities.com/illuzion30)
That'd be great! With me being vaccinated against anthrax, maybe then I could get a sweet job
Re:Who gives a fuck (Score:4, Insightful)
I did an experiment where I spent a lot of time simply worrying about North Korea's nuke program. I read about it until my eyes bled. I bitched on various websites about it. I even had a T-Shirt made. In the end, the results were surprising: I couldn't stop the bomb!
So.. yeah.. Futurama makes more productive use of my time.
Me neither (Score:1)
Leela
Fry
Yeah, no. Let's hope not, indeed.
Re:I'm too busy with Pride Week events... (Score:1)
(http://reedsolomon.blogspot.com/)