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Killerfox

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well he alonjg with David x were the ones that pretty much created the characters and the whole world after that i guess they suppervised the stoyboards too keep it inside the general idea
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Beamer

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Well, according to the credits - he's the Executive Producer. However, judging by some of the things said on the DVD commentary, he sounds more like a supervisor to the show.
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M Jackson
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Don't ever doubt Matt Groenings input. Futurama would be a drastically different show without him. The whole thing stinks of pure Groening. (that's a good thing)
"I love the smell of Groening in the morning. Smells like, victory."
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Teral

Helpy McHelphelp
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I guess someone had to sign the paychecks, fend of the hoardes of rampaging FOX execs and lobby for a better timeslot. Then again David X Cohen is listed as Executive Producer as well, and judging on the audio commentaries he had a finger in virtually everything at The Curiosity Company. Writer meetings, selecting scripts, casting voice actors, table reads, writing episodes, you-name-it. If it was possible, I'm sure he'd be all over Rough Draft Studios as well.  Sound slike Matt took care of business and David ran production on a daily basis. Ofcourse they both fleshed out the show and set up the overall stary-archs.
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User_names_suck
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but its weird you also get on the credits
Producers co-producers produced by.
i mean how many people are nesseacery to make a show.
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Strit

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Without Matt, it wouldn't be Futurama. He has a tremendous influence on the show, the plot and all the characters.
Sorry for my bad english, i'm from denmark, so...
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Anarchist

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He created the original concept of the show and the characters, and he's an exec. And, don't forget, without Groening, FOX might not have hated Futurama so much.
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Teral

Helpy McHelphelp
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Ah, yes taking quotes out context. Always fun on the bun. Originally posted by rikki_rakko: Why on earth would you even think that David being all over RDS would make Futurama better? Get a clue, dude.
And where, pray tell, did I ever indicate I thought it would make Futurama a better show? Additionally, the smilie might indicate the line wasn't meant to be taken all that serious. I was talking about David's energetic enthusiasm for the show, how he was involved in pretty much every stage of the show at the Curiosisty Company.
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MonkeyLord

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I think he came up with the idea, drew some pictures and called it a day. Then FOX "accidentally" stumbles on his work and makes a show out of it. He then makes sure everythings o.k. in the show, goes home, does it again the next day. Takes a vacation every now and then and he's done. I'm not saying he's not important, I'm just saying he has a pretty routine job there, is very important and is recognized for the work he's done in the past. He really doesn't need a big job there to keep his career going.
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Beamer

DOOP Secretary

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MonkeyLord - that's not how it happened at all. He said he wanted to make a sci-fi/comedy cartoon, and he made it alongside David. One they had the pilot all set out, THEY approached Fox and pitched the idea. Since The Simpsons was such a big hit, Fox immediately ordered 13 episodes. The way the show began was no accident.
Anyway, there's no doubt Matt does contribute to the series. Just listen to the commentary for A Big Piece Of Garbage - he was the one who came up with the joke where Fry misses the button. Also, on the Featurette of the Season One DVD, when one of the staff is going on about the storyboards, she mentions that the final professional version is the one that "Matt and the writers get."
This would lead me to think he's just really a supervisor of sorts to the series. He comes in and aproves scripts. He DOES contribute things to the episodes, although the only one he has a credit of writing on is the first one, alongside David.
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User_names_suck
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he wrote the missing the button joke? i loved that.
he wrote the joke of the record vault combination being "3" as well
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Anarchist

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I'm pretty sure Cohen has enough power to have himself removed too, but he probably *wanted* to be in that shot.
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Teral

Helpy McHelphelp
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He's an internet guy playing a FPS computer game, I'm sure he loved every minute of it. Ironicly it only lasted a few seconds.
Kaplan and Keeler would probably have no problems getting themself remmoved either, but thumb up for being good sports about it. What with being portrayed as geeky internet nerds (who're afraid of women) and all.
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User_names_suck
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on simpsons homer and marge are in art gallery and there's a picture by matt groening up and homer says "matt groening? what's he doing in a museum, he can barley draw." so i reckon he can take insults. thing is i don't think he looks nerdy enough anyway.
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