Today, April 13, 3000, the Planet Express ship visits Vergon 6 just before it’s destroyed by too much mining, saving two of every animal from its surface, including an unusual creature that they name Nibbler (Futurama, s01e04 “Love's Labours Lost in Space”, 1999)
Today, April 9, 2851 is Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's birthday. To celebrate his 150th birthday, the crew of the Planet Express creates a living obituary honoring his life (Futurama, s02e15 “A Clone of My Own” 1999)
This week we dive into yet another old adaptation of a Matt Groening cartoon with the Futurama video game! Released at the end of the show's original run, can it hope to capture the anarchic space-fantasy feel of Groening's best show?
I don't know how many of you are into cartoons and such - I'm super into certain ones and have been for most of my life, ever since I used to get up early in the morning to catch them on TV as a kid.
Strangely, one of my only consistent habits for the last 14 years has been writing about them on a blog. Just wrote about the upcoming Daffy/Porky movie that I'm pretty psyched for.
Denis Villeneuve's long-awaited Dune: Part Two has finally hit cinemas, telling the story of the second half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune; as a result, many casual fans will likely be looking to remind themselves of 2021's Dune: Part One in preparation for seeing this next big-screen installment. One thing that's easy to...
Just watch the cutscenes. Everything else is bad, generic action-platformer design, including terrible camera angles to enemies you can't dodge and irritating voice clips. Oof.
I'm reading Janette Sadik-Khan's "Street Fight" -- her book about her time as transportation head of NYC, building bike lanes, bikeshare, and pedestrian avenues
She prints this "city of the future" model from the 1939 World's Fair
Massive highways circling mammoth buildings; virtually no non-car routes; hilariously few trees
I'd love to read about: How did this become the vision of "the future" back in 1939?
What are some good books on that? Any recommendations, I'm all ears!
Watching the promotional film will give you a good sense of the rhetoric and ostensible values informing Futurama.
I can see that other people have suggested readings about urban planning. You might also like to consider Futurama and its vision of the future USA in the context of industrial design - Futurama 'was dreamed up by industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes.
Posted a fun poll over on our Patreon over the weekend so backers could vote on what #Futurama characters they'd like wallpapers of next. I'm totally rooting for Zapp & Kif but who am I kidding? I'm gonna make them all eventually. 😂
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Encore un qui a trop regardé #Futurama comme un manuel, plutôt que comme une satire.
The #blizzard outside makes this the perfect day to reorganize my giant #sticker collection! Hopefully these new accessories will help reduce the chaos in my #TrapperKeeper! 😅
Zoom in and let me know what stickers you recognize — I can see some #Masto friends in there already! 🔎 :mastodon: 💗
I've loved Futurama for so long- I was actually watching on March 28th, 1999 when the pilot episode aired on FOX after the Simpsons, and I've loved it ever since. And Hulu just revived it for a couple more seasons!
I've run a blog on cartoons (https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com) for 14 years this year, but I realized I've never written up anything on my favorite Futurama episodes, despite loving the show so much, or even had a standalone Futurama-only post on there! I figured I'd change that this year.
I've been rewatching my favorite episodes this week and simultaneously working on a 'top 10 Futurama episodes' post. My top 5 were easy enough to figure out, and then I narrowed a list of 10 more episodes down to just 5 more. Wasn't too tough. Now, to do little write-ups on each, why I love them so much, why they're so rewatchable, etc.
"Could he be the Quiznos Cadillac?" (collider.com)
Denis Villeneuve's long-awaited Dune: Part Two has finally hit cinemas, telling the story of the second half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune; as a result, many casual fans will likely be looking to remind themselves of 2021's Dune: Part One in preparation for seeing this next big-screen installment. One thing that's easy to...