Rewatching The Magic: A Nostalgic Fandom Podcast
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 hr 47 min · 13 segments
Futurama is a show that never says die. From Fox to Comedy Central to Hulu, the show finds a way to survive. We take a look at all eras of the show and discuss some of our favorite episodes. Episodes…
remember when they announced this, because I was, you know, this was still during, you know, Prime Simpsons.
And they, hey, Matt Groening, he's, you know, he's leaving the writing team of The Simpsons.
What's he going to come up with? What's this all going to be about? And then we hear, you know, Futurama.
There's real world situations just hyped up because it happens to be in the future.
Or real world political commentary that is just fantasized because it's in space or in the future.
And it was one of theirs that they did kind of over the summer months instead of starting with a fall broadcast.
They started with a spring broadcast and it kind of took them through the summer months, which was kind of a soft launch, I think, of it.
rather than trying to throw it into the real hubbub of the fall TV schedule, I think it might have done the show a little bit better because they went for a spring broadcast instead of premiering it in the fall.
remember when they announced this, because I was, you know, this was still during, you know, Prime Simpsons.
And they, hey, Matt Groening, he's, you know, he's leaving the writing team of The Simpsons.
What's he going to come up with? What's this all going to be about? And then we hear, you know, Futurama.
There's real world situations just hyped up because it happens to be in the future.
Or real world political commentary that is just fantasized because it's in space or in the future.
And it was one of theirs that they did kind of over the summer months instead of starting with a fall broadcast.
They started with a spring broadcast and it kind of took them through the summer months, which was kind of a soft launch, I think, of it.
rather than trying to throw it into the real hubbub of the fall TV schedule, I think it might have done the show a little bit better because they went for a spring broadcast instead of premiering it in the fall.
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