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« Reply #400 on: 10-28-2017 05:58 »
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winna told me winna was an acronym.. when in name need anonymity or something spooky like that.  And there were some kind of rules, like you can't tell people how to be winna, or something like that.

I totally agree with your analysis on 4chan, although the shadowy powers meet in lots of places.  People are pretty powerful, they can throw rocks and stuff or say things.

You don't have to give anything back to futurama.  If you got something from futurama, or from here, I think paying it forward is the best way to go.  That's real appreciation:  using the things you've been given.

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« Reply #401 on: 10-28-2017 06:42 »

I think small forums like PEEL are better for casual conversations compared to the monolith that is reddit. The way comments are sorted there makes it impossible for them to be seen unless they're posted early in the thread's lifespan.

PEEL is a community. I have always recognized PEEL as being the most upper-brow forum I know of. Before I was on PEEL I lurked for like three years. The etiquette was quite intimidating back then. PEELers are astute & blunt. We didn't dick around in on-topic conversations (unlike the current conversation, but PEEL is more of a graveyard nowadays).

Reddit is kind of like tumblr, just not a total circlejerking cesspool. After twenty-four hours, activity in a thread dives as it loses its relevance to the timeliness. People don't quote others in a greater conversation of a thread like here; they reply to each other & expand the conversation outward instead of upward. The indentation set-up allows for conversations to flow with the topic which in turn invites tangents.

What boards do you lurk/post on on 4chan, Frida?
I've been a regular on 4chan for over a year now.

/co/ (Comics and Cartoons), /vp/ (Pokemon), & a little bit of dabbling in /pol/ (Politically Incorrect), but I can only take it in small doses with all the Neonazis cramping up the place.

4chan is the internet at its top potential & humanity in the raw. 4chan is wonderful because everybody there is anonymous. You can post anything you want & people will either believe you or belittle you & call you a hack. Under the guise of anonymity, it doesn't matter what you do or say. You can voice your opinion or thought, be scrutinized harshly, then say something the exact same somewhere different & have the thought appreciated. It allows for the any thought, be it soft or brash or extreme, to be heard. And when somebody validates your thought or comment on 4chan, you know that they are being judgment yet genuine because there's nothing stopping the individual otherwise from berating you. The creatives, the hidden forces that sway society mingle on 4chan. Brilliance has no face there. You gotta have a thick skin & thick stomach for 4chan. I never really went onto 4chan before last year because I knew I wouldn't be able to handle it emotionally. PEEL developed my confidence in participating in forums. I doubt I could ever give back what I got from PEEL, but if I am the greatest Futurama fan in the world, maybe I can give a little bit of my life & experience to the series.

Wow, I sound fruity. Like, fruitier than my namesake.

Thank you winna for editing your post that was hurting my neck. I've been playing Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow as I type this post while my kitty cat steps on my keyboard.

That's very deep, Frida. Really. I dabbled in 4-chan back in the day, but only like maybe once a week, if that.

And Peel has been tremendously good to me. Given me confidence to travel across the country every year, now.

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« Reply #402 on: 12-17-2017 03:38 »

Futurama-adjacent news, everyone!

"Futurama Creator Developing History Museum Sitcom for NBC."

Apparently all that Nerdist stuff with Chris Hardwick's paid some handsome dividends for DXC. I can't speak for Mr. Hardwick's creative output, but I've always been pretty damn fond of the other guy's work, so I'll definitely keep an eye out for this show when (if) it premieres. 
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« Reply #403 on: 12-18-2017 12:05 »

Ooh! I'm glad he's doing something else. I've found his lack of other projects very strange since Futurama went off the air.
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« Reply #404 on: 12-18-2017 12:12 »

I think Futurama was his baby, and he kept involved with Futurama on the back end.  It's probably been enough time since Futurama was aborted that he can comfortably move onto other things.
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« Reply #405 on: 12-18-2017 15:29 »

Ooh! I'm glad he's doing something else. I've found his lack of other projects very strange since Futurama went off the air.

