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Futurama Emmy Nomination!

Today, the nominations for the 54th Annual Emmy Awards were published and ... Futurama is listed for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)!
More precisely, the episode "Roswell That Ends Well" got nominated together with "As Told By Ginger - Lunatic Lake", King Of The Hill - "Bobby Goes Nuts" (yeah, right ...), "The Simpsons - She Of Little Faith" and "South Park - Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" (gets the patriotic bonus I suppose ...)

Well, seeing how great just that Futurama episode was both written and animated, we sure can hope. It seems like this also was the first episode in which Roughdraft experimented with motion blurring in fast scenes and it came out pretty nice without being disturbing (eg, it was only noticeable when looking a second time, which is good).

Maybe FOX gets a clue through this?

    Futurama Emmy history:
  • "A Big Piece of Garbage" nominated for Outstanding Animated Program in 1999.
  • Bari Kumar won the juried Individual Achievement in Animation 2000 Award (A Bicyclops Built for Two)
  • "Amazon Women in the Mood" nominated for the 2001 Animated Program (Less Than One Hour)
  • "Parasites Lost" storyboard artist Rodney Clouden won the 2001 Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation

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fonoopJul 18th 2002, 00:00
Well, this is good. Maybe fox will get the hint that PEOPLE LIKE THIS SHOW. I agree with the nomination, that was an exelent episode. Things are looking up...
JrrPopplerJul 18th 2002, 00:00
I agree, that was probably one of the best futurama episode ever. I think it has a good shot at winning that Emmy! If it did, maybe fox would change their minds on the show's future...
[-mArc-]Jul 19th 2002, 00:00
In case Futurama wins, it would sure make FOX look more of a fool than this nomination already does, but it could make talks with other channels both easier and tougher. Easier as it makes it a premier show officially and tougher as it could make it more expensive.
PeterFJul 19th 2002, 00:00
Roswell That Ends Well? Great! IMO it was the best episode of season 4. If the Emmy judges aren't a bunch of idiots, Futurama should win. Its the best episode of any of the programmes there. But, She Of Little Faith? Why do they always nominate the rubbish Simpsons episodes? Heres hoping that Fox will figure out that they made a ridiculously ignorant mistake in cancelling Futurama. <prays>
zootheyJul 19th 2002, 00:00
The guys at Fox are idiots! I hope Futurama wins and the acceptance speech is nothing more that "F--K FOX!!"
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