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Rate Futurama ascii with Slashdot header quotes in your terminal

Original at bambambambam (WordPress) external link    17 hours ago

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By bambambox Fry, now with quotes! I know you want this. And here’s how. The tutorial even noobs can follow. There is an easter-egg in the application apt. Have a look for yourself: Code: apt-get moo If you want to have a silly cow greet you when you open up a terminal window, by all means put this command at the t...

Rate Faster Than The Speed Of Light.

Original at 37prime (WordPress) external link    Tue, Jun 30

By 37prime It might be some wacky comedy from Futurama, but a scientist has created radio waves that travels faster than the speed of light. John Singleton the scientist (not the movie director) has achieved that. ——- That’s a reference from Futurama: “A Clone of My Own” from Futurama Volume 2

Rate Faster Than The Speed Of Light.

Original at 37prime.com external link    Tue, Jun 30

By very It might be some wacky comedy from Futurama, but a scientist has created radio waves that travels faster than the speed of light. John Singleton the scientist (not the movie director) has achieved that. ——- That’s a reference from Futurama: “A Clone of My Own” from Futurama Volume 2

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Rate What TV Shows Should Be Animated To Stay Alive?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at io9 external link    Sat, Jun 13

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By Graeme McMillan There's already precedent for science fiction shows living on past cancellation on Saturday mornings - Lost in Space, and more famously, Star Trek both had stints as cartoons, after all, and Happy Days even became a science fiction show when it became a cartoon:

Rate FUTURAMA Zoidberg shows Fry how to get nakedVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Jun 12

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By rss@youtube.com (booth9492) Author: booth9492 Keywords: FUTURAMA Zoidberg shows Fry how to get naked Added: June 12, 2009

Rate Futurama no longer leaking coolant at an alarming rate!

Original at cartoonsmartblog (WordPress) external link    Thu, Jun 11

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By Justin Since articles don’t look right without some imagery, I just did a google image search for “Futurama” and would you believe 2 out of the top 3 images were not the usual Matt Groening designs. Here’s a taste of the weirdness (most of which originating from this site)…

Rate A New Future for Futurama – and Maybe TV

Original at NBC5i.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

 TX “Futurama,” the brainchild of “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, benefited from repeats on Cartoon Network and Comedy Central. “Family Guy” followed a similar path – after FOX canceled the animated show in 2002, “Family Guy” did so well on Cartoon ...

Rate More Futurama in your future

Original at Examiner.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

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With his band of merry ne'er-do-gooders Bender, Hubert Farnsworth, Hermes, Amy, Zoidberg and Leela, Fry battled Brainspawn and saved the Universe, saved Leela from various questionable suiters and discovered the key ingredient in Slurm. ...

Rate The Futurama Looks Bright as Comedy Central Revives 'Toon

Original at TV Guide external link    Wed, Jun 10    21 related articles

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by Matt Mitovich This, without a doubt, is Bender's biggest score. Comedy Central has ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, the animated comedy that ran from 1999 to 2003 on Fox. Series creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen are currently working on ...

Rate Futurama Officially In Production!

Original at About.com Animated TV external link    Tue, Jun 9

Good news, everyone! Today Comedy Central distributed a press release saying Twentieth Century Fox has started production for a 26 episode order. 26 new episodes! The new Futurama episodes will...

Year 2009

 

Rate Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder Review

Original at Contactmusic.com external link    Fri, Apr 3

 UK Bender is joined by cocksure commander Zapp Brannigan; the environmental hazards are led by Leo Wong, father of perpetual Planet Express intern Amy; and the Legion of Mad Fellows (not to be confused with the League of Robots, as seen in The Beast with ...

Rate Opinion: If Futurama Comes Back, What's Next For Planet Express?

Original at io9 external link    Thu, Mar 5

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By Meredith Woerner We're you happy with the way Futurama went out in the final DVD Into the Wild Green Yonder? Do you and Matt Groening want to keep Futurama around? Do you have more stories to tell? Would you say that Fry and Leela are destined to be together?

Rate Futurama's Creator Isn't Afraid of Robots, Doesn't Own a Roomba

Original at Gizmodo external link    Wed, Mar 4

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By Jason Chen If the Bender-focused, first half hour of the movie were its own episode, it would solidly land in any "top ten funniest Futurama episodes of all times" list, hands down. However, because the next 58 minutes covered some very familiar, classic Futurama-esque territory, it made Into the G...

