Tuesday, June 24, 2008

New Futurama DVD

Wired.com has reviewed the next Futurama direct-to-DVD movie. Sounds raunchy:
It packs plenty of sharp, punchy one-liners and a plethora of geeky references -- and ups the ante with dirty jokes that wouldn't fly on television. "It's disturbing," said head writer and executive producer David X. Cohen of Beast With a Billion Backs. "There is certainly more of an adult theme in this film than the average Futurama episode."
Before I decide to purchase it, I think I'll check it out on Netflix to see whether Gresham's Law applies to the quality of the show's humor. Network censors were a constant source of gripes in the episode DVD commentaries, but I'll say this for them: they forced the writers to be more creative rather than shooting constantly for the easy, cheap, LCD laugh.

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