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| No. | 114 | ||||
| Production number | 6ACV26 | ||||
| Written by | Aaron Ehasz | ||||
| Directed by | Ray Claffey | ||||
| Title caption | N/A | ||||
| First air date | 8 September, 2011[1] | ||||
| Broadcast number | S08E13 | ||||
| Special guest(s) | Stephen Hawking[2] | ||||
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"Reincarnation" is the one-hundred-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 is scheduled to air 8 September, 2011 on Comedy Central. Futurama is reconceived in three alternate animation styles: classic black-and-white, old-school videogame, and Japanese anime.[1]
Production
The title was originally "Resurrection", but it was changed to "Reincarnation" in the process.[3]
The episode was for some time thought to be the 'series finale', but the announcement of the upcoming seventh production season proved otherwise. It is a three-parter and presumably non-canon, as with the Anthology of Interest episodes and "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular".[4] 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.[5]
The episode was early on planned to be production episode 25 of season 6 (6ACV25), the second-to-last[4], but was in November 2010 changed to be the twenty-sixth episode - the season finale.[5]
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 would be screened on the 2011 Comic-Con.[6]
On 16 August, AWN released a promotional picture for the episode from the Fleischer segment.[7]
According to Eric Rogers, the writers even considered claymation, but decided against due to time constraints and money.[8]
On 1 September, Comedy Central Insider released two promotional pictures for the episode from the video-game segment.[9] The following day, they released two promotional images from the Fleischer segment.[10] On 3 September, Entertainment Weekly released a video sneak peek from the Fleischer segment.[11]
Image gallery
Reused concept art of Bender from The Beast with a Billion Backs.
Concept art of Nibbler in Fleisher style.
Concept art of Fry in anime style.
Page 96 of the storyboard.
Concept art of Bender and Leela in anime style.
A screenshot from the video clip.
- Crew in Fleisher style.jpg
The first promotional picture.
The second promotional picture.
The third promotional picture.
- Fliescher smellescope.png
The fourth promotional picture.
- Fry leela fliescher.png
The fifth promotional picture.
Additional Info
Trivia
- The episode is among the few one-word titled media.
- Stephen Hawking will guest-star, voicing his head.[2]
- This is the second time that Futurama paid tribute to Max Fleischer, the first being "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1", which also had some Walt Disney influences.
- This is one of four episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other three are "Fry Am the Egg Man", "Cold Warriors", and "Overclockwise".
Continuity
Allusions
Characters
References
- ^ a b Comedy Central TV Show Schedule
- ^ a b c David X. Cohen Presents: The 5 Nerdiest Episodes of Futurama
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. - ^ a b 'Futurama' Producer David X. Cohen Talks Holiday Special
- ^ "'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. - ^ Back to the Futurama
- ^ "cyber_turnip" (18 August 2011). "Topic: Futurama News during the 2011 Futurama run" Page 11. (PEEL.) Retrieved on 18 August 2011.
- ^ Futurama: Countdown to Reincarnation
- ^ Futurama: Countdown to Reincarnation Fleischer Style
- ^ 'Futurama' goes Roaring '20s retro in finale -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
- ^ a b Storyboard:Reincarnation
- ^ Futurama SDCC 2011 Panel Coverage