Rate DVD: Review: Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder

Original at A.V. Club external link    Tue, Feb 24

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Expectations were perhaps unrealistically high when Fox resurrected the beloved geek favorite Futurama for the home-video market, but they’ve ... www.avclub.com

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Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Feb 17

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By rss@youtube.com (suavestar) Suavestar returns after a long and drawn out hiatus to review futurama benders game. If you don't agree with my opinion say so in the comments and explain what you liked or disliked about the movie. The reviews will hopefully be coming more often and sorry for the delay between videos over the...

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Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Jan 26

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By rss@youtube.com (DarkRockman) Erst mal: Ich will mit dem Trailer KEINE Rechte verletzten noch sonst was in dieser Art. Im Gegenteil, ich habe mir die Mühe gemacht und habe Dirk Meyer sogar um Hilfe gebitten der nun diese Fanfiction freundlichst unterstützt!! (Dirk Meyer hatte unteranderem im Deutschen TV Philip J. Fry...

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Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Dec 24

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By rss@youtube.com (Batman316) Quick drawing of Robot Santa from Futurama in MSPaint Author: Batman316 Keywords: Futurama Robot Santa Christmas Speed Quick Paint Painting Draw Drawing Art Cartoon Added: December 24, 2008

Rate Why you should watch "American Dad!"

Original at heystupid (WordPress) external link    Mon, Dec 8

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By stratt I’ve always been a big fan of animated sitcoms, ever since The Simpsons started in 1989.They aren’t as phony as real shows, and can poke fun at everything, even themselves. StraTT I’ve always been a big fan of animated sitcoms, ever since The Simpsons started in 1989.They

Rate Staggering Stories Podcast #34: Exorcising Magpie

Original at Staggering Stories Podcast external link    Sun, Dec 7

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Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Nov 24

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By rss@youtube.com (DropHydroSkirmish) Good shit, I need to learn how to di throws Author: DropHydroSkirmish Keywords: SSBM Futurama is now on yay Added: November 24, 2008

Rate DVD Review - Bender's GameVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at wilybadger (WordPress) external link    Sat, Nov 22

By Chris Along with the usual science fiction references (including a nice bit of fun where George Takei is shouting at Scott Bakula, “Way to kill the franchise, Bakula!”), there’s plenty of references to D&D and to “The Lord of The Rings”. Fans of both should be very amused.

Rate How To: <b>Futurama</b>: <b>Bender&#39;s</b> Game (US - DVD R1) in Reviews &gt; Video Discs at <b>...</b>

Original at DVDActive external link    Mon, Nov 17

‘How to Draw Futurama in 83 Easy Steps’ is an eight minute visit with some of the show’s animators, who show us how to draw some of the characters (Zoidberg, Leela and Bender), in what they hope is an entertaining manner (it really ...

Rate How To: Eye for Film : Futurama: Bender's Game DVD Review (2008)

Original at Eye For Film external link    Wed, Nov 12

More amusing - and great for budding artists - is How To Draw Futurama In 83 Easy Steps Featurette which offers a step-by-step guide to drawing Zoidberg, Leela, Bender/Flexo. This eight-minute featurette is a lot of fun. ...

Rate Podcast: Contest/Giveaway: Futurama: Bender's Game

Original at TVgasm external link    Thu, Nov 6

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I have one copy of Futurama: Bender's Game DVD to giveaway, so get ready to answer some questions Gasmii! Futurama: Bender's Game is the third of four feature-length DVDs released. It follows Bender, Fry, Leela, and the crew on their latest adventure. And, best if all...it's funny!

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Original at ohmars (WordPress) external link    Wed, Nov 5

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By defender669 Since June 24th of this year, the geek in me has been anxiously awaiting the release of the third Futurama movie, Bender's Game. The first two films (ones that will be getting a stern review, just you wait) kicked stupendous ass, and with the trailer for Bender's Game as a special feature on T...

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Original at Wired News external link    Tue, Nov 4

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By Jenna Wortham Bender's Game, the third installment in a series of four direct-to-DVD Futurama movies, also delivers the sort of clever one-liners and geeky references that made the Emmy Award-winning television show an enduring fan favorite. Futurama: Bender's Game is available Tuesday on DVD.

Rate How To: DVDs for everyone on your holiday gift list

Original at tips, reviews and how to's external link    Thu, Oct 2

By BassCleff Hilarious special features include the “Genetics Lab” where fans can cross-breed their favorite characters, a step-by-step guide on how to draw the “Futurama” universe and an anti-piracy warning from Bender himself. ...

