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"'''Reincarnation'''",<ref>[http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/6ACV/ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV]</ref><ref name="yahoo-interview">{{cite web |url=http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/ustv.associatedcontent.com/ustv.associatedcontent.com-futurama-producer-david-x-cohen-talks-holiday-special |title='Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special |publisher=Yahoo! TV |author=Fritz, Steve |date=2010-11-19 |accessdate=2010-11-29}}</ref> is the one hundredth and fourteenth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the twenty-sixth and last of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the thirteenth and last of the [[Broadcast season 8|eighth broadcast season]].  It was for some time thought to be the 'series finale', but the announcement of the upcoming [[Season 7|seventh production season]] proved otherwise.
"'''Reincarnation'''",<ref>[http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/6ACV/ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV]</ref><ref name="yahoo-interview">{{cite web |url=http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/ustv.associatedcontent.com/ustv.associatedcontent.com-futurama-producer-david-x-cohen-talks-holiday-special |title='Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special |publisher=Yahoo! TV |author=Fritz, Steve |date=2010-11-19 |accessdate=2010-11-29}}</ref> originally titled "'''Resurrection'''",<ref name="if-dxc-interview">{{cite web |url=http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3955 |title=Exclusive Interview: 'Futurama' Co-Creator David X. Cohen Blows out the 100th Episode Candle and Talks about the Season Six Finale |publisher=iF Magazine |author=Cortez, Carl |date=2010-09-01 |accessdate=2010-09-01}}</ref> is the one hundredth and fourteenth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the twenty-sixth and last of the [[Season 6|sixth production season]] and the thirteenth and last of the [[Broadcast season 8|eighth broadcast season]].  It was for some time thought to be the 'series finale', but the announcement of the upcoming [[Season 7|seventh production season]] proved otherwise.


== Story ==
== Story ==
In 3 mini-stories, Futurama is re-envisioned in 3 alternative animation styles<ref>[http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/6ACV/ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV]</ref> - traditional {{w|Fleisher Studios|Fleisher}} style, {{w|anime}} and {{w|video game}} style.
In three mini-stories, ''Futurama'' is re-envisioned in three alternative animation styles<ref>[http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/EpisodeGuide/6ACV/ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV]</ref> - {{w|Fleischer Studios|Fleischer}} style, {{w|anime}} and {{w|video-game}} style.


== Production ==
== Production ==


Much like "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]" and ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'', this episode is written 'as if' it was the last episode ever of ''Futurama'',<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-lastepisode">{{cite web |url=http://www.ugo.com/tv/futurama-david-x-cohen-interview |title=Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode! |publisher=UGO |author=Zalben, Alex |date=2010-06-22 |accessdate=2010-06-22 |quote=Now I will say at this point, having written the last episode for FOX, and the last DVD for the DVD releases, and now being back again, and being pretty far along in production, we’re the show with the most experience in writing our last episode ever.  We’re getting good at it – we’re doing our third one that we’re actually working on here at the moment – they’ve all been written by Ken Keeler, I should mention, who is writing his third last episode ever. |quote author={{n|Cohen|David|X.}}}}</ref> and once again, they have put [[Ken Keeler]] in charge of writing the episode,<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-lastepisode"/> as with "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]" and "''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]''".
Much like "[[The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]" and ''[[Into the Wild Green Yonder]]'', "Reincarnation" episode is written 'as if' it was the last episode ever of ''Futurama'',<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-lastepisode">{{cite web |url=http://www.ugo.com/tv/futurama-david-x-cohen-interview |title=Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode! |publisher=UGO |author=Zalben, Alex |date=2010-06-22 |accessdate=2010-06-22 |quote=Now I will say at this point, having written the last episode for FOX, and the last DVD for the DVD releases, and now being back again, and being pretty far along in production, we’re the show with the most experience in writing our last episode ever.  We’re getting good at it – we’re doing our third one that we’re actually working on here at the moment – they’ve all been written by Ken Keeler, I should mention, who is writing his third last episode ever. |quote author={{n|Cohen|David|X.}}}}</ref> and once again, they have put [[Ken Keeler]] in charge of writing,<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-lastepisode"/> as with "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''.


