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Idan_Aharoni
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Futurama is nominated for 2 emmies after its cancellation. Doesn't it says something about the people who cancelled it?
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Gorky
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« Reply #7 on: 07-15-2004 14:07 »
« Last Edit on: 07-15-2004 14:07 »
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Originally posted by TheLampIncident:
My god, they couldn't have picked a better episode to nominate? Or even a good one? Fuck. Wait, what? Do you mean that there's a better musical number in Mcseason 5 that stands a chance of winning? Personally, I loved TDHAIP, and the songs were pretty good. Of course, to each his own, so please don't take that as an insult. Anyway, I hope that Futurama wins at least one of its nominations, but I doubt it'll be this one. Sure, there isn't much competition to begin with, but I'm sure that Futurama has the least likely chance of winning. But I hope I'm wrong...
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User_names_suck
Professor
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Thats a very good song in the Simpsons not sure which I'd prefer.
Well we all know what Leelaholic thinks should win.
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Action Jacktion
Professor
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« Reply #11 on: 07-15-2004 16:06 »
« Last Edit on: 07-15-2004 16:06 »
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I checked the past winners in this category, and they're quite varied, including animation, live action comedies and dramas, and one-time specials. A song from Cop Rock won. The Simpsons hasn't won since 1998, and has only won twice altogether. Last year the winner was something called The Concert for World Children's Day, and the year before that was a song from Family Guy. Ken Keeler has won twice before, for those two songs from The Simpsons.
So what does all this mean for Futurama's chances? I don't know. I'm guessing that "I Want My Hands Back" is quite different from any of the other songs, but it might be so weird that it's a turn-off. As I said with the other nomination, it'll probably lose, but it's pretty amazing that it got nominated.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by TheLampIncident:
My god, they couldn't have picked a better episode to nominate? Or even a good one? Fuck. It is a good one...
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Otis P Jivefunk
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I'm not saying they're not, I'm just stating mine, which is that it's a good one...
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Sika
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Good one? One of my favorites  Perfect last episode (hedonism bot, robot devil, fry and leela) see you on some other channel |
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leelaholic
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Originally posted by User_names_suck:
Well we all know what Leelaholic thinks should win. I think they're both great episodes. I give Devil's Hands an A, I give President Wore Pearls an A. I'd be happy for either of them to win. But... "The Sting"? Why does that deserve an emmy??
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Action Jacktion
Professor
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Remember, only the song was nominated. The actual episode doesn't matter much, except to set up the song. So it's not a question of whether or not you like the episode as a whole.
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Action Jacktion
Professor
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Here's what the official rules for submission say:
Submitted tape should include the song and enough additional footage before and after the song to give the judges a sense of its context, along with a brief synopsis of the scene where the song appears.
So judges actually only saw the part with the song and maybe a little before and after. Of course, a voter who saw the whole episode might be influenced by the story.
I wonder what the "brief synopsis" was like. "Okay, this guy got these mechanical hands from the Devil so he could play this instrument that makes images appear because he wants this girl to like him, but the Devil gave the girl some mechanical ears as part of his plan to get the hands back because he doesn't like having human hands, and then everyone sings for some reason." Like I said before, it might be too weird for some people. But it was good enough to be nominated, so who knows?
By the way, search for "Emmy" on Google and one of their sponsored ads will say "'Futurama' on Fox." Click it to go to a page where Fox lists all of their nominees. The other nominees have links to their official sites, but of course Futurama doesn't. It's pretty annoying that Fox advertises that Futurama is on their network when they actually no longer show it.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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Originally posted by leelaholic:
Originally posted by User_names_suck:
Well we all know what Leelaholic thinks should win. I think they're both great episodes. I give Devil's Hands an A, I give President Wore Pearls an A. I'd be happy for either of them to win.
But... "The Sting"? Why does that deserve an emmy?? Am I getting confused wasn't it you a while back that kept ranting about how Devils hands sucked. ??? am I crazy or have you changed your mind.
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Action Jacktion
Professor
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In other Emmy news, Dan Castellaneta received the Oustanding Voice-Over award for the episode "Today I am a Clown" on The Simpsons. There's no nomination for this award, it's just given out. It's the third time he's received it. Last year it went to Hank Azaria, also for the third time. The award has never been given to someone for their work in Futurama, and of course, this year was the last time it could have happened. Sometimes more than one person receives this award in one year, but this time it was only Castellaneta.
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Nerd-o-rama
Urban Legend
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I say we start some violence, dammit. What the robot-hell is Until the Violence stops anyway? And how could it possibly compare to Destiny has cheated me, by
Forcing me to decide upon
The woman that I idolize
Or the hands of an automaton.
Without these hands I can't complete
The opera that was captivating her
But if I keep them, and she marries him,
Then he prob'ly won't want me dating her.
Best aria ever. |
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