Why does futurama make fun of fox

After the buzz on social media about The Simpsons' precognitive abilities, leave it to show to have a witty retort to its own trending popularity. As The Simpsons aired its new episode on the week after the presidential election, it included sly commentary in its opening credits, as part of Bart's customary chalkboard writing gag : "It sucks to be right.

The shape of FOX following its upcoming merger with Disney something else The Simpsons correctly guessed years ago is yet to be defined, and while it seems like a safe bet that FOX shows will keep making these jokes going forward Disney is fiercely protective of its image, as evidenced by the recent firings of controversial-but-money-making figures like Roseanne Barr and James Gunn. They don't like The Simpsons at Fox.

When Futurama was originally coming down the pike, Groening wanted Futurama to air at PM on Sundays, directly after The Simpsons and ahead of The X-Files in order to give the show the best chance to find a large audience. This seemed like a no-brainer — but Fox disagreed, for whatever reason, choosing instead to show only two episodes of Futurama in the Sunday night lineup before moving the series to a "possibly deadly" Tuesday night time slot. By the time the second season of Futurama came around, Fox moved the show back to the PM Sunday spot in which the first two episodes aired.

Then, in a move that alienated audiences further, Fox shifted the show again in the middle of the season — this time bumping it up to PM on Sunday. You'd be forgiven for thinking Fox would've figured out this method of scheduling was doing nothing but hurting the show's prospects by the time the final season was airing on the network, but Futurama still had an unpredictable, erratic airing schedule up until its last episode on the network. Irregularly timed sporting events, which were a huge money-maker for Fox, made it even harder to anticipate when Futurama would air each week.

This up-and-down scheduling had a majorly disappointing consequence: Fox held on to episodes of Futurama made for the third and fourth seasons and reserved them for a fifth season Fox never formally canceled Futurama — not in the way that television series are usually axed nowadays. The network simply stopped purchasing new episodes of Futurama , and the series went out of production ahead of the fall broadcast season.

Six years later, Comedy Central picked up Futurama. It's time as a part of the Fox lineup of animated adult comedy came to an inglorious end, thus prompting the show to make a number of dark jokes at the expense of the Fox Network executives who pulled the plug after its revival, cleverly calling them the "Box Network.

Futurama first aired on the Fox Network, and despite the massive success Groening had with The Simpsons , the show -- which he conceived of alongside Executive Producer David X. Cohen -- was met with reluctance by the network.

During the audio commentary for Season 1's " I, Roommate ," Groening explained how Fox feared that the darker themes of the show, like suicide booths, would be a poor fit for the network.

Premiering in March of , the series ran for four seasons. However, the series was hindered during its original run by the network frequently changing the air date of the show to different days, with most of the first season airing on Tuesday despite premiering on a Sunday, and then it was moved back to Sunday for Season 2.

Aired at the beginning of the channel's then-Sunday lineup, episodes of Futurama were often preempted by sporting events, making it unlikely for fans to even see entire new episodes in one sitting. Despite the show premiering to impressive numbers and earning the network an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for Season 3's " Roswell That Ends Well ," the network never seemed like the ideal place for the series.

Ultimately, Fox canceled the show after the fourth season , and Groening commented on this during an interview with Canada's Calgary Sun.