[27][28] Hartman insisted on auditioning for the role, and "just nailed it" according to Groening. In late 2002, Cartoon Network acquired exclusive cable syndication rights to Futurama for a reported $10 million (equivalent to $14 million in 2019)[111]. The Futurama Website edition consists of 4 modules: Futurama HTML, Futurama Monitor, Futurama Insight and Futurama Accounts. Ken Keeler became an executive producer for Season 4 and subsequent seasons. For the final episode of season 6, Futurama was completely reanimated in three different styles: the first segment of the episode features black-and-white Fleischer- and Walter Lantz-style animation, the second was drawn in the style of a low-resolution video game, and the final segment was in the style of Japanese anime.[34]. In the Futurama Website edition, you are licensed to use all objects that are needed to construct website applications. [35] Groening notes that, from the show's conception, his goal was to make what was, on the surface, a goofy comedy that would have underlying "legitimate literary science fiction concepts". [142] Sierra Entertainment later became the game's publisher, and it was released on August 14, 2003. It also allowed the writers and animators to get ahead of the broadcast schedule so that episodes intended for one season were not aired until the following season. [5][6] The first episode of season 7 premiered June 20, 2012, on Comedy Central. All Shows CGI characters looked slightly different due to spatially "cheating" hand-drawn characters by drawing slightly out of proportion or off-perspective features to emphasize traits of the face or body, improving legibility of an expression. Some of the UK and Australian comics have different captions on the top of their comics (for example, the Australian version of #20 says "A 21st Century Comic Book" across the cover, while the US version does not have a caption on that issue). [70] Even by the fourth season Futurama was still being aired erratically. These have included clips from Quasi at the Quackadero, Looney Tunes shorts, cartoons produced by Max Fleischer, a short of The Simpsons from a Tracey Ullman episode,[45] the show's own opening sequence in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" or a scene from the episode. The modules that are (partly) in the yellow area of the scheme are available for the Website Edition. When Comedy Central committed to sixteen new episodes, it was decided that four films would be produced. This is within Futurama the login.aspx page. Best Short", "Comedy Central at Comic-Con: Day Three, Futurama Panel", "50 Best Science Fiction TV Shows of All Time". When Fry opens the box, the cat jumps out and attacks him.