Futurama: The Anime
It’s happening. But tonight only, as part of the season 6 finale. “Action Delivery Force” is one of three segments in tonight’s episode, the other two being Futurama in classic 8-bit Commodore 64 game style and the other being classic ’30s cartoons a la Steamboat Willie. It’s like “Anthology of Interest III,” except the episode isn’t called “Anthology of Interest” at all but instead “Reincarnation,” so who knows what the hell is going on. Gamma Squad has some pics of the Steamboat Willie sequence, and I put the (rather excellent) video preview of the 8-bit segment after the jump.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.