In Color!

June 19, 2005 8:33 AM

Taglines from seasons 1-4 of Futurama on Flickr. Also worth checking out, Chuck Lorre's Vanity Cards. They used to appear on Dharma and Greg and are now on Two and a Half Men. via
posted by geekyguy (20 comments total)

I wish someone would do that [screen grab I can watch in a Flckr slideshow] with all of the stuff Bart writes on the chalkboard at the beginning of each the Simpsons.
posted by birdherder at 8:41 AM on June 19, 2005

THIS EPSIODE PERFORMED ENTIRELY BY SOCK PUPPETS

Will this call for a MetaTalk call-out?
posted by mmahaffie at 8:53 AM on June 19, 2005

Dharma and Greg was on for FIVE years?
posted by tommasz at 9:14 AM on June 19, 2005

I'm inclined to ask -- were there actually episodes that had no tagline, or was it just slightly dodgy capturing on the part of the album owner?
posted by ChrisR at 9:21 AM on June 19, 2005

I wish they would have brought that show back, instead of Family Guy. It was wonderful (and still is, on Adult Swim). Even the "30th Century Fox" thing at the end still makes me smile.

birdherder, i think there are a ton of them somewhere online--check the simpsons sites.
posted by amberglow at 10:35 AM on June 19, 2005

I'm inclined to ask -- were there actually episodes that had no tagline, or was it just slightly dodgy capturing on the part of the album owner?

1-3 should be "As seen on TV" and 1-9 is "Condemned by the Space Pope."

Funny nonetheless. These are totally worth having on DVD for the commentaries. John DiMaggio and David X. Cohen are hilarious.
posted by Who_Am_I at 11:07 AM on June 19, 2005

Not only is Mr. David X. Cohen funny, but he is also a pretty good C programmer.

And my fav image is probably Coming Soon to an Illegal DVD. But thats for reasons I wont talk about here. Followed closely by Hey Tivo, Suggest This!.
posted by SirOmega at 11:37 AM on June 19, 2005

*pours out 40 for Futurama*
posted by graventy at 12:11 PM on June 19, 2005

My favorite is the second to last, which decodes to "Thanks for watching, Futurama slave army!"
posted by Hlewagast at 12:21 PM on June 19, 2005

It's like "Hee Haw" with Lasers

It sucks that Fox never knew what to do with this show.
posted by octothorpe at 12:36 PM on June 19, 2005

There's an interview with Billy West in this week's Onion. He says Fox execs deliberately didn't promote the show because they couldn't have creative control and wanted it to go away.
posted by Hlewagast at 12:47 PM on June 19, 2005

err, jeez, did anyone sift through those chuck lorre title cards? i always have to catch the tail end of dharma and greg since it comes on before simpsons reruns, but i always figured the huge block of text at the end of every episode was the same each time. how deluded is this guy?
posted by jimmy at 12:54 PM on June 19, 2005

From that Billy West interview:
Now they're talking about doing a Futurama movie to DVD, and then a second and a third, so there's life after death. ... Fox was really pleased with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. They're really happy with it, so they're talking about a budget for it.
Excellent news!
posted by dodgygeezer at 1:04 PM on June 19, 2005

totally!

I can't imagine Fox was happy with the political content, esp the Nixon stuff.
posted by amberglow at 1:56 PM on June 19, 2005

Morbo: Exit poll show evil underdog Richard Nixon trailing with
estimated zero votes.
posted by hototogisu at 2:23 PM on June 19, 2005

Vanity Cards? Smells like blog to me.
posted by Sparx at 7:00 PM on June 19, 2005

I can't imagine Fox was happy with the political content, esp the Nixon stuff.

Well, they let Karl Rove do a guest spot on "American Dad" tonight.
posted by Cyrano at 9:24 PM on June 19, 2005

Did it just get cold in here?
posted by SirOmega at 10:42 PM on June 19, 2005

Thanks GG - great post, you made my afternoon (and it sure beats working)
posted by joedharma at 6:28 PM on June 20, 2005

chuck lorre started the unique title card thing with Mad About You. Some producer said that here could put what ever he wanted in the space and he did. Apparently he was totally surprised anyone would actually VCR it and read the whole thing. I think the story is in one of the MAY title cards.
posted by Mitheral at 11:17 AM on June 21, 2005