The episode was originally titled "Ressurection", but it was changed to the current title in the process.<ref name="if-dxc-interview">{{cite web |url=http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3955 |title=Exclusive Interview: 'Futurama' Co-Creator David X. Cohen Blows out the 100th Episode Candle and Talks about the Season Six Finale |publisher=iF Magazine |author=Cortez, Carl |date=2010-09-01 |accessdate=2010-09-01}}</ref>
The title was originally "Ressurection", but it was changed to "Reincarnation" in the process.<ref name="if-dxc-interview">{{cite web |url=http://ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3955 |title=Exclusive Interview: 'Futurama' Co-Creator David X. Cohen Blows out the 100th Episode Candle and Talks about the Season Six Finale |publisher=iF Magazine |author=Cortez, Carl |date=2010-09-01 |accessdate=2010-09-01}}</ref>


The episode is a three-parter and presumably non-[[canon]], as with the [[Anthology of Interest]] episodes and "[[The Futurama Holiday Spectacular]]".<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-animationstyles">{{cite web |url=http://www.ugo.com/tv/futurama-david-x-cohen-interview?page=3 |title=Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode! |publisher=UGO |author=Zalben, Alex |date=2010-06-22 |accessdate=2010-06-22 |quote=So that’s one three-parter, and the other will be a really mind-blowing one, which will either be the very last, or second to last episode we broadcast – probably the very last. It’ll be most likely presented as a special that’s kind of outside the timeline of the series, again being an abstract episode like the 'Anthologies of Interest,' where we will see the ''Futurama'' characters in three different animation styles. ''Futurama'' itself will be reincarnated in three different styles. |quote author={{n|Cohen|David|X.}}}}</ref> The episode is divided into three different classic animation styles, in which the series will be "re-incarnated" in each: a black-and-white {{w|Fleisher Studios|Fleisher}} style, a low resolution video game style, and an {{w|anime}} action style.<ref name=Yahoo!>[http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/ustv.associatedcontent.com/ustv.associatedcontent.com-futurama-producer-david-x-cohen-talks-holiday-special 'Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special]</ref>
The episode is a three-parter and presumably non-[[canon]], as with the [[Anthology of Interest]] episodes and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular".<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-animationstyles">{{cite web |url=http://www.ugo.com/tv/futurama-david-x-cohen-interview?page=3 |title=Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode! |publisher=UGO |author=Zalben, Alex |date=2010-06-22 |accessdate=2010-06-22 |quote=So that’s one three-parter, and the other will be a really mind-blowing one, which will either be the very last, or second to last episode we broadcast – probably the very last. It’ll be most likely presented as a special that’s kind of outside the timeline of the series, again being an abstract episode like the 'Anthologies of Interest,' where we will see the ''Futurama'' characters in three different animation styles. ''Futurama'' itself will be reincarnated in three different styles. |quote author={{n|Cohen|David|X.}}}}</ref> It is divided into three different classic animation styles, in which the series will be "re-incarnated": a black-and-white {{w|Fleischer Studios|Fleischer}} style, a low-resolution, video-game style, and an {{w|anime}} action style.<ref name=Yahoo!>[http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/ustv.associatedcontent.com/ustv.associatedcontent.com-futurama-producer-david-x-cohen-talks-holiday-special 'Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special]</ref>


The episode was early on planned to be production episode 25 of season 6 (6ACV25), the second-to-last<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-animationstyles"/>, but was in November 2010 changed to be the 26th episode - the season finale.<ref name=Yahoo!/>
The episode was early on planned to be production episode 25 of season 6 (6ACV25), the second-to-last<ref name="ugo-dxc-interview-animationstyles"/>, but was in November 2010 changed to be the twenty-sixth episode - the season finale.<ref name=Yahoo!/>


The ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' released six items from the episode: concept art of [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] in {{w|Fleisher}} style was released on 10 June, 2011; concept art of [[Nibbler]] in Fleisher style on 11 June; concept art of [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] in {{w|anime}} style on 12 June; [[storyboard:Reincarnation|storyboard]] of a battle between [[Zagtar|a robot]] and [[Evil Wizard|a wizard]] from the anime style on 13 June; concept art of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and Bender in anime style on 14 June; a video clip from the anime sequence on 21 June.
During June [[2011]], ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'' released six items of promotional material for the episode: reused concept art of [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] in Fleischer style from ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' on 10 June, concept art of [[Nibbler]] in Fleischer style on 11 June, concept art of [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] in anime style on 12 June, part of [[Storyboard:Reincarnation|the storyboard]] showing a battle between [[Zagtar|a robot]] and [[Evil Wizard|a wizard]] from the anime sequence on 13 June, concept art of [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and Bender in anime style on 14 June, and a video clip featuring the crew in anime style on 21 June.


[[David X. Cohen]] announced in a June, 2011 interview that "Reincarnation" was one of his favourite episodes of the broadcast season. He also said that they had licensed actual existing music to fit the different sequences - jazz for the Fleisher one, actual anime scores for the anime one, and video game music for the video game one - and that the anime sequence will be screened on the 2011 {{w|Comic-Con}}.<ref name="Cohen">{{cite web |url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cohen-spills-the-beans-on-futuramas-new-season/ |title=Cohen Spills the Beans on Futurama's New Season |work= |author=Cohen, David X.|date=16 June, 2011|accessdate=2011-6-16|speaker={{n|Cohen|David X.}} |quote='I also have to mention our season finale this year, which is scheduled for the beginning of September.  It’s called “Reincarnation” and asks the question what if our show was reincarnated in different animation styles. So the first one is a classic black-and-white cartoon, then we have Futurama as an early ’90s video-game pixilation animation, and the third section is done in Japanese anime style. We will screen the anime portion at Comic-Con this year. Our supervising director, Peter Avanznio, did an amazing job of redesigning our whole world in three distinctive styles for just one episode. We even used jazz for the black-and-white section, licensed actual videogame music and anime scores for the episode.}}</ref>
On 15 June, [[David X. Cohen]] announced in an interview that "Reincarnation" was one of his favourite episodes of the broadcast season. He also said that they had licensed actual existing music to fit the different sequences - jazz for the Fleischer one, actual anime scores for the anime one, and video-game music for the video-game one - and that the anime sequence will be screened on the 2011 {{w|Comic-Con}}.<ref name="Cohen">{{cite web |url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cohen-spills-the-beans-on-futuramas-new-season/ |title=Cohen Spills the Beans on Futurama's New Season |work= |author=Cohen, David X.|date=16 June, 2011|accessdate=2011-6-16|speaker={{n|Cohen|David X.}} |quote='I also have to mention our season finale this year, which is scheduled for the beginning of September.  It’s called “Reincarnation” and asks the question what if our show was reincarnated in different animation styles. So the first one is a classic black-and-white cartoon, then we have Futurama as an early ’90s video-game pixilation animation, and the third section is done in Japanese anime style. We will screen the anime portion at Comic-Con this year. Our supervising director, Peter Avanznio, did an amazing job of redesigning our whole world in three distinctive styles for just one episode. We even used jazz for the black-and-white section, licensed actual videogame music and anime scores for the episode.}}</ref>


== Promotional material ==
=== Image gallery ===
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:626-Bender.jpg|Reused concept art of Bender from ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.
File:626-Bender.jpg|Reused concept art of Bender from ''The Beast with a Billion Backs''.
File:626-Nibbler.jpg|Concept art of Nibbler in Fleisher style.
File:626-Nibbler.jpg|Concept art of Nibbler in Fleisher style.
File:626-Fry-Anime.jpg|Concept art of Fry in {{w|anime}} style.
File:626-Fry-Anime.jpg|Concept art of Fry in anime style.
File:626-Board A.jpg|Board A from [[storyboard:Reincarnation|the storyboard]].
File:626-Board A.jpg|Page 96 of the storyboard.
File:626-Anime.jpg|Concept art of Bender and Leela in anime style.
File:626-Anime.jpg|Concept art of Bender and Leela in anime style.
File:Action Delivery Force.png|A screenshot from the video clip.
</gallery>
</gallery>


== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia ===
=== Trivia ===
*It is among the few [[one-word titled media]].
* The episode is among the few [[one-word titled media]].
* [[Stephen Hawking's head| Stephen Hawking]] will guest star. <ref name=Hawking>[http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/06/07/david-x-cohen-presents-the-5-nerdiest-episodes-of-futurama/ David X. Cohen Presents: The 5 Nerdiest Episodes of Futurama]
* [[Stephen Hawking]] will guest-star, voicing [[Stephen Hawking's head|his head]].<ref name=Hawking>[http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/06/07/david-x-cohen-presents-the-5-nerdiest-episodes-of-futurama/ David X. Cohen Presents: The 5 Nerdiest Episodes of Futurama]</ref>
* This is the second time that ''Futurama'' paid tribute to Max Fleischer, the first being part one of ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'', which also had some Walt Disney influences.
* This is the second time that ''Futurama'' paid tribute to {{w|Max Fleischer}}, the first being "[[The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1]]", which also had some {{w|Walt Disney}} influences.
</ref>


=== Continuity ===
=== Continuity ===
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=== Characters ===
=== Characters ===
{{chars-begin}}
{{chars-begin}}
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]
*[[Fry]]
*[[Fry]]
*'''Debut''': [[Evil Wizard]] (disputed [[canon]])<ref>The anime [[Storyboard:Reincarnation|storyboard]].</ref>
*'''Debut''': [[Evil Wizard]]<ref name=Storyboard>[[Storyboard:Reincarnation]]</ref>
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]
*[[Stephen Hawking's head]] <ref name=Hawking/>
*[[Stephen Hawking's head]]<ref name=Hawking/>
*[[Nibbler]]
*[[Nibbler]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]
*'''Debut''': [[Zagtar]] (disputed [[canon]])<ref>The anime [[Storyboard:Reincarnation|storyboard]].</ref>
*'''Debut''': [[Zagtar]]<ref name=Storyboard/>
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]
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{{chars-end}}

Revision as of 22:59, 23 June 2011

Season 6 episode
Broadcast season 8 episode
Reincarnation
Action Delivery Force.png
The Planet Express crew in anime style.
No.114
Production number6ACV26
Written byKen Keeler
Directed byN/A
Title captionN/A
First air dateTBA
Broadcast numberS08E13
Special guest(s)Stephen Hawking[1]
Additional
Commentary
(Transcript)
Transcript
Storyboard

Pictures

Season 6
  1. Rebirth
  2. In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
  3. Attack of the Killer App
  4. Proposition Infinity
  5. The Duh-Vinci Code
  6. Lethal Inspection
  7. The Late Philip J. Fry
  8. That Darn Katz!
  9. A Clockwork Origin
  10. The Prisoner of Benda
  11. Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
  12. The Mutants Are Revolting
  13. The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
  14. The Silence of the Clamps
  15. Möbius Dick
  16. Law and Oracle
  17. Benderama
  18. The Tip of the Zoidberg
  19. Ghost in the Machines
  20. Neutopia
  21. Yo Leela Leela
  22. Fry Am the Egg Man
  23. All the Presidents' Heads
  24. Cold Warriors
  25. Overclockwise
  26. Reincarnation
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"Reincarnation",[2][3] originally titled "Resurrection",[4] is the one hundredth and fourteenth episode of Futurama, the twenty-sixth and last of the sixth production season and the thirteenth and last of the eighth broadcast season. It was for some time thought to be the 'series finale', but the announcement of the upcoming seventh production season proved otherwise.

Story

In three mini-stories, Futurama is re-envisioned in three alternative animation styles[5] - Fleischer style, anime and video-game style.

