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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

The Triumphant Return of 'FUTURAMA'? | 10/17/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

Let's talk about the decline of Futurama.

0:07.2

Now I don't know if you guys know this because I haven't really seen a lot of people talking

0:11.1

about it.

0:12.1

A Futurama is currently midway through its eighth season.

0:15.0

That's right.

0:16.0

A full 10 years after the show was canceled by Comedy Central, it is now streaming exclusively

0:20.5

on Hulu.

0:21.5

You see, before the series was renewed, you could find all the old episodes streaming

0:24.6

on Hulu.

0:25.6

And what I'm guessing happened is that the executives over there saw that enough people

0:29.1

were watching those old episodes that were, you know, at the newest, still a decade

0:34.9

old, that it would be worth it to commission new episodes.

0:38.6

And they actually managed to get from what I understand the entire voice cast back.

0:42.3

They returned, which is really cool.

0:44.0

By the way, because I know I'm going to get comments about this, there seems to be some

0:47.2

discrepancy as to how the Futurama seasons are separated or some publications that mark

0:51.9

Futurama down as having like 11 or 12 seasons, whereas some other people say that no, it's

0:56.4

only on its eighth season.

0:58.0

And the difference is that some people like to categorize the films that Futurama did,

1:03.8

you know, Bender's Big Score, Beast with a billion backs, Bender's Game and Into the Wild

1:07.1

Green Yonder.

1:08.1

Some people say that those films collectively comprise Futurama's fifth season, while other

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