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Futurama is great.

Chaotic42

Chaotic42

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I used to not like it. I don't know why, I just saw episodes that weren't very good. I started watching it on Cartoon Network (it's part of that Adult Swim stuff) and I like it.

So I bought Season 2 on DVD. I've watched all except two episodes, and I like it so much I just bought Season 1 on Amazon.

Why did it get cancelled?
 
Because it didnt get good enough ratings.

And before people say "it was given horrible time slots". So was King of the Hill throughout its run, but it still managed to pull in ratings.
 
Originally posted by: digitalsm
Because it didnt get good enough ratings.

And before people say "it was given horrible time slots". So was King of the Hill throughout its run, but it still managed to pull in ratings.
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Fair enough. Futurama has some humor that a lot of people wouldn't get. I heard that the creator had some issues with Fox, but I don't know for sure.
 
Originally posted by: digitalsm
Because it didnt get good enough ratings.

And before people say "it was given horrible time slots". So was King of the Hill throughout its run, but it still managed to pull in ratings.
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Wrong. Futurama was at 7:00, KotH was at 7:30. During football season (which is when new episodes air) 7:00 overlaps the 4:00pm football games and was usually prempted. About 1 in 4 shows actually aired at the proper time, the rest were either cancelled, rescheduled or joined halfway through. By 7:30 the football games were over and KotH was aired normally.

What the ignorant fail to recognize is that KotH began in the 8:30 time slot. It was allowed the chance to find a stable audience with The Simpsons acting as the perfect lead-in. Only after having built it's core viewers thanks to a stable time slot and a big hit as a lead-in was it moved to 7:30. Futurama never got that sort of treatment. It was too edgy and was cast off on it's own from day one with no time slot, no scheduling consistency and no similar show as a lead-in. History is bearing out just how good Futurama and The Family Guy are. Despite being on cable and despite being broadcast into 10 million fewer homes than the big network show, both have opened up a big old can of whup-ass on Leno and Letterman with the key 18-49 demographic. Fox programmers screwed the pooch on both Futurama and Family Guy, neither was ever given the chance to succeed by having a good time slot and an acceptable lead-in.
 
it really is very esoteric in most of its jokes. of course, all the geeks love it! its basically designed for us! sci-fi and computer/video game references every 3rd minute...
 
Originally posted by: mto81
Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Why did it get cancelled?
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Because the people at FOX are complete morons? Futurama was the greatest cartoon right after The Simpsons.
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Not to mention the fact that they cut Family Guy too. Apparently they were trying to cut all the funny shows and replace them prototypical "when animals attack 85" type shows.
 
Futurama got put in a bad time slot, it is not as good as the Simpsons, but its a whole lot better than KotH
same with Family Guy, Fox tried to put them opposite to Friends on Thursday nights, guess who won...
 
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
Futurama got put in a bad time slot, it is not as good as the Simpsons, but its a whole lot better than KotH
same with Family Guy, Fox tried to put them opposite to Friends on Thursday nights, guess who won...
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Nah, Futurama is better than the Simpsons.
 
Fox has had the best cartoons ever ... it's too bad they canned 'em

The Simpsons
Futurama
The Family Guy
King of the Hill

in that order
 
Originally posted by: mto81
Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Why did it get cancelled?
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Because the people at FOX are complete morons? Futurama was the greatest cartoon right after The Simpsons.
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I personally think its better than the Simpsons. Its just most people think the Simpsons is better, cos its a better known show. But thats just me.
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Fair enough. Futurama has some humor that a lot of people wouldn't get. I heard that the creator had some issues with Fox, but I don't know for sure.
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Futurama`s comedy was more adult than the Simpsons. Alot of the comedic value came from subtle things about it.
 
Originally posted by: BoomAM
Futurama`s comedy was more adult than the Simpsons. Alot of the comedic value came from subtle things about it.
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The funniest thing I've seen in it so far was the episode where they saw alternate realities. Fry asked what would happen if he didn't come to the future.

Fry: Where are we?
Al Gore: Well, I can sure tell you where we aren't, and that's the Universe.

Not a quote, but it's close.

 
I personally thought that the later Simpsons episodes were becoming stale (not so funny) because they were running out of material, but Futurama was getting better and better as I watch. My all time favorite episode is when they went to Dr. Zoidberg's home planet and Fry had to teach him about courtship.

BTW you Ren and Stimpy fans, the voice of Stimpy is the same as the voice of Fry.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: digitalsm
Because it didnt get good enough ratings.

And before people say "it was given horrible time slots". So was King of the Hill throughout its run, but it still managed to pull in ratings.
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Wrong. Futurama was at 7:00, KotH was at 7:30. During football season (which is when new episodes air) 7:00 overlaps the 4:00pm football games and was usually prempted. About 1 in 4 shows actually aired at the proper time, the rest were either cancelled, rescheduled or joined halfway through. By 7:30 the football games were over and KotH was aired normally.

What the ignorant fail to recognize is that KotH began in the 8:30 time slot. It was allowed the chance to find a stable audience with The Simpsons acting as the perfect lead-in. Only after having built it's core viewers thanks to a stable time slot and a big hit as a lead-in was it moved to 7:30. Futurama never got that sort of treatment. It was too edgy and was cast off on it's own from day one with no time slot, no scheduling consistency and no similar show as a lead-in. History is bearing out just how good Futurama and The Family Guy are. Despite being on cable and despite being broadcast into 10 million fewer homes than the big network show, both have opened up a big old can of whup-ass on Leno and Letterman with the key 18-49 demographic. Fox programmers screwed the pooch on both Futurama and Family Guy, neither was ever given the chance to succeed by having a good time slot and an acceptable lead-in.
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Neither KoTH or Futurama always had those time slots. They both had other times slots before given those. KoTH was given the later time slot because it preformed better than Futurama did when they were both at other time slots.

 
NO WAY!?!
They went back to zoidberg's home planet!?!? LOL
I just started watching futurama again too.
I have to say also that it has only gotten better as I have watched them on adultswim
Adultswim pwnz too btw.
My favorite futurama ep was when fry had the sandwich with the "parasitic" worms and the prof tried to "expunge" the alien worms from fry's body.
HAHAHA.. pure classical comedy.
BTW, family guy kix azz too. They seriously need to bring family guy back!
 
I think that Futurama is great, but most of the jokes are/were esoteric and guess it did not appeal to as wide of an audience as King of the Hill. Ditto that with Family Guy.
 
Originally posted by: eakers
i cant believe fox canned futurama and the family guy but keep king of the hill.
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I like King of the Hill. Maybe it's because I'm Southern. It's not as good as Futurama, but it's ok.
 
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