• io9
  • science
  • overmind
  • kotaku
  • gizmodo
  • Profile logout login

#bender

io9

Share Cancel
   
Upload an image | Add an image URL
×

logging in
  • FAQ. Include # before tag:
  • #observationdeck,
  • #tips,
  • #calendar,
  • etc.

San Francisco, 11:47 AM
Wed Dec 16
25 posts in the last 24 hours

Team

Tip your editors:

Editor-in-Chief:
Annalee Newitz |

News Editor:
Charlie Jane Anders |

Associate Editor:
Meredith Woerner |

Assistant Editor:
Lauren Davis |

Weekend Editor:
Graeme McMillan |

Contributors:
Joshua Glenn
Stephen Goldmeier |
Ed Grabianowski |
Austin Grossman
Paul Hogan |
Lauren Davis |
Chris Hsiang |
Lynn Peril |
Ann VanderMeer
Alasdair Wilkins |

Graphic Designer:
Stephanie Fox |

Interns:
Tim Barribeau |
Julia Carusillo |
Alex Eichler |
Cyriaque Lamar |
Caitlin Petrakovitz |
Mary Ratliff |
Josh Snyder |

More:
io9 on Facebook
follow io9 on Twitter

SUBSCRIBE TO io9 RSS

New: Breaking news and daily top stories via email
1428 Subscribers
io9
  • posts about #bender more →

    Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona

    Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?

    Roll A Double 20 To Meet Centaur Leela In Futurama DVD

    See Every Single Episode Of Futurama Starting Tonight

    Futurama's Big DVD Comeback Is a Cosmic Suck

    Futurama Release Party Brings Out Paparazzi
  • Your version of Internet Explorer is not supported. Please upgrade to the most recent version in order to view comments.
    Dsmvwl  Admin  Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×
    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    Barcelona's graffiti is amazing artwork. I remember taking several photos of it in the busines district the last time I was there.
     Reply
    Edited by NerD: Blattella at 09/24/09 1:32 PM NerD: Blattella was starred NerD: Blattella was unstarred
    Image of Ultimate Cowboy Ultimate Cowboy
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    You could probably do an entire post just about sci-fi graff.
     Reply
    Elizabeth Weinbloom promoted this comment Ultimate Cowboy was starred Ultimate Cowboy was unstarred
    Image of heatstroke heatstroke
    09/24/09

    @Ultimate Cowboy: triviagasm list on top 15 best science-fiction street art....GO!
     Reply
    Elizabeth Weinbloom promoted this comment heatstroke was starred heatstroke was unstarred
    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    09/24/09


    @heatstroke: I spotted this one in Granada. I'm all for the Trekkie graffiti, but really, Search for Spock?
     Reply
    Elizabeth Weinbloom was starred Elizabeth Weinbloom was unstarred
    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    09/24/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Oh fine, it got cut off. It says STAR TREK III.
     Reply
    Elizabeth Weinbloom was starred Elizabeth Weinbloom was unstarred
    Image of Sam Sam
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    That looks sweet! hope their local council doesn't paint over it any time soon. Why is it the governmaent never seems to be able to tell the difference between art and vandalism?
    p.s. Ive always thought it was funny how such a chauvanist character is called "Bender"
     Reply
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) promoted this comment Sam was starred Sam was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/24/09

    @Sam: Fingers crossed its one of those new Graffiti walls. Designed to get them to stop spraying on illegal stuff. That said, it still might get painted over for another idiot to spray 'I IM WELZ GUD INNIT' in ten foot letters!!
     Reply
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was starred CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    Or is it Bender's illegitimate child when he mated with a cylon?
     Reply
    ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/24/09

    In reply to Bender Makes His Mark on Barcelona
    This stuff always makes me smile. A good bit of Graffiti always brightens up the suburbs. I really liked that Dark Crystal one that you featured a while back.
     Reply
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was starred CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    It's a ploy by Fox in the intricate dance of contract negotiation.
     Reply
    Bill-Lee was starred Bill-Lee was unstarred
    Image of Bress Tess Iz Bress Tess Iz
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    looks like we're gonna be over-supplied with torgon's executive powder
     Reply
    HurtsSoGood promoted this comment Bress Tess Iz was starred Bress Tess Iz was unstarred
    Image of cletar cletar
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    Hey, Fox...I'll do Zoidberg for you for 60k an episode. If the guy who does Barney on the Simpsons gives you any trouble, I can do him, too. I also do a dead-on Wallace Shawn, for what that's worth.

