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WELCOME TO THE FUTURAMA FAN-O-RAMA! ~SPACE PILOT 3000 EDITION~ The unofficial newsletter of the 31st century.- Note from the Editors:
Hey, all! We would like to thank every one of you for graciously joining our club!! Everybody who receives this letter is on our mailing list. Feel free to ask any questions; just write Cayt at invalid@cs.com or Marissa at invalid@cape.com. We would like to thank everybody who helped us get this started, including the Futurama Chronicles, Katey aka GurlFromTheFuture, and everyone who subscribed! I hope you like our very first newsletter!!
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- FG`s page!
Hi! I`m FG! In case you don`t know me (and I doubt that there are too many of you who do) I am known as FuturamaGirl and Girl of the 31st Century on the fox.com message boards or just by Marissa. I am nothing less than a Futurama expert and HUGE fan. Got a Futurama question, I`m the one to ask! E-mail me at invalid@cape.com, put the subject Hey FG! If your question can`t be answered and makes a good point, I will put it in the unanswered questions section. If I can answer you question and like it, It will become part of my trivia challenge.
Now that that`s out of the way, I`d like to welcome you all to the first edition of the Futurama Fan-o-Rama newsletter! With any luck this will get to be very popular. (Hey, a girl can dream!) So tell your friends!
Futurama was started as being a dream show for Simpsons creator and Sci-fi fan, Matt Groening. That became a reality when Fox decided to take it for a test drive season. With great ratings, Futurama is about to enter it`s second and first full length season. If you`re reading this, then I know for a fact that you can`t wait for the 26th! Let`s just hope that given it`s chance, Futurama will take off and might still be on 1,000 years from now! (Okay, bad joke. But you get the picture.)
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- Cayt's page!!!
Hey, everybody! I'm Cayt, better known as LoneGungirl on the Futurama message board. I am pleased to announce that this is the first issue of the Futurama Fan-o-Rama newsletter!!!! I am just as happy as all you guys are!
Anyway, we've got a lot coming up for all of you. Lots of updates, episode guides, trivia, polls, anything having to do with Futurama. You name it, we can have it!! Feel free to suggest subjects for us. Or send us articles. You can e-mail me at invalid@cs.com. Just put in the subject box, Suggestions for Cayt!
Also, look for us on the Futurama Chronicles on the main page (at futurama.simplenet.com) thanks to Dave of the Futurama Chronicles and the main page of There's Something About Futurama (at futurama.onlytoons.com) thanks to our very own Futurama Girl!!!
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- FG`s trivia quiz!
Good luck to all! You can just try to guess the answers, but if you think you`re a trivia master, e-mail me your answers and if you get the most right, you will have your name here in the next edition of the Futurama Fan-o-Rama! (invalid@cape.com put the subject: FG`s trivia!)
In episode 2, what does the farmer on the moon`s hat say?
According to Fry`s speech, who was the first emperor of Trisoil?
What was the first thing Bender said when he first met Fry?
Fill in the blank: "Better _______ than you have tried!"
Easy question: What is Amy`s last name?
In this part, I`ll put a Futurama question that can`t be answered. It is NOT part of my quiz, it`s a goof by the staff of Futurama. If you have one, drop me an e-mail!
Unanswerable question: If Bender doesn`t breath air (there are many examples of this in Futurama) then why does he always pant when he runs???????
Thanks all! C-ya soon! FG
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- Deathmatch!
Hermes Conrad vs. Zapp Brannigan The results are in! Five seconds into the match Zapp was crying and hiding behind his favorite wicker chair. Hermes Conrad wins by a landslide! Thanks for your votes! Next week`s deathmatch: Leela vs Pamela Anderson`s head-in-a-jar Get your votes in! (invalid@cape.com) Also, feel free to vote on the Futurama message board at bbs.foxworld.com! Just click on Futurama!!
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- Character spotlight:
Name: Phillip J. Fry Typical outfit: White t-shirt, red-orange overshirt, blue jeans, black sneakers. Likes: Anchovies, Sci-fi stuff, any show of the genre "World's Blankiest Blank" Best friends: Bender, Leela First words on the show: "Space, it seems to go on and on forever."
Phillip J. Fry (Or Fry as he prefers to be called) is a pizza delivery boy from 20th century New York and is not the brightest crayon in the box. He had a cruddy job, he was broke, and had a girlfriend who cheated on him. But that all changed on Midnight January 1st, 2000 when he was accidently frozen and wakes up 1,000 years later. He now works for Planet Express, a delivery company owned by his great, great, etc., etc., nephew, Professor Hubert Farnsworth. Although he`s kind of lost in the Future, he gets by with Leela's help.
Next week: The Bender Unit 22 story.
