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Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 03-26-2003, 12:03 PM:

Although the Simpsons will always be the best, I have always really enjoyed the Futurama series. I have just started watching this DVD edition and I didn't relise just how many episodes from the first season that I missed. I haven't played any of the commentary tracks yet but they have to be as good as the Simpson's DVD tracks. Every episode so far that I watched has been halarious. Now I have to wait for the Family Guy to come out next month and the Simpsons III in June.

Posted by David Rigby (Member # 1301) on 03-26-2003, 01:57 PM:

I'm sure I'll be accused of blasphemy, but personaly I think Futurama is BETTER than The Simpsons - then again I've always quietly been a bit of a misanthropic technogeek so maybe it just plays to my particular senibilities. I can't believe those Fox bastards canned it in its prime!!! [Mad]

David

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 03-31-2003, 09:35 AM:

Up until now, I've probably seen at most 2 or three Futurama shows (and didn't even know it was Futurama that I was watching at the time). I bought the DVD box set after hearing people praise it. I watched the first episode on the first disc yesterday and it was great. I'm looking forward to watching the rest.

A "suicide booth"? Hilarious! "You are now dead. Thank you for using..." [Big Grin]

Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 03-31-2003, 01:11 PM:

Welcome to the club Evans. Thought I have to take my set back to the store. My disk 2 is defective in will not play very well in my player. I hope that this isn't a common problem. The commentaries are really good also. Not as much extras as I would like also though I am interested to see what kind of Easter Eggs are in there.

Posted by Jacob Huber (Member # 1138) on 03-31-2003, 11:08 PM:

The only easter egg that seems to be on the disc is on the root menu of each disc. Highlight the last episode on the disc and either press right or left depending on the disc, highlighting an object, a car, billboard, and police car respectively, then press enter. This will take you to the "futuristic movie poster" for the disc. Really lame if you ask me.

Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 03-31-2003, 11:23 PM:

I have never seen any weekly animated shows on television and the way people have been raving about the Simpsons all these years, I bought the first season DVD set and watched the first three episodes and discovered I was too much of an "Old Fart" to grasp the humor of the show that made it endearing to fans all these years. Because I never enjoyed "THE SIMPSONS", I was not too interested in the Futurama series. Ah! what I will gve to be young again. [Smile]

-Claude

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-02-2003, 05:10 AM:

Futurama, great geek show! [Smile]

I loved it when it was on air but missed so many episodes...I'll have to check this out!

Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 04-06-2003, 10:53 AM:

The commentary is pretty great. The first episode gets the best commentary, I suppose they did them in order. As they have less and less new to say in later episodes they tend to become a laugh track. You always get to know which shots are rendered in 3D though, announcing them seems to be the only job the computer animation guy has.
Excellent discs!

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-07-2003, 03:31 PM:

Never watched the show because of the onscreen Fox logo. I was disappointed that Matt Groening did another show for those people, since he had objected to the logo being on "The Simpsons" when the practice started (I wrote the network complaining about the logo and got a thank-you note from the production department of The Simpsons. Didn't work apparently as it's still there 10 years later!)

Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 04-07-2003, 05:08 PM:

Did you see the recent episode of the Simpsons where they did that mock Joe Millionare animated logo at the bottom and Homer ate it? I loved that gag.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-07-2003, 05:18 PM:

Haven't watched The Simpsons for a long time either because of the logo (basically if a logo stays on my screen for more than 15 seconds, it gets turned off!) but I did see the one where the Fox logo shows up in the opening and Homer grabs it and the whole family stomps on it! They should've done that on every show until the network gets rid of it.

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 04-08-2003, 01:10 PM:

Rachel:

You know that "Futurama" plays Sunday thru Thrusday nights on the Cartoon Network at 11:00PM, right? You're probably cashing out the BO at that time, but it's a natural for your VCR/TIVO/DVD recorder. . .

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-09-2003, 02:00 AM:

Don't have cable! [Smile]

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 04-18-2003, 01:17 PM:

And neither should anyone else! [Smile]

Posted by Daniel Fuentz (Member # 1684) on 05-04-2003, 11:58 PM:

Well, it figures that Futurama got axed, becuase I liked it. I also LOVED Family Guy. Well, actually I despised that show when it first came on, but since I worked at the local Fox affillaite at the time I was forced to watch it. (Control room monitors don't have channel changing functions!) After a few episodes I was hooked. [Smile]

(Fortunately repeated viewings didn't get me hooked on Roseanne or Friends... [Smile]

)

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 05-06-2003, 01:36 PM:

If I worked at a TV station and was told to put a logo on the screen and keep it there, I would walk off the job! (Which is why I don't work in TV, even though I'd wanted to a while ago. I wanted to be a program director for an independent station, most of which are now gone thanks to networks like Fox.)

Posted by Daniel Fuentz (Member # 1684) on 05-07-2003, 05:56 AM:

Well, for network shows that ugly logo is on the feed we get from network, so at the local level we have no way of "forgetting" to insert it. For syndicated stuff, I would delete the bug triggers so our local bug somehow never turned up on my shift. [Big Grin]

I was talking with one of the traffic people on day, and she told me she went in and deleted a bunch of the automated bug triggers from the formats they used -- to quote her: "It's ridiculous. Matlock had a bug going over every single segment! I went through and deleted all but one of those!"

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 05-07-2003, 10:49 AM:

I saw a program on the History Channel about Saddam Hussein that originated on another television network. The original bug was covered up by using some sort of interpolation and then another bug was laid right over it. I'm guessing that identifier bugs will ruin the ability to archive properly.

Posted by Daniel Fuentz (Member # 1684) on 05-07-2003, 09:23 PM:

That is a distinct possibility! Most bug insertion is done as a downstream key over the video as the program is broadcast, but if something were to happen to the master recording of something and they had to go to an aircheck, it would have whatever garish logos were on the broadcast. If the BBC had cluttered up the screen with bugs in the 60's and 70's a lot of the "lost" programs they recovered through private collectors would have all sorts of crap all over them. (For those who don't know, the BBC erased/threw out original master tapes and films of many older programs in the 70's. They sent out an appeal to recover some of these lost items in the 90's, and a lot of stuff has turned up in private collections.)

Posted by David Rigby (Member # 1301) on 06-09-2003, 05:57 AM:

Futurama season 3 DVD is now out here folks [Smile]

Get ye down to thine DVD emporium immediately! 22 episodes on this set...great value for money too!

David

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 07-16-2003, 01:33 PM:

quote:
I'm sure I'll be accused of blasphemy, but personaly I think Futurama is BETTER than The Simpsons

That was my thinking also. [Smile]