Futurama Returns!

Random BedHead Ed writes "Good news everyone! After a five year vanishing act the sci-fi spoof Futurama returned this week with a direct-to-DVD feature. Wired has an article about its return, including the story of the show's origins, a behind the scenes gallery, interviews with creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and some interesting trivia. For example, did you know the ship has an overbite like a Simpson's character? Or that the show's title is taken from an exhibition at the 1939 Worlds Fair?." We just talked about this a bit the other day, too, in reference to a great interview on TVSquad.

When's the next one come out?

[tlhIngan]

I believe there were 16 episodes that were made (and Bender's Big Score covers 1-4 - the production numbers mark it as season 5).

However, I can't seem to find any details on the next one in the series... I'd love to mark it in my calendar so I don't forget.

Re:When's the next one come out?

[Anonymous Coward]

On the audio commentary, they said about six months.

Re:And may I be the first to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! [r33b.net] (now with original sound)
                                                                                                 

Re:Great show, decent movie

[Rosyna]

I'll never watch "Jurassic Bark" again. Saddest. Ending. EVER.

Eh, spoiler, but the movie makes it a lot less sad. Perhaps it's for people that couldn't watch the episode without crying.

binary (possible spoiler-warning)

[bumby]

A previous episode of futurama has had a binary-joke. Benders room number is $ in binary ascii.
So when I saw the binary code here I instantly tried to figure out what it said. It turned out
the message was really IN the binary this time.

001100
010010
011110
100001
101101
110011

s/0/_/g
__11__
_1__1_
_1111_
1____1
1_11_1
11__11

It's the spaceship, from above! Fixed font would be recommended :/

CUNT! DAMN SPOILER!

[Anonymous Coward]

DAMN YOU! YOU CUNT!
I mean that from the bottom of my heart!
I'm so fucking mad that I put on caps lock!

SPOILER WARNING GOES IN THE SUBJECT LINE.

captcha text was "incurred"
YOU HAVE INCURRED MY WRATH!!!

Re:Great show, decent movie

[xenophrak]

The plot for that episode was taken from the tale of "Hachiko."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachiko [wikipedia.org]

Re:I downloaded it

[ross.w]

No, you can still get multi region players. When the Consumer magazine Choice tested DVD players recently, they marked down the ones that weren't multi-region

In a lot of cases though they'll play every region except 1, possibly because of that Free Trade shafting.

Basis of theme music

[Tronster]

Came across the link below on here, or possibly digg:
Psyché Rock [youtube.com]

It's the song "Psyché Rock" by Pierre Henry which has such a strong similarity to the main Futurama theme music, I'd find it hard to believe that it didn't inspire the theme.

Re:Forget the DVD!

[twistedsymphony]

1 week is fine but months or more? their loss.

It's not a technical issue, it's not even a marketing issue, it's a political issue.

There is a strict and time consuming certification process that needs to take place before you can sell media in the UK and other parts of Europe... Region coding aside I'm sure most studios wouldn't mind doing a simultaneous or release or a staggered release separated by only a few days, but when big brother needs to taste test everything before they let you have it... well that can cause massive delays.