Yup, you heard right, Futurama will be back on the air soon. I was watching Futurama repeats on Comedy Central last night and a commercial showed a mighty big Bender with text saying "Futurama - New Episodes March 23" on the screen. Yippie! As I said before, Futurama’s return is great news for all us fans. So be sure to watch the new Futurama episodes starting Sunday, March 23 on CC at 8pm! It’ll be great to see everyone in the 31st century again.
Goobees - Here’s a sweet little film created by four graduate students at Texas A&M. It’s an all out candy war within the candy vending machine. It’s a creatively, colorful short animation that whets your appetite for more. Just be warned, it’s a little dark and that’s not just the chocolate. At least it won’t cause you cavities.
Listen Up Short Children!! It’s the first full Old-Timey Homestar Runner toon in quite awhile and it includes a color! Sickly Sam gets a date and a full meal in this program.
I do believe you’ve spicked my span.
These old-timey shenanigans from Homestar are the best. The sloppy edits, grainy appearance, the static and pops, and the old-timey speak are the bee’s knees.
If you like family, animated adventures with robots then this new Pixar movie called WALL-E, will knock your socks off! The Pixar animation in these movie trailers are just fantabulous. Doesn’t this film look sweet? A brief synopsis for this film is:
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?
It’s succinct and gets your mind-a-wondering. This will be a great movie if you’ve got kids. Plus if you bought them the Finding Nemo DVD, which they’ve watched a million times, you’ll appreciate a new movie for them to fixate on. It’s sci-fictiony and there is plenty of robots to enjoy and everybody likes robots. It comes out June 27, 2008, so you’ve got a few months to wait.
A big shout out and thanks to lamartherevenger for reminding me about this movie! Congrats again on your new baby boy, Alex!
Note: Just like Google, if Pixar offers you a job, take it!
It appears that there is a new TV show coming to town. Wolverine & The X-Men, a new 26 part animated series from Marvel. From the trailer we can see Wolverine running the shots as the Brotherhood of Mutants causes havoc around town.
When an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, the beaten heroes walk away from it all. But then they’re given a rare glimpse into the future, and see a world in utter ruin, ruled by giant destructive robots - a world that spiraled out of control because the X-Men had given up. So now the most legendary of all X-Men takes the lead: Wolverine! Reuniting these broken heroes, Wolverine embarks on the ultimate mission - to prevent the world’s destruction. To rescue us from ourselves. To save the future.
It stars everyone’s favorite mutant, Wolverine. Oh and the X-Men will be in the show too. (I imagine they’ll be playing cameo, so as to not take all of Logan’s camera time.)
Wow, a second Gabe Swarr post in a row! It’s a Gabe-tastic world we live in!
Did you get a chance to see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters movie last year? Well now you can watch it on DVD
What the Shell?! - is a entertaining short animation by the gifted Gabe Swarr. The beautiful backgrounds were done by Tony Mora and the catchy music is by the rockin band 8 Bit Weapon. I can’t get enough of Gabe’s take on Mario. That’s some great work Gabe! I wonder what we’ll see next from this upstanding young man?
As mentioned by Matt Groening at the 2007 Comic-Con Simpsons panel, not only is Ralph Wiggum his favorite character but Ralph Wiggum will be running for Prez in 2008. Ralph announced his candidacy on the January 6th episode of The Simpsons, entitled “E. Pluribus Wiggum”. For more information on Ralph’s candidacy, including his political platforms, check out Ralph’s campaign site.
You know he’s got my vote! If you can’t Wiggum, join ‘em!
Update 08/10/08: The official Wiggum for Pres site has been down for over a month for some reason but you can still visit it off of the official Simpsons site.
Volumes 1-4 are available now for the same price as a cheese pizza and a large soda at Panucci’s Pizza. It’ll cost you a fishful of dollars more if you want anchovies.
Wasn’t it Hermes Conrad who had the hidden videos of the Planet Express crew? Ah well, just remember that today is the day that Futurama: Bender’s Big Score is released. It’s Futurama at its best and it makes a great gift. It’s funny and it qualifies as “ill”…at least from a technical standpoint. Go buy your uniquely packaged DVD today! It’s only $17.99 - don’t forget how rich you are! (Put your monocle back on.) Don’t make me get Hypnotoad.
As you may remember from earlier this year, Futurama will be returning to TV in 2008. (We can thank Futurama’s loyal fans for the its return.) I’m glad the show is coming back and I’m even more glad they’re not going back to the Fox network. I’ve been enjoying Futurama reruns on Comedy Central for quite awhile now and believe it will prosper more on that network because they’ll get a lot more leeway to do what they want, which in turn should produce a better show. What are your thoughts and how excited are you? Give a shout out and let your voice be heard.
Don’t forget to pre-order Futurama: Bender’s Big Score! With a release date of November 27, we’ll all be able to watch this new Futurama flick soon! I watched a preview of this DVD at Comic-Con earlier this year and it looks like a real winner.
As Xmas 3007 approaches, the Futurama crew must fight to save Earth in an epic battle against nudist alien Internet scammers. Al Gore, Coolio and Sarah Silverman guest star.
The DVD has got complete commentary by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. Since I’m such a big fan of Futurama and I’m so giddy about the release of this all new, full-length feature movie, I think I’ll continue this Futurama theme for a bit.
We hope to see you soon for tea. 
It’s Jerry Time everybody! The latest episode, which is the fifteenth one so far, is entitled ‘The Gobbler.’ Watch as one tough bird takes over a small town and why you must beware of wild turkeys…
Note 1: As a proud Fighting Gobbler alum, I’d like to say Go Hokies, Beat Miami!
Note 2: Did you notice the Bimbo curtain, about half way through? You might remember my previous post about that.
The Secret Life of Machines used to be on The Discovery Channel back in the 90’s and I watched every episode. If you were as fascinated with the show as I was, you’ll remember Tim Hunkin explained the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery. It was the closest thing to a ‘tech’ show you could get in those days. (Plus, there were Tim’s distinctive cartoons which he’s known for.)
If you’d like to please your inner geek, you can watch all those episodes again. Bring on the learning (and don’t forget the flaming televisions and flying rocket vacuums).
Waterlollies, by Adam Phillips, is yet another wonderfully wild animation that will just amaze your senses. The main character Bitey, gets his comeuppance and it’s pretty funny to watch.
Bitey’s short-sighted arrogance lands him in a world of hurt and the fastest creature in the world is brought to a slow, painful crawl.
All of Phillips’ (months of) hard work is clearly evident in this entertaining and creative 8+ minute animated short. The details and the fluidity in the cartoon are splendidly complemented with the music. Load it up, snag your own snack, sit back and enjoy.
They’re fresh, they’re hip, they’re teens! The trend of revamping popular older cartoon series (yeah, I’m looking at you) into slimmer, trimmer, “teen-ier” versions, has now transformed. Here’s a clip of the upcoming animated series of the new (teen) robots in disguise. I’m not exactly sure what to think about all this.
Thanks Seibertron.
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Dragon Quest IV by Square Enix  |
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