Concerning The Cancellation of Futurama 684
Andie Similon of gotfuturama.com writes: "We have recently heard from 4 reliable sources that fox did not pick up the 5th season of futurama. So it's going to get cancelled. We (the fans and webmasters of cgef and other websites) have set up a letter campaign to Fox,' but we need some big sites to spread the word. There are two possibilities of saving futurama A) some other network picking it up B) Fox realizing its mistake (I don't count on it), but the only way we can realise this is that we can get a very big amount of written letters to Fox." Go read the online petition
and/or
sign it. They've temporarily removed other content on anything else from the site -- there are priorities, after all. Futurama is one of the few shows that make me glad for the invention of television.
Re:Probably the most poorly promoted show ever (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ah CR@P! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about Family Guy? (Score:2, Funny)
...and "The Family Guy"...? Just when exactly did you have your sense of humour surgically removed? Were the "All in the Family" reruns too heart-stoppingly chucklesome for you?
To quote the Simpsons. (Score:2, Funny)
Spellcheck The Petition Please! (Score:5, Funny)
happyness?
quantitiys?
possibilitiys?
inivative?
funnny?
entertaing?
unfinnished?
interupting?
And "Simpsons" should be capitalized as well. The networks probably won't listen anyway, but you might as well not give them specific excuses for discarding your petition.
Don't you people understand? (Score:5, Funny)
And it goes on like that, night after night! Why would they want to air a clone of a successful Fox show like The Simpsons, when they can air "That 80's Show"? And have you seen the fan base behind "Grounded for Life"? You can't do a single search on Morpheus without tripping over DivX episodes of that runaway hit. And let's not forget the lucrative DVD revenues from "Titus"!
Basically, there's no place for Futurama in the Fox lineup anymore. Saturday night is locked down with "Human Scum TV", craftily filling in the space between COPS and America's Most Wanted with COPS reruns! So what are they going to do? If only Fox was running three other humorous adult animation shows to fill out the rest of two hours, perhaps they'd be able to create some sort of thematically unified lineup, but where would they find three shows like that on short notice?
A Different Plan for Futurama (Score:4, Funny)
Some potential winners:
- Temptation Spaceship 5
- When Aliens Attack
- Who Wants to Marry a One-Eyed Woman?
- Bender in the Middle
- That 2970's Show
online petitions.. (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, looking through the petitions on petitiononline.com [petitiononline.com], we see:
1337 sp3ak in 5(}{00l !! [petitiononline.com]
[petitiononline.com]
A petition to the WWF in honor of the Undertaker [petitiononline.com]
Let's Import Japan [petitiononline.com]
A bit hard to take this seriously, especially considering how little effort it takes to sign a petition. A bigger noise would be made by sending postcards, that would fill their mailboxes.
leela (Score:4, Funny)
To quote the Simpsons: (Score:5, Funny)
- Marge
Re:Best of luck to you... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:online petitions.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ok, let me get this straight... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What about Family Guy? (Score:2, Funny)
Family Guy gets cancelled after every season
It's kind of like their replacement for the season finale I guess.
Re:new show pitches (Score:2, Funny)
"OK, we've got this show with a network administrator guy. He knows UNIX but his bosses keep buying Windows boxes and they tell him to run IIS. You know it's kind of like, ya' know, Drew Carey meets Hackers only... uh.. all his coworkers are elves! Yeah, we'll call it Lord of the Pings..."
"OK... It's the gripping story of the American Revolution. We follow a family in Boston as they live through the battles that bought our freedom, only this family has a kooky neighbor... yeah... and the neighbor keeps trying to get the kids to do stuff like drink tea. The father played by Mel Gibson keeps calling everybody a moronic donkey... We'll call it That 1770's Show..."
"So we were digging through Majel Barret-Roddenberry's trash and we found this undeveloped treatment and we tweaked it a little... This marshal, Ttam Nillod played by Lance Henrickson, of a frontier colony world has to protect it from alien gangs that keep invading. He's backed up by his trusty companion, the alien Smada Cod played by that guy that used to be on Earth: Final Conflict... uhh, and his lovable alien deputy Retsehc Edoog played by D.B. Sweeney. They hang out in a bar owned by Llessur Yttik played by Mimi Rogers... It's called Cannonhaze 3000."
Show that is REPLACING futurama =(((( (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ok, let me get this straight... (Score:4, Funny)
Half a dozen cops with batons trying to take down Ray Lewis? Yeah, I'd watch!
Re:leela (Score:4, Funny)
Bah! (Score:3, Funny)
In fact, forget the show.
And the black jack.
Aehhh... screw the whole thing!
X-Fry (Score:2, Funny)
from the next version of slashcode too? (gotta stay current!)
/home/person>telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 64.28.67.150...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
host: slashdot.org:80
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:20:08 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000
X-Fry: I'm gonna be a science fiction hero, just like Uhura, or Captain Janeway, or Xena!
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
First time on slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Hang on while I scrape this ice off satan's windshield.
Re:ok, let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
Simpsons excluded, of course.
I just ended any chance I ever had of working for FOX, didn't I?