oh my god oh my god futurama is back!!

that’s right. you read it right. futurama has officially made the “family guy” comeback that we’ve all been waiting for.

futurama has been signed for TWO more seasons just to start, that’s 26 new episodes. the new season is said to pick right after the storyline of the last futurama movie “into the wild green yonder.”

writer/creator david x. cohen had some reassuring words about the upcoming writing direction:

“what we will try to do is go a little bit back to pure comedy, characters and sci-fi.”

that’s good to hear. i really liked the four movies that they released, but they were a bit out there. now granted it is a show that takes place 1000 years in the future with aliens, mutants, robots, monsters, and disembodied heads in jars of people from our time, but the direction that they took the movies was less grounded then the series was. it’s just like how the simpsons became; they exhausted all of the everyday story lines so they started doing wacky out-of-this-world stuff. i’m really excited to see what they come up with, especially considering how they resolved most of the key story arcs.

this post doesn’t even touch on a fraction of how excited i am about this. this is like how normal people would feel about having kids or whatever the devil you people usually do.

the new series will start sometime in the middle of 2010.

stay tuned for updates.

quote of the day #7

nibbler (to fry): you are the last hope of the universe.

fry: so i really am important? how i feel when i’m drunk is correct?

nibblonian (to fry): yes. except the dave matthews band doesn’t rock.

-futurama, season four, episode 64 “the why of fry”

the return of the quote of the day

i got burnt out on doing the anthony kiedis quotes and i’m sorry because i know how much you guys loved them. i was trying to choose who would be the next singer whom i would be quoting. i decided that i’m not going to designate the quotes to one specific person, i’m just going to choose random quotes from random people; and they won’t even always be music related, sometimes not even from famous people, they’ll just be insane things that i heard that day. honestly, the quotes will probably mostly be from either the simpsons or futurama for obvious reasons.

the quote of the day thing started for me at one of my old jobs. the assistant manager and i would write funny quotes and facts on a board that was designated for important announcements. everyone there loved it, so it just stuck. it became one of those things that people would look forward to. because at a shitty job, it’s the little things that keep your spirits up. so as i come across entertaining or intellectually stimulating quotes i will share them with you.

enjoy.

quote of the day #1

“burn on that old crew. the only things they did better than us were suck and die.”

-turanga leela from futurama episode #66, season four, “the sting”

new releases for 11/4 futurama!

futurama’s third of four movies- bender’s game (official trailer)

this week is extremely slow, music-wise, as far as new releases go. so slow that in fact it has stopped. the only notable new release for tomorrow (and that does not mean that it is the least notable) is the third of the four futurama movies.

futurama is another one of those brilliant shows that was way before it’s time and canceled prematurely as a result. just like with family guy, after dvd sales were so monumental it got the brainless exects at fox thinking, “duh, hey, people like this show after all.” unlike family guy however, futurama wasn’t picked up for further seasons. matt groening and the crew with futurama instead were allowed to make four full length movies that would later be chopped up and aired as another season of sorts.

the first two movies were great. just like the simpsons though futurama has become more and more outlandish as the episodes went on. granted the basis for this show is as outlandish as it gets: guy is cryogenically frozen, wakes up in the year 3000, befriends a surly robot, a cyclops, a humanoid lobster, a native martian clutz, a jamaican accountant (whom he first thought was “an outer space potato man”), and his great great great great great great great great… nephew professor hubert j. farnsworth, and has fantastic adventures with them. like i said later in the series futurama has become more outlandish like the simpsons. i guess once you’ve exhausted all the real world based scenarios, then it’s time to drive to machu picchu (yes i said drive) looking for bart, because bart strapped a tracking device to the leg of a bird that coincidentally happened to be migrating to machu picchu. don’t get me wrong, i love the simpsons and futurama, i was merely stating that i prefer the earlier episodes. by the way if you were curious or didn’t know, futurama was canceled because they wanted its’ time slot for football… you heard me.

so after you go vote tomorrow, if you haven’t done so already, go pick up bender’s game.

a great website for everything futurama, gotfuturama.com.

bender’s game

coming out this tuesday, november 4th, is the third installment of the four futurama movies.

plot summary, three words: d… and… d.

official trailer

the beast with a billion backs

this says that it is the “official” trailer, but i’m not sure. it’s a trailer nonetheless.

the second of the four futurama movies, “the beast with a billion backs,” is due out on dvd june 24th, 2008. you can pre-order it now from amazon. i’m super excited. the first futurama movie, “benders’ big score,” was fantastic. i would love to see a “family guy-esque” comeback to tv, but i will settle for the movies.