Futurama Movie!

[if76]

File this one under amazing. IGN reports that a direct-to-video Futurama movie (http://dvd.ign.com/articles/634/634262p1.html) is in the works with the possibility of a second one to follow.

A lot of people dismissed this show after the admittedly weak first season. If you're one of those people, please watch from season 2 onward and enjoy one of the best comedies ever created.

[Nintendo Revolution]

"A lot of people dismissed this show after the admittedly weak first season. If you're one of those people, please watch from season 2 onward and enjoy one of the best comedies ever created."

Yeah definately. I just hope the movie establishes the same feel as the series.

[Kid Moxie]

OMG! If this is fo' real, I think I'm gonna pee my pants! I'm the hugest Futurama fan and my heart literally broke when I heard they were going to cancel the show.

[Savok]

First season had lots of Zapp. That alone makes it wonderful.

[EyesNoMore]

Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I thought the show was pretty great from the get-go.

Oh, and if Futurama comes back to television, everything in my TV world will be right again. :)

[TrackZero]

Maybe I'm just easy to please, but I thought the show was pretty great from the get-go.

Oh, and if Futurama comes back to television, everything in my TV world will be right again. :)

Personally I did find the first season pretty weak and stopped watching. I then got back into it later and found the writing was much improved.

[slink-jadranko]

Sweet. By season 3 and 4 it was one of the consistently best written comedies on TV, indeed. Real pity Fox decided to go axe it at that point.

[KamaItachi]

Excellent stuff. Personally I found the 4 seasons of Futurama (even with the weak first season) a better series than the Simpsons 4 great series (4-8) sandwiched by a lot of mediocrity.

It's such a shame that it was never given the chance to develop a little bit more as the story arcs were really well written. It was like everything they couldn't do with the Simpsons they tried out with Futurama and it worked.

[Crabby]

Well, I think the weakness of the first season can be contributed with the first few episodes which is natural for a lot of television. For example, in the pilot episode they tried out a few themes and dropped them real fast. And Bender wasn't really solidified with a personality until the fourth or fifth episode (plus his voice work was initially a bit shabby).

Heck, just look at MacGyver. A lot of the stuff in the first episodes of session one are cringe-worthy corncobbtastic, but who is going to argue against the series as a whole? Well, maybe some cynical asshole somewhere might try. :D

Anyway, Futurama is all-around high quality stuff. Intellegent jokes, and surprisingly satisfying plot. Even succeeding with good emotion at times such as the episode when Fry finds his old dog's fossil.

Not as biting, or outlandish as some other American cartoon comedies, but still good. :)

[Lon Lon Rabbit]

Wth?!
Weak first season!?
If anything 4th is weakest...
I hated the show the first time I saw ep one, but that was more to do with me being confused and disorientated after expecting a simpsons clone. A few years later I finally got back into it with the reruns on late night TV and it's now one of my favourite comedy series ever. My DVD set has been crazily overwatched and I deffinitely agree with the person above, Zap Brannigan is truly hilarious. But again, I really don't know what you're talking about with "weak first season", episodes 3 and 4 are 2 of the best episodes in the entire series.

But back on topic, this is indeed very awesome news. I bought the PS2 game in a bargain bin recently as I heard it was worth enduring the crap gameplay as the cutscenes pretty much made up a "lost episode", but sadly that was incorrect. The opening was hilarious, the ending was classic futurama, and there was nothing in between worthwhile at all, not to mention the fact that the game itself is frustrating, clumsy and boring. Was cool they had the proper voice actors though...

[Bushido]

Booyaa!!!!!

[if76]

The first season to me was pretty slow. There are maybe two laugh-out-loud jokes in the pilot episode and the moon episode put together. The first season has a lot of visual gags that are maybe smile worthy but the real laugh out loud stuff is from season 2 onward. Plus I hate Bender's voice from the majority of the first season.

Some of the plotlines later on are just so clever and awesome. The parallel universe box, the fountain of aging, traveling back in time to roswell, the time skips. These are the best episodes of futurama and just thinking about them makes me want to watch some right now.

