Who is the best writer on Futurama?

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This thread is for a discussion about Futurama writers. Current and previous.
 

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Thank Yivo Premish isn't in there.

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I'm going with David X. Cohen as he's the showrunner and you know, polishes up all of the scripts. And his joke injections are usually pretty good -you get a good sense of his joke-writing skills.

Also, his credited episodes aren't half-bad.

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@Futurama_Freak1: Yeah, the poll consists of writers of three or more episodes. That's why Mike Rowe, Eric Rogers, Carolyn Premish, Maiya Williams, Kristen Gore, etc. isn't on the poll. I'm thinking about making a poll with them later.

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Oh!  I met Kristin Gore once.  Yeah, it was at a bookstore once, in July 2007, shortly before I joined PEEL.  She was on a book tour, promoting some novel she wrote, and what I did was I went there and hung around while she was giving her talk, browsing the books and such, and then went up to her once she was done signing autographs for people and started burbling about Futurama.  She was pretty nice.  She talked to me for about ten minutes.  She probably already knew at that time that she wasn't going to be coming back as a staff writer again..

Also Dan Vebber went to my college.


As for other writers, well Keeler wrote two of my favorite episodes, Time Keeps on Skippin' and Prisoner of Benda, but then again he also wrote BBS, so I wouldn't necessarily go with him....
Most of the above are all right.

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 So, Mr Keeler wrote BBS, eh? Well, that settles it.

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 So, Mr Keeler wrote BBS, eh? Well, that settles it.

Yeah, I agree. I voted for Ken too. 

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Ken Keeler has written most of my favourite episodes, plus the best Futurama movies so I voted for him as the overall best.

[Reply #8 on:]

So Kennith won huh. I voted for David X.

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So Kenneth won huh. I voted for David X.

Yeah, Mr. Keeler won this round. I'm thinking about starting a poll with all those that didn't make it to the first.

[Reply #10 on:]

You expect me to choose between David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler? What kind of sick poll is this?!

[Reply #11 on:]

The sickest kind of poll, a filthy one.

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Apparently Keeler is a popular one among the PEELers.

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I think the writer who bore the very shows inception deserves the credit. Good old David X. and Matt Groening.

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Mayyyyyyybe...

[Reply #15 on:]

Who did you vote for Nib. Leader?

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I think the writer who bore the very shows inception deserves the credit. Good old David X. and Matt Groening.

Yeah, I made the poll a little wrong, because Matt is credited with 3 stories: Space Pilot 3000, Rebirth & In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela. There wasn't room for him, so I had to drop him.

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What? Well you'll just have to do it over again. And this time do it properly… with Blackjack and hookers.

[Reply #18 on:]

What? Well you'll just have to do it over again. And this time do it properly… with Blackjack and hookers.

with Blackjack and hookers coming your way!

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I think I'm the only one here who actually liked In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela, despite the 2nd half being worse than the first. I guess you could call it the Season 6's "Cryonic Woman" for me. :P

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I think I'm the only one here who actually liked In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela, despite the 2nd half being worse than the first. I guess you could call it the Season 6's "Cryonic Woman" for me. :P

You are so right, the first half was pretty good, the V-Chip, Cape Kenievel. I just thought it was becoming bad from Amy's orgy part. I just don't think that it belongs in Futurama.

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I think I'm the only one here who actually liked In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela, despite the 2nd half being worse than the first. I guess you could call it the Season 6's "Cryonic Woman" for me. :P

Leela was acting like a hooker, I did not like it.

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I think I'm the only one here who actually liked In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela, despite the 2nd half being worse than the first. I guess you could call it the Season 6's "Cryonic Woman" for me. :P

Leela was acting like a hooker, I did not like it.

Show spoiler

Neither did I.

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RESULTS:

Ken Keeler - First Place

David X. Cohen   - Second Place

Eric Horsted - Third Place

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Thanks to all 21 voters.
NEW POLL COMING!

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[bender]  Uh-oh, I don't like the sound of that. [/bender]

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Its Eric Horsted

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Apparently Keeler is a popular one among the PEELers.

Popular here, he's not as popular among some of the "Simpsons" fans, after what he "did" by writing "The Principal and the Pauper".

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uhhh.. but the one time best writer! ITS THE comic book guy's himself !  MATT GROENING

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GROENING'S IN THE LEAD! CAN HE MAKE IT ALL THE WAY?! Stay tuned to find out.

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Dam dam Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaam

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Where is Keeler? He's my favorite, he wrote BBS, ITWGY, TDHAIP, TPOB, TKS, TTOTZ, and OCW

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Ken Keeler is my favorite as well, for the episodes mentioned directly above (in addition to personal favorites Godfellas and Put Your Head on My Shoulder).

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Where is Keeler? He's my favorite, he wrote BBS, ITWGY, TDHAIP, TPOB, TKS, TTOTZ, and OCW

The poll says "Among writers of two or less episodes".

I'm resisting the urge to edit that to replace "less" with "fewer". Barely.

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I voted for Jeff Westbrook, but I feel the need to point out that he wrote three episodes: The Day the Earth Stood Stupid, The 30% Iron Chef and Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles so surely he shouldn't be included in this poll at all.

David A. Goodman would be my second choice followed by Maiya Williams.

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Ken's my favourite, but since he's not there, I voted for Eric Rogers.

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I did the same exact thing. Who didn't add Keeler?

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The poll says "of two or fewer episodes."

That makes Ken ineligible for this particular poll. I think the title should be changed to reflect this, actually. I came in all ready to vote for Keeler and then saw that the poll was all... different.

[Reply #37 on:]

It was originally a thread with a poll about people who've written 3 or more episodes but the OP changed the poll instead of starting a new thread.

Ken Keeler won last time, by the way.

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Well, on that note Rogers won't be on here for long. Considering he's written 1.3 episodes, if you add 2.5 more, well, you do the math!