    What? Stop looking at me like that. I have kids to feed.
     Reply
    cletar was starred cletar was unstarred
    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    07/18/09

    @cletar: Inconceivable!
     Reply
    Grey_Area promoted this comment BlueBeard was starred BlueBeard was unstarred
    Image of Emmanuel_Goldstein Emmanuel_Goldstein
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    Yeah, OK, fine. Mind if I don't watch?
     Reply
    Kpibca promoted this comment Emmanuel_Goldstein was starred Emmanuel_Goldstein was unstarred
    Image of beckward beckward
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    It's a tactic. Mark Evanier probably knows more about animation production than anyone else in Hollywood: see his post on this at his website: http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_07_17.html#017446
     Reply
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment beckward was starred beckward was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/18/09

    @beckward: I've never known Mark to be wrong about anything. If he says it, you can believe it.
     Reply
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of thexpert is no ones lapdog thexpert is no ones lapdog
    07/18/09

    @beckward: He scripted Groo: the wanderer, right? That schmuck.
     Reply
    thexpert is no ones lapdog was starred thexpert is no ones lapdog was unstarred
    Image of Lassus Lassus
    07/18/09

    @thexpert: Futurama defiled, ok, whatever, but I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY BADMOUTHING OF GROO!
     Reply
    Grey_Area promoted this comment Lassus was starred Lassus was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    "but apparently Billy West, Katy Sagal John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche are all to be replaced by new voice actors when the show returns, presumably in an effort to keep costs low."

    That's not what the article says, Graeme. How did you go from someone saying "I betting that" to announcing that the actors are "all to be replaced."
     Reply
    twophrasebark was starred twophrasebark was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/18/09

    This is standard negotiating procedure when a studio and voice cast can't come to an agreement. See the HR article for more info:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ibdf529f18374f6c965f140dbc42...

    Fox is trying to call the cast's bluff hoping fans will be angry at the cast. However, this will obviously backfire as no one is going to watch Futurama without most of the principal voices.
     Reply
    twophrasebark was starred twophrasebark was unstarred
    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    07/18/09

    @twophrasebark: It makes me angry at the studio, not the cast. I feel like Futurama had some of the most talented voice artists in the business (Billy, Tress, etc) and their voices MADE the show. Try to imagine another Bender or another Zoidberg. It's not like voiceover artists are paid as much as regular actors, either. I would rather see fewer episodes with the proper cast than a full season with strangers.
     Reply
    vulcanized was starred vulcanized was unstarred
    Image of zadek zadek
    07/18/09

    @vulcanized:

    Calm down, calm down. It's all just a stunt for Comic-con next week. There's going to be a panel with Groening and all the voice actors vs. someone from Fox (probably just an actor, rather than a known executive) to decide the 'Fate of Futurama'. It's just to generate hyhpe for the new season, although it seems to have backfired as it's caused a lot of heat!
     Reply
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment zadek was starred zadek was unstarred
    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    I don't know much about voice acting, but it does seem like, considering the ridiculously large amount of voices done by two or three people in the industry, they could be okay with making a little less money in order to portray characters they're really fond of. One of the articles I read on this made it sound like they were asking for like $75000 per episode, and that is not a small number. That is a BIG number!
     Reply
    Kpibca was starred Kpibca was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    07/18/09

    @Kpibca:
    That's considerably less than what the Simpsons voice actor regulars ($150-300K per ep) or even regular TV actors are paid (the Friends (bah/feh/meh/bleah) got paid a cool Mill an episode.)
     Reply
    Kpibca promoted this comment Edited by ManchuCandidate at 07/18/09 8:32 AM ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    07/18/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Ah, okay, see, that's where my confusion came from. It seemed like a lot to me but at the same time I had to admit I know nothing about how TV shows are budgeted, so thanks for clearing that up for me. Makes a little more sense now.
     Reply
    Kpibca was starred Kpibca was unstarred
    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    07/18/09

