Futurama Cancelled (Again) 390
eldavojohn writes "Bad news everybody. According to Entertainment Weekly, Futurama has been cancelled (again). The renewal of Futurama back onto television was met with great fanfare but sadly it appears that Futurama's luck has run out for a second time. The second half of season 7 will air from June 19th to September 4th and that will be it."
No surprise, really. (Score:5, Interesting)
A couple of them even felt forced.
Better end a series on a decent note than to drag it on forever (Simpsons, Family Guy, etc)
Kickstarter (Score:4, Interesting)
Put you money where your mouth is.
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, imagine how much money a guest voice role on Futurama could fetch!!
who's gonna pick this up and make $BIG MONIE$$$?!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Right now, all the online content providers are looking to content creators to get brand lock-in.
Who's gonna bring Futurama back from the dead again?
Amazon?
Hulu?
Google?
Netflix?
It's inevitable.
Re:No surprise, really. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Put beavis and butthead in it's place that show (Score:4, Interesting)
Put beavis and butthead in it's place that show needs to come back.
It did back in 2011, but quietly died again shortly afterwards.
Re:No surprise, really. (Score:2, Interesting)
The big problem was reduced running time. Going from 21 minutes down to 18 really hurts storytelling.
Re:Kickstarter (Score:5, Interesting)
Is it bad that I read that in Bruce Willis's voice, complete with the trailing expletive?
Speaking of fun plots, they should have done one in which they unfreeze John McClane (voiced by Bruce Willis, of course). He falls for Leela, but keeps calling her Leeloo. Then he happens to be at a spaceport when they discover that an asteroid is heading towards earth, and the only way to stop it is to foil the terrorists who have taken the spaceport hostage so that he can steal a ship and mine the asteroid. Meanwhile, he is constantly being annoyed by Dr. Zoidberg who keeps talking in a high-pitched voice while wearing a light blond wig and a bizarre leopard-print suit.
Spoiler: it ends with the Earth blowing up when the asteroid hits it.
not necessarily the end (Score:4, Interesting)
TFA (maybe not this FA, but some FA I read this morning before I saw it on Slashdot) says that Groening is looking for another home for the show as "we still have more stories to tell". I know I know, they always say that, but all I'm saying is, Groening reportedly has not made the decision to irrevocably end the show. So it's not exactly like the browncoat thing, where sad overweight acne-encrusted fans in poorly made costumes plead with... I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:3, Interesting)
How much you got?
Re:another futurama? (Score:5, Interesting)
Cute Kid: Hubert (who was added explicitly as the annoying 'cute' kid.)
Wedding: That's the last episode, according to the rag sheets
Inexplicable actor replacement: WELSHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ok, granted, it was a guest star, and was done only because James Doohan politely declined to do the Star Trek episode)
So other than that you've got Jumping the Shark, which most folks would call the movies. I'd fine with the show either way. It had a nice run, even if the comedy central episodes didn't quite have that mind blowing awesomeness (which, who knows, maybe after a few years in reruns they'll develop.)
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Interesting)
I picked it up again from Season 20 when it went to HD. It's hit or miss, but pretty good overall. Definitely not the same show it was 20 years ago, but riffs on pop culture more often in the vein of Family Guy. And I'd still much rather watch The Simpsons than Family Guy.
Re:No surprise, really. (Score:4, Interesting)
That was the thing: the original run had left wing "propaganda" in it, too (global warming, garbage, oil tankers, Al Gore, vegetarianism, etc.) but they always turned those things on their head to make them funny. I never felt like they were beating me over the head with their message. Instead, it just felt like a natural part of the story. More recently, though, there was less funny and more message, which just isn't really that fun. If I want to be preached at, I'll just surf the web.
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: Oh you and your sentimentality. (Score:4, Interesting)
This, this, a thousand times this! "The Late Philip J. Fry" is my favorite Futurama episode. So witty and full of good jokes and quotable lines. ("Just slow it down, I'll shoot Hitler out the window.")
But I must concur, the quality of the episodes varies in the last two seasons. I hope there'll be new, excitong shows around the corner.
Re:Good news everyone! (Score:5, Interesting)
I apologize for confusing you all of these years. Soviet Russia jokes are from the comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who used Soviet Russia jokes to contrast life under a Communist regime with life in the US. His punchlines were that things in Soviet Russia are opposite from the US. The implication behind my signature is that in the US corporations control the government.