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Author Topic: Futurama Season 1 DVD Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-26-2003 12:03 PM                     Although the Simpsons will always be the best, I have always really enjoyed the Futurama series. I have just started watching this DVD edition and I didn't relise just how many episodes from the first season that I missed. I haven't played any of the commentary tracks yet but they have to be as good as the Simpson's DVD tracks. Every episode so far that I watched has been halarious. Now I have to wait for the Family Guy to come out next month and the Simpsons III in June.  |  IP: Logged David Rigby Expert Film Handler Posts: 134 From: Chorlton, Manchester, UK Registered: May 2002 posted 03-26-2003 01:57 PM                     I'm sure I'll be accused of blasphemy, but personaly I think Futurama is BETTER than The Simpsons - then again I've always quietly been a bit of a misanthropic technogeek so maybe it just plays to my particular senibilities. I can't believe those Fox bastards canned it in its prime!!! David  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-31-2003 09:35 AM                        Up until now, I've probably seen at most 2 or three Futurama shows (and didn't even know it was Futurama that I was watching at the time). I bought the DVD box set after hearing people praise it. I watched the first episode on the first disc yesterday and it was great. I'm looking forward to watching the rest. A "suicide booth"? Hilarious! "You are now dead. Thank you for using..."  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-31-2003 01:11 PM                     Welcome to the club Evans. Thought I have to take my set back to the store. My disk 2 is defective in will not play very well in my player. I hope that this isn't a common problem. The commentaries are really good also. Not as much extras as I would like also though I am interested to see what kind of Easter Eggs are in there.  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-31-2003 11:08 PM                     The only easter egg that seems to be on the disc is on the root menu of each disc. Highlight the last episode on the disc and either press right or left depending on the disc, highlighting an object, a car, billboard, and police car respectively, then press enter. This will take you to the "futuristic movie poster" for the disc. Really lame if you ask me.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-31-2003 11:23 PM                        I have never seen any weekly animated shows on television and the way people have been raving about the Simpsons all these years, I bought the first season DVD set and watched the first three episodes and discovered I was too much of an "Old Fart" to grasp the humor of the show that made it endearing to fans all these years. Because I never enjoyed "THE SIMPSONS", I was not too interested in the Futurama series. Ah! what I will gve to be young again. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-02-2003 05:10 AM                     Futurama, great geek show! I loved it when it was on air but missed so many episodes...I'll have to check this out!  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-06-2003 10:53 AM                     The commentary is pretty great. The first episode gets the best commentary, I suppose they did them in order. As they have less and less new to say in later episodes they tend to become a laugh track. You always get to know which shots are rendered in 3D though, announcing them seems to be the only job the computer animation guy has. Excellent discs!  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 04-07-2003 03:31 PM                     Never watched the show because of the onscreen Fox logo. I was disappointed that Matt Groening did another show for those people, since he had objected to the logo being on "The Simpsons" when the practice started (I wrote the network complaining about the logo and got a thank-you note from the production department of The Simpsons. Didn't work apparently as it's still there 10 years later!)  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 04-07-2003 05:08 PM                     Did you see the recent episode of the Simpsons where they did that mock Joe Millionare animated logo at the bottom and Homer ate it? I loved that gag.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 04-07-2003 05:18 PM                     Haven't watched The Simpsons for a long time either because of the logo (basically if a logo stays on my screen for more than 15 seconds, it gets turned off!) but I did see the one where the Fox logo shows up in the opening and Homer grabs it and the whole family stomps on it! They should've done that on every show until the network gets rid of it.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-08-2003 01:10 PM                     Rachel: You know that "Futurama" plays Sunday thru Thrusday nights on the Cartoon Network at 11:00PM, right? You're probably cashing out the BO at that time, but it's a natural for your VCR/TIVO/DVD recorder. . .  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-09-2003 02:00 AM                     Don't have cable!  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 04-18-2003 01:17 PM                     And neither should anyone else!  |  IP: Logged Daniel Fuentz Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Fresno, CA, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 05-04-2003 11:58 PM                     Well, it figures that Futurama got axed, becuase I liked it. I also LOVED Family Guy. Well, actually I despised that show when it first came on, but since I worked at the local Fox affillaite at the time I was forced to watch it. (Control room monitors don't have channel changing functions!) After a few episodes I was hooked. (Fortunately repeated viewings didn't get me hooked on Roseanne or Friends... )  |  IP: Logged

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