Futurama is back.
It was already coming back as four direct-to-DVD movies starting in 2007, but Comedy Central has guarenteed at least 13 episodes for 2008.
I know none of the rest of you care, but so what? I GET BACK MY FAVORITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME!!!
This should be no surprise to you give the art I use on this blog, as well as many of the episode titles of Futurama:
"Roswell that Ends Well," When they mistakenly go back to Roswell, N.M., in 1947.
"Crimes of the Hot," the Al Gore global warming episode.
"A Head in the Polls," when Richard Nixon's head runs for the presidency of Earth.
On the surface it's easy to see why people avoided the show: silly sci-fi cartoon with characters who aren't all that smart. But it's a very clever show, working in obvious parodies of "2001," Star Trek" and "Star Wars," but also "Midnight Cowboy," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "The Cider House Rules."
And the show has taught me so much:
It's shown me what a man with a cannon in his chest can do.
It's taught me that the quickest way to a girl's bed is through her parents. Have sex with them and you're in.
And most importantly, it's taught me that the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock.
So now, or more accurately another year or so, my education can continue.
LF: $103.35
6 comments:
Ask KC how much TV I watch and you know why I’ve only seen a few episodes of this show.
Mostly what I wanted to bring to your attention is that in a recent issue of “Science News” there was an article about how writers for “The Simpsons” will slip in some mathematical jokes from time to time. They got in the habit of doing that when they wrote for Futurama where they felt free to load up a show with mathematical and other geeky humor. For the “Simpsons”, they have had to go more under the radar.
The other thing I wanted to mention is that when people hear that I used to go to Dead shows and Phish shows, they will sometimes ask if I go to the Dave Matthews Band. I try to be kind, so I usually will say something like this, “Umm, no. Do you have a congential brain defect or did you just learn to be dumb?”
You know, if Futurama’s music advise is that good, maybe I should check out their sex advise too.
Oh, there were math jokes galore in Futurama. There were the ones I could get, such as New New York's "Madison Cube Garden" and when Bender the robot dreams in binary, but when he had a nightmare he was sure he saw a 2.
You might have read this, but a lot of the writers had advance degrees in math and computer science, I think at least two were from Berkeley.
There were plenty of others that I would have never gotten, but maybe you would have, such as Bender and his twin's serial numbers: they were the sum of two cubes.
Congrats, George. I felt a little joy for you when I saw the news this morning.
Thanks, Erin. It's weird how a TV show that will air in two years has put me in such a good mood.
I missed the whole Futurama thing, really. Then I caught a couple of episodes on the tail-end and thought it was really, really funny. Good mix of straightforward satire and subtle wit.
One of these days I'll show you one of the Al Gore episodes, kc.
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