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I think a lot of that nerd "sportsball" resentment comes from the absolute disappointment of waiting for a new Futurama and getting a football or baseball game instead.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I think a lot of that nerd "sportsball" resentment comes from the absolute disappointment of waiting for a new Futurama and getting a football or baseball game instead. Can confirm. I harbor a permanent low-level grudge against football and it can be traced directly to pre-empted episodes of Futurama.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HRZV5AXBy8 this is well worth watching (but as an exercise in amateur sociology, not bc it's good). I'm sure it's come up in the thread before, but it's a distillation of a lot of the cool/extreme 90s mascots, down to his lovely catchphrase. it's a rare example of Rob Paulsen somehow making a project worse. I linked the one with ads, since they really help sprinkle spice on this whole... deal.
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I'm still mad that coverage of Oklahoma City bombing superseded the nightly hour block of Simpsons reruns
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My mam watched a new Simpsons episode and it was a parody of Fargo for some reason except apparently more violent that Fargo. Bizarre.
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Mantis42 posted:Jesus, they even added a cute kid character to Married... With Children, the absolute maniacs. To their credit, they got rid of him the next season and put his missing poster on a milk carton. Sourdough Sam posted:I remember every cereal and snack mascot being given the 'cool' treatment too. They were all into extreme sports. Also they all wore knee and elbow pads so as not to be too rebellious. don't forget the BK kid's club, with the handicapped kid helpfully nicknamed Wheels Detective No. 27 posted:I think a lot of that nerd "sportsball" resentment comes from the absolute disappointment of waiting for a new Futurama and getting a football or baseball game instead. They were so goddamn far behind by 2002 they had an entire half of a season waiting in the bag. You'd go months between new episodes Prurient Squid posted:My mam watched a new Simpsons episode and it was a parody of Fargo for some reason except apparently more violent that Fargo. Bizarre. If it involved Lenny and Carl loving two different women in the same hotel room, then I bump it up from F to D-
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:If it involved Lenny and Carl loving two different women in the same hotel room, then I bump it up from F to D- She says there was so much violence there was no room for anything else. e: now she's changing her story and saying that, yes, there was a lot of loving in it. e2: she might have dreamt all this e3: she's changed her story too many times. She's lost all credibility so far I'm concerned. Prurient Squid fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Hardawn posted:I'm still mad that coverage of Oklahoma City bombing superseded the nightly hour block of Simpsons reruns Jesus Christ.
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Hardawn posted:I'm still mad that coverage of Oklahoma City bombing superseded the nightly hour block of Simpsons reruns Me too tbh I've hated terrorists ever since
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Prurient Squid posted:She says there was so much violence there was no room for anything else. Get your mam an account
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Feb 9, 2022 21:14
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They did parody Fargo in a two parter that was somewhat violent, yes.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I think a lot of that nerd "sportsball" resentment comes from the absolute disappointment of waiting for a new Futurama and getting a football or baseball game instead. Don't worry, I doubt Hulu pre-emps their shows for football. https://twitter.com/hulu/status/1491513491907354625
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The Something Awful Forums > General Bullshit › What was the lowest point of Futurama
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I take personal responsibility for this and I'm sorry.
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IUG posted:Don't worry, I doubt Hulu pre-emps their shows for football. Bad news nobody
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The Animaniacs revival on Hulu managed to be pretty good, so maybe? This could be good IF they examine what did work about the good episodes, what didn't work about the bad ones, and what wouldn't work today. The show works best with sci fi adventures propped up by the relationships of the characters, and is at its worst when its just a vehicle to lampoon current events.
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how many trump jokes you think they'll stuff into it
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I just learned this fact in the Disenchantment thread (another place to express unending disappointment with Groening and Cohen, et al). I liked the revival more than most people did but I will bet American dollars that this will be bad. quite bad.
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The important questions are 1) Are they going to bring back the all-star writers room of Harvard Lampoon smartarses from seasons 1-4 and 2) If they pull off that miracle, will they still have it? I'm not hopeful
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Lmao they're recasting Bender. And probably all the other DiMaggio characters.
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Sourdough Sam posted:Lmao they're recasting Bender. And probably all the other DiMaggio characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
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Sourdough Sam posted:Lmao they're recasting Bender. And probably all the other DiMaggio characters. Even Flexo?
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Time to take a big sip of water and read who else DiMaggio voices on the shop
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I coulda sworn when they revived it for Comedy Central Katey Sagal was gonna walk. Surpised she stuck it out even for this new one.
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I actually wouldn't be surprised if Bender's voice acter isn't returning because they're trying to make his character and the whole show "woke" like every other piece of media these days (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Other articles say he was asked but wanted more money than they apparently were willing to give him. Which is fair enough. If I were his agent I'd have assumed they wouldn't do it without him either. If Billy West or Tress MacNeille had refused that would be 90% of the characters. Imagined fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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IUG posted:Don't worry, I doubt Hulu pre-emps their shows for football. Why the gently caress? Sometimes shows run their course -- twice  -- and these jackasses need to get that through their thick loving heads.Sourdough Sam posted:Lmao they're recasting Bender. And probably all the other DiMaggio characters.  How on earth could anyone POSSIBLY think that resurrecting this extremely dead show with ANY new voice actors is a good thing? Ugh, this is going to be a god drat trainwreck.Iron Crowned posted:The Something Awful Forums > General Bullshit › What was the lowest point of Futurama The singing boil episode, next question. YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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I hope they start making it like the Simpsons. But instead you see the HEADS of D list celebrities showing up every episode. And they don't even NEED to make an awkward big smile for the characters. They can just pretend with Bender's resting mouth thing. drat, I should be writing this show. I'm still waiting, Fox, you bastards. Anyway, cast Will Sasso as Bender or something. I don't care. edit: no! even better! I bet they have Justin whatever (I'm not googling how to spell it) play all the background chaarcters with his incredible range of 2 voices. They'll have so much talent to use to give Billy a break on doing them all himself.
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Holy poo poo, finding out John DiMaggio isn’t going to return to this twice dead show is the icing on the cake 
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Bit late to parody Fargo. When Fargo came out the Simpsons was good.
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When Simpsons was good they were parodying movies that came out thirty years before it started. Maybe the modern crew thought doing that again would help them.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bit late to parody Fargo. It was more a parody of the TV show Fargo
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No Dignity posted:Time to take a big sip of water and read who else DiMaggio voices on the shop
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:I hope it's Julie Kavner her likely rendition of "bite my shiny metal rear end" came into my brain unbidden and it sounded, somehow, like a cobweb full of sand
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Surely announcing the show without diMaggio is a negotiation tactic to weaken his resolve and they won't actually try to do Futurama without him.
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