Futurama-rama
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| Peter Griffin and his buddies prepare for.. Oh wait what show is this again |
This promo for the new Futurama DVD video, Bender’s Big Score, is exciting for Futurama fans, myself included. Pound for pound the four seasons of Futurama that aired were far superior when compared to the whole body of work of say, the Simpsons, whose first season could be described as unwatchable by cranky detractors. Not me though, I wouldn’t describe that season thusly.
Some fans have quaked that they hope Futurama isn’t ‘pulling a Family Guy’, which released a disappointing straight-to-DVD movie prior to its resurgence. I doubt this will be the case since this first movie is going to become the first four episodes of season five. Three more movies are planned to follow in similar fashion, with some retooling to make them work as stand-alone episodes. More information can be found here.
While it’s disappointing that the show will only make it back on the air as far as Comedy Central, and not Fox, it does raise the possibility of the episodes becoming much more free with their content. Does Comedy Central even have a standards department?
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Comment // October 9th, 2007 // 12:26 pm
I just pre-ordered this. Here’s an interesting fact I made up: the Hypnotoad sound effect at the end was originally a temp track sound effect called ‘angry machine’, and was left in because it was more hilarious than anything else the sound guys could come up with.