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Beamer
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As unpleasant as that must have been, you can hardly blame the show for your friend's brother's actions. And it's still a silly reason to warrant someone professing genuine disdain for... well, anything. Seriously, if "some weirdos jerk off over it" was a legitimate reason to hate something, there'd be nothing left to enjoy.
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DannyJC13
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It's nothing major, but Maurice LaMarche recently commented on Futurama's return, here. If you just want what he said: “Hopefully we’ll get to come back in some form or another.”
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DannyJC13
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« Reply #701 on: 09-04-2014 19:09 »
« Last Edit on: 09-04-2014 20:07 »
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First official picture of "Simpsorama"! Also, plot details: “That was a really tough one to negotiate, because I had to talk to myself,” says Matt Groening, creator of, well, both shows. “Simpsorama” is taglined in the opening credits as “a show out of ideas teams up with a show out of episodes,” and the second half of that joke is one reason for this installment. “They were going off the air, so I thought people would really love it if we had one more chance to see those characters,” says Simpsons exec producer Al Jean, adding, “We’re always looking for things that are compatible with us, and I thought, ‘Well, what’s more compatible?’ We do a joke, actually, about how similar Bender and Homer look. Like, they just erased Homer’s hair.”
The crossover—which features Futurama voicecast members Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, Tress MacNeille, and Maurice LaMarche—will unspool a complex, Terminator-esque story that involves Bart blowing his nose on a sandwich that he places in a time capsule. When that mixes with Milhouse’s rabbit’s foot and some radioactive ooze, it creates a global catastrophe in the future, prompting Bender to travel back in time to kill Bart and prevent this mega-mess. And as you’d imagine, “Simpsorama” teems with Futurama inside jokes and a Simpsonized tweak of its title sequence. Adds Jean: “There’s a thing in Futurama code where if you solve it, it says, ‘Congratulations! You’re a nerd.’” Source.
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Quantum Neutrino Field
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Also.. The Simpsons go to the future?
Nothing that's said about the plot would suggest that. Perhaps they end up in Professor Frink's lab?
That seems likely. It sounds interesting, but at the same time silly (as I would except based on future-episodes of Simpsons). At least self-referential jokes should be fun and I'm actually looking forward to it more than I was previously.
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DannyJC13
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I just wish it was longer than 22 minutes, I know cyber_turnip has that complaint too.
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cyber_turnip
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Well, that's pretty much complete confirmation that both shows now exist within the same universe despite how they were both previously established to exist as fictional TV shows within each other's universes. It's what I expected, but it's sort of annoying. I hope they'll at least make a joke alluding to it. I wish the promo image was one of the Futurama cast other than Bender so we could see if they're going to recolour them all with yellow skin or not. Spoilers, because apparently there are people who don't want the first 30 seconds of the episode to be spoiled: For those of you who never saw the tiny clip of "Simpsorama" that they showed at Comic Con, it featured weird, little Bart-like gremlin things, so obviously, Bart's sneeze combines with Milhouse's rabbit's foot and the radioactive waste in the time capsule to create some plague of rabbit monsters that are unleashed 1,000 years on when the capsule is opened. A suitable weird concept I guess. Anyway, I really hope this episode ends up being every bit as outstanding as it has the potential to be. Everything we've seen so far has been quite good, so fingers crossed. As for it only being 22 minutes long, I'm holding out hope that it'll be hugely successful and they'll put another cross-over episode into development. Imagine if we ended up getting an annual Futurama crossover ala "Treehouse of Horror". A man can dream.
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DannyJC13
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Well, that's pretty much complete confirmation that both shows now exist within the same universe despite how they were both previously established to exist as fictional TV shows within each other's universes. It's what I expected, but it's sort of annoying. I hope they'll at least make a joke alluding to it.
That isn't 100% confirmed, yet. We don't know how canon this episode actually is. It really wouldn't make sense if it were canon. As long as they confirm it is non-canon, I don't mind.
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DannyJC13
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My guess is it will be completely canon as far as The Simpsons is concerned, but they won't elaborate if it's canon or not for Futurama, meaning that we can all pretend that it's non-canon despite David X. Cohen's comments heavily suggesting that he considers it to be canon.
I really hope not. It makes no sense. How can everyone be yellow then suddenly not? Sure you can say "they invented technology to change skin tone" or something like that, but we've seen 1999 and even 1947 and 1775 in Futurama's universe and everyone was still white (not listing black because there are still black people in The Simpsons). Not to mention that both shows are fictional within each other's universes, as you said, cyber_turnip.
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cyber_turnip
Urban Legend
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I mean, there's always been poor continuity with it, to be honest. Whilst there are The Simpsons toys in the Coney Island flashback and Fry's family home's basement and on the garbage asteroid and Fry refers to his medical condition as "Simpsons jaundice" and Bender asks Matt Groening when there's going to be another Simpsons movie, we also see Blinky in the pilot and Homer and Marge left some graffiti at the entrance to Robot Hell. Similarly, Futurama is directly referred to as a TV show in The Simpsons on several occasions, but Bender stills makes a cameo when Bart and Homer drive through a tunnel in the future. As for the skin-tone thing, I still think it's quite likely that the Futurama cast are going to be yellow. I really hope that's not what happens because it will just look wrong, but the precedent is that Caucasian people tend to be yellow on The Simpsons and if they're not yellow, then it raises questions that they probably don't want to have to deal with. They're inconsistent with it when it comes to tiny cameos, though, so maybe they could make an exception to the rule. If I recall correctly, Fry has made two cameos in The Simpsons to date and, just as with Hank Hill up there, one of them retained his normal colours, whilst one of them coloured him yellow. At least if they are yellow, it'll further suggest that it's non-canon as far as Futurama is concerned.
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