Image Credit: FoxTo anyone who thought thatFuturamahad bitten the shiny metal @$$ of cancellation…surprise!
The next-millenium-set animated comedy is returning to the air after being dropped by Fox in 2003.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: One cancellation and four direct-to-DVD movies later, youre on the air again.
That was some journey.
How surprised are you to be back?
DAVID X. COHEN:I would say its just sinking in now.
We did four DVD movies and our hopes started to rise because of whatFamily Guyhad done.
Were grateful to be here and we were definitely saved by our fans enthusiasm.
Now thatFuturamais on cable, will the tone of the show be any different?
Were definitely not going way outside of the lines of what weve done before.
Its a little more cartoon flesh than we would have shown in the old days.
How close did that come to actually happening?
We just said to everybody involved, c’mon, you guys make a deal.
Just to reassure everybody, every single cast member is back.
We did not lose a single voice.
What can we expect from this season?
We wanted to quickly establish in the first episode that the characters are back from their DVD adventures.
Fry and Leela return relatively quickly.
Thats quite a little hitch.
[Laughs] InFuturama,thats a minor stumbling block…. That episode is entitled Rebirth.
Well get to see the Professors birthing machine and all the glory of artificial rebirth.
Its both a literal and figurative rebirth of the series.
Fry and Leelas relationship has a very bizarre science-fiction twist to it.
Are they going to pursue a relationship?
We dont want to get into a rut where theyre having a baby and moving away to the suburbs.
That would mess up the show to some degree.
Can you tease some other story lines?
The difference is, in our version of the iPhone, the iPhone is implanted in your eye.
Its a tiny hovering screen in front of you and its even more annoying than the real iPhone.
[In another episode], the Professor invents a time machine that only goes forward in time.
Once they start going, there is no hope of return.
Katee Sackhoff is playing a visitor to Comic-Con who has a fetish for aliens.
She threw herself into the role in an impressive fashion.
We discover that Leela has a little more to her being a mutant than we knew about.
George Takei will be back.
Speaking of heads in jars, will Nixon be back?
Nixon will be back.
We have a whole head-related episode.
Its discovered that you get a head trip if you lick one of the heads in the jars.
So Fry licks George Washingtons head and it sends them off on a Revolutionary War adventure.
Thats a plot line you wouldnt see on most sitcoms.
Is that the most bizarre moment of this season?
Actually, I can think of at least one even more bizarre moment.
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