Ok, As many of you Atlantic costs and Central time zone people know, at the end of last night Futurama, just as Bender says “Ass,” the networks cut in with election results. Did anyone out west see it uninterupted, and if so, what happened?
On the bright side, we got to see Bender’s expression. I’m guessing that the credits followed immediately. It would’ve fit.
But I was still upset.
For what it’s worth, since I don’t much care for King of the Hill, I drove down to where all of this was happening in downtown Tally, drove past the building and flipped off the camera crews.
Does that make you feel any better?
i’m still not sure that the show actually got interrupted. it all fit way to well. i’m thinking that was probably the end. i could swear that the shot faded just before the network cut in, but i’m willing to admint i could be wrong there.
what really pissed me off was the fact that they cut in with some guy saying the in a few moments someone else would be saying something. couldn’t they have just waited those few moments. i didn’t really need to see the secretary of state walk in, sit down, chat with others in the room, suppress giggling, and otherwise waste time for five minutes before the actual announcement.
at least it was all over by the time the simpsons came on. boy, i would have been ever so pissed…
Here in Atlanta Futurama was preempted by an Atlanta Falcons football game. Since Fox usually doesn’t show a new episode to just part of the country, I’d assumed Mountain and Pacific time-zoners got a rerun.
Damnit! I hate football, and I hate the stupid Fox programmers!
Bender says “ass”, but he doesn’t blow up. They couldn’t remove the bomb, so they reprogrammed it to only explode when Bender says a word he almost never says. So naturally he tries to guess: “Is it ‘thanks’? ‘Please’?..” The gang try to get him to stop guessing. The shot is changed to an aerial exterior of the building as bender keeps guessing which word will explode the bomb. Bender says another word that I didn’t catch and there is a flash of white. Then the black-background credits start and we hear Bender say, “I’m okay!”
Did anyone happen to catch what the word was?
…stupid election :mad:
blessedwolf, you’re my hero!
Thanks for the info, Johnny!
Come on people, anyone catch that final word?
God damn!! That is so annoying, that I missed that. I mean, its not as if they interupted the show at a boring point, its that they interupted it at the VITAL part. They did that with millionaire right before the guy was going for his million dollar question, just so that George W. Bush could read us a superficial speech full of stuff that no one believes. Ugh!! And i get enraged too when the preempt Futurama for football. Like i wanna see a pigskin get tossed around instead of lovable Bender? Okay election people, I have one thing to say…
Bite my shiny metal ass! (i’m starting to think this would belong in the pit.) 
Anyone else wonder if that “Fox News Update” screen that flashed up was PART of Futurama? “City blows up. Film at 11.” - type?
Five - I don’t think they show Futurama if it is against a NATIONAL telecast - tha Falcon game was probably local. Fox didn’t have a second game here.
Any other old farts remember a show called Sledge Hammer? They thought it was going to be cancelled, so the last ep of the first season showed the inept hero trying to defuse an atom bomb, as they pulled away. They got out to a city view, we hear “OOPS!!!”, then see a mushroom cloud…
…then it was renewed. First scene said “Same place, 5 years earlier”…
“That man makes Rambo look like Pee-Wee Herman…”
If memorey serves correct I believe the word was antiquing.
That’s what I thought at first too. BTW, why is Fox giving Futurama such a crappy time slot anyway? The other pisser this year was the season premiere, pre-empted by football except for the last 5 minutes. Thanks alot Fox.
Tennents, you are correct sir(?). The word was “antiquing.” Funny stuff. “Those balls are making me testy” cracked me up. That’s some pretty risque stuff for 7pm on the west coast.
I was amused at the “New New York Post” headline BALLS THOROUGHLY LICKED.
But as everyone knows, the REAL “New York Post” would never use a word as multisyllabic and confusing as “thoroughly.” Their readers might choke on their gum while trying to sound it out.
We waited three freakin’ weeks for the results and they couldn’t wait two minutes for the end of the show…and then we hadda watch those stupid officials sign everything IN SILENCE before they announced anything anyway!
I second that “shiny metal ass” comment.
It was indeed “antiquing”. It was hard to understand, so I turned on the closed captioning on my tv. Interestingly, the word “hootenanny” appears on the screen after he says, “I’m alright” (which, BTW, does NOT show up).
Another good line: “I’m tired of seeing body bags and ball sacks.”
At least this episode made up for the Simpsons.
…go to http://futuramaoutlet.com and look under the news for Nov. 28 in the center column of the page. They have the end of the episode from Hermes and the Professor telling Bender that they couldn’t get the bomb out (“They must have put it in with glue or something.”)
It’s in real video format and of good quality. The whole site is full of really great audio and video.
Here in Pittsburgh Fox 53 DID NOT show any of Futurama, as they inexplicably showed the Falcons game.
Blast.
We missed the last 5 minutes of Boston Public last night just so Al could have his say… I was so ticked!!!
They interupt the show at a critical part, to tell you they’re still clueless idiots.
“We interupt for this important news update, that has been completely up in the air for weeks, and want to repeat we are still clueless. On the brighter side I got a bigger box to sleep in as I am living outside on the sidewalk. Thank God this wasn’t in Wisconsin, or I’d be a popcicle.”
One more year of Clinton I guess?
At least I know the ending when Bender says ass!