Futurama in Wired (repost)

Courtesy bongo83. :-)

In case some of you didn't pick up the February issue of Wired featuring Futurama (Which Jon Blum pointed out to me), I took it upon myself to tell you some of the neat stuff said in the interview:

"The Simpsons is still on the air in the year 3000."

   "We have what we call freeze-frame moments - there are a
    series of alien alphabets you can find, and we'll also
    provide the keys to figure them out."

   "I don't care if some kids appropriate my stuff for their Web
    site...I have been accused of being a bad guy because Fox has
    come down heavily on people.  All I can say is, I don't own
    the copyright on The Simpsons - Fox does.

   "There are weekly fan-written Simpsons scripts posted on the
    Internet.  I can't read them - I will be accused later on
    down the line of having stolen somebody's idea.  But I love
    the idea of it."

    And, maybe the most spiritually uplifting statement I've
    heard in a long time:

   "My great unfulfilled ambition - to do an amusement park - is
    really why I am doing Futurama.  I'm not kidding.  If this
    show takes off, I'm going to do an amusement park."

Just thought you'd like to know.

Another pointless comment from...
Bongo
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Thanks Dave!

Dave Hall wrote:

Dave Hall wrote:

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Of course, you can view the entire article at <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/futurama.html>. One thing I liked about the original print article was that it was the first real look into the series by any media outlet. The "Bender's Diary" subfeature, which the web archive unfortunately does not contain, was also quite amusing. The issue in which the article appeared also had three or four different covers, IIRC.

Thanks!