# Futurama's Back! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006 "2006-03-19T16:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/41 "2006-03-20T17:52:24Z")
You know what I blame this on the downfall of? Society! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/42 "2006-03-20T19:22:38Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > vwrioup vwrioup vwrioup vwrioup! (or whatever the happy Dr. Zoidberg sound is) > I am clicking my claws! I assume you didn’t read the rest of the thread? The news gets less happy. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/43 "2006-03-20T19:56:55Z")
Remember when we found out Leela’s full name is Turanga Leela? And when Frye expressed surprise that her first name was Turanga, Amy very pointedly called him Phillip? Doesn’t that sound to you that it means Leela is her family or surname? So why does IMDB list her parents’ names as Turanga Munda and Turange Morris? Shouldn’t they be Munda Leela and Morris Leela? Or are they Japanese mutants? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/44 "2006-03-20T20:06:44Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I assume you didn’t read the rest of the thread? The news gets less happy. You assume correctly. That sucks. It looks like new Futurama episodes are as plentiful as guitar strings in the sewers. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/45 "2006-03-20T20:07:48Z")
Hmmm. From the latest post from Billy in that thread, he seems to believe the DVD deal is still in the works, even if rumors of a new TV series turned out to be bunk. I’ll take whatever Futurama I get! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/46 "2006-03-20T20:15:31Z")
> [@Gr8Kat](#): > > Remember when we found out Leela’s full name is Turanga Leela? And when Frye expressed surprise that her first name was Turanga, Amy very pointedly called him Phillip? Doesn’t that sound to you that it means Leela is her family or surname? Yeah, it sounds that way. It just isn’t. We don’t know what conventions mutants use with regard to family names. 😉 What’s great about that bit is that not only did Fry not known Leela’s ‘last’ name, Bender didn’t know Fry’s _first_ name. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/47 "2006-03-20T20:19:22Z")
> [@Abbie Normal](#): > > If Adult Swim gets a channel all to itself, then I think it has a bit of a chance to come back.\* > Adult Swim has brought back Family Guy, which by itself is a show of force. Previously people have tried letter writing, petitions for other shows and very little has come of it. Keep in mind the other major factor in _Family Guy’s_ resurrection was DVD sales, something like 3,000,000 units (from projected sales of only 100,000 or so). I’m sure the _Futurama_ DVDs do well, but probably not the kind of “Holy SHIT!” numbers that _Family Guy_ racked up. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006/48 "2006-03-20T20:32:48Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > You assume correctly. That sucks. It looks like new Futurama episodes are as plentiful as guitar strings in the sewers. ☹ Ha Ha… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futuramas-back/349006.md?page=2)