Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: FJ-HRN-1645

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00:00:32 1.03	B-Roll – Futurama Premiere – 30th Century Fox sign, Futurama Bender’s Big Score sign, Big Futurama sign to crowd, Brad Herman talking to other reports and taking pictures, Multiple pans of Cinerama Dome sign to Futurama sign
00:02:32 121.67	Sound Bite: David Herman – What it’s like to be back Um, it, like, it’s a family reunion. It’s great to have everybody back. I mean it’s wonderful, and to have it yanked away means, you know, you don’t realize what you had till you’ve had it yanked away. And yes, it’s true, it was the cult that brought it back. That means it’s for real, that means it’s, you know, it’s it’s it’s a nicer thing to know that people and their their love of the show really brought it back, you know.
00:03:02 151.67	Sound Bite: David Herman – What the movie’s like I don’t know. I’m about to see it myself, I’ll tell ya I’ll tell ya when I come back out. I have not seen it yet, I haven’t seen it yet. And you know, it’s been awhile since we’ve recorded this, so like, you know, it’s gonna be a total surprise for me. I’m gonna be going in completely green.
00:03:19 168.67	Sound Bite: David Herman – Why the movie was made It wasn’t my decision. Haha um you know, this shouldn’t surprise you, but I’m just a hired gun. Haha um uh I think originally, boy I don’t even want to speculate, I don’t even know why it was decided, but I know everything was before Comedy Central decided to pick us up, that there was a DVD plan. Yeah.
00:03:41 190.67	Sound Bite: David Herman – The number of movies coming out Four. Four. I know my talking points. Four. This is the first of four DVDs. And it’s Carbon Neutral.
00:04:13 222.67	Sound Bite: Maurice LaMarche – What it’s like to be back Yeah, and we’re thrilled to be back. It’s uh, you just can’t keep a good show down, especially a good show set in the thirtieth century, so, we’re back.
00:04:27 236.67	Sound Bite: Maurice LaMarche – About the following of the show We’re, we’re thrilled to have any kind of following, even a cult following. So uh, you know, um, yeah we’re, you know the, a cult following gets bigger and bigger, and just all of a sudden it just becomes a following. And uh hopefully we’re getting there, we’re getting to a full following. So, but the, we’re grateful to the fans, because it’s been the fan reaction that has brought us back. Strong DVD sales, good ratings on Adult Swim, and uh, you know we’re just thrilled, and grateful, very grateful to the fans.
00:04:58 267.67	Sound Bite: Maurice LaMarche – Does his voices Absolutely. Uh, I play “Lieutenant Cliff Kroaker, I’m the beliegered first officer to Captain Zap Brannigan, and my signature is a sigh. Ugh.” “I’m Morbo, the newscaster. And I hate all puny humans. News at eleven.” And I’m also “Calculon, the star of All My Circuits, the robot soap opera. And I’m programmed to be very very busy right now, so I can’t talk much longer.” And I’m a new character called “Schlump, who’s one of the nudist internet alien scammers that start the whole affair off tonight.” So…
00:05:54 323.67	B-Roll – Futurama Premiere – Whole cast posing for photo
00:07:03 392.67	B-Roll – Futurama Premiere – Phil LaMarr talking with other reporters
00:07:45 434.67	Sound Bite: Lauren Tom – How it feels to be back How does it feel? It feels fantastic. On so many levels. You know, I always love to work. And just the family of the actors, and the director, and Matt. It’s just so great to see everybody. Really a magical little group of people. They’re zany.
00:08:04 453.67	Sound Bite: Lauren Tom – I’m like, thank you, that’s just so fantastic! Keep doing it! And I think they’re gonna love this movie, and the subsequent ones we’ve recorded. I know they will. And I’m excited because, Futurama’s made by braniacs, right? So it never plays down to people’s intelligence. And I think our fans are really smart, and they’re the only ones that can really follow it. I actually have to be explained certain things about storyline, because I’m like, what? You know, and then it makes sense, and I, you know, and David went to Harvard, and he he’s covered all bases about any possible loop holes, because he knows the fans will be looking for ‘em. Because they’re always right, you know?
00:08:47 496.67	Sound Bite: Lauren Tom – I just play, I play Amy, and then Amy’s mom. (Talks) Oh, um, well Amy is sort of just like me but it’s just like a little bit higher, and she has just a little bit of a Valley thing sometimes, like and she always likes to say “Guh” instead of “Duh,” right? And then her mom just has a little accent, ya know, so. It’s like “Amy, you know, when are you gonna get married?”
00:10:29 598.67	Sound Bite: Katey Sagal – It’s awesome. I went to Comicon this year for the first time, and we were like rock stars. I mean it was crazy. I had never experienced that. So, I’m extremely happy to be here.