[TRiLoGY]

File this one under amazing. IGN reports that a direct-to-video Futurama movie (http://dvd.ign.com/articles/634/634262p1.html) is in the works with the possibility of a second one to follow.[/I]

FRY: "What if that thing you just said?"

Sweet.. I love Futurama, I have the complete Series Box-Set and I normally watch an episode each night before going to bed..

[RandomViolence]

Wow. Firefly gets a theatrical release, Futurama gets a DVD movie... I think I've died and gone to heaven.

[Nessus]

"Like a balloon! And something bad happens!"

[cougar74]

I never did care for football but this made me HATE it! Football always preempted Futurama on Sundays. And they wouldn't push it back, like they did The Simpsons, which is/was running out of steam, but is still their flagship show. I still maintain that was the death knell of Futurama. Show is deemed unpopular, show is placed in timeslot often preempted, show gets no ratings, show is cancelled. Fox sucks.

Futurama is the best written comedy cartoon series ever. The Simpsons is my favorite overall, but Futurama has a poignancy that was just starting to show. The episode with Fry's dog? Man, that makes me cry at the end! That's right, I said cry....

[TRiLoGY]

Futurama is the best written comedy cartoon series ever. The Simpsons is my favorite overall, but Futurama has a poignancy that was just starting to show. The episode with Fry's dog? Man, that makes me cry at the end! That's right, I said cry....

That episode made my work-mate cry too!

I'm Walking on Sunshine...

[cougar74]

Well, I guess get misty-eyed is a better description, but still....

[evilpenguin9000]

The problem that Futurama always had was that Fox never supported it. The execs decided it was gonna do poorly and saw that it ultimately did.

I hope this project does well. I would love to see more and more Futurama. The episode with Slurms McKenzie...oh man.

Ohh and Kif sighing whenver Zapp Branigan speaks...classic.

[Mr_Snuffle]

fuck you guys, now I need to go watch Futurama again :P

[Savok]

I've always seen the 4th season as the least funny myself, mainly because by that point it was getting a real sci fi element to it, the plots were more then just for laughs. Jurrasic Bark was the dog ep.

[cougar74]

I've always seen the 4th season as the least funny myself, mainly because by that point it was getting a real sci fi element to it, the plots were more then just for laughs. Jurrasic Bark was the dog ep.


Are you saying it was the worst season, or just the least funny? I will grant you least funny, but not the worst. I also really liked the wasp episode.

[Knite]

I'm sorry... but when I saw a brick fall out of Bender's ass, I was sold.

comedy gold. =P hehehe

[Savok]

Are you saying it was the worst season, or just the least funny? I will grant you least funny, but not the worst. I also really liked the wasp episode.
Just the least funny, Futurama was heading in the direction of full blown sci fi, were it allowed go there we'd have something rather special and unique. I fully expect the film to continue this, going deeper into the conspiracy thing involving Fry and the Niblonians.

[Vulpes]

Is this true?

All I know is my gut says 'maybe.'

[TRiLoGY]

Is this true?

All I know is my gut says 'maybe.'

How very... Neutral of you!

lol :)

[Wraithzula]

"I am the greetest! Now I am leaving Earth forever, for no raisin!!

Bloody excellent news! I wasn't a fan of Futurama until after the show was canned, and I feel really bad about not supporting it. So like Family Guy, looks like I can right my mistake.

[Neverborne]

Leela: "What are you going to do with Ted Danson's Skeleton?"

Fry: "I got an idea for a sitcom."

...

Bender: "Fry, inside you, you have the heart of a robot. Like, inside me, I have the heart of a human."

Everyone: "Ewwwwww!"

Bender: "What?"

[Kefkataran]

Great news! Let's hope it's as well done as the series. Hey, Season 1 may have been the weakest, but I got the DVD collection for season 1 for only $15. Good enough for me. Now to be picking up the other collections.

[automaton]

"Do you know what it's like being a fembot living in a manbot's manputer world?

