Good(ish) News Everyone. Futurama's Coming Back

oh nice! was hoping this would be the case

 

In their pockets?

Fixed (I can never get it to work on a phone)-

 

In Mickey's black hole ears.

 

They chose to make their deal without him. It was a dumb negotiating tactic, and they'll have to settle for the consequences.

 

Nice that Disney figured out that voice actors aren't so easily replaceable.

 

I started rewatching Futurama because of Bendergate. It's almost a plot that Bender would come up with?

He's back baby, so now my excitement can creep up.

 

This is AWESOME. In January I was reading about Fururama and lamenting it’s loss (again) and…

It’s the show that won’t die. One of my favourite shows of all time and I’m over the moon.

 

Which Simpsons made a joke about.

 

Cool, I guess.

I really hope they start the first episode with Bender waking up in the ruins of the Simpsons basement for continuity with the crossover.

Actually that would be a good opening for an obvious joke.
Bender "Wait, you're all still here?"
Homer "Yeah, even after 1000 years we never got canceled."

 

I suspect The Simpsons producers are using the recasting along racial lines as a cynical way of testing out and slowly phasing in new voice actors. The majority are all senior citizens now. If the audience is already used to new voices, they can just keep on recasting them and run forever, James Bond style.

 

I still can't believe this is happening. I've been on top of the world for the whole evening.

 

Disney- Spider-man No Way Home made some money this year. We can give some to DiMaggio.

 

Disney has been working to phase out on-screen talent for a while now. It's just a matter of time before we get a Star Wars with its "original cast," except the "original cast" will just be computer-generated voices and images. They already started us in that direction with fake Luke and having every bit character get complete 360-degree scans.

 

I'm up for more episodes, but I have to say … I saw the then series finale and the way it ended and tied things up, I have to ask: What's the point? Where is it going to now? How do you top that ending or at least make something equally as good?

 

I felt the same way about "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". Let's see what they've got...

 

Turns out John DiMaggio didn't actually get a pay raise, but conceded on his call for better pay for voice actors on the advice of his agent. This particular nugget from DiMaggio is especially amusing:

“But listen, this was the best thing about that fight,” DiMaggio said, “I had Disney, Hulu, I was holding on to their collective testicles so hard that they couldn’t, y’know, there was nowhere for them to go. But there was also nowhere for me to go, and who wants to hold on to those for that long?”​

 

He conceded, but he had them by the testicles?

 

He can't even claim a moral victory here, as he achieved nothing for anybody. So tell me John, in the end, whose shiny metal ass got bit?

 

I mean, he's still a famous multimillionaire working his dream job so ...