2003 WGA Awards

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Nominations for the 2003 WGA Awards are due Wednesday.  You may remember that Ken Keeler won the 2002 award in the animation category for "Godfellas."  Is there anyone 'in the know' who knows if Futurama scripts have been submitted again this year?  If not, the writers need to get busy and get their scripts in by Wednesday.  The following episodes aired during the eligibility period:

"The Route of All Evil:" Dan Vebber
"A Taste of Freedom:" Eric Horsted
"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch:" Bill Odenkirk
"Less Than Hero:" Ron Weiner
"Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles:" Jeff Westbrook
"The Why of Fry:" David X. Cohen
"The Sting:" Patric Verrone
"The Farnsworth Parabox:" Bill Odenkirk
"Three Hundred Big Boys:" Eric Kaplan
"Spanish Fry:" Ron Weiner
"Bend Her:" Mike Rowe
"Obsoletely Fabulous:" Dan Vebber
"Bender Should Not be Allowed on TV:" Lewis Morton
"The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings:" Ken Keeler

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Can they only submit one Futurama script, or one script per writer, or can all of them be submitted, or what?

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It's one script per writer, so Vebber, Odenkirk, and Weiner would have to choose which script to send in.  But it doesn't matter how many Futurama scripts are sent in, as long as they're by different writers.

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Cool, The Sting, Devil's Hands, and Parbox would all do well, I think.

[Reply #4 on:]

I think Teenage mutant..., the why of fry, sting, parabox, and devil's hands would have big chances.

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I'm not sure about "The Why of Fry," since it contains so much previous Futurama continuity.  But I guess it couldn't hurt to submit it.  I just hope at least some of these writers have submitted their scripts.

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If it's just scripts? I think The Sting or Parabox or Devil's Hands...which concidently are the ones I'd submit for a regular nomination of best animated episdoe in general (such as for The Emmys).   

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Obsoletely fabulous, or the farnsworth parabox.  Blue zoidberg!!!!!!!!

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Well, the deadline has passed.  Let's hope some Futurama scripts were submitted.  I'm not sure when nominations will be announced, but the awards themselves are given out on 21 February.

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"The Sting" and Patric Verrone have been nominated!  Other nominees are an episode of Jimmy Neutron, an episode of King of the Hill, and three episodes of The Simpsons.

www.wga.org/pr/Awards/index.html

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3 Simpsons nominations? Out of a total of 6 nominees. Nice to see they aren't biased in the least.

Congrats to Verrone with the nomination. Good luck man, you deserve to win.

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Hurray for Verrone being nominated, "The Sting" was a brilliant piece of script-writing.

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the sting shoudl really do nicely. probably the best thought out episode from the series in my book.

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Originally posted by Teral:
3 Simpsons nominations?

Actually, it got three nominations last year too, when it was beaten by Futurama.  But last year's win may work against Futurama, since they might want to give it to something new.  (Last year was the first year time had the animation category, by the way.)

Out of all the other nominees I've only seen one, "My Mother the Carjacker" on The Simpsons.  I thought it was surprisingly decent for a new Simpsons episode (better than Emmy winner "Three Gays"), but "The Sting" was far, far better.  Still, no one act surprised if a Simpsons episode wins.  (We should be used to that by now.)

Incidentally, 19 January is also Katey Sagal's birthday.

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Sorry to be a bumb-arse but what are the WGA Awards?

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Writers Guild of America. It's the writers awarding the best work in their field the past year.

"Moe Bay Blues" is the only of the Simpsons episodes Ive seen, and it was a pleasant surprise (what else do you expect from an ex-Futurama writer), yet I still think "The Sting" should win. The win last year might work against it, but the WGA want their award to have any credibility they should judge the episodes on their own, not history.

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Helpy McHelphelp is right!
Thankyou Teral.

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I'm a little torn here.  I'll be rooting for Futurama regardless, since it'll need all the help it can get in terms of any kind of revival (new episodes or a movie or whatever) happening.  But in terms of episode quality, I'm not sure if I prefer "Moe Baby Blues" or "The Sting" actually.  They're both very, very strong episodes.  "My Mother the Carjacker" was great too, although "The Sting" was better then that one.  I don't really like "The Dad Who knew Too Little" at all.

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Futurama lost to "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" from The Simpsons.  That's actually the only one of the three Simpsons nominees I haven't seen, but I'm sure "The Sting" was better, etc etc.  It was certainly better than the other two nominees, at least; as I said elsewhere, I think "Moe Baby Blues" is very overrated.  Anyway, I just think they need to stop giving awards to The Simpsons.  But at least it wasn't "Three Gays of the Condo" again.

http://www.wga.org/pr/Awards/index.html

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Nooooooooo!

The Sting was absolutely brilliant. It deserved to have won! Stupid Simpsons - one show should only be allowed one nomination, it's just not fair. Anyway, did they do them in a particular order (ie, did The Sting come second, third...) or was it just winner/losers?