Same here. In fact, I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately. It seems like somebody who has had so much success on two major broadcast cartoons (The Simpsons and Futurama) would have moved on to another project by now. He doesn't seem to be involved in Matt Groening's new show Disenchantment (though many who were involved in Futurama seem to be; also, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein will be executive producers on that show, which is greatly exciting to me).

I hope DXC's new show turns out well, as it should with him in charge.
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« Reply #406 on: 12-18-2017 20:38 »

He's one of the writers on Disenchantment.

He spoke about it in his interview on the Nerdist podcast following the "Radiorama" episode.
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« Reply #407 on: 12-18-2017 23:23 »

Ah, thanks for the reminder. I listened to that podcast, but forgot that tidbit of info. (Plus, it wasn't listed on the Wikipedia page. :nono:) That makes Disenchantment even more promising, then.
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« Reply #408 on: 12-19-2017 23:48 »

Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein will be executive producers on that show, which is greatly exciting to me).

Agreed! I was never overly-enthused by Weinstein's solo work on Futurama (though I am a pretty big advocate for the much-reviled "A Farewell to Arms," which I daresay is his best episode), but he and Oakley together are responsible for two of the best seasons of The Simpsons and, as writers, at least two of my all-time favorite episodes of the series ("Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" and "Sideshow Bob Roberts"). I've seen most of Mission Hill, too, and while I don't necessarily mourn it as a forgotten gem canceled far too soon, it's also pretty good.

Which is all just to say I'm glad these two crazy kids are teaming up again. It certainly makes me more excited for Disenchantment--which, based on what little we've heard of the show so far, I have mixed feelings on. I'm not a big fantasy fan (I'm actually not a big sci fi fan, either, but I'm certainly more into time travel and spaceships and aliens than I am, like, dragons and castles and sword fights), and while I think Matt Groening is a smart and talented guy, the success of his flagship shows has always seemed to depend not-insignificantly on the writers and animators surrounding him. So knowing a few familiar names are already on-board does inspire a degree of confidence, at least for me.
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« Reply #409 on: 12-20-2017 20:02 »

I've seen most of Mission Hill, too, and while I don't necessarily mourn it as a forgotten gem canceled far too soon, it's also pretty good.

I love Mission Hill! I have the full series, as well as cinematics and scripts from unfinished episodes. Though I wish the show got the opportunity to thrive (many WB shows from that era received the same fate), I appreciate having a series I can watch the full way through in just a few hours. I rewatch that series once every year or two.

And I completely agree that they make an amazing duo.
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« Reply #410 on: 04-02-2018 23:11 »

Futurama reunion coming to ATX Television Festival

Quote from: Dan Snierson
Cast members Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, and David Herman will join showrunner David X. Cohen — plus a few special guests — for a table read of a favorite episode from the show’s 140-episode run, plus a Q&A.
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« Reply #411 on: 01-03-2020 12:23 »

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« Reply #412 on: 01-03-2020 14:29 »

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« Reply #413 on: 01-03-2020 21:34 »

I'm assuming that's included in the "penetration testing"...
zappdingbat

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« Reply #414 on: 02-18-2020 04:32 »

Is this a sign of things to come?
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« Reply #415 on: 02-27-2020 19:16 »

This isn't really Futurama news but Vanity Fair recently released a video of Phil LaMarr's famous character voices where he talks about what is was like working for each of those roles. I'm sure you can easily search it up on youtube. During the video, LaMarr revealed that when he first began doing voice work for Futurama, he didn't have the jamaican accent we all know and love today. In fact, it was something requested by Matt Groening after the first few episodes. Neat info! Looking back to the second episode, I can sort of see it now.
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« Reply #416 on: 02-28-2020 08:24 »

I didn't even know what a Jamaican accent sounded like until I played GTA IV.

Are there many Jamaicans living in America? I've never met one.
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« Reply #417 on: 03-04-2020 00:24 »

There's a pretty large Jamaican-American population in New York City, so Hermes's accent isn't entirely out of left field in that regard, I suppose.

