Upcoming Episodes' death has been greatly exaggerated

What's this? Not only is Fox NOT stopping airing Futurama after the last new episode, but they're airing TWO episodes on one night?

8/10 - LAST NEW EPISODE - The Devil's Hands are Idol Playthings
       (4ACV18)
    In order to get Leela to notice how he really feels about her,
    Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil - and ends up writing the
    31st-Century equivalent to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"

8/17 - Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch (4ACV01)
    Kif gets pregnant, but Amy isn't entirely sure she's ready to be
    a mother yet

8/24 - DOUBLE FEATURE
7:00 - Less Than Hero (4ACV04)
    Fry, Leela, and Bender become a trio of superheroes after some
    "miracle cream" from Dr. Zoidberg give Fry and Leela superpowers
7:30 - The Why of Fry (4ACV10)
    The Nibblonians need Fry to save the universe, in part because
    Fry has some sort of immunity to brain attacks (which has
    something to do with Fry being his own grandfather), but when Fry
    discovers that Nibbler was involved with Fry getting stuck in the
    cryogenic chamber back in 2000, which side will Fry take?

Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

As Leela would say, "That is, by a wide margin, the least likely thing that has ever happened."

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 05:00:56 GMT, UsualNoise wrote:

Ya know, I'd say they were campaigning for that Emmy. But if that was the case, they show the nominated episode (Jurassic Bark). Oh well. Gift horse, I guess.

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"Don Del Grande" wrote in message news:[email]...

I fully intend not to watch another episode on FOX after this Sunday.

Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

All the FOX execs are on vacation, and the summer interns are making programming decisions.

Jim

Welcome back. Say, I don't remember seeing a postcard...

Jim wrote in message news:...

(Beta rolls dice ...) Futurama re-runs are back! -- Christopher Heckman

Oh great, all 3 repeats suck. Why can't they repeat "The Sting"?

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me" - General George S. Patton.

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:48:23 -0400 (EDT), [email] (Chris �) wrote:

I liked all three of those. The Why of Fry is one of my all-time favs.

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On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:30:20 -0500, Crash7 typed:

I'd like to see that one; I missed it the first time around.

"Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch" only rates ahead of "That's Lobstertaiment" on my worst episode ever list. The other 2 were just plain silly.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to wait till all episodes have been released to syndication to see "The Sting" again. Best episode ever.

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me" - General George S. Patton.

I'd assume it's because the 7:30 Banzai managed to have constantly low ratings, inspite of the annoying bugs advertising it. And yes, lower than Futurama at 7 during the last few weeks. People were changing channels to avoid watching it between the two Groening shows.

I'll bet that this one won't make it to year's end. They probably won't think it's worth the pesky (their point of view) complaints about unfair stereotyping which they already had to rebut on interviews with AP and if I remember correctly, directly after they showed it to their advertisers during upfront week.

mArc

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:14:33 +0200, "[-mArc-]" wrote:

LOL! Funny you should mention it. That's exactly what I was doing. I've been kicking over to baseball on ESPN from 7:30 to 8:00.

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This is why God gave mankind the PVR. Put "Futurama" and "The Simpsons" on Tivo "Season Pass" or UTV "Autorecord" or whatever-the-hell ReplayTV's equivalent is, and ignore the silly scheduling notion of the network.

"[-mArc-]" wrote in message news:...

Don't you mean "because" instead of "inspite" ? 8-) -- Christopher Heckman-san