Keith Devens .com

Futurama bites it: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories...ECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Oddly enough, I had thought it was already cancelled. No matter how you slice it, it's a shame it was cancelled, the show was brilliant.

There, in the city rechristened New New York, he fell in with Bender, a sarcastic robot-reprobate and Leela, a sexy, kick-boxing alien with a single large eyeball.

She's not an alien, she's a mutant. Good article though. Futurama is/was a decent show, although I enjoy Family Guy much more.

And... you really don't sleep much.

Plus, I need to do one of those things that ...'s out the middle of the URL if it's too long. It'll be easy for the next version of my structured text parser. Actually, it'd be easy for my current one... maybe I should do that.

See. People like you are the reason shows like that get cancelled. Yes, I know Leela is a mutant, because of that episode where she meets her parents in that spawning pool. Her mother had a degree in arcane alien languages or something and wrote up a note so that people would think she was an alien, not a mutant, and could live a fulfilling life. Blah, blah, blah. However, for most of the series she refers to herself as an alien, even correcting people who call her human. I'm fully aware of this, having watched the series regularly. In fact, I'm willing to bet that in the draft document for the show, Matt Groening characterizes her as an alien, and that one episode was written much later, as things like that are often done in most television shows.

Do you people have anything better to do than nitpick stupid, inane shit like that? I bet they just got sick of people writing in and going "Leela isn't an alien, she's a mutant!" or quibbling over some other perceived inconsistency that is totally insignificant, so they just gave up and cancelled the show. I know I would have, right after I told everyone who wrote in with crap like that to fuck off and die.

Of course, that is also probably why I'm not a television executive.

Incidentally, had you made a comment like that in a job interview with me, you would have lost the job right there on the spot. Also, that was exactly what my father and uncle were referring to when they mentioned the Mensa stigma, smug ass remarks like that being far too commonplace.

I'll agree Family Guy is a better show, though. Of course, that's probably because Futurama was so much like the Simpsons (even though they tried to make it different), and Family Guy was something new and different.

Holy crap dude, you just went to town on me.

Yeah, that was overly bitchy on my part. I've had a rough week, sorry.