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« Reply #418 on: 04-15-2020 17:49 »

I like the series full and a few days ago it occurred to me to go to the computer to see if I could get a serious Futurama forum and I found the last one I got great.
Kwanzaaa_bot

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« Reply #419 on: 05-16-2020 20:31 »

This is a transforming kit lol ;)))
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/Bender-Mask-by-maizeofficial/47843628.9G0D8?ref=explore-for-you-recently-viewed
David A

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« Reply #420 on: 05-19-2020 11:14 »

Nice.  The price is a bit more than I'm willing to pay for a mask, but if I had one I would definitely wear it.

I also like the All Might mask that they have for sale.
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« Reply #421 on: 10-30-2020 04:37 »

I think a lot of problems with thelre contraberoversial episodes were just down to the fact they were too short to do their ideas justice, and why they often felt unsatisfying on some level.  A perfect example is afta. Tbatb was another as I just couldn't bring myself to really care about Bender and Ben and their relationship: instead I just spent the episode wondering what excuse the writers would come up with to shuffle Ben off and the characters would never mention him again and the excise was even more cheap and contrived then I was expecting.  It also felt like several episodes smashed together: Bender and Bev having their angry sexual tension, Bender hooking up with Ruth and Esther and their Ill fated tryst, Fry's tacked on slurm subplot, and then finally Bender dealing with fatherhood with Ben and the robots can have robot babies idea.   Too much squeezed into twenty minutes. 

Futurama really needed to have longer episodes for stories like this because a twenty minute runtime is too limiting: or at the least have arcs that carry across episodes more.  Even though I absolutely love Ruth and Esther and really enjoyed how differently their segment was done in terms of much of their dialogue being left to interpretation and the use of dramatic lighting and camera angles which is not setting we have always seen on this show for example when Esther and Bendy Boo are making out, you can hear Ruth make a sad disappointed grunt and the camera shift to her perspective: we see the back of Benders head and Esther fluttering her eyelashes at him. Later the camera shifts to Fry's perspective and we see Bender glaring at him, Ruth staring at him in shock and Esther just looking him.  Then when Bender calls them skanks, Ruth looks at Bender because she obviously did not care for that remark while Esther continues to stare at him, possibly in interest.

Great stuff but the scene was treated as throoway filler in what was already a bloated episode.  It should have been a two pparter at least.
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« Reply #422 on: 05-26-2021 08:52 »

Hey, apparently a bunch of Futurama/Disenchantment voice actors are going to be part of a benefit where they are going to read quotes from famous politicians over the decades. The event is going to be hosted by David X. Cohen and will have other notable Futurama alumnae like Pactric M. Verrone attached. It's this Thursday, the 27th of May, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time and they'll have a question and answer segment following the program. It costs $50 to attend via video conference and benefits Field Team Six (the organization specifically targets American citizens to register as Democrats, so it does have a political agenda). I would like to see it, but $50 is $10 short of a digital copy of New Pokémon Snap, and I can't afford neither.

I really wished there was a specific news aggregate just for Futurama. Facebook sucks, Twitter sucks, Instagram sucks, everything sucks. Futurama: World's of Tomorrow almost escaped my notice because of how unorganized news can be.

I think a lot of problems with thelre contraberoversial episodes were just down to the fact they were too short to do their ideas justice, and why they often felt unsatisfying on some level.  A perfect example is afta. Tbatb was another as I just couldn't bring myself to really care about Bender and Ben and their relationship: instead I just spent the episode wondering what excuse the writers would come up with to shuffle Ben off and the characters would never mention him again and the excise was even more cheap and contrived then I was expecting.  It also felt like several episodes smashed together: Bender and Bev having their angry sexual tension, Bender hooking up with Ruth and Esther and their Ill fated tryst, Fry's tacked on slurm subplot, and then finally Bender dealing with fatherhood with Ben and the robots can have robot babies idea.   Too much squeezed into twenty minutes. 