00:10:43 612.67	Sound Bite: Katey Sagal – Well, the movie takes place two years after where we just left off, and our little delivery company has lost its license. The Box company has let us go, and we have lost our license. No relation to the Fox network. We are the Box network. So um, it takes place there, it opens on a nudist beach, where um, uh, lots of funny things ensue. But Bender is, Bender finds, I’m trying to remember exactly. Bender finds the secret to something written on Fry’s rear end. There’s lots of nudity. We explored Leela’s love life. She doesn’t quite hook up, but she’s, you know, we get a little more deep, in depth about that.
00:11:32 661.67	B-Roll – Futurama Premiere – Guy in Bender costume,
00:12:57 746.67	Sound Bite: John DiMaggio – How do I feel about such a fan base? I feel like a pimp. It’s awesome. Just like Bender. No, it’s great. It’s really really somethin. I, they uh, they came out of the woodwork for us, and that was pretty cool. And uh, I’ve always been appreciative of everybody that gives me a pat on the back for the work that I do. So it’s always gratifying. It’s always, it’s always very special, and I’m, I’m always very humbled. So…
00:13:25 774.67	Sound Bite: John DiMaggio – What can you expect from the movie? Well, it’s um, it’s, I’m not supposed to say. I’m not supposed to really say anything. Um, but there’s nudity, and there’s a robot, and he and he and he gets a lot of stuff, and that’s about all I can say. There’s a lot of nudity. Tons of nudity. Nudity. That’s about it.
00:14:03 812.67	Sound Bite: John DiMaggio – No, um. Yeah, I do Bender. Yeah, I do, “Yeah, what’s up Bender? Ooh blah bleh, bleh blah bloo bloo.” And then um, what else, gosh. I do Santa Claus, “Ho ho ho, I’ll be hunting you down.” Um, gosh, what else. Sal, “Oh, yeah, I’m unionzieee.” Um, gosh, what else, the robot cop, um who’s, uh, “He’s like this. Ahh yeah. If I catch you breakin the law, you’re goin down baby. Ahh yeah.” Um, and then, gosh, it’s, there’s there’s Elzar, “The resident TV chef there. On the uh show. Bam. Hit you with a spice ? there. Boom. Seriously. I wanted to make sure that your Neptunian slug is very fresh, because if it’s not, you got problems here.” So yeah, that’s the majority of the ones that I do on the show.
00:15:32 901.67	Sound Bite: Phil LaMarr – I, I don’t have so much a cult following as a cable following. You can’t get away from me. Like you turn on your cable box, and odds are, something I’m on will be running. You know?
00:15:50 919.67	Sound Bite: Phil LaMarr – I think it’s amazing, you know? It’s, it’s fun. I mean, to be back with the cast, and also to know that there are people out there who want to see it. I mean, that’s sort of the weird thing about making TV, there’s a disconnect. Like you do it, and especially animation. Nine months later, somebody airs it, and you’re like, Did anybody like it? Who knows? But now that they sell the DVD sets, you know. Like people saw it on TV, and wanted it at home. And that’s a great feeling.
00:16:23 952.67	Sound Bite: Phil LaMarr – “Well, I do the voice of Hermes, who works at Planet Express as their official bureaucrat.” “I also do the voice of one of the space Globe Trotters. Who are also global physicists. As well as, you know, Globe Trotters.” Um, who else? Who else? I’ve I’ve I’ve lost track of all my characters. Um, I play my son, um, what’s his name. No, and, I, oh and of course the Robot Preacher. “The Robot Preacher. Why a robot would need a preacher, no one knows. But in the future, robots will get religion.”
00:17:44 1033.67	Sound Bite: Matt Groening & John DiMaggio – Matt Groening – It’s uh, it’s amazing. The fans are so intense. I guess because Futurama’s always been an underdog show back at the very beginning. I mean when when Futurama was first on Fox, they put us on at Sunday at seven P.M. Okay? Simpsons on at eight P.M., we were on at seven P.M., but the, but the slogan that Fox had that night was, “The fun begins at eight.” We’re on at seven, but the fun begins at eight. So it was a very strange, very peculiar time to be at Fox. But now people love us again. And so we’re back. In DVD form. We’re happy. Futurama is is back and it’s as uh, it’s as wild as we’ve ever been, because this time we did it without any notes whatsoever, any network interference, any no nothin. We just did what we wanted to do, and there’s alien nudity. Okay? So you have to decide yourself how horrified you are by what you see. Or aroused. John DiMaggio – I think you should leave this man alone. I think you’re gonna… Matt Groening – John DiMaggio, the voice of Bender. John DiMaggio – Matt Groening, the creator of Simpsons and Futurama. He’s the man, in life and hell. I’m so psyched. Matt Groening – Hahaha. Cool. See you inside. Okay.
00:19:30 1139.67	B-Roll – Futurama Premiere – Wide shot of theater, Zoom out from Futurama sign to theater, angled zoom outs from sign to theater