Oft-Canceled ‘Futurama’ Always Gets ‘Short End of Stick,’ Says the Voice of Bender
Is Futurama the Rodney Dangerfield of adult animation?
John Dimaggio, the actor who voices Bender, believes the show gets no respect. From shuffling time slots to actual cancellations, Matt Groening’s other creation has “been getting the short end of the stick for a while,” Dimaggio told Newsweek.
Let’s count the ways in which Futurama has received the Dangerfield treatment:
Groening conceived the show as a companion to The Simpsons, a self-created superblock of cartoon comedy. Fox had other ideas, using Futurama as a utility player and plugging it into various holes in its primetime lineup so that audiences were never sure where to find it. “When we were on Fox, I was working on King of the Hill and Futurama at the time,” said David Herman, another one of the show’s voice actors. “We were on at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. — and Fox’s slogan...
John Dimaggio, the actor who voices Bender, believes the show gets no respect. From shuffling time slots to actual cancellations, Matt Groening’s other creation has “been getting the short end of the stick for a while,” Dimaggio told Newsweek.
Let’s count the ways in which Futurama has received the Dangerfield treatment:
Groening conceived the show as a companion to The Simpsons, a self-created superblock of cartoon comedy. Fox had other ideas, using Futurama as a utility player and plugging it into various holes in its primetime lineup so that audiences were never sure where to find it. “When we were on Fox, I was working on King of the Hill and Futurama at the time,” said David Herman, another one of the show’s voice actors. “We were on at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. — and Fox’s slogan...
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