Futurama really needed to have longer episodes for stories like this because a twenty minute runtime is too limiting: or at the least have arcs that carry across episodes more.  Even though I absolutely love Ruth and Esther and really enjoyed how differently their segment was done in terms of much of their dialogue being left to interpretation and the use of dramatic lighting and camera angles which is not setting we have always seen on this show for example when Esther and Bendy Boo are making out, you can hear Ruth make a sad disappointed grunt and the camera shift to her perspective: we see the back of Benders head and Esther fluttering her eyelashes at him. Later the camera shifts to Fry's perspective and we see Bender glaring at him, Ruth staring at him in shock and Esther just looking him.  Then when Bender calls them skanks, Ruth looks at Bender because she obviously did not care for that remark while Esther continues to stare at him, possibly in interest.

Great stuff but the scene was treated as throoway filler in what was already a bloated episode.  It should have been a two pparter at least.
I too agree that Futurama would benefit from longer runtimes and multi-parters, but I don't feel like this is the thread to discuss that. Pretty sure there's a thread specifically for Futurama discussion...
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« Reply #423 on: 06-20-2021 16:43 »

Hey, apparently a bunch of Futurama/Disenchantment voice actors are going to be part of a benefit where they are going to read quotes from famous politicians over the decades. The event is going to be hosted by David X. Cohen and will have other notable Futurama alumnae like Pactric M. Verrone attached. It's this Thursday, the 27th of May, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time and they'll have a question and answer segment following the program. It costs $50 to attend via video conference and benefits Field Team Six (the organization specifically targets American citizens to register as Democrats, so it does have a political agenda). I would like to see it, but $50 is $10 short of a digital copy of New Pokémon Snap, and I can't afford neither.

I found a copy of this on Youtube, posted by the organizing group, it's 1h36m. No youtube copy of Pokémon Snap, unfortunately :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqAmz7IPB2I
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« Reply #424 on: 06-20-2021 19:18 »

Hey, apparently a bunch of Futurama/Disenchantment voice actors are going to be part of a benefit where they are going to read quotes from famous politicians over the decades. The event is going to be hosted by David X. Cohen and will have other notable Futurama alumnae like Pactric M. Verrone attached. It's this Thursday, the 27th of May, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time and they'll have a question and answer segment following the program. It costs $50 to attend via video conference and benefits Field Team Six (the organization specifically targets American citizens to register as Democrats, so it does have a political agenda). I would like to see it, but $50 is $10 short of a digital copy of New Pokémon Snap, and I can't afford neither.

I found a copy of this on Youtube, posted by the organizing group, it's 1h36m. No youtube copy of Pokémon Snap, unfortunately :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqAmz7IPB2I
Aw, kickass! Thank you!
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« Reply #425 on: 06-21-2021 08:35 »

No youtube copy of Pokémon Snap, unfortunately :)

You could watch Korone playing Pokémon Snap on YouTube.

It's probably more entertaining than playing the game yourself anyway.
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« Reply #426 on: 06-22-2021 01:29 »

Sorry David, I prefer to play games. Plus, I don't know Japanese beyond the clichés.

The Field Team Six video didn't have really any news regarding Futurama other than David X. Cohen saying the best way for Futurama to return is for somebody with some significant leverage in the Walt Disney Company to vouch for it. Welp, time for me to invest in Disney stock. It's not like I haven't been interested either in investing in Disney as a die-hard Disnerd (myheartbelongstodisney.com). It's just so expensive right now, I'm broke, I've lost some faith in the company (still love them though), and I'm waiting for their inevitable crash.
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« Reply #427 on: 06-22-2021 03:31 »

They also mentioned that there could be more table reads at the SF Sketch Fest, which apparently was a thing last year. Thin gruel but infinitely more than nothing.

