Futurama Series Finale

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Asher
Terrible...musicals and comedies do not mix.

especially cheesy musicals with stupid lyrics. it would have been funny if it wasn't so horrible.

[Dis]

finale?

The episode they showed tonight was the one where Fry does the Operay or something

Are you telling me that is the finale?

[tinyp3nis]

Was family guy on Fox? Wasn't it also cut off too fast?

[Harry Seldon]

Fox kills shows that do well. I could list them all but just listing Family Guy, Futurama, John Doe, and Grounded for Life should get the point across. There was an interesting article with Chris Carter where he theorized that the X-Files would have never been given a chance on today's Fox. They have a notorious habit of killing the good shows that are developing followings in order to make room for shows like Boston Public and Oliver Beene. Fox sucks, they'll always suck, and I hope their executives all get hit by a truck full of chicken guts.

But I'm not bitter or anything.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Fox does suck the big one. Firefly is another example. This show was developing a cult following even though FOX REFUSED TO SHOW IT IN ORDER! That's right, they took the season and basically showed in random order, so the story from week to week made little sense, and people still watched it because it was pretty cool.

Frankly I think the best place for new, more off kilter, shows to shine these days is on the USA network on cable. They have let some great shows like 'Monk' and 'The Dead Zone' flourish, and I think some of these shows on Fox would have been better served there.

[Harry Seldon]

Don't forget REFUSED TO ADVERTISE. Firefly and John Doe received almost no advertising while shows like Boston Public and Fast Lane had eight commercials a piece per commercial break. Of course people aren't going to watch a show if they don't even know it's on. Futurama suffered the same fate. They bounced it all over the schedule, never advertised it, then left it on the chopping block until everyone thought it was cancelled.

[Jonny]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
Don't forget REFUSED TO ADVERTISE. Firefly and John Doe received almost no advertising while shows like Boston Public and Fast Lane had eight commercials a piece per commercial break. Of course people aren't going to watch a show if they don't even know it's on. Futurama suffered the same fate. They bounced it all over the schedule, never advertised it, then left it on the chopping block until everyone thought it was cancelled.

Exactly. Not to mention that Futurama was always being pre-empted by football or other stuff (not that I dislike football. )

Fox executives can kill a good show with both eyes closed and one hand behind their back... and for what? Joe Millionaire 2? More Oliver Beene? A full hour of Banzai?

[Q Classic]

banzai sucks. it's a one-trick pony, and after you laugh at the one episode you see, you needn't watch it again, since you've seen them all.

i don't understand how little self-respect the asian actors can have playing it... ah, well. we're confined to bit parts anyway, so i suppose one show is better than no show.

[chequita guevara]

Futurama and The Family Guy were highly overrated by you people. Futurama might be a good way to kill brain cells, but The Family Guy sucked after the initial five episodes.

As for Fox, maybe Murdock is trying to use it as a tax shelter, so they have to kcik off good shows to keep from making money.

[mrmitchell]

Futurama was great. It's a shame that I missed it.

Banzai is pretty funny if you ignore the marginalisation of an entire peoples. It's supposed to be a "parody" of Japanese game shows. I think FOX should be able to show whatever they want, being that they are a company, and companies are in the business of making ratings / money.

All Fox News guys, however, should be summarily executed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Family Guy sucked after the initial five episodes.

BLASPAMY! Kill the commie!

Family Guy rocks!

[Harry Seldon]

"Dad........Eight is enough!"

"...so I beat my kid with a garden hose until my arm got tired. Then I came here."

[Static Universe]

I hate to see Futurama go, but let's face facts here: that show was hyped to hell and back when it first came out and it still never broke out. It was never going to develop more than a cult following.

As far as cancelling it because Groening was getting to powerful, that's just internet gossip, I'm sure. More likely they kept the show running for another two years after it failed to pan out just to keep Groening happy.

The X-Files wouldn't be given a chance today because the last three or four seasons of X-Files stunk like an outhouse in August. The series finale was a horrible setup to what I am sure will be a second horrible X-Files movie.

Firefly was never going to develop more than a cult folowing either because TV is glutted with bad sci-fi now, and Firefly was not a great sci-fi show to begin with. Showing them out of order probably helped the show more than it hurt.

Banzai is just crap and I cannot understand the studio executive who greenlighted this as something worth investing so much advertising space in. Probably they figure kids' Sunday doses of ritalin will be wearing off right about the time the show comes on and it will be a hit.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: John Doe was basically a poor rip off of a much better show from a few years back called The Pretender, which wasn't that original to begin with. John Doe was doomed from the start.

Family Guy of course rocked.!

[Stefu]

"Dad........Eight is enough!"

"...so I beat my kid with a garden hose until my arm got tired. Then I came here."

"Tell your wife to come to me for some boom-sha-ka-la-ka-la-ka-boom-sha-ka-la-ka-la-ka-boom-sha-ka-la-ka-la-ka-boom"

"I love this love more than anything, including taffy. And I'm a man who enjoys his taffy. Mmmmh... ohhhh... mmmm..."

"That's what they said about Benjamin Disraeli!" "You don't even know who I am!"

[Dis]

sadly, commies don't know good animated comedy.

It's a shame