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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] (Possibility for Spoilers!) A momentous day in television history! See, once upon a time, there was a great cartoon show on FOX. Actually, there were a couple cartoon shows on FOX: The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, and Futurama (�IT JUST WON�T STAY DEAD!�) With the exception of Futurama, all of the other cartoon shows on FOX blew monkey goats (by which I mean they suck*). In the case of Futurama and Family Guy, both were canceled by the fucking moronic assholes at FOX (which, by the way, stands for �Network Idiots�). However, thanks to the Miracle of The Modern Age, TV Shows on DVD, both shows were granted reprieves: Family Guy was brought back to television as a weekly series (I have no idea why, with the exception of the occasional brilliant parody of the best sci-fi movie series ever, that show blows monkey goats), while Futurama has been brought back as four straight-to-DVD movies, the first of which, Bender�s Big Score, was released today on DVD. Long story short: Bender travels back in time on behalf of evil nudist aliens to rob Earth�s riches and kill Fry. There�s also a lot of small side plots � Hermes chops off his head, Leela has a romantic interest. Oh, yeah, there�s a lot of time-traveling parodoxical stuff (that really makes my head hurt, even though the Globetrotters work out the mathematical stuff.) There�s an epic scope to this movie, particularly in the sense that a lot of major and minor characters from the show�s run return. All of the original cast returns (by which I mean the voice actors, of course!), and the opening sequence is slightly changed: every character is highlighted, and the monitor that the Planet Express crashes into is playing a scene from the series� first episode. The FOX executives are � deservedly!!! � well bashed for being, y�know, stupid. Kitten-class ships fly into combat, The Robot Devil plays a wedding, Fry has a tattoo of Bender on his ass, Amy and Leela have a naked scene (well, and so do Zoidberg, Farnsworth** and Fry), and the good guys team up with Evil Santa to defeat a fleet of gold-plated Death Stars. Everything turns out okay, of course. Well, I mean � �okay� might not be the word. �We�re boned!� Bender says. Meanwhile, I did indeed start to tear up � just a tad � at the end. �Cuz I�m a sap. I�m looking forward to getting to watch the commentary track. The commentaries on the episodes are one of the best features of the season sets � they really are, you should check �em out if you haven�t already. Coming Next (probably in May): Futurama - The Beast With A Billion Backs *Yes, even The Simpsons, which hasn�t been funny since, like, before I had double-digits in my age. **And I�d been eating, too � (Just as a side note, you would not imagine how disturbing it is to do a Google image search for FUTURAMA with the safe-mode turned off�) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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