It was good to see the band back together though. The mini-radiorama bit they did (with the similar but legally distinct characters) was funny. If radiorama was the only new scripted futurama from now on, I'd be happy. Just an unrealistic dream, of course, given the situation with the rights to the show.
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« Reply #428 on: 06-22-2021 03:45 »

I never knew about Sketch Fest. I can't find out where in the Bay Area it is held, but it does pique my interest. Maybe I should plan a trip to San Francisco sometime and attend a show. My brother lives out there now, so it would be a good excuse for me to go visit him too.
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« Reply #429 on: 06-23-2021 01:05 »

Nothing's scheduled now, I suspect they'll post the details later... their site has a mailing list signup (https://sfsketchfest.com/).

Travelling there would be really nice, you should post photos if you do end up going.
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« Reply #430 on: 07-06-2021 04:01 »

Thanks zappdingbat. If I go, I'll try to get some evidence of my attendance, like a newspaper from the day of in front of John DiMaggio or something.

Anyways, I don't know if this constitutes news as much as it is speculation, but Billy West entertained the idea of a return on Disney+. It's a short read: https://www.comicbookmovie.com/animated_features/futurama-star-billy-west-on-a-possible-disney-revival-favorite-characters-and-the-shows-ending-exclusive-a186172

West says he loves the writing the most and seems like he really got to exercise his acting ability in Futurama. I totally agree- he's done some very thought-provoking scenes in Futurama as Fry. If I ever got to write my dream story for Futurama, I would have West put in some real somber emotion into Fry for a scene. Regardless, I love hearing that West loved acting for the series.
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« Reply #431 on: 07-08-2021 16:44 »

Don't worry about it, I wasn't thinking of evidence, rather a way to vicariously attend.

That article is encouraging, now all that's needed is sign-off from a multitude of lawyers and executives :).
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« Reply #432 on: 07-08-2021 20:13 »

And maybe some crisis to motivate people to act...perhaps a giant flaming ball of garbage in space.

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« Reply #433 on: 10-15-2021 22:37 »

Katey Sagal recovering after being struck by a car

Don't worry; she's okay.

This isn't really Futurama news, but it made more sense to post it here than in Offtopic.
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« Reply #434 on: 12-09-2021 22:54 »

Katey Sagal recovering after being struck by a car

Don't worry; she's okay.

This isn't really Futurama news, but it made more sense to post it here than in Offtopic.

OH my goodness!!! I'm glad to hear she'll be okay.
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« Reply #435 on: 02-09-2022 21:55 »

So yeah, we're back?

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/futurama-revival-hulu-1235176203/
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« Reply #436 on: 02-09-2022 22:03 »


So yeah, we're back?

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/futurama-revival-hulu-1235176203/

I really dont know if i should be excited or not. Maybe third time will be the charm?
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« Reply #437 on: 02-09-2022 22:08 »

Good.
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« Reply #438 on: 02-09-2022 22:26 »

I really dont know if i should be excited or not. Maybe third time will be the charm?

My thoughts exactly! I’m gonna keep my expectations real low—like, lower than low—and then I can only be pleasantly surprised from there.
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« Reply #439 on: 02-09-2022 22:31 »

This feels like a fool me eight times or more kind of situation.  I understand why others might feel different, but the movies were kind of lacklustre, end the two additional seasons were more miss than hit.  So my reaction is more of a why? at this stage.

My general understanding is that Hulu is desperate for subscribers, that they are grasping at straws at this stage.  I would not be surprised if it only lasts for the twenty episodes on order.

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According to an individual with knowledge of the project, the producers are hopeful DiMaggio will return. Should that not happen, Bender will be recast.

Great, why bother without DiMaggio?  I definitely am not optimistic.  Though, with my expectations low, it will be easy to impress me, I guess.

All those considerations besides, I kind of feel like time has passed Futurama.  It was a great show from the turn of the century, if not almost timeless today.  The two successor seasons were far more hanging themselves of timely references, making them feel dated almost immediately.

I still quote the show on a daily basis, but primarily from the first four seasons.  Just like Star Wars: Episode VI should have been the last Star Wars movie made, so should "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" have been the last Futurama episode.  If for no other reason, that it was an excellent episode to end the show on.
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