“What kind of party is this? There’s no booze and only one hooker.”
Behold, a house that looks like Bender from “Futurama.” I need to live in this house for so many reasons. It would be so fun to give directions. “…then the second left, halfway down on the right… yeah, the house that looks like Bender.”
And I’d come up with a creative name for it, too. Something like the Bender House. I think that would help justify my drinking. “Are you drunk at noon again?!?!?” “Dude, I live in the Bender House.”
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I am pretty excited about Futurama coming back on the air, and not just because it makes my Futurama Spec script that much more marketable.
Here is a quick look at the shows speckled history thus far:
March 28th, 1999 Show premiers to a mixed audience (mixed reaction wise, though I suppose it was mixed racially as well). People like it, but figure they will just keep watching the Simpsons instead.
January 2003 Adult Swim begins running Futurama reruns. Stoners rejoice!
August 10th, 2003 Show gets the axe. People are mostly sad.
Sometime in 2006 Announced that there will be 4 new Futurama movies. Straight to DVD. Sweet.
December 2007 Adult Swim’s contract with Futurama expires. Stoners are sad, but then easily distracted by something shiny in corner.
January 2nd, 2008 Comedy Central begins airing old episodes of Futurama. Show begins to find new audience who has since stopped watching the Simpsons.
June 9th, 2009 Comedy central confirms they have ordered 26 more episodes. Huzzah
July 17th, 2009 Concerns arise when a casting call is put out looking for new actors to voice the characters. The internet goes crazy!
July 31st, 2009 A message from Maurice LaMarche was sent to members of the “Save the Voices of Futurama” group on Facebook. In the message, he announced that the original cast would be returning for the new episodes. Facebook nerds feel vindicated and riot in the streets.
Phew. What a strange little journey it has been. But “Futurama” is coming back and I for one am stoked as hell. And write me if you want to read that spec…
After some Fox brinksmanship with threats of an open casting call to replace the original voice actors on Futurama, The Toronto Star reports that a deal has been reached and the entire cast will return when the show resumes with a 26 episode run on Comedy Central, expected to begin in mid-2010.
The compromise agreement, with the studio paying more and the actors accepting less, comes after the announcement of a 26-episode pick-up here by Comedy Central. Futurama also airs internationally in syndication, has produced four bestselling straight-to-DVD movies (later cut into episodes) and an upcoming feature film.
“We are thrilled to have our incredible cast back. The call has already gone out to the animators to put the mouths back on the characters,” Futurama creators Groening and David X. Cohen said in a joint statement.
Mouths on the characters? Zoidberg: “Hooray, I’m anatomically correct!”
Geeks, dorks, and nerds united in a joint uprising against Fox on Friday when news broke that Fox was recasting the new iteration of “Futurama.” But let’s not go torching buildings yet — just because the casting call went out doesn’t mean that Fox is actually getting rid of the voice actors for your beloved Bender & Co.
I’m still betting that this will get worked out, at least for some of the actors. The studio’s announcement is partly pragmatic, because 20th might really need to replace the cast, but also very much strategic, to put pressure on the original voice talent to lower their prices. Nobody wants to recast “Futurama.” And what’s, say, Billy West going to do instead? Performing occasional cartoon show voices such Pun Pirate #3 on “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack” can’t be nearly as satisfying, or lucrative, as being back on this show.
So there you go. Just a little gamesmanship as the studio tries to save money. Although I don’t see why it’s necessary to make fun of Billy West’s career. What did Pun Pirate #3 ever do to you, anyway? All he ever did was try to bring some joy into yarrrrr life.
In a striking resurrection, Comedy Central has ordered 26 new episodes of Matt Groening’s “Futurama.” The animated series about a present-day pizza delivery boy reanimated 1000 years in the future was originally canceled in 2003, but lived on in syndication and in four straight-to-DVD films that strengthened its cult appeal.
A spokesperson for 20th Century Fox Television confirms that the cable net has ordered 26 new episodes of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s late, great animated series to air beginning in 2010. The studio cites Futurama’s “blockbuster” performance on DVD and in reruns on Comedy Central as the reason for its rebirth. [...]
“When we brought back Family Guy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once in a lifetime thing — that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived,” 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden said in a joint statement. “But Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn’t have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there were many more stories yet to tell.” [Ausiello]
Very cool news. I wasn’t a big fan of the show when it originally aired, but the DVDs have all been funny, so I’ll look forward to new episodes. What can I say, I love the concept of angry alcoholic robots.
Also, on a side note, I did an image search for “Futurama” without SafeSearch, and… wow. There is a lot of Futurama porn out there. I mean A LOT. No, more than that. However much you expect to see, triple it. Then multiply that number by ten. Nerds are horny.
