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Nasty Pasty

DOOP Secretary

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Originally posted by Prince: What the worst that could happen? i dunno, the book could suck ass and the readers could get papercuts and sue FOX and they'd be all pissed at the publishers for making the book based on a dead TV show and the blame would eventually rest on Matt Groening and he's run out of town and his possessions burned by and angry mob of FOX executives, papercut victims, and book publishers. And after all that, Groening isnt gonna make anymore episodes because he now hates Futurama as much as FOX and the rest. I guess that'd be pretty bad...
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Coop

Professor

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This wouldn't work because Futurama worked well visually too. The gags wouldn't be as funny.
The difference between shows like Red Dwarf and Futurama is that Futurama has comedy driven storylines. Which means the actual plot itself is just to move the jokes along. So it would be kind of hard to take it seriously enough to read a novel about it.
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Dr. Morberg

Professor

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Originally posted by paranoir87: I think a graphic novel would be a good idea but just a regular novel wouldn't work. But we kind of already have Futurama graphic novels in the form of comic books.
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Cap´n Skusting

Liquid Emperor
 
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Originally posted by Spacedal11: I would love reading a Futurama novel. I'm gonna start a Tomb Raider novel as we speak. Amulet of Power? That was a fun read. Not War and Peace, but I wasn't expecting that.. I haven't read the second one yet. A Futurama novel? A novel idea! I'd read it for sure. Get somebody like Harlan Elison to write one - you just know he'd give us a great Bender.
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Tiberius

Delivery Boy
 
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« Reply #54 on: 08-05-2004 23:34 »
« Last Edit on: 08-06-2004 00:00 »
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"Good news, everyone!"
Fry looked up from the game of two-player solitaire he was losing against Bender. Bender, seeing Fry was distracted, whistled quietly and pushed his cards onto fry's pile.
"Today we're going to Afriocon 9," continued the Professor, sitting down at his usual seat at the head of the Planet Express conference table.
"Oh, I've heard of that planet!" said Leela. "DOOP has protected the entire world as one giant zoo."
"I thought no one was allowed on Africon 9 because the ecosystem is so fragile," said Amy, looking and sounding confused. "Even the slightest interference could be disasterous."
Fry, now even more confused than Amy was, turned to the Professor. "So we're not going to interfere?"
The Professor rubbed his hands together happily. "Oh, Lord, yes," he said gleefully. "We're going to interfere a lot. We have to deliver a very rare animal for the breeding program."
Bender looked up. "Rare?" he said. "We're delivering a smart Human?"
"No," said Farnsworth. "Those are only rare on Earth. We're delivering a Pruple Fruit Snake."
Bender sat bolt upright at the news and spat out a mouthful of warm beer. "Ai! Those are dangerous!"
Professor Farnsworth dismissed Bender with a wave of his hand. "Oh, nonsense," he said. "They're only dangerous if you're a strappleberry." Suddenly thinking that there was a small possibility that the robot beside him WAS a strappleberry, he leaned over, sniffed Bender's metal head, then licked his cheek. "Nope, you're a robot. You'll be fine."
He stood, pushing his chair back. It squealed across the floor. "Zoidberg is giving the snake a checkup now."
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Dr Zoidberg looked up as the door to his office slid open. "Hello Humans and assorted creatures," he said, raising his claws and smiling behind his tentacles.
"How's the snake, Zoidberg?" asked Farnsworth.
Zoidberg looked at him blankly for a moment. "The snake? Ah yes, the snake!" Zoidberg waddled around to the other side of the examination bench. The snake laying on it turned its head to follow him. "Apart from being pregnant, the snake's fine."
The Professor shook his fists angrily. "Oooh, Zoidberg you fool, the snake's a male! How could he be pregant?"
Zoidberg stepped back in fear and raised his claws to cover his face. "It wasn't me this time, I swear!"
"Professor, how are we going to get the snake to Africon 9?" asked Amy.
"In a box," said Farnsworth, holding out his hand, palm up. On his palm sat a tiny, intricate model of a box, folded out of a delicately patterned paper.
Leela leaned forward to look at the tiny box. "You're going to put that ginormous snake in that teeny box?"
The Professor peered at the box on his hand. "Oh, my no," he said. "We're using that box over there." With his other hand, he pointed at a much larger box next to the far wall.
"So what's with the little box?" asked Fry.
"I was bored last night and I was thinking about origami," explained the Professor. "Bender, put the snake in the box."
"What?!" exclaimed Bender. "Why me?"
"You're the only one strong enough to lift the damned thing," said Farnsworth.
Bender sighed heavily and stepped forward reluctantly. "Aw, there better be a good reason why we're not using the anti-grav," he said.
"Oh, there is."
"What is it?"
"I lost it," said Farnsworth. He turned to the others. "Fry, Leela, Amy, come. We must prepare the ship!"
As the three Humans and one cyclops left Zoidberg's office, the snake turned it's great purple head to Bender and licked its lips with a sharply forked tongue.
"Oh, he likes you!" orgasmed Zoidberg.
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After three days of travel, two if you didn't count the delay caused by Fry holding the map upside down, the delivery crew of Planet Express arrived at the planet Africon 9. It was a green planet, covered by lush tropical rainforests, drier savannas and arid deserts. Sensors indicated that there was an above-average number of insect species living on the planet, and as such, Zoidberg was anticipating a feast.
Leela leaned over to the control panel and activated the intra-ship intercom. "All hands, prepare for touchdown," she exclaimed glancing at the numbers counting down to landing. "Planetary surface in fifteen seconds! Ten...nine..."
The Planet Express ship lurched as it slammed heavily into the ground. Through the windows, they could see a great cloud of dust and gravel that spread out over the landing pad.
"Leela!" Fry glared at her.
"Sorry," said Leela sheepishly. "I was looking at the wrong clock. THIS one's the landing countdown."
"Which one were you looking at?" asked Fry.
"The oven timer," Leela told him.
There was a distant DING and they heard Zoidberg cry out with joy from the galley. "Hooray! The potatoes are done!"
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I think a Futurama novel could work. Sure, it would be different, a different style of humour, but I think that if it is properly done, adn if the characters are true to what was on the show, then it could be very sucessful.
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JBERGES

Urban Legend
  
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Originally posted by Venus: I'd definately read a novel he wrote. And I’d gladly write one if I had the time…and ambition...and ample funding... and a cool pen that glows in the dark. I don't see the issue with incorporating visual jokes into the writing. Break away from the prose, and quote the sign or object you’re talking about. I see it done all the time in fanfiction, and it works fine. To answer the question, I would read a book if it was written, hopefully by someone better than me. Also, Venus, don’t you have like 85 pages of story written now? That’s almost a book right there, albeit drama.
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Fraser

Crustacean

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I would read it And for some reason when i read a simpsons or futurama comic i can imagine it happening so i'd like that i could probably imagine it on a book and if they were going to make a book it should be actual show writers producers all that not like the books about certain tv shows where the jokes aren't as good because it's written by some author never thats never been heard of any way alot of the stuff i type doesn't make sense but i wonder if this makes sense
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