Rate Staggering Stories Podcast #28: The Duchovny with a Billion BacksVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Staggering Stories Podcast external link    Sun, Sep 7

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Vital Links: Staggering Stories.Staggering Stories: Podcast Drinking Game.Wikipedia: Large Hadron Collider.Torchwood.Doctor Who.Red Dwarf.Spooks Code 9.Quantum of Solace.Wikipedia: Highlander (franchise).Wikipedia: David Duchovny.Wikipedia: Jeffrey Sinclair.Wikipedia: Nick C...

Rate How to Draw Bender From Futurama

Original at Tutorial Kit by PhotoshopDigest Tutorials external link    Wed, Aug 20    1 related articles

Material Image, Learn how to draw Bender the robot from Futurama with the pen tool in Photoshop. Category:Graphic Design & Drawing Author: PhotoshopDigest Date: November 06, 2006.

Rate SciFi Surplus Podcast #062

Original at SciFi Surplus external link    Fri, Aug 8

By Casey Interview: JC Hutchins of the 7th Son Trilogy. Topics: Battlestar Galactica, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Futurama. Thank you for taking your valuable time to listen to us. This is show number 62 on the feed August 8th, 2008. SciFi Surplus is News, Talk, G...

Rate Opinion: FUTURAMA: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS (Futurama Movie 2) (2008) « Zippyfish

Original at zippyfish (WordPress) external link    Sat, Jun 28

By Zippyfish Futurama Movie: The Beast with a Billion Backs Review Good news everyone! Futurama, the animated sci-fi comedy show created by Matt Groening, continues its afterlife with the release of the second of four post-television movies: The Beast with a Billion Backs. The Futurama fan base is l...

Rate Opinion: FUTURAMA: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS (Futurama Movie 2) (2008)

Original at zippyfish (WordPress) external link    Sat, Jun 28

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By zippyfish I lamented in my last review that the Futurama movies could do better than Bender's Big Score. Effort number two, The Beast with a Billion Backs,  is a decent step up. It's at least made sure it's delivered on its core promise: there are plenty of moments to make you laugh! Futurama Movie: The B...

Rate Fox Sends Shows, Stars to Comic-Con

Original at Television Week external link    Fri, Jun 27

Twentieth Century Fox Television is getting its geek on. The studio has decided to dramatically expand its presence at Comic-Con, bringing a whopping nine properties to next month’s annual fan festival in San Diego. In addition, for the first time, the TV powerhouse will have its own boot...

Rate REVIEW - Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

Original at akumagoro (WordPress) external link    Thu, Jun 26

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By akumagoro There is a host of cameos in “The Beast with a Billion Backs”: Richard Nixon, Hedonism-Bot, and Professor Ogden Wernstom. Unfortunately, Dan Castellaneta reprising his role as the Robot Devil is particularly out of place and his one scene feels very much like it was shunted in. On the other...

Rate DVD Review: Futurama -- The Beast With a Billion Backs

Original at Cinematical external link    Thu, Jun 26

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By Scott Weinberg With two of four Futurama movies now behind me, I think I have the formula figured out. If the first flick -- the very amusing Bender's Big Score! -- was a patchwork and episodic affair, then at least it was a choppy good time. It was great seeing the old Planet Express crew in their resurrected f...

Rate Futurama DVD Review and Heliotrope Issue 5 Contributors Released - June 22, 2008

Original at Fantasy Book Reviews Interviews Science Fiction Book Reviews Interviews external link    Sun, Jun 22

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To me, Futurama is one of the funniest shows - not just in the realm of "cartoons" - out on the market today. That is why I was glad to hear that Damon was doing a review of one of 20th Century Fox Television's newest DVD releases, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs. Matt Groening, who also br...

Rate Podcast: Futurama remix

Original at Xtabays World external link    Fri, Jun 20

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By noreply@blogger.com (Xtabay) Alison wanted a combination of the Futurama theme with J J Perrey's EVA and Pierre Henry's Psych Rock which all sound eerily similar. I knocked together something, it starts with the Futurama opening theme segues into Psych Rock then a remix of the Futurama theme and finally EVA. Here it is.

Rate Staggering Stories Podcast #20: Too Crumbly to Sniff At

Original at Staggering Stories Podcast external link    Sun, May 11

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Show summary: Andy Simpkins, Adam J Purcell, Fake Keith and Tony Gallichan talk about the Doctor Who Season 4 episodes The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, and a variety of other stuff, specifically: 00.00 - Intro and theme tune.01.08 — Greetings, yes?0...

