Devil Hands comes on tonight?

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I looked on the adult swim schedule and my Tivo, it says Devil Hands comes on tonight even though they are still in season 2 eps is any special reason why?

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are you sure? I thought A Clone of My Own aired tonight..

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Yes, check the adult swim website the schedule for tonight says Devils Hands... and tommorow's ep is Amazon women in the mood.

I think I know why now... aren't these the episodes Matt(Groening) picked as his favorites or something?

BTW... Jicannon the schedule on Gotfuturama.com is off by like a week those eps came on 2 weeks ago.

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It's true!!! I checked my TV Guide for digital cabel and the Devil's hands is definately on tonight! Whoo!

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I don't really know why it's on tonight.  I'm hoping it's an error is the schedule (don't get me wrong, I love the episode, but I'd hate to see the people who haven't seen all of the episodes get screwed up or something by seeing the last episode in between season 2 and 3 ... plus, I have it on DVD now). 

It's definitely not Groening week, as that's not until September, and he hasn't actually been on to introduce them, which would be a major bummer. 

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Thanks Zoid for clearing that up... I mean I knew is wasn't his week but it was the only thing I thought of that would answer my question on why they are playing that ep tonight.

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I think they want to start season 3 with a fresh week, so they are just airing a different episode tonight as filler.

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Of course I'm going to miss it because of the flood we are having right now here in alaska causing my satallite to go down... damn I miss cable sometimes!

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Originally posted by Dr. Morberg:
I think they want to start season 3 with a fresh week, so they are just airing a different episode tonight as filler.

But that'll put the start of season three on a Saturday, so it doesn't make much sense ... besides, they've never done that before. 

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It is to honor the release of Season 4 on DVD.

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Did they actually say that?

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No, but I'm assuming based on the fact that the DVD did come out this week.  Coincidence?

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With your track record of assumptions, I'm perfectly willing to believe that it's a coincidence.

Really, though, if it was to honour something, I'm sure it would have been mentioned.

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I think it does have to do with the release of the DVD.  Futurama is mostly aired in production order on CN, unless for a particular reason they have for not airing them in production order.

For Halloween they skipped from one episode straight to "The Honking".  When Christmas came around, they aired "X-mas" and "A Tale of Two Santas" the following night.

When they cut to commercial for TDHAIPT they air the commercial for Season 4 on DVD.

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To be fair, they would have aired that commercial whether it was "Space Pilot 3K", "Amazonian Women in the Mood", or "Devil's Hands".  Regardless, though I think they should have stuck with production order, I'm not complaining because I do enjoy that episode.