Yeah two Pit threads in a row. I’m making up for lost time. This will become my third pit thread ever, so bear with me.
FOX. You don’t suck because of your dumbass reality shows. You don’t suck because one of your “best” shows stars a disgustingly malnourished shrill pathetic female lawyer. You don’t suck because your supposedly realistic show on the portrayal of high school life. (I do kind of enjoy Boston Public.)
You suck because you have one of the best shows on the air and you BARELY show it!!! Yes I’m talking about FUTURAMA and man am I pissed that its either interupted by something minor like football, or a post-game (who watches those?), or the crappy version of Miracle on 34th Street, or the World Series. Like I fucking give a shit. I admit: Its NICE to watch sports, but why don’t you give Futurama a better time slot then? Its December and I’ve seen the show…what, twice this year? That’s what it sure as hell feels like.
It beats the shit out of those dumbass teen dramas, any show on MTV, and any other animated show (including the Simpsons which is in its decline, I must say). So then why do you never show it?! Jesus Christ, FOX people, if your channel fails and dies, don’t blame me because I could have saved your ungrateful flaming asses.
Good day people. (I really really REALLY miss Futurama…)
I agree with you that Futurama is a great show and should be shown more often, but I highly doubt that anyone at Fox knows your name, let alone is going to blame you for anything. It will take more than just a couple of good “prime time” shows, being Futurama and the Simpsons, to keep them alive, but then again, there are enough people watching the mindless drivel that they show, like World Wildest Police Videos 17, to keep advertisers pumping money into this sinking ship. I just can’t wait for the special from the Discovery Channel, World’s Stupidest Television Network Executives. I’m sure Fox will have at least 7 of the top 10. Anyone else waiting for this special?
Friedo- it definitely is a masterpiece. Totally and wonderfully one. CatBiker: it is WAY better than the Weather Chanel, i assure you. (Weather chanel: weird kind of perfume?? :p)
I would not be in the slightest bit surprised to see Fox create a show named “Homosexual Chicken.” I just hope they never come out with “Sonderkommando”…
“Sonderkommando” … hmmm
Actually not a bad idea for FOX. You got your bevy of beautiful blonde teenagers, sleek uniforms, the opportunity for personal crises and backbiting and betrayal … I know what you’re thinking; “the Jewish thing”, right? Well what we do is, we make them Arabs.
Get Darren Star to produce, hire some fresh teen unknowns (you’ll need the “small-town Austrian milkmaid with a heart of gold” - does Aaron Spelling have any more daughters? - and the “haughty Prussian jock” and the “cruel jackbooted Valkyrie” as the bitch) and you’ve got yourself a hit soap.
Kind of a Dawson’s Creek meets Triumph of the Will type thing.
What a concept. Let’s rip-off “Survivor” AND “The Real World!” Only we’ll have unmarried couples go to this island where 26 hot-looking single people are waiting to attempt to get them to cheat and break up.
What a shining example for society.
The over/under on the first airing of “The World’s Greatest Snuff Films” on Fox is 2003.
Didn’t I hear something (probably on this board) to the effect that Fox is finding Matt Groening difficult to deal with and so are trying to sabotage the show so they can rid themselves of it and MG? If this is so, I hope some sort of protest or e-mailing campaign is organized to emphasize to Fox the stupidity of endangering this brilliant show.
BTW, last Sunday’s episode, when Prof. Farnsworth clones himself an obnoxious son, and then goes off with the grim reaper robot, was hilarious. “What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a genius’s wiener before?”
Its just that this all makes me so angry. Jeez. I mean, they have one of the most intelligent shows on the air, as you guys can attest to. Why why WHY do they have to show fucked up shows then? Do they really think we WANT to watch millionaires get married? No, we want to see Bender steal, get wasted, and light up a cigar. We want Leela rolling her eyes at Fry’s weird antics…and Farnsworth eating an alien’s brain or something.
God. I NEED a Futurama fix!!
Believe me. If they ever (god forbid) took this show off the air, words could not do justice a Pit rant.
I wonder if there’s any way to contact FOX and tell them this. Maybe I could get Rupert’s number…
It’s been on for, what, one whole season? It takes a long time to animate an episode, my friend! Don’t tell me that you think they put a new one together every week?
Fox doesn’t show Futurama a lot because there’s not a lot of Futurama to show. The Simpsons, by contrast, has been going strong for, what, a decade? They’ve got TONS of episodes to pick and choose from!
Holy hell, you take the term “instant gratification” to a whole 'nother level…
What really sucks is that they have just started to play Buffy on Swedish tv. They showed the first half of the season, and then repeated it two months later. We don’t get the second half until next year. I can buy the series on video, up to the third season, yet they wont show it on tv. Especially when it was actually quite popular.
But this is the country where one third of the population spend saturday night watching bingo on tv…
Wrong. This is the THIRD season for Futurama. There are PLENTY of episodes to show.
You take the term “uninformed babbler” to a whole 'nother level… if you want to discuss something and make a criticism, at least know what the fuck you are talking about.
Thank you for defending me, Hastur. Yes, Futurama’s been on for quite some time. They could show reruns if they had nothing better to show. I would really like to see A Fishful of Dollars, as I missed it the first time around. And it wouldn’t hurt to see the Fry and the Slurm Factory one once more. (it was good!)
The OP made a comparison to The Simpsons. I pointed out that The Simpsons have been on the air a lot longer than Futurama (hence the greater showing of The Simpsons as opposed to Futurama). If you choose to debate that point, go ahead. But if you instead choose to nitpick the unimportant points, feel free to remove that pole from your painfully stretched anus and beat thyself over the head with it. It could only improve your mental faculties.
Well, if you get his number, put in a good word for Family Guy. I miss the Griffins ::sniff::. But just think–only a few more weeks of football and at least Futurama will be back!
As for The Simpsons, the snow storm espisode became an instant classic when Principal Skinner told the hamster to chew on his ball sack.
