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Bender's Big Score (Major Spoilers)
crashwg:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 05, 2007, 10:18:39 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 04, 2007, 02:54:24 pm ---Story I always heard was that Futurama was never very popular but Groening was able to keep it on the air by keeping The Simpsons hostage until Fox agreed to keep showing it, but was only able to sucker them into a 2 season extension.
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And after watching this movie last night, I'm inclined to agree.
Boring.
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BLASPHEMY!
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 04, 2007, 02:54:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Samstag on December 04, 2007, 12:27:12 pm ---At first I thought "damn, I'll have nothing left to watch when the season gets started". But now I'm thinking it's a good thing I can watch the movies ahead of time in case "Box" effs up the schedule again.
The movie was pretty good, but I'd rather see them do individual episodes.
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Story I always heard was that Futurama was never very popular but Groening was able to keep it on the air by keeping The Simpsons hostage until Fox agreed to keep showing it, but was only able to sucker them into a 2 season extension.
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When the show first premiered after the Simpsons, it had pretty good ratings, but the execs never really liked the show, so they changed its day and time it aired pretty often. Within a year after it premiered, they even moved it to 7pm and then started a marketing campaign that was "The fun begins at 8." Luckily when they starting airing reruns on cartoon network, they were getting higher ratings then late night talk shows on at the same time and lots of people bought the dvd's, so they decided to bring it back.
I just read an article about the show and Cohen (the co-creator of the show) said "The operating principle of Futurama was that you can do a joke that 1 percent of the audience gets, as long as it doesn't derail the enjoyment of the mass audience, and that 1 percent becomes a fan for life." Which explains why it has such a cult following among geeks since the jokes he's referring to are about things like Schrodingers cat, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and programming languages.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 05, 2007, 10:18:39 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 04, 2007, 02:54:24 pm ---Story I always heard was that Futurama was never very popular but Groening was able to keep it on the air by keeping The Simpsons hostage until Fox agreed to keep showing it, but was only able to sucker them into a 2 season extension.
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And after watching this movie last night, I'm inclined to agree.
Boring.
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At the risk of insulting you, you have to be smart to get the show. If you aren't in-tune with pop-culture at a near-perfect geekly level, you won't get any of the good jokes, just the less-funny regular jokes thrown in there for the "normals".
boykster:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 05, 2007, 07:30:31 pm ---At the risk of insulting you, you have to be smart to get the show.
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So what part of the show do you enjoy?
CheffoJeffo:
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