is I am still alive and still President!
Posted on 09/12/2013 11:07:19 AM PDT by Bender2
Why Futurama Was The Greatest Show About The Future Ever Aired:
R.I.P. Futurama, we'll miss ya
By Colin Lecher
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While most TV science fiction is an exaggerated metaphor of the creators' ideas--or, at its worst, a sterile attempt at imagining the future--Futurama understood that the future would always subvert our expectations. So the show did the only reasonable thing: revel in all the ways the future could be absurd, wild, poignant, hilarious, bizarre, terrible, wonderful, and so, so close to reality without being a thinly veiled version of the present.
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Weird! Funny! And like the best satire, it gets at a truth: our predictions of the future are, more often than not, terrible. You can check out the Popular Science archives for proof. We're not embarrassed! Futurama understood that it's unreasonable to even try to make predictions--that messy uncertainty is the future's only real certainty, so why not own it?
Which ties in perfectly with the herky-jerky trajectory of the show. It aired for a while, got canceled, came back, and now it's gone again--except it may come back on another network, possibly, Matt Groening has said. Or maybe it won't! Who knows.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
is I am still alive and still President!
but I agree with it!
sci-fi ping
Shut up baby, I know it.
It grew on me over time.
We’re whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain’t no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.
Love Futurama. Off teleprompter now. Popular science magazine of old monthly Gasoline Alley? Model Garage, Gus Wilson’s problem solving skill and shop entourage interaction was a real pleasure to read and instructional too. Miss the good old days in more ways thanONE
The few episodes I’ve seen of this cartoon are okay in a quirky, benign sort of way. It’s certainly easier to wacth Futurama than some of the other new cartoons. Adult Swim, for instance, has some very dark, rough, mean adventures. If I visit somebody and they’re watching Adult Swim, I usually end of leaving the room or ignoring it after a short while. Even The Family Guy has it’s moments of perversion and meanness. I suppose that is what sells these days.
Have to admit - i’ve watched only two shows. BUT your posts here the reason I started watching! Don’t stop.
Gadzooks! You would think I said the Aggies... 
were going to roll the Tide 35 to 27, wouldn't you?
Well, I did say that, but that... 
was on the Let Johnny Manziel be himself (Hey, he's buying the beer!) thread--
The original run of futurama was awesome. The newer ones seem to have lost something.
I honestly think I have watched every episode made and aired. It is/was a show with some very good innuendo, wit and sometimes blatant dialogue that provided a commentary of current style, environs and issues taken to the extreme 2000 years later. I am going to miss it.
Ugh! Sounds like corkman... 
wants to Snu-Sun with us--
That... 
can be arranged!
” (Sigh).... Sexlexia.”
Bender, mah man, yer famous!
Perversion and meanness - are what inhabits the brains of homosexual writers.
There were a couple of good epis, but they did a horrible job on their initial Christmas return.
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