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Hmm...I can definetely say I'm disapointed with this.  Moe Baby Blues winning wouldn't be bad at all, and My Mother the Carjacker was good too (even if not as good as The Sting).

But The Dad Who Knew Too Little?  That came from season 14's bullshitting period, before it got to the good episodes.

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Originally posted by Action Jacktion:
Futurama lost to "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" from The Simpsons.   
 

GOD DAMNIT!!!!

Why must it lose to the Simpsons again and again? It doesn't make any sense! Come on! The Sting was a really, and I mean REALLY good episode(I'm a shipper.). One of the best. But it to lose to bad episodes of the Simpsons is just plain wrong.

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I bet the fact that Futurama was canned & the Simpsons is still on the air had a part to play in it...

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Stop yo' whining, The Sting was weak and uninteresting! I'm no shipper!

Although I haven't seen that Simpsons episode...

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Let's compare: (and I'm paraphrasing these quotes)

"All I need you to do... is wake up. Please, Leela, just wake up!"

vs.

"Let's go get some McNuggets!"

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Disappointing, but not unexpected (to lose to the Simpsons, that is. To lose to that specific episode IS a surprise... bordering on shock, even. I mean... c'mon! that has to be the weakest of the three Simpsons episodes, for sure worse than The Sting. Bah.).  I've pretty much given up hope of Futurama winning any more awards when up against The Simpsons... you have to wonder if the award comittee (or whatever) is even watching the same show as us. 

Forgive any spelling, grammatical, logical, or factual errors in the above post, I should have been in bed two hours ago...

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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
Stop yo' whining, The Sting was weak and uninteresting! I'm no shipper!

No it wasn't. The Sting was an intense, complex, mind-blowing and beautiful episode of Futurama. Besides, shippiness has nothing to do with it! Leela's love for Fry was only a small part of the overall storyline, which encompassed not only love / relationships / shippiness but mortality, guilt, suicide, insanity and many other aspects which made it a brilliant episode. Granted, there weren't as many funny bits in it as there usually are in Futurama eps, but its plot was so intense and amazing that all that was made up for.

But I digress: Damn you Simpsons! How could those judges be so blind? *sigh*

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I don't really like "The Sting" that much, and I thought "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" wasn't so bad. But if it were "Moe Baby Blues" that won, I would be OK with that. But "The Sting" should have won against "Knew Too Little."

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[sigh] I should've seen it coming. I have seen "Moe Baby Blues" and I could (not the same as would) accept it if that episode had won. But based on what I've read about "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" "The Sting" should've won.

And I'll echo AJ's words; at least it wasn't fricking "Three Gays On The Condo" again.

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To be fair though last year 'Godfellas' beat three simpsons episodes. The Writer Guild dont think oh futurama has been losing to simpsons a lot recentley, we should give it to futurama.
But this is pretty stupid that the weakest of the three simpsons episodes wins.
I dont think the actual writing in 'The Sting' is that impressive, its a great episode, but basically its just dream sequence after dream sequence which turns out to have all been a dream.
I think it deserved to win (well actually I haven't seen Moe baby blues) But just because its a Story on an epic Sci Fi scale doesn't mean the writing is actually better.

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Good point UNS, although by its nature, Sci-Fi is (or should be, at least) a more creative genre.

Also, nice to see you dumb things down yet again for your own arguments by calling "The Sting" just "dream sequence after dream sequence which turns out to have all been a dream." I think you know very well it's a bit more than that. 

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Of course I know that I brought up after the annies, as I said then its a possible criticism the judges used against it.

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Originally posted by alexvilagosh:
Stop yo' whining, The Sting was weak and uninteresting!

Weak? Uninteresting?

Where's Venus and the attack cat when you need em'?

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Yeah. Your guess as to how judges decide on these things, however, is as good as mine or anyone's. I always liked Billy West's explanation of the Emmy's selection process: "Have you ever been to one of those things? It's basically an open bar and a bunch of half-watched tapes." 

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Originally posted by Action Jacktion:
as I said elsewhere, I think "Moe Baby Blues" is very overrated.

And "The Sting" isn't?

"Carjacker" should've won! It was WAY better than all of those others!

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Originally posted by leelaholic:
And "The Sting" isn't?

No, not really. I thought it was thoroughly deserving of the praise it recieved.

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I disagree. I found "The Sting" to be a good episode, but nowhere NEAR as good as poeple say it is.

As I said, "Carjacker" IMO beats the living shit out of all the other nominations.

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Overrated? I laugh. It was underrated in my opinion. Instead of 89%, it should be 98%!

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Originally posted by leelaholic:
I disagree. I found "The Sting" to be a good episode, but nowhere NEAR as good as poeple say it is.

Why not?

 

Originally posted by spacepilot3000:
Overrated? I laugh. It was underrated in my opinion.

That's just stupid. 

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How about that, Leelaholic disagrees with the majority