Futurama Likely to Always Be Relevant
As expected, a new season of Futurama has stirred up an influx of, as the kids are calling it, "buzz." But you know how those kids are; short attention spans, tweets tweeting, faces booking, fleeting relevance. It's all very fast and frightening. Luckily, as co-creator David X. Cohen made clear in an interview with UGO, you can write about something a millennium in advance and it remains equally awesome:
So we're also planning a 3012 presidential election with a candidate who challenges Nixon, except that people begin to suspect that the candidate was actually not born on Earth, and they demand to see his "Earth certificate." That's one that we're working on. And based on the 2012 prediction, we're going to do a 3012 doomsday prediction episode.
Deal with that, kids! But maybe all this serious philosophical dialogue on social relevance doesn't exactly capture why Futurama has been loved for so long. Cohen also had an interview with Wired where he talked about one of his favorite upcoming episodes:
“It’s pretty deep, but there are also a lot of flaming belches,” he said. “We pull you in with the mathematical theorems, and we keep you with the flaming belches.”
Maybe we're all just kids on the inside after all (in a metaphorical, non-medically problematic sort of way). Read the rest of the UGO interview here and the Wired interview here.
Tune-in to "The Thurs-Dimension" every Thursday with new episodes of Futurama at 10/9c followed by new episodes of Ugly Americans at 10:30/9:30c.
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