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Post by All Star Batman on Oct 28, 2007 21:36:40 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Homer, living a double life as a secret agent, must kill Kent Brockman; Bart and Lisa help Kodos reconnect with his home planet; Flanders decides to spook Springfield's children. Looks like it's that time of year again.
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Post by All Star Batman on Nov 4, 2007 22:23:32 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: After remarrying, Milhouse's parents are lost at sea and presumed dead, so Milhouse decides it’s time to begin acting like a real man. As a result, he has a new attitude which makes him more popular than ever and Bart can't stand that Milhouse has become cooler than him. Meanwhile, Homer finds himself in trouble when he can't remember the color of Marge’s eyes.
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Post by All Star Batman on Nov 11, 2007 22:48:21 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: A friendly comic-book buff treats Bart, Lisa and Milhouse like royalty; Marge launches a gym for ordinary women.
This one should be really good. Alan Moore's in it!
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Post by All Star Batman on Nov 18, 2007 22:26:07 GMT -5
I only have a few questions based off this episode: Is Alan Moore usually this crazy? Would Daniel Cowes be a good choice to be on Batman?
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: TV commercials influence the Simpsons to go to a rib restaurant where Sideshow Bob is waiting in an elaborate hoax to lure them to their doom.
I wonder if he'll bring the family along with him.
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Post by All Star Batman on Nov 19, 2007 17:17:01 GMT -5
FUTURAMA RETURNS ON NOVEMBER 27th WITH BENDER'S BIG SCORE
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by Jim McLauchlin
The future is now, even though the future was put on hold for a bit.
Futurama, the Matt Groening-created animated series that mixed sci-fi and humor in liberal doses, ran on Fox TV for four seasons before being relegated to the dustbin of cancellation and reruns in 2003. But a new future is on the horizon.
Futurama: Bender’s Big Score is the first of four new feature-length DVD releases coming from Fox Home Entertainment. The new Futurama flick hits stores on November 27, but Fox took time to launch its new future Hollywood-style, with a massive red carpet premiere party last week in Los Angeles at the famed Arclight Cinerama Dome theater on Sunset Boulevard. The entire cast and crew showed up, including Matt Groening, who made special mention of the show’s fans.
“I worked with [Head Writer and Executive Producer] David Cohen on Futurama right for the very beginning, and we never really quit. We were always throwing around story ideas,” Groening said. “We would go to the San Diego Comic-Con every year and that coterie of rabid fans just never went away. We kept promising we’d come back, and finally we did. Finally we’re not lying anymore.”
As much as it was a night for cast and crew to take a bow, so too it was for its fans. To Fox’ credit, a large section of the premiere screening was reserved for hardcore Futurama fans, culled from various fansites. And probably needless to say, most of the loudest laughs were heard from that section during the premiere.
Cohen echoed Groening’s sentiments as well. “We were gone for 3-4 years, but people kept watching on TV and buying DVDs and Fox finally realized they were still making good money on a show they canceled years ago,” the writer/producer said. “So they decided to resuscitate the show.”
All the Futurama hallmarks are still in place in Bender’s Big Score. Fry is still a bungling delivery boy, accidentally cryogenically frozen in our time and thawed out 1000 years later. He works at Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth’s Planet Express where he remains…a bungling delivery boy even 1000 years later. Bender is Fry’s best friend and Planet Express’ resident alcohol-fueled robot; while Leela is the one-eyed bombshell Planet Express pilot, and Fry’s unrequited love.
Just like on the show, crazy situations and dark humor play a large part in Bender’s Big Score. Nudist alien Internet scammers (you read that right) find the secret of time travel tattooed on Fry’s butt (you read that right, too). Taking control of Bender with virus software, they send the robot back in time again and again to loot Earth of all its treasures until they own the planet. Doing the flick was a bit of fun for David Herman, who voiced the evil nudist alien leader. “I have a passive adhesion to evil nudity in real life, so it’s not really a stretch for me,” he laughed. “But the best part of animation, especially when you’re doing something satirical, is that you can go so much farther. If you’re gonna beat someone up, you can really smack ’em up and it’s still ‘just a cartoon.’ You can really push the envelope.”
