Remember 2003?

Sure it was a long time ago – but let us jog your memory. The sky outside was often gray and dreary, flowers refused to bloom and the Internet bed linen industry absolutely boomed because bedridden people were too depressed to drop turd all the way over in the toilet.

Well no more – because Futurama has been un-cancelled. And we’re not talking about four more straight to DVD movies either – we’re talking about 26 new episodes on Comedy Central.

You still don’t believe us?

We don’t blame you. We’re sorry we ever told you we’re half-brothers with Coolio.

Trust restored.

In 2003 a black-faced torch holding mob of Fox executives took every single Futurama character out behind a barn. Once there, they stuffed them chock-full of steel barb and then crushed them beneath a sand roller (a heavy piece of machinery we probably just made up. It’s supposed to sound heavy). It wasn’t pretty.

We imagine the liquids from their animated bodies slowly pooled and scabbed as the execs walked back to their shiny, super long limos. At the time, nobody had any idea the killing wouldn’t be permanent. After all – this was way before Family Guy gloriously emerged from the tomb.

After the cancellation Futurama was swooped up by Cartoon Network, who proudly aired it as an Adult Swim anchor. When the show was contractually up for bid again - Comedy Central knew a good thing when they saw it. They outbid CN.

Then of course the four movies came out – one of which we claimed to be film of the year in ’08. The whole quadrilogy sold big. And now this from Reuters:

“Taking a page from the “Family Guy” resurrection guidebook, the canceled Fox animated comedy is returning with an order from Comedy Central for 26 new episodes to run over two seasons. “Futurama” creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen already are working on stories for the new batch of episodes of the sci-fi cartoon, slated to premiere on Comedy Central in mid-2010.”

Comedy Central says that if the new episodes draw a big enough crowd, they’ll try their darndest to bring other shows back from the bin too. Like Seinfeld, Cheers and confusingly, I Love Lucy. To make the latter happen we bet they use science.

And now to celebrate their triumphant return, we present a wonderful Futurama segment where in they wax sentimental about global warming.

In Spanish.

De nada.

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