    @Kpibca: Seinfeld and Friends cast members were making over a million per episode towards their ends and Futurama is a proven commodity. 75k seems like a lot, and it is, but for Hollywood it is not, especially considering how much money Fox will make in the end as they will be airing Futurama repeats for decades to come.
     Reply
    Kpibca promoted this comment brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was starred brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was unstarred
    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    07/18/09

    @brentbent: I forgot that famous people money is different from peasant money. And man, the thoughts of reruns never even occurred to me! That's going to make them a crapload of cash.
     Reply
    Kpibca was starred Kpibca was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    07/20/09

    @Kpibca:
    Voice work is a much quicker process than live action footage, since you can basically show up in your pajamas and bunny slippers with a near-lethal case of bed-head, run your lines in a few hours, and pretty much write that episode off unless they need something they didn't get in the first session. That is, if you actually know what you're doing. Of course, you'll then go into cold readings for the next episode soon after, so it's not like it's a half-day job for each ep.
     Reply
    Purple Dave was starred Purple Dave was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    07/20/09

    @brentbent:
    Don't forget the DVD sales. That's a pretty fat penny as well.
     Reply
    Purple Dave was starred Purple Dave was unstarred
    Image of Julius Seizure - Canuck Julius Seizure - Canuck
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    Mom? They can't replace Mom. Sniff sniff sniff.

    Not a month goes by when I don't at least once respond to "What are you doing this weekend?" with "Oh I've got some charity BS for knocked-up teenage sluts."
     Reply
    Grey_Area promoted this comment Julius Seizure - Canuck was starred Julius Seizure - Canuck was unstarred
    Image of Strangebomb Strangebomb
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    It's like...they're trying to fail on purpose...hmmm...

    I wonder.
     Reply
    Alasdair5000 promoted this comment Strangebomb was starred Strangebomb was unstarred
    Image of Strangebomb Strangebomb
    07/18/09

    Also...not like Brannigan's a surprise...

    Too soon?
     Reply
    Strangebomb was starred Strangebomb was unstarred
    Image of GarjaWhchi GarjaWhchi
    07/18/09

    @Strangebomb:
    Are you implying that Fox would set a series up to fail??? To you sir I say "good day!"
     Reply
    RandomFrequentFlierDent promoted this comment GarjaWhchi was starred GarjaWhchi was unstarred
    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    07/18/09

    @Strangebomb:
    Fox NEVER fails on purpose. It's just the natural result when you have morons in charge.
     Reply
    RandomFrequentFlierDent promoted this comment Edited by ManchuCandidate at 07/18/09 8:41 AM ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of jbq jbq
    07/18/09

    In reply to Will Futurama's Return Come Without Its Stars?
    I'm calling bullshit. There's no way even those stooges at the BOX company are that stupid. Bullshit, I say!
     Reply
    Alasdair5000 promoted this comment jbq was starred jbq was unstarred
    Earlier discussions Other discussions Show all discussions Show featured discussions only Start a new discussion

Login

Enter your username and password.

Please enter a username.
Please enter your password.
logging in
Login via Facebook | Sign Up | Forgot Password?

Reset Password

Please enter your email address to have your password reset.

Please enter your email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
requesting password reset

Register

Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.

Want to know more? Consult the Comment FAQ and legal terms.

Please enter a username.
Please enter a password.
Please confirm your password.
Passwords are not identical.
Please enter a valid email address.
registration sent, waiting for reply

Submit Your Comment

You don't need to login to comment. Just enter your email address below.

See how your address will be displayed in the Comment FAQ.

Please enter a valid email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
logging in

Login with your Facebook or io9 account.

Sign up here.



  • Archives
  • About
  • Advertising
  • Legal
  • Help
  • Report a Bug
  • FAQ
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.