And I now know that there is a god, and he is good.
Comedy Central has "renewed" it's contract with Futurama, but this time it won't be segmented versions of straight-to-DVD feature-length movies. That's right, kiddies, Futurama is back from the dead.
Comedy Central has ordered 26 -- count 'em 26 episodes of brand-spanking new Futurama. That is two seasons worth of Fry, Leela, Zoidberg, Hermes Conrad, Amy Wong, Professor Farnsworth, Zap Brannigan, Kif, Nibbler, that guy that always says "welcome to the world of tomorrow!" and of course, Scruffy. Oh, yeah, and a funny little muddle named Bender, too.
I am so excited that I can barely contain my enthusiastic little hops around the room in celebration, a la Tracy Flick in Election when she finds out she won the school presidency.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the new episodes will pick up where the end of Into the Wild Green Yonder when...well, I'm not sure if everyone has watched that Futurama movie, which has yet to air on Comedy Central (September). The article also mentions that so far everyone is expected to return cast and writing team-wise.
The new season of Futurama is expected in mid-2010.
I think a little shout out is warranted to Adult Swim for showing Comedy Central that there is an audience for Futurama.
I recently watched the final four-episode "movie" of the Return of Futurama, Into the Wild Green Yonder.
It was charming, and the ending makes me wonder if perhaps we may see more Futurama's in the, um, future. The ending is not exactly a cliffhanger per se, but you could read it that way. I for one would love, love, love more Futurama. It has become one of my favorite shows ever, and I write that while watching another favorite in its later years, The Simpsons (obviously). It's that crappy Frontier House send-up with Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley. So dumb.
Anyway, back to Into the Wild Green Yonder...
Leela's side boob
Leo Wong gets a big role in this one, and I really love him more and more as a character. Also, we find out that Amy was a junior champion mini-golfer. Fry reads minds and again has to save the Universe. Leela joins a radical group of eco-feminists. Bender sexes up the Mob Boss' wife. It's really charming.
And there is an equally charming special feature in which we get a glimpse behind the curtain on the making of Futurama.
Ok, one, not a fan of this ad. The video game renditions of the "Gillette champs" are, well, kinda creepy, especially the Federer character. Not to mention this ad is annoying. I am not keen on this ad campaign, despite being a golfer and a tennis player and a chick that shaves her legs.
Which brings me to my second point about this ad. It is downright misleading when it comes to the final message about how affordable the Gillette 5-bladed Fusion razor is. The claim in the commercial is that you can use the Fusion razor for about a dollar a week.
That "afforable" price is really the price per blade, and as there are five blades, it is actually $5 a week to use the Fusion, and this is if you are good about using one cartridge a week. And check it out, the display case says "Fusion Blades...as low as $1 a week." So it is there that we find our proverbial fine print, as the actual final print at the bottom of the screen doesn't specify anything about how they came to the price of $1/week, other than to say that it is based on "average national retail price and consumer consumption of refill cartridges."
The sad thing is that I am a fan of the Fusion, mostly because my boyfriend uses it and I can steal cartridges from him, saving me $5 a pop. Yes, it's true; a pack of 4 replacement cartridges runs around $20, and 20 divided by four is five. A cartridge a week and you have spent five dollars on it. Why in the world would Gillette even try to be coy about this? $5 a week for a good razor is still affordable, so why not either be honest about it, or simply omit this "affordability" come on.
You may have run across an earlier post regarding our beloved Nancy Cartwright, otherwise known as the voice of Bart Simpson, being a Scientologist and donating a very large sum of money to that crazy Thetan-wanting cause.
Now, it seems that Cartwright is using her talents to directly appeal to those who may be crazy enough to attend a Scientology function. Check it out
Conan has a soft spot in his heart for anything Scandanavian. Maybe it was the unbearable and uncanny resemblance to the Finnish PM, but somehow Conan got talked into doing an ad, a Super Bowl ad no less, for Bud Light.
This may be the only instance in which advertising doesn't work on me
Oh, I am not upset. And my post is more in jest, than anger. I am just tired of "celebrity endorsements." Does anyone actually allow themselves to be influenced by actors?
Hillary is already such a divisive candidate. And Barbra Streisand is not exactly a strong endorsement, in my opinion, or perhaps too "strong" as in working against rather than for. Rather akin to Jane Fonda, in the eyes of most Americans.
Funny, NPR's Talk of the Nation is going to talk about this very same topic right now.
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I couldn't agree with you more. He seems to put about as much weight in the grammy as Lisa does emmy's.