Production

Much like "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder, "Reincarnation" episode is written 'as if' it was the last episode ever of Futurama,[6] and once again, they have put Ken Keeler in charge of writing,[6] as with "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

The title was originally "Ressurection", but it was changed to "Reincarnation" in the process.[4]

The episode is a three-parter and presumably non-canon, as with the Anthology of Interest episodes and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular".[7] It is divided into three different classic animation styles, in which the series will be "re-incarnated": a black-and-white Fleischer style, a low-resolution, video-game style, and an anime action style.[8]

The episode was early on planned to be production episode 25 of season 6 (6ACV25), the second-to-last[7], but was in November 2010 changed to be the twenty-sixth episode - the season finale.[8]

During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released six items of promotional material for the episode: reused concept art of Bender in Fleischer style from The Beast with a Billion Backs on 10 June, concept art of Nibbler in Fleischer style on 11 June, concept art of Fry in anime style on 12 June, part of the storyboard showing a battle between a robot and a wizard from the anime sequence on 13 June, concept art of Leela and Bender in anime style on 14 June, and a video clip featuring the crew in anime style on 21 June.

On 15 June, David X. Cohen announced in an interview that "Reincarnation" was one of his favourite episodes of the broadcast season. He also said that they had licensed actual existing music to fit the different sequences - jazz for the Fleischer one, actual anime scores for the anime one, and video-game music for the video-game one - and that the anime sequence will be screened on the 2011 Comic-Con.[9]

Image gallery

Additional Info

Trivia

Continuity

Allusions

Characters

(In alphabetic order)

References

  1. ^ a b c David X. Cohen Presents: The 5 Nerdiest Episodes of Futurama
  2. ^ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV
  3. ^ Fritz, Steve (19 November 2010). "'Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special". Yahoo! TV. Retrieved on 29 November 2010.
  4. ^ a b Cortez, Carl (01 September 2010). "Exclusive Interview: 'Futurama' Co-Creator David X. Cohen Blows out the 100th Episode Candle and Talks about the Season Six Finale". iF Magazine. Retrieved on 01 September 2010.
  5. ^ Can't get enough Futurama: Episode Guide: 6 ACV
  6. ^ a b "Now I will say at this point, having written the last episode for FOX, and the last DVD for the DVD releases, and now being back again, and being pretty far along in production, we’re the show with the most experience in writing our last episode ever. We’re getting good at it – we’re doing our third one that we’re actually working on here at the moment – they’ve all been written by Ken Keeler, I should mention, who is writing his third last episode ever."Cohen, David
    Zalben, Alex (22 June 2010). "Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode!". UGO. Retrieved on 22 June 2010.
  7. ^ a b "So that’s one three-parter, and the other will be a really mind-blowing one, which will either be the very last, or second to last episode we broadcast – probably the very last. It’ll be most likely presented as a special that’s kind of outside the timeline of the series, again being an abstract episode like the 'Anthologies of Interest,' where we will see the Futurama characters in three different animation styles. Futurama itself will be reincarnated in three different styles."Cohen, David
    Zalben, Alex (22 June 2010). "Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode!". UGO. Retrieved on 22 June 2010.
  8. ^ a b 'Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special
  9. ^ "'I also have to mention our season finale this year, which is scheduled for the beginning of September. It’s called “Reincarnation” and asks the question what if our show was reincarnated in different animation styles. So the first one is a classic black-and-white cartoon, then we have Futurama as an early ’90s video-game pixilation animation, and the third section is done in Japanese anime style. We will screen the anime portion at Comic-Con this year. Our supervising director, Peter Avanznio, did an amazing job of redesigning our whole world in three distinctive styles for just one episode. We even used jazz for the black-and-white section, licensed actual videogame music and anime scores for the episode."Cohen, David X.
    Cohen, David X. (16 June 2024). Cohen Spills the Beans on Futurama's New Season. Retrieved on 16 June 2011.
  10. ^ a b Storyboard:Reincarnation