[TRiLoGY]

Bender: "Stupid anti-pimping laws!"
Robohooker: "We love you Bender."
Bender: "Shut up, baby. I know it!"

[Bone]

"My only regret... was that I had Boneitis!"

"Kif, I have made it with a lady! Inform the men."

I never expected the dog episode to affect me as much as it did, but between that one and the bees, there were some serious tear-jerkers thrown into all that great comedy.

"Oh... I made myself sad."

[SaintArnold]

"Do you know what it's like being a fembot living in a manbot's manputer world?

That's my personal favorite. Nice call.

[Orphiuchus]

Zapp: After some fatal mistakes involving low-cut fatigues and a lot of harmless pinching, the army decided that women were not fit to serve - not while I'm in charge.
Leela: You know Zapp, someone ought to teach you a lesson.
Zapp: If it's a lesson in love, watch out. I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?
Kif: (sigh) Sexlexia.

[Cha-Ka]

Futurama was the best! Their science fiction was definitely aimed at intelligent geeks, which is more than you can say for anything shown on the scifi channel. The season episode called "Time Keeps On Skipping" in season 4 is among my favorite episodes of any televison show. I'd gladly pay for more Futurama!!

"You are all fools of the highest calibur. Sweet Clyde, laugh at them dericively"
- Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate of the Globetrotter Homeworld

[RandomViolence]

The neutrality episode was great!

Zapp: "Please point out the person in this court room you had sex with."
Leela: *sigh* *points at Zapp*
Fry: "Whoooooo!"
Zapp: "And his name is ...."
Leela: "Zapp Brannigan."
Zapp: "The very same Zapp Brannigan who did not blow up DOOP HQ. I rest my case."

The Amazon women was fantastic, too.

Zapp: We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy, and bruised.

Zapp: (laughing) Ahh, you're killing me.
(Amazons start smashing him with their clubs)
Zapp: Ahh, you're killing me!

[mister_slim]

Who would expect a Fox show to put the lie to the claims of the 'liberal media' that Al Gore has no sense of humor?

[Racknahm]

Futurama is the best written comedy cartoon series ever. The Simpsons is my favorite overall, but Futurama has a poignancy that was just starting to show. The episode with Fry's dog? Man, that makes me cry at the end! That's right, I said cry....
Shut up! Just thinking of that episode makes tears well up in my eyes.

[motor]

The problem that Futurama always had was that Fox never supported it. The execs decided it was gonna do poorly and saw that it ultimately did.

I hope this project does well. I would love to see more and more Futurama. The episode with Slurms McKenzie...oh man.

Ohh and Kif sighing whenver Zapp Branigan speaks...classic.

I read an interview with Matt G about this once. The reason Futurama died is pretty simple, all of the really talented people on the simpsons were bored of working on the simpsons, so they wanted to move onto a new project. That project eventually became futurama. Fox was nervous that draining the talent from simpsons to an new cartoon that was even less general populance friendly (cartoons and science fiction) would just bring down both shows. Since Matt G had been the anchor of the network with the simpsons for so long, they couldn't tell him no, but they did everything they could to kill the show so that the futurama writers would go back to the simpsons after futurama was cancelled.

[Royal Fool]

Way better than Family Guy. This show was a thousand years ahead of its time...

So freaking pissed over how Family Guy got revived and then they even have the nerve to create an almost carbon-copy of it, American Dad.

*sigh*

Oh well... at least I still have the full collection on DVD to watch again and again and remind myself how extremely stupid and ignorant TV network executives can be.

[Crabby]

I never did care for football but this made me HATE it! Football always preempted Futurama on Sundays. And they wouldn't push it back, like they did The Simpsons, which is/was running out of steam, but is still their flagship show. I still maintain that was the death knell of Futurama. Show is deemed unpopular, show is placed in timeslot often preempted, show gets no ratings, show is cancelled. Fox sucks.

Futurama is the best written comedy cartoon series ever. The Simpsons is my favorite overall, but Futurama has a poignancy that was just starting to show. The episode with Fry's dog? Man, that makes me cry at the end! That's right, I said cry....