-Marissa
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- Episode 5: "Fear of a Bot Planet"
Rating: TV PG V Opening joke: Featuring Gratuitous alien nudity Futurama Milestones!: Among many other things, we find out in this episode that Bender can be used as a popcorn machine. Futurama`s first commercial cue. For once Leela screwed up instead of Fry when she sneezed. Bender actually says a few not so bad things about humans.
Summary: It starts off when Bender gets in an argument with Fry and Leela because he thinks that they don`t respect robots. Soon after they are called away to deliver a package to Chapek 9, a world where humans are killed on sight by the robots that inhabit the planet. While delivering the package, Bender gets kidnaped because it was discovered that he worked with humans. While trying to rescue them, Fry and Leela are also caught and put on trial by the robots of Chapek 9. Bender must either risk death to save them and go back to earth, or kill them and live a life of stardom on the robot planet.
Leela: Now remember, you don`t know humans, you don`t work with humans, and above all you don`t like humans! Bender: I`ll try to keep that in mind.
My notes: FG: Okay, I liked this episode! Especially the part with the robot porn and the scene in the end with the robot elders. FG`s grade: B+ Cayt: This is one of my fave episodes, despite the bad publicity given to it by the media. Especially the screwed-up baseball part. Cayt's grade: A-
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- Futurama goes into its second season!!
Season Premiere Preview (Courtesy of the Futurama Chronicles) [1ACV10] A Flight to Remember
Premieres Sunday, September 26th!!!
Summary: The crew takes a voyage on the largest space cruise ship ever built, the Titanic, where romance blossoms as Captain Zapp Brannigan attempts to navigate the ship through a swarm of Icy comets.
A brief summary from David X. Cohen: "Fry, Leela and Bender go on a well-deserved space cruise, not knowing that Zapp Brannigan has been made honorary captain of the ship for its maiden voyage. He makes the ship go through a swarm of comets which he refers to as 'icebergs of the sky.' Then the rest of the episode is like The Love Boat, and all our characters have romances. It's pretty crazy." -One of the plots is a love story involving Bender and a robot Countess. -Leonardo DiCaprio's head in a jar christens the Titanic. -Kif also returns for another appearance. -Mayor Poopenmeyer makes another appearance. -New characters to be introduced include Amy's parents Leo and Inez Wong, Hermes' wife LaBarbara, and a lady named Hattie.
Thank you to the Futurama Chronicles (futurama.simplenet.com) for letting us use their summary!
Other Episodes This Season
Fry and the Slurm Factory: This episode was inspired by "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," according to Matt Groening. The episode reveals the mysterious contents of Slurm, the soda that makes you smarter, as Fry finds out as he tours the factory. These contents have not yet been announced, so hold your breath.
Mars University: Fry decides to go to Mars University and is roomed with a super smart monkey, named Guenter. Of course, we will witness Fry's stupidity (again) in this episode.
Election Year: Richard Nixon's head decides to run for President of Earth. Matt Groening comments; "That's the greatest thing about science fiction. We can still do Nixon jokes."
Oh, Unholy Night: "Christmas has turned into a holiday of fear" in the year 3000, or so Matt Groening says. Never turn your back to a chimney on Christmas eve, lest the evil robot Santa Claus get you.
Note: The names I have given these episodes aren't necessarily the names they will have. Except for the Christmas episode and the season premiere.
-Cayt
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- For all you British guys...
I realize that a few of our members are British, so here's a special section for you. I'm sure you've heard a lot about Futurama. That's great! Watch it all you can! Futurama starts on September 21st in Great Britain. Sorry: I don't know what channel or what time; all I know is that it starts this Tuesday. So here's a preview of the first episode: [1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000: Fry is a pizza delivery boy in the 20th century, with practically nothing to live for. His job is a drag, his girlfriend ditched him, and he seems to be the target of everyone else's pranks. He makes a delivery one day to the Cryogenics lab in New York City. As soon as he realizes it's a prank, he settles back to feast on the pizza on pop provided by the prank callers, and tumbles into a cryogenics tube and is frozen for 1000 years. He awakens to find a completely different New York City... Stayed tuned next week for the summary of episode 1ACV02 and the preview of 1ACV03 in the British Futurama section. Thanx for watching!
Also, we have a few members from even MORE exotic places. I'm sorry to tell you that I have absolutely NO idea when Futurama is going to show. But you'll probably get it if you get cable. Thanx again for subscribing!!
-Cayt
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- Awesome Futurama Websites! *Links*
The Futurama Chronicles: futurama.sipmlenet.com There's Something About Futurama: futurama.onlytoons.com The Futurama Message Board: bbs.foxworld.com The Official Futurama Website: bbs.fox.com/futurama
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- Survey:
This would really help us out, so please fill it out and send it to Cayt (Lone) at invalid@cs.com or Marissa (FG) at invalid@cape.com. Thanks!!!!
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-From the editors: Marissa and Cayt
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