Thanks to the persistence of online commandos we now have the latest Futurama DVD being released tomorrow in the US. Bender’s Big Score was actually released today not tomorrow in the US. It was cancelled in 2002 after the executives at Fox stopped making enough money on it. According to the NY times:
The story, full of elaborate twists, is essentially a time-travel tale loaded with flashbacks to the original series and more than its share of inside jokes, many requiring freeze-frame study to appreciate fully.
There are also special guest appearances by Coolio (what the?), Sarah Silverman, and a nude Al Gore.
All this because we all complained and bothered them until something was done about. This is a lesson on perseverance! I am also thinking of Jericho, Farscape, Stargate and to a lesser extent world series cricket. Professor John Scott told us: the most power form of power is collective mobilisation. He was right.
This was originally posted on the defunct disintimedia.com
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