New Futurama Around The Corner
Saturday, June 14th, 2008I guess I have a confession to make: I didn’t become a fan of Matt Groening’s other cartoon until after the series had been cancelled. I’m not sure why, though. For some reason, the first couple episodes failed to grab me, but then again, Fox preempting Futurama for sports didn’t help the show either. Sometimes, it just didn’t seem regular, enough.
But then, a while back, I saw the DVDs in Wal Mart for like twenty dollars a box set – so, I gave it a go. Basically, I can say that Futurama ate up a week of my life. It was the only thing I watched. And towards the end of the week, I didn’t want to watch anymore, not because I didn’t like it, but more because I knew I only had four episodes left. I didn’t want the fun to end, because since the show got cancelled, there’d be no more.
Then, Fox and Groening got together and hashed out a deal for four new direct to DVD movies. Many, many months ago, Bender’s Big Score came out (ramdom blog snippets about it can be read here). And now, we have The Beast with a Billion Backs. According to Amazon.com, it’s set for release in a week or so, on June 24. I. Can’t. Wait. There will be two more movies to come after this, but for a now confirmed addict, that’s not nearly enough. If I had my way, I’d have regular episodes back on television. But then again, I guess I’ll take whatever I can get.
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