Rate Podcast: The Doctor Who Video Dalek S1E3

Original at web.mac.com external link    Tue, Mar 18

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Ola’ Seniorita! Today I review the Futurama Movie, Bender’s Big Score! P.S. This episode is featured on Aussie Tech Head! episode 80

Year 2007

 

Rate A ‘Futurama’ resurrection - New Straits Times

Original at nst.com.my external link    Thu, Dec 6

A ‘Futurama’ resurrection New Straits Times, Malaysia - And that is how Bender’s Big Score, the first of four direct-to-DVD feature-length Futurama movies, came to be released recently. The other three discs will ...

Rate Futurama: Bender’s Big Score DVD Review

Original at About Heroes external link    Thu, Nov 29

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Written by: Ken Keeler Story by: Ken Keeler and David X. Cohen Director: Dwayne Carey Hill Voices: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Dimaggio, Lauren Tom, Phil Lamarr, Maurice LaMarche, Frank Welker, Al Gore, Coolio, Tom Kenney, Mark Hamill, etc.

Rate DVD Review: 'Futurama: Bender's Big Score'

Original at Zap2it.com external link    Tue, Nov 27

To quote Professor Farnsworth: "Good news, everyone!" "Futurama" is back. The beloved sci fi cartoon brought to viewers by "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and David X. Cohen then summarily canceled by the FOX network celebrates its ...

Rate App State math professor featured on 'Futurama' DVD - Asheville Citizen-Times

Original at Black Mountain News external link    Sat, Nov 24

App State math professor featured on 'Futurama' DVD  NC - “Futurama: Bender’s Big Score” includes a 25-minute math lecture by Greenwald as one of its added features. Greenwald, who teaches at Appalachian State ...

Rate Watch Southpark, Family Guy, and Futurama Online

Original at TV on the Web external link    Mon, Oct 1

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By C. Crowe Also, watch Family Guy episodes at Family Guy Tube. Looking for Futurama episodes? The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening's short-lived tv show that was destined for syndication purgatory, then watch Futurama episodes at Futurama Tube.

Rate How To: Amigurumi-o-rama Part 3: Pop Culture

Original at DIY Life external link    Fri, Aug 10

By M.E. Williams Star Wars: This detailed amigurumi version of Wicket the Ewok is done in two parts (tutorial here). Not everyone likes the Ewoks, but who can say no to Yoda? Both are for crocheters. Futurama: Bender Bending Rodriguez! He likes beer! ...

Rate How to Draw Bender

Original at Tutorial Outpost Latest Tutorials external link    Thu, Jun 28    1 related articles

Learn how to draw Bender the robot from Futurama with the pen tool in Photoshop.

Rate How to make a Zoidberg Mii. Hooray!

Original at Joystiq external link    Thu, May 31

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By Ross Miller Filed under: Culture, Nintendo Wii, VideoWho doesn't want Dr. Zoidberg (of Futurama fame, of course!) in their Mii Channel? For one beautiful night he knew what it was to be a Mii. Subjugated, yet honored. Continue reading How to make a Zoidberg Mii. Hooray!Read | Permalink | Email this ...

Rate Opinion: Futurama::How the Local Newsroom of the Future Might Operate

Original at PBS external link    Mon, Apr 30

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How would such a newsroom work without the weight of a legacy media outlet, without the history of management and circulation and broadcast towers and every other piece of infrastructure that is ingrained in the institutional memory of so many old media operations? And perhaps most imp...

Year 2006

 

Rate Podcast: Up a Paddle - Episode 13 - Truth, Justice and the Paddle Way

Original at Up a Paddle external link    Tue, Jun 27

Good News Everybody - For real this time - Futurama brought back for 13 episodes http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/22/new-episodes-of-futurama-coming-to-comedy-central-for-real/ Venture Bros Season 2 premiered last Sunday http://www.adultswim.com/shows/venturebros/

Rate Podcast: Up a Paddle - Episode 1 - It Begins

Original at Up a Paddle external link    Sun, Mar 19

Up A Paddle - Episode 1 - It Begins EDIT: Feb 11, 2007 - I've edited this podcast to fix the sound issues.  I'll be going through in the next few weeks and editing the first few episodes as they are a little iffy in the quality department. News 26 new episodes of Futurama are in production.

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