{"id":11669,"date":"2010-06-24T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:39:09","slug":"futurama-theyre-back-baby-plus-interview-with-david-x-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/futurama-theyre-back-baby-plus-interview-with-david-x-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Futurama! They’re Back, Baby! Plus, Interview with David X. Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you thought this event was passing without us taking some kind of notice, you were sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n

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Have a taste of the AV Club Interview with Futurama executive producer and head writer David X. Cohen. <\/p>\n

\nAVC: In the first two episodes, as with the movies, it seems like the writing staff is having fun not being beholden to network censors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DC<\/strong>: [Laughs.] Notice that there were some pretty small fig leaves on Leela and Zapp in that second episode? <\/p>\n

AVC:<\/strong> Yeah, that made me think of a commentary track where you guys are talking about having to make Leela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outfit longer, or show less cleavage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DC:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n

AVC:<\/strong> Obviously that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as much of a concern for you anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DC:<\/strong> Yeah, the Comedy Central broadcast standards are definitely looser than Fox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become an interesting challenge for us, because we have to be our own censors a lot of the time. And for me, an important thing is that I do think it should feel like the same series as before. Just because perhaps we could show more skin and say more words, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily want to do so. So I like to think we may have pushed that edge a little bit\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust a little bit more than we used to, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any one particular thing we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have done in the old days. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very intentional. We have not greatly expanded our vocabulary, for example. So I would say on the whole, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a bit more episodes that are PG-15 instead of PG-13, but nothing radical. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not at the South Park extreme.<\/p>\n

AVC: <\/strong>Just a lot of nudity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DC:<\/strong> Yeah. Nudity never hurt anybody<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Calm yourselves parents who’ve forgotten the unique fun of clever, risque television. Cohen talks about more than self-censors and naked Leela. He also waxes about the direct to DVD Futurama marathon events and what’s it’s like to rise from the dead more times than a Romero zombie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a 7 minute re-cap that’s been passed around Internet the last week or so.<\/p>\n

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Futurama<\/a><\/td>\nThursdays 10pm \/ 9c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recap-O-Rama: 5 Seasons in 7 Minutes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
www.comedycentral.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Futurama New Episodes<\/a><\/td>\nFuturama New Episodes<\/a><\/td>\nUgly Americans<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Other direct mentions of Futurama on GNET:<\/p>\n