Seth McFarlane To Guest-Star In Futurama Finale

*ZariusTwo* · 11-30-2008, 02:15 PM

Dan Castanella appeared in Futurama's television finale, now Matt Groening's "arch rival" as far as the dominant FOX animation slots go, will be contributing a voice to the final Futurama DVD "Into The Wild Green Yonder"

http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=27339

**Jester** · 11-30-2008, 02:34 PM

I used to love MacFarlane now I say, "Meh!"

*The Stryker* · 11-30-2008, 04:08 PM

Sounds Interesting.

**Barkworm** · 12-01-2008, 12:52 AM

I'm going to say this: The "Futurama" movies were a disappointment. Not a huge one, but disappointing nonetheless. I hope Cohen won't continue beyond this "last" movie.

*VaughnMichael* · 12-01-2008, 06:26 AM

Didn't you Know?

*gobo* · 12-01-2008, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Barkworm

I'm going to say this: The "Futurama" movies were a disappointment. Not a huge one, but disappointing nonetheless.

Agreed. It's like 'what if all the halfway decent jokes in the series were dragged to their death over a four part miniseries'...

*Drtooth* · 12-01-2008, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jester

I used to love MacFarlane now I say, "Meh!"

Hey, I'm LOVING American Dad... it's the fact Family Guy got all mainstream and pandered to Frat Boys that ruined the show for me. Though I DID like that "Bird Bird Bird, Bird is the Word" stuff.

*ZariusTwo* · 12-01-2008, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by gobo

Agreed. It's like 'what if all the halfway decent jokes in the series were dragged to their death over a four part miniseries'...

It reminds me of how JMS completly screwed up the Babylon 5 TV Movies...what IS the point of throwing out prequels and then filler after filler when you could be tying up plotlines and giving us The Telepath War?

Futurama started off with a good oppertunity with "Bender's Big Score", but pandered entirely to the fans and produced standalone fluff. The concept of the second movie is great, but it's not appreciated because of the sub-plot with Bender overshadowing it

*Drtooth* · 12-01-2008, 02:26 PM

I just hope this appearnace won't turn into yet another "Seth MacFarline stole the Simpsons from us" or "It's not fair that because his show is cheaper to produce, and the fact he was pitching another show at the time to Fox, our show didn't get renewed after cancellation" snotfest that Simpsons writers keep tossing in. Look at South Park... dudes did a totally effective criticism of Family Guy.

**Jester** · 12-01-2008, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Drtooth

Hey, I'm LOVING American Dad... it's the fact Family Guy got all mainstream and pandered to Frat Boys that ruined the show for me. Though I DID like that "Bird Bird Bird, Bird is the Word" stuff.

I guess I should say I do still enjoy AD! if only because the 2 shows have flip flopped. AD! was supposed to be the political satire and FG the crazy sitcom, and the rolls seem to have reveresd. The major difference being that when AD! was being satirical it tended to be pretty damning to both sides, where as new episodes of FG totally ream the Political Right, of which I am one. I used to love FG, when it was lame "manatee jokes" but now...meh!

Oh, and don't get me started on the "Surfin' Bird" episode...I used to actually kinda tollerate that song and now, thanks to Peter Griffin I hate it.

*VaughnMichael* · 12-02-2008, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Drtooth

Though I DID like that "Bird Bird Bird, Bird is the Word" stuff.

Well I'm glad some one heard.

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Originally Posted by Jester

Oh, and don't get me started on the "Surfin' Bird" episode...I used to actually kinda tollerate that song and now, thanks to Peter Griffin I hate it.

Seriously for some one named jester you need to get a sense of humor.

Peanut · 12-02-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Oh, and don't get me started on the "Surfin' Bird" episode...I used to actually kinda tollerate that song and now, thanks to Peter Griffin I hate it.

I actually saw that for the first time last night and loved it. I thought I was sick of Surfin' Bird from playing too much Battlefield: Vietnam, but I guess I was wrong.

**GK Punk** · 12-02-2008, 03:17 PM

Yeah the surfin bird thing klled me. I watched that ep for the first time with a few friends and we about fell over from laughing so hard.

*VaughnMichael* · 12-02-2008, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GK

Yeah the surfin bird thing klled me. I watched that ep for the first time with a few friends and we about fell over from laughing so hard.

Hell even my mom and dad thought it was flippin' funny!
I could watch that episode a million times and then a million more and that part before all the jesus stuff would still be funny.

**GK Punk** · 12-02-2008, 08:49 PM

I even forgot that was the Jesus episode to be honest. The rest of it was really the star of the show.

*VaughnMichael* · 12-02-2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GK

I even forgot that was the Jesus episode to be honest. The rest of it was really the star of the show.

Peter is totally where it's at for me, I don't know why they focus all the merch on Stewie & Brian so much.

Peanut · 12-02-2008, 09:03 PM

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Peter is totally where it's at for me, I don't know why they focus all the merch on Stewie & Brian so much.

I don't know why they focus anything on Stewie and Brian. They're incredibly boring, for the most part. In fact, I find the entire family aside from Peter to be a complete bore.

I just want to see more of the convenience store guy. Not because he has any terrific material, but because he's voiced by the guy who did Coach McGurik on Home Movies, and I <3 that show.

*Drtooth* · 12-03-2008, 09:29 AM

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I don't know why they focus anything on Stewie and Brian. They're incredibly boring, for the most part. In fact, I find the entire family aside from Peter to be a complete bore.

Ugh... exactly... Talk about fan pandering.... When Stewie went from violent psychopathic megalomaniac to annoying effeminate guy saying things in effeminate accents and paired him up with Brian week after week after week (and then hinted on Stewie having some sort of attraction to him) they completely killed the character. I still say "Stewie kills Lois" should have been saved for the series finale.

I see what Jester was getting at, but I think that was why the show hasn't been good for the last couple years. That and the fact they still used the "This is worse than" and "Kinda like the time," every two minutes... but replaced the hillarious Pop culture stuff (Wrong Sounding Muppets was a classic) with crap like Sneakers O'Toolle and Buzz Killington. And what the hell was that Uncle Sam's nipples about?

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