Futurama News - No spoilers outside spoiler tags!

[Reply #480 on:]

Jeez, Apple, get a thicker skin.

...Rim shot?

*groan*

That's a joke worthy of the "ooze-master itself", Spacecase.

Hey, I find that insulting! To SpaceCase.

[Reply #481 on:]

Made a thread of this, it was locked, mod didn't move comment to here, so here goes:

So I spotted all of Futurama (except for the latest season) on Netflix streaming! Best of all, the movies stream in HD! As a DVD owner of the series, it's a nice treat to boot up the XBOX and watch the films in slightly crisper clarity. Also, as a lazy ass I can simply pick and click an episode rather than open up my DVD sets.

I assume the series is streaming thanks to Comedy Central having most of their shows on the serivce. Could this mean that an HD season 6 will hit Netflix streaming as soon as the season wraps? big grin

Anyway, this is a heads up if it hasn't been posted already. Check it out!

[Reply #482 on:]

Lrrreconciable Ndndifferences

These aren't spoilers these are guesses. I'm not using spoiler tags.

Lrr and Ndnd are getting a divorce. They argue over which one gets Earth. Insert subplots here.

[Reply #483 on:]

actually, we already know the plot for that episode.  It's mentioned in a DXC interview that I linked to somewhere in the last couple of pages. 

[Reply #484 on:]

THEN I WILL READ THAT THING

[Reply #485 on:]

All we know is that

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Lrrr has some sort of mid-life crisis and needs to prove how powerful he is. And it starts at Comic Con 3010.

[Reply #486 on:]

All we know is that

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Lrrr has some sort of mid-life crisis and needs to prove how powerful he is. And it starts at Comic Con 3010.

Good. We need more nerd humor this season.

[Reply #487 on:]

Made a thread of this, it was locked, mod didn't move comment to here, so here goes:

So I spotted all of Futurama (except for the latest season) on Netflix streaming! Best of all, the movies stream in HD! As a DVD owner of the series, it's a nice treat to boot up the XBOX and watch the films in slightly crisper clarity. Also, as a lazy ass I can simply pick and click an episode rather than open up my DVD sets.

I assume the series is streaming thanks to Comedy Central having most of their shows on the serivce. Could this mean that an HD season 6 will hit Netflix streaming as soon as the season wraps? big grin

Anyway, this is a heads up if it hasn't been posted already. Check it out!

That is awesome and totally worthy of its own thread. Thanks for the heads up.

[Reply #488 on:]

That is awesome and totally worthy of its own thread. Thanks for the heads up.

I agree, the Netflix news is awesome.  Another quantitative measure outside the Nielsons can't be a bad thing.

Also, Fishy Joe, I've noticed that your posts are polite, succinct, and insightful. 

What the hell is wrong with you?  Didn't you know PEEL posters are supposed to be egocentric, denigrating to newbies, and able to write reams of text without saying anything new? Isn't that in the PEEL account contract somewhere? 

[Reply #489 on:]

Another clip from Proposition Infinity: Link.

[Reply #490 on:]

Also, Fishy Joe, I've noticed that your posts are polite, succinct, and insightful. 

Yikes. I had no idea that this is what people thought about me. I guess I am losing my edge. I'm not a young man anymore, after all.

I will try harder to be an egocentric, denigrating poster in the future.

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...you JERK!

[Reply #491 on:]

Another clip from Proposition Infinity: Link.

That was pretty funny. I liked Takei's line a lot.

[Reply #492 on:]

Another clip from Proposition Infinity: Link.

That is ROFLworthy.

[Reply #493 on:]

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"If Robosexual marriage becomes legal, imagine the horrible things that will happen to our children.  Then imagine we said those things, because we couldn't think of any."

Haha, that is a great line.

[Reply #494 on:]

Another clip from Proposition Infinity: Link.

Damn it! I can't watch it! So what happens in the clip?

[Reply #495 on:]

Another clip from Proposition Infinity: Link.

Damn it! I can't watch it! So what happens in the clip?

You'll know tomorrow.

[Reply #496 on:]

You think having Matt Tobey call us "Parrot Heads" is bad, Wait until he singles YOU out as one:

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/07/12/futurama-fanarama-grand-theft-auto-new-new-york/

Comment your distaste!

[Reply #497 on:]

... parrotheads are jimmy buffet fans. Where the hell did this use of it for futurama fans come from?

[Reply #498 on:]

He's been using it ever since the daily countdown previews before the season started. He thinks it's funny.

[Reply #499 on:]

So wait, you made that GTA mod? Way to go Freako! Here I thought you were just a guy with an itchy drawing finger!

[Reply #500 on:]

It's a terrible mod.

[Reply #501 on:]

... parrotheads are jimmy buffet fans. Where the hell did this use of it for futurama fans come from?

I've been asking that same question ever since the CCI started. Everybody was like, "No, it doesn't matter, it's just a little joke," but now it's super cereal. Even Jimmy Buffett's commented on this.

