Comments on: Brain Slug Cupcakes at Final Futurama Script Reading http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 04:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Stay_Sane_Inside_Insanity http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-836378 Stay_Sane_Inside_Insanity Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-836378 "and David "X" Cohen, through whose good offices (and my dear friend, his sister) I garnered an invite." Surely it should be "good auspices"? http://wordlist.com/good%20auspices.htm “and David “X” Cohen, through whose good offices (and my dear friend, his sister) I garnered an invite.”

Surely it should be “good auspices”?

http://wordlist.com/good%20auspices.htm

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835906 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835906 "The show hasn't been canceled. This was the last of the current order of episodes by Cartoon Network, but Futurama has rebirthed itself before." It should be Comedy Central, not Cartoon Network. “The show hasn’t been canceled. This was the last of the current order of episodes by Cartoon Network, but Futurama has rebirthed itself before.”

It should be Comedy Central, not Cartoon Network.

]]> By: PapayaSF http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-836483 PapayaSF Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-836483 Last night's episode was pretty good, but last week's had to be one of their all-time worst: little more than a heavy-handed campaign commercial against Prop 8. Folks, you can do better than spoonfeeding us a political message in a way that makes those '70s after school specials seem subtle and nuanced. Last night’s episode was pretty good, but last week’s had to be one of their all-time worst: little more than a heavy-handed campaign commercial against Prop 8. Folks, you can do better than spoonfeeding us a political message in a way that makes those ’70s after school specials seem subtle and nuanced.

]]> By: Tim http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835764 Tim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835764 Gah... I recommend fixing the blurb that's on the main page. I started getting very worried until I clicked on the actual article to comment and then read the "The show hasn't been canceled," addition. I mean c'mon. You write "very final script reading" and it sounds like it's been axed again. I don't know if I can take that. Gah…

I recommend fixing the blurb that’s on the main page. I started getting very worried until I clicked on the actual article to comment and then read the “The show hasn’t been canceled,” addition.

I mean c’mon. You write “very final script reading” and it sounds like it’s been axed again. I don’t know if I can take that.

]]> By: Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835766 Xeni Jardin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835766 That was my copyediting goof, not Glenn's fault or an attempt to trick. Fixed. Thanks! That was my copyediting goof, not Glenn’s fault or an attempt to trick. Fixed. Thanks!

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835768 Glenn Fleishman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835768 As I understand it (partly from David's public interviews) is that no decision's been made, but this was the last script for the schedule, and it won't air for about two years. I'm trying not to talk out of school, as it were, since I'm a hanger-on! As I understand it (partly from David’s public interviews) is that no decision’s been made, but this was the last script for the schedule, and it won’t air for about two years. I’m trying not to talk out of school, as it were, since I’m a hanger-on!

]]> By: Tim http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835772 Tim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835772 Will it help it get renewed again if I say "Please" and bake a cake for the executives at Comedy Central? Cause I will. Will it help it get renewed again if I say “Please” and bake a cake for the executives at Comedy Central?

Cause I will.

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835773 Glenn Fleishman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835773 Buy a few thousand copies of the episodes from the iTunes Store, and that'll help, I'm sure! Buy a few thousand copies of the episodes from the iTunes Store, and that’ll help, I’m sure!

]]> By: Tim http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835780 Tim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835780 As soon as my student loans come through, I'll get on that! (I know my priorities.) As soon as my student loans come through, I’ll get on that!

(I know my priorities.)

]]> By: Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835781 Xeni Jardin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835781 No. <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/12/canceling-a-tv-show.html>Recommended reading.</a> No.

#comment-835782 Yeah, I remember the article posted here by the exec at SyFy. Sometimes reality hurts though. It's nice to think I can live in a world where intelligent shows actually get to stay on the air. Yeah, I remember the article posted here by the exec at SyFy.

Sometimes reality hurts though. It’s nice to think I can live in a world where intelligent shows actually get to stay on the air.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835790 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835790 Hah, BB's commenting system ensnares even Ms. Jardin. Hah, BB’s commenting system ensnares even Ms. Jardin.

]]> By: BongoBen http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835799 BongoBen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835799 These slugs look deliciously/suspiciously like the real things that have taken over my garden. Well at least they look better than the Earwigs. Yeache! <!-- www.bennettgraham.com --> These slugs look deliciously/suspiciously like the real things that have taken over my garden. Well at least they look better than the Earwigs. Yeache!

]]> By: aliciapolicia! http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-836058 aliciapolicia! Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-836058 I woulda liked to make them some Brain Slug cupcakes myself, http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/brain-slug-cupcakes.html , but their being there in some semblance is still good! I woulda liked to make them some Brain Slug cupcakes myself, http://boingboing.net/2010/01/25/brain-slug-cupcakes.html , but their being there in some semblance is still good!

]]> By: apoxia http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835813 apoxia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835813 Just wanted to say that I think the currently screening season of Futurama is the best yet, I love the show! Just wanted to say that I think the currently screening season of Futurama is the best yet, I love the show!

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835818 Glenn Fleishman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835818 I <a href="http://blastr.com/2010/06/1-futurama-premiereo.php">found the interview with David Cohen</a> over at Syfy in which he explains the "26-episode season," by the way, and when episodes will air over the next two years. "We're doing 26, but Comedy Central is going to air them as two seasons of 12, plus two specials. At least, that's the current plan," said Cohen. "So this summer run will be 12. The first 12 are gonna air straight through every week from June 24th through the first week of September, every Thursday night at 10 p.m. And they're showing the first two consecutively on the 24th. So 12 will be this mini-season, I guess, at Comedy Central. And then we have a Christmas special, or a holiday special, I should say, in December. And then another season of, we think, 12 in 2011, and another special." I found the interview with David Cohen over at Syfy in which he explains the “26-episode season,” by the way, and when episodes will air over the next two years.

“We’re doing 26, but Comedy Central is going to air them as two seasons of 12, plus two specials. At least, that’s the current plan,” said Cohen. “So this summer run will be 12. The first 12 are gonna air straight through every week from June 24th through the first week of September, every Thursday night at 10 p.m. And they’re showing the first two consecutively on the 24th. So 12 will be this mini-season, I guess, at Comedy Central. And then we have a Christmas special, or a holiday special, I should say, in December. And then another season of, we think, 12 in 2011, and another special.”

]]> By: JonStewartMill http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-836331 JonStewartMill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-836331 Is Kristin Gore still associated with the show? Or any of the original writers? Is Kristin Gore still associated with the show? Or any of the original writers?

]]> By: Tomas http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-835822 Tomas Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-835822 Thank you, thank you for the excellent pics of the brain slug cupcakes! Happy to have Futurama back with new episodes (I already have all the DVDs). Thank you, thank you for the excellent pics of the brain slug cupcakes!

Happy to have Futurama back with new episodes (I already have all the DVDs).

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://boingboing.net/2010/07/15/brain-slug-cupcakes-1.html#comment-836604 Glenn Fleishman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-836604 Naw, <a href="http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/office">good offices</a>. Naw, good offices.

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