Good News, Everyone!

[Ensign Steve]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYtLJsUOAk

[Cynical-Chick]

:eager:

[Stormlight]

What is it? What is it? YouTube is blocked at work! :glare:

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

i love that show :)

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

it's trailer for a Futurama movie coming out on dvd.

[livius drusus]

Hypnotoad told me to buy it and therefore I shall.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:flowerdance: :excited: :flowerdance:

[curses]

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!
:slide: :slide: :slide: :chairdance:

[Sock Puppet]

Is that Billy West doing the Phil Hartmann impression, as well?

[Kevlar]

"The new idiots at FOX..." :roflmao:

[wei yau]

Is this going to be directed by Brett Ratner or McG?

[wei yau]

Is that Billy West doing the Phil Hartmann impression, as well?

Answer here:


The part of Zapp Brannigan was created for Phil Hartman but Hartman died before the show started. West assumed the role. Billy West has described the voice itself of Zapp Brannigan as an imitation of Phil Hartman, but described the actual vocalizations of the character as being based on old-time radio announcers. However, West has contradicted himself somewhat in other interviews in saying that he was not, in fact, imitating Hartman.

Futurama has been renewed by Comedy Central for at least 13 new episodes broken into four direct-to-video movies, the first of which is Futurama: Bender's Big Score. West is confirmed to reprise his original roles.

[livius drusus]

It's available for pre-order on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Futurama-Benders-Score-John-DiMaggio/dp/B000UZDO62/ref=pd_dp_1c_1_t_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=dvd). The release date is November 27. :hyper:

[Javaman]

Hypnotoad told me to buy it and therefore I shall.
Perhaps you need more than one copy. Some for gifts, perhaps?

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3038&d=1195301917

[livius drusus]

YES. OF. COURSE. I. DO. MUST. POUR. MONEY. INTO. GROENIG'S. COFFERS.

[Adam]

It's available for pre-order on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Futurama-Benders-Score-John-DiMaggio/dp/B000UZDO62/ref=pd_dp_1c_1_t_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=dvd). The release date is November 27. :hyper:

Sweet! Thanks for paying attention to release dates so I don't have to. I so preordered that.

[beyelzu]

yay 4 movies.

hells yes.

[beyelzu]

shit i made my vm post and i wasnt bitching about anything,

that doesnt make sense.

[Adam]

Why do I love Futurama, you ask? Mostly because they can pull of shit like this:

Al Gore, Coolio and Sarah Silverman guest-star.

[viscousmemories]

shit i made my vm post and i wasnt bitching about anything,

that doesnt make sense.
:glare:

[beyelzu]

dont be that way baby

[Ensign Steve]

Anybody seen it yet? I have! :D It was awesome. There were so many callbacks. I think there was a callback to almost every episode made. Nah, not really, but I can't think of any continuing story arc that wasn't addressed, except for possibly Flexo.

I figured out "the twist" pretty early on, which I am proud of myself because even though they lay it on pretty quick, I am usually pretty bad at that stuff.

My favorite part was the musical number with Santa Claus, Chanukah Zombie, and Kwanzaa Bot.

[InTheServiceOfZeke]

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[Ensign Steve]

Oh my god, that's the whole movie!

Quick, save it off before Google has to take it down.

Thanks, Michael! :)

[Adam]

Amazon delivered with the quickness, I got my copy last night. I thought it started out a little slow...basically, the first half hour or so came off as an excuse to cram in callbacks to the original series, which I can't imagine is going to play well when they cut the movie into four parts for syndication. As a Futurama geek who hasn't seen new material for four years, though, I did love picking out all the references.

Other good things: finally seeing Chaunakah Zombie in person, the glorious return of Al Gore, and turning the Cryoenics lab on New Year's Eve 2000 into Grand Central Station. Also, is it just me? Or is the full length episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad the best. DVD. extra. evar?

So, ES, and anyone else who's seen it, when did you figure out the twist? I think I'm slow. I didn't get it until 'Lars' and Leela were in the Head Museum at night and he said something about waiting for her all his life.

[Ensign Steve]

So, ES, and anyone else who's seen it, when did you figure out the twist? I think I'm slow. I didn't get it until 'Lars' and Leela were in the Head Museum at night and he said something about waiting for her all his life.

Exact same time. When they were at the hall of screaming skulls and Lars said "You're the woman I've waited my whole life for." I am also very slow with these things. I was proud of myself that I figured it out at all, because I really am that dumb. I did notice very early on that they had the same voice, but I figured that was just a function of their having the same actor. I mean I never suspected that Bender, Sal, and Mr. Panucci were the same person.

I haven't seen the hypnotoad episode, I don't have the DVD ... yet. It's on my Christmas list.

[Adam]

Well, don't let me get your hopes too high about the Hypnotoad episode. It's basically just a full half hour of Hypnotoad doing his googly eyes at you, with miscellaneous sitcom framing devices interspersed (i.e. cut to an external shot of a futuristic diner, with Seinfeld music playing, cut back to Hyponotaod googling away).

The funny thing is, I picked up that Billy West was voicing Lars, but the voice was different enough for me to me to not even think about him being future Fry, even though I knew there was something strange about him and assumed it had something to do with all the time travel. I loved the way they explained the voice difference away in two words, though..."My larynx!"

[Ensign Steve]

Well, don't let me get your hopes too high about the Hypnotoad episode. It's basically just a full half hour of Hypnotoad doing his googly eyes at you, with miscellaneous sitcom framing devices interspersed (i.e. cut to an external shot of a futuristic diner, with Seinfeld music playing, cut back to Hyponotaod googling away).
That sounds brilliant. :clap:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I finally got a copy and watched it!

:excited:

"Killing" Hermes in the opening scene was brilliant! And that really was Al Gore voicing himself. Gods, if only he had been so engaging and funny in 2000...

[Adam]

Gore has voiced himself in a couple of Futurama episodes, and he's been consistently hilarious. His daughter was a writer on the show for a couple seasons, which is presumably how they managed to score his time. If you haven't already, definitely check out the global warming episode (Crimes of the Hot, I think?). Al Gore speaking the line "I have ridden the mighty moon worm!" never fails to crack me up.

ETA: That episode is also the source of the global warming cartoon featured in An Inconvenient Truth, now that I think of it.

[Ensign Steve]

It also won some sort of environmental award, too. But Adam already knew that, as he obviously listens to the commentary as well.

[Adam]

I usually don't listen to creator commentary, but Matt Groening and David Cohen crack me up so, yes, I've listened to all the Futurama commentaries. That's not how I know about Kristin Gore, though...I just know that cause I'm cool.

[Ensign Steve]

Some of my favorite commentaries are the ones with Tress MacNiel. That bitch is hilarious.

[Ensign Steve]

Comedy central is showing all four parts of Bender's Big Score on March 23 from 8 to 10 p.m. Whee!

So sayeth the guide. (http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_schedule/index.jhtml?seriesId=23961&forever=please)