The film does have several cringe-worthy humor moments, and yes, time paradoxes are part of the plot, where they are confusingly—yet funnily—addressed. That’s just the way Futurama fans like it, according to Cohen. “The fans are smart. They’re detail-oriented,” he said. “The show is really packed with jokes in the background. If you can translate the alien languages, they really mean things. If you see graffiti in the background of a scene, it can be decoded.”
Guest voice aplenty also Pepper Bender’s Big Score, including Sarah Silverman, Coolio, and a very big name in the film world.
“It’s got Al Gore attached to it, so it has to be good, right?” said Lauren Tom, who plays Planet Express intern Amy Wong. “He won an Academy Award!”
Tom used the occasion of the premiere to tell her secret origin in landing the Amy Wong role back in 1999. “The wanted an Asian woman, but I wasn’t right for the part,” she revealed. “But Matt loved my insane laugh.” Groening loved it so much, the character was re-styled to match Tom’s personality…and stature. She stands maybe all of 4-foot-10. “The character was originally tough, and a little Butch. He tailored it more to me. She’s now more girly, more ditzy. Though I’m not sure ‘ditzy’ is a compliment.”
For his part, Groening is happy simply to see new Futurama back in front of the fans. He’s also happy for his dueling day jobs. “I run back and forth,” he said. “Here’s the greatest thing about having two animated projects: I can tell the Simpsons people I’m working on Futurama, and the Futurama people I’m working on Simpsons. Then I just go home and take a nap.”
Groening is also happy for the culmination of a lifelong dream. “When I was a kid, I knew I’d be drawing cartoons for the rest of my life,” he said. “I just didn’t know I’d be doing it for a living. I thought I’d be a shoe salesman or something—you know, something terrible. This is much better.”
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Post by All Star Batman on Dec 9, 2007 21:51:04 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: When a potent drink erases the last 24 hours of his memory, Homer seeks help to try to piece together the events that led to his family being gone.
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Post by All Star Batman on Dec 30, 2007 22:56:54 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Homer destroys Springfield's fast-food district; Mayor Quimby decides to have an early election.
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Post by All Star Batman on Jan 20, 2008 14:26:38 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS When Bart and Lisa unearth Marge's diploma from Springfield University, Marge reminisces about her college days, when she dated a pretentious professor and Homer became a grunge music star.
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Post by All Star Batman on Feb 10, 2008 22:31:24 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: To celebrate Valentine's Day, Homer takes Marge to the Tunnel of Love at a carnival, but when Bart pulls a prank they become hopelessly stranded; Homer tries to cheer Marge up by telling her a love story.
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Post by All Star Batman on Feb 24, 2008 19:21:53 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Bart suspects that one of his friends is a rat when all of his pranks seem to backfire; Homer grows to love the loaner car he gets after Marge damages their vehicle.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 2, 2008 22:34:20 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Marge hires a nutritionist, who puts Homer on a diet, but Homer decides to sneak in snacks on the side; the prank Bart and Lisa play on Martin Prince goes terribly wrong.
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Post by All Star Batman on Mar 23, 2008 16:55:10 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Lisa convinces Marge to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a ballerina by auditioning for a ballet academy; Homer shows Bart his secret room where he manufactures beef jerky.
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Post by All Star Batman on Apr 6, 2008 21:11:10 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Lisa discovers that the town of Springfield has not collected millions of dollars worth of taxes. As a result, the town starts collecting from most of the evaders and the only remaining debtor is Lurleen Lumpkin. As the police try to find her, Lurleen stays with the Simpson family. Lurleen is reunited with her father; however, he sells her songs to the Dixie Chicks.
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Post by All Star Batman on Apr 20, 2008 20:02:02 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: Bart tries to save a cow from the slaughterhouse; Homer and Marge devise a plan to stop Bart from getting married.
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Post by All Star Batman on Apr 27, 2008 21:32:06 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: When Lisa enters a documentary about her family in the Sundance Film Festival, Homer, Marge and Bart are embarrassed by the candid look at their lives.
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Post by All Star Batman on May 4, 2008 21:43:10 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: When Homer's mother dies unexpectedly, he decides to fulfill her final wishes by scattering her ashes over Lake Watershed at Springfield Monument Park.
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Post by All Star Batman on May 11, 2008 21:53:04 GMT -5
NEXT WEEK ON THE SIMPSONS: As Krusty's new assistant, Lisa steals the spotlight and gets a TV show of her own; Homer and Bart bond over their newfound love of coin collecting.
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