Comedy Central released a new trailer for the new season of Futurama. It’s short and not devastatingly funny, but it’s still new Futurama and is thus wonderful and to be celebrated. I’m still betting that these new episodes will be better than those four DVD movies; it seemed like the writers got a little lost trying to figure out how to fill up 90 minutes and ended up cramming what would have been 3 or 4 perfectly good individual episodes into one awkward movie. I think Futurama works better as shorter episodes and a chance to have each with their own insane premise, and that the writing team will be back at 100% within the first couple of episodes, if not immediately. You guys agree, or are you still skeptical?
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