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Should the 4th "Futurama direct-to-DVD" feature GWB and Obama?

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Good Will Riker

Admiral
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is the last of the currently planned 4 direct-to-DVD releases for the home DVD/Blu-ray markets expected to hit store shelves in 2009.

With the talking glass jar heads of past US presidents and vice presidents already prominently featured on this show, should they now update it with George W. Bush (who was only mentioned in Bender's Big Score) and the presumptive future president of the United States Barack Obama? :cool:
 
The Evil Dead said:
If they can thing of something funny to do with 'em, sure, why not?
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I can see president-elect Barack Obama "with it" enough when it comes to today's pop culture to do a brief voiceover (like Al Gore), but not GWB (even if he is going to be out of a job in the next 3 months.).
 
Animation takes a long time to produce. According to the Infosphere (Futurama Wiki), all the voice recording for the films was completed by July 2007, well before Obama even emerged as a leading candidate. There's a trailer included on the Bender's Game DVD coming out next month, so the animation's got to be pretty much completed already, and the story would've been locked in months earlier in animatics. At this point, the only changes they could make are in editing and dialogue replacement. So I profoundly doubt there's any chance of Obama being in Wild Green Yonder. If they get to do more movies after that one, maybe.
 
Doubtful. The movie was written and produced well before we knew who the candidates were going to be for the US presidency. Obama wasn't nearly the political powerhouse he has become within the last year or so.

George W., on the other hand, sure, they can give him a cameo, but because it was produced during his term, I doubt he would have the time to fly in to wherever and do a cameo. The reason Gore did it was that he had nothing else going on at the time and his daughter worked on the show.
 
Not in this one. As for future DVDs, the only reason Al Gore ever got involved was because his daughter was on the writing staff. Doubt they have any other writers with such reach.
 
wamdue said:
there might be a problem in that Fry doesnt know who he is.
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Fry's been to the Hall of Presidents at the Head Museum enough times that he's probably met all the presidents who postdate 2000. They're just kept in a room we haven't seen yet. ;)
 
right now I think the funniest thing they could be with Obama, is suggest that he hadnt been a very good president, that or take the hype around him, to the extreme.
 
Hopefully these DVDs sell well enough to get the series renewed, so they can include Bush and the next President as heads in a jar.
 
Broccoli said:
Doubtful. The movie was written and produced well before we knew who the candidates were going to be for the US presidency. Obama wasn't nearly the political powerhouse he has become within the last year or so.

George W., on the other hand, sure, they can give him a cameo, but because it was produced during his term, I doubt he would have the time to fly in to wherever and do a cameo. The reason Gore did it was that he had nothing else going on at the time and his daughter worked on the show.
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Actually, I don't think that it would be that hard to insert a head in a jar into to an existing scene as a background joke. Just get a static cell and use computers to insert it into an appropriate scene.

Hell, they could probably do a little in-house animation on it.
 
^^Well, with modern digital animation, it's easier to do that kind of shot alteration than it would've been in the past, where a full reshoot would've been required. (These days everything except the original drawings is done with computers; the drawings are scanned, then digitally inked, painted, animated, and composited.) Still, I don't see much point if it's just a background cameo.
 
They actually showed a McCain Palin button on the Family Guy episode tonight, so I guess it's easier then I thought for them to add something late in production (as long as they plan for it).
 
The Simpsons made a joke about this when Moe covered his mouth while mentioning what teams were in the Superbowl that year, obviously to hide the fact that they could do the voiceover quickly but couldn't do the animation.
 
Harvey said:
Not in this one. As for future DVDs, the only reason Al Gore ever got involved was because his daughter was on the writing staff. Doubt they have any other writers with such reach.
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No, Al Gore was a professed fan of the show before appearing on it. Only one of his appearances ("Crimes of the Hot") coincided with Kristen Gore writing for the show.

"Anthology of Interest 1" came well before she wrote for the show.

The promo for "An Inconvenient Truth" & the movie "Bender's Big Score" came after the show had ended, and Kristen was no longer associated with it. Gore approached Groening and Cohen about doing the promo.
 
AdmiralGhoulish said:
Harvey said:
Not in this one. As for future DVDs, the only reason Al Gore ever got involved was because his daughter was on the writing staff. Doubt they have any other writers with such reach.
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No, Al Gore was a professed fan of the show before appearing on it. Only one of his appearances ("Crimes of the Hot") coincided with Kristen Gore writing for the show.

"Anthology of Interest 1" came well before she wrote for the show.

The promo for "An Inconvenient Truth" & the movie "Bender's Big Score" came after the show had ended, and Kristen was no longer associated with it. Gore approached Groening and Cohen about doing the promo.
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Ah, my mistake. Thanks for the correction. :)
 
Christopher said:
^^Well, with modern digital animation, it's easier to do that kind of shot alteration than it would've been in the past, where a full reshoot would've been required. (These days everything except the original drawings is done with computers; the drawings are scanned, then digitally inked, painted, animated, and composited.) Still, I don't see much point if it's just a background cameo.
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Well, they could be trying for "Comedy by Association" (which is overused by Family Guy). People see some they know from outside of the show (usually a pop-culture reference) and just the fact of it being there is supposed to be "funny". Plus they could just want to make some sort of bare political statement (like Hillary being in the Simpsons Movie, which is only funny because of how it all turned out).
 
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