BENDER'S BACK BABY!

Who's Bender you might ask? And why do we care? Well, for one Bender is the lovable jackass in a can robot from the hit show Futurama (created by the genius behind The Simpsons, Matt Groening) which ended after 5 seasons due to Fox Network cancelling it after spotty releases and no set schedule in the fourth and fith seasons (and who's to blame? FOX).

A quick synopsis of Futurama: The show's premise is about a boy named Phillip J. Fry who, after living a somewhat bleak and crappy life, gets frozen and awakens 1000 years - in a world filled with spaceships, cool sci-fi "junk", aliens, and talking heads. He goes on to be a delivery boy for his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (I really don't know how many) - father's company - and the show's many hijinx go on from there.

However, after Fox dropped it, 4 direct-to-TV/DVD movies came out, considered as "episodes" of the "sixth" season. Due to moderate success of the new releases both in terms of TV viewership and DVD sales, Comedy Central has signed on for 26 new episodes, to begin airing in 2010.

All I can say is... Bite my shiny metal ass Fox!



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