The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Event is Happening... Again!!

Picture taken from John DiMaggio
Twitter feed

As previously stated by both Matt Groening and David X. Cohen the good folks of the Planet Express crew will be making a visit to the world of Springfield this year. The Simpsons will be hosting our futurians in an episode later in the season. It appears the initial table reads have been completed as both Serban Cristescu and John DiMaggio have been sharing and tweeting about in both Facebook and Twitter. Both have shown off their signed scripts and pictures.







Picture taken from John DiMaggio
Twitter feed

No word yet on what the episode will entail or how the two worlds will collide but it should be good. It will be interesting to see how the interaction will differ in the hands of the show writers as opposed to how Ian Boothby and the rest of the Bongo Comics Group handled it. The production code for the crossover event will be SABF16. Can't wait! I may actually watch the Simpsons this year.





Futurama Live Podcasts

The Nerdist channel at Youtube has uploaded the Futurama Live Pre and Post Shows from last weeks final episode - Meanwhile. Lots of good discussion from the panel as well as questions from Twitter, Facebook, and the crowd.

Meanwhile

Writer: Ken Keeler
Director: Peter Avanzino
Production Code: 7ACV26 
Original Air Date: September 4, 2013
Guest Voices: N/A

Avenge Us

While making a delivery on the moon, Fry, Bender, and Leela enjoy the amusement park on the moon. Bender eats too many corndogs before getting on the mecha-hexadecapus ride and gets sick spewing bolts and lugnuts in all directions which cause the gears of the mecha-hexadecapus to stop throwing Leela in to outer space. When security returns only with the stuffed bear she had earlier it appears that Leela is gone forever causing Fry to lament that he never got to tell her that he loved her when she was paying attention. Luckily for Fry and Leela she has gone Han Solo on her teddy bear and used a balloon animal replica of herself for oxygen and is still alive.

John DiMaggio Interview on CNN

I came across this pretty good article on CNN regarding voice over actors and their lack of use in big budget movies. The article and interview includes Futurama voice actor John DiMaggio.

Futurama Panel from SDCC 2013

The last(?) Futurama Comic Con panel at Comic Con hosted and moderated by Bill Morrison, formerly of Bongo Comics and including Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. According to Groening SDCC would not allow more than five panelists so instead they have included 'special guests' and voice actors John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Maurice Lamarche, Tress Macneille, David Herman, Katey Segal, and Billy West.
 

The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

The Devil's Hands Are
Idle Playthings
August 10, 2003

Writer: Ken Keeler
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 4ACV18
Original Air Date: August 10, 2003
Guest Voices: Dan Castellaneta

See You on Some Other Channel

While practicing the holophoner to impress Leela, Bender walks in on Fry and suggests that in order to get better at it maybe he should make a deal with the Devil - the Robot Devil to be precise. They go to Robot Hell to meet up with the Robot Devil who makes a deal with Fry - a set of robot hands for his set of human hands. The Robot Devil spins his selecting wheel (which contains all robots names on it) and surprisingly it lands on the Robot Devil! Grudgingly he exchanges hands with Fry.

Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles 4ACV09

Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
March 30, 2003

Writer: Jeff Westbrook
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 4ACV26 
Original Air Date: March 30, 2003
Guest Voices: N/A
Collected On: Season 4

NOW INTERACTIVE! Joystick Controls Fry's Left Ear

After Farnsworth starts to really act his age the other Planet Express employees decide to take him to the Bubbling Geezer Hot Springs Spa to be youthesized. While sitting in a pit of youth mud Bender decides to kick the pump up another notch and douses the entire Planet Express crew. Soon they realize that they all have reversed aged all the way back to their teen years. Farnsworth tries to reverse the reverse aging mud but only succeeds in further reversing everyone ages back to childhood. The problem is that the now it cannot be stopped and all are in danger of suffering the fate of pre-life. And then death.

Less Than Hero

Less Than Hero
March 2, 2003

Writer: Ron Weiner
Director: Susie Dietter
Production Code: 4ACV04
Original Air Date: March 2, 2003
Guest Voices: N/A

Soon to Be A Major Religion



 Shown at last years Comic Con I was really excited to see this one again. While assembling a super collider that Farnsworth had purchased from Pikea, Leela and Fry experience some soreness and so decide to go see the good Dr. Zoidberg who gives them some miracle creme he bought from a traveling salesmen. The creme seems to work out fine for them until they notice the side effects of this miracle creme - it gives them super human powers. They decide to put their powers to good use and form a crime fighting duo. Fry as Captain Yesterday and Leela as Cloberella. Bender joins in as Super King to round out the trio and form the New Justice Team. They become instant success in New New York and even have their own theme song:

Space Pilot 3000

Writer: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen
Director:
Production Code: 1ACV01
Original Air Date: March 28, 1999
Guest Voices: Leonard Nimoy, Dick Clark

The first episode of this series that introduces us to the main characters of Futurama: Fry, Leela and Bender. After accidentally falling into a cryogenic chamber and being frozen for 1000 years, Fry wakes up to a whole new world. Along the way he meets up with a certain robot by the name of Bender as he tries to escape his career implantation assignment from Leela. Great moment at the end of this episode where all three make the conscious decision to alter their own fate and choose their own path thus proving you don't gotta do what you gotta do.

Lots of fun moments in this episode like when Larry welcomes Fry to the future. Fry's first trip on the boom tube, meeting up with Bender in the Suicide Booth and Leonard Nimoy being fed like a goldfish in the Head Museum.After tracking down his great, great, great, great,... you get the idea, nephew Professor Farnsworth, Fry, Leela and Bender take up employment as the delivery crew for the Planet Express Delivery Service. Oh, well some things never change.