[Reply #502 on:]

... parrotheads are jimmy buffet fans. Where the hell did this use of it for futurama fans come from?

I've been asking that same question ever since the CCI started. Everybody was like, "No, it doesn't matter, it's just a little joke," but now it's super cereal. Even Jimmy Buffett's commented on this.

Link?

[Reply #503 on:]

Somebody commented on the CCI thing as "Jimmy Buffett". Somebody also commented as "Bob Dole", so, yeah, probably not the real ones.

[Reply #504 on:]

New NPR interview (30 minutes) with Billy West:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490848&ps=cprs

[Reply #505 on:]

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/07/22/futurama-fanarama-futuramastar-trek-mashups/

And Matt Tobey calls us Parrotheads again! In one sentence, he calls us Parrotheads twice and Trekkies Parrotheads once. What the fuck is this guy high on?!

He provides links to the originals, but he doesn't actually outright credit the artists. I can see that one of those is coldangel's and I'd be willing to be he didn't give permission.

Also, interesting to note that he labeled "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" as Season 4 Episode 11. Comedy Central usually labels the episodes by their broadcast order.



Edit: Also found this from two days ago:
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/07/20/futurama-fanarama-futuramastar-wars-mashups/

He uses Zed's art in that one.

[Reply #506 on:]

here's a thought; stop following the guy's blog. He's probably just working you up to increase his readers.

Re: the fan art, I'm not sure they technically need permission to reuse art which reproduces copyrighted characters without permission in the first place. Bad form, I'd say, but unlikely there's anything to be done about it.

[Reply #507 on:]

Leela as Troi?  That's just wrong.

[Reply #508 on:]

The man calling us all Parrotheads because he is one.

[Reply #509 on:]

here's a thought; stop following the guy's blog. He's probably just working you up to increase his readers.

Actually, a link to his blog is posted by the Comedy-Central-run Futurama Facebook fan page whenever he does a new entry. I hadn't noticed he was posting these updates until it came up on my news feed.

Re: the fan art, I'm not sure they technically need permission to reuse art which reproduces copyrighted characters without permission in the first place. Bad form, I'd say, but unlikely there's anything to be done about it.

That was what I had thought a little while ago. I don't think permission is needed, but at least he does link to the original art... Eh, it's tricky, I would just think he would send an email head's-up to the artists who were going to be included in his updates.

[Reply #510 on:]

They post it to facebook, but every time he calls us parrotheads, you or someone comes and links it here. Links  by members of the fan community get more clicks than official advertising links.

[Reply #511 on:]

I never used to find the parrotheads thing funny, but in all honesty, seeing how upset its making some people on here is actually making me fine it really, really funny.

[Reply #512 on:]

They post it to facebook, but every time he calls us parrotheads, you or someone comes and links it here. Links by members of the fan community get more clicks than official advertising links.

Nope. The Facebook link had over 2k likes and over 200 comments. Over 3 million potentially saw the link on Facebook. We have just over 11k members, most of whom are not active, so I don't think PEEL has over 2.989 million lurkers to put it past an official advertising link.

[Reply #513 on:]

Shush, Weiner, Gopher is trying to make PEEL feel important.

[Reply #514 on:]

And Matt Tobey calls us Parrotheads again! In one sentence, he calls us Parrotheads twice and Trekkies Parrotheads once. What the fuck is this guy high on?!

Matt Tobey of comedy central is nutier than an XMAS fruit cake.  Parrotheads?  Dude's on something strong; he's got us and Star Wars fans confused with Jimmy Buffet fans...

[Reply #515 on:]

io9's recap of DXC and Groening's pre-Comic Con panel press conference.  Minor-ish spoilers.

[Reply #516 on:]

Did you find that story independently, or are you fixing my bad form? Also, should I post any new information in any threads I think are pertinent from now on (non-spoilered, of course) or just this one?

[Reply #517 on:]

Futurama's Facebook page has left this status "Get ready for an exclusive Futurama sizzle reel video featuring clips from the six upcoming episodes, premiering online this Monday."

They'd damn well better make it viewable outside of America.

[Reply #518 on:]

io9's recap of DXC and Groening's pre-Comic Con panel press conference.  Minor-ish spoilers.

Reading that made me all happy and excited!

Futurama's Facebook page has left this status "Get ready for an exclusive Futurama sizzle reel video featuring clips from the six upcoming episodes, premiering online this Monday."

They'd damn well better make it viewable outside of America.

Lol, probably not.

[Reply #519 on:]

Don't worry about it. Someone helpful and generous will probably put in on YouTube. Until then, here's CCInsider's post on the Comic-Con Panel (don't click the link if you don't want a major plot point of The Late Philip J. Fry spoiled for you (it's a still)): http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/07/24/comedy-central-at-comic-con-day-three-futurama-panel/