Same thing here, mate. First time I saw the dog episode I was left speechless. :cool:

[Squigly]

Sweet. By season 3 and 4 it was one of the consistently best written comedies on TV, indeed. Real pity Fox decided to go axe it at that point.

yeah...Fox is full of morons.

[XenonCJ]

I can't believe I'm the 1st one to bring this up, but, why the hell isn't this going to the theatres?

[dr_wily]

i love futurama and own all 4 seasons, but i understand why fox didnt love it the way we do.

it cost alot of money to produce each episode (like 4x as much as family guy), was made for an offbeat audience, and also got a crap timeslot.. just didnt add up for them.

i want to read the comix too, i hear theyre really good too.. would make great new episodes.

the genius and poignancy of jurassic bark is rarely seen on tv, (heck movies) let alone a cartoon.

and i must add:

DEATH BY SNOO-SNOO!

[snubber]

...but they did everything they could to kill the show so that the futurama writers would go back to the simpsons after futurama was cancelled.


So where did those writers ACTUALLY go? Certainly not back to the Simpsons, which although one on my favorite shows, has SUCKED for years, to the point I wish it would just end before the retarded writing and lame jokes erodes and happy memories of the show I have left.

[Squigly]

So where did those writers ACTUALLY go? Certainly not back to the Simpsons, which although one on my favorite shows, has SUCKED for years, to the point I wish it would just end before the retarded writing and lame jokes erodes and happy memories of the show I have left.

That's what I'm talking about! Exactly how I feel. The Simpsons, sad to say it, just need to die.

[court12b]

no no no, the title of this thread should most definately have been
"Good news everyone!"

[NACIONAL]

The Simpsons was the best comic show EVER!!.. it is a shame that they have now Over the top stories now... they don't make sense anymore.

Futurama was GREAT.. i loved it from the firs time. And bender is the new homer.

[Expugnare]

"Oh. Your. God." - Bender
for more futurama quotes http://www.geocities.com/zoidberg_fan/quotes.html

[B_Money]

Well, I think the weakness of the first season can be contributed with the first few episodes which is natural for a lot of television. For example, in the pilot episode they tried out a few themes and dropped them real fast. And Bender wasn't really solidified with a personality until the fourth or fifth episode (plus his voice work was initially a bit shabby).

Heck, just look at MacGyver. A lot of the stuff in the first episodes of session one are cringe-worthy corncobbtastic, but who is going to argue against the series as a whole? Well, maybe some cynical asshole somewhere might try. :D

Anyway, Futurama is all-around high quality stuff. Intellegent jokes, and surprisingly satisfying plot. Even succeeding with good emotion at times such as the episode when Fry finds his old dog's fossil.

Not as biting, or outlandish as some other American cartoon comedies, but still good. :)

MacGyver?

Selma: That MacGyver's a genius.
Sideshow Bob: First of all, he's not a genius. He's an actor.
And second, he's not <much> of an actor.
Selma: [refusing to believe] You're lying! You're lying!
Sideshow Bob: No, Selma. <This> is lying.
[puts on an absurd smile]
That was a well-plotted piece of nonclaptrap that never
made me want to retch.


I guess Sideshow Bob would qualify as a cynical asshole, so there you go.

[Savok]

Looking up IMDb.

David X. Cohen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169326/), doesn't seem to be doing anything
Eric Kaplan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438235/), not a lot
J. Stewart Burns (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122695/), not a damn thing
Kristen Gore (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330751/), hanging out with her dad too much
Eric Horsted (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395489/), that poor bastard
Ken Keeler (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444517/), nothing
Lewis Morton (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608034/), not a lot
Rob Weiner (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918272/), Father of the Pride
Patric Verrone (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894890/), zilch
Bill Odenkirk (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644021/), eating pie at home
Jeff Westbrook (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1399560/), only thing he ever did

[Squigly]

The Simpsons was the best comic show EVER!!.. it is a shame that they have now Over the top stories now... they don't make sense anymore.

Futurama was GREAT.. i loved it from the firs time. And bender is the new homer.

Amen to that brutha!