The difference is, in our version of the iPhone, the iPhone is implanted in your eye. We’re going to see our versions of Twitter and iPhones in the future, as Fry posts embarrassing videos of Leela online. One thing that was beneficial to being off the air for a while was that society generated a few story lines for us. It’s a little more cartoon flesh than we would have shown in the old days. But he wanted to do that at the starting point of the episode, so we have Zapp and Leela stranded on this beautiful Garden of Eden planet and they’re naked and wearing fig leaves immediately. Matt wanted to do a story based on this science-fiction trope where man and woman land on a planet and at the end of the episode you realize that they’re Adam and Eve and they’re going to recreate society. For example, we have an episode that was Matt Groening’s brainchild, with Zapp Brannigan and Leela getting stranded on a Garden of Eden planet. That said, I think there are a couple of episodes where we do push that edge a little bit, thanks to our being on Comedy Central - nothing that couldn’t have run the first time, but perhaps the quantity of borderline material is a little higher. My main priority is to make it feel like this is the same Futurama, and if you’re a Futurama fan you’re going to like these episodes. We’re definitely not going way outside of the lines of what we’ve done before. They had gone a similar route and come back to TV, so we kept our fingers crossed and waited for the results from those DVDs and evidently they did okay.… We’re grateful to be here and we were definitely saved by our fans’ enthusiasm. We did four DVD movies and our hopes started to rise because of what Family Guy had done. And, gradually, the idea of the DVD movies filtered through to 20th Century Fox Television, and they called us up a few years after that idea was sent to them and we started our return to life that way.
And it really took the high ratings on Adult Swim to plant any kind of a seed that there might be more life in this thing. So we packed our bags and went our separate ways and had no expectation of coming back in any form at that time. This journey started seven years ago with a call from Fox that we were off the air - which wasn’t a big difference from being on the air, actually, the way we were being shown sporadically at that time. COHEN: I would say it’s just sinking in now.
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